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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

The Mighty Quinn

Here I am Saturday at Ashley Reservoir in Holyoke under a wide open sky.


There were some busy beavers around there.


From the reservoir I headed down to the MGM Casino for the Springfield Jam Fest. It featured ten jam bands from around New England and was absolutely free to the public.


John O'Brien was MC.


The show was also a showcase performance for the legendary local band FAT, celebrating their (gulp!) 50th anniversary year. I first saw them around 1975 at Springfield Technical Community College's Spring Fling! Here's a picture of the band taken around that time, but no one can agree whether that was a show in Goshen, Chesterfield or Amherst. Early FAT shows were the type of affairs where memories might easily blur.


Here they are at the MGM Casino Saturday night.



Almost as good as the music was lead singer Peter Newland's reminiscences between songs, telling tales of the Pioneer Valley music scene from across the decades. Hopefully, Newland will write an autobiography so that all that precious local history can be permanently preserved.

The performance of the night, however, was by Quinn Sullivan, a kid from New Bedford and former child prodigy who now has his own band. He whipped the crowd into a frenzy!


Click and enlarge this picture to see me standing in the audience by Quinn's elbow.


No video could capture the energy that was onstage, but this gives you an idea.



Meanwhile, in the political world, here's a spoof of those dumb Colin Kaepernick ads featuring Charlie Baker. Of course I am going to vote for Baker for Governor, he is clearly superior to the irresponsible leftist running against him, but it is also a fact that this spoof cuts a little too close to the bone.

King Street, Northampton.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There's not much difference between the incumbent and Gonzales. I guess Gonzo is a slightly worse democrat? But the whole state is run by democrats regardless. Baker is essentially the democratic legislature's bitch, since they can override his veto at any time and He knows it. The other members of the executive branch and the judiciary are leftists. If I were GOP or unenrolled I might as well write in Lively (which I did in the state primary) as a middle finger to the cuckservative Baker.