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think about it.

It's like... It's like

a lubricated vagina.

You got the Electric

from Electric Mountain,

nectar, and then rine

from the Vaseline, pssh.

We said, let's just

combine them all,

so it was Electric Knectarine

with a silent K.

Unfortunately, people started

pronouncing the band name

Electric Connect-arine.

You know, they obviously

didn't get it,

like the Connect-arine.

And so that

was tripping us out.

So then, Gordo one day,

he's looking at our logo

and he's like... he's like,

Well that's not

a nectarine anyway.

My uncle... I grew up

around a fruit stand.

That looks like

an apricot to me.

Yeah, Electric Apricot.

Electric Apricot!

Electric Apricot.

So there it was:

Electric Apricot.

Queen has insects for eyes

She lives

In a kingdom of lies

She shouts

Your sorrows arise

And laughs

At the hideous cries

The queen has been

eaten alive

Where did you go?

Where did you go?

Where'd you go, Rainbro?

Where did you go?

Oh, Rainbro,

where did you go?

Sailing across the skies

with your mystic disguise

Oh, Rainbro

I live in this tree

for... full time.

This really is what

I consider my home.

Yeah, the tree fort is in my

parents' backyard technically.

I mean, my-

Technically...

Where you going, Rainbro?

Everybody wants to know

Did you catch

some cosmic wind

Ridin' high

Hi... High

High

Wait, wait.

My gardener, Don Carlos

made this for me.

Something he crafted

from the wood

from his country.

I think it's Venezuela.

Uh, might be France.

It's just nature

out here, you know?

How many other people can say,

oh, I woke up this morning

and I saw a raccoon mating.

That doesn't happen very often.

Well, this is the- what I call

the excra-meditation chamber

or, you know, my bathroom.

Maybe it's a little primitive

for some people's standards,

but it's got

everything I need.

It's got running water,

and it's got a toilet.

Well, it's got a bucket

and a place for toilet paper.

And I got art

This is like- I like...

Cars should be political.

I think you have an opportunity

of saying political things,

and so more than voting,

more than doing anything,

if you really want to stick it

to your government,

more than anything, anything,

you don't even have to vote.

Just put on a few

bumper stickers, man.

Just put on a few

bumper stickers, man.

Shall we go

to Pete's party

Millie's Hacky Sacking

with Cousin Arty

Annie's got a henna tattoo

Grandad's blowing

on a didgeridoo

Blowing glass,

everybody has their thing.

A friend of mine's dad,

he really wanted

an elaborate set

of cocktail swizzlers,

so what I'm doing...

And usually,

people like that,

they have some good money,

they want quality,

quality merchandise.

And I realize this looks easy,

this looks like something

that anybody can do,

but it's really not.

I was working

on a bowl one time

and I had this big gob going

and I was leaning forward,

and the whole thing

just fell off

and landed right in my lap.

I burned my scrotum

and it was fairly severe.

You know, a fiery hot ball

of molten glass

on the scrotum is not good.

The unfortunate thing

is I got a lot of my friends

come around here.

And I blow stuff

and I want to sell them,

but usually these guys

come along and they smoke

out of everything

I leave laying around,

so you can't sell

something to a store

that somebody's

been smoking out of.

But this one's real nice.

I probably could have gotten

some good money for this one.

Look at the detail here.

I've blown

a couple of d*ldos,

because you're always looking for other

markets for things, like the swizzle sticks.

I think that's

going to be great;

that could be

a big marketable item,

because everybody

makes pipes.

This one's actually modeled

after a friend of mine's penis.

He took a picture of it

and sent it to me

because I didn't really want him

to be in here with an erection.

I'm pretty comfortable

with my sexuality and whatnot,

but when you're in a hot room

and fire's blowing

and this guy's got

an erection in front of you,

it's just not-

that's just not my game.

This one's a little smaller.

This would be more for, like,

sort of the rear entry,

or at least, you know,

sort of a-

uh, you know, something to-

to, um, you know...

I don't know.

We probably shouldn't

go there too far.

Well, the first person

I met in the band was Lapdog,

and we met at an Afro-Cuban

drumming class, and...

You want to talk

about polyrhythmic.

Herschel used to play

in this cover band,

this Huey Lewis cover band

called New Drug.

They would play

and they had the skinny ties

and the whole vibe.

Herschel would be all...

Hip to be square

He'd be doing that whole thing.

You know, I like Huey Lewis.

I remember...

His band was New Drug.

I want a new drug

One that don't make me sick

One that makes me

crash my car

Just like it's a brick

or something like that.

For us, it was

the ultimate tribute

to one of our influences,

Huey Lewis.

It had that beat that...

Om bum bum bum

bum bum bum bum bum

I liked it, you know?

It kind of reminded me

of that Ghostbusters song.

Next thing we knew, Herschel

was playing keyboards with us.

Multi-instrumentalist,

amazing player,

and he hasn't requested

we do any Huey Lewis.

It opened up to a whole

'nother dimension.

Like, we went

from 3-D into 4-D.

My father was a missionary,

and he was

a traveling missionary.

He was actually an Iraqi

American Indian Hawaiian Jew.

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

I basically work here

four days a week.

I make a little

extra money on the side

so I can pursue

what I really love to do

which is play music, obviously,

with Electric Apricot.

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo,

it's a mantra,

a Tibetan mantra.

And what I like to do is that

every beverage that I make,

I like to recite this mantra

ten times over the beverage

before I serve it.

Do you want

a hot chocolate as well?

Two hot chocolates.

Something for you, ma'am?

Can I get a decaf latte?

A decaf latte

coming right up.

And for kids...

I like to put a little

extra chocolate on top here.

I don't like to make it

too hot for them,

I don't like to burn

their mouths.

We're not here

to cause discomfort,

we're here to bring

happiness to people.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

You have a good day.

I made those extra special

for you guys with lots of love.

Did you feel it?

It was kinda trippy

because right around then

Aiwass was going off

on this whole Phish thing

and wanting to get into more

intricate arrangements.

I took it upon myself

to be that guy in the band

who would make us progress

and push us forward

in our musicianship.

We would rehearse

and then it was like, Okay!

And we'd go in and out

of these time changes

and then he'd turn off

all the lights

and we would go through

all of this stuff.

Okay, 9, 11, 7.

Everyone would be jamming

and they wouldn't know,

but I'd be like-

I'd still kinda be jamming,

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