Bonnaroo 2016 in the morning, a mixture of sleeping and Yoga.
"Everybody seems to wonder
What it's like down here
I gotta get away
from this day-to-day
running around,
Everybody knows
this is nowhere."
- Neil Young, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
The Closest Thing to Woodstock for This Generation
Sleeping... It was a big thing after a day/night of concerts.
Bonnaroo is perhaps the closest thing to Woodstock that this current generation will ever witness. The crowd was approximately 50,000 this year in Manchester, TN. In the past, upwards of 80,000 music lovers gathered.
"But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget." - Edgar Winter, Age 69.
You may recall the rocker, along with his older brother Johnny, were born albino. When he played at Woodstock in 1969 his band was called “The Edgar Winter Group.”
Woodstock drew a crowd of 400,000 fans in 3 days. Of course back then, there was no social media to propel the event that included 32 acts.
Music brings all together
"I'm from Florida," he told me on Sunday. "I got here at 3AM on Wednesday... It was really, really great," he continued as he took his Gatorade bottle shower. He then talked about the concerts, the cinema, the people and how they all got along.
"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes." Claude Debussy (1862-1918)