Comments on: 10/6 – Hardly Strickly Headline high five and beautiful havoc in the heart of San Francisco. And who the hell is Gogol Bordello http://phorealrecords.com/2008/10/06/106-hardly-strickly-headline-and-wandering-into-new-worlds-of-music/ www.phorealrecords.com Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:12:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: phoreal http://phorealrecords.com/2008/10/06/106-hardly-strickly-headline-and-wandering-into-new-worlds-of-music/comment-page-1/#comment-24 phoreal Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:04:11 +0000 http://phorealrecords.com/?p=44#comment-24 <strong>Here is OB's PR review of the festival that he posted on the forum. There's a link to the photos too: </strong> "Every year I look forward to the Sunday of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. It's been a tradition for me (see: 2003>07, http://flickr.com/photos/oberpar/sets/72157601857388200/ ). Living just 6 blocks from the park, and with the only thing on the agenda, the festival, it was easy to get out the door before 10 am to start to hold down the fort with Sparkle, Phoreal and Labiacci. Lots of folks got there long before us. During the soundcheck at 10:20 am Poor Man's Whiskey kicked the day off with a "Friend of the Devil" which made all the already wide smiles get wider. When their set kicked off at 11, the band was decked out in mariachi costumes, were accompanied by 5 or so female dancers, and for the day, a horn section. a pinata was smashed, there was a slick theremin solo, a dready dirty dirty hippie in a monkey mask danced onstage, and a fun cover of lucy in the sky with diamonds after the band leader proposed to his girlfriend on stage! Lots of folks started to come on by our place, good to see you all, I ventured to see bonnie'prince'billy at the rooster stage but there were so many people, we retreated to our safe place before too long. ... Garcia's Sauce-Steve Parrish introduced Moonalice and I have no problem at all that they play Stella Blue every time i see them... The Waybacks and The Infamous Stringdusters also made very pleasant background music for many many conversations...and unfortunately no sight of Neil Young sitting with his wife Pegi...but the sight of Eric McFadden tuning his mandolin preset made me say Neil who? (kidding). Lebo also sat in with PMW earlier in the day...with the day's schedule off from the first band, Tea Leaf's set started very late and ended near an hour after it was supposed to, Scotty Rage's drums ending Let Ua Go surely were the last that rang out in the park for this year's Sunday at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. We had a helluva day. " 10/5/2008: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberpar/sets/72157607799752941/ Here is OB’s PR review of the festival that he posted on the forum. There’s a link to the photos too:
“Every year I look forward to the Sunday of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. It’s been a tradition for me (see: 2003>07, http://flickr.com/photos/oberpar/sets/72157601857388200/ ). Living just 6 blocks from the park, and with the only thing on the agenda, the festival, it was easy to get out the door before 10 am to start to hold down the fort with Sparkle, Phoreal and Labiacci. Lots of folks got there long before us.

During the soundcheck at 10:20 am Poor Man’s Whiskey kicked the day off with a “Friend of the Devil” which made all the already wide smiles get wider. When their set kicked off at 11, the band was decked out in mariachi costumes, were accompanied by 5 or so female dancers, and for the day, a horn section. a pinata was smashed, there was a slick theremin solo, a dready dirty dirty hippie in a monkey mask danced onstage, and a fun cover of lucy in the sky with diamonds after the band leader proposed to his girlfriend on stage!

Lots of folks started to come on by our place, good to see you all, I ventured to see bonnie’prince’billy at the rooster stage but there were so many people, we retreated to our safe place before too long. … Garcia’s Sauce-Steve Parrish introduced Moonalice and I have no problem at all that they play Stella Blue every time i see them… The Waybacks and The Infamous Stringdusters also made very pleasant background music for many many conversations…and unfortunately no sight of Neil Young sitting with his wife Pegi…but the sight of Eric McFadden tuning his mandolin preset made me say Neil who? (kidding). Lebo also sat in with PMW earlier in the day…with the day’s schedule off from the first band, Tea Leaf’s set started very late and ended near an hour after it was supposed to, Scotty Rage’s drums ending Let Ua Go surely were the last that rang out in the park for this year’s Sunday at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. We had a helluva day. ”
10/5/2008: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberpar/sets/72157607799752941/

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