There are meetings this Tuesday June 8th – World Oceans Day - for caring people to get together and brainstorm more ideas to help out with the BP Gulf Oil Disaster and make real change. The Eugene Oregon meeting is at 8PM – you can get the details here: :http://www.meetup.com/HuffPostGreen/4071/
To find a meetup in YOUR area: http://www.meetup.com/HuffPostGreen/
Here are some great suggestions from HuffingtonPost:
I’ve begun updating the lyrics page at scarletjinn.com/lyrics.html – having added some songs such as Circus that we don’t do often enough at the live shows. I have been quite remiss in adding to that page and I’m attempting to correct that. There are probably 5-6 songs that weren’t posted there before, and more to come.
Last night we had rehearsal, running thru songs for the show on Saturday night at Happy Hours, and changing up the sets a bit. It appears that we might also record that show, so if you’re there… the more noise the better! 
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Well, he’s too modest to admit it, but some of us would have to say, YES. Read the rest of this entry »
Isn’t is great to meet kindred spirits? And often without even knowing it they inspire you or even change your life with just a few words. Sometimes they’re authors, or musicians, and for me, lots of times it’s YOU, your comments, thoughts, your presence at a show. Today I received a really kind message from a guy called the Buddha on myspace who has some great videos and thoughts on his page there. He said “Nietzsche proposed that a man must live his life as if it were a work of art. That’s wonderful advice, and it seems you’re doing just that! Keep making your beautiful music!” Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve spent a few more evenings in the “empty” (and slightly haunted) house working on more recordings. What a great way to close out 07 and Welcome in 2008! So now we’ve got another version of Mushroom Sky and also these:
Of course now the real work begins, as these are just the basic tracks with scratch vocals. Read the rest of this entry »
Last night we recorded the basic tracks for the final three songs in this project. As always, we had great fun in the studio, and Ben the engineer was really good at getting the sounds. He’s easy to work with, a night owl like us – and it was just so nice not to have to engineer ourselves this time!
Visionarium was well equipped and had some excellent outboard gear, all in all a pretty cool place. Read the rest of this entry »
Tonight I re-did the vocals on Marmalade Moonlight (they’d had noise on the track the first time). It’s a fun song, based upon events that one sometimes stumbles into: a bacchanal gathering in an enchanted wood. Read the rest of this entry »
The Wizard’s Story
I was living in LA again, recording with my project at the time called Psychedelic Gypsy. I had a deal with this studio in Hollywood to use their off hours, generally starting after midnight, and often had to wait for the previous session to end. I’d go get some tea at a cafe nearby, and sometimes take a walk just to enjoy the people who filled Sunset Blvd late at night.
All the dreamers – people who came to LA to find “success” – or their soul – were there. And the haunted ones are all there, too….