The Meaning of 8

Alright, I've been outta town for about a week, but the videos below might show you a glimpse of what went down. One is almost XXX....almost. While in our nations CAPITOL I saw this one....not really that funny but I liked it. Not as much as I liked seeing Toots and the Maytals though, Thanks to Mr. Matt Doc for the sweet pad and the fun times! I didn't go over the top this time!

Floyd Fest 8 was a mega-hit. Hands down the funnest festival of music, healing arts, dancing, and creative minds I've ever been to. Grace Potter rocked my socks off, Forro in the Dark took me to sudamerica, the Yard Dogs Road Show (see the vids below, if you dare) was surely the best show of all, for Adults ONLY, and the plethora of loving folks topped it all off for a perfect weekend. Railroad Earth couldn't get any more amazing. Peter Rowan's songwriting workshop was loaded with wisdom and beautiful advice laced metaphors. The Felice Bros., the Lee Boys, the Smart Bros., Michael Wallace....so much excellence! Many of the smaller bands have played the Purple Fiddle too: Boulder Acoustic Society, the Galen Kipar Project, Luminescent Orchestrii, R.I.S.E....etc.

Of course, Toubab Krewe made all feel the groove, even when the power went out Friday night and they had to do a West African acoustic jam! EOTO = Super sick w/ String Cheese's drummer Michael Travis (video below!). Panjea = mega-super sick with another SCI member Michael Chang. Check out the video!

This one below is of EOTO: good funky music to dance to, with a live drummer playing his heart out!

The Yard Dogs Road Show brought out Flamingo, the Guitar Boy...what a trip! "If you see me walkin' on, its not me because I'm goooooone!" He had good laser advice too....

Lightsaber Sword Swallower, this guy also pulled a cockateel outta thin air, no joke...."magic!"

This next video might qualify for adults only....but then again if you were NORMAL as a child you sucked on a boob to survive....and they DO have little sparklies on their nips!

The Floyd Fest is set in the most ideal place, along a ridge mtn. top at the Blue Ridge Parkway, just south of Floyd, VA, which appears to be an uber-cool town, replete with old-school music and yum-food co-ops and lots of neat looking artsy shops.

I left for Lewisburg on Sunday night and ended up getting a totally flat tire in Rich Creek, VA....around 11pm....turns out my rusty car was so bad-off that I could not get the tire off to put on the doughnut! The cops let me sleep on the roadside, after I moved the car two (2) feet over. A local guy helped me get it off the next morning....with a sledge hammer! Stayed with my sweet friend Madison A. and her family for a night in lovely Lewisburg (thanks for the ultra-sweet hospitality and the nice tour!). We dipped in the Greenbrier, checked out the Wild Bean (best breakfast burritos for only four (4) dollars!) and the local antique shops (complete with electric chairs, guillotines and ancient space-age looking medical equipment), and meandered through the civil war graveyard, next to the separate slave graveyard....Trying to get Hypno's coffee into the Wild Bean since they do not roast their own wild beans. The more "local" the better, eh? Speaking of local, there has been a budding Farmer's Market in the Hypno/Highland/Friends parking lot on Saturday, starting at nine (9) a.m.

Check out the breadshare (and garlic share) to be signed up for at Hypno....by August 8th!!! Blueberries are popping major on these mountains! Yum!

Music in the Mountains

Off to DC/VA...Blue Ridge Pkwy!

Floyd Fest 8 is on the way...

Having not seen enough music this summer I am off for some Toots Roots Reggae and then further south for the FF8. After that is likely going to be the usual abundance of performances to choose from at our local leery Purp Fid.

'Twill be nice star-gazing this week with the new moon in tow....the next weekend is Clifftop!

Transitions

Today in this time-warp state: Check out some civil disobedience going on in Dub V!

Coming Up: Les Claypool Live....but first:


College Grad Lands Small Job Just Before Graduation! (picture unrelated)

Soon after peeling outta Motown with a magna cum-laude in tow, unmild mannered Cory Chase (not of olfactory Floridian MySpace fame) began training to set sail on the high seas of steamed milk and fresh espresso with the often gritty (joke) Hypno Coffee Pirates.

"Gary has been blunt enough to tell me what I completely suck at doing when making a cappuccino; I need to hear the full truth in that moment....milk isn't sweet, its flat, its too hot...I had better do better!" the swindling jackal-in-training said while pouring a strange ooze onto the latest freshly roasted batch of beans.

"This goo makes people feel the urge to come back to the place where they first drank the coffee, ideally it is inside the roastery....but we've heard stories of it being in weird places like bathrooms and other pagan places."

Chase said he hopes to someday meet his alter-ego and have a duo photo shoot, on ice.

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Morgantown is a lot different than Davis. I think I can dig the change....no traffic lights, no freezing, stumbling sorority girls, no late night pizza....trade those Motown luxuries for mtn. bike rides, dancing to live music, and late night saunas!

What I don't miss:



Morgantown: Below the Walnut Street Bridge.

What I do miss: New Day Bakery, C. Bizzy jam sessions, trying to sneak up on Rob Riffe at the Sandcastle, climbing onto the Met for any reason...
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Saw Les Claypool and his masked amazing musicians this past weekend....always a bunch of fun guys! "Not stating anything new here.....just....the facts."


Normal Les


Les doin' his normal thing....check out the videos....turn your sound down, quality sucks...sorry.
Many may ask why I like Les....mainly because he phlipping rips up the bass and he's weird and witty. I put these on here because I love them...let me know if you feel the same way.




Fancy Fingers


Mr. Monkey Wrench

Feel weird? You should.

He will be at All Good soon....be sure to check out Floyd Fest as well, no Les but lots of fun!