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Bonnaroo 2009

By brad on June 19, 2009

I spent this past weekend in the middle of Tennessee. It took me 24 hours to get there via plane, and I spent the next 24 hours without any luggage. But I’m not going to talk about that here, I’ll save that for a future post about how American Airlines could have used Social Media [...]

Posted in Music | Tagged Bonnaroo, festivals, new music, phish, show review, vacation, Wilco | 1 Response

The hectic race to nothing.

By brad on June 7, 2009

Next weekend I’m getting away for a long weekend in Tennessee. There’s a huge music festival going, and for four days I plan on wandering the grounds with no real plans, sipping beer, and watching some of the most talented bands on the planet. I’m really looking forward to getting away with no real agenda. [...]

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Bonnaroooooooo 2009

By brad on February 3, 2009

The lineup came out this morning. I’m a wee bit impressed. From top to bottom it’s awesome. I’ll probably go for Phish, cause I’m a sucker. The rest of the lineup is crazy good, to boot.  The lineup is below …

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Bonnaroo, Review Thursday

By brad on July 19, 2007

After getting our bearings in the campground it became evident to me that things were going to work out wonderfully. I was woefully tired due to my inability to sleep (or relax) on airplanes and subsequently kind of eager to get everything set up to relax. After setting up camp and taking a quick nap, [...]

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Bonnaroo, review #1

By brad on July 5, 2007

So, its been a while since I arrived home from Bonnaroo. In the meantime, I’ve moved all of my belongings across town. I had meant to write this earlier, but I knew that it would have to wait until I, one, digested Bonnaroo, two, moved, and three, had some time to think about the Grand [...]

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Vegoose – Saturday

By brad on October 29, 2006

Saturday was a great day at Vegoose. The weather was perfect, the atmosphere was awesome and the music killed. Here’s a quick run down. I’ll go more indepth later. I started the day out with watching Praxis. They are they super-group comprised of Buckethead, Bill Lawswell and Primus’ drummer Brian. Buckethead is an interesting guy [...]

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