Still Blowin' my Mind

I wrote about the Still Flyin' kids a little ways back. Since then, I've purchased their two available EPs and have continued to baffle myself with the fact that I am into a ska band full o' young, hip, whiteys. I missed their first twelve sled island appearances but was pleased as punch when one of the flyettes ended up in my room on my first night in town.



Becky had some Kokanees in her bag and was just a ball of laughs. Fell in love instantly. As did my roommate who announced to her, "Welcome to you are now my new girlfriend." This is her cleaning her crotch.



The next night we ended up in their room. I still hadn't seen them play but I was slowly falling for each one of them. What a rad group of kids. Somewhere around six in the morning (five hours to soundcheck) Sean pulled the plug on the party.



Drummer, Yoshi, pulled the plug some time earlier. We found him in the closet: the only room not raging.

I made a special effort to make it to the field in time for their early set and it was maybe the best decision I had ever made in my life. As expected, they owned it. Sean kept mentioning what a great day it was for volleyball, and then sure enough, the last song rolls around, the volleyballs come out, and the whole band leads a procession to the volleyball courts at the rear of the field. Brilliant! I whipped out my camera and was able to capture the video below before my battery died for the weekend.



I accidentally, but happily, caught Still Flyin' two more times that day. Sadly, I don't have any photos of hacky sack spiderman or any of their other kooky shenanigans. For a weekend full of highlights, Still Flyin' really took the cake.

That said...more highlights to come...