Happy Post-Cryphy Day!

Aw, man. What can I say? As Jimmy2Times posted this morning, the one year anniversary of Get Cryphy was "unfuckwithable"! Everyone was on their game. Prof engaged the crowd and even performed part of "Rocket Man". And of course all the DJ's brought it: Billy Ray Serious, Mike the 2600 King, Fundamentalist, and Jimmy2Times. And the crowd reacted accordingly by rocking so hard that the sound system was at its limits as the speakers bottomed out and distorted a couple of times. Oh, what a crowd. By about midnight it was announced that the show SOLD OUT!!! I can testify to this fact as I was waiting to meet my lady by the door and witnessed many people getting turned away due to maximum capacity.

What made this night extra-special wasn't the size of the crowd, but the beautiful people who came out and how they partied. Throughout the night I saw and heard things that would make Jimmy and Bill proud. As people passed through the crowd there were countless greetings, pleasantries, old friends catching up, new friends bonding, identical head-nodding to the music, dudes letting other dudes go through the single-person gap and all smiling faces. You don't see a lot this if you go out dancing to many other parties, especially in Minneapolis.

The Cameos

Another part of what made the crowd so special were some of the specific people who either just came for the support or were there just like everybody else, to have a great time. The Minneapolis quasi-celebrities that I saw throughout the night were:

Jordon Daley (God bless the Fifth Element), ANT, Last Word, TenderCakes, MillionsBillions and Jimmy's girlfriend who came in all of the way from NY.

Visuals

My camera phone could not do the crowd justice, but here's a taste...

The Morning After

It's a beautiful Minnehappiness day.  It helps when you ease into it with this...

Otis Redding, "Sitting On The Dock of the Bay"