GBS at Bumbershoot

Donkey Ridin' - Darrell in a shiny black T, Alan in the maroon pants and a black shirt, Séan in the Hawaiian shirt and blue jeans, and Bob in (guess what color!) Ha! Gotcha! Two-toned blue shirt with black pants. I think they were surprised at the number of people singing and we were thanked and complimented numerous times during the show.  Billy Peddle - everyone was moving on stage - Darrell was particularly dancey but all four of them were all over having fun When I'm Up - Alan: Good Singin'! Goin' Up - Alan gave a really long intro,which included a geography lesson (for him) Alan: " This is a song of celebration. We are celebrating tonight 'cause it's Sunday but tomorrow is a holiday so it's like a Saturday! And this is the last weekend of summer so we should make it the best of our entire lives! We've come a long way from our home in Newfoundland - all the way on the other coast." (points in the wrong direction). When he was corrected and told to point the other way, he made the excuse - "Oh we studied Canadian geography, not American!" Before the show, Danny had put a hand-made drawing up by Alan's mic and at this point Alan holds it up and just gushes all over about it. He turned it around for the audience to see and explained that it was drawn by a 4-year-old for him. He asked if the girl was there and she was right in front sitting on her Dad's shoulders. Alan said, "This is so sweet! Will you marry me?"

Sean wasn't the only one in a Hawaiian shirt this weekend.

Boston and St. John's - a guy behind us decided to sing louder than Alan for the beginning of this, but thankfully stopped since he couldn't hold the tune! Paddy Murphy - Séan had so much fun during this song! He was dancing, bouncing, smiling - just utterly enjoying himself! Sea of No Cares - Alan mentioned it was "a new song for the new album which will assault the charts early in 2002" Sean replies, "You mean insult the charts!" Alan: And the new video will have choreography!" At which point Sean started to do a very strange dance. Everything Shines - mentioned it was co-written by Chris Trapper and gave the Pushstars a little plug. Old Black Rum - Alan and Darrell were pandering to the people to the side of the stage. They spent most of the song over there! Here's a blurry butt shot of Alan over there.

General Taylor - Alan introduced Séan as "A shanty from the Shanty Man!" and we got "a bloody big barrel for the shanty man!" verse tonight. Feel It Turn - Well - this was THE BEST version of Feel It Turn I have ever heard! Séan was in the best voice - very different from the big bad note he hit in Portland on Friday during General Taylor. Everyone sang along with Séan for the song and Alan seemed so proud of Séan. He just beamed when we were all singing along. Bob had fun twirling the red whistle when he wasn't playing. And HE held the note at the end for such a long time! I have no idea where all that breath came from! Everyone was looking his way - he just kept going and going and going... Consequence Free - Now THIS is where it got more than a little weird! Alan gave everyone permission to be consequence free. He said it didn't apply to the band because Séan had abused it in the past! Bob nods head solemnly. Well, giving us permission to be con free was the start of the audience members stripping. Someone threw a pink flowered bra up on stage in front of Alan. First he looked shocked, embarrassed, then he grinned and laughed, picked it up and said,

Alan: "Someone thought they were at the next stage at the David Lee Roth show! Thanks to the lady or gentleman that threw it up here. I have wondered though - what am I supposed to do with it now? Give it back to the person who threw it? Keep it?" Séan - "It looks like it might be your size, Alan." Alan: (Laughing) Just because we're a folk band, we don't get much underwear thrown on stage. We've NEVER gotten any men's underwear though. Now THAT was the wrong thing to say with Fred standing right there in his kilt. In rapid order, his underwear landed on stage in front of Alan. Alan and Séan stared at it for a minute. Laughing and shaking their heads in disbelief. Everyone in the front was howling with laughter! Alan used his towel to pick them up then Danny, who had come out to exchange instruments, tried to snag them with the tuning pegs on Alan's guitar. Séan: SO this will be interesting (Having an imaginary conversation)  - Hi Mom! Hi son! How was the show? Well, we got some underwear thrown up on stage.. Then we got some more underwear!

Here's a view of said boxers before being thrown. And here I thought Fred was so innocent!

I'm a Rover - Alan: Buy our record tonight! We are also selling Séan dolls in all sizes. Séan: But only the XL are sold out! Alan almost choked here. He gave Séan an incredulous look and was uncharacteristically speechless. Darrell on the other hand was practically doubled over. He did a lot of laughing tonight. Fast As I Can- Alan: We've come a long long way to sing in Seattle and we'd like to do a few more songs than we planned if you'll indulge us, Which of course, we did! Jack Hinks - The b'ys were all jumping, dancing all over the stage. It was a joy to behold! Afterwards, someone passed a note up on stage written on the back of a receipt of some sort. Alan read it, laughed "Oh Ho!" and folded it up. Sean: What's it say, Alan? Read it out loud! Alan passes the note to Séan who looks at it and says "Oh no! We won't be reading THIS aloud!" Sue and I held up our BOB shirts (which had been a conversation item in Portland with the audience).(see pic below)  And yes - we were fully clothed, unlike Fred at this point. The shirt said, "You Can Never Have Too Much BOB." He looked finally, smiled a little and nodded at us. *sigh* so business like! :-P

Bob is laughing at the underwear incident

Bob probably was laughing at the t-shirts belonging to Gracie and I, too!