#terrastock

Regrets, I've had a few. And one of them is missing out on those amazing Terrastock Festivals of the late 1990s and 2000s. Look at the lineup for 2006, for instance! Yowza. Oh well, you can't win 'em all. And at least there are recordings — like this one of Ghost. One long mp3, since that's all I've got. Low bitrate, high quality. Over the course of 70+ masterful minutes, the band takes us from free-form improv abstractions to lean-mean psych, from pastoral balladry to cosmic jams. Don't think twice — descend into the Hypnotic Underworld!

I had a cruddy but liveable apartment on the far side of a needlessly dreaded housing project. It was the last place I truly loved living in.

Got a new scanner, finally set it up and this is the first photo I’ve scanned with it. Yeah, that’s from film.

This is what happens when you let a monkey think he’s clever and play with Illustrator.

Brief clip of Richard's set at Terrastock in April 1997

Rainbow Babes by Richard Booth - Kate Biggar and Naomi Yang of Magic Hour

Turns out that band was Motorpsycho, who came to Louisville for the Terrastock 7 festival in 2008. Originating in Trondheim, they originally started out as a heavy metal band in the 1980s, but their sound has since evolved and has been dubed "experimental, psychodelic rock." My friend was lucky enough to meet them and as she mentions in her column, "Norwegians are HUGE!"