Choogle On with Uncle Weed

Australia’s organic electronic band Oka talks with Uncle Weed backstage at Komasket Music Fest to discuss trips across Canada, the perils of equipment damage, psychology of jamming, global nature of music, combining ancient and modern instruments and keeping it all together — plus the happiness of the lovely locations and the power of community and the tubes.

Featuring Oka’s DidgeriStu and drummer Zappa. Musical interludes feature jams Oka‘s Friday night closing performance. Part 3 in a series from Komasket Music Festival. 

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Open your ears for Oka Improvising from Australia to Komakset ~ Choogle On! #93

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Walking around the campground at the Komasket Music Fest near Vernon, BC, Uncle Weed and Quebecois Correspondent discuss the layout of the performance stages, various yoga workshops, Moroccan shisha lounge, and the movie tipi.

Plus they recap pleasing performances by Bochephus King and Oka while previewing The Wailers and other leisure time activities. Musical interludes feature jams with Bocephus King and Oka. Part 2 in a series from Komasket Music Festival. 

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Raise your arms for Jesus with a Guitar in a Tipi at Komasket ~ Choogle On! #92

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Sitting around a candle, Uncle Weed kicks of a weekend at the Komasket Music Festival with pals including the Quebecois Correspondent. After a journey through Manning Park with canoe trips, wildlife sightings and botanical changes, they preview bands and workshops ahead.

Musical interludes feature jams with Bocephus King and Oka, beatboxer Shamik and various announcements of lost souls. Part 1 in a series from Komasket Music Festival. 

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Gather round for Candlelight Kick-off at Komasket Music Fest – Choogle On! #91

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Hazy with a sore throat, Uncle Weed documents journies to the legendary Salt Lick bar-b-q for a slice of rural Texas, plus breakfast oysters, trip to riverside green belt, and rocking out to Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears at the Twitter party at The Parish.

Plus riffs about drought, reasons for free beer, Big Muff guitar pedals, and forgetfulness, and plans a scant agenda of conferencing and recording. 

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Get a fork for Fleeting Memories of Bar-B-Q and Soul – Choogle On #90

Music: Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears & @blackjoelewis & Myspace & iTunes

+ snippet by The Sure Things at The Dakota in Toronto, ON

Episode Art: “Hello, from Driftwood Texas” photo by John Biehler, others by Uncle Weed

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En route to breakfast at SXSW, Uncle Weed recounts a night of arts and crafts burlesque and barbarians at Emo’s Jr. and forays to various Austin bars and various dot-com parties for tasty beers.

Stops include smoothies at The Hideout, Counter Cafe for pancakes, plus field notes about lanyards and badges, making marketing envelopes, living on appetizers, creekside flora, joys of the quaffable Shiner Bock, magicians and performance troupe, beat/stump boxer, pedi-cab escapes, and closing down an elegant hotel loaded with drunkards in disarray.

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Come along for Anecdotes about Burlesque and Beer – Choogle On #89

Music: Wm. Lenker, recorded at Steamboat Wood Shed by Uncle Weed

Album Art: photo by Jason Sanders, art’ed up by Uncle Weed

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Poet Randall Maggs discusses his book “Night Work” about the troubled soul of legendary hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk plus the nuances of story-telling, conversations with goaltenders, Sawchuk’s Ukrainian heritage and convergence of history and hockey with host Dave Thorvald Olson at the Robson Square covered outdoor rink in Vancouver following a poetry reading promoted by publisher Brick Books. 

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Lace em up for: Poetic Stories about Goalies – Postcard #62 (.mp3, 36:02, 33MB, stereo)

From Hockey Hall of Fame by Dave

“On the Vancouver question, that is my birthplace and, though I haven’t lived there in a long while, I still think of it as home. The Canucks are my team. Over the years I have travelled back to the city often to visit my relatives and family. My grandparents lived in South Burnaby off Kingsway pretty much all their adult lives, my grandfather being a millwright and playing an important role in building many of the lumber mills in and around the city. A couple of summers ago my mother and I were having lunch on a terrace on Granville Island and my mother pointed out the remnants of one of my grandfather’s mills. Even after his retirement he’d be called back in to solve a problem that university-trained engineers couldn’t handle. He’d give mill officials fits, scrambling up long ladders long past the age of 80. I attended grade school in South Burnaby, I think Strathmillan School. After her years of following my Air Force father back and forth across the country, my mother went home to live in Surrey and White Rock where she lives at present. My son has been living out there as much as in Newfoundland for most of the past dozen years, having done an MA in Piano Performance with Jane Coop at UBC and working on his PhD in the Arts and Sustainability with John Robinson at UBC.”  

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Contributed as special segment to the Dopecast episode 221 on Dopefiend Podcast Network based in the London, UK, comes a bonus “Tokes on the Porch” segment about cooking with cannabis, introduced thusly: “Canadian hemp activist and cannabis podcaster Uncle Weed as he interviews Chef Boy-am-I-hungry about some methods of ingesting our secret sacrament at his own special spot in Mosquito Creek.”

Alongside rushing Lynn Creek, Uncle Weed quizzes a friend about methods for extracting cannabis for eating pleasure including making bhang, cannabis candies and quickie peanut butter powered snacks and tips for stoning on the go at festivals and everyday. 

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Cannabis Cooking Tips on a Mountain Stroll ~ Tokes on the Porch – Choogle On #88 (.mp3, 13:41, 13MB)

Featuring music by Geoff Berner “No Tobacco” geoffberner.com.

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Go grab Dopecast221 and/or check out the whole Dopefiend network in iTunes or give a listen below:

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Blurb:

On this week’s episode of the Web’s Favourite Cannabis Podcast, the Dopefiend talks about how Canadian Prince of Pot Marc Emery has been sold out by his own government and faces five years in a US jail. … Next, the Dopefiend reads an intense email about cannabis and depression and tells the Dopetribe how to follow his advice and subscribe to the Dopefiend podcasts, before introducing Canadian hemp activist and cannabis podcaster Uncle Weed as he interviews Chef Boy-am-I-hungry about some methods of ingesting our secret sacrament at his own special spot in Mosquito Creek. In this week’s Cannabis News, Canadian police beat and bloody an innocent man in a botched drug raid, Florida bans bongs, Holland takes it’s bid to ban foreigners from coffeeshops to the European Court, a new group of pro-pot women is formed in Colorado, Detroit echos California’s move to legalize cannabis, LA orders over 400 dispensaries to close, while the campaign for full legalization gathers steam, and Texas police struggle to destroy all their impounded herb.

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