My hand was resting on the half-naked girl's muffin. I was involuntarily giving her a hand job as she was unhooking my bracelet which had painfully snagged her belly-button ring. She unhooked us, kinda gave me a half-smile and handed me a glowstick. This was just after a combination of tennessee mountain fungi and Tool had me shaking all over.

Maynard, Tool's lead vocalist stayed towards the back of the stage, ducking in and out of the shadows and video panels, striking weird poses and howling at the moon. The band was in full floydian overdrive. The relentless pounding of the music and the lasers and the spotlights and the fucked-up video and the weirdness and sheer brutality that was pouring off the stage was almost too much. Almost. I'm glad I was able to hang on.



It's been an up and down ride here at the bonnaroo. Our plans for shooting video was shot, when somehow, the video pass failed to come through, but on the other hand, we got to see a great set from Cold War Kids, a most welcome set from Kings of Leon in prime rocking mode and a groovalicious good time set from Michael Franti and Spearhead that included an awesome tribute to Sesame Street and a guy doing some flower arrangements onstage(?).



We also saw Alexa Ray Joel, who has the body of her momma, Christie Brinkley and the face of her dad, Billy Joel, and who sings like her mom trying to be her dad. Yikes. Bang Bang Bang was a Nashville buzz band I was anxious to check out, but they turned out to be just an Uglier version of Kings Of Leons, with worse songs.



Later after being assaulted by Tool and almost having hand-vagina intercourse with a stranger, All I remember is an epic struggle to move against the current in a fast moving river of people and feeling like I was at a rave at the STS9 set, and being chased back to the campsite when String Cheese Incident started playing "Staying Alive."

Tonight, The Police and The Flaming Lips and probably a new tennessee mountain chemical potion. Wonder who my hand's gonna meet tonight?

-Jeff Napier
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