Outside Lands Fest Photos

Stanton Moore of Galactic; Mike Gordon


Zach Gill of ALO (who also rocked with JJ later that night)


Les Claypool brought in the astronauts for this 'homecoming show'.


Ben Harper rips the lap steel


RadioHead opens things up Friday night.

The CrowdFire / Microsoft tent (aka meeting spot)

Outside Lands Festival

Stellar weekend at the Outside Lands Festival this past weekend in Golden Gate Park. Thanks to my aunt, Kerri and I were able to escape to San Fran for a 4-day weekend in wine and music paradise. We were able to meet up with friends from near and far.

Highlights at OSL included Widespread Panic, ALO, Grace Potter. Quote of the weekend courtesy of Primus' Les Claypool - "San Fran, we're gonna knock some dust off the classics since many of them were written right down the street from here."

Claypool's quote made me think, where were all of the classic San Fran bands this past weekend? Where were members of the Grateful Dead? Where was Santana? Where were those that helped create the origianl SF music scene? They were truly missed and made me ultimately feel that this thing was too far down the path of $$ versus true roots of music and celebration.

Other criticisms include the fact that after 3 days of music, a very short half day on Friday (for the same price of Saturday and Sunday) felt like a ripoff. It was great to check Radiohead off the list, but they aren't really on my musical taste radar. Nevermind the fact that I spent 45 minutes waiting in a line for a beer missing the entire Beck set, Friday sure was a money grab.

Photo courtesy of Scherer. Taking in ALO as the first band of the day Sunday.

Angels in the Outfield

Long overdue adventure to Angels Stadium last weekend. Keller and his baseball team had the luxury of going on the field before the game. This was the first game where I actually witnessed the boys (Keller, Carter and Cam) actually attempting to understand the game that was going before them. Scheduled to go to a game July 4th week as well.

Jazz Fest - Day One

Jazz Fest Late Night Shows

Scherer scored several photo passes courtesy of Jambase...some of the treats include these - Robert Walters (with Bucky and I serving cameo) on the Creole River Queen; Galactic 3:30 a.m. home at Tipps; and Warren Haynes with Bela Fleck serving as one of the many sit-ins that night.

Special thanks to Jason Colton at Red Light for the Gov't Mule set-up.

More SB Weekend Pics

Manning Avoids Sack!

Here is the video I took of Eli Manning's unbelievable scramble which was eventually caught by David Tyree. Unfortunately, the excitement of the moment caused me to take my finger off of the button (damn camera is broken), but in any case, here was my perspective.

Super Bowl Lives Up to the Hype!!

Wow - what a game. Although I didn't have any rooting interest in this game (next year Vikings!!), Rob and I were pulling for the Giants (sorry Pennell and Adrian E!). Although I am not a fan of this stadium due to history (41-14 ouch), it is a beautiful place to watch a football game. Tom Petty rocked the house. It was amazing to see how they pull off all of the 'during commercial' break madness to pull off such a production. He played 4 rocking classics and it was the first time I was ever able to see him live.

I don't like to sit still often, so we stood most of the game. Dad and Brian had the 15 yard line seats. Rob and I were up there in the nose bleeds - but it didn't matter. As you can see with some of the photos, the entire game unfolded in front of me. The middle photo is an actual completion by Brady to Welker that set-up there short-lived go ahead touchdown in the 4th.

The kicker was that immediately following the end of the game, we had to bolt for the airport (I had to leave for Holland the next day). So although we didn't get to stick around for the post game speech or ticker tape, it was definitely one of the top experiences of my life. And to boot, the weekend itself was epic in so many ways!

Thanks to Matt Quinn (and Dan Clifford) for hooking up my old man and Brian with the Patriots Team party tickets. Unfortunately, they didn't attend as it didn't appear there would be much to celebrate. And again, dad, what a wonderful weekend. The SB tickets combined with everything else - wow.

Phoenix Open Sat & Sun of SB Weekend

All day Friday and all day Saturday Scherer, my dad and I took in the Phoenix Open. This place is nuts. It is a loud golf tournament. We didn't really move away from the 16th hole - 153 yard Par 3 that is literally enclosed in a stadium type atmosphere. It is called the 'Loudest Hole in Golf". The gallery actually boos players that don't hit the green. There is always a buzz at this hole - never, every quiet. I am not sure how these guys do it - except to try to just get out of there with par and move on. Again, my old man hooked us up with the primo tickets. Thanks dad.

Suns vs. Spurs Kicked Off SB Weekend

Dad hooked up Scherer and I, first night of the weekend, with 6th row tix to the Suns vs. Spurs game. The Suns were rolling all game, but Ginobli ate up the Suns in the 4th and they squeaked it out. It was the long awaited rematch of Horry coming into America West, but Horry never saw the floor. Pics courtesy of Scherer. My ole man took very good care of us during this epic weekend in Phoenix. Thanks dad.

Maxim Super Bowl Party

Thanks to Jessica M at Fingerprint, Scherer, Jen, Fred and I were able to take in the legendary Maxim party. We met up with the fellas from SIRIUS for some celeb watching and heavy drinking. The set-up was legendary with a pool and stage in the pool. As always, a first class operation by the crew behind Maxim's epic party planning committee. A shout out to Dan Parente who provided me my very first Maxim SB Party experience way back in Houston (and many others after that).

When we entered the check-in area, there was a surreal experience. There were five different lines to choose from when you arrived - VIPS, guests, sponsors, invited, and one other. In each line, there were about 10 people waiting, with the exception of the invited line. The invited line stretched 700 deep - and every one of those 700 were ladies 18-24 dressed in their Saturday night best. Unfortunately, we didn't get a photo of this, but needless to say, it was one of the craziest things I have ever seen and was just wishing that I had a buddy or two that was a bachelor with us that night. He would have had fun.

Celebs spotted by our crew: Nick Faldo, Ian Baker Finch, Larry David, P Diddy and at this point, 15 others I can't remember.