You can buy their cd via http://www.deconstructionist.com/blacknote/index.htm this is all I know apparently this is a weird label out in san fran and matthew shapiro, seraphim keyboardist is on some of the projects through the label other than here, I am not sure where to still aquire the wonderful seraphim cd.

Yep, Black Note Music is a good place. I have to check with Wade to see if he's got any more places, and make sure he's been in touch with Juan Carlos out here in San Francisco. I know Ron Richter and Steven Bottom helped work on the album, though they didn't play instruments on them, that I recall. But they are great in their own right, so hopefully just my mere mentioning them will insta-link! Hoorah!

Altho this surfer alien hails from the coastal regions just a hop skip and a jump across the way, he played the last two Seraphim gigs ever. The infamous "banned by the city gig" and "Seraphim's last Stand" which was just Mr. Hines, Mr Lieder and Mr. Deva whoopin it up on University Avenue with Jill Burton as guest acting like they were playing in front of thousands. It was only called SERAPHIM to "keep the name alive" out of attachment which we should have learned by then would only lead to more attachment and the potential for the attachment to the concept of unattachment thus never really commiting to anything. Anyway, Jami is a fine fine player and being and he and Mr. Hines along with others are working on some major funky shit at the moment. Check it out at www.devaproject.com And tell'em DJ HomeyJ sent ya BooYOW!

Bwa! Oh, lord, I had nearly forgotten about the city trying to 'shut us down'. We were performing a song called "God Goes Both Ways," and the premise of the song is that when you look at someone with love, God looks back at you. The lyrics themselves are much better, but I can't find them. It was a beautiful song, and one of my favorites. Sadly, the powers that be thought that the song meant God was not only omniscient and omnipresent, but omniSexual! as well, and nearly pulled the plug in the middle of the song. I thought it said a lot more about their thought patterns, personally, but that's just me. We were informed that we were barred from ever performing in a public space again. Gotta love the open-minded, liberal, college-town atmosphere!

Actually, the gig at the "High Note" was not called Seraphim; It was a gig that High Note had booked with me as a solo artist, but I asked Wade and Jami to play. Jill Burton was asked by Wade to do a 10 minute intro and I agreed (and what a strange intro it was), and then Jill was told specifically not to join us in jamming later, since I had no Idea what the hell she was trying to do musically. She got onstage anyway and we had to ask her after a while to sit down. I think she must have been smoking crack or something (my apologies to any Jill Burton fans, thats just the way it was). Anyway, that was the last gig I did with Wade or Jami because I was sick of people overstepping my boundaries and doing fucked up stuff and then when I complain acting like I had an attitude problem. Fuck THEM!! I don't have an attitude!! Fuck all of you!!! Just kidding about that, I love you all, slimeballs.

I remember some great times with Seraphim. Wade Hines was a true leader in the community as a spokesperson for alternative spirituality and all things cool. There would be parties with 200 people playing jimbes and dancing, Seraphim musicians playing, really good energy. I remember events downtown with 1000 people where various bands including Seraphim would play and there would be a pagan ritual at the end of the day. IT was awesome and beautiful, and I really miss it. Then the local Christian Right started attacking everyone else in Gainesville around the early 1990's and a huge battle took place lasting around five years. The Evangelicals got their asses beat, Paul Delaney got voted out of office, Seraphim broke up, and the pagans went into small groups and lost a lot of their unity and motivation to believe they could have a place in the community. So in that way the Evangelicals won a goal to suppress beliefs other than their own. I hope those left in Gainesville who have alternate spiritual beliefs will ignore critics and live the way you want to live.

Thanks Dave for the beautiful comments, A few corrections need to be made to his above comments though. The last gig WAS called SERAPHIM because they didn't know what else to call it. It was originally a gig David got, but the guyz decided to keep the name....check the flyer archive big guy! On Jill Burton's behalf I gotta say I Love the stuff she does and I have had many beautiful experiences with her. The karmic strangeness of that night was tangled up in blue so to speak. The SERAPHIM bassist thought he was having a heart attack and didn't show up. he was there for soundcheck but missed the gig. Also, David's time perception is screwed up as he is talking early 90's. He joined the band in 1998-99, so that makes it late 90's and there was at least 10,000 people there; at least a quarter of them naked or close to it. Pagans! Hoodlems! What else does one expect when they bring down the black goddess in front of the Gainesville court house. And Paul Delaney was Paula at that time. S/He didn't get his/her sex change until AFTER S/He was thrown out of office. Get your facts straight Dave! Anyhow, there was some amazing energy created and I miss it also dancing the primal psychedelic groove. By the way, after a few beers, Dave Lieder and his wah-wah guitar ball busting ear drum blasting synth playing sounds pretty damn good. Their afterparties were pretty smokin too. Mr. Lieder with multiple chicks on his arm reciting kabalistic banter to impress their ever trembling loins of yore. I was there. I remember.