THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO I pulled one of the dumbest stunts of my life: I started a band with a 14-year-old bassist who’d never played bass,…
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In the interest of full disclosure, yes, I was a hippie, and yes, I was at Woodstock. I’ve spent most of the intervening half century…
Full disclosure: I smoked marijuana, often on a daily basis, for 26 years, from 1967 to 1993. During the lean years of the mid-1980s, I…
I started smoking pot when I was about Bieber’s age. In fact for more than 20 years of my life I would have sworn that…
One of my big regrets about the Potatomen — yes, I’ve had a few — was that we never finished a song we started back…
How do you run a successful indie record label in the year 2012? Ask as many scenesters, hipsters, music business “professionals” as you want; the…
Udo died in the autumn of 1991. He’d been driving alone late at night, so no one ever knew exactly why or how his car…
From my back door the view stretched at least 30 or 40 miles. The hills fell away until they reached the Eel River, then began…
Everything did change, not all at once, not in an obvious, visible way, at least at first, but the wheels were already in motion. Life…
I don’t know how much time passed before I woke up. It might have been half an hour; it could have been a few minutes.…
Before driving back to the city, the girl I had befriended in the city and I took a walk up to a stately rock formation…