A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
SHAWN PHILLIPS
with the
Dyke's
A house concert in Moose Lake, MN
for
Mr. and Mrs. Craig Dyke
with
Family and Friends
Family and Friends
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Craig Dyke and Shawn Phillips shaking hands in the above picture. Craig Dyke and his family with friends had Shawn over for his own personal house party on July 28th, 2011 up in Moose Lake, MN at his lake shore cabin, which by the way has been in the family since the 1940's.
Now that I touched on the end of the day lets start way back at the beginning of the day in Bloomington, MN and roughly around noon I arrived at Arlo Hennings home where Shawn had his tour Bus parked and up on stilts in Arlo's driveway.
We were almost done getting the bus ready for the trip and while inside I was talking with Shawn and just asking a few questions like "Why do you do house concerts while other artists do not?"
His reply was simple and straight to the point, "It's my job" and then he went on to tell me that one artist in particular, no names mentioned told Shawn that they don't do house concerts because they don't want to deal with the autographing and taking pictures with their fans, Shawn feels that this too is part of the job. Personally I feel very lucky and I'm sure that most of his fans feel the same way, we are all very happy that Shawn does all those things for us after each concert. Thanks Shawn for all that you have given us in music and in life.
After we were all buckled in and heading out of Arlo's driveway Shawn's guidance system told us how to get to I494 EAST, but, Arlo felt like TOMTOM didn't give the directions right so he piped up and told Shawn how to get to the freeway.. lol. then after so many miles to merge onto 35E North to reach our destination of Moose Lake, MN. later while on the road Arlo turned to me and yelled out Hello to all of Shawn's FAN's,
I just had to include this photo of Shawn's favorite on the road CANDY.
After 3 hours on the road we started seeing signs for Moose Lake. Sorry about the blurry photo, lol
We head on down this long dirt road to finally come to our spot where our Hosts were waiting for us.
They had meet us earlier at a gas station in town so that way they could guide us to their Moose Lake Cabin
They had meet us earlier at a gas station in town so that way they could guide us to their Moose Lake Cabin
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Craig Dyke was instructing Shawn on the best way to park his touring bus on his property
Craig Dyke was instructing Shawn on the best way to park his touring bus on his property
As you can see they were all smiles as Shawn's tour bus rolled into place that day.
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Once we got there and the tour bus was parked everyone started grabbing equipment from Shawn to bring into the house, look how proud Craig is carrying Shawn's guitar.lol
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Once we got there and the tour bus was parked everyone started grabbing equipment from Shawn to bring into the house, look how proud Craig is carrying Shawn's guitar.lol
Which will be coined from here on in as the eCUBE......lol
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Well Shawn's heading on in to the cabin to check out the setup with Craig
Shawn's stuff is going to be setup in the family room so they had to move all of this furniture out of the way except the fireplace.
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Well Shawn's heading on in to the cabin to check out the setup with Craig
Shawn's stuff is going to be setup in the family room so they had to move all of this furniture out of the way except the fireplace.
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A beautiful scene from their open windows over looking Moose Lake
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Here is Shawn and Craig trying to figure out the best location for the setup, but ultimately it ends up in front of the windows over looking Moose Lake.
Here is Shawn and Craig trying to figure out the best location for the setup, but ultimately it ends up in front of the windows over looking Moose Lake.
Above is the snake which is all of his patch cables neatly housed within a sleeve to make setup quick n easy
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plugging in all of the patch cables into the foot pedals and other electronic equipment
plugging in all of the patch cables into the foot pedals and other electronic equipment
As you can see Shawn had to get his eCUBE all dialed in
Still getting everything connected to his sound board and his eCUBE
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A close up of Shawn's eCUBE.
A close up of Shawn's eCUBE.
Just another side view shot during his sound check
Now that Shawn has his sound check done he will retire to his BUS for a few to get prepared for the concert, mentally, spiritually as well as physically.
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Everyone was milling around waiting for the concert to begin talking and I was introducing myself to everyone and asking questions and taking pictures and video taping this that and the other thing, plus our hosts were so nice as they supplied lots of great food and beverages for everyone.
This is Craig's mother
Just a front door view of the Dyke's cabin
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Craig Dyke, I was interviewing Craig here and he was telling us about his cabin and how it has been in the family since the 1940's and how every summer he would listen to Shawn's music for hours on end while at this cabin, the whole cabin is empowered with the great vibs and love of Shawn's music.
Craig Dyke, I was interviewing Craig here and he was telling us about his cabin and how it has been in the family since the 1940's and how every summer he would listen to Shawn's music for hours on end while at this cabin, the whole cabin is empowered with the great vibs and love of Shawn's music.
Home Sweet Cabin, this just shows how much Love has been put into this cabin
This is Craig's wife Cheri Dyke, the hostess with the mostess
We cant thank Cherie and her family enough for their wonderful smiling faces and always wanting to make sure that our every needs were meet while we were there. Thank you all very much for that
We all listened to Shawn play his songs and he introduced to us some new pieces which incorporated several layers of real time recorded and looped arrangement's using his many guitars including a brand new GODIN BASE guitar. After the final song entitled "everything she gives me" a song that Shawn wrote for his wife Juliette, which Shawn tells us that all the lyrics and music flowed into and channeled out in a very short amount of time simultaneously. Craig Dyke stood up as well as the others and gave Shawn a standing ovation and Craig was heard saying to Shawn after that last song about that song was the one word that described everything about that song was Celebratory and Shawn's reaction to that one word is shown below. That is what makes an artist time on stage so worth while, to get a fan to feel so strongly about a song to achieve this type of reaction is what it is all about.
Another very pleased fan for the night after the show, sorry I know this gentleman is related to the Dyke's but not sure how, maybe an Uncle or Grandfather.
Here is more of the family clapping with a standing ovation for Shawn
After the show Shawn went out to the bus and changed and then we all helped pack his equipment away for the night.
This little lady, Paula, made sure my glass was never empty. Thank you very much for all of your enthusiasm and help through out the evening.
This is a group photo I took with all of them together.
Craig Dyke, if you read this can you send me the names of everyone pictured here and I will include them in this blog, first names only will be displayed.
Once Shawn changed and all equipment was safely stowed away Shawn finally grabbed some delicious homemade food and ate all the while telling us stories of his sea rescue efforts and the situations he has had to deal with to save lives out at sea.
Shawn talks about his sea faring rescues and grabs a bit to eat.
Shawn is describing the vastness of the size of a oil tanker here.
Craig Dyke went out to the bus during all of this and personally Thanked Shawn for all of his wonderful music and for playing a great show.
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This is a gorgeous sunset seen from their cabin on Moose Lake.
A BEAUTIFUL Minnesota Sunset
A speed boat heading out over the waters into the sunset
Just a cool shot I thought
A blurry closeup of Shawn while he was telling his sea rescue stories
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It was a long and a quiet ride that night, very tired from the long days journey in the life of a musical GOD, lol..
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Once we got back to Bloomington Shawn parked the bus in Arlo's driveway once again.
Then Shawn and I jumped out and I helped Shawn place the lift pads on the cement so Shawn could get the tour bus lifted up and leveled out, Shawn has to do this so that way all of the internal appliances are level and that way they continue to work. I got my camera equipment out from inside the bus and said my good byes to Shawn and Arlo and headed home. This will forever be etched into my mind as one of the BEST days of my life.
"I wish you all Health, Love and Clarity" Shawn Phillips , 1970
