My Slam Prize
So, part of first prize for winning the CU Poetry Slam was tickets to see Saul Williams and Les Claypool in Denver.
Wow.
Les Claypool is a former member of Primus, and has this bass style that is sick to death. He has assembled this crazy road show called the Oddity Faire. It's a dark carnival, burlesque aesthetic, visually chaotic and beautiful, and meant to shock. And then there was the music. Wow.
So Saul as performer is like canonical, at this point. You know to expect a certain...Saul-ness of it all. But since he's branched out into producing with like, Trent Reznor, he's really adopted a rock star persona. I was really diappointed to be the ONLY person screaming the words to "Black Stacey," and being appalled/enthralled at his screeched version of Earth, Wind, and Fire's "Can't Hide Love," but that's Denver. None of my friends knew Saul's work, and the vast majority of the audience was, well, comprised of the majority group who were rock fans, not spoken word nerds like myself.
Anyhoo, I had a blast, and found a possible new road dog- my classmate Jason, who was a fan of Les' before the concert. I asked him on a humble, and the Universe made him the "right and perfect" person to have a chill night with. So yippee- go slam, go.
Wow.
Les Claypool is a former member of Primus, and has this bass style that is sick to death. He has assembled this crazy road show called the Oddity Faire. It's a dark carnival, burlesque aesthetic, visually chaotic and beautiful, and meant to shock. And then there was the music. Wow.
So Saul as performer is like canonical, at this point. You know to expect a certain...Saul-ness of it all. But since he's branched out into producing with like, Trent Reznor, he's really adopted a rock star persona. I was really diappointed to be the ONLY person screaming the words to "Black Stacey," and being appalled/enthralled at his screeched version of Earth, Wind, and Fire's "Can't Hide Love," but that's Denver. None of my friends knew Saul's work, and the vast majority of the audience was, well, comprised of the majority group who were rock fans, not spoken word nerds like myself.
Anyhoo, I had a blast, and found a possible new road dog- my classmate Jason, who was a fan of Les' before the concert. I asked him on a humble, and the Universe made him the "right and perfect" person to have a chill night with. So yippee- go slam, go.