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Moonalice News

  • Moonalice offers free admission to holders of Skull & Roses tickets!
  • Poster Artist Feature: Dennis Larkins Interview
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  • 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
  • Commemorating the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival!!!
  • PopMatters: Bottlerock Napa review … featuring Moonalice
  • Moonalice Will Not Play Indoors Until Further Notice
Moonalice offers free admission to holders of Skull & Roses tickets!
Poster Artist Feature: Dennis Larkins Interview
Let's Rock The World One Tree At A Time!
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
Commemorating the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival!!!
PopMatters: Bottlerock Napa review … featuring Moonalice
Moonalice Will Not Play Indoors Until Further Notice

What To Watch (Archive)

  • May 25, 2024 / BottleRock Napa Valley Festival (Napa)
  • Jun 14, 2024 / Sweetwater Music Hall (Mill Valley)
    According to Moonalice legend, the world appears to be suffering the effects of an Asshole Apocalypse. Ba...
  • Apr 20, 2024 / HopMonk Tavern (Sebastopol)
    Welcome to the Gathering of the Tribe! According to Moonalice legend, it is 4/20 everywhere. In a worl...
  • Jun 13, 2024 / Club Fox (Redwood City)
    According to Moonalice legend, Redwood City is the burrito capital of the San Francisco peninsula. There ...
  • Jul 27, 2024 / Petaluma Music Festival - Acoustic Set (Petaluma Stage) (Petaluma)
  • Sep 14, 2024 / Ain't Necessarily Dead Fest (Auburn)
  • Sep 15, 2024 / Haight Ashbury Street Fair (San Francisco)
  • Aug 12, 2024 / Jerry Garcia Tribute Night @ SF Giants (San Francisco)
  • Jul 27, 2024 / Petaluma Music Festival - Electric Set (Festival Stage) (Petaluma)
  • Apr 19, 2024 / Rancho Nicasio (Nicasio)
    According to Moonalice legend, the Swiss chemist Dr Albert Hoffmann first experimented with LSD on April ...
May 25, 2024 / BottleRock Napa Valley Festival (Napa)
Jun 14, 2024 / Sweetwater Music Hall (Mill Valley)
According to Moonalice legend, the world appears to be suffering the effects of an Asshole Apocalypse. Ba...
Apr 20, 2024 / HopMonk Tavern (Sebastopol)
Welcome to the Gathering of the Tribe! According to Moonalice legend, it is 4/20 everywhere. In a worl...
Jun 13, 2024 / Club Fox (Redwood City)
According to Moonalice legend, Redwood City is the burrito capital of the San Francisco peninsula. There ...
Jul 27, 2024 / Petaluma Music Festival - Acoustic Set (Petaluma Stage) (Petaluma)
Sep 14, 2024 / Ain't Necessarily Dead Fest (Auburn)
Sep 15, 2024 / Haight Ashbury Street Fair (San Francisco)
Aug 12, 2024 / Jerry Garcia Tribute Night @ SF Giants (San Francisco)
Jul 27, 2024 / Petaluma Music Festival - Electric Set (Festival Stage) (Petaluma)
Apr 19, 2024 / Rancho Nicasio (Nicasio)
According to Moonalice legend, the Swiss chemist Dr Albert Hoffmann first experimented with LSD on April ...

Music

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Applegate River Lodge - Applegate, OR
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Mystic Theatre - Petaluma, CA
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Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
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Magnolia Fest (5) - Live Oak, FL
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Slim's - 20th Anniversary Celebration - San Francisco, CA
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New York Harvest Festival & Freedom Fair - Hancock, NY
Oct 10
Narrow Center for the Arts - Fall River, MA
Dec 6
Red Fox Tavern - Eureka, CA
Dec 15
The Independent - San Francisco, CA
Dec 30
House of Blues - West Hollywood, CA
Dec 31
The Mezzanine - San Francisco, CA
Jan 9
19 Broadway - Fairfax, CA
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Crystal Bay Club Crown Room - Crystal Bay, NV
Jan 30
Little Fox Theater - Redwood City, CA
Jan 31
Don Quixote's - Felton, CA
Feb 19
Pour House - Charleston, SC
Feb 21
Freebird Live - Jacksonville, FL
Dec 5, 2008
The Green Spot IN COOS BAY, OR
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Who Was There?
According to Moonalice legend, Coos Bay has always been tough on shipping. History speaks loudly about the wreck of the New Carissa in 1999. The ship had no cargo when it ran aground, but it broke up, spilling a buttload of oil into the Bay. What History doesn't tell you is the story of the Old Carissa. But, we found it deep in the Legend. It makes the New Carissa look like a Disney movie.

Way back before the white man came, there was a small Moonalice settlement here in Coos Bay. It was a seasonal settlement of Moonalice nomads - known as bands. They played gigs here all summer. The problem is that it was a resort gig. There were no hippies around in those days and the bands weren't in a position to grow their own. They were totally dependent on shipments from Northern California that came in by sea. One year, bad weather plagued the Oregon coast all summer, preventing the resupply of Coos Bay. Finally, the tribe sent its best boat, a giant dinghy called the Old Carissa.

They loaded the Old Carissa with bale upon bale of their best bud. A huge storm hit the dinghy as it approached Coos Bay. The crew battled valiantly, but were powerless against hurricane-force winds and high seas. In the end the Old Carissa sank with all hands and the entire load of bud. The tragedy was compounded when the bands of Coos Bay all died from withdrawal.

According to Moonalice legend, December 5 is a High Holy Day in the tribe. We call it Wet Day because on this day in 1933, Prohibition ended! Believe it or not, Utah was the 36th state and final state to approve the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. We encourage celebration with the agricultural products of your choice.

According to Moonalice legend, on this day in 1893 the first electric car was introduced. Sadly, it took more than a century to get the auto industry into the electric car business.

Happy Birthday to Little Richard!

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2008-12-05 @ The Green Spot