Big Tune Woes

Posted by Taybot at 7/31/2009 11:01 PM
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Yesterday I missed one of the best events of the year.  I'm of course speaking of Seattle's claim to producer fame...Red Bull Big Tune Beat Battle. 

Here is a little video in case you don't know what Big Tune is:





Two contestants play their beats, one after the other, and the crowd decides which beat they like best.  In the end, a winner is crowned the Seattle Big Tune Champion, a title they can gloat about for at least a year.

I'm not sure how I forgot about this event.  I guess I've been out of the loop lately.  It wasn't until around 11pm that I saw the onslaught of Twitter updates about who was defeating who in the battle.  I knew I was cutting it close, but I still threw on a clean shirt and rushed over to the War Room (I live only a couple blocks away), hoping that I would somehow get in. 

It wasn't meant to be though.  The line reached down the block and, to my dismay, it stood completely still.  A line should be like a river, or at least a really slow moving brook, trickling toward its destination.  This line was frozen in place.  Nobody was moving, everyone was just hanging out, leaning against the wall, crackin jokes, trying to pretend they weren't doing something as boring as waiting outside the club, hoping to at least catch the end of the battle.

I stood there for about 10 seconds, listening to the beats pounding through the walls, before I couldn't take it anymore.  I make beats, and this was an event I really wanted to see (then again, if I wanted to see it so much I would have made it a priority to get tickets ahead of time). 

I rushed home in frustration and spent the rest of the night working on a beat of my own.  Next year I want to be a participant in Big Tune, and I definitely need all the practice I can get. 
 

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