Comments on: Dr. Dre vs. Larry Harvey in Thunderdome: 2011
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By: Campfiregurlz
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Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:07:06 +0000
I don’t care who profits from it. What I do care about is the cost of tickets. Why are they so much? To pay the staffers at the home office or support a third-world country?
The work on the playa is done almost entirely by volunteers – all of the positions at the burn are manned by volunteers, even center camp. There isn’t anything that requires paid vendors or staff –
Yes, they do maintain the port-a-potties and yes that is a must; but come on… $295-$350 per ticket x 51,500+ people =$15,192,500 to $18,025,000+ per burn. For that amount of profit I want a personal porta-bidet with dyson jet dryer and a shower, at least, please!
It’s the ultimate business plan. Virtually no overhead, all volunteer staff = successful business = filthy rich. Good on ya – wish I’d thought of it. I say lower the ticket prices to something more reasonable – even $150 per person would still net a tidy profit.
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By: anonymous
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Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:45:57 +0000
Idk, the video was shot in April of 1995 making it completely viable for them to be scouting locations in feb. A rap shoot at that time took maybe a day.
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By: simon of the playa
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Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:19:50 +0000
now THAT’s funny.
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By: simon of the playa
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Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:18:49 +0000
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By: Reno Sparks
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:46:52 +0000
Madtazzle is right-blame on the black man indeed! You ever seen a black man at BM? Number Seven, of the 10 Principles is, “No black men at BM”. Of course, it’s not a black guy getting rich off BM it’s a white guy. Relax.
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By: Flipit
#comment-18887
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:52:52 +0000
Here’s the zapruder film: Dre and Em at Opulent Temple in 2001
Personal to cameron:
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By: M. DK
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Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:32:55 +0000
Way to not answer the question Mr. President.
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By: simon of the playa
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Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:26:40 +0000
obviously, the dark lords of the illuminati have decided to fight this rumor, but it won’t work…
cat.bag.out….
nice.try.
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By: simon of the playa
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Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:57:51 +0000
Lucideo, would it help if i told you 50 cent is going to be leading Rap-Drum Circles at Center Camp every Afternoon?
bring your bling.
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By: Lucideo
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Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:03:17 +0000
burningman is less attractive now knowing that my money is going to a rich black guy who turns gangsters into stars when he knows they are going to get shot the next day
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By: Kobes
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Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:35:18 +0000
Well busta cap in my ass!!!
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By: seannarae
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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:50:27 +0000
I don’t believe that man has *ever* been to medical school.
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By: simon of the playa
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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:38:29 +0000
MadTazzle works for Steven Tyler and American Idol and is a professional Dis-Informationist.
he also used to shoot down UFO stories, but has moved on, since everybody Knows ET lives amongst us.
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By: Madtazzle
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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:23:56 +0000
Oh and by the way, Dasha’s answer, if you look at it closely, is brilliant.
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By: Madtazzle
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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:21:24 +0000
c’mon people. Read the letter that Dre supposedly wrote. It is dated February, 1996 when he supposedly discovers the playa and allegedly decides to capitalize it. Burning Man in February? I don’t think so… maybe he’s making money off of some other “crazy naked motherfuckers in the desert”…. but this doesn’t fly. Also, in the letter, Dre is talking about Tupac being featured in the song California Love, which wasnt even determined until Pac got out of jail. This was written to get your Playa dust filled panties in a wad. And the response by Black Rock City neither denies or confirms it, because I think they like the fact that someone else has become a scapegoat for robbing you blind when you get to the gate. Blame the black man!
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By: Sticky
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Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:05:12 +0000
Oh, come on people!!!!!!
Everybody knows that AL GORE invented Burning Man!
Jeez
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By: Super Evil Brian
#comment-18441
Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:32:42 +0000
@ J Kanizzle I happened to have Daft Punk playing when I read that. Everyone knows Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and Dr. Dre masterminded Burning Man, the New World Order, the Tea Party (as a distraction for the dumb ones) and they started and are still running the Illuminati.
Everything on the Internet is true, of course, unlike something people used to stare dumbly at a long time ago. I think it was called television.
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By: simon of the playa
#comment-18439
Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:46:03 +0000
did you see the Grammy Awards Sunny?
nuff’ said.
All Hail Dre, Mother Uckers.
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By: sunny
#comment-18438
Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:26:51 +0000
the letter is dated February
burning man is in August
a sucker will believe anything in the face of facts
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By: simon of the playa
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Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:53:31 +0000
on the Playa, it’s the only place where Crips and Bloods are united.
we the Cruds.
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By: simon of the playa
#comment-18431
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:52:29 +0000
what you think, we ain’t got squirt guns? like they SOLD them all at Albertsons?
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By: simon of the playa
#comment-18430
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:50:57 +0000
yeah, “AUSTIN” huh?
