Well, not Jack directly, but my local buddy (and San Diego transplant) Jim Perry, a fellow Surfrider Foundation member. He was lucky enough to catch Jack’s concert on June 22 at River’s Edge over in Wisconsin, and said it was awesome. Sigh, I was too busy. But his email inspired me to post something…at least surf-related. The photo here is from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s review of the event, Surf-Rocker Riding the Green Wave. 
And, no we’re not talkin’ about "spending some time in the green room" here (surf lingo for locked in a tube) — we’re talking eco stuff. Jack is huge into it, and is working closely with The Surfrider Foundation to promote its cause, and they in turn attend and help promote his latest tour events. [They even traveled from CA to set up a booth at the River’s Edge. And we didn’t even have any waves for ’em, just a river and water slides… 🙂 ]
Okay, maybe this post is more about music than surfing, but I’m throwin’ in a shot of Jack surfing at one his favorite spots in Hawaii (where he’s from), just for the hell of it. Call it a gratuitous attempt to assuage some of my guilt in not posting about surfing in a while. 
Haven’t been to my place in California for way too long, and (darn) I missed a return to the Cold Water Surf Fest up in Duluth this year, too, back in early June. But, for that matter, I really haven’t been posting here at all much lately, I’m sorry to say.
I’ve been a little busy here, and posting elsewhere, here and there …when I can grab a little time on evenings and weekends. And, of course, Twittering. Micro-blogging is just so much easier and faster — seconds or a minute per tweet, versus an hour or more to research and write a good blog post (often much more). There’s a reason I’ve done more than a thousand tweets in maybe seven months, versus maybe 400 blog posts in three years.
But you know my heart will always be with surfing and surfers everywhere, and anything I can do to protect our oceans, waves, and beaches. And hat tip to my buddy Jim Moriarty out in San Clemente for a his great blog of that name. I read it religiously; he does great work. Aloha, bro, and to all in the global tribe of surfing…. And, oh, say hi and thanks to your buddy Jack, too… 😉
UPDATE 7/2/08: As long as we’re on the topic, let me get all the surf outta me that I can. Another thing I learned this week (actually from my surfer/skateboarder son) is a cool new site that sells surf clothing & gear cheap, one item at a time until it’s sold out — similar to woot.com, except for surf stuff, not electronics. It’s WhiskeyMilitia.com — a hilarious site, funny just to read the copy. One day earlier this week, it was a full Ripcurl wetsuit for $125, another day board shorts for $15, the day before t-shirts for $7. Hey, I’m all over it, already gettin’ daily alerts… 🙂
Yes, Surfider was at the Rivers Edge show! We had a booth, maybe your buddy stopped by? Check out my blog for details of the show (scroll down to older posts) http://www.surfriderontour.blogspot.com/
It turns out there are a number of Surfrider members in Minneapolis and lots of people, even though landlocked, care about the health of the oceans and otehr waterways.
Cheers
Elizabeth
Hey G, nice post on Jack. He’s the real deal for sure. We are absolutely stoked to be on the road with him. Go to riseaboveplastics.blogspot.com for more info on what we’re doing with him on the tour.
Now, get wet already!
(fun peelers at Swamis this AM, logging…)
I like the blog. I was actually working at the Surfrider Foundation both at the Jack Johnson concert in Somerset with Elizabeth. She has lit a fire in a few of us and we are going to get a chapter started here in Minnesota. Let me know if you are interested in helping us getting things off the ground.
Ryan – rjbuus@gmail.com
Nice post. I love surfing..even though it has no surfing category, you should check out http://www.OurPlaybook.com — a new community for sports fans of both pro and college sports.
Jessica — did you know colleges have surf teams? it’s a big deal in SoCal, where high school competition is, too…San Clemente is the perennial winner 🙂
Jack Johnson is performing live the weekend of August 14th in Denver, at the Mile High Music Festival. If you can’t make it to Denver, you can watch the live concert feed for free at http://www.mycricket.com/mile-high-music-festival
cool – I’ll tweet it on http://www.twitter.com/MNsurfrider … I know our followers there will appreciate it, too
I have gone to Water Surf Fest , it was an amazing experience unforgeable for me, I have to go the next year…