{"id":2596,"date":"2010-10-06T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T22:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2010-10-08T00:46:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T00:46:55","slug":"hardly-strictly-arcade-fire-four-days-of-overload-days-2-and-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-10\/hardly-strictly-arcade-fire-four-days-of-overload-days-2-and-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardly Strictly Arcade Fire–Four Days of Overload (Days 2 and 1\/2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the fine Soho show on Thursday, we hopped in the car and drove up to San Luis Obispo for some college\/family time and managed to hit the phenomenal Boo Boo Records<\/a> in that fine town.\u00a0 Boo Boo is one of the best record stores still extant, with great listening stations, staff picks, used CDs and a vast selection of all genres and media.\u00a0 Please stop by and support this fine establishment when in San Luis Obispo.<\/p>\n

After leaving SLO, we drove up the 101 with the windows down under seriously sashaying sunset skies.\u00a0 We were somewhat embarrassed by California’s swaggering, supercilious show on the golden-hilled stage.<\/p>\n

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Not unsurprisingly, by the time we hit Gilroy the familiar fog had overtaken the sunset skies.\u00a0 We eventually made San Francisco and were soon ensconced with our friends, The Ferralls, at their fine “Outer Inner Sunset” abode.\u00a0 So great to see and meander with them again.<\/p>\n

In the morning we walked the 10 minutes to Golden Gate Park and the free 10th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (put on by gracious,\u00a0 music-loving, investment-titan Warren Hellman).<\/p>\n

We met up with Santa Barbarans, John Hawkes and new partner-in-music-addiction Art Tracewell, and prepared to be overindulged (strictly musically speaking).\u00a0 We immediately had a good flavor for the proceedings with the seating choices and the 11am hip-flask-hippie surroundings.\u00a0 The crowds were manageable at this juncture, but as the day wore on we were somewhat taken aback by the enormity of the crowds.\u00a0 We guess it’s not hard to figure, though, given the impressive line-ups and the fact that admission was, oh say,\u00a0 free (everything is free these days, isn’t it??).<\/p>\n

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We arrived just in time for Kelly Willis’ set and were quickly immersed in the warm, big sound of Willis and her band, and her measured and stirring songs.<\/p>\n

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We then set off for Trombone Shorty’s set and along the way enjoyed some of the fans who were multi-tasking (but not shorting) while Trombone Shorty slayed the audience with his updated R&B sound via New Orleans, and his phenomenal trombone and trumpet talents.\u00a0 Will knit for Shorty.<\/p>\n

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Here was T-Shorty on Letterman a few months ago:<\/p>\n