Monday, September 22nd, 2008...4:21 pm
Giffords Fundraiser
I got a pass to get into Gabrielle Giffords’s fundraiser with Calexico over at the Rialto this weekend. This brings up a piece of goofiness: do I post the videos I took here or do I save them for my Polish-Mexican page where I put up stuff about local music (and which only four of you read).
Such ethical problems that I face.
The theater was packed; even the balcony was full. The crowd was split between the usual Giffords crowd and the usual hipster Calexico fans. I’ve seen Jonathan Paton at Calexico shows before, for reasons that should be painfully obvious, he skipped this one.
Anyway, here is Giffords introducing the band. Giffords mentions that she had NASA use Calexico’s “Crystal Frontier” as a wake-up for her husband when he was on a mission.
Since I want to keep this “Chinese Wall” between this blog and my other one, I’ve posted videos of a couple of songs over at my other site. Check it out.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 am
Maybe later.