There's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate...

Ok, So I'm back from Allgood and I have to say... it's wan't all that great. aside from the painful lack of running water and 15 vendors all selling bullshit that nobody wants, there was one big problem that I had with the festival: most of the music was between 10:00pm and 4:00am... which in theory is a great idea, because it's not hot and the music didn't start until 3pm so... you could sleep the day away...

but they forgot one thing.

we were situated at the top of a mountain in mid July with no shade... so your gal Renee was brunt out by 12:00am each night and missed the following:

Widespread Panic
Dark Star
Govm't Mule
Bassnector

BOOOO

I promise (Brian) that I will write performance reviews soon, but for now let's check and see if my predictions for the festival came true:



1. I will find the coffee vendor on site and make BFF's with them the moment we park the car.
it took me about an hour to find them, but I had ZERO coffee this weekend... It was only 2.50 for an iced coffeee, but I took a sip of Ben's and learned why it was so cheap! :(

2. Someone, I don't know who, will cover "The Weight"
haHA!! Susan Tedeschi and Derke Trucks closed their set with it! I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT!!

3. Phil Lesh will tell us about his liver and how you should give away part of yours, or a kidney, or whatever.
Of course he did!

4. Between Phil Lesh and the DSO we will hear: Good Lovin, Uncle John's Band, and Good Lovin again.

Sad to say, I will never know (well, at least not until I check out setlist.com) but I did hear Keller do Eyes of the World, Phil do Jack Straw, and some random cover band start up a 7:00am set in the camping area with a sad and warbily rendition of "Shakedown Street". That moment was a bit bitter-sweet for me, because I have always wante dto hear someone cover that tune.. just someone good.

5. I will get that weird patch of sunburn across my tramp stamp that I can never figure out how it got there.

nope... not this time, instead I have a horrible burn on both of my legs...

6. Someone will get poked in the eye with a glow stick thus ending the awesomeness that is glow stick wars during the first late night set.

you know what... even if someone did get poked in the eye, no one would have stopped anything... there were no cops and the security was so lazy... you could have brought in a thousand guns and some live Bangal tigers and no one would have cared.

7. Kisner and I will get into an argument about trying to cook with a cast iron skillet on a tiny personal grill

well, more like everytime we cooked, or talked about cooking he would bring up the fact that I didn't want to bring it... which really was annoying.

8. Keller Williams will crawl further up Phil Lesh's ass and try to jam with the Friends... uggghh
I was wrong, but he did do a bad-ass cover of "Pepper"

9. John Bell and Dave Schools will compete for the title of 2008's best looking hair blowing in the stage wind machine... Will Dave take it again this year, or with John finally win it for the wavy haired wonders out there?

there was no contest, as teher was no stage wind machine... I missed the set, but I say when it comes to the better hair with no wind, it has to be John... maybe he would let me boing his curls one day!

10. I will take photos of my feet to chronologically display the dirtiness
oh I did, and it's gross!

In addition I would like to offer up two long-shot predictions:

1. Daniela Cotton and Susan Tedeschi will play sing "Piece of My Heart" and my face will melt off
I wish, but they weren't on the same day.. however, Daniela Cotton did a SICK cover of Purple Rain! SICK!!!

2. Mike Gordon will make up for years of sucking by saying these words "Welcome special guest Trey Anastasio to the stage" or better yet "Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, and Page McConnell" after which my head will explode and I will die... a happy... happy woman!

What do you think?