It started out with the Underground Psychos contest. This guy is a friend of AMB’s, is from Denver, and basically thinks that if you don’t like AMB’s music, you’re a “Juggaho”. Yeah, one of those people who thinks that you are REQUIRED to like EVERYTHING that Psychopathic puts out in order to be considered a Juggalo. If you’re not, you’re labeled a “hater”. Here’s the thing. DFENS supported AMB through the UP contest, and I believe helped them win through constantly talking about them here on FLH. We all stayed at the same campsite at last year’s Gathering, and everything was cool. I’m gonna come out there and say it right now…I’ve never been a fan of AMB…past, or present. I don’t have a problem with them personally, but it’s NOT my cup of tea. End of story, right? Not even the half of it. Without easily doubling the size of this Gathering review with back story, let’s just say that AMB’s local Denver homies started hounding us with requests to get a section up on FLH. What they DIDN’T realize is that DFENS had contacted them time and time again about sending us over some discography, pics, bios, etc to get the thing put up. Hey, I don’t like their stuff, but it’s for the Juggalos, right? Well, they didn’t ever get back to him, so we just kind of blew it off. No skin off our backs, right? At this point, I’m sketchy on the details, but KNOW that their close friends started taking the shit WAY too personally…even though they themselves never got us anything for the section. There were board wars, empty threats, etc, and then it just died down. I mean really, it’s stupid. We have a website that we pay for and maintain, and some people are pissed at what we DON’T have up? Does anyone else NOT think that it’s a little fucked up? Things got a little more personal between DFENS, AMB, and their crew, but I’m not gonna go into that because I’m really not at liberty too. I can only speak for myself. What I AM at liberty to say is that a few months ago at the JuggaloNews.comcomments section, there was some spirited chat going on, and some random guy with no email address shown says something like “If you thought last year’s Gathering was bad for you, just wait until this year Scottie”. Immediately, I knew it was Preach. He’s not that smart a person…and the “anonymous” internet threat was thinly veiled. Again, this all spurred over the fact that we basically weren’t pushing their homies, AMB, as hard as they wanted us too.

Now, back to the situation I briefly mentioned. Preach had walked a little ways down the path with his 3 other friends, who hadn’t said anything at that point. (That will come into play later when I make a point about his actions vs. his “friends” actions.) He stayed where he was, and basically called me out right there…with 3 of his friends with him. Gotta have BIG balls to do that, right? So I give him the “hold on” sign, and by that point everyone is stirring from under our little camping compound in the woods. I peek my head under the tarp, see some of my homies up, and let them come out there with me. Now we’re a little more even. So at this point, yelling ensues, and big bad Preach ends up doing what was best for him…walking away. One funny point though…he mentioned something about not having the internet or a computer screen to hide behind now…to which PsykoScott promptly replied “This ain’t the internet, this is the sticks and mud bitch, bring it”…or something to that effect. I had to stop myself from laughing at that shit. Just so you know, at that point, his friends still hadn’t said a word.

Well, that was enough to get the adrenaline pumping that morning! After we had eaten and gotten situated for the day, it was time to head off to the 2 PM ICP Seminar. At this point, it was DFENS, ClaAs, Mandie, and myself. We ran into King Gordy on the way over there, snapped a few pics with him, and were on our way to the Seminar tent. As we were going through the concession line, Preach and some of his mute friends were there too. Naw, I’m not talkin shit about his friends…just saying that they never said a single word. Well, of course, dude had to start yelling again. He started pointing fingers at DFENS, making more threats, and never following through. I guess you’ve gotta be in a car on the freeway to follow up on anything, right? DFENS played it off like he didn’t know who he was pointing to, and that pissed the neanderthal off even more. But again, it was the “I know where you’re staying now, bitch!” threats, and then they walked off. Ahh what fun!

