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Track:Rodeo Clowns
This review is a tad bit overdue but I had such an excellent time at the concert that I was..um…out of sorts for a minute afterwards. Yep.Beginning at the beginning – the venue was only 20 minutes from my house and being me I left 45 minutes before show time. After mercilessly mocking all North Carolinians that complain about their traffic, I finally found out they weren’t lying. The traffic jam I got stuck in wasn’t up to NoVA standards, but it did make me get to the concert just on time. The venue was gorgeous – from the entrance you walk up a winding wooded path and into a clearing with a stage. When I got in, the first opening band was already playing. I didn’t go all the way to the stage because I was waiting for "Jay":http://mog.com/Jaymog to get there and I was afraid I wouldn’t hear my phone if I got too close. So, from the concession area I watched the band on stage. The two bands before G. Love were Ozomatli and Slightly Stoopid. I’ve heard excellent things about Ozomatli from "August":http://mog.com/Augusts1 and I had one song by Slightly Stoopid, but I wasn’t really familiar with either band so I didn’t know who I was watching. But, I was enjoying the hell out of it. The music was, to my ears, ska tinged and the guys on the stage were all dancing in time with each other. I watched for a few songs and decided that I must be listening to Slightly Stoopid and went over and bought a cd. Shortly after the set ended and it turns out it was Ozomatli. I would have gone back and bought their cd but I could not, for the life of me, get their name to pass my lips correctly and I was too afraid of mispronouncing it and feeling dumb. Instead, I picked the cd up from emusic (which had two emusic exclusive tracks). Yay emusic!
Right as they were finishing up, Jay calls and tells me he’s there so I go up to meet him at the gate. As we’re walking back up I am telling him everything I’ve just told y’all and we get back to the concession area and there is Ozomatli, not 10 feet from where I was standing before, just jamming. I remembered as soon as I saw this, August mentioning this very thing. That, although it didn’t last long, was one of the highlights of the evening for me.
Jay and I shoot the shit for awhile (and incidentally, Jay is an excellent concert buddy. Y’all should be jealous) and Slightly Stoopid come on. Musically, they had a bunch of different shit going on. They hopped around from reggae to ska to punk to something almost metal. By the end of their set I wasn’t regretting buying their cd by accident so much. I still haven’t gotten around to listening to it but I don’t think I’ll be disappointed. The weird thing, though, with that is that I asked the guy at the merch booth for their latest cd and later when I checked the date it said 1998. I haven’t checked yet, but if their last album came out in 1998…dayum. Near the end of their set we start working our way into the crowd in front of the stage and I think we got a contact buzz from all the pot smoking going on. Jay leaves to go get beer and I bum a light from chick next to me who complains about her lack of mary jane. Pollyanna chucky was all like “Wha?? Um, yeah, this (indicating cigarette) is good for me.” Heh, and y’all thought I was a rebel right? Jay comes back and gives me about 15 pounds of beer to hold in my purse ;) Ok, so it was one beer but it was heavy…haha. He makes up for this by using a master’s eye to locate every vacated spot in front of us and squeeze into it until we are only three rows back for G. Love.I want to stop here for a quick minute and talk about our fellow concert goers. The last time I saw G. Love I was surrounded by preppy college kids that were rude and didn’t know a single G. Love song outside of “Cold Beverage.” Everyone I saw at this concert was impossibly attractive and nice. It was ridiculous. Everywhere I looked some beautiful person was smiling at me. And, when we pushed into spaces too small for us, they’d just….move. They didn’t push or yell, they just moved and smiled. So very strange. This is what I would have been like if I hadn’t moved to VA 10 years ago I think. Heh. Also, they not only knew more G. Love songs than I did, they knew every Slightly Stoopid song. I can’t speak to Ozomatli because I was too far away, but I bet they were singing along then too. In fact, they were so friendly that two impossibly tiny girls in front of me started making out. They just could not contain their goodwill. Back to the show – G. Love and Special Sauce came on and I have to say, although I don’t want to, that G. Love is looking kind of tired. I swooned over him 13 years ago but now, not so much. Now I just want to tuck him in and tell him to sleep for about a month and possibly feed him some pot roast. However, he still brought it. Unfortunately for me, he played a lot of stuff that I wasn’t familiar with, but I got a kick out of the crowd singing along all the same. For his encore he brought Ozomatli back on stage with him – which was mighty, mighty excellent.
Jay was disappointed that G. Love and Special Sauce didn’t play Rodeo Clowns, so Jay – here it is I’ll put an Ozomatli and a Slightly Stoopid song in the comments.
Right as they were finishing up, Jay calls and tells me he’s there so I go up to meet him at the gate. As we’re walking back up I am telling him everything I’ve just told y’all and we get back to the concession area and there is Ozomatli, not 10 feet from where I was standing before, just jamming. I remembered as soon as I saw this, August mentioning this very thing. That, although it didn’t last long, was one of the highlights of the evening for me.Jay and I shoot the shit for awhile (and incidentally, Jay is an excellent concert buddy. Y’all should be jealous) and Slightly Stoopid come on. Musically, they had a bunch of different shit going on. They hopped around from reggae to ska to punk to something almost metal. By the end of their set I wasn’t regretting buying their cd by accident so much. I still haven’t gotten around to listening to it but I don’t think I’ll be disappointed. The weird thing, though, with that is that I asked the guy at the merch booth for their latest cd and later when I checked the date it said 1998. I haven’t checked yet, but if their last album came out in 1998…dayum. Near the end of their set we start working our way into the crowd in front of the stage and I think we got a contact buzz from all the pot smoking going on. Jay leaves to go get beer and I bum a light from chick next to me who complains about her lack of mary jane. Pollyanna chucky was all like “Wha?? Um, yeah, this (indicating cigarette) is good for me.” Heh, and y’all thought I was a rebel right? Jay comes back and gives me about 15 pounds of beer to hold in my purse ;) Ok, so it was one beer but it was heavy…haha. He makes up for this by using a master’s eye to locate every vacated spot in front of us and squeeze into it until we are only three rows back for G. Love.I want to stop here for a quick minute and talk about our fellow concert goers. The last time I saw G. Love I was surrounded by preppy college kids that were rude and didn’t know a single G. Love song outside of “Cold Beverage.” Everyone I saw at this concert was impossibly attractive and nice. It was ridiculous. Everywhere I looked some beautiful person was smiling at me. And, when we pushed into spaces too small for us, they’d just….move. They didn’t push or yell, they just moved and smiled. So very strange. This is what I would have been like if I hadn’t moved to VA 10 years ago I think. Heh. Also, they not only knew more G. Love songs than I did, they knew every Slightly Stoopid song. I can’t speak to Ozomatli because I was too far away, but I bet they were singing along then too. In fact, they were so friendly that two impossibly tiny girls in front of me started making out. They just could not contain their goodwill. Back to the show – G. Love and Special Sauce came on and I have to say, although I don’t want to, that G. Love is looking kind of tired. I swooned over him 13 years ago but now, not so much. Now I just want to tuck him in and tell him to sleep for about a month and possibly feed him some pot roast. However, he still brought it. Unfortunately for me, he played a lot of stuff that I wasn’t familiar with, but I got a kick out of the crowd singing along all the same. For his encore he brought Ozomatli back on stage with him – which was mighty, mighty excellent.Jay was disappointed that G. Love and Special Sauce didn’t play Rodeo Clowns, so Jay – here it is I’ll put an Ozomatli and a Slightly Stoopid song in the comments.
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