Latest blog entry: 08.18.08
Hello people. Our 3rd NW tour up thru Washington into Canada and back a couple weeks ago was a blast!! We went to Roslyn again and also played at Slims in Seattle and went up to BC for the Forward fest. Man that festival was cool, so so many great folks up there. Little raggamuffin baby's runnin around and beautiful dreadie hippies abound. We sounded so great comin thru the big ole sound system and all the folks in the audience were so into it, hangin on every word and note!!Daniel, the cat who held the festival, was one of the coolest guys I met in awhile and his fam was super sweet too. They fed us the whole time, kept us in the smoke and then... payed us... quite well. Respect and praises goin out to Daniel aka "Prince Pauper" and his wonderful crew.
Ras Michael's performance was inspirational! Canada is beautiful and the people are stoney and warm. Can't wait to go back.
I mentioned Slim's in one of the last blogs and of course Roslyn was killer. Mariah and her fam showed up again and Portable Morla (Mariahs solo electronica project) opened for us, she was great. Then we all hung out in our room upstairs, drinkin, smokin and jammin till like 3:00am when we realized that everybody left in the room was locked in, so everybody had to jump off the balcony to go home. Even the grizzled old prospector guy (a local who played spoons and looked like the quintessential haggered old mountain man), he was like sixty somethin and he was the first one over the edge. He hit the ground, rolled, popped up then skipped away like a cartoon or somethin. Then all the hesitant young bucks finally got up the courage. Shit was so funny... we were so faded!
Let's see... oh yeah, the Market. We have been busking on the streets and at the Saturday Market in between gigs and it has been quite lucrative. Sellin cd's and posters along with tips. Trippy thing playin on the streets, you get this big cross section of people, all age groups and interests. Amazing thing for us is how many different types of people are into the SSR sound. Lotsa young folks and alotta older folks who are typically not into alot of the things that make up my music sans the blues of course. Point being, they are feelin our music, some even tell me, man, I can't stand rap music but I love what yer doin... it don't piss me off. Other older folks are like man ya took me back to my southern roots or whatever. The young folks are cool too, like 16, 17 yrs old and fully into it, which in my opinion speaks volumes for the way the kids up here are raised. They obviously must have cool parents to be so open.
Well that's about it for now, it's Monday and that's the day we do all of our booking and buisness crap. Packages for radio, more reviews and next yrs festivals. Busy busy... allotta work.. lovely work. Holler
- peace fo'real, SSR
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