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About Me

I am a crazy man of many talents and interests. A dreamer and a realist at the same time...a walking contradiction. I have been embarking on new adventures lately. Swimming upstream if you will....taking chances and pushing myself to try new, if still familiar, endeavors. LOL Having a blizzast too!!

I have a funk band based in Denver called U.S. Pipe and the Balls Johnson Dance Machine . I am also the guitarist for the hip hop act Children of Production . Besides having played for Parliament Funkadelic as well as being their stage manager for some 11 or so years, I play the sitar and work with a wonderful Yogi with whom I play along as he conducts three-hour yoga workshops.

My life is always moving forward! You can check out more about me and my upcoming peformance schedule at my citramusic myspace .

My Interests

I am into Music, Photography, Martial Arts especially Kendo, Archery. my dog Soup. Spirituality. Cultures, Philosophy, watching people, sex, and a lot more....I have been around the world both with my job as the stage manager and guitarist for George Clinton as well as a traveler going to India and Japan to study their cultures and philosophies. Most Hindu say I am more Hindu than they are...same with Bhuddists...the Blackfoot Indians took me into their CrazyDog Society cuz I am just that a Crazy Dog..I wintered in Montana in a small lodge, chopping wood all day so I could burn it all night. I love to cook and eat..I love to read and listen. I am not a great talker..but I do speak my mind at the strangest of times....more on me later test

I'd like to meet:

Musicians, Artists and outcasts like myself...people who know how to think and aren't afraid to act. Just got hooked up with Madison Amplifiers! more to come on that! COP (LIVE)

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Music:

Funk Funk and more Funk... I play the Guitar for George Clinton and a bunch of spinoff groups. I play the Sitar and studied in a very old traditional style called guru shishya parampara....wich means I sat at the feet of my guru and tried to play exactly what he did. It's tough cuz you not only have to pay attention to what you are playin, but you have to listen to what he is playin...I learned a lot....I have really enjoyed the mentorship that I have gotten recently from MR. Bernie Worrell...He has shown me many new ways to look at things. Garry Shider is as he always has been...a giver of the light that is music and soul. I am into all kinds of music. It just has to be good..I cried when Johnny Cash died and will when Willie passes too. Laffin at him hard for getting busted recently. I am into anything that is good music ya know...Peep Manu Chao if ya haven't heard....I play DR strings...Boogie Amps and Washburn and Parker guitars out there on the road...Monster Cables too don't forget the MONSTER!!

Movies:

i really get off on the Zatoichi films and crazy Japanese samurai movies... ..

Books:

Book of Five Rings, The Unfettered Mind, The Sword and the Mind.

Heroes:

Miyamoto Musashi...Takuan Soho...many of the heroes that I had up high have since fallen...but they are still my heroes...it's my fault for making them more than they are.

My Blog

A new spoon for Every Bite!

So I had a party the other day. My mother and father showed up. LOL...I introduced them to each other and my Dad didn't recognize my mom. I guess it has been since 1976 or 7 since they had seen or t...
Posted by Citrus on Mon, 05 May 2008 02:01:00 PST

Presale for the Unplugged Juneteenth gig!

Help a brother out! U.S. Pipe is going to go for an un precedented event at Swallow Hill Music Association.We are going to do a show on Friday the 13th of June...and play unplugged...yeah...me on th...
Posted by Citrus on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:04:00 PST

the return of the ya mama ha!

So....the basement just started flooding and water was all over the place! I shut off my neighbors water and went to go tell them about.....there she was...in the front room of my neighbor's house.......
Posted by Citrus on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:53:00 PST

UP date

Howdy folks....I just wanna send out a little UP date on the spirit that is in the flesh that you call Citrus or maybe Chris...or maybe even something else. this little self has been running around ...
Posted by Citrus on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:30:00 PST

Another week goes by

Well another week has gone by hasn't it? Time is doing it's thing...entropy and gravity are working.....as is creation....both have moved a few steps in the last few daze. Let's see...my commute ...
Posted by Citrus on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:36:00 PST

Recording and teaching and my birthday!

I have been recording and teaching and had my birthday this week too.. so I am sorry that many of you have sent me messages and invites and such and I haven't gotten back to you,. guitari...
Posted by Citrus on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:20:00 PST

Madison!

I went out on a limb and asked for something that I wanted. " To each. it's reach and if I can't cop it ain't mine to have...so I'll be reachin further" right? RIGHT! I asked f...
Posted by Citrus on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:29:00 PST

Funk Class at Swallow Hill!!!!

Are you ready to get down? Learn the chords, syncopated rhythm patterns, and melodies that give James Brown, The Meters, and Parliament their signature "funk" sound. Citrus (Chris Sauthoff) is a maste...
Posted by Citrus on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:09:00 PST

Within You Without YOU

We were talking-about the space between us allAnd the people-who hide themselves behind a wall of illusionNever glimpse the truth-then it's far too late-when they pass away. We were talking-about the ...
Posted by Citrus on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:16:00 PST

Teaching is SO fun!!!

I had this fella in a guitar 1a class..the ultimate beginner class... He took the information that I gave him and figured out how to read music notation on the spot and started playing a melody line f...
Posted by Citrus on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:16:00 PST