Mr. Ely Lilly white milque toast….
watch out or you’ll get a mushroom cap in yo’ ass and see some COLOR, motherUcker.
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By: Austin Michael Kurtz
#comment-18424
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:00:47 +0000
DOWN WITH DRE!!! DOWN WITH DRE!!!!
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By: Bascheeee
#comment-18421
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:47:30 +0000
@toots… why would we boycott a place on earth where people can come and express themselves openly, be embraced by a community that LOVES them regardless of where their from, how they speak, how they look, or even how they act? A place where so much ingenuity and creation come together to manifest a truly beautiful surrounding… Because someone’s getting paid for it? Because someone had an amazing idea, brought the required elements together, and made a profit for it? That argument doesn’t really make sense to me… regardless of who’s getting paid, Burning Man is beautiful, and I really do pity anyone who CHOOSES to see anything other then that. Much Love. =)
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By: westsiiiiiiide
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Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:57:18 +0000
word! and i hope dre kicks the !@#$#$%)$%*)#$%*@)*%$#hit outta that other guy, larry what’shisname???
on that worldwide sh**************t!
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By: T
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Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:27:30 +0000
For those of you who didn’t think Dasha’s answer was a brilliant response to a ridiculous notion, please read it again – while paying close attention to which words she capitalizes. Then google the names of Dr. Dre songs. Then gift Dasha a drink.
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By: simon of the Playa
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Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:18:41 +0000
i miss the dairy queen on Virginia in Reno…Number #1 i think it was, in the shadow of the Circus Circus Clown, they closed it down, they closed it down….
It’s a fucking conspiracy, and this whole Rebel-Lation only reinforces my belief system.
i cant go into detail here, THEY’RE watching.
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By: crankful
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Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:57:56 +0000
So JP I think you stumbled on it!!!! Dr. D is really the owner of Baskin-Robbins and we know hot it gets at BRC!!!
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By: jp
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Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:06:11 +0000
Now this one is easy to figure out just look up what the date was of the video shoot and if it was really shot in the Nevada dessert and you will.find the answer
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By: Marisa
#comment-18395
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:24:46 +0000
Dear Dr. Dre & Mr. Harvey,
You bring the rage, we’ll bring the dome.
Yours,
Marisa
Camp Operations Manager
Thunderdome
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By: jp
#comment-18392
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:26:04 +0000
Yea right
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By: 0rland01
#comment-18391
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:07:14 +0000
All true about The Good Doctor. He stopped by Camp Decimation last year. I made him eggs. Over easy.
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By: squeak
#comment-18390
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:17:26 +0000
of course it’s true. now just watch the bmorg deny it. Proof!!!!!!!!
(seriously, how high *are* some of you people?)
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By: DrJohnieFever
#comment-18387
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:40:31 +0000
To quote one of my favorite Bands from MidWest “Please no more California Songs and F*€{ New York too.”
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By: whatever
#comment-18386
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:35:04 +0000
it’s false, but they don’t want to say so because it might make more people buy a burning man ticket. That’s capitalism ;)
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By: anita doobie
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Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:04:00 +0000
i don’t know how people can be so flippant about this shit. some punk like dre making tons of money off the talent and hard work of burners while doing absolutely nothing for it? i smell a lawsuit somewhere.
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By: simon of the playa
#comment-18383
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:36:22 +0000
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By: Big Brother
#comment-18382
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:35:25 +0000
It is absolutely true. It’s been written up on the Burning Man website (since removed), and I saw it on CNN last night.
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By: simon of the playa
#comment-18381
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:49:40 +0000
and this year the Rocket actually Lifts Off.
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By: scott
#comment-18379
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:02:09 +0000
Doctor who started it all not dre, do none of remember stepping into the Tardis and be taken on a journey through time and space, finding yourself with memories that you can’t quite remember of experiences that juat don’t seem humanly possible?
And the Man burns on Wednesday this year temple on sat.
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By: Max
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Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:04:25 +0000
I don’t know if anybody took seriously that story – c’mon, pple, nicely written to stir up folks in the middle of winter – fill up your glass, lit up your thing, enjoy life – see ya in the dust
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By: Roxaboxenbrc
#comment-18374
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:11:49 +0000
Cooooooooool! Yay! I always knew this was not a KKK party. Where are the bros’? I heard Mrs. Sarah Palin will be there this year with all her survival gear including shotgun. Anyone in the know?
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By: BlackBox
#comment-18372
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:05:33 +0000
Is that poetry or an answer? No wonder us liberals keep gettting our asses handed to us. Did you stop to think that maybe someone should proofread your “art”. Maybe next time, huh?
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By: simon of the playa
#comment-18371
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:04:05 +0000
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By: OldFart
#comment-18370
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:01:26 +0000
Who the F is this Dre character anyway? Is he a Dr.? What kind of name is Dre? It would be good to know where the money goes, do taxes get paid? Why arent there more black citizens on the playa? Looks pretty lily to me. Should I go again?
