Eric Fowler:  

Life I left Lenox in the summer of '89 with Dunny Donovan in pursuit of rock stardom, I went to live with he and his mom on Wavy Gravy's Hog Farm in Laytonville, CA - Mendocino County – This was the start of my 4 years of college as I saw it, Wavy Gravy was a 60’s counterculture icon (he was the guy at Woodstock that proclaimed "What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000!", The Hog Farm was started around the same time as Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and is still known today as Americas Longest Running Hippie Commune. Ken, Alan Ginsberg and Hunter Thompson were all part of Wavy’s circle as was Bill Graham and a few other notables…so I figured I was in pretty good company. I’ve been back up to visit a few times and when I have I always run into someone I know from Lenox which is funny, …Just remember if anyone offers you chocolate chip cookies just say no..…anyways' after about 6 mo. there I learned all there was to learn about the Emerald Triangle and other unmentionable aspects to that long forgotten time and lifestyle and was getting a bit stir crazy (Laytonville is even smaller than Lenox and the music scene was…..even smaller) so I moved to Berkeley CA, and lived there for about a year, the music scene wasn’t quite happening there either at the time. From there I moved to Hollywood, CA to attend Musicians Institute. I finished I began my career as a professional musician (guitarist) moved around a lot (Glendale, CA, Santa Monica, CA, Venice, CA, Playa Del Rey, CA, North Hollywood, CA) and did a lot of session work eventually finding myself on some cd’s with people you may have actually heard of i.e. Sting, UB40, General Public, Taylor Dayne, Roseanne Cash, Parliament Funkadelic. Problem was this work didn’t pay very well so I had very little to show for it. I was briefly a member of the reconstituted British Reggae Ska group General Public who used to be known as The English Beat, ...Expand for more