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So Bumbershoot up until about 8:30 kind of sucked. I mean, it was fun hanging out with Robin, Josh, Marryq;y, and Victor briefly and I ran into some people I knew from Nova and Washington Middle School, but it was raining and there were all too many people there, and I wasn't in the mood to stand in the crowd so the Hip-Hop show was rather dull.
I saw Pretty Girls Make Graves, but I was too tired to enjoy them properly. They sounded good, but I ended up sitting down and playing Tetris the whole time.
I caught twenty minutes of Billy Preston, though, and that's where things started to get awesome. He was really excellent and I didn't feel so much like collapsing whilst he was playing. Really good audience interaction and he did excellent covers.
Elvis Costello was really great, which is kind of impressive to me since, not being a huge fan prior to after tonight, he played two songs I knew ("Alison" and a cover of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"). But I really liked him. At the start of the set I was on the outskirts of the crowd, but using my strategy of patiently waiting for openings to present themselves instead of pushing my way in like a jerk, I made it past the halfway point and got a pretty clear view of him by the end. Plus there was this awesome stretch where he was just talking about the hurricane and unlike everybody else this weekend he had more to say than "This really really sucks, please donate money." I mean, it's true and you should (my mother donated a hundred dollars today), but it's nice to hear someone really, y'know, say something. The best part of it was a more humorous quote, though. Read it and weep...
"Well, you know, Larry, New Orleans is the Venice, Italy of the world." ~ Richard Simmons on Larry King Live
Thanks, Richard. Very deep.
I might be going to see Flogging Molly/Iggy and the Stooges tonight. I'm not sure yet, it depends on some things.
I saw Pretty Girls Make Graves, but I was too tired to enjoy them properly. They sounded good, but I ended up sitting down and playing Tetris the whole time.
I caught twenty minutes of Billy Preston, though, and that's where things started to get awesome. He was really excellent and I didn't feel so much like collapsing whilst he was playing. Really good audience interaction and he did excellent covers.
Elvis Costello was really great, which is kind of impressive to me since, not being a huge fan prior to after tonight, he played two songs I knew ("Alison" and a cover of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"). But I really liked him. At the start of the set I was on the outskirts of the crowd, but using my strategy of patiently waiting for openings to present themselves instead of pushing my way in like a jerk, I made it past the halfway point and got a pretty clear view of him by the end. Plus there was this awesome stretch where he was just talking about the hurricane and unlike everybody else this weekend he had more to say than "This really really sucks, please donate money." I mean, it's true and you should (my mother donated a hundred dollars today), but it's nice to hear someone really, y'know, say something. The best part of it was a more humorous quote, though. Read it and weep...
"Well, you know, Larry, New Orleans is the Venice, Italy of the world." ~ Richard Simmons on Larry King Live
Thanks, Richard. Very deep.
I might be going to see Flogging Molly/Iggy and the Stooges tonight. I'm not sure yet, it depends on some things.
