Wednesday March 30, 2005

a good time was had by those who attended

I ventured out last night to hear String Cheese Incident at Caesars Tahoe. I was busy all day and into the evening and just had enough time to get to the venue and meet up with some other tahoe jam band fans. The show started off with a very intense Just One Story and maintained intense focus through a very strong encore. This was definitely a show that will have to live in my mp3 player for a while.

I didn't hang out in the orchestra pit but instead was up one level. The sound was the clearest I've heard at the venue. I'm going to have to spend some time next time around experimenting to see if that was my physical placement or better technology used by the band/venue.

The local paper ran a couple of articles about the show on the front page. It was strange that the author of both of those articles attempted to make connections between the shows, hippies, and the lack of money but then had to mention that the marketing manager at Caesars would have been happy to have them back anytime as they filled up the hotel. I suspect the author stated off with a preconceived notion that he couldn't quite break down. Years ago when the Grateful Dead were playing in Las Vegas a city official made the very insightful comment in a Las Vegas newspaper that the deadheads were our most colorful convention goers.

I noticed an announcement by the dead that they were offering a lot of music for download. Some of it is free and some of it is for purchase (via their portal or iTunes). At the SCI show I noticed that they had a similar setup at livecheese. This is something that has been available in the jam band community in an ad hoc manner for some time as the bands generally allow taping. When I was in college we would use the postal system to trade tapes. ( Mar 30 2005, 11:13:55 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]