Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

[UselessJo]

My money is on the booze and not the body!    And Hooch did you really kiss me on the lips too? I dont remember it happening, just knew that I felt like i needed a shower and just could not really feel clean for a few days. Must be the crunchy frog! 

[Capt. Telluride]

One complaint:

The security "Rovers" around the fest this year busting peeps for smuggled beers. Very shady. If you don't want to have beers smuggled in, do a more thorough bag check upon entrance.

I normally wouldn't smuggle beers in, but I just can't drink the swill that New Belgium pumps out. It's just terrible beer. Maybe a little competition next year? Monopolies suck, especially when their product is garbage.

Other than that small complaint, Telluride Bluegrass once again a center to my sometimes hectic life. Thank you Planet Bluegrass for all you do!

[Hooch]

My money is on the booze and not the body!    And Hooch did you really kiss me on the lips too? I dont remember it happening, just knew that I felt like i needed a shower and just could not really feel clean for a few days. Must be the crunchy frog! 

I am just going to offer a blanket denial of anything.  Whatever it is you think you may have seen/felt me do is purely conjecture and, without evidence to back it up, is heresay.  I would like to now draw attention away from myself and point out that Sarah tried to eat a boozy jello shot out of my mouth after I half chewed it up without my expressed written consent. 

[trot03]

ill toss out another thank you to the planet bluegrass/telluride folk for making it happen, this is the greatest festival in the country, and my parents taking me when i was young is a big part of why i love music in the first place.

id also like to send out another personal thank you to alexa in california and james in t'ride for helping me get a ticket this year, id just returned from the east coast on thursday and didnt know if i was going to make it this year.... but even more so-- for making my first TOWN PARK experience happen this year!! i was there with a 1st timer and i think she might be ruined for staying anywhere else now. thanks to the late night pickers for giving me something to do when i finally drank my friends into their tents each night, you all sounded great.

thank you all

[Cindy Lou]

My money is on the booze and not the body!    And Hooch did you really kiss me on the lips too? I dont remember it happening, just knew that I felt like i needed a shower and just could not really feel clean for a few days. Must be the crunchy frog! 

I am just going to offer a blanket denial of anything.  Whatever it is you think you may have seen/felt me do is purely conjecture and, without evidence to back it up, is heresay.  I would like to now draw attention away from myself and point out that Sarah tried to eat a boozy jello shot out of my mouth after I half chewed it up without my expressed written consent. 

And just where were these jello shots?  I missed out. waaaaa  okay I know stop whining.  NEXT year though, I'll drink you under the table Hoochie Koochie, and we can roll around on the floor laughing.  Deal?

[Bevin]

One complaint:

The security "Rovers" around the fest this year busting peeps for smuggled beers. Very shady. If you don't want to have beers smuggled in, do a more thorough bag check upon entrance.

I actually saw one of those security guys bust some folks next to me for drinking smuggled beer.  The smugglers were asking for it as they made no attempt to hide their Tecate cans (duh - there were cups everywhere).  But what struck me the most was the cool and friendly way that the security dude handled the situation. 

Props to Planet Bluegrass for treating us like adults (until we show that we don't deserve it).  I've been to other festivals where the security folks are overbearing and take themselves a little too seriously, but Telluride has the best and most professional event security staff in the festival universe, in my opinion.  Keeping 10,000 partying festival goers safe and within process limits is no small task. 

[jjwood64]

I'm with Capt. Telluride...not only am I not a fan of New Belgium brews,
but Fat Tire to me is overglorified Budweiser mule piss....and I am not
a beer snob.  In fact, I drank less than a 6-pack the entire festival.

I'm also with Bevin on the Planet treating us like adults.  I cannot tell
you how many shows I've been to over the years, especially back
in the East Coast, where you were either treated like cattle for
entering a given "big" show, or was subject to power-hungry
bozos abusing their privileges. 

[apollo]

We don't need to be searched like heck every time we go through those gates. I take my back pack everywhere, and by festival end they just say: "We assume there is no glass".  I go by the rules, and they treat me with respect. I like the trade off.  It's another place Planet Bluegrass shines.

New Belgium Beer bad?  Beer Advocate has getting a B+, Fat Tire a B. Nothing wrong with those beers. Not may favorite, but they have body, and full taste.  Being low on funds I didn't buy any myself, but I didn't turn down the one my friend bought for me!  Not all beers are from everybody, but don't translate your dislike for something to being "bad". I don't like heavy metal, but I don't put a blanket statement it is "bad", it just isn't for me. Fat Tire is a winner of many awards,  and liked beer drinkers. It clearly has something to offer.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/192/1914


 Listening to: Baby When The Sun Goes Down - Peter Green

[BigAl]

I have to agree a little on the overbearing security for unauthorized alcohol.  My wife was drinking a can of beer under our sunshade and got busted. Now I admit she shouldn't have been drinking it, or at least she should have poured into one of our festival cups. The security response was just over the top.  She had to pour out the rest of her beer which was reasonable.  She then had to consent to a search of our entire tarp/sunshade area. They then marked her wristband with an "X" and said that if it happened again she would be kicked out of the festival. A simple warning would have been nice!!!  I was just a little upset when all during the festival I saw groups with cases of PBR smuggled in.  So just saying.......
Anyway it was another wonderful festival and big thanks to all the  PB staff and volunteers!!!

[Debbiefromtucson]

I didnt witness any security/beer scenes so I cannot comment... BUT, I have always appreciated how PB does treat us with respect and there is a rather "loose" policy of what can be brought into festival grounds w/ the stated exceptions... I think "us" festarvarians need to respect their rules as well..  It would be terrible if it turned into "Desert Sky Pavillion" in Phoenix where now you are not even allowed to bring in SEALED bottles of water when the temps are over 110 degrees!

