Cities97 Finally got past a lot of red tape with Beck’s label and has posted the Beckumentary. You can view the edited version with concert footage here.

Here is the uncut interview.

If the video isn’t showing up (something’s been weird with Vimeo lately), try here.

As many of you know, I am a pretty big fan of Beck. He was in St Paul last night for a concert with MGMT.

A few weeks ago, I heard about a contest sponsored by Cities 97. The winner was going to get a backstage pass and to meet and interview beck for a mini BECKumentary. SWEET! I submitted my three questions and crossed my fingers. On Monday, I found out I had won.

Yesterday was the big night. It was awesome. I showed up at Roy Wilkins Auditorium around 6:00 and met up with the people from the radio station. We waited for the local promoter, Kenny, who took us back stage and introduced us to the tour manager, Jessica. We set up in an empty dressing room between the dressing rooms of the two acts and waited for Beck to come in. Needless to say, I was very nervous and excited. After about five minutes, they told us Beck was ready and brought him in and introduced us. I interviewed him for several minutes, his answers were thoughtful and honest, which was cool.

I will post a link to the BECKumentary when it is done. You’ll have to wait until then to see what my three questions were. After the interview, I asked him to take a picture with me and he was happy to.

Can you tell I’m excited?

After the interview I got to keep my pass and come and go from backstage to my seat in the arena. I watched a good portion of the set from sidestage. There are a few more pictures from the show on my Flickr feed.

I went with my friend Aaron to see The Mars Volta show on Monday night. It was pretty awesome.
Here are some crappy phone pics: