doobie bros/allman bros/the dead @ the gorge

so much fun and wow, what a venue. maddie, marissa and myself even contributed to someones "get home" fund by buying mixed drinks from them outside haha. but yea, pretty magnificent place.

pepper/pennywise

only enjoyed pepper but boy did i enjoy it. got in the mosh pit for a while, prob not the smartest thing for my leg but i made it out ok. they played nirvana - smells like teen spirit and one point and i thought there was going to be riot.

fall out boy

wamu theater sucks but was still a lot of fun. also a little weird that i actually felt old at this show.

the roots

sort of a disappointing concert actually, i dont know if the sound quality was terrible but i couldn't really hear any lyrics as it was so mumbled. but some dude did rip it up on a french horn which was awesome. and quest love was sick on drums.

leslie and the ly's

so yea this might have been the most fun i've had in a while and i've had A LOT of fun lately. this was also one of the weirder experiences i've had here haha. this sort of crazy act was brought to my attention by a friend amy and when she said she wanted to go i figured why not. it was a blast, she is the "slightly" overweight girl you see in the pictures below who writes raps about gem sweaters (which she collects), gold spandex pants, and well yea, mostly just that, oh and shooting zombies in the face? we talked to her sister a lil bit before the show and it turns out that she started doing this when she went to the SMFA which is right next to Northeastern. but yea, look at the pics and video below and maybe you'll understand why it was hysterical. very funny crowd too as you can imagine.

ratatat

we saw ratatat at showbox sodo and it was awesome, new favorite venue. will took an awesome pic with his iphone, its at the bottom.

blue scholars

this is a seattle hip hop duo that is one dj and one emcee. i dont need to say much more than these dudes are sick. they dont spend their time rappin about blunts, hoes, and guns and actually have good rhymes. pretty cool that a lot of it has to do with the north west and seattle too which makes it cool cause i already catch a lot of the things they mention in their lyrics. oh and at one point during the show, the dj just shut down his setup and came out with his iphone and was just jamming on it for a whole song, which is one of the pics below, it was ridiculously cool.

soooo eeeyyeaaa listen to them nowwww http://www.myspace.com/bluescholars 

iphone jam

everyone out for the end

donavon frankenreiter is a chill dude

saw donavon this past, past Tuesday, so like last week, yea i've been a little lazy with updating this. but yea basically when you talk about your chill dudes you're probably talkin about donavon. put on a sick show and even threw the mic into the crowd during "it don't matter" to let us sing and he closed with the band's - the weight which you can't really complain about it. long story short, go see donavon. dude even sells his autographed posters for just 10 bucks. chilllllll dude.

Matt Wertz

Saw matt wertz last night at triple door. Alternate routes opened up for them. It was a real solid show and of course matt was awesome. It was a little different because then venue was a dinner theatre so there wasn't much dancing but a different and new expierence that I guess I'm glad I can say I've done.

clinton fearon

went to see the reggae legend himself clinton fearon (http://www.clintonfearon.com/) with a bunch of people friday night down at nectar (same place i saw nappy roots). it was pretty awesome, met a couple good new people again. some real amazing dancers too in front of us hahaha

just got........

4 tickets to see the dead with the allman brothers and the doobie brothers at the gorge. sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

nappy roots, really im not kidding, i saw nappy roots

nah im serious dude, i saw nappy roots. haha and it was pretty sick. i noticed it in the morning and seeing as the tickets were 10 bucks and a few others said they would go, i figured why not. they played at an awesome venue called nectar, had a nice outdoor area too next to the stage. a couple good opening acts and overall a lot of fun. probably only my 2nd hip hop show? they were real good live and good at getting the crowd going. we were front and center so that was nice. the highlight of the show was without a doubt when they took about 5 or 10 minutes to pay tribute to artists whom has passed. they played biggie, aaliyah, tupac, another couple others and then it got crazy, after about 6 different rap artists they pulled out nirvana, smells like teen spirit, everyone went fuckin crazy, including me. everyone just started jumping and screaming the lyrics. they played almost the whole song and let me tell you, it was an expierence. you had nappy roots flowing to smells like teen spirit and the whole place losing their minds, real real cool. so yea i guess what im saying is..... see nappy roots if you get the chance? yea, that is what im saying. wow.

