SF Day Two

We slept in a little but not too bad. Especially considering the late night we had at the Sweetwater Music Hall. 

Robert Earl Keene was a really fun band. We also had a great dinner at this little place in Mill Valley right near the venue. Special thanks to Arn-Dawgs friend Tony who drove us there in his Tesla. What a sweet automotive product!

Arnie's wife Haley had to go to work for the morning but was planning on joining us at the park later in the day. Arnold made us omelettes which we devoured and then packed up for the park. We bought a couple of boxes of high quality wine for the day. We decided not to pack food so we could check out what was available in the park as our hunger required it.

We set up camp at the Banjo stage and that's were Susan and I pretty much stayed all day. As the grassy lawn in front of the stage got populated, the smell of the air became inundated with skunk. They sure must have a lot of them there.

We saw Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands. Very Bluegrassy! Next was the Dry Branch Fire Squad. They were traditionally bluegrassy and really fun. At 2:30, Billy Bragg took the stage. He's an Australian troubadour in the style of Pete Seger or Woody Guthrie. Our politics didn't exactly line up. There was a lot of talk about the greatness of Socialism.  

At one point Billy mused about what Socialism might look like. He said to imagine a park with hundreds of people gathered to peacefully listen to free music. The crowd roared. Nobody said anything about the capitalistic millionaire who paid for the free music. Next we heard the Bo-Keys who were also really fun.

The final act of the day at the Banjo Stage was T Bone Burnett. He was horrible. Rather than play music, he decided to descend into a slam poetry sort of out there space music riff with lots of angry anti establishment imagery. "You don't know what you don't know what you don't know."

We were standing there, watching it as the field slowly emptied and couldn't believe what we were hearing. I finally went up to another group equally mystified by what they were hearing and asked them if this was horrible. They laughed and agreed that it was.

The concert was followed by an impromptu party at Arnie and Haley's by several of their friends we met during the day.

One day down, two to go.