I experienced my first concert when I was 15 — the Sex Pistols’ very last show at the notorious Winterland — and have been a great lover of music ever since. I majored in journalism at San Francisco State University and have been a writer/editor for the likes of Spin Magazine, Mix Magazine, Quokka Sports, Lucasfilm, Astrology.com/NBC Universal, and penned lyrics for the Spin Doctors. After seven years in New York City, I now live back in my native Bay Area in the Haight-Ashbury district — just blocks away from the Grateful Dead’s home in the ’60s — where I’m busy collecting more experiences and stories to share.
Through sweet synchronicity, I had the divine, beautiful, hilarious pleasure of hanging and grooving and dancing and laughing with Jerry and Bobby and a few of their colorful cohorts (Bear, Barlow, Leary, to name a few) for a good spell in New York and California. The time spent being in that wildly unique mix of fine folks is the fodder and inspiration for my book, Deadheads: Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends & Followers of the Grateful Dead — for which I am infinitely grateful.
In 2017, I founded Haight Street Voice magazine, “hyper-local with a global perspective”, (print & digital) bringing community news to the people, for the people, and to help keep community thriving here — and all over the world. Here are digital links to the full print catalog:
https://www.castrovalley.news/category/castro-valley/cv-print/hsv-print/
Haight Street Voice is a dream and vision come true, and here in 2022, the spaceship is starting to take off. Grateful!
As Bob Dylan once told me while on tour with him in 1989, “You gotta do something!”