Time and Place: Wallet stolen
Sometimes your dignity is all you have left. Until you give it away.
“Food? Money? Hugs? Pictures? Ass Smacks? Just ask for more,” is what the sign says.
Just ask for more? I don’t know if I can take any more than that green uni-thong. When I took this picture I had been at Bonnaroo for three days and Phish was about to begin its Sunday set. I guess when you’ve lost everything you still have your dignity.
Government Mule was the best band I saw at Bonnaroo. They played an awesome set with a lot of older rock covers. I didn’t hear too many bands out there I did not like, although one metal band just sounded like noise. I can sometimes get into that.
I slept every night in the back of a Ford Expedition, a big truck. We were actually very comfortable because we had an inflatable mattress. We usually didn’t go to bed until 4 or 5 in the morning — then we woke up to one of our neighbors screaming “Bongeroo! Bongeroo!” at 9 or 10 in the morning. He had a cape on one of those mornings and was running around the campsite screaming. I assume he was drinking.
The hardest part was running around because there are so many bands, but you also have to do a lot of waiting. Thursday night there was a torrential downpour, so later there was a ton of mud everywhere. There were certain areas where you could step that you would lose a shoe in the mud. Right now my shoes are next to the washing machine, but I think they will survive.
(Photo and text by James Camp)