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.

All Access Pass at Rothbury

Scherer's photo work got picked up by a couple of outlets for his Rothbury fest photo work. My personal fav is Schools drillin' it.

Here http://tinyurl.com/5u428y and on Jambase here http://tinyurl.com/6pbv72. His best of the best at Rothbury are featured on his page here http://tinyurl.com/6fuebu.

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.

Proof That Pigs Can Fly

The giant pigs at the Roger Waters show in Irvine on my birthday....reminded me, subtly, of the mid-90s Pink Floyd show at the Horesehoe in Columbus, OH.....the pigs were a big part of the shows' first set closer back in Columbus - permanently etched in my memory.

Notice the political messages written on the pig.....there were plenty anti-Bush remarks painted on the pig.

Not too bad of a show, though our seats sucked. Joins other birthday shows that include Phish 95 (2nd set only thanks to Hylant) in Atlanta w/ Wedge, Antelope->Fluff 1st set closer that we missed, The Grateful Dead at Freedom Hall, and Althea w/ Hunter, two Widespread Panic shows (one at the Wiltern), as well as a few ekoostik Hookah shows.