a little Pete Sears to ease the day...

Some old Pete pics on the hard drive:

I also stumbled across an interesting written interview from 2010 where Sears tells his history in great detail. He's played in a lot of bands. (At that point he says he played on 150 different albums.)

http://dmme.net/interviews/sears.html

"The West Coast music scene was a gas! For an anemic, skinny English rocker who was used to rainy old London, it was like I was on a different planet. We’d jam day and night on the pier at Venice Beach, near Los Angeles, but eventually moved north to Marin County near San Francisco, an unbelievably beautiful area: Giant Redwood trees, San Francisco bay, cool music and poetry scene. I wound up calling the area home. Big Sur was a special place to me, too, it reminded me a little of parts of Scotland.

I was living with the band STONEGROUND around that time…that was a good band Then I met my wife, Jeannette, in 1971 at John Cipollina’s house in Marin County. We got together two years later to write songs; Jeannette is a lyricist and writer, and we were eventually married in 1975, one year after we moved back to the U.S. from England, and I joined the original JEFFERSON STARSHIP with Papa John Creach. We have two wonderful children. I’d have to say the United States has been very good to me."

^ The Jorma connection from that interview:

"HOT TUNA was an entirely different experience from JEFFERSON STARSHIP; TUNA is far more folk blues based. I left JEFFERSON STARSHIP in 1987 and didn’t join up with HOT TUNA until 1992. Jorma and Jack left the AIRPLANE to go full-time with TUNA in 1972, two years before the JEFFERSON STARSHIP formed, which was the year I joined them. As I said, I hung out with Jorma in 1972 when he was recording his solo project “Quah”, and I was in the next studio producing Kathi McDonald. Then, I didn’t see Jorma again until 1992, long after I left STARSHIP, when he and Jack invited me down to sit in on piano on a CD they were recording at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley, California. I ended up sitting in on all three nights, and stayed with them for ten years. They were very happy years. Sometimes Jorma, Michael Falzarano and I would go out as the JORMA KAUKONEN TRIO. I still occasionally teach at Jorma’s “Fur Peace Guitar Camp” in Ohio, and I sometimes sit in with TUNA on accordion."