Randy Oxford Band Blues trombone; I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone play thetrombone with the exact same style as this guy, but he sure as hell could play. A good backing band as well. I stayed for a good portion of their set which was being fronted by a female vocalist with a decent voice, but not all that much energy. Randy Oxford made up for that with a bit too much energy. At that point at which I’d started to get up to leave the lady left the stage and the bass player took the lead vocalist role and what little I listened didn’t sound too good. Was glad I caught these guys though, pretty good bad.
Olympic Sound Collective So there was a game show way back in the day, which I’ve never seen nor played, called I-76. What I do know of the game is that it had a kick ass sound track. This 70′s funk/rock, bass driven stuff that I can’t listen to without my head bobbing along. Anyway, these guys come pretty close to that sound, at least as close as anything I’ve run across. They’re from Seattle so I’m definitely going to check them out more.
The Village Green I went down today planning/looking forward to seeing these guys. I’d stuck around at the other two venues so long that I only caught their last song and to be honest I’m glad that was the case. Maybe it was just the song, but they didn’t really do anything for me. oh well.
Brett Dennen Paul Simon with a hint of Jack Johnson thrown in. He was decent, nothing special though so far as I was concerned. Seemed a bit odd when he’d talk in between songs. I guess that turned me off of him a bit.
Particle This L.A. based group kind of has a game soundtrack feel to them, which was backed up when they played a song that’s being included on an upcoming game Scarface: The world is yours. I liked these guys quite a bit, not as much as OSC though. They had a funky feel to them as well, but were less rock and more soul/techno/something-or-another. I saw and watched the better part of their setleaving only as they started to play a pink floyd cover that I could of done without, thank Lexington’s WQKK for playing Pink Floyd in to the ground for that one.
Bits and pieces of other acts. At this point I was pretty tired of being around 9 billion people in the hot sun etc. I caught a couple more acts before calling it and heading home. Granted I didn’t get my full 3 days in, but I sure as hell got $50 worth of music in. I’ll definitely be getting the 3 day pass again next year. Bumbershoot was very cool.