Sunday, May 2, 2010
BP at Shell: Jazz Fest and the Gulf Disaster
Posted by Alex Woodward @alexwoodward Google on Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:02 AM
"There's oirl, in, the wa-tah."
- I was savoring a softshell crab po-boy between stages and hoping I'd be eating more, oil permitting. Artists across the fairgrounds used their stage time to spare a thought or two on the disaster down south. The more than 30-year-old brass funk ensemble the Dirty Dozen Brass Band chanted the above little ditty on their exploding brass take on "Fire on the Bayou" on the Acura stage this afternoon.
- Later that afternoon, also on the Acura stage, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, a half-bottle-of-wine into the band's set, took a moment to "toast" BP. The big wigs at the oil giant must have nice homes and must take nice vacations with their nice, well-to-do children, he said, and surely, they must be looking for summer plans.
- "Send your sons and daughters, BP," Vedder said, "to clean up this f—king mess."
- (Vedder took another moment during one of Mike McCready's scorching solos, this particular one on "Even Flow", trading a swig from his bottle for a lighter for his cigarette, thanks to a lucky fan in the front.) A biplane later flew overhead advertising a number to text to aid in the BP relief efforts.
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