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90 Hours in New Orleans: The Monkey Power Trio’s Twenty-Fifth Day as a Band

By Mark | December 8, 2019

[above: We were staying right on a trolley line, and the buzzing of the overhead power lines was incessant. I doubt that it’ll make a record, as we had better songs this time out, but this fact gave rise to our loudest endeavor of the session, a number called Stray Voltage.] The weekend of November […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio | Also tagged alcohol, alcoholism, All My Life, Andrew Huang, Anne Shapiro, Atlanta, Baby Wolf, Bacchanal, Balls Deep in the Gumbo, baseball, binge drinking, biscuits, bullying, cancer, cemeteries, cigar box guitar, Cochon, colon cancer, colonoscopy, Crazy Rich Asians, crumhorn, dashing older men, Donald Trump, Eddie Rispone, film production, First of October, FOX News, Frico Chicho, grits, gumbo, Harry Shum Jr., health scare, hoes for sale, Jacques Imo's, James Brown, Jazz, John Bel Edwards, Live Oak Cafe, Louisiana, lung cancer, Mark's bad back, Melba’s, Mike Bell, Miss Linda “The Ya-Ka-Mein Lady” Green, Monkey Power Trio, Museum of Death, necks, New Orleans, Nigel Witherbottom, polyps, PSA, Rebirth Brass Band, Remus, Rob Scallon, Rome, Romulus, saliva, shrimp and crab meat dressing, Stray Voltage, talk box, Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival, Tulane, Universal Studios, Vasco Spermo, WTUL, YouTubers | 9 Comments

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, having won the bid to host Monkey Power 18, exceeds expectations

By Mark | October 20, 2013

I’ve been in Wyoming these past few days, at the annual meeting of my one-day-a-year band, the Monkey Power Trio. This, I believe, was our 18th session. It was neither the worst, nor the best. All things considered, I’d say that it was positive. Many laughs were had. No one cried. No one screamed. No […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Photographs, Uncategorized | Also tagged 86, Adobe Bricks, Ansel Adams, B.B. King, Bohemian Rhapsody, buffalo, Chocolate Chuck, cocaine, Cold, college radio, crazy ideas that just might work, Devil Man, Dick Cheney, Government Camp, government shutdown, Grand Teton National Park, Harrison Ford, heavy metal, I am Infinite, iPhone, iPhone apps, Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole Music Experience, King Strang, Lake Tahoe, Mark's big ideas, Monkey Power Trio, moose, Mormon, Mormon Row, Naia Venturi, Patrick Elkins, Pete Larson, polygamy, rock camp, rock opera, Sandra Bullock, Tahoe, Teton Range, Toccoa, unflattering portraits, vacations, Walt Whitman, Wyoming | 12 Comments

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