So we get into the Seminar tent, and wait…and wait….and wait some more. I’m pretty sure you could have looked at the schedule through the entire Gathering booklet, tacked on an hour to when things were supposed to start, and you still wouldn’t miss anything. I’m not sure what time it was before ICP came in, but it was to a HUGE uproar from the Juggalos, and what they said next probably blew a lot of people’s minds! Basically, they went into the ENTIRE Story of why Alex Abbiss stepped down as CEO of Psychopathic Records. I’ve gotta tell you ninjas reading this…they schooled that explanation! If I had already been planning to retire in a couple of years, and something traumatic like that happened where life was nearly cut short, then I’d probably walk away myself…no matter what the motive behind the shooting was. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I feel like J and Shaggy do a much better job explaining it than I can. So do yourself a favor and view it in our Gathering Videos section.

After the ICP Seminar (which they cut down to around a half hour due to a scheduled JCW match), we decided that since Twiztid would be coming in at around 4 PM, that it would be best to just wait so we could get a good spot to film it. Bonko was manning the camera, and had a good seat a few rows back, and in the center of the tent. So go watch that footage! Jamie and Paul were fuckin HILARIOUS! Paul admitted himself that he LOVED the seminars for the sheer fact that he can be a complete dick to everyone! The topics they covered were their upcoming album Independents Day, special guests that would be on the album, the Guillotine Tour, Monoxide’s Tooth, the Soopa Heros EP, and LOTS more! This is a review, not the news page. So if you want to hear that straight from the horse’s mouth, go hit up the Gathering Videos section.

On a REALLY fresh note, Bonko had the idea to go and catch Twiztid as they were about to roll away on their golf carts. He wanted to ask about FLH doing our Baby Oil Wrestling at the Twiztid Pajama Jammy Jam onSunday night. Surprisingly, he caught up to them in time, talked to Madrox about it, and he was ALL about it! It was undoubtedly ON! Or so we thought. I’ll tell you what ended up happening during the Sunday part of the review.

At some point in the afternoon, our homie Tim Wood finally made it to the Gathering! He stuck out like a sore thumb with his collared t-shirt and jeans on, but it’s all good. He took us on at our old hosting company, and wanted to see what all the hype was about among Juggalos. So what better way than to dive right in with a Juggalo Gathering?? He’s the shit though, and it was good to finally meet that ninja in person! Hope you enjoyed your stay Tim!

After we met up with Tim and got him all situated with a place to sleep, we basically chilled at the campsite for a lot of the time. At this point, my laptop was still working, so I attempted to do some video/audio updates for you guys. We grilled some food, talked for hours, and just hung out with all of our homies. In fact, we were having such a good time chillin’ at the site, that we completely spaced going to the Boondox and Blaze performances that night. Sorry to those of you who were expecting a review of Boondox’s set, but it just wasn’t happening that night. I have heard nothing but good things about his performance though, other than the fact that his mic was off for some of the time. That sucks, but it’s no fault of his, right?

We were asked by Club Chaos later that night if we wanted to put on another Oil Wrestling show. Well, we hadn’t been recruiting at all that day, so we kind of figured that we’d hold off until the next night and see what happened. I’m pretty sure that that’s the night that my laptop died. Luckily, DFENS had his Mac there, so we were able to transfer the audio from the seminars and upload it over our shitty cell phone connection. Hey, uploading 50 MB through your cell phone and a USB cable is no small feat! Show some love! We watched some more performances that night at Chaos, and just chilled a lot at our site. Hey, this was our vacation, right? A ninja’s gotta get a little R&R at some point. The night ended at around 6 in the AM for me, as I crawled into the tent with Mandie on our brand new air mattress…which was already halfway deflated. Good times!

Saturday, July 15th
Saturday didn’t start out near as eventful as the day before. DFENS had gone to sleep earlier than I did, but I woke up to him yelling rather loudly that we had the chance to go to a hotel right down the road and take a hot shower…separately of course. So Mandie, Rob, Brooks, Tim, and myself went off to the Fairfield Inn, where most of the artists, wrestlers, etc were staying at during the Gathering. Our homie Kevin Gill of Eidos, Interactive had called DFENS to ask if we wanted to use their facilities. I had been holding a log all weekend, so I went into the hotel lobby bathroom and just raped it. I hope to God nobody followed me in there til it aired out. lol. Anyway, after our stint at the nice hotel, we locked up the room and were back off to the Gathering.

