9AM alerted me to the fact that Galactic was going to be playing in Austin tonight for the Louisiana Swamp Thing & Crawfish Festival down by the Bullock, so he and I and a couple more of our friends headed down there to chow down on crawfish and see Galactic bring the funk all New Orleans style. Stanton Moore is one of my favorite drummers and he comes here to Austin in various capacities all the time, and yet I keep missing him - so I was bound and determined that I was NOT going to miss seeing him again. Stanton is one of those drummers that inspires me not only by what what he plays, but by the way he plays - he looks like he's having a total blast the entire time, and that's what I want to be like. I wish that I could have gotten some clear pictures that show his facial expressions, but all I had was the Centro, so this is the best I could do:
That shot was taken during his awesome drum solo. But now I've finally seen Galactic and Stanton Moore, and I will definitely be going to see him again the next time I possibly can. I want to grow up to be him someday - maybe I need to get me some horn-rimmed glasses. I think that's where his drumming awesome is contained.
