The birthday update . . . yes, it’s my birthday today and Rob tells me he can see some gray hairs today . . . I don’t believe him . . .
So, as you can see from yesterday’s report, we woke up, ate breakfast and headed to the Barn and Saloon stages. I found a place where the wireless was working and I could plug in to the electricity and settled in to do a few things on line – sadly, it took me nearly 3 hours! But, if you have to be doing some work and blogging, how much better can it get than doing it while drinking a Guinness and listening to music.
I was able to catch portions of:
Super American Happy Fun Good Time Jamband
Hunab
Green Lemon
Polydypsia
All while working. They were all great bands, Polydypsia and Green Lemon seemed the best to me as they had the most energy. I really enjoyed the long Particle-like jam at the end of Green Lemon’s set.
And of course, The Super American Happy Fun Good Time Jamband was just all of that. Tho I will never remember their name. Rob says his favorite band yesterday was Polydypsia, at least that was the band that impressed him the most.
After all that we checked out a little bit of Particle, but Galactic was calling to us from the Field Stage, so we had to go down there and finish listening to their set,
all the while being tortured by the bouncing crowd up at Particle . . .
it seemed so unfair to have two really good bands playing at the same time . . . and interestingly enough, there we met several groups of people from Madison. I was most impressed by the woman with the broken leg that got in a motorcyle accident less than a week ago . . . she was hardcore. I asked her why she was here as she was clearly in pain and she said “Well, I bought the ticket.” Made sense to us.
We listened to a little of Zappa Plays Zappa. I was never a Zappa fan, so it wasn’t too thrilled by it, but Rob definitely liked it. I think the only song I recognized was Joe’s Garage, but I wasn’t paying that much attention. We grabbed some food, did some shopping, walked back to the tent, dropped off all the electronics and headed back to festival grounds for Umphrey’s McGee.
We listened to most of Umphrey’s McGee and then walked back to the tent after a long day of drinking and sun. Tho I have to say, if I would have know that The Disco Biscuits were going to be so good, I would have convinced Rob to stay. They almost made me want to get up and start dancing right there in the tent, almost.
Oddest things we saw yesterday: Santa, the guy that’s been wearing the blue bunny ears for two days, the girl with the leopard tail, and the top two favorites were the guy I just can’t describe, he was in full white body paint and some weird mask like thing on his face, really, somethings you just have to see to believe. And my favorites, the teenage mutant ninja turtles that were wearing watermelons on their heads. I’m just sorry I wasn’t quick enough to get some pictures for you.
The cutest thing I saw . . .
or maybe this
This morning, Rob let me sleep until 11:00 . . .we ate a little lunch and wandered over to the camp of some friends we know from Madison. We hung out with Fee from Yokanizu Project and Cory from Northern Pines Band. They gave me some birthday tequila and a PBR to start the day out right. And we had some great entertainment from Cory playing the guitar with a little improvisation from the woman sitting next to him. Some of the best entertainment to date at the festival. However, we had to leave to go see Cosmic Railroad who at the moment are being drown out by Outformation. I liked Cosmic Railroad, and Baghdad Scuba Review will be playing at their festival coming up soon.
See here for Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10K Lakes reports.
