Went to night one of the McDowell Mountain Music Festival and for the most part thoroughly enjoyed myself. The Neville Brothers were seriously funky - funkier than the last time I saw them - even if they did pretty much the same stuff I remember them playing 15 years ago - Iko Iko, Fire on the Bayou, Yellow Moon, Voodoo, Tell It Like It Is, Fever, etc. plus a killer version of Herbie Hancock's Chameleon.
Ratdog's set was a little wearying. But then I'd been up for 14 hours on very little sleep. After the drum solo the show just seemed to drag. But they did do some cool Beatles and Dylan covers, including a nice power-chord driven Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall. Also a nice Shakedown->Minglewood opener.
Between sets I caught my friend Chris's band Haiku Rd. who were playing on the second stage. Their acoustic cover of Belinda Carlisle's "Mad About You" had one boomer in the crowd doing the "lower-lip bite white man dance" with the added flourish of pretending to swing a baseball bat. Please, God, don't let me act that way the next time I see some cool Gen-X band from the late '80s...
My Trusted MOGs
This may be the greatest sentence in all of music writing: "After the drum solo the show just seemed to drag."
My Trusted MOGs
Sounds good, glad you're there, sorry I'm not. Run into any other Moggers?
My Trusted MOGs
Haiku Rd. at McDowell Mountain played Mad About You? I have never heard of Haiku Rd. but hmmm, I might have see if a live copy of that shows up, I'm intrigued.