The THUGZ (tribal hippie underground zone)

Kazoo - hum, don't blow

Harmonica - first you blow, then you suck

Summer is here (though not officially just yet). The band is heading up to our annual show at Wavy Gravy's "Camp Winnarainbow" for the adult camp dance. The following week the horde of happy kids descend on the camp for…

For the Thugz it's Bob Dylan season about this time every year. On May 20 at Rio Nido Roadhouse we will present our 8th Annual Bob Dylan Night. His birthday is May 24 so we figure it's as good a…

The THUGZ are back at it. We took a few months off (Nov. - Jan.) to recoup and rest a bit. I especially needed the time. The band has been playing in one form or another since 2001. We have…

Jerry Celebration #16 has "come & gone, my oh my!"! It's hard to comprehend that we have been doing the Jerry tribute show for 16 years. The first was indoors at the Blue Heron in Duncan Mills , CA. it…

I always liked the Zombie's song "Time of the Season". I am not sure why. It always reminds me of driving around  with the windows open in the summertime ( hey, In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry. - we had…

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhagragagafhjdkdk!!!!!   and that is just for today

Well, we did our show at Winnarainbow on 6/17. We have been playing there for 5 years now. Before I get into it I should say that it was quiet a success. I was a bit worried that we would…

We did our annual Bob Dylan tribute the other night (5/21). It was the 7th annual such concert. The Thugz have always played a lot of Dylan tunes. I remember looking at our list of songs and thinking that we…

May 9, 2016

Howdy folks,

 It's been a while since my last post. I've had a hard time getting the gumption to write anything but I'll give it a shot. Many people have missed reading Sylvia's blog so I hope…

                                Dead of winter

Well, it is certainly winter here. It's not as bad as many have it back East but it has been pretty cold. Temps have been down in the 20's at night, fish pond has frozen over (the…

In general I am not at all sure that everything was better in the good old days but I know that one thing was:   the "Sound" of Music.  Technology has made it very easy to get and disperse music in…