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bass strapped to my back on top picture. Lol
 
One day down the road I'm going to do an evolution of a great venue... Been playing there for 10 years. Started off with the expectation of 500-1000 people... now it's closer to 20,000.
This year... (Note the significant hat upgrade... but probably the same pair of Nike Monarchs)
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A couple years back
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The first year I played there... about 10 years ago.
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Happy to say that one of my bands had the honor af being the first band to play on the new stage.

This was a close second. We played as a filler band on the 3rd story of a roof while bands on the main stage rotated. Pretty wild... and as unsafe as could be for a bunch of old dudes. That's our guitar player... and notice that there wasn't room on stage for the bass amp... That post card of a stage had 2 keyboardists, guitar drums and bass. and very little to keep anyone from falling off.
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What we saw from the stage/pile of wood... Had a great time and got to BS with Randall Hall (Lynyrd Skynyrd) and Kevin Chalfant (The Storm, Journey). But I have to say that hauling gear to a roof VIA scissors lift was a challenge.
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Very cool...I still have my blue Kustom 100!
 
A recent shot - it's not too sharp, 'cause it's a grab off Youtube, not a still photo, but I like the vibe of the picture nonetheless. I have to go to lengths with marking on my necks, and I practice a lot at home with my eyes shut so I can operate in this environment.

The singers are about 25 feet in front of me - that's part of how the lighting can be so bright on them, but still dim in back.
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These shows were pretty special for me- just a duo, playing music I wrote on bass/ piccolo bass/ tons of effects and looping. The drummer is Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Rites of Spring, MC50) and my wife is quite an accomplished projectionist, playing with video like an instrument in real time. We were lucky enough to be featured at the Kennedy Center in DC (2nd pic).
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A few...

With Roy Hargrove sitting in at the Monterey Jazz Festival -- '59 P-bass:
what
With Babatunde Olatunji and Drums of Passion:
what
And, just for scale - opening for Deep Purple - that's basically half the field/crowd - can see the back of the neck of my '64 T-bird:

WHAT???