For the wonderful woman in time stamp 6:30 thank you. You are more than correct, every word spoken from your mouth was absolutely accurate. Brother at 9:20 I feel for you brother we can see the hurt in your eyes your in my prayers ❤️ *more accurate description of what happen to victims of eclipse* there’s also an important message at 16:23 victims Reddit post 16:27 security problem 16:30 wtf… even more 16:54 I’m still watching at 29:00 mins thank you, I’m sorry to see you tear up me and my wife and even our closest friend cried after such a traumatic event, this was so sad. I’m sorry brother God bless you with as many blessings as possible, thank you and thank you for your doggy, she saved a life. MAJOR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT TO VVVLF❤️ thank you brother ❤️

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

This comment is DEEPLY appreciated. THANK YOU 🙏

Watching this video makes me glad I didn't participate in this event. I was offered a chance to work it. I knew in my heart it was going to go bad. I worked at the Oregon Eclipse and it went well and I only experienced a few negative things that entire week. When I arrived, I learned that I was going to be working in close quarters with my ex girlfriend and that she was going to be my Boss. Then I found out that she was dating the guy who's land the festival was on. Lastly, on the day of the eclipse there were some neo Nazis who were shouting all kinds of racist remarks through bullhorns and holding up signs telling certain people that they were unwelcome. That is rare at a festival on the west coast. Other than that, the 2017 eclipse festival was super chill and fun. I saw one bad freak out but that will happen when drugs are around. People do die when you have large gatherings. It's not always the fault of the organizers or staff or anyone. I've worked at dozens of festivals for over 25 years. The largest ones. I would say that 1 out of every 5 events are a home run, where everything goes well. The majority of events are challenging due to outside forces, acts of god, bad luck with the weather, law enforcement or bad actors behaving badly. Then every so often, there is an event that is a shit show. Generally, it starts with the location and then bad planning and insufficient resources to maintain the needs of thousands of campers. If you don't have the right location. Your festival is going to fail. 100% The best festivals are not the biggest, loudest, and most well known. The best festivals are the ones that are smaller. They're at a place you've never heard of like an old summer camp in the hills. There aren't any fences or gates or security or medical tents. You're on your own. There are a few Doctors and Nurses and EMTs attending. There are some people selling food and drinks. There are places to get free water and yes, there are Port o potties that get serviced at least once we day. The stages are simple and the artwork is beautiful. There is a quiet area and another area where the music never stops. People do their thing and don't get sloppy wasted and when someone needs to help, they get it. If someone starts trouble, they are corrected. You pick up after yourselves so you can return the same location the following year. The cops come by on Friday just to let everyone know they're around. They come back on Saturday and walk around and see that things are running smoothly. No arrests are made the entire weekend. No od's. No fights. All goes well. What a great Festival. The best. It happens. It isn't about money. It's about the people and music and the art. I challenge anyone reading this to create the next new festival. Someone's gonna do it. Why not you? I'm retired from the scene or I'd do it myself. You can throw a really nice festival for $20,000 if you know what your doing. Plan at least a year in advance. Find a location that makes sense. Have a backup plan. Stay on budget. Be transparent. Be realistic. Expect to break even. Enjoy the process. It's fun. Anyone can throw a complete shit show, including death and destruction and legal action, like Texas Eclipse for around a million bucks. If 10,000 people pay to come, you broke even. Do the math. You guys got ripped off. So do something about it or it will happen again. Follow the money.😮

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

This comment is LEGENDARY!!! I’m pinning this one to the top. I appreciate your insight so much! And also; I have friends building a small heady festival like you’re describing. Would love to get you involved with them if you’re interested. Look up “wooklandia” and shoot me a message on Instagram if you’d like to get involved with them ❤️❤️❤️ Edit my Instagram handle is: vvvlf_wulf 🤙

Wow thank you brother we needed answers and your interviews helped brother thank you❤️❤️ we were there and left Sunday morning unfortanately but when I found out about the amount of people oding as the rave dad I said fuck this and we bounced.

This is insane.... Festivals should not be a shit show like that. Good on you for documenting

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

Thank you SO MUCH. The amount of hate I’m getting is hard to deal with but I’m trying really hard not to let it get to me.

@DrAutoflower

2 ай бұрын

@@VVVLF forget about the haters. Nothing your doing is wrong

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you 🙏 for real.

