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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: mankie on June 14, 2004, 03:00:00 pm
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Who comes up with these festival names by the way?
Two Die at Bonnaroo Music Fest in Tenn.
By BILL POOVEY
Associated Press Writer
MANCHESTER, Tenn. - Two fans died during the weekend Bonnaroo music festival, which drew more than 150,000 people, and investigators said drugs appear to have been involved.
They were the first deaths in the festival's three-year history.
"When there is drug usage and the heat has been like it has, we have been expecting it every year. ... This year our luck ran out," Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves said.
Preliminary toxicology tests showed both victims had been using drugs, investigator Dale Brissey said.
Temperatures reached 90 degrees or higher on Friday and Saturday. "The high humidity, high heat, alcohol and drugs - it's not a good combination," Brissey said.
The festival, at a farm halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga, offered a diverse lineup that included Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews and The Dead.
Graves said there were hundreds of drug charges and some assault charges, but officers just handed out citations for possession of small quantities of illegal drugs.
"Our jail is too small to put that many in there at one time." he said.
Graves said there was less violence than last year, when there were stabbings in the crowd.
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Wow. Nothing like a few od's and stabbings for a good time.
How many people died at Woodstock 1? Monterey?
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I have absolutely zero sympathy for any retard that kills themselves as a result of drugs....one less to deal with if you ask me.
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Ouch! Yes I seem to remember your hardline stance on this issue...
Not so simple for me I'm afraid.
Originally posted by Bollocks:
I have absolutely zero sympathy for any retard that kills themselves as a result of drugs....one less to deal with if you ask me.
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Originally posted by Bollocks:
offered a diverse lineup that included Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews and The Dead.
Umm,
really diverse.
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Umm,
really diverse.
well there was also Gomez
The Dead
Dave Matthews & Friends
Bob Dylan
Trey Anastasio
Willie Nelson
David Byrne
Primus
Wilco
Burning Spear
String Cheese Incident
Ani DiFranco
moe.
Gov't Mule
Los Lobos
Galactic
Yo La Tengo
Femi Kuti
Medeski Martin & Wood
Gomez
Yonder Mountain String Band
Damien Rice
North Mississippi Allstars Country Hill Review
Beth Orton
My Morning Jacket
Gillian Welch
The Del McCoury Band
Taj Mahal
Sam Bush Band
Vida Blue feat. The Spam Allstars
Los Lonely Boys
Grandaddy
Kings Of Leon
Bill Laswell's Material
Soulive
Neko Case
Calexico
Leftover Salmon
Cut Chemist
Chris Robinson
Umphrey's McGee
Maroon5
The Black Keys
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
The Bad Plus
Marc Broussard
Donovan Frankenreiter
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by mark e smith:
Umm,
really diverse.
well there was also Gomez
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Still not really diverse, but I thought it was funny, the three given examples probably all appeal to the same audience. Nevermind.
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Still not really diverse
I know that was my point, Dave Matthews, The Dead, Gomez, not diverse at all.
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They are more diverse than the Wakarusa shenanigans I'll be getting a contact high at this weekend.
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I'd throw out the Coachella drug arrests info as a comparison (about 6), but there's no way it's even relevant - I don't think I've ever been in a more 'tolerant' environment. The fact that no one died that very HOT weekend @ Coachella is just plain old good fortune.
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Originally posted by chaz:
Wow. Nothing like a few od's and stabbings for a good time.
How many people died at Woodstock 1? Monterey?
3 deaths at Woodstock.