the ROOKIES

NEWS FLASH - Jake and I just starred in a 70's style cop movie, they filmed this over 2 weekends in Los Angeles. It was pretty fun, but we didn't make much money. The Stones did the music, and they sound pretty good. It went direct to video so I think we all got ripped off:

Jake "The Cannon" says he wants to be a full time undercover narc now.

Here he is backstage, waiting for the lighting crew to set up:

Practice for the Mitch's Benefit

This was one of the best practices we've ever had! Curly Max invited some of his friends over to dance to our music and we had a great time!

Just kidding - check out Curly Max on his NEW STANDUP BASS!

See you at Mitch's!

San Francisco Golden Gate Music Festival and the Happy Hippy Tour of Haight-Ashbury!

Well, Jake and I went to the Golden Gate "Outlands" Music Festival in San Francisco. I stayed in the Haunted Hotel, but more about that later! This is a postcard I made up from a shot I took from the top of the De Young museum tower:

I really like San Francisco because that's where most of the Wild Wild West episodes take place:

YeeeeeHAW!!! Come on Jim and Arty, lets go on a Cable Car ride!

Trying to play a Babelzcxztra - they had a Guitar Center next to our haunted hotel!

Video - I've never played one of these before, they're like a sitar but easier to play. I WANT ONE!

First some ICE CREAM! This was from one of those trucks that run around the city:

Then we hit another music shop, in North Beach:

Biggest record collection I've ever seen....

The Beatnik literature department at City Lights Bookstore!

The Boom Boom Room was right next to our haunted hotel too;

ON TO HAIGHT ASHBURY!!!!

The painted houses!

The carved tree stumps!

Wall decor from the 1960s still hangs around at Kate's Kitchen on Lower Haight;

The first of some amazing outdoor wall murals -

This is sort of retro 60's -

I'd call it "The Pensive Beaver."

Jimmy and Jerry on a HUGE wall -

More -

This was gigantic, check out the size of the cars under it -

More painted houses along Haight Street -

This is 710 Ashbury Street, the Grateful Dead House!

So, here's the Queen Anne Hotel we stayed in, supposedly the most haunted hotel in San Francisco:

The lobby, no kidding. Is that a ghost reading a magazine?

The haunted parlor clock:

I'm sitting in the "Priest's Chair" which is haunted too:

My mom didn't like the Haunted Hotel, so she spent most of her time at the candy shop:

Wherever you go in San Francisco, you see this big alien spaceship thing on a hill:

At night on Lombard Street:

So then it was time to go to the...

OUTLANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL OF 2011!

I got here extra early and was one of the first ones they let in -

Hippies built a big playground:

More Hippie architecture:

This is my mom's favorite place:

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Then we all went home! Boo Hoo!!!!

On our last day we went to Berkeley, and here's their biggest record shop, Rasputin Music:

Here's the UC Berkeley clock tower, I don't know if I fit in here or not...

probably not.

Here's a Happy Hippy High Herbs shop, looking down beseechingly on some modern day Berkeley engineering students who obviously don't believe in herbal remedies:

Anyway, goodbye San Francisco! 

Goodbye for now to Alcatraz Island, cable cars, hippies, fog, hills, ice cream, haunted hotels, Chinatown, Haight Street, North Beach Pizza, music, bands, the Golden Gate Bridge, boats, plantain burritos, seals and clam chowder!