gentlemonkey

if you dig flicks at the Mayfair

and crave ass to mouth

you'll find the perfect home with AD

in Old Ottawa South

be safely secure

and live within your means?

why not shack up with Sloth

at his home in Orleans?

on pillows of satin

your tired head shall lay

most likely in a burrough

of ye olde Vanier

I honestly think you'll enjoy living anywhere-even more certainly, if you adopt the makeup and facial expressions of your avatar.

sorry for your loss !

captain bringdown to the rescue!

...as an aside to this fascinating discussion. :offline:

I think Captain Bringdown would be an awesome character to develop. Mind if I work on some sketches Phorbesie?

oh yeah- and Roger Hodgson was awesome.

AAaaaand, I found the Flaming Lips show to be a little dissapointing- Musically speaking, and compared to the last couple of times I've seen them. I did enjoy it- I just missed hearing a few tunes I considered to be standards.

At the outset, I felt like the lineup was a little wacky. Kind of a mish-mash of stuff i used to like, or wasn't really listening to currently, but with some bands i hadn't seen- or hadn't seen in a while. The lowered expectations coupled with amazing mainstage preformances made this one of my favourite Festivals yet.

Highlights:

-Arcade Fire, they deserve all their attention- seeing a group so inspired to preform their material can't help but give you goosebumps.

-Furthur, beautiful night with great friends, awesome setlist and playing.. wheee

-Derek Trucks/Tedeschi - wow!! Hadn't heard the band going in, and was totally into this from start to finish. Oteil up close was a trrweat

-Weezer, kicked my ass. Awesome singalong

-Andrew Bird, amazing music and coolest rotating speaker I've ever seen.

-Levon/Rush- interesting 1-2 punch

-Bassekou kouyate & Ngoni Ba (awesome despite tent)

Lowlights:

-No proper Black Sheep/ Eff that tent- it felt like an awkward conference with smokey lights and too loud music

-Iron Maiden. Iron Meh.den.

-no king cans

-random fences blocking walkways

All n all a grreat time. Awesome to see everyone... and now to lose this 5 pounds of beer fat!! so soft.

Weird- I found that Ottawa Bluesfest had mostly non-existant security; from my non-criminal point of view. And I thought it was tremendously well-run.

Also Luke, I didn't want to upset you because you seemed so convinced at the show- but Steve Winwood was DEFINITELY never in REO Speedwagon.

Arcade Fire will probably go down as the most powerful/moving set of my festival experience- but holy shit was Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi's band out of control-awesome.

Not often you get to see players like that in Ottawa, let alone on such an intimate stage. Initially the crowd was overrun with lawnchair people, but by mid-set almost everyone was on their feet- I recognized only a couple tunes they played and I almost danced it was so good.

I think they may have been especially 'on' tonight judging by some of the smiles they exchanged....and how about Oteil's solo towards the end. good golly. :dazed:

i liked woodhands too

SWEET!! I love Islands.. def. try and catch some of that. Tonight is shaping up to be epic.

Islands>Old Crow>Alejandro Escovedo> Woodhands>Derek Truck/Konono 1

oh la la!!!

I'm sure there are stresses and stuff, but many writers would eat their favourite moleskine for the opportunity and access you have. PLUS you don't have to go to work 8-9 hours a day? Safe haven- Like a hotel?!? jeez man.

With your knowledge of music, handle on the English Language and tendency to get into the thick of a concert experience- this should be enjoyable as hell!!

take a nap and write it out!

Yes. And don't forget to dress for the weather!

Who's with me fellas...? Ladies?

See ya there!

I'd reccommend hooping your favourite beverage. Definitley worth it to save the money.

:chug:

Def. no cans around this time. But they are also not patting down. If you buy there- make sure your beer is cold before you walk away! I had some pretty warm organic last night.

Will Jay Cleary be one of the special guests?

I Saw it Again?!?! Love that tune.

I found the set fell a little bit short of 'bananas'... in fact- I thought it was pretty sleepy, disjointed and boring. I guess the highlight would've been the 'imagine' cover with vocalist Christina Train, but even that felt really drawn out. The Headhunters stuff was okay, but not really funky at all.

Apparently the night before was Herbie's birthday show at Carnegie Hall, so maybe thats why the set felt a little hung-over.

I also didn't realize the bronze pass worked for Frisell at the NAC, so I felt like an idiot missing one of my favourite guitarists.

Human Nature, fish on vox.

I'd be pretty impressed with either statement.

My dog has been dead for 2 years.

I could handle fishman on vox for 'human nature'

Black Sheep stage is tent'd? Hopefully you can still lounge on the hill and watch the band.

hmm. That waits tune is from 'rain dogs' eh? 'Look out Cleveland' is from the Brown Album.. It kind of seems like they are covering tunes from the other candidate records for the Halloween musical costume...

Phish is fun.

happy birthday capt'n awesome!