June 17, 2008
Bonnaroo 2008: Hippies Show Celtics Love
This past weekend, concertgoers at the Bonnaroo music festival didn't show much love for Kanye West, but they did show a surprising amount of love to the Celtics on that Tennessee cow farm.
The festival organizers played Game 4 to a packed tent full of cheering fans. This Bostonist spotted several Celts jerseys over the weekend, not to mention Red Sox paraphernalia, and some B tattoos to round out a weekend full of half-naked examples of bad ideas in body art. A "Beat LA" chant even started up before M.I.A.'s historic "last show ever."
Nothing says "Go Celtics!" quite like a bear sculpture made by hippies out of recyclable materials that's sporting Kanye glasses and a Celtics jersey. There was no rival Lakers bear to be found.
Let's hope the team can ride these hippie good vibes all the way to victory tonight.
For more photos from Bonnaroo 2008 check out the divertingbailey Bonnaroo 2008 Flickr set.
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How they could not like Kanye, for chrissake? The guy's mom just died, so maybe the audience can wait a few minutes. A lot of boors wearing Celtics jerseys: surprise, surprise.
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Funny you should ask about the Kanye-hate as I just posted a recap of the whole KanyeRoo-gate 2008 saga [Link NSFW, ed.] over on my other blog Diverted Motion, for those who are equally scratching their heads. I would be too if I hadn't been there.
In other news the Celtics won so I guess the hippie good vibes worked after all!
Now let's all go out and "celebrate with dignity."
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I don't think I've ever been to a Sonic Youth show where the band didn't go on 2 hours later than announced. I understand that festivals are on a schedule and that's difficult, but it's pretty much par for the course for live music.