10-04-2009, 12:19 AM
My daughter and her boyfriend came down from Arcata to see the Fri, Sat, and Sun shows. So my son and I went up on Sat. morning to meet them. The weather was beautiful, but got seriously windy and cold in the late afternoon. We caught a few Jorma songs, but we couldn't see the stage and it wasn't my son's cup of tea, so we went to get lunch. Then we tried to connect with my daughter at the stage with Steve Martin and his band and got stuck in a crowd of moving people. There's a song by They Might Be Giants called "Women and Men" that has the line:
Soon the stream of people gets wider
Then it becomes a river
River becomes an ocean carrying ships that bear
Women and men...
Anyway, it felt like a slow moving river of people and we could hardly get out of it. We could hear Steve Martin, but we couldn't see the stage. In fact, when we got farther away, and higher, we could hear much better.
Then we went to the stage for Nick Lowe. Saw a few songs from his set (again, not my son's cup of tea). Then we went back the previous stage to see Gillian Welch and tried to hook up with my daughter. It was packed, but we pushed all the way up to the front, but we were on the wrong side of the stage from them, and security was a little uptight, so we hung out to the side of the stage where there was a little elbow room. We could hear great, and at that side of the stage I could see the back of Emmylou Harris' head about 20' from where I was standing. She came up and sang a couple songs with them, as did Old Crow Medicine Show. The wind was crazy, you could hear it blowing in the mics, but they did great. Played a couple songs from O Brother, but mostly stuff from Gillian's last album "Soul Journey" which is about 5 years old now. They did say that David Rawlings has recorded his first solo album and it should be out in about a month. Great news. He's an awesome guitar player.
After that, we hoofed it back to the car, got out of Dodge, and had food at a Taqueria in Daly City, dropped my daughter and her BF off at their friends', and made the trek back to Santa Cruz.
All in all, a nice day...
--tg
Soon the stream of people gets wider
Then it becomes a river
River becomes an ocean carrying ships that bear
Women and men...
Anyway, it felt like a slow moving river of people and we could hardly get out of it. We could hear Steve Martin, but we couldn't see the stage. In fact, when we got farther away, and higher, we could hear much better.
Then we went to the stage for Nick Lowe. Saw a few songs from his set (again, not my son's cup of tea). Then we went back the previous stage to see Gillian Welch and tried to hook up with my daughter. It was packed, but we pushed all the way up to the front, but we were on the wrong side of the stage from them, and security was a little uptight, so we hung out to the side of the stage where there was a little elbow room. We could hear great, and at that side of the stage I could see the back of Emmylou Harris' head about 20' from where I was standing. She came up and sang a couple songs with them, as did Old Crow Medicine Show. The wind was crazy, you could hear it blowing in the mics, but they did great. Played a couple songs from O Brother, but mostly stuff from Gillian's last album "Soul Journey" which is about 5 years old now. They did say that David Rawlings has recorded his first solo album and it should be out in about a month. Great news. He's an awesome guitar player.
After that, we hoofed it back to the car, got out of Dodge, and had food at a Taqueria in Daly City, dropped my daughter and her BF off at their friends', and made the trek back to Santa Cruz.
All in all, a nice day...
--tg