There was a 53 ft trailer by the reservoir that was filtering water. They were not just pulling water straight out of the reservoir. I went swimming Friday (I hope i didn't get any brain eating amoebas, lol). I talked to one of the guys cleaning the water. They sounded swamped already on Friday. However, I had no problem finding working water stations through out the week. A rumor I had heard from others at the reservoir was that the land owner on the other side of the reservoir was standing on his property with a shotgun in is hands threatening to shoot any swimmers that went on his side of the reservoir.

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

He had an ak 47 and a drone. As for filtering the water, it is unclear if they filtered it for heavy metals or not… That is a whole different filtering process than just filtering it for bacteria.

I'd never heard anything about the place being a tactical training ground, and I don't remember seeing any used shells or anything like that on the ground, but this does make me worry a bit about what I may have breathed in. It's not just the festival; I used to run Spartan Races--obstacle courses with a lot of mud--at Reveille Peak Ranch every year in the mid-late 2010s.

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

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Despite this being the poorest managed festival I have ever been to...I had a great time. We had Thursday early arrival. They parked us in over Yonder. A few hours after being there one of our neighbors told us that they had already ran out of space and had to rent extra space in the over yonder area. The over Yonder area wasn't even on the map. My joke to my neighbors was that I was about to wonder beyond yonder. It was a 25-35 min walk to the venue depending on which way you went. Some of the paths you needed a flashlight to navigate. They were still building stages on Friday. I took a picture of one of the bridges on Saturday. They hadn't finished pouring all the concrete and there were some sections of rebar still showing. Things were just indicating that there was a lack of preparedness. I only saw one medical station in the entire event, behind the Lone Star stage. So, I wasn't really surprised when they called it off Monday morning. I already was assuming that it wasn't the weather that cancelled the event.

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

I truly am glad you managed to still have a good time. Regardless of all the shit that went wrong I managed to have a super great time also. What I keep saying in regards to that is: “the good times were our fault; the chaos was their fault.” We as a community are strong and full of love and light. No amount of darkness can dim our shine. ✨ I appreciate your comment; everyone who’s genuinely engaging with me about this… I deeply appreciate. I’m doing my best to expose this and I’m the only person I see actively doing more than just fb shit talking, so every bit of support means a lot to me.

I actually had the time of my life. I thought of course the organizers could have done better, they always can, and I was really bummed that it closed Monday. I was also bummed that I got there Friday morning and was camped Way Down Yonder which was over an hour walk from the staging area and the dust was horrific and on Friday no one knew how to get to the stages as there were no signs, but the music and sound system and overalll everything was great and I'd do it again next year if I could. It was an 11 hour drive for me from Santa Fe NM but soooooo worth it. Things weren't perfect of course and never is. It's also reffing insane that Texas outlaws testing strips as fentanyl kills but that's the state not the organizers. I practically lived at the Eclipse and Moon stages dancing until 6 or 7 am every day. My biggest complaint is probably complaining about the complainers, just shut the f up and enjoy the moment :))))

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

I definitely enjoyed myself while I was there. It was on the trip back when my investigation went into turbo mode that the unsettling feelings and emotions started to seep in. Everything you just said was totally relevant.. except the stages.. they massively cheaped out on the stages. The OE eclipse stage was way better and I felt really ripped off at the Texas eclipse (as did many others)

With the rain and hail on the forecast for starting at 4am on Tuesday morning they did the right thing in my opinion. Offered people to break down their camp site and then watch the eclipse and recommended to go home. They did not force anyone out. We enjoyed the eclipse from the sky stage where there was meditation and then we went to camp and grilled out until 9pm when it only took us 18 minutes to exit the venue. We live in Austin and had a close eye on our weather apps and agreed that we were happy that we did not stay overnight. Tuesday morning did have rain, there was hail and we did have tornado warnings. With that said, this venue has improvised roads up and down the hill country made of clay dirt. Any bit of rain and people would have been grid locked and stuck inside and a lot worse off.. Happy that they looked out for our well-being and safety by suggesting we leave and calling it off.

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

I think where they really fucked up was by not building infrastructure to support bad weather, this would include having a few circus tents strategically placed around the fest for people to get out of hailstorms and having a BIG evacuation route to quickly evacuate people in the event of a tornado advisory. There were many reasons the festival should not have been put in this location but these are some of the big ones.

@JerryK-ob7dl

2 ай бұрын

Rain didn't come till Tuesday evening and it was a brief but strong shower in parts of the area. No way was it the right thing to do kicking everyone out before the eclipse on Monday morning. A public danger was staged to have the county shut the festival down so Disco Donnie could collect on insurance. Not the first event he has collected on, he is criminal scum, change my mind!

