Before stepping on stage and motivating thousands of Bonnaroo concertgoers to boogie down with his mish-mish oddities, Pittsburgh's Girl Talk, a.k.a. Gregg Gillis, stepped up to the plate at the MLB batting cage backstage with SPIN.com's William Goodman to determine who obtained the highest Bonnaroo ERA.

There were legends aplenty at Bonnaroo '07, from Bob Weir to Wayne Coyne to Ornette Coleman. But few garnered the adoration from the crowd that we saw around Mat Hoffman. The BMX legend hung out with Spin at Bonnaroo, interviewing bands and fans.

Last year, we met John Roderick of the Long Winters on the back of a golf cart that was speeding through the Bonnaroo campgrounds well past midnight, searching in vain for a late-night busking parade. Then, he was covering Bonnaroo for CMJ, and just about to release his band's excellent album, Putting the Days to Bed.

It might be shocking to those of you who've never been, but the hottest ticket at Bonnaroo, at least in the two years we've attended, is the comedy tent. From the moment the festival gates opened on Thursday, fans formed massive lines to catch sets from Lewis Black, David Cross, Flight of the Conchords, and Dave Attell, who stopped by for a chat on Sunday.

It's been a whirlwind year for Lily Allen, with the pendulum swinging wildly between American triumphs, career-making developments, and some tough failures.

The first time we met Cold War Kids, it was a really late night in New York City, in a really dark Lower East Side club. The whiskey had been flowing for hours by the time they unleashed their gospel-tinged nouveau blues and blew our minds. But playing at 1 P.M.

It was an unusually poignant and reverent Sunday (June 17) at Bonnaroo this year. As debaucherous and overwhelming as a festival weekend can be, the candor of a few of the day's acts recalled the simpler, earlier time where festival culture was born.

Ben Harper was a busy man at Bonnaroo. Besides his own Sunday set, Harper turned into a guitar hero during Friday night's SuperJam: Teaming with ?uestlove from the Roots and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Harper flexed some guitar muscle that was the talk of the festival on Saturday morning.

Unfortunately, my rock'n'roll vacation is drawing to a close, and by day four of Bonnaroo I am on the brink of exhaustion. However, things in Manchester didn't slow a bit, and after making the morning rounds, I jetted over to the Which Stage to kick back on a blanket and relax during the Wolfmother set. At least that was the plan. The band had another idea.

"The Bonnaroo bird sanctuary -- one, two, three, go," exclaimed Broken Social Scene songstress Feist as she took to the stage at This Tent on Sunday (June 17), prompting the audience to fill the room with whistling and chirping, just one of many invitations requiring crowd participation. Earlier in the concert, before performing "So Sorry," she had fans sounding like a church choir.