$12,000/ticket music festival for rich people in the bahamas turns into a human rights crisis.

A group of men who shame each other for wearing dresses, makeup, or dancing. Since 2009

 

Don’t forget that we sometimes talk about sports.

Sometimes.

 

The festival sounds dope if you didn't actually spend $12,000 to go

 

You could use some of that year’s salary you have stashed away.

 

I didn't save it all by blowing it on scams.

 

no one believes you

 

Shit

 

Rocklahoma has camping and rock.

 

TIL Powerman 5000 is still a thing

 

Rocklahoma had the third day canceled two years in a row due to flooding from thunderstorms. It washed out the campground one year and Rob Zombie spent a couple days wandering the woods with a flashlight, looking for a couple fans of his who had gotten swept away.

 

Not sure if this was intended as an insult or not

 

Reads list of bands...

 

I saw them with some chick a couple years ago in one of the shittiest bars in South Bend. They were fun in a tiny environment and with lots of booze. They still wear their little power pod things and shit. It was funny seeing dudes my age or older dressed like that. Fun show overall, terrible music.

 

Oh, and Rocklahoma sound like the 6th layer of hell, the meeting of the juggalos being 7.

 

It’s the Gathering of the juggalos

 

Knew I had it wrong. Didn’t care. It was closer than my initial Juggalofest.

 

I think I would rather spend $5k to go to FyreFest 2 knowing it was a scam than spend a $1 going to something called Rocklahoma.

 

I went once and I saw two big fat naked bikers in the woods off 17 having sex.

 

That sounds beautiful

 

I would go to the Gathering in a heartbeat over a festival featuring Poison and Vince Neil, among others on that list

 

Wanna go together?

Blake promised to take me but he never came through.

 

Quite the bombshell

 

Stone Temple Pilots still pretending to be a thing without Scott Weiland is a sham.

 

Weiland was a huge ND guy, used to show up and do acoustic sets at the bar on campus. (The last part may be rumor, I never saw it.) He would write Weis letters and shit.

 

No insult — that’s not really my thing. I posted that lineup to see what you’d say about that group of bands.

That said, I think ICP has headlined that festival before, so I’d worry abt the crowd there.

 

Who's the lead after Chester killed himself?

 

Some nobody who competed on The X Factor

 

There’s a band called Lynch Mob?

Yikes.

 

Is this being held in The Real Roy Williams’ house?

 

they’ve been around for 30 years lol where have you been

 

Not listening to bands with names like Lynch Mob.

 

Is it pronounced räk-lahoma or rōklahoma?

 

What if it was called Cocklahoma?

 

Well if you were trying to insult me, that would have been a good one

burnttatertot

 

You're missing out by discriminating against bands like Cattle Decapitation, Dying Fetus, and Rotting Christ

 

They made the documentaries too early

 

Just watched the Netflix doc and as a Bahamian that lives on an out island, a few observations.

1. Norman's Cay was owned by Carlos Leader, not Pablo. Lehder was the #2 guy in the Medellin cartel so maybe that's a distinction without a difference, but Lehder bought part it, ran off the other owners by whatever means necessary, then used the island as a supply point between the US and Columbia.

2. A festival of that size on an out island is virtually impossible. The infrastructure on out islands varies a lot by island, but it's almost never city quality. It's just very hard financially for the government to have top notch infrastructure on every island in a country like this. A lot of places you're looking at <1000 people. In Exumas case, a lot less than that. In, say, Florida you can have one grid for 1M people. Here you need 20 different grids for 10k people.

Aside from that, the logistics of housing and catering for that many people on that tiny of an island are impossible as they found out. There's certainly nobody on that island equiped to cater on that scale so you gotta fly people in. That's more red tape, bribes, ect. And there's just physically not enough housing on any out island for that.

And then you're going to try build the festival with labor from the locals who have never built anything on this scale and time frame ever?

Oh and anyone who has ever been to an actual small tropical island knows that a tent is going to be an insect nightmare.

3. The dick sucking story was probably that the customs guy had tried to get a real bribe out of them, realized they were broke as fuck and said that as a joke.

Im also 100% sure that the customs agent didn't make the paper trail for 100k+ in duty disappear for free.

4. I absolutely should have jumped in a boat and crashed the festival when it blew up on Twitter. I had a chance of a lifetime and blew it.

 

One time I was staying at the four seasons and rode an elevator with him and his wife.

 

I still can't believe how eager that guy was to tell the world he would have sucked that dick.

He didn't even have to mention that part of the story.

 

Judging by the amount of detail he went into I think he wanted to suck that dick

 

Yeah dude is a meme now. Once youre meme-ified, life is very and permanently different

 

I can smell the Mountain Dew in this post.

 

That's dallasdawg's SCAR fan brother

 

hell, 2 years ago Lolla had a bunch of toilets over-flowing with shit... if a festival that's been around for that long has issues with sanitation, how will a first year festival on an island fair?

those dudes were dumb, and i still feel 0 sympathy for the people who bought tickets.


i've only seen the netflix one, want to see hulu's version.

 

I always thought Lynch Mob was a rap group. Turns out they’re like an 80’s hair band.