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Bobbing Along

Mike Frederick, lead guitar player for the rock and jazz fusion band "Octopus Repellant" performs an orginal tune with help from horn section members Chris Parkin (center) and Julia Barcelo . The band made up from students from Mt. Spokane High School and one from Ferris, opened BOBFest (battle of the Bands) Saturday afternoon in Riverfront Park. Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review (The Spokesman-Review)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354

Saturday marks the 13th Annual BOBfest, the high school band battle, put on by Spokane’s Chase Youth Commission: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/jun/12/bobfest-expands-range-of-genres/ My first smile of the morning came from reading the list of bands scheduled to compete. Here’s a sampling:

  • Executive Smack
  • Falling In Absence (huh?)
  • Raw Nerve
  • Green Light Go
  • Olaf Olaf Olaf (My personal favorite.)

If you had a band, what would you call it? And Toad, how was the concert at the Grail?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog