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Smack Dab and my British-Made Premier Genista kit at the World-Famous Rib Joint in Dana Point, CA on Saturday 08-22-2026.

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  From Left to Right:  Smack Dab is myself on drums; Kent Richards, bass and vocals; Allison Friedman, vocals and guitar; Lloyd Brown, lead vocals and guitar and Marc Repaire, lead guitar and vocals.   You can reach the band at SmackDabGroup@gmail.com . Well, we had another gig at the World-Famous Rib Joint in Dana Point, CA on Saturday the 22 nd of August, 2026, and we had a lot of fun!  However, the weather has been very warm, and on Saturday it reached 87 degrees F, with a humidity of 74%, but it felt even hotter and more humid, especially when we were setting up outside!  As usual, it took us about an hour plus to set up (with me schlepping the PA and the my drums, crazy), and after setting up, I was soaked to the skin!  No worries; I had an extra tee shirt and one of my favorite Hawaiian shirts on hand, so I looked reasonably presentable by the time of the gig!  Even so, I downed two liters of sugar-free Tonic Water during the gig, in order ...
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Going to the Junk Yards with Matt, Sunday 07-26-2026.

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  We got some good stuff for Matt's "new" car; three wheels, a windshield washer fluid container, and a fender! So, this little blog post will be about my fascination with junk yards, and how that fascination has apparently continued with our son Matthew (genetics matter, I suppose).   I remember being about ten years old, and going to the Skarpnäck dump close to Hökarängen outside Stockholm where I found an old motorcycle gas tank that I brought home (at least that’s my memory; doing a Google search did not reveal a dump in Skarpnäck, so it is possible that my memory is of another dump close to Hökarängen around 1965; maybe you can help me…   However, there is historical records of a Romani encampment in Skarpnäck in the mid-1960s, but my memory is of large mounds of garbage and trash, which I doubt could have accumulated by a relatively small Romani encampment.   Also, the report “SKARPNÄCKSLÄGRET ARKEOLOGISK UNDERSÖKNING AV EN SVENSK-ROMSK LÄGERPLATS VID FLATENVÄG...
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