kaupmees wrote:
yes, you will always remember it.  I still vividly remember deciding not to go to my regular hole in the wall bar after a Clapton show over 25 years ago because it was so freaking crowded because Clapton stopped by there to wind down on stage after leaving the stadium.  I even had prior warning from the club - don't go anywhere but here tomorrow night. 

ScottFromWyoming wrote:



I didn't hose your post - it came that way. ha!  I fixed it.

I LOVE THAT SONG! sorry for yelling, but I do - I even screech it out loud no matter who's around. What an incredible experience that had to be.
lily & jimi, thanks. I thought maybe I was weird or something...

ScottFromWyoming wrote:
i prefer fun to beautiful anyway.

i'd hope most would, too.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Woohoo!

I was one of maybe ten people who came by, and decided not to spend the three to nine bucks cover charge to get in.  I'll always remember that moment.

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I didn't have my photo taken with them or get autographs, no. I did get some snaps of them onstage. I was going to try to write up a story but here's the basics:

After the festival was over, Robert Randolph and Ben Harper showed up at a local bar, and joined the house band for Bill Withers' "Use Me." A nice moment. Both are very nice guys, not too keen to talk to groupie types but enjoyed being in Wyoming and were happy to talk about that. Both very gracious, and quite reserved, even on stage in the bar. I was one of about 75 people there.



~~~ weird reply error...
anyway, that song is one of my alltime fav songs, too. love it. how cool was it live??

 lily34 wrote: 
It's Trace, yep. 

Live show wasn't as nuanced as the recordings, a lot of full metal racket. Fun but not beautiful. 

 lily34 wrote: 

It is, indeed.

Jimi_the_Saint wrote: looks like we're in good company with her, doesn't it?

to this day, trace is still one of my fav cds.

wait, it is trace, isn't it?

 kaupmees wrote:

I didn't have my photo taken with them or get autographs, no. I did get some snaps of them onstage. I was going to try to write up a story but here's the basics:

After the festival was over, Robert Randolph and Ben Harper showed up at a local bar, and joined the house band for Bill Withers' "Use Me." A nice moment. Both are very nice guys, not too keen to talk to groupie types but enjoyed being in Wyoming and were happy to talk about that. Both very gracious, and quite reserved, even on stage in the bar. I was one of about 75 people there. 

 zipper wrote: 
No.  You're not alone, my dear, sweet Zip.  I, too, prefer the SonVolt.  When the Church of Tupelo split, I followed Brother Farrar.  I shunned Brother Tweedy for many years, but I now count myself as part of his congregation as well (though he is still a poor man's Jay Farrar to me).

zipper wrote:
you're not alone.

ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Gimme some Son Volt, too, in your retelling and photo posting.  I prefer them to Wilco.  Am I the only soul who does, I wonder?

I'm loving how hyped you are about the show.  You needed it.

ScottFromWyoming wrote: i LOVE this shot. awesome.

 zipper wrote: 
I think it was just regular concert goers, but we'd been spoiled by the easy demeanor of the crowd up to that point. Even for Wilco there wasn't a lot of crushing idiocy. You could leave and come back to your spot in the front pretty easily.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Didja get his autograph or photo?

We saw a river otter after we went on our own way.  And a chipmunky thing.  And six free-range feral children at the ferry landing.

One amateur naturalist woman knew that the river otter was a beaver.  She told her children that as they plopped rocks into the river to get it to come back out of its hole.   And after she told them to stop throwing rocks, they kept plopping rocks into the river by the hole.  Needless to say, the otter did not make itself seen again.

Were the fratboys there for Ben or for the Crowes?  I could've cheerfully throttled an obtusely oblivious loud handful of them at Dave Alvin's first show after Chris Gaffney's passing.  Even strangers were urging me to tell them to shut up.  wtf?  I'm just one little woman.  Where do people come up with these crazy ideas?

anyway... y'all let me know who I should arm myself for when I finally see Ben.

 zipper wrote: 
You're talking to Mr. not-a-Ben-Harper-fan.

So I wasn't that impressed or into it.

Part of the lack of impression is due to our good seats/standing spots being overrun by a rather different crowd by the time Ben's performance was nearing.  The younger-drunker-fratboy-ey crowd was joining the older/biker crowd in moving up for good viewing of Ben and the Black Crowes, and pretty much displaced all the mellower and cooler better-mannered people that I thought had been around us earlier.  So we watched Ben from a good distance.  Like, halfway up a mountain.

 zipper wrote: 


We ran screaming from his fans, sat in the way back for his set. I feel kinda bad about it now seeing as how he's such a nice guy and all. I have a lot more photos to post and some stories will eventually follow... 

kaupmees wrote:

mornin', stinky.    pah, you don't stink!  and you give warm snuggly hugs.

So how was Ben Harper?  I'd love to see him.

OK, I have caught up on reading this topic.

Those are great pics, Scott!

Thanks to DHG and SFW for calling the Avett Brothers to my attention last year.

Mornin', Zip.

—the stinky hippy bearded guy