A Better Trip: Live at The Jean Cocteau Cinema Supporting Shane Mauss
Exclusive early-access concert footage from a super fun, inspired evening of music, storytelling, and insanity!
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of opening two shows for one of my favorite stand-up comedians, Shane Mauss (in whose award-winning documentary Psychonautics I both have a music credit and appear as an interviewee, and with whom I have exchanged innumerable guest spots on each other's podcasts).
Both shows took place in one night at George R. R. Martin's wonderful small art-house theater, The Jean Cocteau Cinema, here in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I had spent the whole week prior experimenting with an updated and expanded new rig for my cyberguitar concerts and getting entirely too worked up about submitting an entry into NPR's 2023 Tiny Desk Concert Contest...which ultimately proved to be a good thing.
These three live concert videos and hour-long audio recording combine my science-inspired folk songs, cyberdelic A/B improv takes, and psychoactive concert banter into a magic stew that even after twenty years I cannot reproduce at home in-studio. There's only one way to create a show like this, and that's in front of an engaged live audience. Enjoy!
(The first song, "Transparent", is public as per the conditions of the Tiny Desk Concert Contest but the other two videos are unlisted, as is the playlist. Feel free to share these with whomever you like but I will continue trickling and teasing the presumably-unwashed non-patrons for a couple of weeks...)