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Jh'ers at Bonneroo: Day 2

By Sam Petri

Check out photos by Andrew Wyatt on the PJH homepage


There's 80,000 people here on 700 acres in the heart of Tennessee.  To beat the heat lot's of girls are painting thier boobs and going toppless.  Andrew has been photographing each one as they pass.  This is our side show entertainment.  

Yesterday on the main stage the Kings of Leon played, followed by The Roots, and then Tool.  Tool was the head-lining act of the night which means when they played, no other stages had music performances, so everyone, all 80,000 people, where watching Tool.  

They made the best use of the main stage by any band thus far, using six screens flashing the art of Alex Grey.  They weren't allowing press photographers to take photo's, as Tool has thier own media folk, but Andrew was able to snap a great shot from the crowd.

After that there were several performances on all of the side stages including festival staples like Sound Tribe Sector 9 and The String Cheese Incident.  More intersting was the Super Jam, which this year featured ?uestlove of The Roots, Ben Harper, and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin.  There is no doubt that bootleg recordings of this performance will be circulating on the internet in the near future.  

Tonight the Police play, but all I really care about seeing is The Flamming Lips.

Published Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:31 PM by planetjh

Comments

 

BMander said:

John Paul Jones is dead, you schmuck.  His son, however, is alive

June 16, 2007 11:55 AM
 

Seenster said:

A side from the fact that I saw him play yesterday, here is the low down from Wikipedia:

"He played at Bonnaroo 2007 in a collaboration with Ben Harper and Roots drummer ?uestlove as part of the festival's all-star Super-Jam. He came out and played Mandolin with Gillian Welch at bonnaroo during the song "Look at Miss Ohio" and a cover of the Johnny Cash song "Jackson." He also appeared during the set of Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals where they played a cover of Dazed and Confused"

You are thinking of the Led Zeppelin drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham who died in the late 70's.  His son Jason Bonham is now a drummer.  

If you are interested in more gernal facts about John Paul Jones feel free to give this a read:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones

June 17, 2007 8:43 AM
 

planetjh said:

BMander, whaz up. we miss you. are you still in JH or out for the summer? Keep in touch!

MG

June 17, 2007 12:59 PM
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