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Aquapalooza At Lake Martin – Best Pictures And Video
Aquapalooza 2009 at Lake Martin proved to be a huge success.
I will admit to some head scratching in the time leading up to the event. How would all those people be shuttled to boats? Would there be enough anchor room? Would there be enough police?
Russell Marine, Sea Ray, the Marine Police, and Alan Jackson all delivered on a great Lake Martin experience. It truly lived up to the hype of the biggest party ever on the water at Lake Martin.
Sure, the lines were long for the shuttle boats. Sure, there were hundreds of swimmers in the way if you were boating up and down the lanes. Towards the end of the afternoon you needed someone in the front of the boat to yell “Move!” Sure, traffic was congested when everyone left after the Alan Jackson show. But all in all, it was very well done, and very safe considering the huge numbers of people that showed up.
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Big Thanks To Lake Martin Dock Company
As I said above, Russell, Sea Ray, and Alan Jackson deserve a lot of credit. But I will submit that Lake Martin Dock Company should be right in there deserving some praise, for three reasons:
1. They worked (almost) round the clock for weeks setting up the intricate anchor system that literally kept the flotilla together. They also supplied much of the barges, marine equipment, and infra structure.
2. The Love Shack! – see the above pic. Larry Bain and Sharon Johnston had the most creative and festively decorated spot to watch the concert. They had an old covered floating dock that they transformed into a fun, shady party structure. The Love Shack was complete with plants, Smith & Hawken lounge furniture, a gas grill, and a port o potty (with shoji-esque modesty screening). It was a watermark for everyone at Aquapalooza, as in “go to the Love Shack, hang a right, and we’re the fourth boat on the right.”
3. Hospitality – Larry and Sharon and family were kind enough to have my wife and I on board for the day. It was so nice! We are in their debt.
The Music At Aquapalooza Lake Martin 2009
We had to leave before Alan Jackson played. We were sad to go but didn’t want to burn our kid sitters out.
I must say that my favorite act was Jypsi. They were a young band, were yankees, and looked like the B-52s mashed up with the White Stripes. Looks deceived. They played some mean, fast, crisp bluegrass. I was loving it. When they cut into Muleskinner’s Blues, I got chill bumps in the ninety degree weather. I think even my Kentucky buddies would have approved.
More Lake Martin Aquapalooza / Alan Jackson Pictures And Video
Professional:
At the risk of hurting Sea Ray’s feelings, I submit that the best professional pics of Aquapalooza were taken by Kenneth Boone. Kenneth (known around town as “Mr. Perfect”) is the newspaper baron in Alex City, and is one of the best photographers I have the pleasure of knowing. He has outstanding aerial photos, band pics, and the best collection of crowd photos that I have seen. See below for the link, sorry I can’t figure out how to embed the slide show:
Link to Kenneth Boone’s Lake Martin Aquapalooza Photo Album
Amateur:
There are tons of amateur photos of Aquapalooza on the web. More being added every day. The best collection of them that are outside of social networks are posted on Bruce Pate’s Lake Martin dot com.
Aquapalooza Lake Martin Video:
Here’s a quick link to the search results for Aquapalooza Lake Martin on Youtube
Also below here is my video from the Love Shack:
and also one that Palmer (you can hear her laughing at me) shot of me getting interviewed by CMT. My (dwindling list of) friends are already sick of hearing about it, and I am sure that I will not make the final edit, but here it goes:
By the way, if you still have not totally lost respect for me from that goofy interview,
and you are interested in Lake Martin waterfront real estate- please contact me. I would love to help you!
John,
All is forgiven. You are the true voice of Lake Martin real estate. I love your analysis, website, numbers and yes, the cheesy interview!
Keep up the good work, dude!
Zman
Thanks!!!! If you have any suggestions for future topics, please let me know!!! Let me hear from you more often!
this was the best event that we have ever been to at lake martin. Thank you all.
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Lake Martin sounds like a great place to live, I visited a while back
If this is a typical weekend in Lake Martin, I’m moving down there from D.C. How did the CMT guys react when they found out that you were a real estate agent instead of a roadie for Alan Jackson?
do yall have the party every year or just this year
Natasha- Sea Ray puts on lots of smaller concerts in the Aquapalooza series all year, at many different sites. But this year at Lake Martin, this was the “signature event” so they had big names and it was a full day thing. I guess they will announce the 2010 schedule soon.
2010 – Aquapalooza is coming back to Lake Martin on July 24, 2010. It won’t be the signature event, (that is on Lake Travis, TX) but it will be fun!! I highly recommend it!
[...] Martin has experienced two really big Aquapaloozas – the nationally promoted signature event in 2009 featuring Alan Jackson, and this pretty doggone big event in 2010 with John [...]