Revolution, Music, and Peace Festival
Hippies, Hippies, Hippies! It was right out of the 60’s with a modern twist. We were performing at the Revolution, Music, and Peace Festival. A music festival to benefit breast cancer. All proceeds going to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation at St. Vincent Hospital. The location was a remote hill top in Southern Indiana that you could only find by following a trail of pink ribbons tied along the lonesome gravel back roads that criss cross the hillside. The pink ribbons were a nice touch in keeping with the breast cancer theme and was absolutely necessary to keep travelers from going down the wrong road and having to get directions from the locals.
Elephant Revival
Cootie was walking around the field plinking on his guitar when we pulled up and Joe, Tim and Andrew arrived shortly there after. We all had fun snapping photos and playing with a batman doll that one of Cootie’s kids left in the back of his car. It was probably the most awesome batman experience I’ve had as of late. Elephant Revival went on just before us and they are really good. Be sure to check out there myspace. We started setting up and met the surly sound guy, who will be part of my “soundguy rant” one of these days. We played our set. Cootie did a Grateful Dead cover, “New Speedway Boogie” which was a nice addition. The set list was:
Howling Mad
Clackety Clack
Ain’t it a Shame
In The Moment
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
Willin’
Speedway Boogie
Blue ribbon
Rolling in my Sweet Baby’s Arms
For Some Reason
alternate:
Don’t Blame Your Baby on Me
Fraulein
Shook Me Down
Bound to Disarray
Cuckoo
In usual Trunk fashion this was changed up on site and we added and took away a few songs. My memory is a haze as to what all actually was played. I think we confused them a bit at the end. We ended the last song by walking off the stage one by one and leaving or amps feeding back until only Tim and Andrew are left to end the song.
All in all, it was a fun gig to do and a great experience to remember. And I have to say hippie chicks are hot! A few hours after we left, I heard that the police came in and shut the event down. Damn the man and his corporate plan, right? We didn’t make any recording of this performance but I will have some more up soon at the site.
This is our first official attempt at creating a podcast. The file below is only one live song we performed. The offical podcast will be in the next post.
[podcast]http://thekernfamily.org/podcast/01_-_Track_01.mp3[/podcast]
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