Bumbershoot 2008 Day One
Neko Case started it off Saturday at the Mainstage.
The purity of her voice is unreal.
… Something called Strange Fruit at the Fountain lawn.
Ian Moore and his really cool red guitar.
I had my nine-year-old son with me, so I had to leave Ian’s set early to go see this:
Skater dudes are way crazy.
Being the home of Jimi Hendrix, Bumbershoot always features an up-and-coming guitar virtuoso. I just happened to be in the beer garden at the Mural Amphitheatre when Joe Bonamassa came on stage. He did not dissapoint those who came to hear some wicked guitar solos.
The weather was much better than predicted.
While waiting to see Saul Williams, I noticed that many people were sporting feathers on their heads. 
I asked a guy what it was all about, and he said “I don’t know… I guess he wears feathers.”
That’s Saul’s kid in the lower left corner. He was on the stage all night during the looking very excited to be there. He hung out in back and, when Saul’s pants would start to slip down, he would yell “Hey Dad!” and yank up on the back of his pants to signal his dad to pull up his pants.
M. Ward, another guitar virtuoso – of the John Fahey mold, not Hendrix – closed the day for me.
