Thursday
Oct052006
this is my blog post
Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 01:34AM
I just got back from playing a show with my friend Emily Deloach. I played electric guitar through my weird Baldwin amp that I got on ebay for a hundred and forty bucks last year. One of my favorites. Last piece of gear I bought, methinks... Anyway, had fun. Todd played drums and I stood right next to him. We didn't have monitors back by us so I have no idea if the rest of the band was with us, but we had a good time.
My sister-in-law Sarah is a nursing student and she and Clay, Alison's brother, came to the show with me. On the way she told me about her week. She saw them open some dude's head and do brain surgery and then saw them "harvest" a dead guy's organs for transplants.
How boring does that make your week look?
Yeah, me too.
Well, I told you I'd show some photos from this weekend and I've got a few now, so here we go...
(again, captions UNDER the photos)
Cliff and I "rocking" in West Virginia.
Again, a reminder to those of you thinking about telling Jane Austen jokes in West Virginia...
DON'T.
The rest of the band sharing the well and obviously ignoring my wonderful visual contributions to this song.
After the show in W.V. we all headed over to "the IceHouse" where I played a little set. It was a weird, small, round building and from where I stood I could look down and see the floor below me up to see the floor above. Very fun. I'm just going to go ahead and assume that this song I'm playing here was awesome.
Danielle and I singing Ghost by the Indigo Girls, which I learned in high school because I wanted a girl to like me, but once we sang it in a talent show she went to prom with somebody else. I assume Danielle went to prom with Cliff. He must have learned a BUNCH of Indigo Girls songs...
Here, though, Cliff is singing Sarala with me for our sound guy, Mark, who could finally hear our voices.
Me, with my new Canadian/Kentuckian friends (who took these pictures)
Speaking of the Indigo Girls, here's Todd and Garett with Matt Chamberlain, who was playing drums with them. You may not know his name, but he played on just about every song on the radio for the last ten years and we were all sort of awe-struck to be hanging out with him.
And last, but not least, here's Cliff and Danielle with the off-purple ladies themselves. Did I mention that christian bands and lesbian-folk bands together at a festival make for a very interesting crowd? At one point in the evening I thought my Y chromosome was going to get me lynched, but the show was fantastic and I enjoyed them a lot more than I thought I would.
All right, we taped LOST and now we're going to stay up WAY past midnight to watch it, because we're crazy!! Hope you're all well in cyber-land and I'll post again tomorrow.
I want a cookie.
My sister-in-law Sarah is a nursing student and she and Clay, Alison's brother, came to the show with me. On the way she told me about her week. She saw them open some dude's head and do brain surgery and then saw them "harvest" a dead guy's organs for transplants.
How boring does that make your week look?
Yeah, me too.
Well, I told you I'd show some photos from this weekend and I've got a few now, so here we go...
(again, captions UNDER the photos)
Cliff and I "rocking" in West Virginia.
Again, a reminder to those of you thinking about telling Jane Austen jokes in West Virginia...
DON'T.
The rest of the band sharing the well and obviously ignoring my wonderful visual contributions to this song.
After the show in W.V. we all headed over to "the IceHouse" where I played a little set. It was a weird, small, round building and from where I stood I could look down and see the floor below me up to see the floor above. Very fun. I'm just going to go ahead and assume that this song I'm playing here was awesome.
Danielle and I singing Ghost by the Indigo Girls, which I learned in high school because I wanted a girl to like me, but once we sang it in a talent show she went to prom with somebody else. I assume Danielle went to prom with Cliff. He must have learned a BUNCH of Indigo Girls songs...
Here, though, Cliff is singing Sarala with me for our sound guy, Mark, who could finally hear our voices.
Me, with my new Canadian/Kentuckian friends (who took these pictures)
Speaking of the Indigo Girls, here's Todd and Garett with Matt Chamberlain, who was playing drums with them. You may not know his name, but he played on just about every song on the radio for the last ten years and we were all sort of awe-struck to be hanging out with him.
And last, but not least, here's Cliff and Danielle with the off-purple ladies themselves. Did I mention that christian bands and lesbian-folk bands together at a festival make for a very interesting crowd? At one point in the evening I thought my Y chromosome was going to get me lynched, but the show was fantastic and I enjoyed them a lot more than I thought I would.
All right, we taped LOST and now we're going to stay up WAY past midnight to watch it, because we're crazy!! Hope you're all well in cyber-land and I'll post again tomorrow.
I want a cookie.
Reader Comments (8)
Wow those photos with the indigo girls are envious (did i spell it ryt?)
Was that opening scene of LOST not fantastically mind-blowing? They're not wasting any time at all this season!
Please! You had Over the Rhine there to bridge the gap. ;)
[And I say that as a big OtR fan.]
Fun freaking stuff.
I remember about twelve years ago, going to an Indigo Girls concert and thinking it was weird that I was one of only a few guys in the audience. It took me a couple of minutes for it to sink in.
Um, those "Kentuckians," on the left there, the newlyweds? She's actually from West Virginia, and he's a transplanted Canuck, brother to one of those friendly Canadians. Just so you know!
Just wanted to let you know that, despite the Indigo Girls, Aimee Mann, Over the Rhine, Pierce Pettis, and Caedmon's being on the bill, you were the highlight of the show for at least one person: http://janely.blogspot.com/2006/10/carolina-hopefest-highlights-1.html
* bill's right: it was a sweet surprise that made it a memory and not just an event.