FaceOnMars - Just Curious…
Were You wearin’ a Faded Blue Furthur T Sunday?
Do you post on DNC?
Just Wondrin"
An why didn’t Peter do Land of the Navajo and fix that Damn Storm Sunday?
Nope, but I do have one of those t-shirts! I wore tie dies w/ faded blue furthur hat all four days. Don’t post on DNC, but do so on furthur.net, ratdog.org, and philzone.com, and phantasytour.com (SCI board).
Yeah, would’ve liked more O&ITW tunes including Navajo, but am always happy to hear whatever Rowns plays in any configuration (although crucial reggae would be my first choice if asked).
A designated smoking section would be MUCH appreciated. There’s still gonna be smokers in the crowd, but with a designated space available, I’d at least have the option to say “Hi, I have bad asthma, would you mind moving to the smoker’s section with that ciggy? Thanks!”
Might not hurt to add a blurb to the handouts pointing out the dangers of tossing butts, either…lots of folks traveling in from greener pastures seem to have NO idea how easy it is to start a fire in high desert country.
Unfortunately, I did sit behind a large group of people on Sunday who didn’t seem interested in the music at all. I just have to vent.
Due to medication, I can’t sit in the sun, so I was part of the shade tent group. We set up our EZ-up style shade tent in the second row behind another EZ-up and next to other EZ-ups. We thought we had a great spot.
The people in the tent in front of us turned out to be part of a large group that filled three tents along the front shade tent line. More adults and small children joined the group as the morning went on.
The adults were busy standing, chatting loudly and drinking and were neither listening to the music nor paying attention to their small children. The adults were blocking the view of everyone behind them and many of the kids ran in and out of the other tents creating havoc. I had a ball thrown at my head, one three year old child stole a claw hammer from a Kelty tent behind our tent and ran through various tents swinging it at other children, and another child stomped on my backpack where my new camera was. Not one parent did anything.
Then the group had a birthday party. Did they have it during the break between acts? No. They waited until 10 minutes into Peter Rowen and started singing “Happy Birthday” at the top of their lungs. Then they handed out PARTY HORNS to the kids. For the rest of Peter Rowen all I could hear was HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK.
This was Telluride Bluegrass Festival, not Chuck E. Cheeze. If you want to have a birthday party, please set up in the back behind the other shade tents. And there are hundreds of quiet party favors. This was a large group of irresponsible and rude adults teaching their kids to be irresponsible and rude. :mad
Luckily, this was the only bad incident during an otherwise great festival.
On a positive note, I want to say that all of the other families that I sat near were great. The adults were enjoying the music, yet still supervising their kids. The kids were having fun while still being respectful of other people’s property and enjoyment of the music.
So here’s a big thank you to those families! :thumbsup
Saw panic at Red Rocks on Friday and there was a woman with chains that jingled right next to me … was in the 2nd to last row, and while the band was turned up loud, the jingling was still very annoying. It’s funny now (and kind of then for a moment), as I tried to remember which board I recall someone posting about this very issue :lol. She and her boyfriend moved in the middle of the 2nd set, so kind of let it go given that most of the show was over … and the net gain / trade off was minimal for a confrontation. However, I did cup my ears half the time …
Well you were lucky. There were more people this year, mostly younger men, talking SO LOUD during some of the music, it was like they came there to see how LOUD they could TALK and maybe if they talked LOUD enough the musicians on stage might hear them. If they were there to listen to the music then they failed miserably. And they made sure that the folks around them couldn’t listen to the music either. I don’t care how much money it cost to come; if all you want to do is TALK during the show then stay home.
You know, this was our ninth consecutive TBF. I did not notice anymore cigarette smokers or loud talkers than previous years. That being said, I do not try to put our tarp down way up front where the party happens. I get in line a little before 4:00 am and lay my tarp in the same spot year after year, 32 tarp mornings. All nine of us on the tarp felt this was the best Festival yet, ’ course we say that every year.
WoW so smokers, pot smokers, kids runnin around adults partyin, and people talkin at a festival is now a problem? Maybe you folks were at a different festival than me, or maybe you wish you were at a different festival altogether. Keep hopin for more rules and regulations and you just may get them. My guess is you would just find something else to complain about.
Amen! :thumbsup
Hear hear! That birthday party thing does sound like a nightmare tho…kids with kazoo’s and freakin hammers?? Lol, think I would’ve just taken a walk.
Couldn’t agree more about the smokers. I put it down to the younger crowd. In our camp, though, they policed their buts and we left the site with no old buts laying around.
I’m a laid back kind of person. I know that there will be people moving and a general background noise at any festival. I don’t mind people walking through my shade tent area. That’s why I like the EZ-up style so people can get back and forth to their space. I had lots of kids walk or even run through my tent and I didn’t mind, heck a few of them even said “excuse me”. I don’t mind people dancing.
But I do mind when a few people blatantly ruin the festival experience for all others around them. “It’s a festival” is no excuse to be rude.
I get what people are saying in this thread. I guess everyone just has a different tolerance for others’ proclivities and have different levels of acceptance.
Having said that, I feel safe in saying that very few people’s festival experiences were blatently ruined by cigarette smokers or loud talkers. I think some people are really overstating the effects these actions have.