The Original Carl at Rothbury

[N30NZ0MB13]

No, Carl is Carl Alm. I feel bad for that kid.

[blondieexx21]

he's still in those woods

[MrJas1991]

HAHAHAHA CARL! NOOOO!!!! COME BACK!

[miremay]

the search for carl started in 08'

[alexalynnx33]

I was at 10,000 lakes festival and there was the biggest trooper in a wheelchair that was dubbed Carl.

[drawde7]

Hell yeah. was at Rothbury 09 and i was in the forest when that started and i got everyone in our section of forest screamin fer carl. Its good to see the actual REAL carl.

[chronicdryeye]

Carl is when you are on every drug at the same time.

[TAMMpON]

I blazed with Carl again @ rothbury in 2009!

peaceouTy!

TAMMpON

[CollabOlabba]

they where looking for carl before that  it was for a car alarm

[mattmcegg]

Carl is the soul of the every-man Rothbury camper. Lost at times, but never forgotten.

[dshiznit713]

All I wanna know is where is Carl now?????????

[celticrealness]

Full of shit ... i my boy and I heard someone say where is my friend Carl and I yelled CARL... next thing i knew about 10 people yelled it too and then began the whole carl? thing ... so BAH!

[yarblockers]

Ya, the dude asked about Carl and a bunch of people started yelling Carl when you did because the whole Carl thing had already been started a long time ago. Don't think you are so special

[pr55dv]

I WAS THERE!!! (it was after crystal method)

I WAS THE GIRL THAT HAD EVERYBODY SIGN THE JOURNAL, CARL SIGNED IT!

AND I WAS THE GIRL THAT GOT EVERYONE UP FOR A GROUP PIC! I HAVE IT IF ANYONE WANTS ME TO SEND IT OUT .. .

<3

[nkane1421]

the situation with carl is a man lost his daughter and her name was carol. he told a mountiee about his missing daughter and the mountiee told everyone to start calling for Carol which later turned into Carl hahah Rothbury for life

[skate3333]

i still dont get this carl buisness. i was there and i heard people saying it but is it just an inside joke?

[pagonzalez1983]

oh man. there's nothing funny about a bad trip. you can't speak, you can't hear people, nothing is real. BUT, you can't remember shit so if people fuck with you, you have no recollection of it haha.

[midcityfiesta]

what the fuck are you talking about

[meyer320]

fuck the carl extravaganza weak sauce!!! Get over it I was there too!

[psychedelicbrian]

wow. pointing, laughing, and flashing lights at someone out of their mind on drugs is pretty fucking lame.

[stehunt1]

yea i couldnt agree more. When ur loosin it the last thing you need is everyone bringing attention to you. Its like pizza'ing when you are supposed to french fry, not gonna have a good time. And fuck all you people out there that do that kind of shit at fests, thats why i decided to stop going to them. Theres a million deutschbags that love fucking with you when your trippin balls, not fun at all.

[Masurao90]

i was there when this video was made its exactly as i remembered

[SysyphusX]

I was with friends last night at the Umphrey's McGee show @ the Blender Theater. My friends randomly ran into people from Rothbury and started talking about this Carl business. I gotta say this shit is funny.

[mrfish60035]

I was there when the carl chant started...do I get a free cookie????

[helterskelteror]

Carl has become a cult hero. People were chanting that shit not only at The Roth but Dunegrass and Blissfest.

[AtTheOtherEnd]

man, carl was everywhere

[alllthink]

hahaha this is pretty ridiclously funny...I am pretty sure I can hear my friend say 'I love you people' then again this is ridiclous...and too riciclous to understand.

[ThornBoyz2207]

CARL!!!!! Oh shit that was to funny. I didn't here it till in the lot after Phil. As we were all yelling some girl stopped me and said that Carl was a minister or some shit and had married her to this guy next to her and split. Fucking Rothbury what a crazy good time. And that storm. Tents and flippies flyin everwhere. Kids camped next to us were so tripped out I felt like I was trippin they had us laughin so hard.

[howlinmadmurphy7]

The guy who posted this is a total attention whore, tell all your friends that you were the guy who started this shit but the people that were at the festi know you're full of shit. Wow, most of the people that have posted refute your story but you still go on like you're the guy. You're just a tool. Who cares who started it.

[SummerCamp1]

I do believe the chants started before this video, but you guys all just found the most fucked up person you could, and dubbed him Carl. They were looking for him all weekend. Thanks for posting the video Anyway!! Good ass fuckin weekend.

[Stikkums]

I personally didn't hear anything about a Carl until this point. And I was in the Woods every night chilling.

It might not of been the exact 'birth' of Carl but it was definitely the point where it blew up.

What happened in this video literally went on for 45 more minutes to be hallowed through the woods.

[colecut]

before you ever even said "that's carl right there" you can clearly hear an entire forest of people shouting for carl....

nice try dude.

[chuckimusprime]

@Stikkums My friends (on a shit ton of molly) "found" (probably stole it) a bunch of ice cream, and they were wondering around handing it out to people, asking if anyone had seen carl. After about 45 mins, they got to sherwood, and my other incredibly drunken friend started yelling for carl. And thus, it began.

[SummerCamp1]

wow you people are all ate up!! hahaha!! Im serious though. I was at Rothbury and it was def the time of my life.

You jus gotta realize, people say really wierd shit at festivals and alot of times it catches. People were saying that shit all weeeknd so all of you probably think you were there the first time it happended. The truth is, we all were!!! iT was at the first ever Rothbury and hopefully we will hear some chants on the DVD. See Yall Soon. Peace, Love, and Happiness.

