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friday september 19
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tea leaf green raise up the tent

a message from the DGold:

Tea Leaf Green's new album Raise Up The Tent will be released on Tuesday July 22.

Members of the TLG forum plan to host 2 online listening parties. Please join us in the chat room, on the forum, and following the links below (at the times listed), for music and conversation. BYOB. Virtual party favors will be provided. All times listed are Pacific, 7-22-2008. Spread the word.

6 PM. [1] Tune in Honest FM "Raise Up The Tent" radio show (hosted by me) for an audio pre-cast including the radio debut of songs from Raise Up The Tent.

8 PM. [2] Tune in "Live From The Garden Shed" on Ustream (hosted by AG and JamBase TV) for a special album release party webcast, live from San Francisco. Video potentially featuring members of the band, music and chat.

To join the Chat Rooms, go to the Tea Leaf Green Forum Index and click "Join Chat" at the bottom. Also note that Ustream has a chat window, and you can customize your forum name on there by getting a ustream login. We will chat there too. Hope to see you all there.

[1] http://dgold.info/radio/webcast2008/music334

[2] http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-from-the-garden-shed

my tent is raised up & i will be chatting online with babes all night
usually #6 is my favorite track on the cd
'not fit' starts and ends with some of the best lyrics i've heard-

"i'm not fit to be in the company of women
i drink a bit & smell like the jungles of india....

i'm no good at asking please or saying thank you
i'll lick your knife, butter your toast with a rusty spoon
i'll talk all night and i won't even tell you how pretty you are
i'm impolite, i'll drink you up in a dirty jar......
but don't be down on me..."

end of the night

end of the night, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

the aerogarden is trucking right along, the greens are sprouting from every pod. another couple weeks & it'll be harvest time.

all my temecula wine glasses are also holding up, as is the glass i have from west point that says "With Pride We Defend USMA 97." i got it 10 years ago at a dance at west point and i drink OJ from it every morning. right up there with meeting Ray Knight and having Tea Leaf Green say happy birthday to me is the Camp Buckner weekend in august 1994 when my bestest girl friends & i went up to west point for a dance with extremely cute older boys in uniforms. no! sleep! til buckner! we all had just graduated high school & were leaving for college in the next couple of weeks & it was just a really exciting time full of freedom and hormones.

birthday greenery

tea leaf green, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

super show in raleigh last night! super people all around on the stage and off! they said happy birthday to me on air! i loooooove them!

april 30

leaf green, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

it's my birthday! the sun is shining! the birds are singing! i'm going to see tea leaf green tonight!

Kali Yuga Seeds

Tea Leaf Green's Kali Yuga from the album Living in Between available on the box set "Seeds" - released April 22nd, 2008 - Earth Day on Surf Dog Records, video by AG



Kali-Yuga

how far will we go on monday
i asked cause our speed had increased
that germ of transcendence is
always within us, at least

i know we’ve got to keep on going
a fast car won’t ever rust
and these hands of invisible organic forces
are pushing and pulling us

it’s a long way
through Kali-yuga
age of iron
cooled in the ocean
and mountains
are for exploring

devils have danced on my doorstep
and angels have sung in my yard
wise men are hiding in the mountains
while most of us are working too hard

speed is our last great invention
we race and we roll to arrive
by mineral, by mountain, by magnet and meteor
it’s hard enough to just get by

it’s a long way
through Kali-yuga
age of iron
cooled in the ocean
and the mountains
are for exploring

dgold.info/green for all tea leaf green lyrics

"that germ of transcendence is always within us, at least"
a lyric doesn't get better

athens 4 5 08

athens4508, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

tea leaf green played at the 40 watt in athens last night, and brought the fuego start to finish. allie kral from cornmeal came out to fiddle on the "devil's pay" encore & it was one of the most rousing musical performances i've had the great fortune to witness. i hope if i'm lucid on my deathbed that memory comes back. total joseph campbell unity connection moment. josh clark and trevor garrod are just amazingly creative musicians, i can't praise this band and the people who keep them on the road enough, it's an all-star family of genuine sincere gritty hardworking prodigies.

now for crap news, my computer melted this morning when i turned it on, i actually smell burning rubber. 1 year old. ridiculous. computer repair's not open til tomorrow. i might get a mac. does everybody who has a mac love it? should i need a new computer every 6 months? i'd like to beat it with a golf club.

home in the evening still got nothing to say

if any song is worth hearing 8 times in a row it may be this.



hidden track

vote for the best one, listen to tea leaf green.

steve leaf green

steveleafgreen, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

i was having some tea, thinking about how great it will be to see a few tea leaf green shows in their upcoming southeast tour, while they have steve adams from ALO sitting in on bass, and what to my wondering eyes should appear but ALO reflected in my teacup.

tea leaf green dates

how the photo came about

responsibility & abundance

i was supposed to be in falls church virginia right now, tea leaf green about to start ripping sh!t up at the state theater, a big reunion of old friends from up & down the coast, new year's kickoff party vibe at its height, but after a tragicomedy of errors and a string of sad stories involving trains, heart attacks, donuts, and 90% precipitation, i'm here instead. i cancelled my hotel in time & will called my ticket to a friend, so there's no loss, other than my missing the greenest time ever that's about to start.



