Bonnaroo Friday the 15th
Friday the 15th:
Our first big day at Bonnaroo. So excited for Tool! The first big discovery of the day was in the form of a delicious breakfast sandwich. This has spawned conversation of getting one of those back to basic toasters that do it all for you. So yummy.
Next on the itinerary was getting soaked down and going to see the Cold War Kids. They were okay. I didn't really have any preset notions, so whatev.
Then we discovered the Current tent (CT). It was air conditioned, barely, and had IKEA furnature. Sit AND cool down?!? Don't mind if I do!
Eventually Jake wandered off to go see some other acts. This would also start the trend of Where the hell is Jake?! Love you buddy, but you could get lost in your own house. Mark & I snoozed and woke up just before the time that Jake was supposed to come meet us. We waited. Tried the secondary meeting place... Nope. split up and covered the only two paths he could have taken all the way over to where This Tent is. Still no Jake. We gave up and went to Kings of Leon. They were quite good. It must have been around this time that the universal memo was issued that now was the time to start getting naked. Because we found out that this was also the same time that Jake who was on the opposite side of Centeroo saw his first nudity. And again, we have a new trend. We stayed for most of the set and then decided to go cool off and get something to drink. And poof, there's Jake! In different clothes.
Then we saw The Black Keys. Awesome. I have much love for these guys even if getting shorted at Caribou fits into the equation. We sat in the MT to keep cool during the concert. I was using baby sunblock and was still turning a lovely red color. It's evened out now into a rather nice tan.
This is also the time when we discovered pizza. The pizza was sooo deliche! One slice of cheese was $4 and it was about the size of one and a half sbarro pieces. But 3 times as good!
Did a little shopping. I really wish I had taken more time looking thru all the vendors. It would have been doubly helpful if they had a map of the vendors names.
It's Tool time! We made our way over to What Stage. Yep. They must've had stoners who like to mess with stoners make up these names. What stage, which stage, that tent, this tent, the other tent, yet another tent, somethin' else & Bonnarouge... It's like the never ending Abbot & Costello act. Oy.
Finally got to see the infamous Bonnaroo Gate
Tool was pretty fuckin' awesome. I saw them at the Excel a few years back and that was unfuckingbelievable. So I have a skewed notion of what a Tool concert should be. I think the heat and dust was getting to Maynard. The dust cloud at night was about half a mile high everywhere. And while it makes the lasers look fucking cool, it chokes you when you breathe. Singing, especially when you're not aclimated to the conditions must be really hard. And all the long notes must have started to be too much. They got off stage about an hour early. People were pissed. On our little end of things, Jake had wandered off again and left his stuff behind. Thus implementing the new rule of "Jake schlepps his own shit". We waited until the place was basically empty before we gave up. We were tired anyways. Besides, there was fun to be had back at the tent.
