Bonnaroo bought by MTV?

[primushead]

So I've been hearing from a few reputable sources that MTV might 'take over' bonnaroo next year (06).  Is this true?  Has anyone heard otherwise or is this just a nasty rumor?  If someone could clear it up, I'd sleep well tonight.

[Jellyfish]

If that happens say goodbye to the Bonnaroo spirit.

[tomEisenbraun]

MTV will not succeed in buying Bonnaroo. If anything, I would assume they would sponsor it. If they had any sort of role in choosing the bands that played, they would ruin the entire ethos of the festival. It would kill the whole shebang in one foul swoop. However, if they were smart, they would buy it, and keep everyone on the staff whos already there, let them control it as the wish, and just basically reap profit. That's very likely, because I'm sure they're smart enough not to kill off an entire crowd. But if they aren't, I will at least be glad to say that I attended the last good Bonnaroo.

[EC]

However, if they were smart, they would buy it, and keep everyone on the staff whos already there, let them control it as the wish, and just basically reap profit. That's very likely, because I'm sure they're smart enough not to kill off an entire crowd.

Hm. Not likely. MTV probably can't be cool anymore, they're too tied up in money and big corporations owning shares, and, well, they're just too big.

Here's what I think, and y'all go ahead and rip me to pieces about it if you want to, and also, I haven't been yet, so I can only go from the stuff I've read about it, and friends' experiences there.

But Bonnaroo seems to me like what Lollapalooza was at first - this really great thing that started small and was run by a few people who were doing it all for the right reasons.  Once word spread, and everyone wanted to be a part of it, it lost that loveliness.  It just happens like that.  Things get too big and they end up sucking or petering out.

Bonnaroo might turn into this.  Sometimes that's just how things work out.  BUT, if MTV buys it, it'll still be there for the people who like MTV-type deals.  And then other people will start another similarly-vibed deal, and so it goes.

I hadn't heard anything about MTV wanting to buy it, but if they did, well, there are always good folks who are smart enough to make cool things.  :)

[DD]

i hear bonaroo is only for stinky hippies and trustafarians.  i also hear danny cash cant wait to lather up with patchouli oil, roll some doobs and eat some shrooms while spacing out to the new dead at bonaroo.

[EC]

What's a trustafarian?

[DD]

hippies with trust funds.  you know, the deadheads and phisheads and jam band fans who go "on tour" in daddys range rover with his credit cards.

[EC]

that's hilarious.  

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

i hear bonaroo is only for stinky hippies and trustafarians.  i also hear danny cash cant wait to lather up with patchouli oil, roll some doobs and eat some shrooms while spacing out to the new dead at bonaroo.

I'm speechless.