Monterey Jazz Festival

[Drunk Monk]

the Yeti is #2.

Alternatively: The Yeti is “The Shit”!

—tg

I was just planning to enjoy the rest of Sunday evening with my friends, savoring the scene. 

Here I should mention the food was lame. Saturday's lunch was veggies with a skewer of veggies. Wait, maybe that was Friday. Dinner was this weird califlower dish that at first glance looked like it was going to spring up, latch on to my face and inseert its eggs down my throat to burst out of my chest later. Sunday's lunch was nachos, which knowing me was funny. Dinner was make your own tacos, some tiny flour tortillas, salsa, and more of those damn roasted veggies. Fortunately there was plenty of good food to be had, although it was pricey.

Ben cajoled me into going halfsies on a southern fried platter of oysters, shrimp, and okra, plus fries. It was super delish. 

Then I waddled over to the garden stage to get blown away by Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East, a quintet lead by this vocalist inspired by bollywood, spagetti westerns and punjabi folk music. It was mind blowing. They built these insane sound sculptures that were almost heavy metal punk driven. I was with Ben and two others, and we were all shook to our cores. I tried to listen to some of tracks on spotify and they aren't even in the ballpark of what we heard that afternoon. Just astounding.