The Experience Music Project
Hi ho, MMMLOGerinos!
The DH and I hadn't been to Seattle Center in several years and so we hadn't visited Paul Allen's music museum. We went early and got good parking right across the street and walked clear around the metallic lump of sea creature looking building before finding the proper entrance.
Admission set us back over forty bucks and we only had two hours parking, so we went for a strolling overview, which proved a sufficient taste. Though next time I'd rent the MEG headset to hear the audio clips about the exhibits. I was always a fan of the Wilson sisters (Heart), the one group I'd actually seen in concert. I was amazed how many groups got their start in the Pacific Northwest and not only Nirvana or Pearl Jam. I'm a Boomer and have always thought of Louie, Louie as a sort of anthem for my generation. Imagine my surprise to learn that the Kingsmen were a Tacoma band.
The exhibits of early electric guitars, basses and steel guitars was amazingly comprehensive and I saw my first Fender Stratocaster. There's an interactive exhibit about song writing with some interesting handwritten sheets of lyrics and a sound lab where you can record your own CD at a very small price. The On Stage area allows visitors to pretend to be rock stars and buy a memorial DVD or poster. Eeeeeeee. Yeah, there was a line of folks to get into that. The Jimi Hendrix gallery was full of people much younger than we who showed that Jimi or pictures and sound clips of Jimi can still mesmerize. Neither the DH nor I ever saw Hendrix perform but I wore out an LP, my favorite cuts being Foxy Lady and Purple Haze. In the rotating exhibit section were costumes of the greats--Elvis's leather jacket, KISS's costumes--those incredible platform boots!, Elton John's embroidered suit and other oddities. The DH remarked that the costumes were rather small, ordinary and undramatic without the rock stars lighting them from within.
If you plan on visiting the EMP, do a little pre-planning. Go early, take money, buy four hours of parking, rent the MEG and plan to have lunch there.
Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMelinda
The DH and I hadn't been to Seattle Center in several years and so we hadn't visited Paul Allen's music museum. We went early and got good parking right across the street and walked clear around the metallic lump of sea creature looking building before finding the proper entrance.
Admission set us back over forty bucks and we only had two hours parking, so we went for a strolling overview, which proved a sufficient taste. Though next time I'd rent the MEG headset to hear the audio clips about the exhibits. I was always a fan of the Wilson sisters (Heart), the one group I'd actually seen in concert. I was amazed how many groups got their start in the Pacific Northwest and not only Nirvana or Pearl Jam. I'm a Boomer and have always thought of Louie, Louie as a sort of anthem for my generation. Imagine my surprise to learn that the Kingsmen were a Tacoma band.
The exhibits of early electric guitars, basses and steel guitars was amazingly comprehensive and I saw my first Fender Stratocaster. There's an interactive exhibit about song writing with some interesting handwritten sheets of lyrics and a sound lab where you can record your own CD at a very small price. The On Stage area allows visitors to pretend to be rock stars and buy a memorial DVD or poster. Eeeeeeee. Yeah, there was a line of folks to get into that. The Jimi Hendrix gallery was full of people much younger than we who showed that Jimi or pictures and sound clips of Jimi can still mesmerize. Neither the DH nor I ever saw Hendrix perform but I wore out an LP, my favorite cuts being Foxy Lady and Purple Haze. In the rotating exhibit section were costumes of the greats--Elvis's leather jacket, KISS's costumes--those incredible platform boots!, Elton John's embroidered suit and other oddities. The DH remarked that the costumes were rather small, ordinary and undramatic without the rock stars lighting them from within.
If you plan on visiting the EMP, do a little pre-planning. Go early, take money, buy four hours of parking, rent the MEG and plan to have lunch there.
Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMelinda
posted by MMMelinda at 1:39 PM
