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Re: C-Stone 2002

And these are all the things that we cstone vets have
come to love about the fest.  For the full experience,
stay dirty, hot, and eat all of the unhealthy yummy
food at the vending tents, especially Pasta Palace!!! 
Hee hee :)




> 1. unless you prefer the benefits of camping in
> whatessentially becomes, over the course of the
> four-five
> day festival, a land-fill, it's well-worth the money
> to book
> a room in Macomb at Western Illinois University's
> conference
> center a mere twenty minutes away. Sure, the drive
> home
> after the encore stages at 3 a.m. each night is near
> hallucinatory. but if you camp, when it's hot, you
> sleep in
> sweat and dust. when it rains, you sleep sleep in
> puddles
> and mud. the bathrooms are port-o-sans. The showers
> are
> communal experiences in the back of flat bed
> trucks... and
> they turn off the hot water at 10 p.m. At the
> university,
> you sleep in air conditioning. semi-private
> bathrooms are
> near (though my annual roomie and I have a tendency
> to be
> booked on the opposite end of the hall from the
> men's room,
> leading to a daily, mile-long walk of shame) and the
> drive
> in each day is brief and gives ample opportunity for
> you to:
> 
> 2. stop at walmart for the things you need. Like
> bottled
> water (cannot emphasize this item enough), ear plugs
> (next
> to water, the second most essential item you can
> have),
> clean socks. or better yet, rugged, comfortable, and
> ultimately disposable sandals, micatin, batteries,
> condoms,
> blank minidiscs, rain ponchos, backpacks, garbage
> bags,
> folding chairs, vitamins, analgesics, and fruit
> roll-ups.
> 
> 3. get a decent meal on the way in. there are only
> so many
> dust covered subway sandwiches, pizza hut mini
> pizzas,
> ostrich burgers, or turkey legs a person can
> healthfully
> consume. I hear you can actually buy a vegetable or
> two on
> the festival grounds now, but do you really want
> vegetarian
> fare prepared by the same people who are making your
> lemon
> shakes and funnel cakes? Both macomb and Bushnell
> offer a
> decent, small-town variety of places to eat. There's
> fast
> food. a few buffet / salad bar places, a couple of
> good sit
> down restaurants, and (my favorite) grocery store
> deli's
> where you can stock up on good cheap sandwiches,
> fresh fruit
> and veggies, water, sodas, juice, etc. 
> 
> 4. usually the sound quality at most cornerstone is
> very
> suspect. it's largely staffed by people who do not
> run sound
> professionally for a living. so mixes are often
> over-compressed, poorly arranged, and (when all else
> fails)
> turned up too loud. But. He's the guy running the
> board. So,
> the whole affair is mixed to sound the best where HE
> is
> standing. so if you are recording off a microphone,
> it's
> going to sound best back there. and, many times, you
> can get
> a line off the board if you ask nicely and were
> smart enough
> to bring your own patch cables (go to radio shack on
> the way
> in too... get a couple of good cables and connectors
> /
> adapters for RCA, quarter-inch stereo and mono
> plugs, and
> xlr connections. after 100 concerts in four days,
> however,
> ear fatigue is so severe, you can't determine a good
> mix
> from a bad one anyway. Being a short person, I
> usually find
> that the middle to the rear of the hall also offers
> me a
> better vantage point to actually *see* what's going
> on
> on-stage as well. But if you're down front, catching
> the
> stage vibe (also known as sweat from the performer)
> is
> balanced by hearing the sound primarly from stage
> amps and
> monitors and only having a clear view of what's
> right in
> front of you, like the pro-basketball team, who all
> decided
> to come to the show together and stand side by side.
> Until
> they decide to mosh. And you become a small, human
> hackey
> sack. if you still want that spot down front. if
> it's a
> popular artist, get there early, like an hour ahead
> of time.
> Especially for gallery or smaller venue shows. Those
> fill up
> quickly. encore shows, it's easier to get there
> shortly
> before the band starts.
> 
> 5. Talk to strangers. I've met some of the nearest
> and
> dearest people at CStone. Most are quite uncontrary.
> Lots of
> love. In fact, I imagine heaven is a lot like
> cornerstone.
> Except everything in the "Mall O' Love" is free, the
> food is
> better, and your ears don't hurt as much.
> 
> =====
> Bradley S. Caviness, Bigwig
> Bigwig Enterprises
> 
> http://www.bigwigenterprises.com
> 
> "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur."
> (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)
> 
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