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But enough about me,whatcha' all up to this weekend,fellow Bond nerds ?
Tommy and Greg were in fine fettle and on fine form.
As were the audience. In fact, so much so that a few of them were ejected by the police when the cinema staff called in the rozzers.
All in all, the most delirious - but also one of the most joyous - cinema experiences I've ever had. There's something to be said for shouting out criticism at a truly atrocious movie while you're watching it in the cinema - and while everybody else is doing the same. Very liberating; sort of cathartic. ;)
So what delights on non-delights are you up to this first weekend of October,peeps ?
Friends round for dinner on Saturday.
Aiming for a slightly boozy weekend if I'm honest.
And for the first time in my life I'm not particularly excited about Dr Who.
And BTW, NEXT Saturday is the El Cerrito Free Folk Festival that I help put on --"organize" is perhaps too formal a word --and I'll be playing there as well as running the show. (Rank does have its privilege, he said modestly.) Hope the Bay Area contingent can make a showing!
Well, another Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival has come & gone, and @Birdleson & I did not manage to run into each other. Not surprising, really, given the HUGE number of people in attendance, the number of stages and all the different acts to see.
I've been at HSB as much as possible during the last 16 years -- I missed the first 2 years when it was indeed Strictly Bluegrass -- and the memories come thick & fast. Years 2003 & 2004 were spent attending alongside the late & much beloved Mrs. SansEarmuffs, years after that were generally spent hobnobbing with various members of the San Francisco Bay Area folk music community. Notable acts I've seen over the years include (in no particular order) Richard Thompson, Randy Newman, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant with Allison Kraus, Marianne Faithful, Buffy St. Marie, Joan Baez, Merle Haggard with Kris Kristofferson, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, --oh man, it would take all night to list half of them, but I should at the very least mention Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris, who are both in attendance more regularly than I am!
This year's highlights -- from my perspective -- included the recording of a show for radio broadcast, NPR's "Live From Here" featuring Chris Thile with special guests Lindsey Buckingham and Hurray for the Riff Raff. Buckingham I was of course familiar with, not so H4TRR. The Riff Raff were pretty impressive, I'll be on the lookout for them in the future.
Here's one of Lindsey's offerings from this show:
You can also find plenty more offerings from various years of HSB on YouTube. Just look and ye shall find.
Oh, what else did I really like this year? Saturday, the set by Don Was & Friends included a guest appearance by Bob Weir; I'll bet @Birdleson was really stoked with that set! And personally, I just loved Graham Nash's set. In addition to plenty of CSNY goodies and a turn down Hollies lane, he performed a Beatles tune, "A Day In The Life" and did a really great job with it.
Today, Booker T's Stax Revue was the top spot to my tastes. I was also quite pleased with Nick Lowe's set with Los Straightjackets. I was a bit less than pleased with Roky Erickson's turn, as his musicians were mixed just too damn loud, and the sound bled over to the stage across the street, mixing with Emmylou Harris' attempt at a mellow a capella ballad at the same time. This is a problem that hardly ever occurs at HSB, and I wish it hadn't happened tonight.
Say, @Birdleson, did you catch the Moonalice set today? In addition to their usual Grateful Dead covers, they also performed a Beatles song of their own, with Pete Sears (late of Jefferson Starship) playing the piano and singing "Across the Universe."
So: I'll see anybody who can make it to SF next October at HSB 19. And next Saturday, as mentioned earlier, I'll be performing and doing whatever needs doing behind the scenes, at the El Cerrito Free Folk Festival. I knew the job was dangerous when I took it...
Thanks--it was unusually windy (every couple of years I go boating in the Delta in early October) but the trip went well. Georgiana Slough is very pretty but entirely a 5mph/no-wake zone, which left us no time for The Meadows.
Will you be able to carry those 500 books you will buy ?
Well even at 58 Jaz Coleman is more than a formidable presence, my first and hopefully not my last taste of Killing Joke live was indeed an experience. Jaz in his trademark boiler suit is the kind of presence you can't take your eyes off as he menacingly stomps around the stage whilst emitting that unmistakeable commanding voice of his.
Flanked by Geordie who sometimes it's hard to think is producing such an incredible sound from his guitar as he just looks so effortlessly cool and also Youth on Jaz's other side providing thunderous base as well as Paul Ferguson's explosive drumming.
Although someone not so familiar with their music although my Wife had played quite a bit, it seem to favour later material although when the classics came they didn't disappoint, a stomping version of 80's and as soon as Jaz mentioned we now must remember Paul Raven previous late bassist and the man behind that unmistakeable bass sound on arguably their most famous song, that the version of Love Like Blood that followed did the departed Raven proud.
With what was a rather politically charged set within the lyrics and of Jaz's banter it seemed more than appropiate with the current climate that they ended with an incendiary reading of Pandemonium.
Definitely not a night to forget and the only minus at times the sound from my Wife's and mines elevated position on the balcony seated (a possible reason) was at times muffled although not enough to detract from a truly memorable experience.
Also sorry no photo's I was too taken by the gig, I don't mind the odd one and have done in the past but I didn't at one point feel the need to take out my phone.
I wore my Casino Royale sweatshirt, which was much admired, and I got to hold a first edition of the book!!
Asking price: £50,000. I was very careful with it.
Wow!!! Just wow!!
Wow, that must have been fun! Wouldn't dare to hold a first edition myself; would no doubt accidentally drop it or something (I'm clumsy).
Which film?
Same director as RED, I see. That was an enjoyable film.