All I can say is "Holy Shit!" From Friday to today has been a blink in time! Friday night was the Pinewood Derby for Mat.. He was totally not into it, Just like the past years so I built the car and entered it as his... It didn't do that well... also as expected... after that, we went home and I went to bed fairly early for a Friday night. I was asleep by 11:30... I woke up when Tanya had to get up for work at 7:30.. she asked me to make coffee, like I normally do for her, but I just didn't feel right.... Uh oh! I run to the bathroom and make it there in the nick of time... I almost shit myself! and while I was sitting there, i felt puke building up..... this was not good!!!! I had a gig that night! So now what? I spent the next 8 hours running back and forth between the bathroom and my bed. I thought "How the hell am I going to play for 4 hours in this condition?" I got Tanya to pick me up some Nauzene, Pepto, and more Imodium. I started loading up on all 3 of them until about 4:00 then got in the shower ... at about 5:30 I was there set up, tuned up and ready to play... feeling like shit but I made it... all the drugs I took kept the puke down and the squirts in... all I had there was some rice and 4 bottles of vitamin water... Here are the set lists:
Set 1
1. Oasis – Wonderwall
2. Deep Blue Something – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
3. WC – Baby Hold Me Tight
4. CCR – Bad Moon Rising
5. SMB – The Joker
6. The Romantics – What I Like About You
7. Jack Johnson – If I Had Eyes
8. The Drifters – Save the Last Dance
9. Coldplay – Beautiful World
10. Grateful Dead – Touch of Grey
11. Neil Young – Down By the River
12. Semisonic – Closing Time
Set 2
13. Pornosonic – Laying Pipe
14. Radiohead – Creep
15. Mamas and the Papas – California Dreaming
16. Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
17. Maroon 5 – I Won’t Go Home Without You
18. CCR – Down on the Corner
19. Young Rascals – Good Loving
20. WC – Let Your Love Shine
21. The Foundations – Build Me Up
22. Oasis – Champagne Supernova
23. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge
24. Neil Young – Rocking in the Free World
Set 3
25. Pink Floyd – Is There Anybody Out There?
26. Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower
27. Bob Seger – Turn the Page
28. CCR – Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
29. Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
30. WC – Run Along
31. 4 Non Blondes – What’s Up
32. Bob Dylan - Tangled up in Blue
33. Tom Petty – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
34. Lynrd Skynrd – Simple Man
WC is Willy, and the songs are his originals. We ended up cutting Plush out because we never really got it together enough that I felt comfortable about playing it... and it's a bit too heavy for the crowd that we played for... all in all the gig went went... the other 3 guys got paid, and i had fun despite the sickness!!! anyway, I got home at about midnight and went straight to bed... never even unloaded the car besides my guitars....
So I slept until about 10:00 Sunday morning... I was feeling much better but was still a little light headed.... I went and got the kids from the In-Laws and did some food shopping and then just laid around... then at about 8:00 I made a couple burgers for the kids and Mat said he didn't want to eat cuz he had a stomach ache....
...... hour later........
Mat sprinting past me to hurl into the toilet!!!! I sent him to my room with a huge bowl... he puked once an hour for the 6 hours... poor kid... I slept on the couch so I could hear him... every time he puked, I got up with him and then emptied his bowl out and got him cleaned up... I got almost no sleep .... I took off on Monday for a few reasons.. one I was still a little sick, two I was up all night and three I had meetings with the kids' school....
Meeting #1:
Katie needs help... she is falling behind in areas that she cant.... language arts, spelling etc. She will now go to the resource room for extra help. This is good. She has an appointment at a neurologist next month to find out what is going on... the school is saying it's an ADD thing... I won;t accept anything they say because they told me Mathew had ADD and wanted us to put him on Ritalin and after his appointment at the neurologist he was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Fuck them!... If the Neurologist tell us us it ADD then I will accept it....
Meeting #2:
Mathew has taken a step back.. he has now become defiant at school. He'll sit UNDER his desk and refuse to come out.... crazy stuff like that.... Weird thing is that he doesn't do this shit at home...... we figure its because he knows we won't put up with that shit. so he is now going to be place in a class with a really tough teacher that won't tolerate that crap.... In a way I feel like I'm throwing him into the lions den but after he pushes his luck just once, he will get it... and then Soar!
Today:
This morning, Bonnaroo.com announce the initial line up for the festival!!!! Headliners are Bruce Springsteen, Phish, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails!!! Go to Bonnaroo.com and look at some of the other acts!!! I can't fuckin' wait!!!! So far they have 75 acts on the bill... last year there were 168 so they are going to add lots! Here is the initial line up:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Phish (2 shows)
Beastie Boys
Nine Inch Nails
David Byrne
Wilco
Al Green
Snoop Dogg
Elvis Costello Solo
Erykah Badu
Paul Oakenfold
Ben Harper and Relentless7
The Mars Volta
TV on the Radio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Gov't Mule
Andrew Bird
Band of Horses
Merle Haggard
MGMT
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The Decemberists
Girl Talk
Bon IverBéla Fleck & Toumani Diabate
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Galactic
The Del McCoury band of Montreal
Allen Toussaint
Coheed & Cambria
Booker T & the DBTs
David Grisman Quintet
Lucinda Williams
Animal Collective
Gomez
Neko Case
Down
Jenny Lewis
Santogold
Robert Earl Keen
Citizen Cope
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
The Ting Tings
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Kaki King
Grizzly Bear
King Sunny Adé
Okkervil River
St. Vincent
Zac Brown Band
Raphael Saadiq
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Crystal Castles
Tift Merritt
Brett Dennen
Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue
Toubab Krewe
People Under The Stairs
Alejandro Escovedo
Vieux Farka Touré
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Cherryholmes
Yeasayer
Todd Snider
Chairlift
Portugal. The Man.
The SteelDrivers
Midnite
The Knux
The Low Anthem
Delta Spirit
A.A. Bondy
The Lovell Sisters
Alberta Cross
I don't ever really say too much on the subject but I am friends with one the people in one of the headliners...I can't really say who except that I will be calling on this person to see if I can get hooked up!!! Maybe get backstage or even into to the VIP section... we'll see what happens he may not be able to do anything because it's such a huge festival.
Gonna be awesome!!!!!
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Everyone but me got that bug as well. Hope it is running better now.
That is one hell of a line up.....how long is this thing?
It's a 4 day festival! This is only the initial lineup... after all the other additions, last year's total was 168 acts... that includes comedy acts too... they will probably add acts once a month until it starts.. that means they make at least 4 announcements before it starts... they will easily have more than 150 acts this year! especially since the Langerado in Florida was canceled... I'm hoping that Bonnaroo picks up a couple from there like, Matisyahu!!
Bonnaroo is a huge hippie hangout...it really is a good time! I can't wait!
OH BTW.... The bug made it's way through the whole family. Tanya got it first. she also had the easiest.. after her, my Daughter got it... then me and last Mathew... I think he had it the worst, but he had it and about 6 hours later he was fine... hit him hard and fast then he was good.
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