Dad 1970's

This Photo was taken of my father in the early 1970's. 

Its humbling to see that once upon a time our elders were once young like us, and probably shared the same

views and secrets that we keep.

Syd Barrett

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006), born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer/songwriter, guitarist and painter. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic/progressive rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use.

Barrett was active as a rock musician for about seven years, recording two albums with Pink Floyd and two solo albums before going into self-imposed seclusion lasting more than thirty years. His post rock-band life was as an artist and a keen gardener, ending with his death in 2006. A number of biographies have been written about him since the 1980s and Pink Floyd wrote and recorded a song about him after he left, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" on the 1975 album Wish You Were Here. 

Awake- The Doors

From the American Prayer Album 

Shake dreams from your hair

My pretty child, my sweet one.

Choose the day and choose the sign of your day

The day's divinity

First thing you see.


A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon

Couples naked race down by it's quiet side

And we laugh like soft, mad children

Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy

The music and voices are all around us.

Choose they croon the Ancient Ones

The time has come again

Choose now, they croon

Beneath the moon

Beside an ancient lake

Enter again the sweet forest

Enter the hot dream

Come with us

Everything is broken up and dances.

Alexander Mcqueen Spring Summer 2008 Womenswear

Inspiration

This photo is from the Mars Volta Album Frances the Mute 

This creates so much inspiration for us.. summing up the musical genies Omar Rodriguez-Lopez 

With you or Without you

The Forgotten  Brilliance of George Harrison 

We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth 
then it's far too late when they pass away.

We were talking-about the love we all could share
when we find it
To try our best to hold it there with our love
With our love we could save the world 
if they only knew.

Try to realize it's all within yourself
No one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small,
And life flows ON within you and without you.

We were talking about the love that's gone so cold and the people,
Who gain the world and lose their soul
They don't know they can't see are you one of them?
When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find, peace of mind,
Is waiting there 

And the time will come when you see
we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

Soundgarden

A band that we will always cherish..

Black hole sun won't you come and wash away the rain 

Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by lead singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the band's permanent drummer in 1986 while bassist Ben Shepherd became a permanent replacement for Yamamoto in 1990. Soundgarden was one of the seminal bands in the creation of grunge, a style of alternative rock that developed in Seattle, and was one of a number of grunge bands signed to the record label Sub Pop.

Soundgarden was the first grunge band to sign to a major label (A&M Records, in 1988), though the band did not achieve commercial success until they popularized "grunge" in the early 1990s with Seattle contemporaries Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam. Soundgarden achieved its biggest success with the 1994 album Superunknown, which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and yielded the Grammy Award-winning singles "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman".

 In 1997, the band broke up due to internal strife over its creative direction. On January 1, 2010, Cornell alluded to a Soundgarden reunion. On April 5, 2010, it was announced that Soundgarden would play Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 6–8, 2010. A secret reunion concert under the name "Nudedragons" was held at the Showbox at the Market in Seattle on April 16, 2010. It was Soundgarden's first show since 1997.