KillRamsey
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Hood River, OR
- Name
- Kyle
Same venue as last time. Yesterday a band came through that’s fronted by a guy I’ve known about and liked since I was in high school, Scott McCaughey. We loved his band The Young Fresh Fellows, even covered one of their songs a lot. In this iteration, the band is called The Minus Five, and it features Mr. Peter Buck (from R.E.M.) to boot. Plus Jenny from the Decemberists, if you know them. Anywho, Peter’s well enough known that people drove in from far away to see it last night, crowd was big again, show was great.
I got to talk to him before the opener. I used to work on their fanclub when I was in college (in Athens, where they were from). I worked downstairs from their office, so I knew all 6 employees well, because they came in religiously every day to get breakfast and/or lunch. It was surreal to see him again, shake his hand, and chat about nothing for 2 minutes. The guy who scored a MASSIVE radio hit with a mandolin-based song in the middle of the gloomy grungy 90s (Losing My Religion). The guy whose band signed the largest ever record deal at that point, in the mid-90s.
Wife was kind enough to grab my bag before meeting me down there, but my bag only had the 18-55 and 50-230 in it … nothing truly fast. But I think I did ok, I liked some of these. The band doesn’t move around a ton either, so it’s not like you can get interesting motion / action shots, unless you’re allllways prepared, and a little lucky.
Peter
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I got to talk to him before the opener. I used to work on their fanclub when I was in college (in Athens, where they were from). I worked downstairs from their office, so I knew all 6 employees well, because they came in religiously every day to get breakfast and/or lunch. It was surreal to see him again, shake his hand, and chat about nothing for 2 minutes. The guy who scored a MASSIVE radio hit with a mandolin-based song in the middle of the gloomy grungy 90s (Losing My Religion). The guy whose band signed the largest ever record deal at that point, in the mid-90s.
Wife was kind enough to grab my bag before meeting me down there, but my bag only had the 18-55 and 50-230 in it … nothing truly fast. But I think I did ok, I liked some of these. The band doesn’t move around a ton either, so it’s not like you can get interesting motion / action shots, unless you’re allllways prepared, and a little lucky.
Peter
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