- This one is not specifically Sasquatch-related, but when am I ever going to write about agriculture? Around Quincy, WA, the crops in the field are labeled, so people know what is growing in the field. I think this is neat, but only because they have a wide variety of crops - it wouldn't work so well in Iowa (corn, beans, corn, beans....). Here is all the labels I can remember:
- Grapes
- Concord grapes
- Wine grapes
- Apples
- Gala Apples
- Golden Delicious
- Fuji Apples
- Cherries
- Cherry trees (not sure why they separated those)
- Grain corn
- Seed corn
- Sweet corn
- Wheat
- Alfalfa
- Beans
- Lima beans
- Sunflowers
- Onions
- Potatoes
- Radishes
- Seed (always on the same field as radishes)
- Nursery (?)
- Diary Heifers (not technically a crop)
- Grass hay
- Grass pasture
- Walnuts
- Timothy (I don't even know what this is)
- Spearmint
- Peppermint
- Two sweet intros today at Sasquatch. Zooey Deschanel introduced Todd Barry (this made me decide to drop in on the She and Him set for a while - I was planning on skipping it for all of the Mountain Goats set. I ended up splitting the two). Then, Todd Barry introduced the New Pornographers. More bands should do this.
- Boooo to the Seattle Rock Orchestra for two reasons. First, they played too loud, which threw off Todd Barry's set. Second, they evidently played all of Funeral by Arcade Fire. If my band scored a spot at Sasquatch, I don't think I would waste it playing all covers. Weird decision.Edited: Sorry Seattle Rock Orchestra. I retract my earlier boo. A bit of cursory research would have revealed that you were asked to play Funeral. As for the loudness complaint, I should probably pin that on the organizers, if anything. Many apologies.
- John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats has a weird cadence in his actual speaking voice. He emphasizes words slightly differently in a sentence than most people would. Today, I figured out it is similar to the cadence Mitch Hedburg uses! Awesome!
- Two alcohol enforcement stories:
- A girl had her Nalgene attached to the bottom of her backpack. I saw an Alcohol Enforcement guy stop her to make sure it was just water. She unscrewed the lid (leaving it attached to her backpack) and bent over so he could sniff its contents. It looked quite a bit like he was sniffing her butt. Pretty funny.
- At the Band of Horses show, Alcohol Enforcement (AE) confronted a guy behind me concerning the contents of his Camelback (like a backpack, but it holds water and there is a straw so you can drink out of it). After finishing inspecting the backpack, the AE guy warned the guy next to him (who had taken a hit off of his marijuana pipe right before AE started questioning), to keep his doobin' more discreet. Can someone explain to me the logic of this? If the first guy had alcohol in his Camelback, he would have been removed. However, a dude smoking a pipe is only warned?
- Bands seen:
- Tame Impala
- Todd Barry
- Drive-By Truckers
- Dr. Dog
- She & Him (partial set)
- Mountain Goats
- Band of Horses
- New Pornographers
I'll probably do a final post on all of Saquatch later this week, then back to the top 100!
Having played in the Rock Orchestra yesterday, I can tell you:
ReplyDelete1. The Arcade Fire covers weren't really a "weird decision". Sasquatch! specifically asked us to come and play those Arcade Fire songs.
2. It's hard for orchestral instruments to play "too loud". Us being too loud would have been the fault of the sound guy. However, I can say that when I watched Craig Robinson, I could barely hear him over whoever was on the Bigfoot stage at the time. The comedy tent and Bigfoot stage were just too close together.
C'est la vie...
Thanks for setting me straight Gary. I take back my earlier complaint. Rock on.
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