Bonnaroo Saturday

Saturday I woke up super late, around noon and got ready for work and headed there. I worked in Golf Cart Land again, which was awesome. I got to take a nice nap in the A/C and we threw around the football some. At one point we saw Kareem Abdul-Jabbar walking down the street, apparently he is part of Eminem's posse.
After my shift was over I headed in to catch some of the Black Keys, but only stayed there for like ten min before going to Bootsy Collins to meet up with Zack Friday. Bootsy was over an hour late coming onstage, and the crowd started to chant "We Want the Funk" until the band came on. The Funk University was a huge band with all sorts of instruments and people. His guitar was somthing straight from the funk universe. It was a giant star with a star for the end as well, very flashy! Bootsy put on a GREAT show, and it was one of the highlights of my weekend. Now I just gotta see James Brown and I'll have seen the 3 funk greats! We left before the end of the show to make sure we got good spots for Buffalo Springfield.
We were pretty close for Buffalo Springfield, right by the sound tent. We got there like 20 min early and chatted with the people in the crowd. Right after they came on it started to sprinkle a little bit, but not enough to get my clothes too wet. Just the right amount!! Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, and Neil Young were up front on guitars, and Rick Rosas and Joe Vitale were in the back on Drums and Bass. We were lucky we were close, because the sound was wayyy to quiet, and during the breaks between songs the crowd at the back would chant "Turn it up". By the end of the show it was louder, but it took a while. Neil Young looked soooo old, but he can SHRED!! He played his own song, "I am a Child" and played harmonica for it. Richie dedicated the song Kind Woman to his wife of 44 years. Neil shreds Mr. Soul, and the crowd goes crazy! They all 3 got together and jammed for like ten min at one point, and it was transcendent!!! Neil played the piano for several songs, and he interacted really well with the crowd, leading several chants and getting the crowd swaying and moving. The highlight of the show was the last three songs, "Broken Arrow", "Bluebird", and then "Rockin' in the Free World"!!!! Broken Arrow was very moving, and had the crowd relatively quiet, then they said "well now we're gonna play our hit. That's right we have one!!!" and went straight into "Bluebird" which of course made the crowd go crazy, and everyone was singing along. Then they played Neil Young's "Rockin' In the Free World" which was such an amazing way to end the show, and with such a great message. Neil Young speaks the truth.
After that Zack left and I met up with Meagan and Aaron to head to Eminem, and we walk up on the song "Kill You". What song to hear after Neil Young haha. Eminem had a full live band playing with him, which I wasn't expecting, and he had a huge stage setup. During the song "Sky full of Light" there were thousands of lighters in the air. He interacted well with the crowd, and put on a good show. During "Real Slim Shady" the whole crowd was singing to each other. Overall it was a fun show, and he is really talented, but it's not my style.
I Kelci and them to go to Dr. John with The Original Meters and Alan Toussiant performing Decisively Bonnaroo. The show started with just the Meters on stage, and they opened with "Down on the Bayou" They played for about 30 min before set break. They wet up a sound screen separating Dr. John and Alan Toussaint from the rest of the band, which leads me to believe that this will be offered as a live album in the future. Dr. John had a voodoo skull on his piano. It was a great show, and they all rocked it!!! Great dancing music!! It was a once in a lifetime show, and I am grateful that I got to see all those New Orleans greats playing together!!
Over halfway through the second set, we left to go see String Cheese Incident on the Which Stage, and walked up on them playing "Mrs. Brown's Teahouse". First thing I noticed when we got there was that Jason Hann cut his hair. There were giant parade floats being carried through the crowd, including a giant TRex and a guy suspended in air by lots of balloons. The guy in the air was being walked through the crowd for a while. They had fire at one point, and tons of screens onstage. Jason freestyle rapped a lot, which he does a lot at EOTO shows. I missed them opening with Tennessee Jed, which is dissappointing, but I caught most of their show. They ended with "Texas" and their encore was "Outside and Inside" > "Mysterious Ways". I totally called that they'd do a cover after "Outside and Inside" to end the night, and they ended with a U2 cover!
We then walked to STS9, and sat near the back. Their lights looked very similar to Umphrey's McGee's lights. They played a sick Unquestionable Supremacy of Nature, which we thought was the last song so we went to try and see Gogol Bordello, but they had already finished. We got back to tribe and they were off stage, but apparently they came back and kept playing until sunup, which I would have liked to have seen. But we went back and went to bed cause we were tired.