Experience Music Project aka: EMP

I have been to EMP on a few occasions and keep hoping it will get better the next time, though it seems to do the opposite. It’s worth visiting for its sheer magnitude. A huge Frank Gehry building made to resemble “Jimi Hendrix’ guitar an acid” or some such thing. But, as my Mom used to say, it’s what’s inside that counts. And what’s inside is random and disorganized. I’m a huge pop music/rock/punk fan who is genuinely impressed by things like Jimi Hendrix’ guitars and Bruce Springsteens shirt from The River cover, and I still had a hard time being all that impressed. Needs more organizaion and some more creative exhibits, perhaps spanning some other genres of music as well.

Charged too much for what you get.

Well-done exhibits IMO, but probably not worth it if you aren’t into music/rock much. I really loved the Northwest music area.

Beautiful Building by Frank Gehry. Blobs, curves and sweerves. You can take a monorail straight to town too. Sweet!

I went there today to have drinks at the bar, Revolutions, but I still have not been to see all of the other fun stuff yet.

there’s nothing like watching dave matthews singing on the big screen. :D

that did it for me.

I was very impressed, I will totally visit again.

Great for music junkies – once. The exhibits are pretty permanent and they get old the second time around.

if you’re going to go … go during the pop music conference, because then it’s wall-to-wall geekery.

depend i guess. i love music, but it wasn’t totally mind blowing.