RFL Announcement: Relaystock Begins Today

 

Today one of the more fun annual Relay events begins: the Relaystock. Organized by the Relay Rockers, a top-ranked Relay team, it's open to all teams, many of who have set up campsites on the event grounds. For three days, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, there will be live musicians and DJs performing on stage, a chance to donate to "Bid the Lindens Bald," and explore the various camps and rest of the grounds. While there may not be any sex and no drugs, there will be plenty of rock n roll, and of course peace, love, and hope. And of course there's the mud, lots and lots of mud.

The performances start this afternoon at 2:30 PM with DJ Kiera of the Timesville team. Other musicians include Max Kleene, Keeba and the Tiny Maniacs, and the Sunbeamers' DJ Cynthia.

 

To check the schedule, check the website at https://relayrockers.org/relaystock2023/

 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/American%20Cancer%20Society/129/0/23

 

Cartoon of the Day: Hippie Sunglasses

 

 

 Taken at Club Cutlass' "Hippie Night." Some of what people wore back then was more than a little "far out," including some people's sunglasses. While lenses that change color when the light chaged weren't quite developed yet, if they had, one certain style back then might get some people wondering.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

"Wootstock" At Raglan Shire

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In the tiny community of Raglan Shire this weekend, it was three days of "Peace, Love, and Waffles" as they held their "Wootstock" festival. This whimsical tribute to the 60s Woodstock festival took place at a skybox over Raglan Shire over three days from Friday July 22 to Sunday July 24.

Various DJs and live musicians would play on stage, some of them local talent. Friday had "Effinjay" (Jaycatt Nico and Frogg Marlowe). Saturday had Keebas and the Tiny Maniacs. 

Sunday had performers such as Songbird, Maximus, and Quartz.

Gypsy Witch Sands (GypsyW1tch Resident) had a rather trippy-looking performance with particles giving the place a psychedelic look. "What ya put in these waffles?" "~~ WOW MAN!! WINTER WOOTSTOCK IS COOL!!!!! THE COLORZ.. ZOMG LOOK AT THE COLORZZZZ WOWWWWWW ~~"

"~~ OK we've had some words that theres some BAD PANCAKE PUFFS ON A STICK circulating in the crowd! ~~ ~~ PLEASE Stay Away from the Pancake Puffs on a Stick!! you could Get Violently Ill!! ~~"

It was a fun tribute to the 60s.

Bixyl Shuftan
 

Announcement: Wootstock at Raglan

 
Sunday Morning ----Raglan Shire & Commons Restarted 6AM SLT
SUNDAY July 24

11 - 1pm       DJ   Caleb Kit
1pm       Songbird
2pm      Maggi Morpath
3pm     Snoots Dwagon
4pm      NeoMaximus
5pm       Quartz
6pm       Gypsy Witch Sands (GypsyW1tch Resident)
7 ish PM-?   DJ Jennylynn Capalini

This is the last day of Wootstock 2022!!  Don't miss it!!

Woodstock Then and Now

There's an old joke from somewhere that no one truly remembers Woodstock; if you were there you were too stoned to recall it. For those wanting to relive the experience, Gemma Cleanslate found out about a tribute to this event in music history. For three days starting on Saturday August 18, this event organized by FrannyDJ Dean will offer "Peace, Love, and Music," with tunes from both the 60s and today. Following that, the event changes to "Woodstock Summerfest 2018" which lasts until Labor Day.

Read Gemma's story in Events.

Scenes From The RelayStock

A few weeks ago, the Relaystock in Second Life took place. This tribute to the historic music concert in 1969 took place over the weekend of May 22 and 23. There were numerous DJs and musicians performing for the crowd, which at times was sizable. Despite the mud and the rain, it was all good clean fun.

See the pictures in Events.

SL Video: "Woodstock at 40 Day 3 "

(Click here if the video fails to play)

From Eddi Haskel on August 2009, "for more information see www.slwoodstock.com. Woodstock at 40 is a 4-day celebration of the original event in 1969, from August 14 - August 17 2009. Over 90% of the original music will be played in the Blue Nile region of the Virtual World of Second Life. Photographer Eddi Haskell created this photo montage of the third day, combining his photography with Grace Slick singing Jefferson Airplane's classic Woodstock hit 'Somebody to Love.' Please note: Although this is day 3 of the Festival in the Virtual World of Second Life, it corresponds to the second full day at Woodstock 1969 on Sunday"

Setting Up The Relaystock

Taking a look at the Relay dAlliez sim yesterday, a number of Relay teams were already picking spots for this weekend's "Relaystock," the Relay for Life in Second Life's tribute to the noted Woodstock music festival in 1969. Each team has a tent or a bus as a campsite, and a small amount of prim space to set up their flag and kiosk, and maybe an item to sell for funds for the team.

Team Sunbeamers will be among the teams having a camp there. Perri Prinz commented that the tents in this virtual world tribute were a lot more colorful than those at the actual event, for those who brought tents at all, commenting many of those attending brought only sleeping bags. Shockwave Yareach asked for, and received, permission to set up a coin-finding game to help entertain those at the event.

