DEJA'VU Then & Now Mugshot: HANS OLSON - CLICK HERE

BEFORE: "The Early Days" Actually just a few years ago....




AFTER: Hans at the 1997 reunion.

Take a bunch of jalapenos, creosote bush leaves, a pound of Muddy Waters, a gallon of Lightnin' Hopkin's "Mister Charlie", some tequila or Mescal.... slap it around with a side of Hendrix (just a little) and throw it in the pot with the Road Kill Chili you just poured your beer into........ Oh yeah, some prickly pear squeezins. That's pretty close to Hans Olson's music. Absolutely Arizona. Basically The Blues.

David Bromberg sang "You gotta suffer if your gonna sing the blues". Hans has had his ups and downs since KCAC but he ain't dumb. He's smart enough to learn from others..... What strikes me is his impeccable TASTE. A super-fine and exquisitely tuned guitar, Lee Oskar harmonica and a remarkable, cavernous voice to showcase his appreciation of the blues...

Blues is NOT easy to get into but it's a Tar Baby. Once you are into it, you can't get out of it.

Click the headline above to go to Hans' website.

TERROS - and the psychic screams of war.

The TERROS REPORTS for those of you under the age of 40 - was a daily or someties HOURLY report on KCAC of bad or dangerous drugs on the streets of Phoenix. The Terros House [Terros meaning Earth], was a refuge for people on bad trips or who simply were encountering emotional problems.

This was PRACTICAL media - radio for the Common Man. It was a HUGE help with REAL information.

HEAR THAT? YOUR psychic mind MAY be picking up the screams and cries and horror of your brothers and sisters being maimed or killed in the Middle East. We experienced it during the Vietnam era and it continuously had us on edge. Same for your own generation.

Our focus is personal in this life but subtle or not, you can't shut out the pain of others. It's relative of course but absolutely undeniable.

It's hell, being young.

IT'S HIDING - IN THE ATTIC - BY YOUR DADDY'S STASH!!!!!

George Orwell (Eric Blair)

It's there, man.. I tink iss a ful KILO man... maybe in the sleeping bag or in the trunk and I dunno, ese' but I remember it's a LOT. I remember he said iss in with a buncha tapes and stuff - but you forget, you know man? So I think iss still there! Really fine, too. I mean yeah it's DRY an everything but it still smokes and its cheaper than buying gas to Mexico! Hey and watch out for that PAPER ese'... that's ACID and I dunno what it's gonna do now that it's this old you know? So if you find it man, hey, CALL ME and I will come help you wit it!


Find it? AAaaaawwwwww...... Well what about the tapes.. cassettes? Unlabeled? Did you LISTEN???? If it happens to be KCAC or KDKB 1969-1977 we would LOVE to convert it to an MP3, record it on CD and return it to you FREE OF CHARGE.

Get in touch with any of the BLOG contributors.

damudderfuckenrapperindacrapper& 0000ooo what he said! CLICK HERE

How dare HIM?











NOTE FROM RON:
I realize I am kind of "Hoggin' the BLOG" by posting this stuff but I CAN'T volunteer at Radio Free Phoenix from here, so this is kind of my Public Service Volunteer Work. I feel the BLOG should be entertaining at least and NOBODY ELSE (you) is doing it.


So jump up on stage here with me and do whatever your "thing" is. I too, am working almost entirely in the nude.

Ronco
[Photo courtesy of Wonderful Russ]
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BREAKING NEWS: Barry Manilow is going in for hip surgery.
Wow. Imagine. Barry Manilow - hip.
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WHAT did they know & WHEN did they know it (Prophecy in song)

Incredible String Band
Way Back in The 1960's ca 1968












I was a young man back in the 1960s.
Yes, you made your own amusements then,
For going to the pictures;
Well, the travel was hard, and I mean
We still used the wheel.
But you could sit down at your table
And eat a real food meal.

