fir-day
SO the conference on friday was good but maybe not great, Steve Earle was, as expected, very open about his views on a lot of matters canadian and otherwise. it's crazy that he was a multiplatinum artist back in the day in canada and barely went gold on his big 80's albums stateside. aside from the knowles-fest on saturday (to be lamented later), this was one of the very few panels/interviews to actually have fans in the audience asking questions, what a concept!
2 of my personal highlights came from friday aft. though, one where McBride told lefsetz that he frankly would rather focus on taking advantage of all the cool new digital business as opposed to randomly suing bad guys-of-the-week as per mr tvt records. I mean, why not? the teen forum was also great, and it said a lot about the state of the industry to find it 1/3 full at best. even the antics of the knob co-MC (asking a question and then turning and not listening to the kid?! give me a break!) couldn't prevent the teens from providing major insights to those in attendance, easily the most valuable hour of the week.
as for henderson/lefsetz, though it was mildly entertaining to see henderson pull a Frank Grimes and occasionally lose it, the thing, like the rest of the week, reeked of LAST YEAR.
in terms of SHOWS, The Novaks rocked it hard at lee's but there was some difficulty in hearing any real standout songs. a quicky scoot down to kathredal found my pick of the festival, Inward Eye tearing it up with shocking style and catchiness. Bryan and I were freaking out! After hearing about how great these 3 brothers are for so long now (and esp. their fantastic drummer ), yes it's all true! or at least their opening and closing numbers. love the standup drumming. a shot back up to Lee's found the Golden Dogs in fine form, and apparently earning one of the highest Chart scores (again?) of the fest. dave azzolini is a guitar maniac, and one hopes they finally get out on the real road this year.
the 'crazy and delicious' pizza pizza was merely crazy.
2 of my personal highlights came from friday aft. though, one where McBride told lefsetz that he frankly would rather focus on taking advantage of all the cool new digital business as opposed to randomly suing bad guys-of-the-week as per mr tvt records. I mean, why not? the teen forum was also great, and it said a lot about the state of the industry to find it 1/3 full at best. even the antics of the knob co-MC (asking a question and then turning and not listening to the kid?! give me a break!) couldn't prevent the teens from providing major insights to those in attendance, easily the most valuable hour of the week.
as for henderson/lefsetz, though it was mildly entertaining to see henderson pull a Frank Grimes and occasionally lose it, the thing, like the rest of the week, reeked of LAST YEAR.
in terms of SHOWS, The Novaks rocked it hard at lee's but there was some difficulty in hearing any real standout songs. a quicky scoot down to kathredal found my pick of the festival, Inward Eye tearing it up with shocking style and catchiness. Bryan and I were freaking out! After hearing about how great these 3 brothers are for so long now (and esp. their fantastic drummer ), yes it's all true! or at least their opening and closing numbers. love the standup drumming. a shot back up to Lee's found the Golden Dogs in fine form, and apparently earning one of the highest Chart scores (again?) of the fest. dave azzolini is a guitar maniac, and one hopes they finally get out on the real road this year.
the 'crazy and delicious' pizza pizza was merely crazy.
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