2 posts tagged “st. paul”

The weater on September 30th in Minnesota can be hit or miss, but yesterday, Summit Brewery lucked out with a gorgeous fall day.  It was their 20th Anniversary celebration and thousands of people converged on Harriett Island in St. Paul to enjoy the fresh air, live music and Summit beer on tap.  Actually, so many more people showed up than expected that Summit had to bring in extra beer trucks just to support the crowd.

The line-up was great:

12:00pm - Minnesota Pipes & Drums
12:30pm - The Alarmists
1:30pm - Big George Jackson
2:30pm - Tapes ’n Tapes
4:00pm - The Suburbs
5:30pm - Richard Thompson
6:45pm - Soul Asylum
8:30pm - Cake

Jon and I arrived towards the end of Tapes 'n Tapes and found a perfect spot just to the left of the sound board.  Both Richard Thompson and Soul Asylum were fabulous. 

Richard Thompson

Soul Asylum

Then, Cake took the stage.  This is when things got a bit interesting.  John McCrea, the lead singer, was quite intoxicated and incredibly surly.  He shouted to someone in the crowd to "Shut Up!" after they requested a song; he lambasted the crowd for not buying albums, but stealing them off the internet; he demanded someone come on stage to fix a mirror ball that wasn't working; and voiced his disappointment in people that don't take pride in their work.  Despite his complete malapropos behavior, we stayed through the entire show...'cause, honestly, it was a good show.