one of the coolest things i got for christmas this year was from mappy camper - it's a paper box with scores of words on little pieces of paper inside, and every morning i shake it around & pull out a couple & think about it. for instance, yesterday (black widow hunting) i got "courage" and "flexibility." today's were 'responsibility' and 'abundance' and i think the lesson to teach myself in this situation is to take 'responsibility' for my dogs and self by staying here, and don't worry there will be an 'abundance' of tea leaf green shows in north carolina, south carolina, tennessee, georgia, and/or virginia that i will be able to get to in '08.

cool present, isn't it?

scattering tea leaves

i almost feel like someone died. i got this email last night:

"After ten great years on the road as a touring musician, I have come to the realization that this life is not for me. As a result, I have decided to leave Tea Leaf Green to pursue some of my life's other passions. I wish my brothers in the band only the best. Their future is surely bright. Most of all, I am so grateful to my family, friends, and fans. You've always encouraged my free spirit; thanks for your continued support.

Ben C.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In any band, there exists a dynamic between the collective's goals and those of the individual members. At times, aspirations that were once aligned, diverge. This is one of those times. We support Ben's decision without reservation and wish him only the best. We know he put his heart and soul into thinking this through, just like he did with Tea Leaf Green these past ten years; we admire Ben for staying true to himself.

As one chapter ends, so another begins. In this moment of transition, we've reached out to our good friend, Reed Mathis, who enthusiastically accepted the torch. Please join us in Santa Cruz as we welcome Reed to the band. Let's get this show on the road!

Tea Leaf Green"




he went by many names - milky chambers, the weed, franz hanzerbeak, & more - he was hard to photograph because he moved too constantly, always grooving head bobbing chicken walking plucking his bass hard and when they passed the mic to him he rapped heady funky goodness and the dancefloor was instantly transformed from manic schwirly chaos to a community getting down to ben c. all together now.

and today he's off to pursue other passions and i wish him extremely well but my heart aches with i feel like we let him down, i as a fan let him down, he wasn't happy enough playing for us to keep doing it. i shouldve gone to more shows, shouldve burned cd's for more people, all that stuff a band as talented as tea leaf green deserves but i also feel like could be they're tilting in a different direction from the planet of green love into the rock n roll band and they're playing 100+ shows a year back and forth and back and forth across the US and canada & a lot of those shows are short festival sets and opening for other bands, and hardly ever do they pass the mic to ben c. in a show like that. life on the road for these people is never easy i imagine. i'll always have a biscuit from NYE '05 to remember him by, and the memories, good god the memories, and the live music archive.

can't wait to see the new tea leaf green, hope they come this way soon.

trevor garrod show tonight

update about trevor garrod show tonight - from the tea leaf green forum -

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There will be a video webcast tonight of Trevor Garrod's solo show at the Knitting Factory in New York, NY. The show starts around 8:30 PM EDT with John Dyer opening.

The webcast can be viewed at http://video.tealeafgreen.com:8000/listen.pls using either Winamp (Windows-only) or VLC media player (cross-platform) on a high-speed Internet connection.

Enjoy the show!


so put up your antenna if you wanna tune on in!

highlights from charlottesville

i went up to uva yesterday to hang out with some allstar folks & see some tea leaf green & here are a few of the wilder pictures i got -
















that is nacho's ass, after he ate 5 lbs of ice, before he started panting & peed on the carpet/into the ice bucket

tea leaf green webcast from knitting factory 3/10/06

want to listen?

roxy is not key club

turns out i went to the wrong club saturday night! i thought i was at the roxy. tea leaf green was playing next door at the roxy. i was at the key club. where the kottonmouth kings were playing. i don't know why my tlg ticket was accepted at the door. i don't know why i didn't look at the name of the venue i was entering.
i know why i missed biscuits, i know why i missed friends.

nc trip

north carolina =


tea leaf green



asheville




charlotte






road to panthers' game


BUZZ bank of america stadium free visor nite panthers v. bucs

(how many visors can you count?)

LISA was the best topcat! so amazingly cool!


charlotte's changing

rock n roll band dvd

if you're looking for a present to give, and a t-shirt won't do, this tea leaf green live cd/dvd with interviews might be good and comes out tomorrow, while you wait for the guadalajara joe 2+-disc set to come out, which maybe by the holidaze.

addition to the trophy case

the original fake travoltordo, hanging between the tea leaf green new years eve biscuit and the bottle of 325 advil that curious nacho almost offed himself with, now wears a genuine mustache remnant from guadalajara joe's kitshicker/tea leaf green the party last night!

(check the sigs on the forehead and under-stache!)

it was bitchin!!!

he gave us the whole enchilada!


huge thanks to ken rahn for his sweet sunset set & all of his help all night long!


& thanks to wills & tim & the cool new neighbors for hosting


& also happy birthday dingo~

wow.

is tea leaf green christian music?

is it any wonder i love tea leaf green so much? trevor garrod looks like my mom and josh clark looks like my dad.