105. Jesse of Montreal, pt. 1

The Shed Dogs hold forth with special guest Jesse of Montreal in this first of two fun-filled episodes! This week we cover Jesse’s Karen missive, career non-planning, how to stage a zoom session, life on the campaign trail with Jack Layton, and what life as a cruise ship musician is really like (along with heavy colonialism with respect to some of the other jobs on the ship). Now we know all about those big freezers on board. Ship him to Greece and party on Winifred!

We forgot our books

Links: This episode on YouTube; The Larry Sanders Show; cruise ships crew; Avenue8 (Jesse’s business); Jack Layton’s 2006 campaign.

Jack Layton campaign, 2006

All the photos in this gallery are from Jesse’s time in early 2006 flying all over Canada working in the video crew for Jack Layton’s campaign.

The video crew

Jesse at left used his deep lighting experience supporting Jack Layton on his 2006 tour

On the Layton campaign

On the plane

Jesse on the Layton campaign

Jack playing a 12-string guitar

Yes, as they said, Jack was the kind of guy you’d like to have a beer with

Svend!

Before the ring incident

Equipment

From sea to sea to tundra

Waiting to start

Wow just look at that lighting

Flying over the, I'm gonna say, Rockies

You had ONE JOB!

Jack checks out the equipment

This is one of those crazy expensive cameras that used to be required

Jesse in a cafe

One of many tour events