Houston, TX, Super Happy Funland!

This is the smiling face that greeted me at Super Happy Funland in Houston, TX. The whole building is covered in murals. I think this was my favorite! This is the back yard. I stayed here two nights. Immediately behind me are three sets of very active railroad tracks, which gave me the opportunity to …

Decapitated on the Taos Plaza on Easter Sunday

Wandering around the Plaza, in Taos, New Mexico, on Easter Sunday, I spotted a kindred spirit. We gravitated towards each other and said "Hi." We both soon discovered that we were both musicians on tour, both sizing-up the plaza as a place to play, and that we were both into weird music. We agreed that …

Meow Wolf Santa Fe

I found out about Meow Wolf several years ago when I interviewed Jilann Spitzmiller about her movie, Meow Wolf Origin Story, for my radio show, Monday Morning Magazine, when her movie was featured in the Mendocino Film Festival. Today Meow Wolf is huge! And their promotional material is ubiquitous. I loved the movie and enjoyed …

A Clogged Pipe

https://youtu.be/IPT_iLPOdTk Here's an electric didgeridoo solo from last summer set to a video of people clogging. I'm preparing for a long tour starting with a show at Phatsy Kline's in The Historic Eagle House in Eureka CA on Friday March 8. This will be my last show in Humboldt County until at least July.

Bass Dreams

https://youtu.be/KTr3T7qPje8 New Passion for an Old Love I got my first bass guitar when I was 15, a right-handed, neck-heavy, Kingston “Beatle Bass” that I restrung and played upside-down. I played the left-handed Rickenbacker 4003, that I bought new in 1984 enough that I wore the frets out by the turn of the century. I …

Debby Goldsberry, Hemp Disconnected Movie

I met Debbie Goldsberry for the first time at the first High Times Freedom Fighters convention near Ann Arbor, Michigan in April of 1990. At the time, you couldn’t get a job without taking a piss test for pot, cops used aerial infrared photography to identify indoor grow-rooms, and possession of even one joint could …

Marie Mills – Hemp Disconnected, A Psychological War for American Dependence

Marie Mills is a hero to me. Part Che Guevara, part Betsy Ross, Marie Mills confronted the US military on the ground, in the forest, during Operation Greensweep, as part of the Civil Liberties Monitoring Project, and she opened the first licensed hemp business in America where she made some of the first hemp clothing …

Snake Dance, New Track and My Old Friend, The Electric Bass

A new track. About 15 years ago I broke my wrist and it never healed right. I thought that was the end of my days as a bass player, so I sold my Rickenbacker bass and focused on other things. A couple of years ago, I found a cheap left-handed bass at a music store …

See Hemp Disconnected, A Psychological War for American Dependence Today at www.hotboxfilms.com

I’m very proud of this new movie: Hemp Disconnected, A Psychological War for American Dependence. It means a lot to me to tell this story. Myles Moscato had an amazing vision of how to present it cinematically, and he totally nailed it. The movie is beautiful. It came out even better than I hoped. It …

“Bonus Feature:” The Drug War Propaganda Film Festival

https://youtu.be/vo_1O4jzucA This charmingly funny song and dance number featuring the remarkable tenor voice of Jim Neighbors appears in the anti-drug propaganda film "Drugs in Our Culture" which I have included in the "Drug War Propaganda Film Festival" which is a bonus feature available to anyone who streams the new documentary film by Myles Moscato and …