Upcoming Concerts

  • Jun 10
    Saturday Stream
    Howling Moon Studio, CA
  • Jul 21
    Summer Concerts on the Green
    Novato, CA
  • Jul 28
    Southeast Alaska Fair
    Haines, AK
  • Jul 29
    Southeast Alaska Fair
    Haines, AK
  • Aug 04
    Salmonfest
    Ninilchik, AK
  • Aug 05
    Salmonfest
    Ninilchik, AK
  • Aug 06
    Salmonfest
    Ninilchik, AK
  • Aug 18
    Oakland A's Jerry Garcia Night @ Oakland Coliseum
    Oakland, CA
Jun 10
Saturday Stream - Howling Moon Studio, CA
Jul 21
Summer Concerts on the Green - Novato, CA
Jul 28
Southeast Alaska Fair - Haines, AK
Jul 29
Southeast Alaska Fair - Haines, AK
Aug 4
Salmonfest - Ninilchik, AK
Aug 5
Salmonfest - Ninilchik, AK
Aug 6
Salmonfest - Ninilchik, AK
Aug 18
Oakland A's Jerry Garcia Night @ Oakland Coliseum - Oakland, CA

Moonalice News

  • Let's Rock The World One Tree At A Time!
  • Commemorating the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival!!!
  • Moonalice Minute: Lester & Dylan Chambers (Episode 1)
  • Acoustic Guitar reviews Full Moonalice, Volume 2!!
  • Moonalice plays a set on Jam In The Van
  • Glide Magazine interviews Pete Sears!
  • Acoustic Guitar Magazine: Barry, Roger and T’s play Nick and Woo Woo
  • PopMatters: Bottlerock Napa review … featuring Moonalice
  • Moonalice Will Not Play Indoors Until Further Notice
  • Bottlerock Napa 2022: Photos by Bob Minkin
Let's Rock The World One Tree At A Time!
Commemorating the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival!!!
Moonalice Minute: Lester & Dylan Chambers (Episode 1)
Acoustic Guitar reviews Full Moonalice, Volume 2!!
Moonalice plays a set on Jam In The Van
Glide Magazine interviews Pete Sears!
Acoustic Guitar Magazine: Barry, Roger and T’s play Nick and Woo Woo
PopMatters: Bottlerock Napa review … featuring Moonalice
Moonalice Will Not Play Indoors Until Further Notice
Bottlerock Napa 2022: Photos by Bob Minkin

What To Watch (Archive)

  • Apr 20, 2023 / 420 Gathering of the Tribe @ The Chapel! (San Francisco)
    According to Moonalice legend, today is the highest holy day in the tribal calendar. This is a particular...
  • May 13, 2023 / Saturday Stream (Howling Moon Studio)
  • May 6, 2023 / Saturday Stream (Howling Moon Studio)
  • May 27, 2023 / Concert for KPFZ @ Cache Creek Winery (Clearlake Oaks)
  • Jun 3, 2023 / Sweetwater Music Hall (Mill Valley)
    According to Moonalice legend, this is Pride Month around the world. Just so you know know, every month i...
  • May 24, 2023 / Black Tie & Tie Dye Happening @ GAMH (San Francisco)
    According to Moonalice legend, our tribe has a long relationship with HealthRIGHT 360. It started long a...
  • Apr 8, 2023 / Saturday Stream (Howling Moon Studio)
  • Apr 23, 2023 / Skull & Roses Festival V (Ventura)
    According to Moonalice legend, we gather here in Ventura to enjoy the music of the Grateful Dead and the ...
  • Apr 15, 2023 / Saturday Stream (Howling Moon Studio)
  • May 26, 2023 / BottleRock Festival (Napa Valley)
    According to Moonalice legend, Bottlerock is an oasis … a refuge in challenging times. It is a reminde...
Apr 20, 2023 / 420 Gathering of the Tribe @ The Chapel! (San Francisco)
According to Moonalice legend, today is the highest holy day in the tribal calendar. This is a particular...
May 13, 2023 / Saturday Stream (Howling Moon Studio)
May 6, 2023 / Saturday Stream (Howling Moon Studio)
May 27, 2023 / Concert for KPFZ @ Cache Creek Winery (Clearlake Oaks)
Jun 3, 2023 / Sweetwater Music Hall (Mill Valley)
According to Moonalice legend, this is Pride Month around the world. Just so you know know, every month i...
May 24, 2023 / Black Tie & Tie Dye Happening @ GAMH (San Francisco)
According to Moonalice legend, our tribe has a long relationship with HealthRIGHT 360. It started long a...
Apr 8, 2023 / Saturday Stream (Howling Moon Studio)
Apr 23, 2023 / Skull & Roses Festival V (Ventura)
According to Moonalice legend, we gather here in Ventura to enjoy the music of the Grateful Dead and the ...
Apr 15, 2023 / Saturday Stream (Howling Moon Studio)
May 26, 2023 / BottleRock Festival (Napa Valley)
According to Moonalice legend, Bottlerock is an oasis … a refuge in challenging times. It is a reminde...

Constellation Rag

Credits: 
Roger McNamee
Credits Lyrics: 
Roger McNamee
Credits Music: 
Roger McNamee

Constellation Rag

Wash your hands in my finger bowl, Baby, then let your pinkies dry
I’ll let you hold my fuzzy peaches, if you’ll let me taste your pie
You may hold my peaches, Baby, you may drive my car
‘Cuz in my constellation, Baby, you know you’re the brightest star!

You can take all my money, Honey you gotta take me as well
I wouldn’t how to live without you, but then you never can tell
You still stir my sugar, Baby, you still lick my jar
‘Cuz in my constellation, Baby, you know you’re the brightest star!

I will clean your chimney, Baby, when you need your ashes hauled
I’ll unclog your carburetor, when your car has stalled
You may try to leave, but you won’t get too far
‘Cuz in my constellation, Baby, you know you’re the brightest star!

I know we’ll grow old together, two sweet peas in a pod
Lovey dovey senior citizens may strike some as odd
I will do whatever you ask, I’ll follow you to Mars
‘Cuz in my constellation, Baby, you know you’re the brightest star!

Performers: 
Roger McNamee

I'm pretty sure I wrote it on the same vacation as Tell Me It's Okay. It was a good week. :-) Back in 1999-2001, the Flying Other Brothers had an annual one-week band camp with Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Pete Sears, and GE Smith. Jorma, Jack, and Pete were 3/5ths of Hot Tuna and GE had recently left Saturday Night Live. Hot Tuna's recording of Hesitation Blues was one of the songs that made me want to play guitar, and those three weeks were life changing. Before our third band camp, I wrote Constellation Rag as an homage to Jorma and Jack. I borrowed licks and cliché lyrics from a dozen ragtime blues songs and assembled them into Constellation Rag. The music was tricky, but the lyrics took only an hour. My personal touch was to make Constellation a ragtime love song, rather than a blues. At that time, I could not finger pick, so I learned it with a flatpick, which took longer than I would have liked. One of my greatest thrills occurred a couple years later when the FOB Four quartet (Pete, Barry, Ann, Roger) played the song at Jorma's Fur Peace Ranch concert hall, with Jack on bass. A few years later, Jack joined us in the formation of Moonalice.

In the early days of Moonalice, we didn't play many songs written for the FOBs. That changed at a Jewels in the Square gig, when we played Tell Me It's Okay just for the fun of it. Playing the song was a blast, and the audience loved it. After that, we tested other songs: Happy Endings, Nick of Time, Silver Lining, and Constellation Rag. All of them were reborn in Moonalice.

Roger McNamee