After a grueling 21 hour drive with 2 Sunrises, 2 Sunsets and another 9 hour drive, I arrived at the Gem Show to set-up shop. While working on recovering from the winding 60 mile drive of twists and turns through the Kinston Forest, the 1800 miles I just finished and dealing with the 3 hour time loss, I decided....this is gonna be freq'in AWESOME!

Welcome to BuehlerHeadSHop & Custom Goods' Booth at the KINO Electric Park in Tucson, Arizona.
Visit me Feb 2. 2013- Feb 17, 2013:
Debuting 8 of 23 autographed StarSeeds in the "Freq' Series"
~12" Mofro SOLD DAY 13       ~12" Breaksra SOLD DAY 7       ~12" Pimps of Joytime SOLD DAY 4     12" Funky Meters
~14" MMSW     ~14" BoomBox     ~14" Everyone Orchestra
~16" MOE.: SOLD on Day 2!
~18" Mickey Hart Helped to plant over 500 Trees!!! 
     Still Running on either Peru time, West coast time, or maybe just the southern drawn out lag...we made the first round of Incredible StarSeeds with Incredible Passion using the Marketing strategy JIT...Just In Time!!!  Lightly seasoned with organic oil, these Welded Steel Artistic anomalies, have been transformed with heat by hand into a harmonious percussive instrument, with the potential to transform the world!
      Each StarSeed has been alchemically tuned to resonate with the styles and sounds of the bands we have decided to feature as "Freq's" (Pronounced Freaks).  The first 8 drums range in size from 12 inches wide to 16 inches. Each StarSeed wlll have a unique resonance, heady design, and Custom Scale. Every drum will also help to plant over 200 Trees Each!! 
     With a table full of technologically advanced Purple UV glass, A Plethora of Peruvian Opal, and Plenty Of Percussive Pieces of Harmonic Art, I decided to couch surf my way down to the show and display these unique instruments at one of the Worlds Largest Gem and Mineral shows with people from all over the world.  The couch surfin works great cause I am trying to raise as much money as possible for non-profit, and have made some new awesome friends in a few short days!  If you travel a lot to new, unfamiliar places; I highly recommend checking out the site: Couch Surfing 

     I took an incredible adventure to Peru towards the end of December. In case the world ended on Dec. 21, 2012, I wanted to be submersed in a new/old Culture where I didn't really know the language, food, or people and would be faced with the challenge of starting over.  If Peru does not subside on the rate of deforestation for tourist satisfaction, this may be where they end up; forgetting about the World can lead to having to start over in a challenging situation!

     Starting our adventure at 6a.m on "El Fin DEL Mundo", we left Cuzco via uno taxi loco for 20 Soles (8 or so US) to start a series of visits to the Sacred Sites of Peru.  We figured, to gain the most of the Galactic Alignment's Solstice Energy on Dec. 21, We should head to as many Sacred, Agriculturally important and Religiously Monumental Structures as feasible.  We (Me and 1 friend) tried to enter the 1st site, Saqsayhuaman, but had only US dollars, and not enough Soles.  The unreasonable guards would not take extra money for exchange and we could not afford to go back to the city!  Syncronistiy is the Name of the Game in these Changing Energy Times, so we decided to stand around and wait for a miracle.

    El Boleto Turistico Del Cusco pulls up with a group of Americans on a Bus Tour....SCORE! We get 2 Free passes to EVERY (16) SITE around the area!  After checking out the enormous remains of the 3 largest levels of ruins the Spaniards did not use to rebuild their entire civilization, and playing my "Be Heady" Custom made Star Seed Tongue Drum, we left to go to 1 of our 2 main Interests, Pisac..
 
     We found a driver who said they could drive us around all day for 80 Soles. That is an amazing deal. It would have been 320 Soles for the free pass we gained, so 80 Soles was great.  A 45 minute drive to the amazing trading center of Pisac brought us to a variety of Hand-Made Alpaca Goods, A crazy variety of Gems, Minerals, and Sacred Medicinal Plants fresh and available! Pedro went nicely for the day-trip and the espresso was a fine finish to the murkey green swamp water which was lunch! Now to the Main Attraction: Moray!

     Moray is the Agricultural Center of the Entire Inca Culture! The different levels of land were science in action! Humidity , temperature, pressure and conditional differences were methodically utilized; Is this the End...the Beginging of GMO's?? Weird thoughts circulate the Head as the enormous scene morphs slowly around you giving the most unique feeling of being in a Greek Theater where the scale and magnitude of the Scene Give you a Shift in Perception!!  I bring my StarSeed to the Center of the Orbular Landscape and play the most intense Heart-Song to Pachamama as the Sun is setting right around the time 4:20 p.m.  Thank God the 3 Germans heard me from the top and came to the rescue...we saved the Earth on December 21, 2012, Giving her ALL of our Heart...The Germans saved our Heads afterwards!!

     Synchronistic as it may be; At the End of the World is a Giant BillBoard Reading "1,000,000 Trees for Maras: We Care About Our Environment"  I thought I would be getting far away from my own ideas in another country, and find myself face to face with a Spanish Version of my Project! I started in 2011, just like on the BB, and Now I have an End Date of 2014. Thanks for letting me know to hurry up Peru!

    Speeding outta Moray like the Andes were erupting, we head to The Sacred Valley, Ollantaytambo.  We graciously give the driver $120 US...about triple the negotiated price.  His face was worth it!  We head specifically to the Albergue Hotel and Restaurant for their AMAZING Organically grown feast.  We HAD to come back for the ambience! The in-house harp player can bring tears to your eyes. I am now famous in their on-line Vimeo Video, staying a week prior and enjoying EVERYTHING the Inn has to offer, Check out the awesome mountain and river views this place boasts....After running a Bed and Breakfast on Mount Snow, Vermont the last 4 years, I can tell you this place is AMAZING!!!!

     We finish off our long journey with an hour bus ride back to a hostile in Cuzco.  We decided long ago that a hostile is judged based on whether or not the toilet has a toilet seat.  Hot water is a luxury, toilet seats are a necessity.  The adventure was incredible, and this was just 1 day; We rented a car the next day to Bolivia, but that is a Whole other Heady Adventure!

Be Heady Drum Sweepstakes
The Drawing for Be Heady Djembe was Drawn on April 20, 2012 in The F.U.R. Music Hall During Wanne Music Festival 2012 

Dave Schools From Widespread Panic pulled the Winner at about 4:20 p.m. !!!
Dave Played an Amazing Set of Bass SubSonics during the Mickey Hart Band Set on 4/20/12
After the Djembe drawing, Mickey Hart conducted a drum circle with the small group of VIP's lucky enough to score access!  

After an intense Q & A session; I raised my hand and asked Mickey Hart what he knew about Harmonic Percussion.  Since Micky has been sonifying the sounds of Space, he was especially interested in the StarSeed I brought him which was specially crafted for him!

The Sacred Steel StarSeed was created to be presented to Mickey who was unable to attend the event where he would have received the gift.  The company TerraTonz decided to donate the incredible instrument to be used for non-profit tree planting; IF I could get Mickey to sign the instrument over to me!!!
SUCCESS!!!