Comfest 2008: Hopefully the rain didn't get you
Thoroughly exhausted after the Comfest weekend, but it was overall a good time. Thoughts:
- That Friday afternoon lineup at the Offramp stage was probably the cumulative highlight. Cheater Slicks, Guinea Worms, Necropolis, and TJSA all delivered. The Slave Apartments set particularly ruled -- it had been around 10 years since I'd last seen them (at Pat's in the Flats in Cleveland with Gem . . . great night), so I was definitely loving hearing all the old hits ("Bottle Island," "My Mysterious Death," "Cheater's Heaven," "Rump Government" . . . too many to list, really). Jeff Fernengel, Brainbow, and Weightless were Friday night standouts.
- Didn't catch anything super-exciting Saturday, mostly because I missed the Saturday night bands. Reports were that Muscle Puzzle, Dead Sea, and El Jesus sounded great.
- I really dug the Sun's set earlier tonight. I'd recently seen them as a five-piece at Bourbon Street and things seemed kinda disjointed, but the power trio lineup definitely delivered tonight.
Obligatory bad photos (with a few ok ones thrown in for variety's sake):
Cheater Slicks (bigger photo)
Guinea Worms with the Columbus Hardcoretet (bigger photo)
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments (bigger photo)
Comfest All-Stars Series #1: Ron House with your lame narrator
Comfest All-Stars Series #2: Jeff Fernengel & Me (I figured after Ron House & Fern, the All-Stars Series was ripe for early retirement)
Fern & Friends (bigger photo)
Brainbow (bigger photo)
More Brainbow (bigger photo)
Blueprint & Co. (bigger photo)
