How I Spent My Summer Rock Camp Vacation
As you may have gathered from various apologies and late posts here on LocalCut, I spent most of last week in Pendleton amongst Eastern Oregon teens and Portland band members, helping kids learn how to write about music. Incredibly, the excitement level amongst the kids was actually pretty high. Some even skipped out on their bands for hours at a time to kick it in the computer lab with yours truly.
But rock camp wasn’t just about writing. There were some other awesome perks, like seeing kids shred:
Awesome band names and slogans:
Seeing Point Juncture, WA and Heroes and Villains at Great Pacific (PJWA pictured below):
And the awesome show that ended the week in downtown Pendleton last Friday Night:
But perhaps the best part was seeing one of my favorite kids, Weston (pictured below), performing Iggy Pop’s “I Wanna Be Your Dog” with his band, Hey, No Tomatoes (video located below, captured by Deer or the Doe’s Carlos Segovia. Hold on to your hat). Weston was full of hilarious one-liners over the course of the week, but no one really expected him to rock this hard. Just before the performance, Weston received a pep talk from Skylar Norwood of PJWA (who had taught a Punk Rock History class earlier in the week), who asked the pint-sized 13-year-old “Who’s punk rock?”
“I’m punk rock!” Weston replied excitedly. Then he went on to rally the crowd into a frenzy. I was literally crying from sheer happiness. It was like one of those feel good comedies coming to the perfect close:
We spent two days working on a Pendleton Rock Camp blog, which you can find here.
Oh, and The Kill Davids dressed in drag. They also killed it.
Peter Walters, organizer of the camp, was pretty stoked:
Links:
Pendleton Rock Camp Blog
Point Juncture, WA
Heroes and Villains
Deer or the Doe
Photos by me.
Cary Clarke
says:Simply awesome.
Posted @ August 14th, 2007 at 11:53 pm (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalinkjason
says:This is so great! Nice work Professor Jarman.
Posted @ August 15th, 2007 at 8:45 am (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalinkJessie
says:That was awesome. Good job. Five thumbs up. And I was so standing right next to you when you took the picture of the Kill Davids’ drum.
Posted @ August 15th, 2007 at 9:04 am (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalinkAddison
says:casey you are the best. this is soo rad. Great choice of video. hope to see you next year.
Posted @ August 15th, 2007 at 11:27 am (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalinkKarli
says:I am such a loser for not going this year, but the showcase was the highlight of my summer! I’m still a little hoarse from screaming! Can’t wait for next year.
Posted @ August 15th, 2007 at 1:24 pm (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalinkVaughn
says:Man that video is golden. Awesome!!
Posted @ August 15th, 2007 at 2:44 pm (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalinkBryan
says:Good Article…. Quite good.
Casey You Are a Rad Journalist.
Posted @ August 15th, 2007 at 9:47 pm (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalinkHannah Haberstroh
says:Hell yes! Weston is a total B.A. I loved being in a band with him all week!
Posted @ August 16th, 2007 at 10:24 am (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalinkMoe
says:sorry I missed the concert, Weston ROCKED and I always thought he was shy
look forward to seeing more video…
Posted @ August 21st, 2007 at 7:11 pm (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalinkWeston Simonton
says:Thank you everybody that’s the most exicting thing i have ever done
Posted @ September 4th, 2007 at 5:13 pm (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalinkChad
says:Rock’n roll camp was so fun i cant wait till next summer hopefully they do it again
Posted @ September 21st, 2007 at 3:25 pm (August 14th, 2007) | Flag this Comment | permalink