tahitijack
07-02-2006, 05:43 PM
Don't tell anyone, but it really doesn't rain everyday in Seattle. Faced with the prospects of another blue sky day with temps in the high 70's to low 80's my wife and I decide to head over to the Wooden Boat Show on Lake Union.
We arrive about 10AM, grab a hot cup of coffee and began walking around the Wooden Boat Center on the south shore of Lake Union looking at wooden boats of every age, shape and size. Some dated back over 100 years. Yes, there were plenty of Chris Craft yachts from sweet runabouts to ventage presidential style luxury yachts. One prowd owner built his classic ski boat from scratch. An eye catcher on display was the two person racing shell, which was used to win the gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics. There is a whole sub-culture of wooden boat owners not unlike ventage car owners. One yacht had a chart tracing its ownership back to the original 1929 purchase. As you can imagine quite a few had that old money look of highly polished and varnished exoctic woods.
After the show we headed over to the Fremont area of town for lunch at the Red Door which had orginally been built as a bank in the 1920's. We got lucky and took a table on the outdoor deck/bar area overlooking the street fair. My wife had the Ceaser salad. I could not resist the smoked turkey sandwitch with hand cut fries. We washed it down with Arnold Palmers.
After lunch we walked through the street fair. Lots of enteresting arts and crafts but nothing we were compelled to take home. At the edge of the street fair we found local guitarist Ron Fulton nailing down the Jimi Hendrix verson of All Along The Watchtower as he played his Strat, which plugged into a battery powered amp. Ron is a working musician and has his own oiginal music band, cd and most importanly a booking agent. He began playing at the age of 8 and learned to sing in the church choir. People passing by might see a "street musician" and not realize who ther person is that providing a few minutes of sound track for their day in the sun.
Ron did not have a mic, just his strat and small battery powered low volume amp.
Do any of you play quiet "background" music for street fairs, singing wouthout the benefit of a mic and PA?
We arrive about 10AM, grab a hot cup of coffee and began walking around the Wooden Boat Center on the south shore of Lake Union looking at wooden boats of every age, shape and size. Some dated back over 100 years. Yes, there were plenty of Chris Craft yachts from sweet runabouts to ventage presidential style luxury yachts. One prowd owner built his classic ski boat from scratch. An eye catcher on display was the two person racing shell, which was used to win the gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics. There is a whole sub-culture of wooden boat owners not unlike ventage car owners. One yacht had a chart tracing its ownership back to the original 1929 purchase. As you can imagine quite a few had that old money look of highly polished and varnished exoctic woods.
After the show we headed over to the Fremont area of town for lunch at the Red Door which had orginally been built as a bank in the 1920's. We got lucky and took a table on the outdoor deck/bar area overlooking the street fair. My wife had the Ceaser salad. I could not resist the smoked turkey sandwitch with hand cut fries. We washed it down with Arnold Palmers.
After lunch we walked through the street fair. Lots of enteresting arts and crafts but nothing we were compelled to take home. At the edge of the street fair we found local guitarist Ron Fulton nailing down the Jimi Hendrix verson of All Along The Watchtower as he played his Strat, which plugged into a battery powered amp. Ron is a working musician and has his own oiginal music band, cd and most importanly a booking agent. He began playing at the age of 8 and learned to sing in the church choir. People passing by might see a "street musician" and not realize who ther person is that providing a few minutes of sound track for their day in the sun.
Ron did not have a mic, just his strat and small battery powered low volume amp.
Do any of you play quiet "background" music for street fairs, singing wouthout the benefit of a mic and PA?