BottleRock

[Drunk Monk]

Stevie is one of the Bottlerock headliners

wait...what? 

[Drunk Monk]

I have signed up for BR 2021, all three days. I have lodging set up with a good RM friend from back in the day. I await approval.

[Greg]

The Village People!!!!!! Now I have to go, too. (Definitely not going)

I'd go for the Foos as well.

[Drunk Monk]

Dammit Stevie - you've been such a diva lately...

[Greg]

Ha! Lindsay wouldn't have canceled.

[Drunk Monk]

[cranefly]

She'll probably cop out again on this year's

NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES

[Drunk Monk]

In a long line to pick up my credentials.

I’m staying with a longtime rm friend who lives with her husband in a large trailer at a horse stable with some 50 horses. Beautiful setting. Didn’t expect that.

[Drunk Monk]

35k for day 1. Food tickets are good for any vendor which is awesome. Skeleton crew here. I’m not dropping my PPE for no one (I would’ve unmasked for Stevie but since she bailed, all power to the shields).

[Greg]

Good luck out in the soup. Sei brave.

[Drunk Monk]

I’ve been stationed at table service with a perfect view of the Jam Cellar stage (main stage) 

Lily Meola just took the stage - a sweet vocalist in a blue jumpsuit with clouds. Acousticish, female back up.

I had a partner here, RM virgin nursing student Brittany but they took her away. Bummer. Field team doesn’t know what to do with me, but I got double my food tickets.

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Lily just did a cover of Dreams to honor Stevie and killed it.

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Lily is alright. Sweet 4 piece. I’m gonna claim this spot. When no one’s looking, I’m gonna pee and mark it mine - something Yuki taught me. 

They’ve abandoned me out here tho. That sucks because I do have to pee

I got a great view, shade, power (but I left my charger in main), good sound although there’s some bleed from the neighboring stage. 

Place is still way empty. Maybe a half dozen deep at front of stage.

I’m ready for some nachos.

[Drunk Monk]

Had some delicious vegam (with an m) nachos.

Crimson Apple was a rocker chick band. They were okay but I wasn’t really listening because a friend was  out.

Now it’s Lawrence - sort of a funk rock band with a male & female lead. They’re mediocre but they just did the Beatles Get Back which was okay.

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A drunk chick just flashed me as a donation.

[Drunk Monk]

Mavis remains a goddess diva.

Maren Morris is pop rock with a country lilt.

This is the women’s stage. Stevie would’ve closed it and that would’ve been so awesome.

[Drunk Monk]

Brandi Carlile started with some of her o

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Own stuff which was middling pop. Then she covered Joni Mitchell and David Bowie which was cool. She looks and sounds great.

Done a lot of bee stings and shoe

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Repairs

Had shitake pot stickers for dinner. They were okay. The bed of spinach was satisfying.

BR is packed now. The after work crowd filled it tight. I’m tucked in my 20x20 behind a table with well over 6 ft of distance.

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I had a team hang out for a long time - both pre-Med students from Cal. Bella - a Cali reggae fan who I may recruit & Clifford with a thick Cantonese accent. 

No one knows where I fall so all the supervisors give me food tickets. Each is worth $5. I’ve spent 8 of them and still have a fat stack. Hope their good for the whole weekend. Food is expensive like a $60 bucket of fried chicken. But everything I’ve had has been tasty.

[Drunk Monk]

Stapleton (Stevie’s replacement) cancelled.

The Highwomen are choice 3 - female country twangy quartet in cowgirl hats and vests. 

They suck. Exactly the type of pop country I disdain.

Aw Stevie. You would have killed it tonight.

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Ugh. They really suck. This is such a bum out after a grand day of women’s music.

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They closed with a tepid cover of The Chain

Glad they’re done.

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The crowd is leaving quickly. Waiting for word to pack up.

Been trying to post my latest Den piece on my wordpress using my iPhone but it doesn’t look possible. That’s been frustrating becaus it’s teasing me like it is...

I need to pee some more.