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By: Marcus Ossowski
#comment-18369
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:39:52 +0000
Read from bottom to top.
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By: Tomcat
#comment-18368
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:38:21 +0000
Who the hell is this Dre guy? I googled and all I could come up with is he’s some guy who sold mix tapes at a swap meet back in the 80s???
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By: Gwen Smith
#comment-18367
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:41:51 +0000
So wait, who started Burning Man? Dr. Dre? Who? Dr. Who? Which Doctor? A witch doctor started Burning Man? It all makes sense now.
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By: xeno
#comment-18366
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:22:25 +0000
false. Obviously. Have you BEEN to the event, this is the standard rumor mill practical joking.
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By: simon of the playa
#comment-18364
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:49:43 +0000
“I say if Dre or any other celebs want to join us Playans they can sack up, buy a ticket, throw down a tent and eat dust like the rest of us.
A few days shitting in a trusty blue piss box might remind them they’re shit stinks too…”
DR DRE’s SHIT DOES NOT STINK…
fifty scents, maybe….
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By: Krysp
#comment-18363
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:48:28 +0000
Is it just me or…. I read the posting a few times and got less out of it each time.
Oh, wait! Could this be an expression of confusion?
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By: Joshua "2.0"
#comment-18361
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:08:29 +0000
I don’t care who “started” Burningman.
I don’t even really care if Harvey or some other hipster is rolling phat off the gate butter….
I can deal with “dirty hippies” and “raver kids” too…
All I care about is that there is NO MONEY on the Playa and that the ART continues to drive the vibe…
I went to Coachella last year and it was a fucking disaster.
A sewer of overindulgence and overpriced shit food.
It took 6 hours to get into the event and was a total cluster fuck design.
To see BM artists out there was bittersweet.
Good on ya for getting some cash to fund your projects…
But the Orange County teenagers high on E – running around with their mommies credit cards did not remotely appreciate the ART!
I say if Dre or any other celebs want to join us Playans they can sack up, buy a ticket, throw down a tent and eat dust like the rest of us.
A few days shitting in a trusty blue piss box might remind them they’re shit stinks too…
See you beautiful whitty dancing dust warriors soon. I miss you all! [[2.0]]
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By: Buff Sanitized
#comment-18360
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:02:58 +0000
I heard it was actually Donald Trump, but that he was using Dre as his mule.
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By: Also
#comment-18359
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:51:23 +0000
And I totally saw Daft Punk at Burning Man – I have a bumper sticker that proves it and everything!
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By: Cameron St-Denis
#comment-18358
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:44:30 +0000
also i am sorry for regarding our home as an event. i just write what i right.
xburnx
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By: Cameron St-Denis
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Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:40:41 +0000
burning man is a gorgeous endeavour with the meetings and events that take place within the Black Rock City walls during the days of passage, however, from an artists stand point.
the cost of entering the festival is roughly 500$ in Canadian funds not including costs of getting down to the event,
Organizers and booking agents have claimed to certain artists i know anyway (maybe it was a nice way of saying no but) that it is a gathering of free love and that music pros should take that in light and not ask for compensation to play the event, that being said.
Why the fuck do they need to charge 500$ (cdn) at the gate? I understand there is expenses following the needs of a festival this big. but why… can that not be included in the arts? which the festival is about? oh and as far as security goes, they have 5 different police branches on outside security which the state the feds and the military all pay them so there is some money cut out, dont get me wrong either, art is art and should be free.
but when you have the calibre of acts playing there, help with how THESE ARTISTS make their living off of events like this.
so where does the money go?
dont get me wrong there isnt a chance that i wont be hanging out within those walls. of black rock city and I really love Dr.Dre as an artist but i wonder if he was booked to play this event if he would be paid. or at least EXPECT to be paid (more)
xo
Cameron.
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By: Quixotic Frisson
#comment-18355
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:34:09 +0000
These comments are making miss all you playa people – hilarious!
I always knew Dre was a closet burner anyway…
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By: piko!
#comment-18354
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:32:48 +0000
Does anyone really care?
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By: burningmanmike
#comment-18353
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:32:08 +0000
dr. dre & dr. phil share practice out of the same office.
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By: ima burner
#comment-18352
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:30:55 +0000
i’ve got bigger fish to fry.
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By: simon of the playa
#comment-18350
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:10:13 +0000
“All them little gangstas. Who you think helped mold ’em all. Now you wanna run around and talk about guns. Like I ain’t got none. What you think I sold ’em all after 96′?”
Larry Harvey, overheard at the Autumnal Equinox G’s Up ho’s down Buttah Party and Fun Raiser.
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By: whatever
#comment-18348
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:01:31 +0000
Here comes the identity crisis…
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