BonnaReview pt. 1

As some may know the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival kicked off exactly one week ago with a killer Thursday night followed by 3 more days, nights, and dawns of drug fueled festivities. This review is dedicated to those who couldn't bother to attend the most amazing experience of their lifetime.

Thursday 6/12
Holy fucking shit... Waiting on the I-24 queue sucked major balls. The traffic was so backed up and we waited for so goddamn long we nearly ran out of fuel. I asked a nearby Statey where the nearest gas station was. He told us to hit up exit 114. We ducked out of line blew past 10 miles of other schmucks who are probably still waiting in line. We gassed ourselves up and went off to get back in line but the on-ramp was blocked off by cops who told us to take some rt. 50 business. We did and wound up only waiting another hour or so until we were finally admitted onto the farm. So remember future Bonnaroo'ers... take exit 114, turn left and then turn right onto rt. 50. You may even get free bottled water from some Christian group that will apologize for Jehovah's Witnesses, Evangelicals, Televangelists, The Crusades, as well as the last 2000 years of lies.

Our "ez-up" shade canopy turned out to be a "hard as fuck-up" shade canopy. We finally finagled that shit up and marched down to Centeroo where we awaited the first act of the festy. What Made Milwaukee Famous hit This Tent and left no lasting impression... Fuck Millwaukee! More of the same came from Superdrag... Fuck them too.
We decided to roll over to the silent disco where DJ Equal cheesed it up real nice with some very fun disco-house. Be-Tee-Dubs... disco is still the titts. At about this time half of our crew pieced out to look for some nugs n' stuff and I rolled over to That Tent to check out Back Door Slam.
Now this band band is going places. The frontman/guitarist is the whole show. He can rip up blues solo's like Jimi and sing like Howlin Wolf. He strutted through original material as well as a few covers including Jimi's Red House, CSNY's I Almost Cut My Hair, and Robert Cray's Back Door Slam from which the band gets its name. After that surprise hit we rolled back to This Tent for MGMT.
This Brooklyn based electronic, indie, rock, opera, noise band put on such a refreshingly original show I didn't even need to brush my teeth that night. Electric Feel came on towards the end of their set and This Tent went absolutely bananas. Fantastic show, highly recommended. We waited there for Battles which took the This tent early but made a bunch of noise instead of playing music for the first 15 minutes. Nothing really went right during the Battles set and that dumbass ride-cymbol gimmick the drummer uses did not impress me one bit. We moved onto That Tent for the Sword.
We were pretty beat so I stayed back outside That Tent for most of the show. The Sword was a heavier kind of act that somehow still bring through positive emotion with every riff. After The Sword we sat around enjoyed the sites and the food and eventually made our way back to This Tent for Lez Zeppelin.
Now I can't exactly recall why people would listen to Lez Zeppelin but their covers are pretty right on. The front woman also looked very sexy from a distance. I stayed through classics like Dazed and Confused, and The Ocean. They rocked pretty hard but could not keep my interest so I took the long long walk back to the campsite and slept like a toddler.