The official entrance to the Relaystock is at Relay dAlliez (11/9/22), with the Sunbeamer camp at Relay dAlliez (125/64/22). The schedule for the music events can be found (here).

Bixyl Shuftan

Announcement: Relaystock Schecule

Saturday May 21


•8am        Spirit of Sherwood Forest  - Performer / DJ TBA
•9:30am    Harmony of Hope - Performer / DJ TBA
•11am       Cybernuts - Performer / DJ TBA
•12:30pm   Aether Chrononauts / Tiny Steps - Manfred Hancroft
•2pm         Friends For A Cure - Performer / DJ TBA
•3:30pm     Rock Candi - Performer / DJ TBA
•5pm         Relay Rockers -  DJ / Singer TBA
*6pm        Suzen Juel Resistance ( Live)
*7pm          Goreans - Performer / DJ TBA



Sunday May 22th


•8am        Sail For Life  - Performer / DJ TBA
•9:30am    Feed Your Soul, Find A Cure  -  Catalysis
•11am       Circle of Life- Performer / DJ TBA
•12:30pm   Dreamin in Purple s - Performer / DJ TBA
•2pm         Too Tough To Die  - Performer / DJ TBA
•3:30pm     Relay Rap
•5pm         Relay Rockers - Trader1 Whiplash

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Relay%20dAlliez/11/9/22

Press Release: Relaystock

The Relay Rockers invite everyone to join them on May 17 and 18th for Relaystock, a multi team Relay For Life of Second Life event open to the first 60 teams to apply.

The event will feature 'Team Sites' around a 60s style festival stage.

Teams have been invited to bring Kiosks and Vendors, host 2 hour DJ segments on the stage and participate in one the most popular events this year, the Rocker's 2014 Celebrate Remember Fight Back Top DJ Competition.

"We have been fortunate to have participants from many teams in the CRFB Event" said Rockers Co-Founder Trader Whiplash. "RelayStock is our way of saying thank you for the huge support across the grid for our event.  It  affords every team the opportunity to share in a super fund raising event."

Nuala Maracas added, "This is just another example of the One Team concept in Relay. It doesn’t matter who's kiosk or vendor the donations land in, after all we are all on the same team in the end."

The event will be held at Relay dAlliez.  Relay dAlliez is dedicated to the memory of Alliez Mysterio, who founded the Relay Rockers team in 2005, with Trader and Nuala. Alliez was lost to breast cancer this past fall.  The sim has been available to any team for events at no cost,  a 10th anniversary gift to Relay from the Relay Rockers in honor of their own 10th Anniversary.

The Schedule:

Saturday May 17
8am Holocluck Henly  - Team Heart & Souls
10am DJRedRyder - Team Tiki Photography For Life
12noon  Nuala Maracas
1pm CRFB Semi Finals - Jay Sparrowtree
2pm CRFB Semi Finals - Dee Wolfe
3pm  CRFB SemiFinals - Chevelley Silentghost
4pm CRFB SemiFinals - Jordan Morgenrote
515 - DJ TBA - Team Sweet Magnolia's
7pm Fizban Underwood - Team Shadow

Sunday May 18th
8am Johannes 1977 - Team Tribute City Relayers
10am WolfTruheart - Sink the DJ - Team Unmasking A Cure
12 Trader Whiplash
1pm CRFB FINALIST #2
3PM CRFB FINALIST #1
5PM CRFB AWARD CEREMONY
515PM Trader Whiplash - BRING YOUR OWN KIOSK - ALL TEAMS

For More Information Contact Ariel Stormcrow, Relay Rockers Captain, CRFB Director
ariel@relayrockers.t1radio.com

Relay dAlliez (10, 9, 21)

Cartoon of the Day

By Bixyl Shuftan

Pip's Acid Trip

The psychedelic 60’s can be found at the latest rotating installation on the Syzygy community. “Welcome to Pip’s Acid Trip: An Ode to Olo!” begins at the Community Center on Syzygy Eos (15, 10, 76). Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks created the installation and named it in honor of resident Olorin Tigerpaw.

The build consists of three levels, all wildly reminiscent of that groovy era of peace and love. The first level is easily reached from a teleporter in the Community Center. You will be transported into a meadow of happy, smiling flowers. Explore this magical, vegetative matter until you fall into the secret passage that leads to the second level, a psychedelic sphere of color and grooviness.

As you explore this sphere, you will fall into the third level, which was the site a wild party on July 23. Frequency Picnic served as DJ, and over a dozen residents and friends of the Syzygy community danced and told tales of that bygone time. Dance cages, fantastic flowers and even an old VW van set the scene.

Some residents claimed to have had first-hand knowledge of those times. Olorin Tigerpaw lived on a hippie commune for a while. The best event was recounted by Crescent Renard, who told about seeing Jimi Hendrix play at UCLA. She and her friends were right up by the stage. “He was ... taking joints from, or giving them to, the audience,” she remembered, “and he was playing like crazy ... guitar behind his back, everywhere.” Other residents were suspiciously silent about any memories they might have made. But for the duration of the party, at least, everyone was a flower child.

This resident installation is temporary, so visit it soon. The music has ended, but the colors and lights are fantastic. Enjoy the trip!

Grey Lupindo