Dead Head’s Delight
Kelly and I arrived at the Dark Star Orchestra concert dressed in T-shirts and cropped pants, sticky and sweaty from the intense humidity. Both of us more or less self-proclaimed hippies at heart, we decided that in order to get the full immersive experience we needed to dress the part of a retro jam band concert-goer. Lucky for me Kelly has a section of her closet fully devoted to said attire, so we drove back to her apartment to change into something more hippie shiek before heading back to the Verizon Event Pavilion. Given the heat and the intimate concert setting, I was glad we did.
The Dark Star Orchestra began jamming at 6 p.m.
This was not my first DSO experience: A friend and I stumbled across it on my routine visit to Junk Food Alley (now Sprint Food Alley) when the band appeared as a headliner last year. We saw swarms of festival-goers in tie-dye shirts and flowing floral skirts lined up outside the pavilion. After hearing the easy guitar sounds and extended drum breaks from outside the Alley and saw where all of what we then called Dead Heads (we soon found out the proper term for a DSO fan is “Star Head”) were going, we knew we had to check it out.
Was I glad I returned this year? For lack of a better phrase, I dug it.
Check out Kelly Metz’s coverage of the concert in today’s print edition of The News-Sentinel.
Post and photo by Amanda Junk for The News-Sentinel.
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