How far along are large-scale music festivals in going green?
I think the reason Reverb hasn’t done too much on the festival side is because there are a lot of festivals out there already doing a good job out there. I think festivals are a great place to showcase greening efforts and elements, because people are there for multiple days, and you can take greening a lot further because you’re in a stationary place. I don’t claim to know exactly what every festival is doing. But having played Bonnaroo (Manchester, Tenn.), I was impressed with their outreach at Planet Roo. Guster has also played Austin City Limits (Austin, Texas). Have you worked with bands that have taken a DIY approach to greening a tour? Hot Buttered Rum converted the diesel engine of their van to run on straight vegetable oil, so they go around getting a bunch of grease from restaurants that would normally be thrown away. They basically go dumpster-diving in various Chinese restaurants around the country and fill up their van. The gas mileage is the same as diesel. For smaller ba
