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URL icon « on: June 24, 2008, 10:23:31 AM »
Does anyone know who started that awesome marshmallow throw during the Swell Season set?  It was totally awesome to be involved in.  It had to be pre-planned because there were too many marshmallows being whipped around for it to have been one person's idea.  Anyone with info please post!!
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URL icon « Reply #1 on: June 24, 2008, 10:35:38 AM »
I don't know anything about it, but it was incredible.  The sight of hundreds of marshmallows flying through the air at the same time was awesome enough, but the song the band was playing at the time fit the scene beautifully.  High-five to the folks who started it. 
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URL icon « Reply #2 on: June 24, 2008, 11:46:27 AM »
"Marshmallow War" is a variant of "Glowstick War" which got started at other events - mainly at Phish shows.  It was definitely pre-planned.  I wish I had been at the Customs gate when the marshmallow people came through - the look on the faces on the customs gate folks would have been almost as priceless as the Marshmallow War itself!!
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URL icon « Reply #3 on: June 24, 2008, 11:56:50 AM »
1st time I saw marshmallow throwing was at a widespread panic show. I was a lil shocked to see it happening at TBF. awesome stuff..
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Ho Ho! Imagine what Glen Hansard must of thought!

At first, I thought it was golf balls EEK!, then ping pong balls (remember Captain Kangaroo?) LOL, then figured out that it was MARSHMALLOWS!!! I thought, how come no one told me about this?? I would have played!

By the way, were they all kosher mallows? What a great spin off of nerf balls! Did anyone see the coconut encrusted kind? Of course, by the time they were re-tossed, they were all cocoa colored~!

I think throwing glowsticks is not fun play! Or anything that projectiles with pain and suffering. Good thing I wore a hat cause I got beaned a few times ... but not with marshmallows...

Here's a photo of the marshmallow toss, hard to see, and didn't catch it during the peak.
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Quote from: cletusaz on June 24, 2008, 11:56:50 AM
1st time I saw marshmallow throwing was at a widespread panic show. I was a lil shocked to see it happening at TBF. awesome stuff..

Me too. Usually during the (or in anticipation of) a cover of the Dead's "Cream Puff War"...which was only played a handful of times in the 60's.

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Quote from: Hooch on June 24, 2008, 10:23:31 AM
Does anyone know who started that awesome marshmallow throw during the Swell Season set?  It was totally awesome to be involved in.  It had to be pre-planned because there were too many marshmallows being whipped around for it to have been one person's idea.  Anyone with info please post!!

Marshmellow war?  Bummer I missed that one.  Guess we gotta go back and do it over again.

Jess-----who is currently plowing through too many emails and work messages.  I should have worn the Human Disco Ball dress to work today to keep perspective on things
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URL icon « Reply #7 on: June 24, 2008, 12:13:33 PM »
I saw someone in front of me with about 20 bags of marshmallows.... so they must have handed them out or something.  It was so much fun!!
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Quote from: mj2008 on June 24, 2008, 12:13:33 PM
I saw someone in front of me with about 20 bags of marshmallows.... so they must have handed them out or something.  It was so much fun!!
YEAH! 20 BAGS! Instigators!
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Just so everyone knows....Daniela picked up one of the thrown marshmallows and ate it!!!!
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"Just so everyone knows....Daniela picked up one of the thrown marshmallows and ate it!!!!"

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URL icon « Reply #11 on: June 24, 2008, 03:07:55 PM »
Best sight was a little boy -- 4 or 5 yrs old -- in the Porta line with his hands COVERED with marshmallow goo and he couldn't have happier.  Watching the drummer (Johnny Boyle?) trying to bat them about with his drumsticks was amazing too.
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Quote from: BluegrassDustin on June 24, 2008, 12:03:21 PM
Quote from: cletusaz on June 24, 2008, 11:56:50 AM
1st time I saw marshmallow throwing was at a widespread panic show. I was a lil shocked to see it happening at TBF. awesome stuff..

Me too. Usually during the (or in anticipation of) a cover of the Dead's "Cream Puff War"...which was only played a handful of times in the 60's.

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Happened last year on Sunday night, too. I've got video on YouTube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NRjH0iv_g

and here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yZH7hLzJns
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URL icon « Reply #13 on: June 25, 2008, 10:46:29 AM »
I was over visiting some friends from Atlanta and these girls sitting next to them planned the whole thing.  Apparently they brought in 40 bags a day and hid them all over the festival.  Got them out and distributed right before the mayhem.  Hail and marsmallows....how do you tell someone who is not a TBF veteran about this.

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URL icon « Reply #14 on: June 25, 2008, 05:53:31 PM »
Quote from: Monaco on June 24, 2008, 03:07:55 PM
Best sight was a little boy -- 4 or 5 yrs old -- in the Porta line with his hands COVERED with marshmallow goo and he couldn't have happier.  Watching the drummer (Johnny Boyle?) trying to bat them about with his drumsticks was amazing too.

Drummer's Graham Hopkins this time around.

Marshmallow war = one of the best parts of the festival. Fantastic. 'JUST TRUST THE ENERGY!' etc.
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