ohh yeah it has!!! We showed up just after barracuda, but ive seen them before. Motorbreath had a rough set. Journey, as always did not disappoint. Consummate professionals. Ran into Kevin, the singer, on the way out and said hi and felt bad because he asked if we were staying for floyd and we weren't. I had to go kick people off my lawn cause im an old fart! Lol.
the mother of all tribute band festivals. https://harefest.com/lineup/ not sure if the bulk of the music genre is your style but the bands are top notch performers. Three stages. As a fellow musician, im sure you would have respect for what just went down in Canby! Lol. Oh and Boston killed it too. Played thier whole first album!!! Id say there was probably 3-4k people on Friday night closer to 5k last night. does that seem about right @42N8Bounce ?
I love a good cover band! Saw Australian Pink Floyd back in the mid 00’s… I think an all woman AC/DC cover band opened for them? I had to know because of course a Metallica cover band would be a bit of a train wreck; just like the original back in the 80s lol!
Yep. Ive seen that band play at dantes you are refering to. Lol. Yeah. Motorbreath is really good. Ive opened up for them when i was in the band TheDogTribe. Ut they had the hottest time slot and had technical issues from the get go. Ive seen them many times and this was one of their lesser performances. Van halen and gnr were damned good as well though. overall with how it was run combine with the bands, best concert festival ive ever gone to. Peaceful and positive energy. Lines got a little long during dinner time yesterday bit otherwise no long lines anywhere. Hand washing stations, free water, etc. just very well run. edit: if a mod wants to move these posts to the OT, titling something like harefest 11 or something. I thought id give you guys something to do for once! @SlyPokerDog
Yep. It was a good sized crowd, but it didn’t feel too crowded. Plenty of locations to put out a blanket and chair and enjoy.
Assuming all of this is true. Why didn’t management notice what *some* of us *dumb* forum members noticed, and say, “yeah, we can’t do this” and trade Dame *years* ago? People are completely letting Joe off the hook here. If he was saying stuff to keep the star happy, knowing good and well he couldn’t do it, WHY NOT TRADE DAME? Just unbelievably bad management.
I think he genuinely thought he could get a trade done, but when other teams smelled blood in the water with dame being unhappy the price for help got exponentially more expensive not to mention we didnt really have the most coveted of assets either outside of #3 and sharpe, and we all know we werent going to give up sharpe. So if anything he probably did a decent job at managing this shit show thus far by not giving away everything but the kitchen sink for a possible upgrade, that again also didnt guarantee dame to stay anyways....
I agree - I think Joe has been stuck between a rock and a hard spot. He wanted to add vet talent around Dame but didn't have the assets. Now Dame wants to be traded to one specific team that doesn't have the assets to do the trade. I don't really think that playing the blame game now does anybody any good. The table has now been set for a rebuild featuring some pretty promising talent. Let's just hope we can get back a decent return on a Dame trade and get on with it! Just my 2 pesos!
Because without a trade request from Dame, 80% of the fanbase turns on him immediately and the team knows it. Look at how much the support the team got now because Dame was the one who asked out. This is a PR war and neither side wanted to be the bad guy.
Yeah it was a game of chicken. Dame’s position was “do what I say or I’ll leave” and Joe’s moves were playing chicken with that. Dame blinked first, after Joe literally drafted his replacement lol bold move tbh.
If you're the Blazers, you sacrifice future wins to keep what would have been the all-time greatest Blazer. If would have been financially foolhardy for the Blazers to ever trade a top-75 player who actually wanted to be here. It was always going to have to be Dame asking out. I just wish he would have given us more than one team.
I did. In person, in fact. I never let my father forget that he refused to let me run down to the court. I also watched the parade from the SW corner of Broadway and Taylor. Those are memories I will never forget.
NFL: Ravens (hence the colors of the Blazer pinwheel in my profile pic lol) MLB: Yankees (lol speaking of pinstripes) NHL: Kings
