The experience of the off-season is unique to ski towns, which flourish during the winter shred season and the summers, and all but die in the fall and especially in the spring. Half the restaurants are closed, most of the people from town are in Vegas or Mexico on vacation, and the demand for labor plummets, leaving normally-tipped waiters, valets, and bartenders trying to survive on $8.50 an hour until the season starts again after Thanksgiving. Several good live shows have come to town this fall, notably Zion I and Ghostface Killah. I can only imagine what Ghostface was thinking when he started his show, 3 hours late, in front of maybe 30 people, thinking this is how Aspen does. We were able to bounce around enough to keep him on stage for an hour, and it was a good time overall, although no Skyzoo, one of HOT 97's Top 10 MC's, and a Cooper Jones original. Ghostface even brought up a slew of high school breezy's on stage for the last song, which was followed by a freestyle battle between a black dude from Bermuda and a white kid from Glenwood Springs. Bermuda prevailed, even beating a third super wasted guy who tried to take the mic from Ghostface a few times and was booed off stage at the beginning of his battle. Ber-muda gettin irie!
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