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March 17, 2018 Saturday Take a trip back in time with Richard Moon & The New Improved Jook Savages
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March 17, 2018 Saturday
Take a trip back in time with Richard Moon & The New Improved Jook Savages, The Night Nurses, and the Cascade Canyon Band. Featuring Jimi James, Howard Fallon, Bill Bowen and Dave Matthews on Saturday March 17, 2018 at the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center 2905 Shttuck Ave. Berkeley Doors 6:30PM Show 7:30PM Donations $15.00-$25.00 Don't miss this historic and special concert, and please help us spread the word.
The story of 'The New Improved Jook Savages
As a teenager, I was one of the young, up and coming, blues guitar players out of the Minneapolis Dinkytown scene on the fringe of the University of Minnesota. Johnny Koerner, Dave Ray and most notably Bob Dylan were our musical heroes. Dylan's roommate, who initially taught Dylan to write songs, was an old guy, 24 years old, named David Morton. David was farther out than anyone I'd ever met. My first 'guru', he taught me so much. He turned a near downtown apartment in to a 'super pop' art gallery.
Returning from the New York scene w Dylan, Ginsberg and the gang, David came over. He heard me play and asked me to start a band with him. We called it the National City Vipers. We played all over the twin cities area, until I ran away to California.
Eventually, David came and got me again when I was living in Los Angeles, where I had become best friends with Rick Griffin. We started as a rock and roll jug band again, and moved into the house on Miramar Street with a bunch of crazy artists from Chouinaurd Art Institute. Initially, it was me, David, Rick, Mark and Paula Robertson, Mark 'Reno' Myerson, brother of Alan who started the Committee, Craig Erickson, Harvey Fox and Bob Burton. Alan Ginsberg was around, came to our rehearsal and taught us to chant and meditate. David and Reno were talking, and David said, "Let's call it The New Improved Jook Savages."
New Improved because everything they were selling in every ad was new and improved at that time. Savage, David said, came from the music. And Jook was an earlier genre of music that fostered bop and other forms and eventually rock 'n' roll. Jook music is what the 'Juke boxes' were named after.
We were at the Watts Acid Test with the Grateful Dead, the one Tom Wolfe wrote about in, The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test. We played several acid tests with the 'Dead' down south. They were fans especially Danny Rifkin & Jerry Garcia, who bought more of my tapes than anyone I know of.
Then we moved up to San Francisco where we landed in the middle of the 60's as part of the explosion of the Haight-Ashbury scene. We played at the psychedelic shop where Rick Griffin made our poster
and overnight became one of the icons of the SF poster scene.
We played the Fillmore and many of the trips festivals, and we played all the acid tests including the big one at Muir beach, with all the bands and Richard Albert, not yet, 'Baba Ram Dass'.
SF was the most exotic event in the world then. The 'Dead', the 'Airplane', the Charlatans, Quicksilver, 'Big Brother', Country Joe, Blue cheer, were all on the scene and we played with all of them. We were part of the 'Committee Theater. We lived up on the hill in Larkspur Canyon, and tortured the entire area with our music.
Unquestionably the weirdest thing out there, they called us, 'the camps camp.' The Mothers of Invention used to invite us out to their gigs to 'freak people out'. Elliot the guitar player, said, " you guys make us look like the Beach Boys!"
Eventually David moved back to Minnesota and we all went in our own directions. Decades later, inspired by Jonathan Richman's Pablo Picasso, I began writing and recording the new series of songs. As RAP was short for Rhythm and Poetry, I called my form 'RANT' - Rhythm And New Thinking
I continued writing and recording, including 'The Ballad of Idi Amin', 'The Fuck Quartet' and 'The Nazi Trilogy'. They went on to a short lived underground success. Bill Graham called me and said, "beautiful music man beautiful music." Danny Rifkin had given him the tape. Then he asked me if I would open for the Talking Heads. I was looking forward to a great career. He said he'd call me soon. Two weeks later, he died in a helicopter crash. And I remembered the line from Kurt Vonnegut's, Cats Cradle.
"Strange traveling suggestions are dancing lessons from God. "
I'm still in touch with David. We talk from time to time and worked on the last verse to the Vietnam concerto just a few years back. I put as many of the songs as I can remember up on YouTube.
And then Mike Somavilla called me and here we are coming to Berkeley
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Take a trip back in time with Richard Moon & The New Improved Jook Savages, The Night Nurses, and the Cascade Canyon Band. Featuring Jimi James, Howard Fallon, Bill Bowen and Dave Matthews on Saturday March 17, 2018 at the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center 2905 Shttuck Ave. Berkeley Doors 6:30PM Show 7:30PM Donations $15.00-$25.00 Don't miss this historic and special concert, and please help us spread the word.
The story of 'The New Improved Jook Savages
As a teenager, I was one of the young, up and coming, blues guitar players out of the Minneapolis Dinkytown scene on the fringe of the University of Minnesota. Johnny Koerner, Dave Ray and most notably Bob Dylan were our musical heroes. Dylan's roommate, who initially taught Dylan to write songs, was an old guy, 24 years old, named David Morton. David was farther out than anyone I'd ever met. My first 'guru', he taught me so much. He turned a near downtown apartment in to a 'super pop' art gallery.
Returning from the New York scene w Dylan, Ginsberg and the gang, David came over. He heard me play and asked me to start a band with him. We called it the National City Vipers. We played all over the twin cities area, until I ran away to California.
Eventually, David came and got me again when I was living in Los Angeles, where I had become best friends with Rick Griffin. We started as a rock and roll jug band again, and moved into the house on Miramar Street with a bunch of crazy artists from Chouinaurd Art Institute. Initially, it was me, David, Rick, Mark and Paula Robertson, Mark 'Reno' Myerson, brother of Alan who started the Committee, Craig Erickson, Harvey Fox and Bob Burton. Alan Ginsberg was around, came to our rehearsal and taught us to chant and meditate. David and Reno were talking, and David said, "Let's call it The New Improved Jook Savages."
New Improved because everything they were selling in every ad was new and improved at that time. Savage, David said, came from the music. And Jook was an earlier genre of music that fostered bop and other forms and eventually rock 'n' roll. Jook music is what the 'Juke boxes' were named after.
We were at the Watts Acid Test with the Grateful Dead, the one Tom Wolfe wrote about in, The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test. We played several acid tests with the 'Dead' down south. They were fans especially Danny Rifkin & Jerry Garcia, who bought more of my tapes than anyone I know of.
Then we moved up to San Francisco where we landed in the middle of the 60's as part of the explosion of the Haight-Ashbury scene. We played at the psychedelic shop where Rick Griffin made our poster
and overnight became one of the icons of the SF poster scene.
We played the Fillmore and many of the trips festivals, and we played all the acid tests including the big one at Muir beach, with all the bands and Richard Albert, not yet, 'Baba Ram Dass'.
SF was the most exotic event in the world then. The 'Dead', the 'Airplane', the Charlatans, Quicksilver, 'Big Brother', Country Joe, Blue cheer, were all on the scene and we played with all of them. We were part of the 'Committee Theater. We lived up on the hill in Larkspur Canyon, and tortured the entire area with our music.
Unquestionably the weirdest thing out there, they called us, 'the camps camp.' The Mothers of Invention used to invite us out to their gigs to 'freak people out'. Elliot the guitar player, said, " you guys make us look like the Beach Boys!"
Eventually David moved back to Minnesota and we all went in our own directions. Decades later, inspired by Jonathan Richman's Pablo Picasso, I began writing and recording the new series of songs. As RAP was short for Rhythm and Poetry, I called my form 'RANT' - Rhythm And New Thinking
I continued writing and recording, including 'The Ballad of Idi Amin', 'The Fuck Quartet' and 'The Nazi Trilogy'. They went on to a short lived underground success. Bill Graham called me and said, "beautiful music man beautiful music." Danny Rifkin had given him the tape. Then he asked me if I would open for the Talking Heads. I was looking forward to a great career. He said he'd call me soon. Two weeks later, he died in a helicopter crash. And I remembered the line from Kurt Vonnegut's, Cats Cradle.
"Strange traveling suggestions are dancing lessons from God. "
I'm still in touch with David. We talk from time to time and worked on the last verse to the Vietnam concerto just a few years back. I put as many of the songs as I can remember up on YouTube.
