Last night Chris drove down from Tacoma to see the ropeadope new music seminar. huh? Seminar?
Well, its not so much a seminar as a flashy name for big show. Several artists recording with the ropeadope label were there and wandered on and off stage to play with each other. Charlie Hunter, The Duo, Lyrics Born, Critters Buggin’, and Sex Mob (the horns) all had their time on stage, though it blended between them at times.
Its the first show I’ve seen in quite some time, so the 4 hours of live music was quite a treat. I really enjoyed The Duo, and was surprised to actually see many of these artists for the first time. Lyrics Born for example looked a lot like Ben Walz John Belushi, and Skerik seemed a saxamaphone playing Tom Green.
Chris felt the show was severely under-whelming, having seen many of the artists before, often several times. Having not seen any, I was simply pleased to be there. The sound did suck in the Aladdin though. Especially with 4 percussionists playing at the same time.
Like most shows with any amount of jamming at them, there were lots of hippie-dancers. You can really tell who actually has an internal sense of time when Critters Buggin’ started playing and all but 1 woman either stopped dancing or looked like they were punch-drunk (seemed the appropriate analogy for a ropeadope show). The woman with the butterfly tatoo… no, not that one, the other…no, in for you… yeah.. her.