Suggestons for next year...

[jjaloha]

How about more merch booths? Maybe a small merch booth by each small stage where the artist performing could be featured. They could go out and do meet and greets after their sets and sell cds and t-shirts. Only saw one performer come out after his set, James Intveldt (sp) and he took photos, talked to the fans and signed autographs well into the Duhks set. I know the Duhks like hanging out after their shows...

As far as beer...c'mon Michelob Amber Bock is not a "craft" beer. Letsa get some of the great Califonia Microbrews in there..Firestone, Stone, Karl Strauss just to name a few.

[robertdv]

People who payed for Vip/Reserved seats NEED TO HAVE a reserved/vip area on the two smaller stages.

Ok. Sorry reserved seaters, but I have to say that I liked the fact that we GA folks could get close enough to the small stages to see the bands playing over there. You got premium seats for the big names (Reba, Brad and Kenny). Heck, with my 9X optical zoom on my digital, I got pictures of blurry ants most of the time.

I'm really not complaining, though. I could have bought those seats, but as I found out last year, it's wwwwaaaaayyyyy more fun to mingle with the crowd and meet new people. My girlfriend and I met quite a few folks and are already making plans to meet up next year.

[lovinjerryg]

I think they should only allow blankets in the GA area and not chairs. Then maybe people would get up and dance. The chairs take up a lot of space and I would see tons of people that had chairs set up and blanket too taking up more space that they weren't using. Also more walk ways. I was sitting on a blanket near the corner of the walkway and it got scary in between acts with the amount of people walking and trying to cut though "your area" to avoid the crowd. I got stepped on 10 times and had my food and drinks knocked over about the same number of times. I felt like I was going to get trampled at some points.

[N2GOODX'S]

ARRIVED SAFELY.........................$100.00
GOT HOME SAFELY......................$100.00
HAD A GREAT TIME WITH 40,000 OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS...................$$PRICELESS$$
WE GOT TROOPS OVER SEAS SO WE CAN DO THIS KIND OF STUFF QUIT COMPAINING

[aughtsix06]

Here's what I have to say....

Less agressive Forum security.

Closer walking distance. (coming from Forum felt like forever, plus I did that trek two times each day!)

More merch tents. (agreed)

That's about it.. and for those of you complaining about Kid Rock, I think he put on a great show, and everyone around me seemed to enjoy it. If you can't hang, maybe you should stop coming...........




juuuuuusssst sayin'......

[tgcali]

My co-worker works with elite as a part time job. When I told her what went down she said they were violating elite's company policies. With the searching and the attitudes!

[SRich]

Keep it country, no more Kid Rock. There were to many kids to have someone saying the things he did on a microphone!
More water stations and drinking fountains.

[Mrs007]

I don't agree with not allowing chairs at all many people cannot physically handle sitting on just a blanket. But I think they should grid out the GA area and create rows, not just a free for all. Even better would be if they tuly made a grid and for every ticket you got a square. Unlike the people who were taking up huge areas for 2 people. I think if it were organized at least into rows, 1. A lot more people could fit in closer and 2. A lot less frustration with people getting stepped on. When the firelines got crowded I literally got knocked over backwards in my chair. Not fun. I ended up limping the rest of the weekend.

I think that the merachant tents need to be further along the permiter. The one to the right of the mane stage aka bootbarn was too close. Primo seating for GA. I understand its annoying to walk far, but it would have freed up a lot of GA space.

While Im sure there were some lovely security gaurds, a lot were out of line with how they were treating people. I get that they were dealing with drunks giving them crap, but at some points it was ridiculous.

ADA parking needs to either be closer or have a tram until after everyone has had a chance to get out after the last act.

[tici6868]

I think it would be great if people like us (first timers/no friends to camp visit with.....YET) were permitted to go out to our cars during the day, to chill (have some cocktails) or whatever.
I don't see why they couldn't just issue plain old GA wristbands along with other one that said you had your ticket scanned for the day, were there legit and just open one of the incoming lanes just for "returning". Granted most people would not use it, especially if they had to park in the North Forty like we did on Sat.But I for one could've used a short break on Sunday. (and my grumpy hubby couldve taken a nap!) THat would've been a really good thing!

[Cooter]

I don't agree with not allowing chairs at all many people cannot physically handle sitting on just a blanket. But I think they should grid out the GA area and create rows, not just a free for all. Even better would be if they tuly made a grid and for every ticket you got a square. Unlike the people who were taking up huge areas for 2 people. I think if it were organized at least into rows, 1. A lot more people could fit in closer and 2. A lot less frustration with people getting stepped on. When the firelines got crowded I literally got knocked over backwards in my chair. Not fun. I ended up limping the rest of the weekend.

sad that adults can't be responsible enough to handle this themselves, that they need someone to organize things for them.

[gaypalmsprings]

We need more Cooter next year.