So, I went to Albany, NY for the shoot and I met up with a guy named Tony Treyhan who was also appearing in the video...It was pretty coincidental because he lived in Cali in 1989 and was also a punk rocker...He lived with a guy who is now Rancid's drummer and we knew a lot of the same people...Rancid was Op Ivy except for Jesse...I knew a couple of the guys in Operation Ivy, especially Jesse, and hung out at the Gilman which was the club where all the greatest garage bands aspired to perform located in Berkeley, CA...The Gilman was a place where a lot of bands got their start...I was at Greenday's first show, and so was Tony...That was pretty wierd and yet very pleasant reminiscing about those days...We talked about what destroyed the punk rock culture...It was jocks, and racists, drug abuse...We both love Crimpshrine...Tony now has a son and is playing him punk rock music...Tony had been in a band back then too...
The video workshop was very interesting, discussing the balance between personal medicine and pill medicine and being able to be an expert on your own body and spirit in order to articulate what you need to the professionals...How feelings are not symptomatic...That was stuff I needed to hear...I gave a ten minute interview on my own experiences and that I am comfortable taking meds and that I will continue to do so until a time when there is another option open to me...
Update: I just got asked to appear in another video interview shooting the 15th of June about recovery for a software program...
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