Brewster Apollo

... hard-working father of two / music / jambands / Phish / keyboards / baseball / SF Giants / birding & wildlife / non-partisan opinions ...

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

Now available: the debut Brewster Apollo album, Binomial Nomenclature. LOTS of tracks that I put together on Garage Band. Groovy, heavy, deep, weird, obnoxious, psychedelic, and everything in between. Check it out if you wanna…

https://t.co/LSFrsDKbCe

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@shapsio @ParadisoAdam @LivePhish unpopular opinion but I’m sticking to it: top-5 Bathtub Gin.

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

High Beamz will be opening the portal in NorCal this summer!!

I’ll be playing this weekend in Nevada City and maybe some others …. get down to portal-blasting instrumental jazz funk!

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@shapsio @LivePhish the DAAM of this show was mesmerizing. a friggin woo exercise during a type I AC/DC Bag

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

Heartbreaking. The most informative, fair, detail-oriented, and well-curated news show in history.

Destroyed in subservience to a f*cking politician.

RIP 60 Minutes

[Financial Times @FT]

CBS fires Scott Pelley after clash over ‘60 Minutes’ https://t.co/QRhhsTAzct

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@shapsio @SDSU @TLAPhilly @BethelWoods @JannusLive my annual grovel for some sort of official release of the 5/28/94 Reba. totally unique and amazing jam!!

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@PavlovicNBCS Vitello isn’t even using the bench. Koss has 12 PAs a month into the season. Encarnacion isn’t far behind. With Baileys offensive struggles, it’s a great time to give more time to backup catchers and that’s not happening either. I don’t get it.

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@shapsio @NotreDame @UofNH @Tipitinas @HOBMB @RepublicNOLA @JoyTheater and here’s my annual grovel for a SBD of that 4/25/94 Melt should you ever be so inclined

hope to see you at the Sphere tonight!

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@Super70sSports Frank Zappa - the 1974 band playing Village of the Sun https://t.co/ho3fh2A7ci

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@phish love it!! (but also kinda surprised 12/30/93 isn’t included. fingers crossed that epic show also gets an official release soon!)

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@shapsio @SDSU @TLAPhilly @BethelWoods @JannusLive my annual grovel for that 5/28/94 Reba on a LiveBait or archival release. sooooo unique!

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@shapsio @NotreDame @UofNH @Tipitinas @HOBMB @RepublicNOLA @JoyTheater my annual grovel for that 4/25/94 Melt in a Live Bait (or archival release?) sooner or later 🙏

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

my $0.02 moving forward: if a partisan pundit, social media personality, or politician makes an outrageous claim, it’s probably BS

look it up in a trustworthy resource

and place trustworthy resources above all else when seeking information

regardless of your ideology

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

I respect people with the guts to say “I don’t know” when they don’t know. People who ALWAYS know are full of shit.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@Super70sSports I don’t care if it’s a Disney cartoon I watched when I was like 35. It was still brutal.

[Today In 2014 Giants History @TodayIn2014SFG]

On this date in 2014, the Giants win Game 7 of the World Series by a final of 3-2 to become World Champions!

WP: Jeremy Affeldt (2-0)

SV: Madison Bumgarner (1)

Series: GIANTS WIN 4-3

Next Game: Parade 10/31

#SFGiants #2014SFG

https://t.co/wmBeKFKFmS

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

@umphreysmcgee my first show. Twas extremely cool to get that surprise. My new favorite band and one of my favorite bassists. Fare thee well indeed, Phil.

[Andrew Duddy @Andrew_Duddy]

Genius

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

F Putin. F Xi. I’m indoctrinating my kids to democracy. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 #Election2024

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

Listen to the studio Touch of Grey with some phat headphones and tell me if there has ever been a top-40 song where the bass sounds REMOTELY that good. Busy and melodic https://t.co/spxhVp9T7O

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

I have a theory: there are two kinds of bands in the world. One type has Phil Lesh or Mike Gordon playing bass. And the other type has literally anyone else playing bass. So sad that one of them has left us.

#RIPPhilLesh You made the musical world far more interesting.

[Brewster Apollo @BrewsterApollo]

And to clarify: it isn’t that they’re better than anyone else (though they’re far better than most). It’s that they are so unique. Incredibly melodic while always staying in the pocket. You can’t get really interesting, extended Type II without that type of player.