It was Saturday, so combined, this was definitely the night that I most looked forward to for the main stage shows! I mean you’ve got PDM,REHAB, and Twiztid! That’s one hell of a show for a single night!

I’m pretty sure that Saturday was the first day I had actually gotten around to going over to the Merch area. By the time we had thought about it on the previous 2 days, it had already been closed, or close to closing. So we went and checked shit out. There were some fresh new designs from Psychopathic displayed, and you can check that all out in the Gathering Videos section too. I took about a minute long video of everything that was there. Hope it’s not too fast for you to catch everything. I picked up a few shirts, and then was about to head back to the campsite. At about that time, Rehab rolled up right by the main merch booth to set up their merchandise. Holy fuckin BALLS did they ever come prepared! They had crates of shirts, tons of styles, and these fresh new basketball jersies that you’re bound to see me sportin’ here and there. They’re made by the same company that does Psychopathic’s merch (SportsRock Shop), and the quality is even a little thicker than the original Dazzle jersies that Psychopathic sold a few years back. If you were there, you probably noticed that the ATM Machines were down for pretty much the entire weekend. Well, you were pretty much assed out if you didn’t have any cash on you…unless you wanted some of Rehab’s merch! They brought a portable credit card machine and everything. Those boys don’t fuck around! Anyway, we helped Demun set up their merch, told them that we were hype about their show tonight, and were on our way over to the Blaze seminar. We caught about half of it, of which is up in our section that I’ve linked like 5 times already, so go and check that stream out and see what he had to say about Clockwork Grey, the Soopa Heros EP,Fright Fest Tour, and more!

By that time, we just wanted to chill a bit at our campsite again before the shows that night. Before I get into Saturday night’s shows, let me tell you a little about something that we had worked out prior to the Gathering withREHAB. Both DFENS and I have some pretty badass video cameras (Canon GL2s). They’re not TOP top of the line, but they’re pretty fuckin close! Anyway, DFENS had mentioned this to Rehab prior to the Gathering, and they wanted us to record their set AT the Gathering! We were all psyched about it, and actually made that shit happen! Since we were gonna be backstage anyway, we had asked Prozak and Mike E. Clark if they wanted their set filmed too. They were ALL about that!

At around 5:30 or 6, Bonko, DFENS, Mandie, Tim, Jake, Rob and myself all went over to the main stage area. Prozak got most of us backstage, so we could start getting ready for filming that night’s shows. For those of you who are wondering what a Gathering Backstage is like, it’s probably better left to the imagination. You gotta remember, this isn’t the 80’s with Motley Crue, huge, sold-out arenas, and show riders 18 pages long. This is the Gathering! Everything was set up nicely though, and there were plenty of accomodations for the artists and crew. While we were all back there, Otisof the AMB asked me to come over and talk to him for a second. ( Click Here for a pic my girl Mandie secretly snagged) I’m doing this from memory, but basically, he said that despite our differences with everything involving FLH and AMB, he appreciated the fact that we weren’t all over the site like “Fuck AMB!” this, and “They suck” that. Look, doing that, instead of pulling a bitch move and finding a security guard to kick us out of the area got my respect. In fact, they as PEOPLE have ALWAYS had my respect. Did I vote for them in the Underground Psychos contest? No. Do I like their latest album from Psychopathic? No. Do I STILL continue to post their updates from their website and let you know what’s going on with their tours? Of course! So after he said what he did, I told him flat out that their music wasn’t exactly my favorite, but that wasn’t the issue at hand. I told him about the bullshit going down with his homies from Denver, namely Preach. He knows what’s been going on, but said that Preach was his own man, and that he didn’t control him. I called bullshit right there though, because if anyone, he could put a stop to it. Juggalos, don’t take that the wrong way. We were 20 people deep from Dallas/Oklahoma/Arkansas. We had 5 guys who were at LEAST as big as that neanderthal. If something were to go down though, after all the shit he had tried to start that weekend, that douche would have ended up like a Picasso painting. We didn’t come to the Gathering to fight…but apparently he didn’t either, because there were just gums flapping in the wind.