And then Mike Somavilla called me and here we are coming to Berkeley
March 17, 2018 Saturday
Take a trip back in time with Richard Moon & The New Improved Jook Savages, The Night Nurses, and the Cascade Canyon Band. Featuring Jimi James, Howard Fallon, Bill Bowen and Dave Matthews on Saturday March 17, 2018 at the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center 2905 Shttuck Ave. Berkeley Doors 6:30PM Show 7:30PM Donations $15.00-$25.00 Don't miss this historic and special concert, and please help us spread the word.
The story of 'The New Improved Jook Savages
As a teenager, I was one of the young, up and coming, blues guitar players out of the Minneapolis Dinkytown scene on the fringe of the University of Minnesota. Johnny Koerner, Dave Ray and most notably Bob Dylan were our musical heroes. Dylan's roommate, who initially taught Dylan to write songs, was an old guy, 24 years old, named David Morton. David was farther out than anyone I'd ever met. My first 'guru', he taught me so much. He turned a near downtown apartment in to a 'super pop' art gallery.
Returning from the New York scene w Dylan, Ginsberg and the gang, David came over. He heard me play and asked me to start a band with him. We called it the National City Vipers. We played all over the twin cities area, until I ran away to California.
Eventually, David came and got me again when I was living in Los Angeles, where I had become best friends with Rick Griffin. We started as a rock and roll jug band again, and moved into the house on Miramar Street with a bunch of crazy artists from Chouinaurd Art Institute. Initially, it was me, David, Rick, Mark and Paula Robertson, Mark 'Reno' Myerson, brother of Alan who started the Committee, Craig Erickson, Harvey Fox and Bob Burton. Alan Ginsberg was around, came to our rehearsal and taught us to chant and meditate. David and Reno were talking, and David said, "Let's call it The New Improved Jook Savages."
New Improved because everything they were selling in every ad was new and improved at that time. Savage, David said, came from the music. And Jook was an earlier genre of music that fostered bop and other forms and eventually rock 'n' roll. Jook music is what the 'Juke boxes' were named after.
We were at the Watts Acid Test with the Grateful Dead, the one Tom Wolfe wrote about in, The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test. We played several acid tests with the 'Dead' down south. They were fans especially Danny Rifkin & Jerry Garcia, who bought more of my tapes than anyone I know of.
Then we moved up to San Francisco where we landed in the middle of the 60's as part of the explosion of the Haight-Ashbury scene. We played at the psychedelic shop where Rick Griffin made our poster
and overnight became one of the icons of the SF poster scene.
We played the Fillmore and many of the trips festivals, and we played all the acid tests including the big one at Muir beach, with all the bands and Richard Albert, not yet, 'Baba Ram Dass'.
SF was the most exotic event in the world then. The 'Dead', the 'Airplane', the Charlatans, Quicksilver, 'Big Brother', Country Joe, Blue cheer, were all on the scene and we played with all of them. We were part of the 'Committee Theater. We lived up on the hill in Larkspur Canyon, and tortured the entire area with our music.
Unquestionably the weirdest thing out there, they called us, 'the camps camp.' The Mothers of Invention used to invite us out to their gigs to 'freak people out'. Elliot the guitar player, said, " you guys make us look like the Beach Boys!"
Eventually David moved back to Minnesota and we all went in our own directions. Decades later, inspired by Jonathan Richman's Pablo Picasso, I began writing and recording the new series of songs. As RAP was short for Rhythm and Poetry, I called my form 'RANT' - Rhythm And New Thinking
I continued writing and recording, including 'The Ballad of Idi Amin', 'The Fuck Quartet' and 'The Nazi Trilogy'. They went on to a short lived underground success. Bill Graham called me and said, "beautiful music man beautiful music." Danny Rifkin had given him the tape. Then he asked me if I would open for the Talking Heads. I was looking forward to a great career. He said he'd call me soon. Two weeks later, he died in a helicopter crash. And I remembered the line from Kurt Vonnegut's, Cats Cradle.
"Strange traveling suggestions are dancing lessons from God. "
I'm still in touch with David. We talk from time to time and worked on the last verse to the Vietnam concerto just a few years back. I put as many of the songs as I can remember up on YouTube.
