May 18, 2012 Golden Sails Hotel, Long Beach, CA
Moon­al­ice poster by Dar­rin Brenner

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, tonight’s poster by Dar­rin Bren­ner recalls a day when the Furthur bus came by. Sur­pris­ingly, Cow­boy Neil was not at the wheel — some sug­gest that per­haps he had overindulged — so Alice took over. Being only ten, Alice did not know how to drive, so the old Inter­na­tional Har­vester drove itself while Alice leaned out the wind­shield throw­ing flow­ers and mush­rooms to passers by. Mean­while, the March Hare was play­ing moon golf with a gui­tar while he waited for the bus, which was – sur­prise, sur­prise – a bit on the late side. The Hare was des­per­ate to get to a gig; ten­sion was mount­ing. The Hare was out of pills to make him small, so going down the rab­bit hole wasn’t an option. His only option was a tie dyed school bus dri­ven by a child. Let that be a les­son to us …

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“Faced with the chal­lenge of visu­ally cap­tur­ing and com­bin­ing the whimsy and mys­tique of Moon­al­ice, with the psy­che­delic vibes ref­er­enc­ing the Dead.

Start­ing with the clas­sic White Rab­bit, I felt in this case he should be musi­cally inclined…as well as lunar-ly located. I kept him chrono­log­i­cally chal­lenged, though the cause could be the strange lunar fungi fol­low­ing him. After that, well…the bus came by and he got on of course. Imag­ine his sur­prise when it was Cow­boy Alice at the wheel, and the bus lead down the rab­bit hole to mys­ti­cal, mag­i­cal Long Beach.”  - Dar­rin Bren­ner, artist

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