Geoff Holden

This was supposed to be a different post, but the quality of yesterday’s concert has preempted it.

Yesterday was the Bridge School Benefit concert. What a show. The lineup included Neil Young, Death Cab for Cutie, Foo Fighters, Trent Reznor, Brian Wilson, Pearl Jam & Dave Matthews Band. It was all acoustic, and quite fantastic.

It’s the 20th annual benefit concert in aid of the Bridge School, a non-profit organization to help the education of individuals with severe speech and physical impairments.

Everyone played for around a half hour, all with current and past students behind them on stage (some of whom have graduated from universities, etc.). Neil Young came out and played a song or two with most (if not all… it was a long day, I can’t be expected to remember every last detail) the other acts.

I’m not going to try to describe all the acts, but I will say that Brian Wilson was the sleeper hit in the bunch. I didn’t expect a whole lot, but he was terrific–playing Beach Boys classics. That’s all I’m going to say, but if you’re in the Bay Area some fall, check out the concert. Otherwise, they’re releasing a bunch of songs from past concerts on iTunes November 14th, they should be pretty good.