The People's Dance Party: San Diego Street Scene Update

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Saturday, August 05, 2006

San Diego Street Scene Update

Here's what happened so far.

Oddly enough, Megan and I hit absolutely no traffic driving down from L.A. to S.D. yesterday, so we ended up at the Chargers stadium really early and we kind of just sat in the shade for hours since we couldn't find anyone who could tell us where the media check in was.
Finally we got in and we had to meet up Nine Black Alps backstage for a brief interview. Thing is, media passes don't get you backstage. Fortunately, a nice security guard let us in without any hassle (thanks, Randy). As much as I hate to admit, this is one of the advantages to being a girl.
Saw Nine Black Alps, setlist was either the same or almost the same as the one at the show at Spaceland. We only stayed for a few songs because we had to run over to another stage to see Rock Kills Kid. RKK was excellent. At one point, we walked over to the Fulano stage and saw some of What Made Milwaukee Famous, which sort of reminded me of Muse, which I guess means that it reminded me of prog-rock.
Fortunately for Megan, the next two sets she was supposed to shoot were at the Time Warner Stage. She Wants Revenge followed RKK. I really liked them live. It was all very sleazy sounding, which appeals to the Soft Cell fan in me. Wolfmother followed SWR and, let me tell you, this band is going to be the biggest band in the world by next year. We were amazed not just at the turnout for Wolfmother, but the amount of people who you could tell were specifically at Street Scene for the band. Plus, there were so many guys sporting 'fros that you know this band is making a serious impact. I think Wolfmother might have been the best performance of the day. On the video screen, there were all these psychedelic effects, which I thought was to highlight the Sabbath vibe, but Megan said that the video folks were doing that for everyone.
Somewhere between SWR and Wolfmother, Megan and I were escorted backstage to interview RKK. We feel a bit alien backstage amongst the astro-turf and tour busses, but it's an experience.
After Wolfmother, we headed over to Bad Religion, where we saw two songs before literally running back to the Time Warner Stage (Megan running with a very heavy camera around her neck) to get to Queens of the Stone Age because, as is standard at rock concerts, the photo pit is only open for the first three songs.
Megan stuck around at Queens of the Stone Age and I started wandering about, ultimately catching three songs from Wu-Tang Clan and two songs from Cheb I Sabbah.
Finished out the night with Social Distortion. Lugged ourselves to the car and drove back to our host's house. Somewhere along the line we got severely lost in La Jolla, where streetlamps don't seem to exist. Never trust Google maps.

Comments:

You forgot about AFI, probably because I only got to shoot a little more then one song before the security guards got nervous about all the crying AFI fans. I went from Bad Religion at Captain Morgan Stage to QOTSA at Time Warner then back to Captain Morgan for AFI then back to Time Warner for Social Distortion. I can't believe I had trouble getting to sleep Friday night.

# posted by Megan : 7:59 PM

Saturday, August 05, 2006

San Diego Street Scene Update

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