So after Otis and I finished our brief conversation and shook hands, DFENS and I got our cameras synchronized, and were ready to roll. Before I forget though, that’s the reason we missed the 2nd ICP Seminar…because we were getting ready for the night’s performances. Little did we know that we could have probably caught that as well, since the main stage shows didn’t start until around 8 PM anyway. Actually, Droch Fhoula went on prior toPDM, but I didn’t really get to catch their set.

When it was time for Project:Deadman to hit the stage, we were all set. We had 3 cameras on stage, and 1 out in the crowd next to the sound booth. Tim was also out there making sure everything was good with the audio that was feeding into DFENS’ Mac. So then, it was ON! Mike E. Clark, Prozak, and their hype man came out to the stage while DFENS, Rob, and myself caught every shot we could think of! Let me remind you that the entire mainstage crowd area was a mud pit. That comes heavily into play. PDM was gettin the crowd all kinds of crazy! They were throwing out t-shirts, CDs, and mud that had been flung at them by some Juggalos in the crowd. Once PDM started throwing mud their way, they responded 100 fold! Mud was fuckin flying EVERYWHERE! I know some of you motherfuckers were aiming at me, but that’s ok. It was funny as hell dodging all of those shitty mud bullets! One caught me in the neck, and a glop or 2 got on my camera. All in all though, I’d say we did a good job capturing the moment, and that PDM did a HELL of a set! Oh, let’s not forget about KING GORDY who came out a few songs into the set too! Juggalos and Juggalettes…the man lives up to his name. That fucker is FAT! And what did he do? Took his shirt off to spread that fat love! If you’ve never seen Gordy perform, then you have no idea how animated this huge motherfucker is! And with every movement, came every ripple and wave of fatness. lol. If you don’t believe me, then you haven’t seen This Picture! After they had performed their last song, PDM and Gordy walked off stage for a second. Then out of nowhere, and before I cut my camera off, Mike E. Clark came back out and screamed at the audience: “So you wanna start some shit??!?!” I have NEVER seen a faster response, or more mud thrown at one person in my entire life…and doubt I ever will again! IT was insanity, and I’m pretty sure it was all caught on film. (DFENS has that footage, and I don’t know that we’ll be able to release it to you at all. We’ll see what they say.)

Next up was REHAB. Yes, we got the opportunity to film their entire set too! Now I have been to and filmed a TON of rap shows, but getting a 7 Man Band (including the DJ and Demun Jones) was a new experience for me. Hopefully I did the show justice, because I was moving around everywhere trying to get good shots! To be completely honest with you, I was nervous for Rehab that night. They had never performed in front of a crowd that was exclusively Juggalos, and I didn’t know how the crowd would react to their Southern Rap/Rock sound. Juggalos who weren’t there: They KILLED IT! They started off performing the track “It Don’t Matter”. That’s one of their slower tracks, and I was afraid that if it went on for too long, they’d get the Bubba Sparxxx treatment. After that track, there were some cheers, but then Danny Boone won them over with his lightning fast acapella rap flow! From that point on, there were no worries on my end. The entire audience was in it, and barely a single piece of mud, trash, or anything got thrown. There are always a few hecklers, but that’s to be expected anywhere.

After REHAB owned that bitch, it was time for Twiztid to take the stage. I actually ran into Matt Nipz back stage and since we were there with camera in hand, asked if he wanted us to catch Twiztid‘s set on video too. He said he’d ask about it, but he was running around doing so much that I don’t think he ever had the chance to. But we were all still back stage, and actually on the sidestage at that point. So we kinda just chilled there until the show started up! Twiztid came out, projectors and all, and just demolished the crowd! We got to watch about half the set from the side stage, which was a really fresh experience. It was getting hella crowded over there though, so I knew it wouldn’t last long. Before you knew it, there was a security person up there checking people’s badges, and we were all badgeless. So off we went into the crowd. We met up with our crew (G Dub, PsykoScott, etc.), and enjoyed the rest of Twiztid’s set from there. From what I remember, it was pretty much the same set as the Guillotine Tour, but seeing Twiztid live is always the shit.

