Jeff_I's Blog

Tomorrow begins the madness.

Tens of thousands will descend upon lush green Zilker Park only to turn it into a dusty musical utopia.  My bag is packed, and I'm ready to go (lie).  But before that, why not recap an epic day that was.

Earlier in the day we took a 6 hour trek through the city, sometimes in not the nicest of areas.  We say it was for sightseeing, but the only real sight we wanted to see was a SONIC.  I don't  know why or where this obsession came from, and now I understand how embarrassing  it is. 

After our initial search appeared to be fruitless, we decided to call a cab.  "To the nearest SONIC, please", we said.  "Does it have to be a SONIC?", our cabbie replied.  "Yes. Yes it does."

So, off we were, to a SONIC and man it was a beautiful sight.  I was so excited to see it, I smashed my big toe against a curb, splitting my toenail and causing it to gush blood.  Limping and bloody, we made it to the place to order, and came away with what we desired.  It was exactly like Lord Of The Rings, but not.  Got it?

 Prior to this, we were invited to a fabulous party put on by BMI.  They were celebrating the 1 millionth radio play of Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Crossfire". In addition to the awards ceremony and the magnificent spread, were two performances.  First up Adam Hood, an enjoyable singer songwriter, not really my style, but I liked it.  Think a Southern James Blunt who doesn't write terrible songs.  In all seriousness, Adam Hood was great and I recommend him.

I REALLY recommend the next act, straight outta Australia, and discretely drinking red wine next to us before she got called up to rock, Kara Grainger.  She has a fantastic alto/smokey voice that's been getting alot of comparison to Bonnie Raitt, and man, she can play guitar, too.  She was joined by her band (drums, keys, bass), but you could tell who the showstopper was.  Tune in for more from Ms. Grainger in the upcoming days, and check out her stuff her website.

We also got to see another performance (albeit abbreviated) by the aforementioned Sound And Jury Winners, Homer Hiccolm and the Rocketboys.  I'm now going to refer to them as Double H and the R's.  I can't remember their name for the life of me and it's sad.  After their set someone asked who they were and it took me 5 full minutes to remember their name.  

I'll bring it up to them, I've run into them at least 15 times already (they are very nice dudes) and they're going to start thinking I'm their Mel, and we wouldn't want that.

 OK, off to bed.  Tomorrow includes: Peter Bjorn and John, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon and Bjork!

 Should be awesome!