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Very Free and Easy

It ain't me babe... no no no, it ain't me babe, it me you're looking for babe...

About Me



...When I hold you in my arms, when I feel my finger on your trigger, I know NOBODY can do me no harm, because... Happiness is a warm, yes it is... GUN! Uh, don't you know that happiness (happiness...) is a warm gun (bang bang, shoot shoot...) happiness is a warm gun (ohhh yeah)!!!

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My Interests

Peace, the anti-war movement, grass and other ethneogens, music, love, the beat generation, the 1960s, communal living, concerts, sex, freedom, motorcycles, road trips, hallucinogenic trips, trees, socialism, the (60s folk) coffee house scene, hobos, bums, burnouts, freight trains, delta blues, the merry pranksters, the diggers, San Francisco, hand-blown glass pipes, head shops, thrift shops, the psychedelic experience, philosophy, real intellectuals, nature, Neal Cassady, drinking, dreadlocks, reefers, drug references, easy riders, Peter Fonda, Day-Glo paint, human be-ins, rock 'n roll photography, fighting the esablishment, rock docs, VW buses, subterraneans, guitars, saxophones, harmonicas, acidhead gear, Timothy Leary, 27, old Beatles songs, day tripping, the Ed Sullivan Show, the electric kool-aid acid tests, dashikis, gravity bongs, utopia, guitar solos, jam bands, rock t-shirts, Woodstock, tie-dye, Yasgur's farm, the 'On the Road' days, free love, liberals, flavored blunt wraps, enlightenment, peyote cactus, vegetarianism, environmentalism, staying up all night, group mind, meditation, hitchhikers, hippiedom, experimenting, writing poetry, and you :)

I'd like to meet:

...I got something money can't buy, I got something that you oughta try, I got love, LOVE I said love sweet love I got love baby... YEAH!

Tribute to Marijuana

Music:

My top 5 favorite artists are The Beatles, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin. I most enjoy the electric music of the mid-late 1960s. I'd have to say Bringing It All Back Home and Birth of the Dead are among the quintessential albums of that time... definitely definitive of something we once called the '60s sound.

