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Most of my concert pics are on a different computer, but here's a pic:
In Denmark we came across the birth house of H.C. Andersen. In a park next to it a cast of characters was doing a musical version of his fairy tales.
Me and friends at a house party concert in State College in 1987. I'm the one standing up on the left. The band was named The Hipsters which didn't mean the same thing back then. They were a very left-wing Mennonite punk band.
slack! I love that Hoodoo Gurus button...so simple, but excellent!
My pals in Boston a couple weeks ago. In an attempt to make our border crossing simpler, we brought NO gear, so they had to play on entirely borrow gear. There was more tweaking and setting up that night than I've seen before with them. They aren't typically fancy, but...yeah, it was interesting for them!
The Swell Season, two nights ago at Britt in Jacksonville, OR. Hansard had noticed a group of pre-teen girls dancing in back, and invited them up to the stage to dance. They played "Into the Mystic." Really nice moment.
Another from that opening football game a couple years ago. The band pretty much marched up into my face and smushed me into the wall (it was more an attempt to intimidate the n00b freshmen than anything else).
My uncle Andy has developmental disabilities. This is the picture I love to use when I tell people about him (usually when I want them to shut the hell up about "retards").
And 70's danf has just made my day. That's just ten kinds of awesome.
Mine:
Gogol Bordello at the Granada Theater in Dallas, March 2008. I'm headed to St. Louis in a couple of weeks to see them again, and really looking forward to it.
Billy Fucking Bragg at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 2006, playing Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"
Dr Evermor bird, part of the band section of his yard. One of the best parts about this section is that kids come up and play with the chimes and the wind blows through some of the sculptures, so it really is a band making music.
thanks y'all for getting this up! and sorry for being such a slacker; it's been a rough coupla weeks & I haven't been online much. This is an awesome theme and y'all rock.
Hey MGL, have you ever seen The Reigning Sound and/or Greg Cartwright? My partner recorded with him back when Greg lived in Memphis, and then he moved to Asheville and basically reinvented his band.
It sounds pretty much the same because he's still the frontman (it's always been a bunch of engineers/producers getting together), but now the keyboard guy is this dude with the world's most flamboyant combover. I mean, the band is great and all, but that combover (far right) is really something :)
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It was impossible to capture these ballroom dancers in a park in Berlin because they were so fast, his pants were so orange, and it was so dark. A magical evening!
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Our Polish songbook! Camp songs, love songs, Scout songs, songs from way way way in the past, songs from just way in the past. Worked my vocal cords, and my Polish speed-reading ability, with this fabulous book over a long weekend with friends this year! And how great is the Poland-shaped drum?!
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Amadou & Mariam, Lyon, France. Flew for ONE night to see them, all the way from my little corner of Poland. Crazy fun - and a 90-minute encore!
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Interpol singing "The Lighthouse", Berlin, November 2007. My first European concert!
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Elvis comeback, Olsztyn, Poland, May 2009. Didn't make it to this one, just got the completely bodacious poster.
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Gogol Bordello, Berlin, May 2010! Fun fun fun fun show! Went to the show with two Gogol neophytes and one other hard-core fan - everyone sweaty and dancing at the end!
Mine are all grainy mobile phone pics, but here goes:
The Wildhearts at the Astoria. I adore that group and I think it was the last show I saw at the Astoria before it was bulldozed. It was the best venue in London.
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