The T3sk3y Defenestrator

The second concert of the week was Friday night. My brother won tickets to see Kenny Wayne Shepherd at the Minnesota Harvest Orchard.

That’s the strangest venue – they built what appeard to be a 2000 seat tent pavilion in an apple orchard – surrounded by a petting zoo, barbeque pit, horseback rides, etc.

There were two big ’100′ problems with the show:

1) It was ’bout 100 degrees under the pavilion. I’m sure KWS wasn’t bothered – he’s from Louisiana. I was..
2) There were about 100 people at the show

I felt bad for them – it was totally empty. Therefore, we moved way up front and were treated to a really smoking show. To their credit – they played it like there were 10,000 in attendance.

I had never heard KWS before – the guy is a hell of a guitar player. He had a great band, too – good singer, a really solid and ‘busy’ bass player, great keyboard player, etc.

This all goes to what I call the ‘Chaos Factor’. The Chaos Factor is that the amount of Chaos at a show is a product of the number of people and the size of the room. Big room, small people = low chaos factor. Small room, big people – insane. So, if this show were at Famous Daves – I bet it would have been nuts.

I’d recommend going to see Tower of Power at the same place on July 29th. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to go.

Thanks for the concert, Jay! Great show! Check ‘em out if you get a chance..

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