After Twiztid’s set, it was time for the afterparties at Club Chaos! As you can tell, we spent a ton of time there…but it was all of 10 feet away from our campsite, you know? A bunch of people came by our campsite to say what’s up to us on that night. It was fuckin nuts! We had Danny from Rehab there, most of the Filthee Immigrants, our homie Kevin Gill, the Rude Boy, and one of the cameramen from Hatchet Action News even swung by to see what was goin on! I was filmed, so who knows…maybe a clip will end up in a post-gathering Weekly Freekly Weekly!

While we were all at the campsite, we heard all kinds of commotion outside. A fight had broken out, and these 2 white, shaved head motherfuckers were brawling on the hood of PsykoScott’s suburban. Him being the big ninja that he is, basically pushed them elsewhere, and let them finish up. I don’t know what it was about, and really didn’t care. That wasn’t the last of it though. There were like 3 fights right within the span of a few minutes there! 2 guys were mouthing off to each other, and one of them got their nose straight broken. It was 1 hit, and dude was down and bleeding. I actually pulled the guy back who hit the other ninja to keep it from going any further. He had proven his point..you know? Now why did these fights all start? At that point, there was a TON of speculation. I won’t even go into it though because I don’t want to get the story wrong.

I don’t know what point in the night it was, but more drama happened involving Preach, and some of the people he was with at the Jump Off. I heard all of this second-hand but feel the need to add it in to tell you why things escalated the way they did. Three-Ring, our homie from Dallas, was drunk as all fuck. And when Three-Ring is drunk, he’s a happy drunk. He knew that we had talked to Otis that night, and that we had pretty much set things straight. I don’t know who all was with him, but Three-Ring went up toPreach and his people to try and talk some sense into them. Keep in mind, he was stumbling over drunk. He actually told me that he tried to squash shit with them before things got outta hand. Three-Ring mentioned that I had talked to Otis, cleared the air, and that it was stupid for anything to go further than it had. From what I was told, everyone there was cool with that, except for Preach. He responded to “Fuck Off”, and then some pussy out of nowhere came and sucker-punched Three-Ring. That is the most bitch-ass fuckin move ever. If you’ve got a beef with somebody, be a man about it. Don’t hit them and then run off. Well, immediately after that happened, security got in between the people who were with Three-Ring, and the people who were with AMB’s boys from Denver. Needless to say, after that entire situation, Three Ring was pissed. He isn’t someone you want angry at you. This killa played linebacker for Kansas state, and just annihilates people in a pit. That’s when he’s having FUN…

On a better note, everyone at Club Chaos was more than kind to myself, and everyone at our campsite. I spent a lot of time at their “VIP” area that night, and ended up talking to Underground Psycho contestant HaVoK, theRude Boy again (who promised us a shoot interview, where NO question would be left unanswered), and my homie, Kevin Gill and his girl Barb. Gillwas set to spin that night at Club Chaos, and I wanted to check that out for myself! He went on for over 90 minutes, and the party didn’t stop! There were drunken naked chicks dancing in front of the DJ booth until they literally fell over! I know that Delusional, J, Rudy, AMB, and a few others were back there checkin shit out. Kevin knows what the fuck he’s doin’ on the boards!

That just about ended our night after Kevin was finished. I dragged my tired ass over to the campground, and called it a night.

Sunday, July 16th
It was here, it was HOT, and it was the last day of the Gathering. Everyone woke up that day, and it was a fuckin SAUNA underneath our tarps/tents. Everyone woke up drenched with sweat, and decided that we didn’t want to spend another night out there…especially after an ICP show. So we tore down the campsite, loaded up our rides, and booked another night at the glamorous, luxurious Hebron Deluxe Inn. lol. Man I wish I had thought about getting pics of that place. But it was a hot shower, and a bed (of sorts) to sleep on. That’s all we cared about. Everybody pretty much decided that they were going to wait until later that night to return to the Gathering. Tim had actually decided that he would take off from there so he could make it back to work the next morning. It was the shit seeing you though homie! After chillin at the hotel for a few hours, G-Dub took Mandie and I back to the campgrounds, because I wanted to get the Mike E. Clark Seminar on film. I thought that maybe they would do something special…like play a Tempest beat, or even have ICP as special guests there. We waited there at the seminar tent for all of 10 minutes, and then found out that the Mike E. Clark Seminar had been Cancelled. Fuckin balls. So there went one of the only reasons we came back that early. However, it ended up being WELL worth it!

