Bigger Than Jesus

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:59:59 -800

I went to the one and only performance of
Rick Emerson's
Bigger Than Jesus. The show
consisted of Lara's husband Rick performing a one-man show about his first
fifteen years as a rock fan. I found out quite a bit about his past, why he
likes music so much, where he's gone and what his shows were like. A pity that
he's off the air in Portland right now; I think I might actually have liked to
listen to Star Trek geeks and the usual bunch of oddball characters in this
city carousing the airwaves in the middle of the day. The rock stuff... I'm
not such a big fan of anymore; as I was saying to Lara at the Barley Mill
after the show, the next CD I get will probably be Ella Fitzgerald. Really,
this shouldn't be so hard; Music Millenium is 40 blocks west of me on Burnside.
Anyhow, it was quite interesting to see the reasons behind his development as
a rock and roll fan--why he was driven to it, where it took him, etc. Probably
not such a big revelation for the rest of the audience, which mostly consisted
of his loyal listeners. But heck, it's been a while since I saw such an
enthusiastic crowd.