Hi Graeme,
Thursday was a blast, and truely beautiful, but electrical problems prevented me from recording the show audio (sigh ). Noah had a relative with a FlipVideo recorder, and I'm hoping to get a copy of the footage to edit. We gat a couple of stills at the Plaza, see the link below.
Friday and Saturday in Dubuque, was AMAZING! Over 1000 people attended, and familiar faces were everywhere. My recorder worked, and a number of other people were trying to take board taps or room recordings. There have been hundreds of pictures posted so far on Facebook (
here's my page- these are just the pictures I've been tagged in), with more to come, and several camcorders were running as well. So there are angles from all over the place.
We had a planned set shot for coverage and that appears to be something we can start editing with. I'm working with the event planners to try to pull together as much material as I can to create audio recordings of each band (all 17)first, and edited videos once we can get a grip on the sources. I have 16 hours of my recordings, and about 6 hours from a SBD recording of Friday night.
As much fun as it was for the fans who attended, it was even more fun to see all of these musical companions from one little Iowa town, many of whom hadn't played with or seen each other in 40 years or more. Both nights we had an audience sing-along segment to Imagine part way thru the night, and bands covered every flavour from The Ventures to Sam & Dave to HP Lovecraft to Chicago to Santana to Beatles to Led Zepplin to ....
Mike
