jackmd

I'm in the middle of a crazy-ass concert on a cowpasture and the Sheriff's Department just left and half the crowd of 80 or 100 (and a couple bandmates) are on mushrooms so it should be a long long crazy night here in Ocala and i'm constantly updating my journal entry from this laptop with stuff that's happening and I gotta start playing again. Bye!

no sweat. You skate pools & parks at 40? You're my hero, I push around town from time to time, but that's about it. Being from Austin, you ever go see Brown Whornet?

Where've you been?

Glad you're doing well - skateboarding's great - I made a board when i was a kid and bought a couple but never really got hooked on it - it was always just a part of the rush I was always seeking (hanggliding, skydiving, bungee jumping, cliffscaling, treewhomping, etc). I think I may have to invest in one again after nearly 2 decades without. Plus, I too havae gotten a bit . . . portly, shall we say? No, just fat.

Any tips on board purchasing?

Yeah - I have some fun -best of all, some folks Gainesville who were planning a Tribute album for Buck Owens BEFORE his passing got my stage name from some girls who got onstage and danced around me at the show(they thought the girls were part of the act but I didn't know them) and from the stage name they tracked me down and approached me to contribute a song. I'm probably gonna do "Pfft! You Were Gone" sort of Reggae style with a punk flavour perhaps. I'm shoppingfor an appropriate cowboy hat to fit in with the Carribbean cowboy look I need for the photo shoot next month. There's talk of some bigger names than mine expressing interest in the album - I think they want all Florida artists. Not that I'm hinting at Petty being involved or anything.

Now I'm working on some NikkiSudden songs for this weekend's gig.

You should definitely start a punk band. Especially in Austin. Some great music comes from there but I'm not familiar with Austin punk.

Though I was seeing a lot of Dead shows atthetime my first band was a hardcore band and we did multiband gigs with some major league punk bands forpractically nomoney. But it was great fun. ILove playing punk songs to rednecks here.

dont be a baby . . . 39's not that old sounds like you have life pretty well figured out though . . . getting older doesnt always mean an oxygen tent and a wheelchair !