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Post by whambamthankyoumam on Feb 8, 2009 11:04:03 GMT -8
I just wanted to hear some memories of past sasquatch. The good, the bad. I'll be there this year. So give me some ideas of what I'm in for.
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trentcee
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Post by trentcee on Feb 8, 2009 13:52:21 GMT -8
What your in for?
Be prepared for three days of music driven blissfulness in a beautiful place. Be prepared for some of the friendliest north westerners and the great parties we throw until the wee hours of the morning.
I guess really, just be prepared to have a great time surrounded by a special kind of festival goers.
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Post by g0ldfinga on Feb 8, 2009 13:54:45 GMT -8
Most people saw it last year I think theres a video of it on youtube, but the mars volta came out to a mixed reaction from the crowd, last time they had played in washington they had been pelted with bottles of piss. Anyways they threw out a whole symbol into the crowd I don't think anyone was hurt but it was crazy, I think he threw a large box fan out into the crowd too.
Then during the Flaming Lips people were passing out in the audience left and right, not sure if it was from drugs, or lack of food/water and standing all day
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snorkel
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Post by snorkel on Feb 8, 2009 16:28:25 GMT -8
I assume you meant a cymbal?
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Post by loyalfromlondon on Feb 8, 2009 18:04:51 GMT -8
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 11, 2009 15:04:53 GMT -8
I've got a great one. Last year on sunday morning, my girlfriend and I were laying in our tent half sleeping. My friend was outside smoking an early morning cigarette. Sudenly we started hearing shrieks of a girl and a man's voice yelling, "Brittany, shut up! Shut the fuck up!" and shes yelling let me go! I thought she was being raped or something. Then my friend says, "Dude, you gotta see this, so I stumble out of bed and there is this bare ass naked girl, struggling to get away from her boyfriend. It didn't take long to figure out she was tripping balls on something, and when she climbed up on top of someones VW van and started dancing, all doubt was removed. Her boyfriend kept yelling at her to come down, but she wouldn't, "It feels so goooood!" Finally, ONE dog runs across the street like 100 yds from her. She shrieked and yelled "Puppies!" and went chasing after him. About half way there, she falls and pukes. She looks at her puke for a second and then dives into it and starts rolling around. Finally security rolled up and took her away...
Best Sasquatch! story ever... 100% true.
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 11, 2009 15:06:29 GMT -8
the dog's name was taco by the way, and his owners said that the girl actually crawled into their tent and danced for them... hilarious.
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Post by whambamthankyoumam on Feb 11, 2009 15:40:19 GMT -8
hahaha finally the kinda story i was looking for. Thats hilarious man. Thanks Ryan. I really doubt it, but can anyone top this??
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Post by tylerdurden420 on Feb 11, 2009 15:57:47 GMT -8
Don't know about topping it, but I was in the pit during the Great Ice Storm of '06. My friend and I huddled together with a lovely couple from somewhere in the midwest who had a nice cow blanket (literally, it was a big blanket covered with pictures of cows). Then we recruited a handful of others into our circle until finally someone decided we should enjoy some drugs to deal with the onslaught of foul weather. One problem: no pipe. Solution: 24 oz. can of Coors being held by some girl who seriously looked like she was 12. But bless her heart, she slammed that thing down so we could use the can. It was a nice little bonding moment in what could have otherwise been an awful time out in the cold.
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Post by whambamthankyoumam on Feb 11, 2009 16:22:40 GMT -8
Oh jeez Ive heard stories about that hail storm man. hah that sounds like an awesome bounding moment @ the gorge to me. I regret not joining all of you under the cow blanket for some herbal bonding. Thanks amigo. Keep these coming! They're just getting me more & more amped for this year.
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apeman
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Post by apeman on Feb 11, 2009 16:49:34 GMT -8
I can vouch for the Britney story....that VW van was right beside us. 100% true. And the dogs name was Taco.
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 11, 2009 18:42:14 GMT -8
Apeman! Wasn't that hilarious? I'll never forget that! I was hoping someone would corroborate my story. That guy tried to give me Taco too.
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Post by loyalfromlondon on Feb 12, 2009 5:43:02 GMT -8
After sitting next to Tim Meadows stoned out of his mind, this is probably the strangest encounter from last year. 7:15 - The Mars Volta
Awful, just awful. One of the worst listening experiences ever. First time I've ever used ear plugs to block out music. I missed Ghostland Observatory for this?
I escaped the music for a few minutes to try to find more glow sticks and in the process had the strangest encounter of my life. It goes as follows...
A freakishly tall man, dressed in short shorts, with glitter makeup, wearing a tight, half t-shirt that read, in rainbow letters "I Love Pussy" stops me.artist rendition "I love your shirt", he said
"Thanks, I like your shirt too."
"Oh my god, I got so much pussy wearing this shirt. I had sex with like 10 girls."
"Really!?"
"Well, not at once."
"Oh."
"So how was the show?"
"Conchords were great, I even made a sign for them. It said Wet For Bret."