But hey, you young people, well I just do not know,
And I can't even understand you
When you try to talk slow.

There was one fellow singing in those days,
And he was quite good, and I mean to say that
His name was Bob Dylan, and I used to do gigs too
Before I made my first million.
That was way, way back before,
before wild World War Three,
When England went missing,
And we moved to Paraguayee.

But hey, you young people, I just do not know,
And I can't even understand you
When you try to talk slow.

Well, I got a secret, and don't give us away.
I got some real food tins for my 91st birthday,
And your grandmother bought them
Way down in the new antique food store,
And for beans and for bacon, I will open up my door.

But hey, you young people, well I just do not know,
And I can't even understand you
When you try to talk slow.

Well, I was a young man back in the 1960s.

The Final Compton Terrace

On the time capsule, I like the idea of a plaque on the area we're calling Compton Green with just a website. That's really what we're building here. A time capsule people can open any time - and you don't have to bury your signed album covers! Just scan 'em.
But first, we have to get a Compton Green. It's true, the ditch Bill's fatal accident occurred in is now a pretty cool drive, with lots of grass and easy-does-it roundabouts to slow the cruise. It's a perfect tribute just waiting for Compton's name.
Russ, you're the real estate whiz. Who do we have to slip some Salvia Divinorum to in order to get this strip named Compton Green? Or Terrace, if that's not too redundant?
Then we can start having these get-togethers we all talk about - and a nice gold plaque to remind all who drive by the parties where the memories of this particular generation can be heard, seen and felt.
Come to think of it, secondly, we should secure a domain and a server we know will still be around in 100 years. Can we count on Google to keep Blogger up, running and accessible forever? A question for the new generation.

WUN & WUN & WUN is WUN -- CLICK HERE

LET'S HAVE SOME FUN: THE LEGENDARY ALWUN HOUSE KICKS OFF 35th SEASON, FRI, SEPT 8th. YOU'RE INVITED TO COME CELEBRATE NEW ART, EPICUREAN TREATS, AND ALL THAT JAZZ NURTURED AT DOWNTOWN'S HISTORIC AVANT GARDE INSTITUTION!


Want incredible background facts? Maybe a juicy quote or two? Definitely tell those "festering nabobs of negativity" who revel in putting down others, to buzz off!!!

Alwun House IS Phoenix's first Downtown Art Gallery...continuously operating since 1971.
Click here for the proof!www.alwunhouse.org/35story.htm
(brief downtown arts history)"Anyone interested in art, supports you" the late honorable Sen Barry Goldwater, 1984
"A Pioneer in the rebirth of cultural and artistic activity in Central Phoenix, Alwun House is an important component of downtown revitalization." Terry Goddard, 1993
"One of the things that make Alwun House so valuable is the diversity of its programming. It is also what makes the place so difficult to define." EJ Montini, 1985

Alwun House Gallery & Gardens (est.1971)
1204 E Roosevelt, Phoenix
602.253.7887 hotline
www.Alwunhouse.org

Alwun House 35th Season
Opening Reception: Friday, September 8, $5 (members free)
Exhibit: Exquisite Nature
We invite you to embrace the new, celebrate the past:
Exquisite Art, Epicurean Delights, Florals, Fauna, Complimentary Refreshments
Beat City Quartet, melodic improvised jazz
David Diagonal, European Sensation - ambient audio for the soul

Exhibit Dates: September 8 - October 6, 2006
Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon to 6pm. free

This exhibit kicks off Alwun House 35th season. For her first Phoenix Area exhibit, the art of Kim Walker creates mixed media montages on exotic woods; pressed foliage and acrylics; exhibits in Santa Fe and Sedona. From Alwun’s early years, artist Kerry Vesper shows phenomenal new wood sculptures and furniture – belying his master craftsmanship; exhibiting nationally.

First Friday, 7-10pm. October 6, 2006
Last chance to view and purchase Exquisite Nature art, Almost Blu performs: 7-10pm. free

PLAN AHEAD: OCTOBER EVENT
Opening Reception: October, Friday the 13th (not for the triskaidekaphobic)
Monsters Menagerie
Exhibit dates: October 13 - October 31

7th annual “Monsters Menagerie” group exhibit, gives Valley artists and art lovers a thrilling range of monstrous works in a variety of media with subject matter from raw-edged extraordinary beasts, supernatural spirits, surreal to fantasy art that revels in exorcizing the evil around us.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
MONSTERS COSTUME BALL
Every year this tour de force art party, MONSTERS BALL provides an X-traordinary, other-worldly, Monstrous opportunity to dress up or dress down for the huge downtown arts party and Masque Ball and Show.
Featuring International DJ’s and Performance Artists.
Food and Spirits available.

Go ahead, you can bookmark us for quick reference updates: www.alwunhouse.org

DISCUSSION THREAD

CARRYING THIS OVER and re-posting from "Media savvie warriors... dreamin of you now " which will archive soon. Comments, ideas, critique's suggestions encouraged!
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GOT AN IDEA------ A TIME CAPSULE!

Betcha the City of Phoenix would approve it and maybe even finance it! We could encapsulate (in reinforced concrete) and visibly LIST the entire contents to prevent theft. Maybe fill it with mementos and keepsakes?

I have a bunch of records that Carole gave me signed "WEC" that I could donate PLUS we could print out this entire BLOG and even archive it on CD. Come to thin of it this BLOG on CD's might be a good way to raise some bucks for the project?

We could mark the capsule with a "Do Not Open Until"----- date or event?
Whadaya guys think?

Just thinkin'..........

Ronco

OFF-TOPIC: OO00oooommmmmmmmclickhere

This is off topic -purely conversation- but it kind of incorporates spirituality, music and most of the topics this BLOG is dedicated to. It's inevitably about the music.

Imagine SOUND at extreme frequencies - possibly near the edge of Light - creating crop circles? Click the headline above for more information. If you are REALLY interested, navigate from there to the home page.

It's all in the music.
It's always in the music.









INTUITIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE CRABWOOD FORMATION

No Mariah, you are NOT crazy. Your psychic abilities are definitely kicking in. Experiments conducted in England say that if you PRINT the formations out on your printer, then place it on a TURNTABLE and spin it - a SECOND image will appear on some of the circles. Others seem to represent technical drawings of machines, DNA and other advanced-society gifts. Further you can OVERLAY transparencies, spin them and get a DIMENSIONAL view.. It's like a book. We just don't know where the pages all fit yet. Be aware - your mind will be gently awakened.

Ronco

"Modern science now shows that these geometric rhythms lie at the centre of atomic structures. When Andrew Gladzewski carried out research into atomic patterns, plants, crystals and harmonics in music he concluded that atoms are harmonic resonators, proving that physical reality is actually governed by geometric arrays based on sound frequencies. Even that primeval Hindu sound, the OM, from which is derived our modern term 'hum', when sung into a tonoscope produces the very geometric shapes attributed with 'sacredness'. Perhaps the most important of these shapes is the hexagon, upon which the Egyptian matrix named the Flower of Life is based. This series of outwardly-rotating divisions of the circle accommodate the branches of the building blocks of life, the amino acids. This Flower of Life has subsequently manifested as a crop circle."

00000OOOOOoooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

KCAC lives!

Greetings KCAClives
What a beautiful bunch of talented, inspiring, and caring human beings you are, here on this KCAClives site. Hope I didn’t bore, offend, or otherwise stink up the site {what topic} or a cheerful courtesy sniff is promised each and every one of you!
Daniel… my beloved brother and teacher… it started with you reappearing after all these years, still alive and kicking… and then steering me here to this beautiful inspiring bunch, still alive and kicking. What a good month its been so far.
I seldom write this much anymore but I seldom have so many people I admire and respect to share with. Ron thanks your considered and levelheaded input. Dan, hope to see you soon for Joe’s memorial… wish he could be there with us.. I’m heading back to Prescott tonight and can be reached there
Sincerely
Bruce Frank….
Just keep on keeping on, would ya Good things will happen.

