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- Feb 15, 2015
Can you take a picture of yourself and write "Hi Kiwi Farms" on it to verify that you are the TRUE and HONEST Tommy Tooter?I’m Tommie Tooter, the whistle blower from Chicago, now living in Tucson. I’m classically trained from infancy through college and have been playing on the streets, in drum circles and jam bands since graduating in 1978. I was the last person pranked at the last acid test party thrown at the Topanga corral in the spring of 1982 and played on venice beach from 1982 through 1989.
I walked out of my only professional recording gig at Pegasus studio in santa Moscow the next year, because there was no way I was backing up a screaming speed metal freak accompanied by a pre-programmed sound generator with some skinny wanker fiddling the controls.
I founded the Real Things Artisans Coop – Hippie Haven (dead link) in 1985 with a couple of computer geeks, a promoter/agent and a handful of street players in venice beach and have been a minor player on the fringe of the deadhead-rainbow-Woodstock indie music and arts community ever since.
we manufacture our own merchandise and produce our own shows. nobody I know is getting rich, but I know a lot of people all over the country who are kicking out a lot of fine music and artworks to really cool crowds of people in wonderful urban and rural venues.
real things is a member of the New World Rising intentional green community network. i’ll be playing with One Heart Beat to open the Tucson peace and music fair tomorrow.
I’ve never even heard of such as thing as pay-to-play before. the musicians and vendors get together with a venue owner and put on a show. granted we’re talking about loading up $5,000 worth of gear into a $500 car, driving a hundred or more miles and won’t likely net more than $100 a day. that’s why I sell bright shiny hippie bling. I don’t need to worry about whether I’m going to make any money playing music
this guy is even more old school than me and much more experienced in the advance work and revenue distributions for ticketed shows. meet the white james brown, known to the rainbow family as firedancer.
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