@MrShragg

2 ай бұрын

@@VVVLFwe stayed Monday night and had the best time after all the lemmings panicked and jumped ship…. Woke up early Tuesday morning and drove straight out - which by that time was definitely super sketchy weather - downpour, big hail, Tornado warnings blaring on our phones - if 30,000 people woulda stayed to Tuesday it would have been a muddy mess burning mudman 2.0 - organizers made the correct call

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

@@MrShragg wanna do an interview?… you’re the first person I’ve seen ANYWHERE claiming they got a blaring tornado warning on their phone. What time exactly did that happen? I was still in the area until 10:30 am.. never got a tornado warning on my phone. Did anyone in your group by chance get any random footage during said tornado warning or hail? Haven’t seen anything of that either.. and like I said; I was in the area until at least 10:30 am and I’ve been asking everyone for witness accounts of what happened… I’m open to hearing both sides… searching for proof.. not JUST being a fuck face about this. Lemme know if you’d like to do an interview. I’m very curious to hear your side of things cus it doesn’t match mine at all… except for the having fun part.. I DID have fun… but I was afraid I was gonna literally die the entire time I was there because of the rampant safety violations in every direction of the festival.

It was announced Monday morning that the festival was canceled and everyone needed to break camp and leave before the eclipse because of impending storm impact. There was no storm but the announcement caused a massive traffic jam for hours that created a public safety and fire hazard so the festival was canceled by the county Monday morning after the flyover. Once the flyover happened them multiple other exits were opened and the cars magically began to flow. Bottom line this was a staged crisis to get the event shut down by the county fo Disco Donnie can collect on insurance money. The festival community has been used for a giant cash grab event and insurance fraud scam. Disco Donnie is a crook who should be prosecuted and locked up.

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

PREACH! I’m pinning this comment

@vvvlf can you please share some more definitive information about those same grounds being used as training grounds? If this is a topic you broach in your documentary, will you please consider looking into what the local regulations are that should be protecting us from such exposure? What can attendees do to assess their exposure and heal from it? Maybe a separate video/topic to cover outside the scope of the main documentary. Thank you so much for the doing God’s work in shining the light where things are not being seen you are in my prayers.

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

I actually have a video about exactly that planned. Another attendee sent me instructions for an immune system cleanse to get all the bad chemicals outta your system etc. I wanna make a video showing what they had to say. Also; tonight I did a in depth analysis about the property being a tactical training facility. I added it to the bottom of my investigation playlist.

I agree completely, Monday was perfect weather. A major festival has NEVER been canceled because of forecasted weather expected AFTER the event ended.

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

That’s what I think too. From everything I can tell they are using the weather as a cover up of the real story that they cancelled the event because the permit was pulled over it being an UNSAFE event after the man died.. and for luring us into their UNSAFE EVENT they deserve to pay and we patrons have every right to be livid.

@JerryK-ob7dl

2 ай бұрын

@@VVVLF The community has been used in an insurance scam by disco donnie,

I had a blast. Loved a lot of it with no real issues. I came prepared and am radically self reliant. Bummer it was cut short and bummer the stages were small. Overall was impressed with this being a one time pop up fest. Sorry youre so emotional about all this and wanted this to be such a sacred event... But unfortunately thats not how life works.

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

I survived it for the most part too.. came extremely prepared. A thunderstorm would have been a non issue for me. What got me emotional was hearing multiple witness accounts of the person who died… put yourself in my shoes. It’s some heavy shit to sift through man.

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

Also, in a sincere non dickhead sort of way… thank you for commenting on my video and sharing your thoughts. I’m trying to include all the perspectives I can.. obviously I have my own perspective and opinions but I’m doing my best to show both sides of it

@usdjxavi

2 ай бұрын

Wicked witch fest indeed

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

And furthermore.. I got emotional after thirty hours in the passenger seat.. building this story.. I was exhausted man, forgive me lol

@usdjxavi

2 ай бұрын

@@VVVLFthanks for sharing this, these stories need to be told.

We had sadly a very negative experience and postive bursts of it too but man, I would love to reach out and simply be more informed on what happen through out those days, much love brother❤️🫶

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

Shoot me a message on instagram. I feel very similarly about the experience I had there too. I’d love to interview ya. I’m @vvvlf_wulf on instagram 🤙

Shit happens. The woman with the shades, is ridiculous, misty sucks

@VVVLF

2 ай бұрын

LMAO and WHO are YOU…?… you fuckin suck 🤣🤣🤣🤣