What You Missed In Manchester

Ed. note: Over the weekend, thousands of music fans headed to Manchester, Tenn., for the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival; while there, many of these attendees chose to spend their between-set downtime by either a) placing peyote under their eyelids or b) writing about how it was all, like, hot and stuff. Some highlights below–and if you really want to know what it was like, feel free to Photoshop yourself into the Jack White reaction-shot picture above..

– First, the band news: Ornette Coleman collapsed from heat stroke during his set on Sunday, but he appears to be OK. [Billboard] – The Police: Awesome! [NYTimes] – The Police: Awful! [LATimes Buzz Bands] – David Cross, Lily Allen and Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes got into a possibly spirited back-and-forth about hippies. [Spinner.com] – The guy from the Long Winteres stuck it to that Ben Harper dude! [MSNBC] – By day two, things got smelly. But at least Wayne Coyne pulled out the Page-style double-necker. [EW] – ?uestlove will gladly pose for a photo, but he damn sure isn’t going to give it more than a half-smile. [Loudersoft]

[Photo: Getty Images]