shim

so i think its about time i get back to updating this thing. last saturday, as in the 31st of january, i got to check out another awesome band at a bar called the tractor tavern. awesome rock band, presence on stage and the lead singer actually reminded me a lot of aerosmith. but yea they were real real good. can't wait to see them again in a few weeks hopefully. seattle is loaded with great bands and well..... i love it. check them out online, SHIM.

state radio show

went to see state radio last night with a kid named will who i met at my friend's party last friday. show was siiiiiick. the only thing that did suck was that we went a little late because we just figured that state radio was the headliner but it turned out they were opening for a band called rebelution. so we did miss about 20 minutes of state's set but it was still great. state radio put on a sweet show and the other band, rebelution ended up being really good. i would recommend that you check them out. they fall into the category of like south cali reggae rock with like sublime, long beach allstars, and slightly stoopid. and to make the show even better.... afterwards everyone was trying to talk to rebelution while chad from state radio (former lead singer of dispatch) was just chillin by himself. so i went over and got to talk to him for a little while which was real cool. you talk about your chill dudes.... you talk about chad. i got his autograph on one of his state radio banners too, then headed home.

royal bliss

so last night some new friends and i went to a bar called high dive to see a show. we went to see royal bliss, there was actually 4 bands playing but we showed up a little late on purpose so we caught some of the band on before them also. royal bliss was pretty decent. i didn't really know them at all but i wanted to see a show so i checked out different bands playing this weekend and thought they sounded pretty good. sorta modern rockish i would say. check em out here http://www.jambase.com/Artists/15337/Royal-Bliss 

experience music project

this place was awesome. jimi hendrix is my new favorite musician. just wish he was still around and it sucks to think that he should be. its a real shame.

guitar sculpture

"The guitars that Hendrix broke and set aflame were often painted with psychedelic poems and imagery, presented as ritual offerings to the power of music."

original 3 day ticket to woodstock - only $24!!!!

space needle peering over the emp

mt. rainier in the distance, its awesome and im going to climb that

first seattle weekend

after work on friday i came home and chilled for a bit after which i ended up being lame as i got real tired so i just stayed in and caught up on some sleep. woke up on saturday early enough to catch the end of the syracuse spanking of notre dame which was a nice thing to wake up to. i watched a little bit more bball and then decided to head downtown and see what that was all about. figured i would walk around a little bit and then find a sports bar to watch the pitt - louisville game. seattle's downtown is really quite cool. its very clean, people are great, and has a lot of nice shops and restaurants. all the types of stores that im into. i passed by a patagonia store but figured it was a good idea not to go into it as i didn't quite feel like spending 400 dollars right then. they've got a good bus system and also a monorail but every rips on it for some reason? the downtown is also right on the puget sound which is gorgeous and you can see the overwhelming silhouette of mt. rainier in the distance. i ended up walking into a restaurant bar called floyd's place which apparently is pretty well known for their bbq. the bartender here was awesome. if you don't know seattle has a huge micro brew community and collection of local beers, one of the biggest if not the biggest in the country. so he had me sample and try a bunch of local beers all of which were pretty damn great. mac and jacks african amber is probably my new favorite beer. but so anyways after talking to him for a while and watching most of the pitt - louisville game i mentioned to him that i was going to have to head home so i could catch the sabres game. to which he responded "well thats hockey right? you know we have the hockey package here?" jackpot. so needless to say i stayed and watched the game there. another great sabres win over my old city of raleigh which sucks. the game was fun, a guy by the name of quinn who was a cool dude had me teach him most of the rules of hockey and he definitely left as a new hockey fan and hopefully a sabres fan at that so thats good. so after a little while the bartenders changed and a hawaiian dude started working. after talking to him for awhile i mentioned that i was going to try and go to the pepper concert later that night and asked if he knew them because they are from the big island of hawaii. he started laughing and was like yea i know them, turns out he went to highschool with all of them and his mother even taught most of the band members in school. so that was pretty sweet. i also mentioned to him that i was thinking about moving to hawaii for a month or two after my job here in seattle ends in july and his only warning for me was to be careful because i was probably going to go there and never end up leaving. haha. i guess worst things could happen right? 