And then Mike Somavilla called me and here we are coming to Berkeley
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Take a trip back in time with Richard Moon & The New Improved Jook Savages, The Night Nurses, and the Cascade Canyon Band. Featuring Jimi James, Howard Fallon, Bill Bowen and Dave Matthews on Saturday March 17, 2018 at the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center 2905 Shttuck Ave. Berkeley Doors 6:30PM Show 7:30PM Donations $15.00-$25.00 Don't miss this historic and special concert, and please help us spread the word.
The story of 'The New Improved Jook Savages
As a teenager, I was one of the young, up and coming, blues guitar players out of the Minneapolis Dinkytown scene on the fringe of the University of Minnesota. Johnny Koerner, Dave Ray and most notably Bob Dylan were our musical heroes. Dylan's roommate, who initially taught Dylan to write songs, was an old guy, 24 years old, named David Morton. David was farther out than anyone I'd ever met. My first 'guru', he taught me so much. He turned a near downtown apartment in to a 'super pop' art gallery.
Returning from the New York scene w Dylan, Ginsberg and the gang, David came over. He heard me play and asked me to start a band with him. We called it the National City Vipers. We played all over the twin cities area, until I ran away to California.
Eventually, David came and got me again when I was living in Los Angeles, where I had become best friends with Rick Griffin. We started as a rock and roll jug band again, and moved into the house on Miramar Street with a bunch of crazy artists from Chouinaurd Art Institute. Initially, it was me, David, Rick, Mark and Paula Robertson, Mark 'Reno' Myerson, brother of Alan who started the Committee, Craig Erickson, Harvey Fox and Bob Burton. Alan Ginsberg was around, came to our rehearsal and taught us to chant and meditate. David and Reno were talking, and David said, "Let's call it The New Improved Jook Savages."
New Improved because everything they were selling in every ad was new and improved at that time. Savage, David said, came from the music. And Jook was an earlier genre of music that fostered bop and other forms and eventually rock 'n' roll. Jook music is what the 'Juke boxes' were named after.
We were at the Watts Acid Test with the Grateful Dead, the one Tom Wolfe wrote about in, The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test. We played several acid tests with the 'Dead' down south. They were fans especially Danny Rifkin & Jerry Garcia, who bought more of my tapes than anyone I know of.
Then we moved up to San Francisco where we landed in the middle of the 60's as part of the explosion of the Haight-Ashbury scene. We played at the psychedelic shop where Rick Griffin made our poster
and overnight became one of the icons of the SF poster scene.
We played the Fillmore and many of the trips festivals, and we played all the acid tests including the big one at Muir beach, with all the bands and Richard Albert, not yet, 'Baba Ram Dass'.
SF was the most exotic event in the world then. The 'Dead', the 'Airplane', the Charlatans, Quicksilver, 'Big Brother', Country Joe, Blue cheer, were all on the scene and we played with all of them. We were part of the 'Committee Theater. We lived up on the hill in Larkspur Canyon, and tortured the entire area with our music.
Unquestionably the weirdest thing out there, they called us, 'the camps camp.' The Mothers of Invention used to invite us out to their gigs to 'freak people out'. Elliot the guitar player, said, " you guys make us look like the Beach Boys!"
Eventually David moved back to Minnesota and we all went in our own directions. Decades later, inspired by Jonathan Richman's Pablo Picasso, I began writing and recording the new series of songs. As RAP was short for Rhythm and Poetry, I called my form 'RANT' - Rhythm And New Thinking
I continued writing and recording, including 'The Ballad of Idi Amin', 'The Fuck Quartet' and 'The Nazi Trilogy'. They went on to a short lived underground success. Bill Graham called me and said, "beautiful music man beautiful music." Danny Rifkin had given him the tape. Then he asked me if I would open for the Talking Heads. I was looking forward to a great career. He said he'd call me soon. Two weeks later, he died in a helicopter crash. And I remembered the line from Kurt Vonnegut's, Cats Cradle.
"Strange traveling suggestions are dancing lessons from God. "
I'm still in touch with David. We talk from time to time and worked on the last verse to the Vietnam concerto just a few years back. I put as many of the songs as I can remember up on YouTube.
And then Mike Somavilla called me and here we are coming to Berkeley
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