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-♪ Sacred moons, embodied earth ♪
♪ Goddesses of life and birth ♪
♪ Casting spells for your protection ♪
♪ And listening for my direction ♪
I'm Bhama Roget, and I am the author,
composer, performer, creator,
producer of "Mother Nature: The Farewell Tour."
-Let's do it. -One, two, three, four.
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-It's a rock opera. It's a ritual.
Mother Nature is in drag as a human.
♪ You bitches burned my witches ♪
This project is the thing that I've been trying to write
my whole life.
I needed a character that was big enough
to hold what I was trying to say
and also that could get away with saying all of it.
And that's how Mother Nature came
to be the storyteller rather than me.
And if I'm speaking as Mother Nature,
it's that you, humanity,
you're looking at everything you've created,
all of your systems and your progeny and your technology,
and you're trying to tell the difference
between your brilliant innovations
and your weapons of mass destruction,
and you can't. You don't know which is what.
You don't know what's going to help you
and what's going to eat you.
So she feels kind of about us like we might feel about A.I.
The genesis of this show came during the pandemic.
I just felt like everything was on fire
on the inside and on the outside.
What I did during the pandemic,
in order to keep sane, was I just went in my room,
and I did yoga with an app on my phone.
And then after I would do the yoga,
I would just lay there,
and I would just get this feeling of grief
that I didn't really recognize.
I just had this overwhelming feeling of contemplation about,
we're not meant to live like this.
All these things we're doing are terrible for us.
And they're so -- they're so far from
who we really are.
And during the pandemic, I just kind of randomly wrote this song
that went...
♪ We're all gonna die ♪
♪ Maybe not now, but eventually ♪ ♪♪
♪ Also, maybe now there's a chance ♪
♪ This could be our last dance ♪
♪ Have you heard there's a meteor ♪
♪ Headed for earth ♪
I have an incredible band.
We're in Bootstrap Studios in the vault
and just kind of putting it all together.
On drums, I have Aimee Zoe. Legend.
Sherri Jerome is on lead guitar.
Ben Heege on bass, which I'm very excited about.
Also, John Ackerman is going to be leading the band,
and then I have Evan Mosher on audio visual
and various electronica.
I mean, I think the two big questions for me
are how did we get here,
and is there any -- is there any way out?
But here's the thing.
The dinosaurs got lucky,
because they didn't have to witness their own end
by their own hands, by their own teeny-tiny hands.
♪ When mankind was young ♪
♪ The only gods were the earth and sun ♪
I feel like there's a lot of shame
around being a human being right now,
and I want the audience to feel the beauty in themselves,
to touch that divinity within themselves
and -- and in a room together
and -- and feel hopeful and feel like we have agency
and we have choice about what kind of world we create.
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