Summertime done come & gone my oh my!

 

Another season of music making is winding down. Thugz still have a few more shows before we go into winter semi-hibernation but overall it has been a blast. The current version of the band has really begun coming into it's…

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Big Bro Show

   Peter Albin & I

Big Brother & the Holding Company, Yes!   Big Brother has always been one of my favorite of the great San Francisco bands. One upon a time as a teenager I attended the "Santa Clara Folk Rock…

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Blue is the Color

Most thugz shows occur in what could be called humble or funky environments but once in while we get to do our thing in a more deluxe environment. Such was the case when we ventured east to Napa and the…

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Jazzin' it Up a Bit

Spring! April started out with a mess of showers but as the song says, "they bring the flowers that bloom on May".

Lots of Thugz stuff coming up and also a few side trips. One thing I have been working…

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Time to Get it Up Again

It's been a while since my last rant but I have been trying. I wrote a huge one that suddenly disappeared before I could publish it. Maybe it was for the best but it kind of discouraged me from writing…

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Winter Beans & Stuff

Well, not much about beans. I just wanted to show this picture of pickled green beans from our garden.

We had a really fun holiday show at Rio Nido Roadhouse this past weekend, one of our best ever maybe. The…

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Truckin' with Blackie

We had a very cool evening of music with another Sonoma county band "Solid Air" last night in Cotati. What a great band they are with beautiful originals and some rockin' Beatles arrangements. We are hoping to do more events…

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winter looks good after all

October off to a bad start, only got worse with the horrible fire storm. We feel blessed to have been in a much less affected area. Some band members did come close to evacuating and many, many friends lost everything…

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Oh!

Sitting on the deck here in Cazadero I just heard a banjo off in the woods somewhere playing the theme from Deliverance. Guess I'll raise the drawbridge.

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October not off to a good start

A bad day all around for Vegas and music with the horrible shooting and also the loss of Tom Petty. How fleeting everything is . I can't wait to play with the band this Saturday.

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Grateful part 2

Hello again, Here we go with part 2 of last blog rant. Thank you to those who follow this random series of words (all 2 or 3 of you).

 I am continuing with a few of what I consider our…

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