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If you're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town.

And if you're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.


Carlos Santana, quoted from "Zen Guitar"
Photo by John Harrison   




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Ralph Confredo, Guitar 



 

Geoff Harrison, Guitar



  He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
  Close to the sun in lonely lands,
  Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

  The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
  He watches from his mountain walls,
  And like a thunderbolt he falls.

  Hello.  My name is Inigo Montoya.
  You killed my father.
  Prepare to die.

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, "The Eagle"
Montoya, Inigo, The Princess Bride
 Photo by Tracy Wells 

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"You know what are really nice?

Wool socks.

Yeah they're really nice.

I have them on right now.

You should get some too."






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Tony Hildebrandt, Bass, and Soundman Extraordinaire






Jeff Lownes, Drums  





The man with the most names -- Jethro, Snacks, Heart-of-Gold Man, Peaceful Man, Mr. Picnic, Camper Pie Guy, His Royal Lownes(s), Most Honorable Jethro-San -- he always has "just the tool for that job."   

Like one fall weekend in Sandy Hollow, after playing and partying and camping all night and having "who can make the tallest fire" contests ... 
after he woke up and poked his head out of his tent looking like Riff Raff because of the palm-tree ponytail he tied in his hair while somebody's friendly black dog licked and licked his laughing face ... after his brother, Gary, cooked us all a jamming good camping breakfast (these Lownes boys know how to camp, baby) ... after he changed into his Mr. Picnic hawaiian shirt and strapped on his guitar and stood in the morning sunshine ...  

He sang and played the sweetest Stella Blue I've ever heard.
                                                                            -- Photo by John Harrison




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 Mike Milburn, Bass

(In the West) I think our search is somewhat encumbered by our concept of God.  God as a final term is a personality in our tradition, so that breaking past that "personality" into the transpersonal, whether within one's self or in conceiving of the form beyond forms -- although one can't even say form -- is blocked by our orthodox training.  This is so drummed into us, that the word "God" refers to a personality.  Now, there have been important mystics who have broken past that.  For instance, there is Meister Eckhart, whose line I like to quote:  "The ultimate leave-taking is the leaving of God for God."  This is what in Sanskrit is so easily expressed in Saguna and Nirguna Brahman -- Brahman with qualities and Brahman without qualities.  And when people would go to Ramakrishna, he would ask them how they would like to talk about God, with qualities or without?  You see, that's inherent in their tradition, but it's blocked in ours.

-- Joseph Campbell
-- Photo by John Harrison

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Martha Penny, Keys

  

    Will you give me 
   your word of honor 
   that you won't cheat if 
   I give you mine that
   I won't report you 
   in case you do?  (Smullyan)



-- Photo by John Harrison  

Who are the Angry Beavers?

When can you watch them? Only on DVD now.




What happened to the Angry Beavers? (Nick cancelled
them after this script was submitted lampooning the
lucrative nature of syndication/reruns)


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Scott Orthey, Percussion & Drums


Death is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered. He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it. He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness. The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke. By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces. By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent. And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?" 

Job 26: 6-14y

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Scarlet Fire 

Ralph Confredo
Jacques DeCurnou
Don & Julie Haertter
Geoff Harrison
John Harrison
Tony Hildebrandt
Sean Kelly
Jeff Lownes
Mike Milburn
Lou Monnoleto
Scott Orthey
Martha Penny
Martha Penny