5 Man Electrical Band
13th Floor Elevators
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Albert King
The Animals
The Allman Brothers Band
Aretha Franklin
Arlo Guthrie
Alan Parsons Project
America
Al Green
The Association
Art Blakey
Alice Cooper
Alexis Korner
The Beatles
Bad Company
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley & the Wailers
The Band
Bessie Smith
Blue Oyster Cult
Bob Seger
Black Sabbath
Billy Joel
Billy Squire
Bobby 'Blue' Bland
Bud Powell
Brewer & Shipley
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Buddy Holly
Bread
BB King
Big Joe Williams
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blue Cheer
Bonnie Dobson
Blind Willie McTell
Blind Guardian
Bloomfield Blues Band
Brownsville Station
The Black Crowes
Buckingham-Nicks
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Butterfield Blues Band
Blind John Davis
Badfinger
Buffalo Springfield
Billie Holiday
Buddy Guy
Blind Boy Fuller
Blind Willie Johnson
The Beach Boys
Ben E. King
Syd Barrett
Buffy Sainte-Marie
The Byrds
Blues Traveler
Cream
Chicago
Cinderella
The Coasters
The Cookies
Chet Baker
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cheap Trick
The Cars
Charlie Parker
Canned Heat
Charles Mingus
Chuck Berry
Cisco Houston
Cat Stevens
Country Joe and the Fish
Carolyn Hester
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Charley Patton
Def Leppard
The Doors
Deep Purple
Derek and the Dominoes
The Drifters
Don Henley
The Doobie Brothers
Demons and Wizards
Derek Trucks Band
Delaney Bramlett
Doc Watson
The Dead
Duke Ellington
Dan Fogelberg
Dave Van Ronk
Dizzy Gillespie
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Don McLean
David Lee Roth
Dragonforce
Eric Clapton
Elvis Presley
Elmore James
Earl King
Eric Andersen
Elvis Costello
The Electric Prunes
Elton John
Edgar Winter Group
Ella Fitzgerald
Electric Light Orchestra
The Eagles
Earl Hooker
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Eddie Money
Eddie Cochran
Fleetwood Mac
Foreigner
Freddie Cole
Foghat
The Four Tops
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Freddie King
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Faster Pussycat
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
Free
Fraternity of Man
Focus
The Faces
Fastway
Freddie Mercury
Frank Zappa
The Grateful Dead
The Guess Who
Grand Funk Railroad
Great White
Great Southern
Golden Earring
Guns 'N Roses
George Thorogood
Gary Wright
Gerry Mulligan
George Harrison
Genesis
Heart
Hollywood Rose
Hot Lips Page
Holy Modal Rounders
Howlin' Wolf
The High Numbers
Herman's Hermits
Hurricane
The Hollies
The Isley Brothers
Iron Maiden
Ian and Sylvia
Ivory Joe Hunter
Iron Butterfly
It's A Beautiful Day
Journey
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band
James Cotton
Judy Collins
Jesse Lonecat Fuller
Jackson Browne
John Lennon
Joe Walsh
John Hammond
Janis Joplin
Joss Stone
Jim Croce
Joni Mitchell
John Mayall
John Sebastian
John Lee Hooker
Joan Baez
Junior Wells
Jerry Lee Lewis
James Gang
John Littlejohn
Jerry Garcia Band
John Fogerty
Jethro Tull
Jeff Beck
John Coltrane
Joe Turner
Judas Priest
The Jefferson Airplane
The Jefferson Starship
KISS
Kansas
The Kinks
The Knack
The Kingston Trio
Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Louis Armstrong
Lightnin' Hopkins
LaVern Baker
Little Milton
L.A. Guns
Little Walter
Leadbelly
Love
Motley Crue
MC5
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Motorhead
Max Roach
Marvin Gaye
Marianne Faithful
Mountain
Megadeth
Mott the Hoople
The Mamas and the Papas
Marshall Tucker Band
McAuley Schenker Group
Miles Davis
Moby Grape
The Moody Blues
Muddy Waters
Mississippi John Hurt
Memphis Slim
Night Ranger
Norman Greenbaum
Nazereth
Neil Young
Otis Rush
Odetta
Otis Redding
The Other Ones
Ozzy Osbourne
Pink Floyd
Peter, Paul and Mary
Paul McCartney
Peter Gabriel
Pete Seeger
Peter Tosh
The Police
Phil Ochs
Poison
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Pure Prairie League
Phish
Queen
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Queensryche
Quiet Riot
Ratt
The Rolling Stones
Roger McGuinn
Ray Charles
Rocker T
Robert Johnson
Robert Palmer
REO Speedwagon
Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Rick Derringer
Richard and Mimi Farina
Ravi Shankar
Rossington-Collins Band
Richie Havens
The Rooftop Singers
Robert Parker
Rod Stewart
Roy Acuff
Ruth Brown
Rush
Rainbow
Rare Earth
Steppenwolf
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Shirelles
The Supremes
Stevie Wonder
Santana
The Skyliners
Sonny Rollins
Savatage
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Saxon
The Scorpions
Skid Row
Slade
Supertramp
Stephen Stills
Steely Dan
Simon & Garfunkel
Stevie Nicks
The Surfaris
Steve Miller Band
Styx
Sonny Stitt
Sweet
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Steve James
Steelheart
Stan Getz
Skip James
Scott MacKenzie
Sam Cooke
Sonny Boy Williamson
Sublime
T-Bone Walker
Ted Nugent
Tommy James and the Shondells
Thelonius Monk
Ten Years After
Tod Rundgren
Tesla
The Turtles
Tom Paxton
Thin Lizzy
Triumph
Twisted Sister
Tampa Red
Traffic
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
U2
Van Halen
The Velvet Underground
Van Morrison
Vanilla Fudge
Willie Dixon
W.A.S.P
Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton
White Lion
Woody Guthrie
The Who
Widespread Panic
War
The Weavers
Whitesnake
Warrant
Winger
Wings
The Yardbirds
Yes
The Youngbloods
ZZ Top
The Zombies
AND MUCH MORE!

