On the sixth of March, I, along with my entourage of friends, will make the nine and a half hour drive south to Big Cypress Florida. We embark on this journey not for the needed peace of spring break, for it does not come until the following weekend but to seek the forgotten feeling of Langerado. For those who do not know, Langerdo is a music festival which is entering its sixth year, this years theme being the feeling you forgot. I don’t consider myself a music gooroo, but I do feel passionately about the music I listen to and throughly enjoy attending concerts and festivals such as Langerado. However my love for the music, I feel has recently been tarnished. Back in September I attended the Echo Project, also a music festival, this one is in Atlanta, and I could not help but notice that some of the other attendees were not so much there for the music but instead for the drug activities. Don’t get me wrong, this is not about anti-drug use, because I am far from that, but I am concerned that music is coming second too often at concerts and festivals. These people are the reason jam bands, and music festivals can’t seem to shake the druggie stereotype. There is a stereotype too, people who see a Dead Head sticker, or a Widespread Panic stickers automatically assume you smoke pot. THIS IS NOT TRUE IN ALL CASES! I just want to encourage people who do stereotype festival goers to attend a festival or listen to the music. If you do attend festivals DO IT FOR THE MUSIC. I think you will find people connect on a different level through music, a level that can not be achieved through mere speech. I go because, like this years Langerado theme, for that unexplainable feeling that you forget until your there, in a crowd of more than 75,000 people (Bonnaroo 2006) listening to the live music that gives you chills o the bone, I might have lost you on that one, but I did say it was unexplainable. I just don’t want the music to over shadowed by the ever present drug use, is what I want to say in all this babble. Please, if you don’t like the music don’t go, you are ruining my good vibes!
*Side note if you haven’t ever experienced festival life and can withstand camping and enjoy jam bands you should check it out. Echo project is a good start if your in the south, if your up north 10k lakes is a good one too.
Peace and Love
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