@big_greg bumbershoot used to be so much fun! I started l working security there in ‘87 and was soon hired by a music rental company as a tech by ‘90. So many good memories. 1987 I was the backstage door guy at the coliseum. I got every performers autograph that year on one sheet of paper (except Miles). Some highlights include Miles Davis calling me back to his dressing room and drawing me an autographed portrait to thank me for helping him out at soundcheck. Bonnie Raitt and Linda Barry bringing me a muffin and pack of smokes (I was young and stupid) for keeping an eye on Bonnie’s guitar while they went out to take in the festival. That Sunday morning, before the grounds opened, I’m sitting in a chair reading the morning paper outside the backstage door and a gal walks up dressed in jeans and leather jacket carrying a guitar case. She stops to take out her guitar where two concrete walls abut about 10 feet from where I’m sitting and begins to play and sing. It was just the two of us. k.d. Lang in her torch and twang Re-Clines days. I was transfixed. Later that day she joined Roy Orbison on stage. Good times. I’ve got 10 years of stories from bumbershoot and my time working at the Paramount and Moore theaters from the mid ‘80’s to the mid ‘90’s. That was just one weekend.
carry on
carry on