Movies:

Easy Rider, This Is Spinal Tap, Wayne's World, Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story, How High, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Dazed And Confused, Hendrix, The Source, Woodstock: The Director's Cut, Festival Express, The Doors, Cheech and Chong: Up In Smoke, Cheech and Chong: Still Smokin', Cheech and Chong: Nice Dreams, Across The Universe, The Song Remains the Same, Yellow Submarine, Half Baked, Forrest Gump, The U.S. vs. John Lennon, Tommy, The Wall.

Television:

Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, The History Channel, CNN.

Books:

On The Road, The Dharma Bums, Howl and Other Poems, One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest, The Portable Beat Reader, No One Here Gets Out Alive, Home Before Daylight: Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead, The Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip, Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'N Roll, Room Full of Mirrors, Stairway to Heaven, A Coney Island of the Mind, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Doors of Perception and Heaven & Hell, Brave New World, Big Sur, The Subterraneans, San Francisco and Beat Poetry, Off the Road, Sometimes A Great Notion, Naked Lunch, The Psychedelic Experince: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Kaddish and Other Poems, The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand, The First Third, Not Fade Away, The Lord of the Rings, Exodus, Long Time Gone, Searching for the Sound, Visions of Cody.

Heroes:

John Lennon, Neal Cassady, Ken Kesey and all the Pranksters, Jim Marshall, the diggers, Country Joe McDonald, Jack Kerouac, Phil Ochs, the Woodstock nation in its entirety, the troubadors of the San Francisco poetry rennaisance, Jerry Garcia, Jim Morrison, Owsley Stanley, Albert Hoffman and many others...

My Blog

On all the time spent searching...

On all the time spent searching (and thinking about searching, contemplating) for Kerouac's America, I now know I'll never find it. Thin soles of tattered shoes, Greyhound buses to the next big city a...
Posted by Very Free and Easy on Fri, 09 May 2008 09:51:00 PST

Highway Child

Following is a lament to a gone young soul I once loved, Dakota Dean, highway childA sorrow-song for herb-smoke irie meditation in the sunlight laughing A whispered tear in lone darknes...
Posted by Very Free and Easy on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:49:00 PST

Beginning of a story

It was like any other Louisiana night drunk and penniless riding down-and-out on a midnight freighter, steel rails scraping the edge of dawn past smokestacks and cotton fields and soot-covered faces ...
Posted by Very Free and Easy on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:26:00 PST

Imagery

Random flashes of light bind me to an infinite eclipse of all sensesA drag in desperation and a stint in lightless hallwayFor infinity is just another number.Is this the drug or the darkness?Death, a ...
Posted by Very Free and Easy on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:04:00 PST

Something out of my journal

...From the womb of hell bursts Jimi Hendrix in an acid-craze full-fury explosion of old blues made new. I know every word of this song on my knees for the bluesgod Howlin' Wolf, The Wolf. LSD fantasy...
Posted by Very Free and Easy on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:36:00 PST

Tumblewords

Here are two poems I wrote recently. This isn't meant to be dead serious or depressing. It's just an exaggerated description of an emotion I felt for about a tenth of a second while watching the music...
Posted by Very Free and Easy on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:02:00 PST

Lament

Lament I saw an antiquarian Mississippi sunrise with old guitar and deadwood and blues harmonica wailing a sorrow-song in the heat of slaveryI built a tumulus of sand around my piano and hallucinated ...
Posted by Very Free and Easy on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:04:00 PST

2 poems

SaturdayA girl plays the blues by the country moonlight railroad tracksKicks a stone through the gravelWishing her father loved her the way the neighbor man loves his sons.SundayA six-o-clock rendesvo...
Posted by Very Free and Easy on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:03:00 PST

Moral Insanity, Peaceful Anarchy [poem]

There is no such thing as clean funThere is only moral monotony and unacceptable excitementNO in between.When I see the ignorant adult children partake in fake-smile naive arrogant so-called fun I cri...
Posted by Very Free and Easy on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:00:00 PST

I Walk Alone

However many people on Earth,However many stars in the sky,However many miles to the sun;So long shall I walk alone.Through writhing fields of sorrow,Past souls for sale or borrow,By ghosts a-doo...
Posted by Very Free and Easy on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:58:00 PST