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Sweetness to the new summer season and may the wiley winds of the months to come bring you gentle breezes as refreshing as Egytptian grapes. 

And as the days seem to settle into the new season, I too become more acclimated to the new city, new environment and things begin to set in and settle as well. The whole process of relocating is a humble endeavor. I did recently find a wonderful apartment that’s very close to a large park as well as the beautiful Brooklyn musuem and Botanical Gardens. I’m almost through the first full month of officially living in New York City, and everything is gonna be real cool.

This past Saturday night I officiated my residence with a great Tea Leaf Green concert at The Fillmore East, Irving Plaza. An as usual stellar performance and it was great to see all the folks come out. Show was consistant but lacked many of the songs that I was personally looking forward to hear, just cuz it hadbeen so long. Still, papertecnics came out of retirement for the occasion and the streamers behaved themselves appropriately (no landing in the lights).  

The next local show that i’m looking forward to seeing is Bill Frisell on Saturday at what I hear is a classic venue an hour or so north of here. I’ve been wanting to see Bill Frisell for so long and I can’t wait for this show. Other than that, I still gotta get to know the city a bit better to be able to seek out all the many venues in this huge city with avid intent of catching lots of new music all which ways. Lots of ground to conquer, I mean cover. In this city though of course, catching live music is definitely possible 24/7, but yeah, I’ve decided to ease gently into the acclimating situation with a knowingly i’ll be led in due time to all the marvelous places and experiences. And it’s not like I’m foriegn to the city and havn’t been coming here for weeks at a time for the last 10 years, it’s just that this time, it’s for real. 

As June nears, I’m very much looking forward to having many of you out this way in the next couple weeks when Phish starts their tour and rolls throughout the eastern area. I’m trying to forseeably make it to the Boston show but definitely the few nights at Jones Beach, only and hour from me. After those shows, I’m heading out to Tennessee a week later for the Bonnaroo Music Festival (www.bonnaroo.com) for what should be a spectacular weekend of musical array and awesome times. I’m so stoked that Turbine is in the line up this year especially. It’s pretty cool to have The Beastie Boys, Phish, Ani Difranco, MGMt. and several more in the same line up as my boy’s band, nice.

Well, that’s about it for now. I’ll hopefully upload some new recordings soon to the radio site and archive, recent shows going away party show from sF. Also too, some photos of the new place and other musings like the worlds best grafitti art.

Stay cool and Rock on in the summertime!

Rarrrr,

-B

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