2000 Washington

Monday 9/4/00

Day 18: Bumbershoot

Hendrix puppet outside of BumbershootHendrix collage at EMPWe left around 9:00 to go into Bumbershoot today and would park near donwtown as parking is free onholidays and sundays. This way we can take the Monorali from the Westlake Shopping mall into Bumbershoot for only $?.I now went back to go to the Experience Music Project (EMP) museum. This is the new museum that Paul Allen has built with some of his fortunes from Microsoft. Paul also owns the Seattle Seahawks and Protland Trailblazer. The cost is rather steep $1?.00 and is very busy today as there is a line waiting to get in. Once inside they give you headphones sets that will let you click on individual items to hear more music and text information. There are several room that will let you learn about Jimi Hendrix, Early Seatle blues, Grunge, Jazz and much more. Seattle has a pretty good hisrtory of music that includes Ray Charles, Heart, Quincy Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Ventures and several more I can't remember right now.

Everybodyenjoying the Bluesy sound of Joan OsborneIt now time to go inside Bumbershoot and first thing was to get something to eat. They had all kinds of food from thelocal restaurents. This included cajun, italian, middle east,mexican, oriental, african and several others. I bought some Cajun food and then sat down by the Blues Stage where the Jimmie Gilmore group was playing. This person can play the quitar as he has a mixture of country added to the blues music. I stayed and watched unitl they finished about thirty minutes before ginto the maintstage football field to watch Jown Osborne. This iswho I wanted to see today as she comes every year andput on a good show. It was a great day weather wise inthe 70's and Osbornes playe dfor 90- minuts with alot of new music that was to be release in October. Thei included a new remake of 'Love is Alive' by Gary Wright that sounde good withvher 'bluesy' voice. alot of her new music is more pop rather than blues and was a little disappointed, she did play 'One of us at the end ' and mad everybody happy befoer leaving.

Legos for all ages to play with at BumbershootOne last view of the Space Needle at BumbershootIn a couple hoursJoan Jett would be in the Coliseum but it was time to just people watch as you would see people paying for massages, kids blowing bubbles or playing with legos, families going to the Pacific Science Center, artists with paintings and other crafts for sale, teenagers throwing frisbees and kicking hacky sacks, or go into the enclosed beer gardens and sit down to a cool one. These were things I did for the next couple hours before going into the coliseum to see Joan Jett. She played her punk/rock music which satisfied most of the audience as she has been a favorite her for many years. I had seen her before and wouldn't staylog as I had to work tomorrow. I wouldn't be able to see Ben Harper who would be playing at the stadium later tonight. I did stay late five years ago to see the best concert I had ever been to and that was when Band of Gypsies group got back together again and played hendrix tuen. This also included Stanly Jordan, Randy Hansen, Buddy Miles and serval other musicians who were influenced by Hendrix. But that was five years ago todaay. There are many good memeories from Bumbershoot and will be many more inthe future. If you ever gta chance to come to Seattle make it Labor daya and come to Bumbershoot. I got home arund 10:00 and this is what I woud consider to best Washington.

 

 

 

 

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