Just got home from a super tiny road trip - We did some work with Hall and Oates in Seattle and in Portland. Great crew, great band, great show.
Here are some images ...
Well I definately need to be catching up here - and I apologize for not being up-to-date, but I digress ...
Last weekend took me to Nashville TN. I went there to meet up with a bunch of folks from Roadie.Net, where I am a "Crew Chief" (moderator). I meet around 400 other roadies from around North America and had a great time on my short trip.
While I was there I went to the "Willie Nelson and Family General Store" where in the back was a small museum.
The Willie museum was very small and a bit campy, and the strangest thing I noticed was that almost every exhibit had money stuffed into it ... like "donations" as it were.
This is a close up of a model tourbus, note the sink is full of change.
And then there is the very strange picture of Waylon and Willie ...
Next door was "Cooter's Place" the home of "The Dukes of Hazzard"!
Yup ... that's the Gen. Lee
UPDATE: This just goes to prove that even I can not get good seats to even my own events :-)
H and I went to see INXS at Marymoor Park last night. This was a "moral event" for her group at work. For me - a free beer night! We also met up with some of my friends too!
It was a pretty good performance and I have to say that JD is turning into a good front man for the group of older gents. I kinda got annoyed when the "F" word start flying aropund freely, as it was clear that the crowd was very deverse and there were many families there - youth, what can I say.
As many of you know I am pretty free going, that is until I feel that I can do it better, then I start to get a little annoyed. Where we were sitting it sounded not so perfect, hell I walked up the mix position and it wasn't perfect there either ;-)
SO needless to say I thought it sounded like #$%@ or as I promised H, it sounded like "crap". The one thing that I can say - pretty much everyone there didn't know or care how it sounded. I could go on and on - but I won't.
The light show looked great!
- WTF? -
This is Sly Stone performing a "reunion" show on the Grammy's last night - He's 61 (or 65). The song was interesting, putting it mildly
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
I have to say that for a long time I have always watched the Grammy Awards on TV - Sometimes I crank up the awesome performances. This year I am not sure what was more memorable. I think this years, the 47th. was one of the best Grammy's in a long time. What does that mean? That means there is a ton of great music out there right now!
By far my favorite performance of the night - this girl is a class act.
These guys are the punks of our age - How can you not like these guys - they ROCK! Later while accepting a Grammy, Billie Joe Armstrong said, "Rock and roll can be dangerous and fun at the same time."
And this was another great performace - Melissa's eyes just sparkled during the whole song they performed (a smokin' tribute to Janis Joplin) ...and they kicked it!
And I got a good laugh out of Loretta and Jack accepting their Grammy, bless her heart for doing an album with Jack White - I wish I had a transcript of this acceptance speech!
All images from Grammy.Com
