Seattle Beer Fest a bit of a rip as the economics of tickets plus alcohol made for a racket. $2.50 a ticket -- beer served in 4 ounce portions -- beers up to 4 tickets. So, even at 1 ticket, you're paying $7.50 for a bottle of beer.  You can do the math for a 4 ticket beer. Ouch.

Anyway, under the Space Needle sipping the 1 ticket beer w/ highest alcohol content (Beer Valley Leafer Madness Double IPA) listening to Clarence Gallagher, who had the old timey thing going on, white kid trying to sound like a 50 year old black guy. Sorta worked, sorta didn't. And then Knut Bell and the Blue Collars, who was trying to sound like Johnny Cash. The Blue Collar guitarist ripped some nice solos. 

Blue collar, white collar: what's the new collar color?