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Marley Brothers
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09-10-2024, 06:06 PM
@ Concord Pavillion
I calculated for a 2 hour ride from svale. Took me nearly 3. Feckin East bay traffuck. It’s Ziggy, Stephan, Damien, Ky-Mani & Julian. Got a taste of Damien & Stephan at CR this year and it was fiyah.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
09-10-2024, 09:29 PM
(09-10-2024, 06:06 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: @ Concord Pavillion I person I work with now (he's a manager way above me), lives in SoCal and commutes every week via air. He says it's a way better commute to the Apple factory than when he lived in Walnut Creek... --tg
09-11-2024, 12:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-11-2024, 01:16 AM by Drunk Monk.)
I beleive that. The east bay corridors are fuqqed. It took me less than an hour and a half to get back to svale. I can only conclude that my feckn liephone chose to take me through the most bumper-2-bumper traffic it could find. I swear I took like a third of the turns to get back here.
But it was worth it. Irie show. The venue is completely different from what I remember. Rm started doing it again about 8 years ago. I don't know how long we were away. I just remember working a few shows out there - a KMEL Jam where shots were fired and came close to an MCI - that must've been in the early 90s? I dunno. We were BLS only and a small crew (like a dozen?) I was paired with my friend Saira, who I joined at the Sports Page after Santana. She's like the #1 there. Sunny, the lead, was head2toe in responder gear (he's an instructor) nice guy. Basically let us hang out. When Saira introduced me to some of the nooBs, she said that I was 'art'. I feel so seen. She may be my next padawan. She cut out early because she's in firefighter training and has to get up in ... 3 hours for class. Our only call together was way out at the front gate (quite a walk from rm) and it was hot flashes basically. As soon as she left, I had an older woman who drank something for a stranger and felt sick. Almost got her to the tent then felt that tremble. I wasn't gloved because she agreed so quickly to coming back to rm. A security guy was on her left and I almost told her to 'turn left and puke' but he wasn't rm and didn't desrve that - he was helping me without being asked - so I quickly manuvered her to a garbage barrel and the flood gates opened. After that, she regained her composition after resting with us a bit, then left on her own accord. Then I had a bunch of ghost calls. The show is Bob Marley's greatest hits with the five brothers taking turns with each verse or chorus. A lot of sing-a-longs. Bass coulda been deeper but twas nuf. An irie show. I don't think Damien dropped Jamrock. First time I've seen him where he didn't drop that but it may have been when I was preoccupied with the puker. Most of the night I spent on stage left in the pit with a half dozen giant cops. They were taking videos (strictly forbidden by venue policy). I was covertly texting audial files to mi bredren & sistren & dawta just as a 'wish you were here'. Eventually Saira got one of the cops to airdrop her one of their vids. I had an amazing photo opportunity with a line of blue all taking vids on the cells, but what would I even do with such a photo? It was a rough morning with mutiple computer fails, a nice visit with my mom, then traffic for several hours. But the show made it all good. Glad I went. So… Ummm… Anything I miss on TV last night?
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09-11-2024, 07:38 AM
(09-11-2024, 12:53 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Ummm… Nope. Same ol, same ol. Best line in response to the night "Kamala must be a marxist the way she publicly owned that old man"
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
09-11-2024, 12:29 PM
(05-26-2024, 01:24 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Saturday In retrospect, this Cali Roots show was more fiyah. Last night was great, Bob Marley's greatest hits and I do so love Bob. But Stephen, Damien & YG totally slayed. That remains the best reggae of 2024.
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