What a fine life we are living....

So this has turned into a music review blog and I am perfectly OK with that.

Last night I embarked on another epic music adventure to see SAID THE WHALE. Peter Gardener from Forestry opened and stole my heart and peered right into the depths of my soul with his insightful lyrics that hit home and tingled every nerve in my body. For his first solo performance I was thoroughly impressed and agree with the quote "If he had Cd's I'd buy twelve" mentioned by Jake Giles.

Peter's songs were the desires of my heart put to a melody. I envy the fact that he wrote those words before I could. It was truly touching and if you ever have an opportunity to witness this man in action you should. His voice may not be the greatest on record but he makes up for it with genuine interest and gumption.

Said the whale was perfectly fantastic as I expected them to be, we got front row seats and I could smell Tyler Bancroft as he wailed on his silver sparkly guitar. After many an awesome song, a bucketful of horrid jokes, and an impromptu dance sesh to "Camilo" we received two encore songs, one of them to be "Curse of the Currents" which happens to be one of my favourite songs. Ben took the reigns on this one and just strum and sang in the most natural way. I took up the invitation to sing along and had eye contact with Ben for a few cherished minutes as we sang our "duet." He smiled and I knew that this would be stored in my memory bank under "life defining moments"

We got our Cd's signed and had a nice chat with the boys before we ended our evening, I cannot put to words how grateful I am that we can experience these songs in a venue like the one we have, in our little cow poke town. I cherish it immensely.

The future belongs to me, and I belong to you.

Comments

  1. AnonymousDecember 20, 2010 at 10:23 PM

    thank you so much, so amazing to hear! glad you enjoyed the night, we had a great time. lots of love to you...
    -said the whale

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  2. amyDecember 21, 2010 at 8:46 AM

    Seriously?!
    Thank you guys for coming out to Duncan, our community really appreciates getting noted on a tour, at least I know I appreciate it.

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