[camj256]

im really surprised there are so many people on here that were there when everything happened.

I was sitting right next to the huge lady with the opium..

You guys remember that kid who was completely out of it.. bobby i think. he was just yelling nonsense for at least an hour

[camj256]

by the way this video is taken about 4:45am... i have the same one on my phone. maybe i'll put it up.

[camj256]

by the way.. CARL IS A FUCKING WINNER!!!

king of the forest carl!

Carl for president!

[camj256]

sorry dude. im in this video. I was there smoking the opium with that huge crazy lady. She was talking about the same shit before that.. Apparently the previous night in the same spot some dudes were saying no one at the concert is named carl. so as a joke a bunch of people made a bet they could find carl before the other and then we all started screaming carl. the only carl i found was there entire time in the anonymous vegetable.

[Stikkums]

I suppose that makes sense. I saw that same lady the night afterwards too. All I know is that I pointed to that dude and started screaming Carl at him. I'll edit the story then.

His name isn't even Carl by the way, I never figured it out. He said his name was Winner Money.

Anyways that shit was still funny as fuck.

[camj256]

yeah, shes probably one of 10 or 15 people that actually started the carl thing. It would be great if someone found a way to contact her.

[howlinmadmurphy7]

I heard it first at Phil Lesh too, I'm not sure when it started(although it sounds like someone yelled for carl right after Dave came on stage if you listen to the recording) but I am sure the guy who posted this video is full of shit. Just wants to be "that guy" who started it, it is funny shit, who cares who started it.

[Stikkums]

This happened shortly after Dave. Well a few hours, it was on the way back from Crystal Method.

How am I full of shit when you have video evidence right here of Carl being born. Part of it also is showing people what Carl actually is.

[j4bullar]

We were looking for Carl at STS9/Umphreys and STS9 latenight in Chi town... no Carl to be found yet

PS Carl started way before Phil Lesh, Im pretty sure it was Friday night in Sherwood when I first heard it

[Stikkums]

Haha nice, on the way home we were in a Diner and a bunch of other Rothburians were too and I was like "...Carl" and they were like "CARL!".

[Stikkums]

The only reason he was screaming Carl is because he was looking for Carl.

The reason you think you started it is because it is a combination of you being drunk AND dumb.

Carl chants were going through the woods sonce the night after Dave.

[Stikkums]

Haha this is so wrong, we were screaming Carl LONG before Phil Lesh.

[uncgben]

Yes I heard the Carl chants on Friday after Primus

[jaykelley1127]

not just good times in the forest.... the best times.... cant wait till next year can anyone else?

[LarryBird2343]

That was probably that dudes best 'trip'

[fragglerocks]

I am Carl. The Carl.

[b18c1tcivic90]

Carl was being screamed since friday night, it was so sick hahah. most popular kid at rothbury! too bad that wasnt him. CARL!!!

[ahyatt28]

FINALLY....I understand the Carl thing now. Damn, I was so confused at the festy!

[mopedman75]

did i witness the beginning of carl on my walk through sherwood friday night?

[Drewphoriaaa]

The Carl myth definately started Friday night.

[mopedman75]

the first time i heard carl was friday night after widespread and before primus on my walk through sherwood forest. one girl was yelling for carl and then the whole woods joined in......crazy times in those woods

[thurmajh]

you guys are all wrong....carl started on sunday night after phil lesh. the forest was quiet as hell and some guy was standing standing still at the opening of the forest yelling for his friend carl. he was obviously cashed as hell, and me and my buddy laughed about it and started to immitate him. i know mass people think im lying but all you gotta do is ask yourself...."did i really start carl or know anything about it?" no, you didnt cuz i did

[tinfoilliz]

The carl joke is a drug reference for Molly.

A lot of people repeated the joke without knowing what it was about.

that woman actually had met that guy, who's name WAS carl...a hysterical coincidence.

[football1836]

I was at the Phil show and heard it... but the first time i heard it was on saturday night in a pumpkin at sherwood forest... thats when it started my friend.

[yonderstring]

That story is complete bullshit, I'm pretty sure the whole Carl thing started around the hill at Phil and Friends with someone yelling for Carl on the phone, we hadn't heard people screaming that before then but once it started it spread like a wildfire. Anyone else at the Phil show to back this?

[Stikkums]

I remember screaming it at Phil Lesh and like 200 people on the hill joining in (near the vendors in the back) but it started in the Sherwood the night before.

[Stikkums]

The night Dave played.

[yonderstring]

What day was this?

[Stikkums]

Dave Matthews afterparty

[tinfoilliz]

Your story is off as to why they were screaming carl, but thank god you got this video..I was in that pumpkin thing when this happened

[Stikkums]

I was pretty sure some lady was looking for a Carl so I said that was Carl and we started screaming.

Where were you sitting? Close to Carl? Where the guy was smoking Opium? Or the big circle on the other side of the Pole.

[four20theman]

WHERE THE HELL IS CARL??!!!

[goalie5382]

i hope he got to his car in time..i mean i heard carls car was getting towed

[JT4459]

Thats where carl was i couldnt find his ass any where

[Siegel151]

No way!  CARRLLLLLL!!!!

[mrfish60035]

hahah i was there! CARL?!?!?! CARL?!?!!:ARE U THERE SOME GOOD OL SPUHN FUN