For the fifth time in the last six years we made the 1200 mile trek from Long Beach , California to the middle of Washington for Sasquatch! Festival. Since Interstate 5 is so boring we head up the coast and took a couple of extra days. The night before things got started we stayed just a bit north in Wenatchee. When I woke up I had Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros‘ “Home” stuck in my head. Since our stereo is busted in our new truck it made for the perfect soundtrack as we drove the The Gorge…
Our parking situation is a bit funky this year and we’re having to spend half the day up top behind the bigfoot stage and half the day down by the mainstage. We got lucky on Saturday because Edward Sharpe were playing up top and we wrangled them into playing a song for us.
Mumford and Sons were also on the Bigfoot stage and they stopped by to cut a ribbon inaugurating our new truck, Beauregard. This was the first day we’ve slung from our new ride and they were excited to be part of the celebration. They’ll be hitting the festival circuit this summer so we’ll try to get them to play a song for us sometime down the road.
We were supposed to move the truck at 5:00 but that was when Edward Sharpe was finishing up. We wanted to get the whole band together and we knew this would be the best time to get them to play something. We headed a lil’ ways behind the stage to rows of grape vines. Portugal. The Man was taking the stage any minute and we didn’t want the sound bleeding through so we started up as quick as we good. About a minute into “Home” a security guard came over to kick us out because we were on private property. We didn’t want to stop filming so we started walking backwards with the cameras and the microphone until we were back on festival grounds.
There’s loads more good music still on the way. I have a special role during Pavement’s set! MGMT is tomorrow night and there’s dozens more. We gotta be out of here on Tuesday for the drive to Arkansas for our return to Wakarusa, another festival we missed last year that I’m excited to get back to. See you out there soon.