Lightly pushing me in the chest, he then replied- "Oh my god, you're such a FAG."
And just like that, he disappeared in a plume of glitter.
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Post by know ID yuh on Feb 12, 2009 13:19:12 GMT -8
You didn't miss any Ghostland Observatory because of Mars Volta. I was hoping to catch a couple songs of Ghostland after the Mars Volta show, and basically stood around for 20 minutes hoping they would start. I finally went back to the main stage so I wouldn't miss the UFO landing.
The first five minutes of the Mars Volta shows was one of the most memorable moments I have seen live. A bit uncomfortable at times, but those guys are some seriously amazing musicians. The drummer and saxaphonist blew my mind.
Ah yes, Britney, unfortunately I missed it, I wasn't camping close enough, but I have heard variations of the story several times, including a couple the morning of. I never heard the part about puking, and ultimately getting hauled off though. I kept thinking how terrible it would be for the boyfriend, not being able to do anything really without people suspecting rape or domestic abuse while your tripped out girlfriend parades around nude.
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ccoult
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Post by ccoult on Feb 12, 2009 21:04:42 GMT -8
I also heard some stories about the infamous Brittany. Hope she is back this year.
Had a couple funny moments last year. On Saturday a bunch of us were just hanging out in the campground and found one of those huge orange cones...so naturally we decided it would make a fantastic beer bong. Several beers later we look at the clock and realize it's only 10:30am and we're all totally hammered. It was a good day.
On Sunday night I'm hanging out with a new friend watching The Cure, and towards the end she was getting really tired, so we decided to go lie up on the rocks. Anyways, we both fell asleep and woke up at around 3am. Everyone is gone, except for about 20-30 hispanic workers cleaning up all the garbage. I open my eyes with this guy 2 feet away from my face picking up empty cans around me. Needless to say we got some weird looks, but eventually started to stumble our way back to the campground. I'm giving my friend a piggy-back and so by the time we get to the parking lot we are both exhausted (and it has started raining). We find a random sleeping bag lying in the grass so we decide to grab it and take another nap in the parking lot in the rain haha. After that we stumbled back to the campsite at around 4:30. I walk her back to her tent (we had just met that night), and realize I have no idea where I am. I walk around in circles for about 15 minutes only to discover my tent is located about 20 feet from her's in the next row over. Still one of the greatest coincidences I have ever experienced to this day.
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Post by truguillotine on Feb 16, 2009 19:59:21 GMT -8
I was right next to Brittany too! I wrote about it on this board last year and don't feel like retyping it but here it is
I really hope someone on this board heard about the whole Brittany episode. For those of you who don't know what happened here's the abbreviated version. This chick (Brittany) was on some sort of drugs and she was pretty far gone at 6am when I was woken up by her yelling "Puppies, Range rover, your so beautiful" over and over again. This was followed by her boyfriend screaming at her to shut the fuck up and throwing her on the ground repeatedly. Once they were on the ground, they would make out for a few minutes and she would be up and at it again. I would have to say that the best thing I heard all weekend was " Brittany, put your fucking pants on!". Eventually she ended up naked on top of someones RV. I don't know what happened to her after that.
The dog that was wondering around our campsite all weekend, who's fucking dog was that. Anytime a car would pass by it would run under the front tires like it wanted to get hit. Pretty cool dog though.
What a great time...
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Post by Whoopsie Goldberg on Feb 24, 2009 9:32:56 GMT -8
MIA inviting my friend up on stage before anyone else. her huge posse grabbed him out, and he was freaking out. and lost his sandal in the process. and it was so wild. then i left the mosh, and lost my friends nice dakine bag, and my other friends 80 dollar north face windbreaker. then i had to go find him, and sit for the remainder of modest mouse. which was gay.
I felt michael franti's dreadlocks up. he walked by me, and I caressed him as he walked by. I put my hand on the guitarist from ozomatli's shoulder. it was kind of akward, but awesome.
wayne coyne ran over my face in the bubble.
it was all so crazy. its seems like there were a million more things that happened, but I wont bore you.
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ccoult
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Post by ccoult on Feb 24, 2009 15:27:29 GMT -8
I felt michael franti's dreadlocks up. he walked by me, and I caressed him as he walked by. weiiiiiiiird
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jlyngen
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Post by jlyngen on Apr 12, 2009 19:25:34 GMT -8
This will be my second sasquatch this year and I had to register and post because I'm bored waiting for the festival haha.
There were too many interesting things that happened last year but the coolest one was for the first 2 days I stood in the same spot for atleast 10 hours to be front row and see all the bands up close and actually made friends with some of the security guards.
On day 3 I was exhausted and sat in the grass for about half of the day with my friend, when a white shirt walks by (higher up security) recognizes me and says "Stay here"....
...he comes back with an entire box of popsicles for me and my friend, hands them to us, smiles, and walks off....totally shocked me haha. For anyone interested he was the one who looked like the black guy from Predator or the Sarge from Halo haha
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