DEJA'VU Then & Now Mugshot: SALVIA "Sally" DIVINORUM

THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHER'S OLDSMOBILE
This ain't even your Daddy's Caddy zooming down the road with "Rock N' Roll" by Led Zepplin on the CD player.

That's a NICE way of saying meet Sally. But don't be fooled, Sally IS NOT a recreational drug. Sure - it's LEGAL. That in and of itself, makes it almost Sacred. But there's a REASON Peyote cactus doesn't have thorns - it doesn't NEED them. Sally doesn't NEED legal sanctions because you gotta be Wholy, holee Holy to even want to TRY it. It ain't Pot, it ain't psylocybin, it ain't ecstacy, smack or even laughing gas. It ain't FUN, per se but it IS introspective. Sally is an extremely intense and extraordinarily personal experience that few people are really READY for.

Understand I have not personally tried it YET but have a sample sitting in my safe, vibrating its welcome. I know a few who have had the experience. If you want a free sample contact Tim Moss at his website. Over 100,000 others have checked it out as well. Tim & his wife Irene run a Bed & Breakfast outside of Austin, Texas. You can go there and camp in a wigwam/teepee if you like.

http://justsayonce.g2gm.com/index.html

Here's Tim BEFORE Sally (below-left).


Here's Tim AFTER several years and numerous "dances" with Sally.




Salvia is of the SAGE family of herbs, is the stuff of legends amongst the Shamans of Mexico and South America. It's not for seasoning fish or poultry although you might find yourself attending some "New Age" seminars where they are burning "Sage" knowingly as if it were sacred incense. NOT the same sage as Salvia and you will probably find yourself coughing and wheezing just as if somebody were burning SAGE in the room.{gaaaaak} This is the same semi-idiot mentality whose ancestors had us smoking banana peels back in the 1960's. Anything, as long as it's "safe" and not real.

Our own Bruce Frank (to whom this article is dedicated) has had a recent First Experience with Salvia.

Bruce Frank said... Now salvia 'Sally' i have met, in one very breif but phyical encounter. near total disconnect i was concious but i didnt know where or when.. I felt over powerd but i liked it. Ive had anastetics that didnt come on so strong... and then it was over. I picked up my dick, smiled...ummm think I'll be seing her again. Sally left near as fast as she arrived but i still had another hour left on my dance card. I knew id never forget her... or you Ron, so just treat her right for me if you see her.
Thanks... Bruce
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Having done considerable homework and with thanks to Wonderful Russ for these Wonderful pictures, I will attempt to describe the experience in layman's terms;
The first universally described part of the experience is what I call "the disconnect" a complete if brief, separation from time. Nothing to it, probably like doing The Time Warp for the first time. For real.
Timeshifting can be an enlightening experience and morphing into self-idscovery can be well.... a stretch. Somewhere in this less than-an-hour experience, you will likely feel and for some, see the presence of what has been described as "Sally".
That is to say, a feminine companion on at least a spiritual level - a "guide" or "visitor" that some might suggest is the separation of one's masculine and feminine entities. Complete and oh so briefly, forever.
It's not an easy or even likely thing to adjust to and for the Shaman, there may be a message delivered. But for the initiate, anything can happen.
HERE is the image of what Tim describes as himself AFTER an encounter with "Sally". I recall this as the spittin' image of Mescalito which I encountered on my first peyote trip in 1962. Mescalito - the demon/god/trickster of the peyote world. Wish I had paid more attention then.

