It started, as ever, on the BART bridge, walking past the bootleg T-shirts and the card-table vendors repeating "shrooms, edibles, pre-rolls" while listening to Roddy Ricch's "High Fashion" on tinny Bluetooth speakers. As vape pen smoke wafted through the air, so did the horn-and-drum sound of a Banda group, playing for tailgaters over in the packed parking lot.
The house was filled with music and love. That's how I'll remember it.
The Incredible Bongo Band's breakbeat classic "Apache" was in the mix...A's manager Mark Kotsay started a chant of "Let's Go Oakland" - which began to morph into a giant collective chant of "Fuck John Fisher," until the PA squelched it.
As fans scooped up field dirt and stole seats, at last Tower of Power made an appearance over the PA with "So Very Hard to Go." We headed toward the gates to the Luniz' "I Got 5 On It" remix.
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