There are no pre-sale tickets at this venue, and it’s not a huge capacity. Please be there at doors so you’ll get in!

For final show updates please go to the Silian Rail Facebook page. Feel free to post your own “say it ain’t so” while you’re there.

Adam Hervey, 36, suffered a stroke on January 16, 2013, that left him effectively paralyzed on the left side of his body and unable to speak or swallow. After enduring a risky emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from one of the main arteries at the base of his brain, he is currently in an acute rehabilitation facility undergoing physical, speech, and occupational therapy to regain his basic functioning.

Read more here: http://www.giveforward.com/friendsofadam

Spread the word and give if you can.

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For the month of December only when you purchase B. Hamilton‘s Everything I Own is Broken on limited edition colored 12″ vinyl ($16.00) you get a FREE copy of…

Shuteye Unison‘s Our Future Selves on colored 12″ vinyl

or Carcrashlander‘s Where to Swim on 12″ Vinyl

or Edaline’s Old City Scenes on 10″ vinyl.

You choose.  Two amazing records for the price of one!  And, as always, shipping is FREE and a percentage of all sales go to non-profit park saving organizations like:

- National Parks Conservation Association - protects and enhances America’s National Park System for present and future generations.

- National Forest Foundation - engages Americans in community-based and national programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the 193-million-acre National Forest System.

- Golden Gate Parks Conservancy - preserves the Golden Gate National Parks, enhance the park visitor experience, and build a community dedicated to conserving the parks for the future.

Two for one!  Just in time for the holidays!  Order now!

After we receive your order we will contact you to confirm your shipping address and which bonus record you prefer – Our Future Selves or Where to Swim or Old City Scenes?  Order now!

Happy Holidays + Love,

Team Parks and Records

- National Parks Conservation Association - protects and enhances America’s National Park System for present and future generations.

- National Forest Foundation - engages Americans in community-based and national programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the 193-million-acre National Forest System.

- Golden Gate Parks Conservancy - preserves the Golden Gate National Parks, enhance the park visitor experience, and build a community dedicated to conserving the parks for the future.

Day 1: Fort Bragg to Russian Gulch

I spent a couple extra days at the family cabin. In order to make up time, I asked my mom to drive me from Ferndale (my original starting point) to Fort Bragg, and yes, perhaps in order to get over that big-ass hill near Leggett. I rode just for a few hours to Russian Gulch to settle in for the evening.

Highlights/Lowlight:

• Lemon cake and latte courtesy of mom
• Devil’s Punch Bowl (a large, collapsed sea cave with churning water)
• Crazy domestic beer drinking/muscle diving teens blasting traditional Serbain music all night

Driving to the coast from Humboldt County.

Russian Gulch

Day 2: Russian Gulch to Manchester Beach

Rode though the lovely towns of Mendocino, Little River, Albion, Elk and stopped at Manchester State Park pretty early to set up camp. I had one of the best sandwiches of my life at Elk store in…Elk. When I walked in at 10am, a lady asked me “May I make you a sandwich?” She was totally serious. I said yes. The weather turned sour, things were damp, and there was some old crazy dude with a joint the size of a king salmon at the hiker/biker camp in Manchester. I chose to pay for a full site on the other side of the park.

Highlights/Lowlight:

• Deli sandwich in Elk
• Guinness on the beach (I only drank 1/4 and got sleepy)
• Free firewood score from friendly German neighbors
• Freezing-ass drizzle and damp clothes

Campsite at Manchester Beach

Seaweed

Day 3: Manchester Beach to Bodega Dunes

This was as rough as it got. At 3am, my tire exploded. The nice German neighbors thought it was a gun shot. They have read about the violence in America.  I woke up cranky from no sleep and carefully changed my tube, which popped right as I rode out of the park. I identified this as a tire problem, and put my last tube in just about 140 miles from the nearest bike shop. I rode through Gualala and gave myself a little treat for brunch; an enormous plate of Mexican food and some hot chocolate. It never occurred to me that this much food would effect my ability to ride….but god dammit, it was worth it. I put my camera away and suffered through the next 70 miles. When I arrived in Bodega, it was dark, there was no fire, no wise creature cooking soup for me. Oh wait, that’s Dagobah. Never mind.

Highlights/Lowlight:

• Gluttonous brunch stop
• Salt Point State Park
• View from the peak before Jenner
• No Yoda

Mariachi's in Gualala

Dinner by candlelight in Bodega

Day 4: Bodega Dunes to San Francisco

This campground has free hot showers. I just don’t know what could be better. I resolved to ride all the way home today, not wanting to be stranded when my final tube popped. As I rode into Sonoma County, I saw the clouds part, and the sun peak through for the first time in 3 days. I didn’t even mind stopping to deflate/reset/repump my tube a couple times by the side of the road. This is the part of the ride I can’t recommend enough. It takes you through Tomales, behind Tomales Bay, into Point Reyes Station, and through Samuel P Taylor Park. You pretty much have your jaw dropped the entire ride. I made it home, and slept for two days.

Highlights:

• The ten mile stretch behind Tomales Bay, probably the most beautiful ride I have ever been on
• Pizza at Bovine Bakery in Point Reyes Station
• New tire and tubes at Sunshine Bicycle in Fairfax
• The glorious assent up my steps, through my door, and into bed

The only self portrait I could muster.

Big thanks to Content Magazine though, this footage is dope.

8/24 Pehrspace, Los Angeles, CA
8/25 Soda Bar, San Diego, CA
8/26 TBA
8/30 Christy’s, Santa Rosa, CA
8/31 Women’s Club, Chico, CA
9/1 Homie Fest, West Linn, OR
9/2 Barboza (Neumo’s), Seattle, WA
9/3 The Track House, Olympia, WA
9/4 Red Room, Boise, ID
9/5 Holland Project, Reno, NV
9/8 Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut, Oakland, CA

Did you know the answer to this 80′s movie  trivia question? Well, if so, you stand a decent chance to win a free Parks and Records tote-bag filled with 5 Rum Diary cds at the C.A.M.P.  music festival this weekend in Guerneville, California. You still may want to brush up on your familiarity with Ferris Bueller, Lane Meyer, John Bender, Lewis/Gilbert and the rest of the gang.

Basically, we have some leftover Rum Diary albums that we have accumulated over the years, and have tried to come up with an entertaining way to get them to the people for free. So come take our trivia challenge on Saturday or Sunday.

What else is happening besides tons of other great bands and activities? Well, the Rum Diary has been slaving away, re-learning an hour’s worth of music for your aural pleasure on Saturday night at 8:30pm. Who in the hell is the Rum Diary?

These handsome dudes: