Benjamin Hunter Mark “Raccoon” Gibbs
has “set his soul free to soar with the eagles”
This Site is Dedicated to the
Preservation
and Sharing of Raccoon’s Music and Songs
to Enable Old Fans to Remember and Allow
New People to Experience the Wonderful Songwriter,
Poet, Musician and Spirit that is Raccoon
LISTEN, Experience and Enjoy
Raccoon
Songs
Raccoon Songs (a.k.a. Coony Tunes)
come in many flavors, shapes and sizes!
Here you will find downloadable mp3
music files
with the complete lyrics and chords
for all Raccoon songs on these albums,
live performances and demo
Nature’s
Cathedrals
Road
Kill
Rainbow
Warrior
Loose
In The City - Live
Rainbow
Gatherings - Live
Playing
With Jello - Live
On
A Wooden Floor - Live
The
White Horse Ranch Sessions (demo)
NEWEST WEBSITE ADDITIONS...
*** Peter Zoernig’s Raccoon
Stories ***
Latest installment: “In
Which Raccoon And General Junk Go To Jail”
*** “On
a Wooden Floor” ***- A newly
discovered and rare live Raccoon soundboard recording!
*** Covering Raccoon *** Sonic Tortilla Project
- A 3-piece band plays Yahweh Sunshine and Ring Your Bell at one of their live
shows a number of years ago – Thanks Sim!
*** Raccoon Remembered ***
Lots of new submissions received the past several months have been added (with
many more still yet to be posted.)
Old
“Newest” Website Additions. . .
*** Playing
with Jello *** Great Quality Live
Show! Recorded in the late 80’s or early 90’s – Thanks Tom!
*** Garbology
101 video on Scuba Channel *** This is a cool slideshow video set to
Dumpster Diver.
*** Book
*** The Art & Science of Dumpster Diving (downloadable pdf book) with
hilarious dumpster diving related cartoons.
*** CooneyTube *** Four YouTube videos of Raccoon
playing at a Rainbow Gathering – Thanks Zed!
*** Photo
Slideshow *** A very touching display of Raccoon and many friends with The
Angels Cry as background music. Warning! It may make you cry. Thank you so much
Jane!
*** Raccoon Live
*** Raccoon playing at a “Smoke-In” show in
*** Raccoon
TV (74MB) ***
Here Raccoon is playing a rare “Goodbye Mr. Bourgeoisie” about a month before
he passed on.
*** RaccoonSpace *** Yes, Raccoon has his
very own MySpace page.
*** In
Memory of Raccoon ***
Photos
taken by Elvert Barnes of Raccoon playing his songs in
*** Raccoon Song List ***
Did you realize there were so many songs?
*** Video
of a young Raccoon
(17MB) *** performing Ring Your
Bell in the
parking lot at a Grateful Dead concert.
*** Ever notice the numerous references of passing (going
“home”) in Raccoon’s lyrics?
Check out the Raccoon photo
gallery and Raccoon video pages.
(There are still a lot of pictures I need to process and upload...for some
reason they are taking me a long time for me to deal with.)
Here are shared thoughts, feelings and stories from
many people about Raccoon. There are new
additions added periodically.
(Please send in your story or memory of Raccoon. All
contributions
via Email will be posted.)
Coming Eventually (Website To Do
List.)
If you have any Raccoon pictures,
videos or stories
you would like to see added to this site, please send me (John)
an Email.
*THANK
YOU* To Everyone Who Contributes To Keeping Raccoon Music And Our Memory Of
Raccoon Alive!!!
If you have any comments,
suggestions, corrections, contributions or anything else
(threats, insults, criticism, praise, adulation) regarding this website, please contact
me.
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