Category : music
outside lands, originally uploaded by reidspice.
went to all three days of the outside lands festival. it was.. okay. highlights were benevento/russo, sharon jones & the dap kings, regina spektor, nellie mckay, wilco and radiohead (despite the fact that i couldn’t actually see the stage for most of their show.. why wasn’t the stage higher?)
getting out of the park friday night was definitely an adventure. a woman behind me at one point said “i feel like we’re camping! weren’t we just at a concert?”
was lucky enough to catch the tall firs, my friends from brooklyn, at cafe du norde right before i took off for europe. they put on a great show, as usual.
finally caught owen’s band, the guitar zeros, at el rio last weekend. they play real music with guitar hero controllers (owen reverse engineered the signals coming out of the controllers). cool stuff.
peter on bass, originally uploaded by reidspice.
old friend peter d’elia was in town a couple weeks ago, visiting from berlin. it was nice to see him and play some music. jim and charlie helped out on guitar and improvised vocals. our original easter song was an instant classic.
jazz window, originally uploaded by reidspice.
shot this through the window at pearl’s while walking around north beach a few weeks ago.
went to see the minks at the knockout last saturday night. good crowd, good kinks, good minks.
went to see the grove street stompers at arthur’s tavern on one of my last nights in new york. apparently these guys have been playing here every monday night for a long, long time..
went to see the excellent coney island swan dive on friday night at parkside lounge. funny & beautiful country covers of all your favorite songs.
after soccer, reid and i went to zinc bar in the west village to see eric lewis’ trio. this is one of the smallest jazz clubs i’ve ever been to; probably holds about 45 people. halfway through the set roy hargrove showed up and played some trumpet which was a nice surprise. i’m not a huge fan of his more recent stuff but in this setting he was great.
this past weekend i declared an end to these blurry photos and bought a new 50mm f/1.4 lens. no more blurry low light shots. well, not quite as blurry anyway.
played music with mike, ben and owen a couple weeks ago at funkadelic studios. the highlights included our cover of “acid rain” (based on the youtube favorite “chocolate rain”) and a few other epic improvisations.