We went over to the Info Tent, where Nathan Extra and Tall Jess were getting ready to judge the Scavenger Hunt contestants! For those of you that don’t know, there was a scavenger hunt going on that ENTIRE weekend! There were crazy things that you had to find like a wad of gum put together that was bigger than a softball, a dirt rendition of Violent J’s head, a virgin over the age of 21, 12 pairs of panties, Otis freestyling about you, and more! There were over 40 items on the list, and my homie David aka RamGoGof Florida was on the team that fuckin SCHOOLED IT! Our homie Johnny Cof SoopaHeros.com also teamed up with him. They got all kinds of extra points for the sculpture of J’s head that he made completely of mud, straw, soda can tabs, and tissue paper! It was fuckin amazing! The winners of the Scavenger hunt had choices of the mic stand from thet Hell’s Pit Tour, a standup scooter that J rode around during the AJB Tour, a Shaggy’s Laundry Bag pack with 6 or 7 jersies that had all been worn by Shaggy, and all had his name on the back. There was also the Dark Lotus Football Team set, where you got the shoulder pads/jersies that were worn in the 2004 Lotus photo shoot, some HatchetGear prize packs, and some other stuff I can’t think of. We stayed around there for more than an hour, until it got to be close to the last Twiztid Seminar of the Gathering! So we of course had to go over there and film that to hook all of you up!

Twiztid’s seminar on Sunday was funny as ever, but unfortunately we had to miss ClaAs‘s set at the Bomb House, since the seminar ran long. So we just walked back over to the Info tent, chilled with a few people who were still over there hangin’ out, and then ended up meeting our whole crew before Digital Underground‘s set that night. On the way over, G Dub had noticed that Preach and their entire crew were standing around by a concession area in the crowd. Everyone was sober now, so instead of getting sucker punched, we just moved our entire group of people right next to theirs. It was dark, so nobody had noticed. I don’t remember who said the first words, but there were definitely many exchanged. People who I hadn’t seen the entire time were there…but not talking shit. There were a ton of verbal exchanges…mostly cool heads were prevailing though. Basically, the biggest exchanges of words I noticed were between PsykoScott and Adam Anthraxe, of Pueblotus. Anyone who has seen Adam posting on boards and whatnot know that he’s an avid fan and supporter of AMB’s music. We have had our words over the stupid shit mentioned WAAAAAAY at the top of this review, but nothing recently. Scott basically told him that their douchebag friend had been talking shit and skating away from it the entire weekend. Now that everyone was there, there was really nowhere to go for Preach. Basically, Preach has good friends. They know he’s a dumb shit. They didn’t say it in that way, but it was something along the lines of the fact that they don’t agree with some of the shit that he does or has done, but if it comes to blows, they’d side with him. Just on a side note, at that point, he was about 10 feet away from anyone behind his people. Yes, he was still pointing and carrying on like he was going to do something, but ended up saying “You’re lucky I talked to my bosses” (ie: AMB). It’s just funny that it came to that, he had his chance, and he didn’t take it. Fuck that guy. Oh, the speechless guys who were with him during the first time he came by our campsite were all there too…not saying a word. Honestly, I think that they wanted no part of the shit that he was trying to start. In fact, nobody there seemed to want anything to do with it. Again, it’s a stupid reason. We don’t like your boys’ music…so what? Leave it at that.

