I just got back from spending 5 hours at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco, at a concert featuring Thomas Dolby and BT. The lawyers at CIS and Kirkland Ellis, who are representing him in the Vargas v. Pfizer litigation I've been working on in the Cyberlaw Clinic, got me and fellow clinic student Shireen on BT's personal guest list. It was amazing.

The performance opened with Thomas Dolby, one the pioneers of the electronic genre. I don't know much about him, except his most famous hit was in the U.K. in the 80s, called "She Blinded Me With Science." Despite a few technical hiccups, his set was quite good.

Left: Dolby doing his thing -- doesn't he look like friggin' Hellboy with the bald head and the placement of the glasses? Right: BT applying a violin bow, of all things, to his awesome custom-made electric guitar (note the BT logo) during his performance of Inner Locus.

This was BT's first live performance of his new Binary Universe album -- kicking off his nationwide tour. I was not ten feet from the man, and it was truly an experience. Though one might imagine techno music as being dry, boring, or abstract, BT put such emotion into his performance, such variety (he must've picked up at least six different instruments, including an electric guitar, electric violin, acoustic guitar, xylophone, keyboard, and a couple others I can't name), such layering, that he made the Binary Universe really come to life.

But it got better. First off, I approached him after the show and asked him to sign my copy of Binary Universe -- he quite willingly obliged. And then David and Julie got us all back stage, where we chilled for another half an hour. It was a scene from beyond my wildest dreams..

BT is really a great guy -- modest, down to earth, friendly to all the fans who approached him, and not above packing up his own studio equipment after the show. All that, plus being one of the most creative and groundbreaking minds in techno..



Yes, I know I look maybe a little too happy in this picture.