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!