Anna's more coherent but giddy 5/22/04 GBS review! (Part 1)

Picoreview: Quality-wise, the sound mix at the show was too loud so most of the songs were almost incomprehensible. This kind of killed the show for solarbird, but the extremely high good humor of the bands totally made up for it for me, and so did post-show encounters with band members at a local pub. Since this was the last show on this particular tour, both Carbon Leaf (the opening act) and Great Big Sea were in positively devilish humor, and this rolled right out into their interactions with each other and the audience. So even if the songs were hard to make out for those of us right down by the stage, the energy of the evening still made it more than memorable and a night for west-coast GBS fans to be talking about for years.

Big snugs go out to gerimaple (Geri) and elfmaid (Amy) for coming down from Vancouver to crash at the Murkworks and accompany us to the show, and to Monica (who is not on LJ), one of the erstwhile members of our jamming group Three Good Measures, for joining us as well to bring the number of our merry band to five. These things are always more fun in herds!

( Pre-Show gathering at the Murkworks and going to the Moore )

( Chatter in the line at the Moore: hey, that building isn't symmetrical! )

( Inside the Moore: Anna and adventures in GBS shirts )

( Carbon Leaf's set: too much Loud but kickin' mandolin )

( Between sets: holy crap, somebody actually looked at my web page?! Cool! )

( Great Big Sea's set: ladies of the Greater Seattle area, there are Rovers among you )

This post is already huge--and I am positively exhausted. So I am going to cut this off here and go ahead and post it to LJ; tomorrow, I will follow up with the post-show hijinx and the tale of how Anna Was Teased By the Shanty Man!

Anna's 5/22/04 GBS review (part 2)!

( After the show: okay, now what? )

( Sean McCann the Shanty Man: he teases blonde Pipers as well )

( Lightning only strikes once, so let's go home now )

To sum up: I'm still very tired, even on Monday afternoon two days after the fact. But it gives me warm fuzzies to know that even at a show that I was barely able to hear, even two days after the fact I still have that warm afterglow that comes from a great GBS show!