[Debbiefromtucson]

I want to say thanks for PB for another wonderful festival as well......


I do have one small complaint. This is the first year that a "walking lane"was not enforced  upon the left hand side of the field- ( heading towards the porta johns or first aid.)   It simply dead-ended a bit before where the keltys started....  If you wanted to get to the back, you needed to go up to center lane near sound booths to get out unless you wanted to crawl through the field of kelties... This was a real problem for mobility impaired folks as well as persons with strollers/wagons... I was surprised that it was allowed by the fire marshall.  Anyone else notice this problem? We are normally in almost the same place every year and in the past the lane was marked off with chalk and was enforced.... I did mention this to a PB employee and got jumped all over about "complaining."   

[flyfishindave]

One complaint:

The security "Rovers" around the fest this year busting peeps for smuggled beers. Very shady. If you don't want to have beers smuggled in, do a more thorough bag check upon entrance.

I actually saw one of those security guys bust some folks next to me for drinking smuggled beer.  The smugglers were asking for it as they made no attempt to hide their Tecate cans (duh - there were cups everywhere).  But what struck me the most was the cool and friendly way that the security dude handled the situation. 

Props to Planet Bluegrass for treating us like adults (until we show that we don't deserve it).  I've been to other festivals where the security folks are overbearing and take themselves a little too seriously, but Telluride has the best and most professional event security staff in the festival universe, in my opinion.  Keeping 10,000 partying festival goers safe and within process limits is no small task. 

Well i admit my guilt (smuggling Tecate (thanks Rabbit) into fest) and have the stamp on my bluegrass wrist bracelet (2 stamps and you're out for the day) to prove it.  The rover who confronted my friend and i was courteous, educational ("if you bring in Tecate and the other festies see it then everybody will bring in beer"), and conversant.  It actually goes down as one of the better moments this year cuz Val/I got a kick out of being scolded in festiland and having the stamp of disapproval.  Lots of laughs, but in all seriousness, the way this gent handled the situation was analagous to how the Planet runs their operation...respectfully, professionally, humorously...yada yada....
 

 Listening to: Walkin' WSP

[BluegrassDustin]

a quick note about the alcoholic contraband...The enforcement of the "no outside alcohol" rule is due to the liquor license we have on the premise to be able to sell $5/$4 beers to the crowd.

Any outside alcohol found inside the area established as being fit for sales of alcohol could, for all technical purposes, find us in violation of our agreement with the town/state as dictated by the terms of the liquor license. Therefore, theoretically, if the wrong person saw you inside with a beer/ other booze they could revoke our license and effectively make the festival "dry" for the year.

So, please don't bring outside alcohol into the venue. Our beer prices are as cheap as anywhere else you can purchase beer, particularly in a music/ festival/ event setting.

I'm sorry some of you aren't the biggest fans of NBB, but I think you should give them a shot. Fat Tire is one of my least favorite beers, but they have some great brews. Don't hate on the brewery because you don't like one of their beers...I suggest, Mothership Wit, 1554, and the new Mighty Arrow which has a fantastic hop character in a surprisingly light beer.

[Flagstaff Jess]

a quick note about the alcoholic contraband...The enforcement of the "no outside alcohol" rule is due to the liquor license we have on the premise to be able to sell $5/$4 beers to the crowd.

Any outside alcohol found inside the area established as being fit for sales of alcohol could, for all technical purposes, find us in violation of our agreement with the town/state as dictated by the terms of the liquor license. Therefore, theoretically, if the wrong person saw you inside with a beer/ other booze they could revoke our license and effectively make the festival "dry" for the year.

So, please don't bring outside alcohol into the venue. Our beer prices are as cheap as anywhere else you can purchase beer, particularly in a music/ festival/ event setting.

I'm sorry some of you aren't the biggest fans of NBB, but I think you should give them a shot. Fat Tire is one of my least favorite beers, but they have some great brews. Don't hate on the brewery because you don't like one of their beers...I suggest, Mothership Wit, 1554, and the new Mighty Arrow which has a fantastic hop character in a surprisingly light beer.

All alcohol?  Or just beer?

[Hooch]

a quick note about the alcoholic contraband...The enforcement of the "no outside alcohol" rule is due to the liquor license we have on the premise to be able to sell $5/$4 beers to the crowd.

Any outside alcohol found inside the area established as being fit for sales of alcohol could, for all technical purposes, find us in violation of our agreement with the town/state as dictated by the terms of the liquor license. Therefore, theoretically, if the wrong person saw you inside with a beer/ other booze they could revoke our license and effectively make the festival "dry" for the year.

So, please don't bring outside alcohol into the venue. Our beer prices are as cheap as anywhere else you can purchase beer, particularly in a music/ festival/ event setting.

I'm sorry some of you aren't the biggest fans of NBB, but I think you should give them a shot. Fat Tire is one of my least favorite beers, but they have some great brews. Don't hate on the brewery because you don't like one of their beers...I suggest, Mothership Wit, 1554, and the new Mighty Arrow which has a fantastic hop character in a surprisingly light beer.

Ya know, I think we should all remember that, while it's a big party to us, it's business for Planet Bluegrass with all the pains that come along with running the business in order for us to have fun.  They do a great job at keeping the hard-nosed rules at a minimum and cut us a LOT of slack sometimes.  None of us want a 'dry' festival due to excessive violations, so either play by the rules or don't grumble too much if you get nailed.  I'm certainly not innocent of the occasional bit of sneakage so am not standing on any sort of soapbox.  Ultimately they are still trying to watch out for our collective good by occasionally having to put their foot down on some obvious problems. 

By the way, I love Fat Tire so screw you haters!!!  Hehe.