Blues on the Green questions

[atxbaby]

1) Can I bring beer?
2) Where is the best place to park?
3) How early do I need to get there?

Thanks!

 

[LITNIN HORN]

1. not legally, but everyone does
2. drive into Zilker and you will be directed
3. hour to hour and a half

 

[Puffer]

bring koozies
parking is $3

 

[Smurfette]

Yeah-- Everyone drinks. No worries there.

Tonight, we're going around 5 to soak in the springs before the show. Hopefully we can park, don't know if everyone else has this idea too or not!

 

[whickums]

I know it's too late for tonight's show, but you only have to pay to park inside of Zilker. When I go I park by the baseball field/Barton Springs spillover and usually don't get there till 7 or so and never have a problem finding parking.

 

[l00p]

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[AhhhCraig]

Went tonight and was pissed. First thing my buddy tells me is no alcohol, so I go to the web site to verify, and sure enough it says no alcohol allowed. Girlfriend is giving me grief about not stopping and buying beer and wine, I tell her no alcohol. Not 15 seconds into walking where everyone is seated do I see tons of beer and wine. Everyone is drinking, well everyone but me and my friends! What gives? How does that happen? What are the real rules / laws in the park?

I will never let that happen again.

 

[GHoward]

The thing you need to realize is that you live in the most liberal city in the state. Now, laws are laws, but laws are not laws without cops, and cops are not cops without guns.

In short, as long as you are not acting like a drunken fool, the one or two cops there will not say anything. The city wants you to have a good time, but they also want to be able to have a reason to kick you out (or arrest you) if they feel you are keeping other people from having a good time. SO yea, keep it low key, in a koozi, or poured in a cup. Don't drag in an entire keg. And don't get wasted.
I normally would park under the mopac bridge. If you continue up stratford through that rich people neighborhood, it will end up on Red Bud, take a right, and you will end up on Lake Austin. It's faster if you intend on going back east, and not on mopac.

 

[K-Man]

My 10yr old and I went last night. He is at camp at Zilker so we biked down at 8am. I picked him up at 5 and we had a swim in teh springs and split a chili dog at Shady grove.

Took in Los Lonely Boys then had another swim and got home at 11. My wife was impressed.

What a cool time. I talked to another dad that mentioned his kid prob. got a contact buzz from all teh pot haha ha

 

[KaiserSoze]

I've only missed a couple of Blues on the Green nights since 2005, and the one this week was by far the worst crowd ever. I hope KGSR never schedules a big-name band again. Typically it is a nice chill time. This past week it attracted the biggest showing of white trash and rednecks I've ever seen in Austin. The worst part about it... they absolutely trashed Zilker.

Typically everyone throws their beer cans, etc. in the trash cans around the park. Not this week. After the show there were beer cans and garbage everywhere. Another thing the new attendees totally ****** up was the flow of people throughout the event. They set up in what have always been walkways/aisles through the crowd so that people can get to the bathrooms and concessions, and then the dumb asses bitched about how they couldn't get to bathrooms and concessions... after they themselves had filled up the passages.

Anyway, it is pretty much always a great chill time with a pretty big crowd that has always been respectful of the park and those around them, but this past Wednesday it was like a ******* prison yard during recess. It was just ******* annoying to watch the people trash the place, which does not happen on the regular nights.

KGSR- please don't ever do that again (bring in a big name band for the masses) That is not what Blues on the Green is about. Let the rednecks and white trash go to wherever it is they usually go to be gross dumb asses and trash that place. ****, set up pork rind and bean dip concessions and rake it in.

 

[LITNIN HORN]

Strange...I've seen Los Lonely Boys a half dozen times, or so, and I can't remember one show that was overrun with "rednecks" and "white trash". In fact every time I've seen them the crowd was probably fifty to sixty percent Hispanic.

I have also been attending Blues on the Green for some time...since it first began at the Arboretum. I never remember a trash free event, but that is why the Parks Dept. and KGSR have people that clean up immediately following the event. Also, if you looked real close you would have noticed that there wasn't a trash can, anywhere, with any more room in it.

As to the "aisles" and "walkways" you speak of...I can't say I've ever seen those marked off before. Unless they are, I'm not sure what you are complaining about, other than the inconvenience it caused you. An empty spot of ground at an outdoor show is like that four car gap in rush hour traffic. Someone is going to fill it whether you want them to or not.