Met Shooter Jennings and Ted Russel Kamp of the band Heirophant at a restaurant/bar next to the Crocodile music venue. Their show was a performance based on their new album Black Ribbons. I left feeling drained.
As a lover of concept albums - I was excited to be able to hear this new release performed live (Stephen King voice overs and all). I was a bit dissappointed but that's not to say it wasn't an excellent performance. The concept merely seemed worn out like an old Ford Bronco blasting AC/DC from the cassette player and hurling over cobblestone streets near Pike Place Market while young girls comment, "wow, old school."
Basically, I'm not sure what the hell this rich kid is trying to say - his anti-establishment, "the Man is taking away your rights" - message seemed fake. The concert crowd - full of conspiracy theorists, NASCAR fans, black metalheads, pot heads and hanger-ons (Jennings evidently is married to a Desperate Housewife) looked to be having a blast! Funny how such an anti-establishment rocker is right in line with the hypnotized-TV-dosed generation (Jennings was born in 1979). Anyway, you have to hand it to a band that uses Nintendo chips in their guitars.
Overall, the evening was a good experience and I know it will prove to be an interesting point of view while traveling for the next couple of months. If I reach Burma, where the right to free speech and press truly does not exist, maybe a rich kid rocker screaming about a government take over of the radio waves will seem just about right.
Until then, Seattle for a day - Kurt Cobain exhibit at the city museum and SeaTac airport for a night - fingers crossed there's a space available on the 4 AM Patriot Express flight to Yokota, Japan tomorrow.
Time to get out of the Green Tortoise hostel (highly recommended to anyone looking to stay across the street from the market).
namaste and "it seems like everywhere I go, the more I see, the less I know." - Michael Franti
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