/u/jrwasntthere posted about his festival experience at EDC which inspired me to write an account of Bonnaroo from two weeks ago. You can read his thread here
Drug Schedule Th- TheRosinMaster's Cheese (review here, street coke, bottle tokes of PortalUSA's blue dream hashish (sample I got with a QP of haze, this is some quality pressed kief and he sells it for a little under $20/g I believe), and craft brews. 200mg of GammaGoblin's grey MDMA ($19/ g) for a friend (just a beautiful roll for him, not much else to say)
Fri- 100ug LSD ($180 sheet of GammaGoblin's WoW, $150 now) and some Cheese later on. My friends took 3x 100ug of Ziplokk's WoW each. 1/3 of a hulk and 1/4 of a Pfizer bar from the true King in the North, AlpraKing.
Sat- Coke and booze (Mexican cartel and Anheuser Busch)
Sun- Hash and weed and at night 27mg 2-CB HBr + 15mg redose two hours later (~$95 per 1.2g from 2cbking)
Highlights
Getting into the Farm Had a couple cases of brew and an ounce of "Lemon Skunk" and about 30 pre-rolled j's of TheRosinMaster's cheese ($130/oz.) We had our other drugs better hidden, but knew we would be fucked if we got fully searched. Got in in thirty minutes and saw a car getting searched, everything pulled out. The RV two cars ahead of us gets selected for the full search. We get waved through. Whew
LSD and LCD on Friday We learned quickly that the smart ones stay out of that hot Tennessee sun during the day and party hard at night. I've always wanted to do a night trip on LSD, so we planned to drop at 7PM. I saw Chvrches before the drop and they were insanely great and Lauren Mayberry is still beautiful. Met up with my friends and I took my GG WoW tab and them their Ziplokk tabs.
Waited around for the come up and then we went to see Flosstradomus at 8:45. I don't listen to trap or EDM, but I'm always down to see it live. They used a lot of weed imagery of which I highly approve. I started to notice the lights being a lot brighter. Floss called out a couple moshpits and I was able to get closer while moshing. Felt like I was able to lose my ego (not full ego death) when I bounced around the crowd and fell into the collective vibe/conciousness of the crowd.
After Floss, we were all feeling the LSD real nice. We were really pumped to see the return of James Murphy, a chubby old man that gets drunk and plays revolutionary electronic music under the moniker LCD Soundsystem at 11PM. While we were waiting for the show to start, I felt the need to leave my friends so I could immerse myself in the performance and lose my sense of identity. When the show started, I was really keying into lyrics and felt like Murphy was trying to tell us some truth, but us youngins' won't listen unless there's a fun beat we can bop to. Even then, we won't take his words to heart.
I felt the need to move around every 20 minutes or so becauase I felt myself get too grounded in my surroundings and I started caring more than I should about the people around me and their conversations, so I'd move to get fresh surroundings so I could key into the music and not worry about others. On one tab, I could see intense patterns in the lights and the music was just beautiful. Of course, LCD closed with "Dance Yrself Clean" and I almost died. That song has a lot of nostalgia attached to it for me. I feel like acid goes well with nostalgia, and I felt like I was back in high school bouncing to that song.
LCD went over, until 12:45 AM. Then I struggled to find my friends, and I was convinced that the inflatable dragon that we wanted to meet at had disappeared, but I eventually found with a little help from my friends. We enjoyed the beautiful Arch at Bonnaroo which is really a giant trip toy. We only had seconds to gaze upon it before we quickly whisked ourselves away to see Tame Impala's late night 1-3 AM set.
Apparently everyone else wanted to see Tame Impala as well because we were a bit away from the stage but were able to see their beautiful light show. Since we were passed the better part fo the peak, we decided to add some marijuana to the situation so we smoked several of my Cheese prerolls and a few of those tasty skunk j's.
Near the end of their set, they let out an explosion of more confetti than I've seen in my life. It was so thick that it created this wall that through the visuals turned the confetti into a single object that was connected with intricate patterns. It was like a school of fish in the air.
Headed back to our tent and watched out tapestries before I came down and took bars to get to sleep and chill. Was able to see the beautiful sunrise. Slept unil 1PM the next day even under the hot sun that woke me up at 9AM every other day.
SUNDAY: 2CB and The Dead My second time taking 2CB was going to be a chill one while listening to the double set (4 hrs!) by Dead and Company, the current rendition of the Grateful Dead, John Mayer was a special guest. We brought a blanket and chatted to a nice lady as we listened to their smooth jams and lights. High mental clarity and very acid like visuals to me. I told me friend that we should call 2CB "Colors" because it definitely beats LSD when it comes to the intensity of colors and light. I'm still open to trying it again, but I feel like I'd choose LSD over 2CB in most situations if I had the choice.
Bonus Stories: Bottle Tokes at Father John Misty and Drug Deals Inspired by Trailer Park Boys, I sat with the sun beating down on me and got the strangest looks as I burnt a whole in a plastic bottle with an American Spirit (Phillip Morris Int'l is the vendor, total asshole, imo). Then placing beads of hash on the cig and letting them smoke up in the bottle. I caught one older guy shaking his head watching me lmao. Good times.
One day chilling at the campsite, we had a guy come by looking for shrooms. My buddy still had 800 mg MDMA leftover and said he wanted to sell that. The guy said he knew someone that wanted a full g for 130. The guy didn't have cash, but he did have his buddy with him. He offered his buddy as collateral. I felt like I was a medieval lord accepting a ward. I told the guy that I only trusted his buddy as far as I could throw him, so I made him sit on my knee until homeboy came back. The guy smelled and they were clearly both wugs wooks. But lo and behold, ten minutes later the guy comes back with $100 for our 8 points. I give him a bump of coke as a tip and we start chatting. I ask him if he's a registered voter, and his resonse? "I've actually been a wanted felon for the last seven years." Who woulda thought I'd run into a wanted felon while selling hard drugs? Luckily, the felony was for something lame like resisting arrest, but still not the type of guy I want to surround myself with.
Overall: great time at bonnaroo made some friends and have some great memories AND I didn't get arrested. I'll call it a success. Let me know if you have questions!
Lsd N lcd ? What is lcd? edit nvm