Lions, and Tigers, and Van Halen...oh my!

WHO STOLE MY LIGHTER? (and everything else of value)

I took this picture a few months ago with my camera phone. I included it here simply becuase its great and to show what the rest of the pics could have looked like had I remembered to to reset the resolution settings...

Just the same, I hope you can see how awesome my recent trip to the San Bernardino, CA was. Or at leas the part of the trip that didnt include some asshole stealing my ray bans, fully loaded 30G video ipod, and my digital camera from my bag. Oh yeah and they also toll my rental car keys...what a drag man. All I can do is picture some little prick kickin back in the sun somewhere in front of his trailer jamming out to the misfits on my ipod while he takes pictures of his feet on my camera...i hope you die....

Anyways...on a more positive note, we had yet another successful event as part of heinekens rock the bells sponsorship. this time the festival took place at Glen Helen which is a massive outdoor ampitheatre and festival ground in the middle of nowhere aka san bernardino desert/mountains. the venue is pretty awesome and the show was sold out at 65,000 which is nuts even for rage against the machine.


This time around we set up in guerilla unions air conditioned VIP tent and turned it into the Heineken Red Star Lounge. Once again we brought our good friends SEN DOG & DJ MUGGS (CYPRESS HILL), SCOTT IAN (ANTHRAX), and RAHZEL together for an amazing and intimate performance. this one almost killed me, but the kids seemed to love it...


After the dust cleared (literally) I got some nuch needed sleep and then drove back out into the desert to do an encounter at Amazing Animals.


This place is literally in the middle of the desert. I had to drive down this windy dirt road, then an even windier gravel one that was like 3 feet away from an active train track.


The trip was only part of the adventure though. once i got to the ranch, I was greeted by Sky and the rest of the crew who introduced me to baby lions and tigers and bears. oh...you get it...(5 weeks old), a grizzly bear named cheyenne who I got to wrestle with. (thats her biting my hand...but i showed HER who was boss...), plus some fully grown and huge lions, wolves, hawks (that i flew), gators, pumas, and more. takes the whole zoo thing to another level. I still have some claw marks in my arm that are pretty rad. Those animals were sooo awesome. I dont think Ive ever had such a good time with nature in my life. thanks again to everyone involved for making this happen.





Sadly I had to leave the ranch and head back to NYC once again, only to get it together for this weekends rock the bells fest in SF. This one should be amazing as well, but Im really looking forward it to it because its the last one.

Once thats over Lori, Harley, and I are headed up to Brookings, OR for some R&R up river. Man do I need it....
Pictures from that trip on my new camera comin in the next addition...


VAN HALEN the new old version?
OK - So by now Im sure most of you have heard the news about the Van Halen tour with david lee roth. Anyone who knows me, knows I am pretty stoked that this happening and have been waiting my whole life for it, but why must even this be a tainted version of the real deal? Not bringing Michael Anthony along in favor of Eddies 16 yr old son wofgang is weak. Im sure the kid can play, and I welcome him to jump in as second guitar for support, but not instead of a foudning member who deserves it more.

Like the obsessed fan I am, I have checked the site and web for news daily since there was an internet and cringed the whole way through false starts, Hagar tours, and even the recent press conference where they go on and on about the "new band"... I dont know, I hope its great. I will definetly go to the show and be air guitaring just in case...

This should have happened 10 yrs ago when they first duped Roth at the VMAs, but I guess its better than not at all. or is it?
Where have all the good times gone...indeed.

This is a picture of the current lineup from the press conference...


but I prefer to remember them from the good old days like this....


WEIRD PIC ALERT!
Oh yeah. I found this pic clearing off my phone...This guy was set up in a parking lot at a park in Clifton, NJ. He is in full vegas Elvis get up and was rockin' hunka burnin love through his karoake machine like a champ to whoever came by.
god belss brother...



MY TOP 5
Uncle Marks BBQ'd Tuna Ka Bobs
The Coup Live @ Rock the Bells LA
Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo
In & Out Burger
Bear Wrestling

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