Then, things got out of hand. We turned around to walk away, and someone threw out one last parting shot. You know, those guys who HAVE to get the final word in? Well, I don’t know who it was, but it pissed G Dub off. He spat in their direction. After that, a beer can came flying at us. PsykoScott’s girl Oxi saw who threw it, smacked the bitch, and then my girl Mandie, of all people, got in the way so she couldn’t retaliate. That’s when the pussy shit came in. One of 2 girls (we don’t know which one) clocked Mandie over the head with a fuckin flashlight. Hey, I understand defending your girl if she’s getting pounced on, but she wasn’t. It was a cheap shot, which seems to be an ongoing occurrence on their end. At that point, Three Ring jumped into the cat fight, and just started flinging bodies left and right. He got the chicks separated, and everything had simmered. I’ve gotta tell you this too. I heard all of this second hand. My girl doesn’t bullshit though, so that’s what happened. After objects start flying in our direction, I tend to watch my back. G Dub mentioned to me that Mandie had gotten hit in the head. Everyone involved in the chick squabble got their licks in, but nobody was seriously hurt. The flashlight put a cut over Mandie’s forehead, and you know how head wounds bleed. Before I go any further, because I know I’m all over the place at this point, I wanted to point out a fun fact. One of the bitches who initiated the entire thing and was quick to throw down is a young, married woman, with more than 1 child. Yes, they would be so proud of you throwing yourself into harm’s way over some stupid bullshit.

When I saw Mandie bleeding from her head, I was just enraged. It wasn’t a serious injury by any means, but how it happened was just FUCKED. And all because some caveman lookin motherfucker couldn’t help from Flappin’ his gums the entire weekend. There were further means to make sure everything was straight after that, but I won’t go into it for the sake of anonymity.

We went over to our chill spot in time to see ICP hit the stage. Everyone’s adrenaline was all pumping at that point, so you’re all kind of lucky that you got even a few distant pictures of their set. The set was pretty much the same as the last 2 years at the Gathering. The HUGE ICP lights, faygo bins, etc. There’s nothing wrong with that though, just worth mentioning. One disappointing fact worth mentioning is that Violent J promised someTempest Tracks during their set, and not a single verse was ever delivered. Stale.

On a lighter note though…remember that pool that we used on Thursday Night to do the FLH Baby Oil Wrestling in? Well, we had forgotten to pack it up on Sunday morning when we had left. Towards the end of ICP’s set, what do we see making it’s way across the mosh pit? Our Baby Oil Wrestling Pool. So Madrox, if you’ve read this far, that’s why we didn’t set up thet Baby Oil Wrestling to take place at the Twiztid Pajama Jammy Jam. It was a victim of an ICP mosh pit. lol. At that point, no matter what had just transpired, I still had to crack a smile at that one!

After 5 days of ups and downs, most of us didn’t even stay late for the after parties. It was all about the hotel, getting a good night’s rest, and hitting the road early the next morning. The drive back was pretty fun…but definitely seemed longer than the drive to Columbus. Ahh well, it’s usually like that.

So, now to wrap things up on this gargantuan review. After reminiscing through the fresh times we had this year, the Gathering wasn’t bad at all. It DID seem to be put together last minute, and even ICP and Twiztid made references to the place not being up to par. Was the mud a factor? Yeah, maybe the first day or 2. But it dried up a lot towards the latter part of the Gathering, and was close to bearable. There are some talented, creative Juggalos who were at the Gathering. Between some of the Scavenger hunt items, and some of the Morton’s List quests I heard about…you guys fuckin Freaked it! As always, I had a great time spending nearly a week with some of my closest friends. I also met a TON of people that I hadn’t before, and only knew through their email aliases. Much props to all of you showin’ love! You guys at Club Chaos are the shit. Everyone that rode in our 4 vehicle caravan were nothing but cool. Everyone at Psychopathic that I ran into couldn’t have been nicer, and more appreciative of what we try and do here at FLH! I don’t really want to do a shoutout page here at the end, but you all know you’re the shit!

I know there are some things that I experiences that I probably just didn’t think about at the time that I typed it up. But this is fresh enough! I know it’s by FAR my longest Gathering review to date, so hopefully some of you get to this point in reading it. Thank you for your time, and much love for your support!

PS: For those of you who were offended by any part of this, you know how to Get A Hold of Me.