Gold Experience

Jim Walsh is a Minneapolis-based writer, journalist, columnist, songwriter, and the author of The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History and, with Dennis Pernu, The Replacements: Waxed up Hair and Painted Shoes: The Photographic History. The former music editor at City Pages and pop music columnist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and current staff columnist at the Southwest Journal and a regular contributor to Minnpost.com and others, Jim has published in Rolling Stone, SPIN, the Village Voice, the L. A. Weekly, the Star Tribune, Melody Maker, Billboard, and the Utne Reader, and has been a recipient of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford Unviersity.

Ron Butler is a Los Angeles-based actor and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits (playing everything from brooding doctors to screwball hipsters). Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon's True Jackson, VP. Ron works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People. Originally from the Bahamas, Ron grew up singing calypso onstage with his father (the country's number-one recording artist) before touring (and recording) in Europe with a jazz band. In his spare time, he impersonates the president while playing the ukulele.