Anyway, i was trying to minimize this, but if any of you are the least bit interested, here is my follow-up on the "Indentured Servitude* Summer Tour of 2007?:
We started in LA, CA on May 26th with Pravda (an LA Philharmonic event) a program of electronica, thermin orchestras, audio/video/painting mashed mixed morphed together all focussed on Stalinist era propaganda as a mirror of BushCheney corporate master puppet string pulling.
June 1-3; Merced, CA: for the Heartland Farms Organic Farmer's summer picnic--how many ways can you hide in the little towns of Atwater, Merced, Turlock, Modesto, et al?????
June 8 -10; Santa Rosa, CA: Harmony Festival--other than introducing Arianna Huffington to 6500 people on the main stage, my fun was had mostly at night during the three all night performance palaces; there were some young female beat dancers that were way better than the male professionals and the fire dance troupes poured their bodies into flames. New Orleans Social Club, Steve Kimmock w/ Green Lemon and others, the Roots, a huge set of fun from ALO, hell there were fourteen stages people...
June 15-18; Grass Valley, CA: California Bluegrass Festival--i do so hate plink plink so i had to be glad there was some folky types in the mix.
June 22-28; Tucson, AZ: Molehill Orkestrah and solstice
July 5-9; Quincy, CA: High Sierra Music Festival--70+ bands and who could keep track when it was 105ยบ F at 4000' in the Sierra Nevada; until Sunday when the wind change and the fire that burned for a week spewed volumes of smoke into the place making life a living hell.
July 13-15; Eugene/Veneta, OR: Oregon Country Faire--the faire was fair and lovely and fun as usual and even the Beatle tribute was okay in spite of itself. Ninja acrobatic jugglers seemed reasonable even, while lots of music could be enjoyed by all including Al Howard and K23 Orchestra, Strings for Industry, Lakshmi Devi, Green Lemon, et al.
July 20-22; Eugene: FaerieWorlds Festival 2007--an interesting venue filled with rich people trying to recapture some lost ancient lives or past souls or cool crystalline rune like Celtic names--i think????
July 20-22; Whidbey Island: Island Fest 2007--Al Howard spoke for two hours on his tour life in a small space and that was perhaps the highest moment (yes intended that link) along with Anoushka Shankar ripping a set with Karch Kale and others--oh my gawd.
July 26-29; North Plains, OR: String Cheese Incident Full Moon Dreamdance and Summer Camp AHA Creative moment: So many moments of great playshop panels intermixed with super fun staging and theatrics way over the top and beyond the pale of any imaginations--- Shebang was shebanging in ways that only YouTube can express at the moment.
August 3-5; Camp Zoe, MO: Big Summer Classic with String Cheese Incident but more importantly groups such as: Los Lobos, the Wailers, the Roots, the Greyboy Allstars, Infected Mushroom, Bassnectar, Del McCoury, JJ Grey and Mofro, Buckwheat Zydeco, David Lindley, Drew Emmitt, Chris Berry and Panjea--- Infected Mushroom has an electronicist that is amazing; the Wailers were way cool to hang out with; Del McCoury knows the arcana of tour buses; and Bassnectar mixed some Rage Against the Machine w/ Coltrane; but it was the youth of the midwest that totally blew me away....
August 10-12; Red Rocks, CO: String Cheese Incident's final faretheewell where Peak dropped some serious prop bombs on the unsuspecting audience.
August 18-; Berkeley, CA: Watershed Poetry Festival
August 24-26; North Plains, OR: Northwest String Summit Spectacular w/ best sets of music from Strings for Industry ("this ain't no string cheese) and the New Riders of the Purple Sage ripping through some great material (w/ three songs performed with John Marmaduke Dawson -very ill but was fired up) including a stunning "Garden of Eden!"
August 28-August 31; Black Rock City, NV: Burning Man 2007 Green Man/ the man burned during the total lunar eclipse five days early (totally cool)
August 31-Setember 3; Tucson, AZ: Tucson Film and Music Festival w/ Friends of Dean Martinez and members of Calexico and Giant Sand---FoDM played their composed soundtrack for a screening of the 1926 animated German film The Adventures of Prince Achmed.
*i am enslaved to three production companies that are entwined in a wonderfully-collaborative, vertically-integrated, economic way.
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