Thank you Kiona for sending me the pictures from our first trip to Davis. I posted them with the "Live from KDVS show" below. That was a great trip.
If anyone has any more pictures, please email them to me at razbury666 at gmail dot com.
Here is a handout that Paul from San Diego sent (Thanks my man!). We sure were busy November 1990, starting in Humboldt, then Portland, San Diego, Davis, Berkeley, San Louis Obispo, and Eugene.
And thanks again to everyone who posts a comment or story. It is great to read them and always brings back a bunch of memories.
I was just reading a comment from Rick from Eugene who remembers the time that our drummer, Doc, blew up our manager, Robert... A great story for sure. I'll post it soon.
Keep 'em coming.
Thanks everyone.
Raz
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Hey so glad to find you guys on this sunny day... Hearing the old songs and remembering the good times. I am going to send this to my sister too, she will love it... Thanks for all the fun times... nicki
Thanks for the comment! If you or your sister want to share a story, please post it.
Thanks!
Raz
It is so great to find this, brought a huge smile to my face. I remember the Rabbit Choir days or daze as it may have been, as some of the best years ever, really. What a amazing bunch of folks. I have many stories, but I will have to sort them out in my head before putting some up. Kinda foggy memories back then.... Remember that one time in Santa Cruz??? To many people in the motel room, bad cop with an attitude (Leave town and go back to Bezerkeley where you belong, you'd better all have id's and so on...) Then 5 minutes later I hit a car in slow motion and the police were called again. I think mushrooms were the reason for the car accident... Next thing I know we are eating potato salad sandwiches.... Somewhere I think I have some old pics, posters and maybe even a tape or two. I will post them as I find them. Love to hear from you all. It's Kim by the way, I'm back in Portland give a holler.kwilli3atgmaildotcom
Hey Kim,
Wow, that is such a familiar story that i would never have remembered. Thanks!
I think we were playing a show at a hotel in the hills of santa cruz - the dining room had a creek running through the middle of it.
I think that was the trip - I totally remember the slow speed crash.
Great story, great times!
Raz
Wow,
Great to see this on the web. I remember running into a bunch of disheveled troubadours at UCSC. I gave them showers, food, drink and drugs. You guys played my birthday party in Santa Cruz. Indoor pool, trampoline. I then convinced you to drive 2.5 hours north into Mendocino to play a brewpub... That brewpub is now a full-blown brewery om 27 acres and ironically a year ago I took over as the General Manager. I have some great pics. If y'all ever decided to do a reunion, I am having a music festival up here in '09.
Much love to you from John Kuhry.
I remember a very different Rabbit Choir...........ROSEMARIE
I remember Rabbit Choir before they were Rabbit Choir. I remember when they were Barton and James playing the Texas Tea House in Ocean Beach - hell I remember when it was just Jim McCallister as the Alaskan Troubador. I remember a lot. I even remember where the money came from to press HiFidelity Haircuts. Do you? We love and miss you all and really miss the music. We have several Rabbit choir posters from the old days and pictures from our visit to the rabbit hutch in the converted garage in O-land and a few from our weding with the irreverand Jim and the band at the reception.
We should get together sometime. We don't live in Sunny San Diego anymore - we live up in White and wintery wyoming. Your friends Russ and Tina
Great memories of sunshine and good music with the choir - playing backyard parties in Berkeley, People's Park....some of my fondest memories - period!
I was in "Peach & Conflict Studies" with Joaquin and shared some tasty brownies with the other percussion (?Charlie)
Thanks for the good times!
I had just arrived on campus (Humboldt State) and was looking for a good band to go see live, my friend from San Diego said "You need to see this band! Their energy is infectious!" Then she mysteriously took me to the grocery store where we bought the biggest carrots they had available, she told me not to eat it until the show..we attended the show at the Humboldt International Beer Gardens (now a brewery)that night....you guys fucking blew me away! I immediately bought a tape and played it to death...I recently found the tape and played it until my tape player ate it in my car....I smiled the whole time, I miss your music. Thanks guys!
Brett
I remember you guys played in a Hemet park around 1988 or '89. You guys were fantastic! I had one of your tapes for years. So many of us seriously cherished that tape. It was like gold. Even to this day, someone in my circle of friends will bring up Rabbit Choir and wonder whatever happened your band or the little cassette tape. In fact, didn't one of the band member come from Hemet? It would be great if I could buy a cd or a mp3 file of your work.
Hey, long shot here -- trying to track down Jim McAllister. We met late one night at the Oregon Country Fair this year. Just passing by he was playing in the very pitch dark with a guitar and harmonica, and suddenly I realized that he was doing something that most people are afraid to. After he played we talked for about an hour, and all I had as a way to get in contact was the name -- his name and Rabbit Choir's.
We had a lot of the same interests, and though I'm 20 years younger we shared a pretty unique connection. Would really like to get in touch with him again, maybe see what he's doing. (Would even be interested in working with him a bit if our styles meshed well enough -- I'm a musician and also do some work with art installations, particularly interactive and musical, using a variety of tools... lot of things that can be explored there.)
If you know a way to get in contact with him, please drop me a line! (Write to dugwyler, a gmail account.) Appreciate it very much!
I remember seeing you play in the Park in San Diego and ended up hanging out with you guys. I think some of you even crashed at our communal house with Alysia in San Diego.
You thanked us by letting us sing back up vocals on one of the songs on High Fidelity Haircuts.
I ended up going to school at UC Berkeley and running into you again at the Starry Plow and thinking what a wonderful small world it was.
Worked at Café intermezzo with at least one person from rabbit choir and I always thought she was super cool even though I wasn’t. Took acid once at a party they were playing. Don’t remember much from that. I know, “great story.”
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