Better than Dinner and a Movie
Aug. 9th, 2006 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianI had an excellent lunch today...
First off, a very satisfying Ripper Burger cooked medium, with bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and onions and topped with some A-1; fries with Guldon's Spicy Brown Mustard to dip into; a pickle on the side *and* a diet Coke - all for about half of what Monday's meal was, even though I left a 30% tip today. Of course, this was also including waitress service, air conditioning, with entertainment provided by the local classic rock station and CNN - so not quite so Musikfest-y.
But, see, here is the brilliant part of the plan: I went to lunch early. And we're taking two hour lunches this week, with one and a quarter hours counted as team meetings. Much more productive than usual.
So I walked over to the fish and chips-less Leiderplatz to watch and listen to Vance Gilbert.
Michael Hedges came to mind, sort of. Better vocals actually, although I've never heard anyone come close to Michael on the guitar. Vance was excellent - without a doubt the best guitar player I've seen at Musikfest over the past decade or so.
His cover of Castles Made of Sand was better, IMO, than Jimi's original - and that's one of my favorite Hendrix tunes. The music was mixed in with a bit of fun at the expense of Godfrey Daniels and WDIY (the folks who paid him,) folk music, politics, the lady in the bus who idled behind the stage for a while so he couldn't hear anything, and a number of other things. I had tears in my eyes through most of it, and I can definitely see him doing well opening for George Carlin. Which, coincidentally, is what he's doing.
He ended with a song performed "Acapulco" - which means he dropped his guitar on the stage, made a comment about getting plenty of free Martin Guitars because they're nearby, and walked out into the audience. He stood in front, pointing out several friends after pointing out how embarrassed they'd get if he did that, and proceeded to sing, without a mic, a song to them for putting him up when he's in town.
Now, I'm as much a fan of George Carlin as anyone, particularly all those e-mail circulated quotes that aren't actually his, the edgy stuff he's done in his role as the "Conductor" in the Thomas the Tank Engine program, and even the one book of his that I read, but, after seeing this performance, I'd be more inclined to shell out the big bucks to see Vance than George. (In all seriousness, he actually was the best Conductor, and if I have to be subjected to those videos/episodes/etcetera, all I can do is hope they're ones he was on... =)
Oh, and we'll find out at the end of the day, or maybe tomorrow, if I own a custom Martin with a Godfrey Daniels inlay on the fretboard. I only entered once, but one can hope...
First off, a very satisfying Ripper Burger cooked medium, with bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and onions and topped with some A-1; fries with Guldon's Spicy Brown Mustard to dip into; a pickle on the side *and* a diet Coke - all for about half of what Monday's meal was, even though I left a 30% tip today. Of course, this was also including waitress service, air conditioning, with entertainment provided by the local classic rock station and CNN - so not quite so Musikfest-y.
But, see, here is the brilliant part of the plan: I went to lunch early. And we're taking two hour lunches this week, with one and a quarter hours counted as team meetings. Much more productive than usual.
So I walked over to the fish and chips-less Leiderplatz to watch and listen to Vance Gilbert.
Michael Hedges came to mind, sort of. Better vocals actually, although I've never heard anyone come close to Michael on the guitar. Vance was excellent - without a doubt the best guitar player I've seen at Musikfest over the past decade or so.
His cover of Castles Made of Sand was better, IMO, than Jimi's original - and that's one of my favorite Hendrix tunes. The music was mixed in with a bit of fun at the expense of Godfrey Daniels and WDIY (the folks who paid him,) folk music, politics, the lady in the bus who idled behind the stage for a while so he couldn't hear anything, and a number of other things. I had tears in my eyes through most of it, and I can definitely see him doing well opening for George Carlin. Which, coincidentally, is what he's doing.
He ended with a song performed "Acapulco" - which means he dropped his guitar on the stage, made a comment about getting plenty of free Martin Guitars because they're nearby, and walked out into the audience. He stood in front, pointing out several friends after pointing out how embarrassed they'd get if he did that, and proceeded to sing, without a mic, a song to them for putting him up when he's in town.
Now, I'm as much a fan of George Carlin as anyone, particularly all those e-mail circulated quotes that aren't actually his, the edgy stuff he's done in his role as the "Conductor" in the Thomas the Tank Engine program, and even the one book of his that I read, but, after seeing this performance, I'd be more inclined to shell out the big bucks to see Vance than George. (In all seriousness, he actually was the best Conductor, and if I have to be subjected to those videos/episodes/etcetera, all I can do is hope they're ones he was on... =)
Oh, and we'll find out at the end of the day, or maybe tomorrow, if I own a custom Martin with a Godfrey Daniels inlay on the fretboard. I only entered once, but one can hope...
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Date: 2006-08-09 06:45 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2006-08-09 07:04 pm (UTC)I'm glad Brandon is hooked on the Fraggle Rock stuff - I love to watch that as much as he does. Almost. =)
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Date: 2006-08-09 08:30 pm (UTC)What is actually the case is that for some time every day, our son gets to have some children's program with singing and dancing on in the background, and he treats it like radio - he pays attention perhaps 10 minutes out of every hour, during which time he dances along, the rest of the time it's simply comfort noise.
In the evenings, mommy and daddy put something entertaining for us on. Since we've a penchant for action movies of a certain type, our son now does quite a passable 'shambling zombie' impersonation, except for the maniacal giggles that he erupts into every 30 seconds or so.
Yes, our son thinks that "Shaun of the Dead" and "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" are musicals. Well, there's music, and people move funny, and mommy and daddy make much of him when he mimics the funny moves, so I suppose for him they are.
Oh, lordy. I'm raising a child with George Carlin as an intentional role model, and Shaun and Alice as unintentional ones. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
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Date: 2006-08-09 08:39 pm (UTC)These days, he's noodling around with Davey Jones Theme...
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Date: 2006-08-09 07:31 pm (UTC)