20 years ago, comedian Bill Hicks died of pancreatic cancer and the greatest comic of his generation disappeared forever. Hicks was working on a new CD when he experienced the first symptoms of the disease that would take his life. That project found Hicks mixing his stand-up with his own musical recordings to create a concept record he described as “my Dark Side of the Moon.” The posthumous release tells the story of the great earthquake that will shear California from the West Coast, creating a new Utopia in Arizona Bay.

In honor of the man and his raging, relentless art here is Arizona Bay in its entirety…

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