Sometimes you just have to trust in the heady. For instance, if a group of dudes are camping a few tents away from you at Bonnaroo and they tell you that they are in a band and that they want to Jam in the Van, but you don’t have internet or cell service to check out if they’re actually worthy of jamming in the van. Because don’t get it twisted, we don’t have an “ask and receive” policy. You need to be up to snuff. Your music has to match the quality of the music that has been posted to our site since day one, and that quality is quite high…
So when these dudes approached us under that Manchester sun and asked us for a spin in The Van we were posed with a dilemna. You see, they were nice dudes, and Bonnaroo is a “yes” environment, where you want to make smiles, not frowns, so saying no to them would have been a bit of a dick move. Again though, we don’t just let anyone on board, and we had no way of knowing if these dudes were worthy, unless we demanded a tryout, which wasn’t the kindest proposition, so we didn’t.
Instead, we took it on faith and relied on the theory that if they look heady, and they act heady, well then they must sound heady too. So we trusted in our tell-tale phrase, and we were duly rewarded. So thanks for introducing yourselves to us, Staying for the Weekend. Our ears are awful glad you did…
