Left to right: Ayr, Mandolin; Depaver Jan, guitar, vocals and songwriter; Spring Lundberg (pepperspray plaintiff) vocals. Photo by Seth Rick, Sept. 15, 2002
The eco-rock music of the Depavers is available on CD now from Culture Change. Videos of Depaver Jan's music is available on YouTube.
The Depavers eco-rock a rally for saving the old growth Mattole forest, Humboldt County, California, above the lower Eel River valley. One of the songs was Freedom Says which is dedicated to the fallen activist Gypsy.
For a CD, send a $12 check or money order payable to Culture Change to:
Depavers Album
c/o Culture Change
P.O. Box 3387
Santa Cruz, California 95063 USA
CD only: $12. or
CD plus Culture Change donation: $35.
Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.
Spring Lundberg, vocalist on the Depavers album, was a Plaintiff in the pepper-spray-by-Q-tip civil rights lawsuit in San Francisco federal court. The third trial was victorious for the rights of all protesters in April 2005.
Spring put out a single in Sept. 2004: Up To Us is a spunky folk-rock tune about personal change and social change being interwoven, and ultimately being up to no authority, but really just "up to us." Do it yourself! Spring has been a radical folk musician since the age of 16, when she began learning movement songs and playing at logging road blockades, campfires and rallies. One of her memorable gigs was to play with Bonnie Raitt at the 1997 Headwaters Forest Rally for thousands of protesters.
Personnel: Spring - vocals and guitar Michael "Tofu" Schwartz - Drums Dave White - Djembe Leib Ostrow - mandolin Sudinanda - Bass and sound engineering
Culture Change mailing address: P.O. Box 3387, Santa Cruz, California, 95063, USA, Telephone 1-215-243-3144 (and fax). Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute (formerly Fossil Fuels Policy Action), a nonprofit organization.
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