bb king and kenny wayne shepherd

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First of all I just found out the white stripes are playing september 16th AND that there's tickets. Shit I hate being broke. Link in the title mentions both the show tonight and that show.

Okay so as you know I went to see BB King tonight and if you aren't jealous then you should be. That guy is a natural showman. I recall seeing Swing at summerfolk and thinking that their frontman was one of the most natural performers I'd ever seen. Comfortable, laughing, having a great time. I mean the guy got the crowd to sing the fucking jeopardy theme song and enjoy it. So I figured 'damm that is one stellar front man'.

He sucks in comparison.

BB King played us like we were play doh in the palm of a child. He laughed at us, he made fun of us, he made us clap when he wanted, laugh when he wanted and most of all sing when he wanted. I happened to be sitting near the screen and not too far from the stage so when he was talking I could watch his closeup. You have rarely seen anyone having as much fun as he was.

That's not what I meant to talk about actually. What I meant to talk about were the people sitting two rows behind us. There's this kenny wayne shepherd band/guy on stage and i'm grooving along cause the music is really good and eventually the singer walks off the stage and they start playing this crazy, ethereal and beautiful music. So good but very spare and simple and suddenly all I can hear are these people behind me. TWO ROWS behind me. Talking at the tops of their lungs.

So eventually staring doesn't work, glaring doesn't work and I'm FRUSTRATED! I mean this music fucking rocks dudes. So good this stuff. So I turn around and I go 'would you please be quiet, thank you' and all the people in the row in front of them are like 'thank you!'

And I go back to grooving and they keep talking so I glare again and then (thank the universe) the band cranks it up and drowns them out for a bit. So when the song ends and they're still going at it i turn around and go 'are you going to talk all night or just during the good bits?' and this chick (I am NOT making this up) starts mouthing off to me that she paid good money for her seats.

"So did we!"

Being not insane I decided to shut up around then because this chick seriously looked like she was going to hit me AND the band had started up again. I would WAY rather listen to great music than scrap. WAY.

So after the set i head out for water and they're still glaring at me like *I* am somehow the uncouth person here. You have 20 people telling you to shut up and I'm simply one of them and *I* am the crazy rude person?

like what the fuck?

So off they go to get more beer and seriously the way this woman was looking at me I thought she was going to clock me one. So I stood up.

Damm I love being 5'11"

Fortunately the beer lines were long so they missed the first third of BB King's set and then they came back and I just resolutely ignored them because really... BB KING was on the stage!

Eventually the people directly in front of them got so riled up they stood up and started telling them off. So this chick starts WHISTLING for the security guy! WHISTLING! BB FUCKING KING is on the fucking stage and she's WHISTLING!

I was shocked. This chick is so nuts that when 20 people ask her to shut up she thinks THEY should be ejected from the show. She stomps off, yells at the security guy and then wanders around for a while.

Then she comes back and from the end of her row starts whistling AGAIN to get her also drunk friends to come with her as she goes off to some seats in the middle and closer to the front. Thank the universe cause otherwise I was going to have to punch her and I haven't been in a scrap since my teens.

Those poor fuckers they moved near!
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Incidentally yes i did go bouldering and I found a new problem to work... and I learned a new move! No, I can't explain it. Well I can...

okay.

basically it's an overhang with some funny manoeuvers you have to do to get to the holds and with one of them you have your right foot on a hold, your right and left hands on holds and you're trying to move your left hand up about 3 or 4 feet and away from the direction your body is in. So your left foot is hanging off in space around the corner ... crap i'm so not explaining.

Picture a corner where you have one wall that's flat and not very long and another comes off it at about 90 degrees and is a deep overhang up to about 6' in the air and then it turns and goes relatively vertical to the top of the wall. You start with two hands on a giant ear in the overhang and your left foot on a tiny hold on the adjoining wall. Right foot is flagging out to the side. (deep overhang so it isn't on either wall) ... got it? well that's the best i can do.

first move is to move your left hand up and to the left about a foot and your right foot up onto a hold that's a little higher than the one your left foot is on.

second move is to reach your left foot out around the adjoining wall as you reach for a hold that's like 4 feet up and to the right on the overhang wall. Yeah. So the only way to actually get there is to lift your left foot into space at the same time as your right hand is reaching up. So counter intuitive but I nailed it after a few tries and now it's easy.

Next you have to move your left hand just above your right hand and put your left foot on the ear. I can do the foot but when I try to move my hand I fall off. More work!

I love bouldering but shit it takes a long time to get these problems...