after a little while i headed down to the showbox where the pepper show was, my roommate was going to come with but we found out it was sold out so it wasn't worth him trying to come into the city without a ticket but since i was there i figured why not try to scalp a cheap ticket or something. when i got there the line was down and around like 2 blocks just to get in since the doors hadn't opened and scalpers were asking for $80 for a $20 ticket so i said fuck it and went into the bar called the green room directly next to it, actually its tied into the showbox. but anyways so i walk in figuring that ill wait til everyone goes in then maybe the scalpers will lower their prices. im looking around the bar and there aren't that many open seats but i see this one guy at the end of the bar by himself with an extra chair next to him. so i asked if i could use it and he was like oh yea man go ahead. so i sit down, order a beer, and i notice the guy is writing on a napkin and looked semi familiar. so the more i thought about it, i was realizing that it was classic musician, sitting at a bar writing lyrics on a napkin. i asked him if he was in a band to which he laughed and said that he was. i then realized as was like oh you're in pepper aren't you. he introduced himself and sure enough it was Kaleo of pepper. we talked a little bit about boston to which he said "dude! i fucking love that city!" and he talked some about performing there and how he always has such a good time there. then we talked about the bartender from before who went to school with him and stuff. it was pretty cool. he was a real chill dude. after a few he had to head back stage so he peaced out. i was going to ask him if he could hook me up with a way to get into the show but i didn't want to be that dude after having a solid convo with him so i didn't. probably should have but whatever. 

but now comes the reason why i officially can't stand and loath scumbag scalpers. when i came out they were all still asking for 80 and there were other scalpers who would keep walking around asking if people had extra tickets to try and buy them before we could and then sell it to us for a higher price. while waiting right outside the door hoping someone normal would come along with an extra ticket, a girl did. she mentioned she had an extra and as i went up to her to talk to her. one of the scalpers came up, ripped the ticket out of her hand and just threw 40 bucks at her and walked away. her and i both tried to stop him but he just said nope its been sold and walked away. a few minutes later he came back to try and keep doing the same thing. i just keep yelling very nice complements at him. but then to make them even worst a little while later this girl came up to her two friends who were next to me pretty much in tears because she was suppose to have all their tickets but they were gone, why? because one of the scalpers grabbed her ass when she walked by, but it was because she had the tickets in her back pocket and they stole them from her. ughhh i dont hate much if anything in this world but im pretty sure i hate those scalpers from that night. scumbags. and needless to say i didn't get to go to the show but still cool meeting Kaleo and chillin at floyds place.

sunday was a pretty solid day. roommate kyle and i went down pike place public market where i was going to meet up with a bunch of other microsoft interns to hang for the day. so we went there and met up with them, some cool kids, most were from australia but there was also two from vancouver. we hung out at the market for awhile, saw the throwing of the fish, went to the first ever starbucks, grabbed some lunch, and then headed to the experience music project. this place was sick. its basically a museum for music and all about ways to express and experience music. there were amazing exhibits on jimi hendrix, the grunge movement, guitars, and a bunch of other stuff. they also had an area where you could play different instruments and jam out. so that was real cool and i got two sick flags there, one of led zeppelin and one of jimi h. after that kyle and i peaced off home to watch the steelers ravens game and grill some dinner. did that, chilled and now im heading to bed. tomorrow is my birthday but prob won't be anything special as i have work and then have more work to do when i get home for my online english class. sweeeeeeet.