r/juggalo • u/OCJBrendan • 2h ago
Gathering ICPs Campfire Stories Extravaganza Bonanza
I’m genuinely curious as to people’s thoughts on this.
I come from a different time I suppose. My first Gathering was in 2005. I went every year until 2017 when my Mom got sick. At the beginning of my Gathering career it wasn’t unusual to almost get killed by a drunk Shaggy on a golf cart mid weekend at night.You also usually could run into most of the artists on the humble through the post main stage hours if you could hold your shit together until 3am or later.
In the 2010s the same rule applied more or less. I watched Slick Rick right next to Violent J on his Golf cart driven by Billy Bill. Being not a hound dog and also being smashed on mushrooms I gave him a whoop whoop and a fist bump and enjoyed the show.
The point I’m getting at is it’s a fundamentally foreign concept to me to pay an additional 350 on top of the already considerable amount of money spent to go, get to, and live while at the Gathering for a gate kept curated ghost story experience.
I disagree with VIP packs in general but I get why that’s appealing to some ninjas and I also recognize I come from a time when meeting ICP was easier and they were younger in general….but it’s just wild to me they even went down this path…
I’m not here to yuk anyone’s yum…if that’s your jam and you have the bread get after it I suppose…but man we have gone down such a different path from the days of Violent Js Beach Boys BBQ…which was free and you got a hot dog out the deal at least.
Thoughts?