Well yesterday was about as good as it gets! I showed up at the festival grounds around 10 am since the Poison Control Center, were going to be playing at noon, and already the amount of Volunteers and workers there amazed me.. A group of 10 dudes unloaded our van for us and brought it all up on the stage! All while this was going on my wife and friend Sammi were running into Stephen Malkmas and the Jicks at the farmers market down town.. THose LUCKY BUTTS!
anyway, I had a great time kicking day two off on the main stage, I broke two strings, spilled a beer on my guitar and brought the microphone out into the crowed and when I came back on stage with it, there was a BOOGER on the mic. NO Kidding, it was quite gross but I ran with it..
One of the the highlights for me was right when we were done playing the guys from MAN MAN were on the side of the stage and they totally dug our show, and told us so, and later in the day even gave me one of the bands BUD Lights!
man after we got done the day chilled out a ton for me, I ran over to catch the end of one of my favorite local bands BEATI PAOLI, which was great, I got to do a meet and greet which ruled and we met some cool kids who did a cover of a PCC song for a battle of the bands and got disqualified because they played a cover which i thought was totally punk rock!
I really enjoy Cymbals Eat Guitars, MAN MAN, and Broken Social Scene sets, and I got to meet members of all the bands and they were all as sweet as honey! Super nice people in super killer bands!!
I hit up the Des Moines Social Club to see Pennyhawk and Christopher the Conquered, which was also one of the high lights of the fest seeing friends rock out.
By this time in the day, my legs were feeling a little mooshy from OLD MAIN Beers, lack of sleep, playing a show, and standing for two days strait.. But then I started thinking about Mr. A ROSSI, and how tired he and Jill H, must feel.. SO I carried on buying more Old Main Beers and enjoying the rest of the day.
THIS blog is so random sorry, im tired and its 7:30 on sunday morning..
OH so I got to talk to DAVE from HOUSE OF LARGE SIZES, and he had nothing but great things to say about the festival and Des Moines so that felt good to me! One of the coolest things of the fest for me was watching Amedo kinda breaking up on stage when he gave his speach.. YOU CAN TELL HE PUT ALL HIS HEART in to the fest again and when BEN HARPER hit the stage I felt a rush of Sadness because I knew it was almost over…
Not only was the festival over, but all my friends in my band leave to go home, and now I have a little POST 80/35 blues…
I was to say a huge thanks to all the people responsible for the fest.. IT WAS a great event rain or shine, all the Volunteers, media, sound people (who did great), bands, fans, food vendors.. Great job to everyone.. Im so honored to have been a part of this 2 years in a row! I LOVE YOU DES MOINES!
