The Great Humbead's home page, aka Earl's Crab Shack

by Earl Crabb

(been there, done that, don't remember...it must have been the sixties)

Ornament magazine,

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Problems at an Inland Lakes Class C Scow race on July 3 gave me some interesting photos.
Some other photos of the same race other photos.

Coming "soon": China...stay tuned! and Korea after that. (sorry, I'm way behind with these)

View of Sultanahmet Camii from Gate of Topkapi Palace

Sultanahmet Camii, during Ramazan

Turkey trip in 2003... Pictures Here

In May, 2003, she was be the fourth woman athlete ever to be inducted into the U.S. Weightlifting Hall of Fame, and the only athlete inducted in 2003.

She was just about to win a gold medal at the Olympic Festival in Boulder, when this was taken.

Her own website, www.giselleshepatin.com, has some photos of her works, and, if you're a boutique, gallery, circus, or other store that sells women's clothing and accessories, check it out...it also has her show schedule. I took most of the photos in recent years.

Oh, and watch for me in Idaho Transfer, starring, among others, Keith Carradine, who was later in McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Nashville (nice kid, btw), directed by Peter Fonda, produced by Bill Hayward, released in theaters in 1973, then was released in VHS, and now is in DVD! It's still going strong, after all these years, instead of going to the video remaindering shop...you can even still order the VHS or DVD. There's some info about the movie at imdb.

Under aliases, I've also done a one-man show of drawings and paintings (all forgeries of Paul Klee) at the University of Minnesota; a record cover for Toni Brown and Terry Garthwaite's Joy of Cooking, and another one for former Youngblood Jerry Corbitt; the publicity photographs at the old Casbah and Bagdad (both now long gone) on Broadway of belly-dancers Rhea and Zaharr; the very first publicity photos ever for High Country; and acted the part of a SF socialite in a commercial with Willie Walker, Whoopee Goldberg, Boz Scaggs, Willie Brown, Don Novello, John Burton, Fratelli Bologna, and some other people; created Humbead's Revised Map of the World with Rick Shubb, created el Hashish, another infamous poster.

Under my own name (the one I use here, anyway), I've made a program to evaluate the risk associated with portfolios of fixed income derivatives; facilitated the burial at sea of a goddess...well, in San Francisco Bay, which is seawater; rowed on the Ganges; run a circus; had dinner with Hubert Humphrey in a little farmhouse outside Le Sueur, Minnesota; had tea with Der Alte, Konrad Adenauer, at his place in Bad Godesberg; helped calculate the marginal value of a duck to a duck hunter in Minnesota; hung out in the Stambol section of Istanbul and imported Turkish buttons, trims, yarns and carpets; photographed the women's world championships for olympic weightlifting in Varna, Bulgaria and in Istanbul; negotiated a text-to-speech contract in a factory in Kadoma, outside Osaka; helped start an emergency medical clinic in Malibu (Malibu Emergency Room), a hot tub and sauna business in Oakland (Piedmont Springs), a day camp in Berkeley (Muji Ubu), a college motorcycle club (the Williams Motorcycle Club), and at least three computer software companies (InnoSys, E/Soft, Intermedia Development); started a yacht club (the Ten Mile Yacht Club); refused to give Gram Parsons the Stratocaster and Telecaster he wrongly claimed were his but in fact belonged to John Nuese; played backgammon with the Jolly Green Giant; and with the Jolly Blue Giant, distributed calligraphy books by David Goines and also his "Thirty Recipes Suitable for Framing", with recipes by Alice Waters; spread cornstarch all over Doug and Ann Trumbull's kitchen with Peter Schickele, after Peter spent the day with Doug adding music to the movie Silent Running; captained a sailing vessel in the Caribbean Sea in an area formerly infested with pirates; and who can remember all the other stuff.

Oh, yeah, ten years ago Giselle and I flew around the world for $24 each, rather unexpectedly. In the process I rowed a boat on the Ganges and managed to be the emergency sound man at a Jain wedding in Jaipur. I had done some recording previously at the Indian Neck Folk Festival, in Branford, CT, in May, 1961, so was well prepared! More recently, I did the sound engineering for a CD of Dave Fredrickson now released! See above!

Look for me in the May, 1997 issue of Wired (just a photo).

The Battle of the Jug Bands is held every year, the Sunday after the Super Bowl, at the Cabooze Bar, 917 Cedar, West Bank, Minneapolis, USA. Highly recommended! And they finally have a website! Check them out at jugbandbattle.net. This year's battle, the 28th, was on Sunday, February 14!

Meanwhile, there are more general jug band sites, e.g., jugband.org !

Several years ago, 2004, at the 22nd annual Battle of the Jug Bands, my old friends Mary duShane, Cindy Gentling, and their band, the Geezers, won the grand prize, the Holliwood Waffle Iron!

Here's a photo of the Geezers, and the coveted Holliwood Waffle Iron grand prize. The Geezers: Gai Skramstad, Cindy Gentling, and next to her, mostly behind Tom is Mary Rose Cossi, then Tom Skramstad, Peter Albrecht, and partially obscured Don Venne, then Mary duShane, Billy Geezy, and the redoubtable Bill Hinkley. (The band was on Prairie Home Companion on the weekend of January 1/29/05.)

The SF Mime Troupe always puts on a good show. I'll try to post some photos of them here, one of these days.

and lots more photos of musicians, by... John Cooke

On the WELL, I'm co-host of the News, Digest, and Engaged conferences.

For some more really old music photos, of Sky River.

For a bunch of odds and ends photos... click here

For some newer photos, not yet organized in any coherent fashion,

meanwhile, have a marshmallow: