Music- Sasquatch Festival
posted in Music |Friday we got going pretty late and since we needed to get to Leavenworth and be ready for rafting in the morning we skipped the Friday night
line-up. Saturday we were running really late after rafting (more on rafting
later) and were pretty sure we had missed the Shins. On the way over we passed
through some pretty intense thunderstorm cells and apparently they had hit the
show also causing an hour delay- I suppose it isn’t really fun to watch a
concert in a hail-storm.
The Shins were really great. After that we were really looking forward to seeing
the Flaming Lips. I’m not sure what I think about their music but I’ve heard
great things about their show. We waited a half hour while they set up the stage
and they they announced that they were switching the order of the Flaming Lips
and Ben Harper because of the delays. Since Ben Harper was scheduled to be on
for two hours and we had an hour drive and an early-morning appointment at the
river we bailed and went back to our hotel.
Sunday we got there quite a bit earlier and were in time to see the Decemberists.
They were great and I plan to check out their stuff more (especially since you
can get their albums on
eMusic).
They were followed by Matisyahu- I thought he was good although Kat didn’t
really like it. We retreated for a couple margaritas in the cliff house with
beautiful sunset views during Queens of the Stone Age and came out afterwards to
see Death Cab for Cutie.
To be honest I was a bit down on Death Cab going in. We had seen them at the
Paramount and it was really disappointing. Pretty much nothing but bed-wetter
songs and very pop-music-for-15-year-old-girls sort of thing. Luck for me at
Sasquatch they turned it all around and played an amazing rocking set.
They were followed by Beck “presented in puppet-vision”. Beck had a little
puppet stage set up in back and the big screens showed the (live) footage of the
puppets acting out all the musicians on stage. He also had a guy who did just
crazy Napoleon Dynamite style dancing and played a ton of my favorites.
In the end Sunday pulled it all out for Sasquatch but in retrospect I should
have only gotten tickets for Sunday. Still Sunday was a great show and I’m
really glad I didn’t miss it.
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