for those about to rock

this really deserves a full rundown,

but i'm getting to this a little late in the day, and so i'm just copying and pasting a missive i sent the old prospector earlier in the day about my experience at the kool keith show at harper's ferry on friday night:

mike g and i got pretty good buzzes going before the show.

there wasn't a huge crowd, so we were able to get right up front

my buzz was big enough to tell me that it was a good idea to stage dive in the middle of kool keith's set

towards the end of the set, kool keith was pointing at me and saying a bunch of stuff ... no one remembers whether he was dissing me or giving me props for my redd foxx tee [ed. note: i actually, genuinely like redd foxx and sanford and son, and have since i was young]

after the show, mike gee and i jumped up on stage for photo ops and all. there was this groupie (the one in the picture with me) who was selling keith on coming to an after-party in central square. he had his hands full with her, but when she went to get her friends to take a picture of her, a bunch of us on the stage jumped into the shot, and mike snapped that pic. kool keith handed me a pen that he'd been using to autograph cds and said "i think this is yours" (it wasn't)

[necessary post-script: the groupie and the hard sell on the after-party were like something out of a made-for-tv rock star biopic. a little surreal to see that in person.

also, kool keith having a normal conversation with someone sounds exactly kool keith rapping. not remarkable, but funny to have the voice that raps "Keith look in the club for your celebrity jump shooters / Tall lean men who can't read books to they kids need tutors" on record be the same voice that tells you he has your pen, and here you go.]

posted by jomilkman @ 2:11 PM