Dec 10, 2025 | memoir, travel
It was hot in the mid-morning sun as I waited along the side of the autobahn with two German policemen rifling through my belongings. Nearly everything in my backpack was spread across the hood of the two-door Škoda car I’d been riding in. My heart raced and I rocked...
Nov 14, 2025 | memoir, music, travel
I had just left my job at the Off Ramp Cafe and Lounge, an infamous club that had helped the early 1990s Seattle music scene rise, explode, and burn out all in a very short period of years. There at that venue, I had formed a family with a pack of fantastic...
Jan 12, 2024 | memoir, music, travel
I woke up in an empty room on a hardwood floor with a terrible hangover. It was 11:00 am in Amsterdam. The door rattled and was followed by a loud knock, knock! A shallow silence followed. Then, knock, knock, knock! “Gentry! Get up! We’re waiting!” The voice was...
Sep 13, 2023 | memoir, music, travel
The studio was filled with smoke. My eyes were red and puffy and each breath I took was filled with leftover joint fumes. I stared through the haze over the microphone into the engineering booth waiting for talk back. “That was dope.” “Really? You thought so?” I...
Jul 20, 2022 | memoir, music, travel
The day I performed a duet on live Dutch TV in Amsterdam with drag queen and Pride ambassador, Dolly Bellefleur, is one of my favorite bizarre and magical musical moments. Like most of the highlights in my music career, my most memorable events under the spotlight...
