Now, imagine the clusterfu<kchella if the temp was 104.

We read that at one point they ran out of wristbands at the gate. They always screw day 1 up in terms of traffic and gate entry, the added confusion of an entirely new ticketing model must have really thrown them for a loop. It will be interesting to see if today is any better. Among other things, most people should already have wristbands, which should theoretically make entry a lot smoother, right?

I wonder how official those crowd #'s are. It seems pretty surprising in a down economy and with getting rid of 1 day tickets that attendance would be up.

All I know is that my friends are going to be spending a lovely day viewing wildflowers in Joshua Tree, lounging by the pool at their swank hotel and eating/shopping in Palm Springs. That sounds pretty good to me (except I have to wait 3 weeks to do that).

Seems to me there's a lot less (though not zero) bitching about traffic and lines today.

The main stage is on fire.

And I don't mean that the acts are really good. The main stage is ON FIRE

It seems to have been put out.

According to their message board getting out is a complete cluster too.

I'm becoming really happy I didn't go this year!

The Trojan Marching band showed up (Coheed and Cambria... not sure who that is)