Heading up the coast we enjoyed Camper Van Beethoven's "Telephone Free Landslide Victory" which, amazingly, was on iTunes. Perfect for heading toward Santa Cruz, where our entourage of the past two days (minus Jeff) was joined by a wonderful expressive singer named Amanda West and her beautiful musical sidekick Pete Solomon, who also happens to […]
OK, so my organizational system is a little flawed. It’s not really by day so much as by theme… this entry is an ode to the great time we had with all our new ancient friends - Inga and Britta, their parents Meg and Don, Inga’s wonderful husband Mladen, their soul brother Jeff, and his […]
SLO was a wonderful time … Besides some great gigs with Inga, her sister Britta, and their jaw-droppin' guitarist Jeff Miley, we had fun catching up with our friends David, who was out visiting, and Capri, who lives there and was one of the first to suggest we come out this way. Here they are […]
This is a shot of the stageside TV monitor, with our stuff on it, in the Sierra Cabaret room - WE LOVED THE CERRITOS CENTER!!! It was so beautiful to be treated so wonderfully and graciously by the entire crew, the sound was amazing, the lights and curtains, the hospitality… The show was sold out, […]
I was feeling a bit lost in my foggy mind when we first landed at our cousin Luke's place in Venice, a little sad. Then Char found these crazy old bike horns which he started playing in the unsuspecting silence, in such a way as to permanently alter my mood. It kind of shocked me […]
This is our first real sighting of La Mer, which drove home the reality of our traveling and opened westward in a most fetching sort of way… er, not you, Dad! Eyes on the road. Had a nice show at SOhO in gorgeous, tropical feeling SB (especially after 0 degrees at home!) and remembered just […]
takes many forms, many of them (for me) looking like this! It's been an absolutely uplifting tour we've had, our favorite yet, with incredible connections and experiences one after another to the point that I've been unable to keep you, dear reader, up to speed. I'll try to rectify that soon. In the meantime, I've […]