So if you wanna wander down towards Austin and Houston and camp in a wigwam for a night or two..... And if you are into motorcycles and would maybe like to have an epicurian dinner of Saladia (barbecue smoker available). And if you would like to take home a tattoo from the Simple Comfort Campground - to show off at the office, then give a cut/paste/click and what the hell........ Meet Sally.

http://www.simplecomfortscampground.com/

DEJA'VU Then & Now Mugshot: CAROLE COMPTON-GLENN

THEN 1974 picture shared by June Johnson

THEN at 1997's Spontaneous Reunion, probably Papago Park.
That's Johnny D behind and to the right, fishing in the chips.

Affectionately referred to as "Toot" by brother Bill. The Compton charisma and an element of timelessness is obvious in these images.

NOW photograph? Maybe in another ten years and/or after the next reunion?

WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY, POGO ---

AND IT IS US - IT REALLY IS US!!!

Behind all this KCAC memory and recall and glorification of the Glory Days and The Dream we all shared, there's this NEED to come together one more time, to hear Jim Morrison singing "Five To One" somewhere in our subconcious stereo - a crying out of The Soul at the last song just before the show is over. Almost Old Age for many of us. But wait - We may be given a choice to go out in a Blaze Of Glory. Then again, we may all be going out in a Blaze Of Glory with no choice in the matter.

But what then of us Cabbages and Kings and pigs both with and without wings? Why IS the sea so boiling hot? How is it that The Walrus sings?

Go ask Alice.

CLICK HERE FIRST
BEFORE: JULY 25TH, 2001
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zAHqSfDNjaI

CLICK HERE NEXT
AFTER: AUGUST 16TH 2006
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zAHqSfDNjaI

THE MOST MEANINGLESS WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE;
"I told you so"

The List

Here's the latest edition of The List...
Leave a comment to this post to have information added, edited or deleted. Hyperlinked names will launch an email to that person.

Adams, Lynne
Alves, Jack
Apicella, John
Arnold, Linda
Bailey, Jim
Baldwin, Mike
Baldwin, Russ
Bowen, Ray
Bell, Bob
Bennett, Fran
Bentley, Connie
Bethancourt, Joe
Boyle, Liz
Bradychocks, Julie
Cahal, John "Rebirth" (private - contact vagabondvet)
Carroll, Todd
Carter, Marsha
Carver, Sue
Clark, Doug
Compton, Bill (Deceased)
Compton-Glenn, Carole
Cookenboo, Hank (Deceased)
Covington, Dan
Crazy (Deceased)
Curtis, Mike
Davis, Marc (Terros)
DeGray, Helen
Deerhake, David
Dickinson, Ted
Dixon, John (Johnny D)
Drake George F. (Springfield, Mass?)
Duane the Guitar Player "Rebirth"
Dunn, Bob
Emery, Vince
English, Alton
English, Jerry "Magic"
Fenimore, David
Flannigan, Julie
Fleming, Mariah
Frank, Bruce "Rebirth"
Friedman, Barry
Frieflander, Karen
Galindo, Alicia
Gant, Pegi {Cookenboo}
Garneau, Joe "Rebirth" (Deceased)
Garneau, Larry "Rebirth" (Deceased)
Garneau, Michelle "Rebirth" (private - contact vagabondvet)
Gately, Bill (Deceased)
Gately, Bob
Geist, Barry "Rebirth"
Goodman, Mike
Grieger, Kathy "Rebirth"
Harris, Eric "Pappa"
Harris, Sue Fenner
Harshberger, Dan
Herbert, Kimmer
Holmes, Chuck
Hoyle, Rich
Johnson, Don
Johnson, June
Johnson, Mike "Rebirth"
Kerr, Jon
Kinsey, Gary "Toad Hall" (Deceased)
Kinsey, Filipa
Kollassa, Mike
Koors, Tim
Kothrade, Michael "Rebirth"
Lederman, Cindy
Lehr, Bob
Magahern, Jimmy
Manning, Marty
Martin, Peter
McBroom, Dennis
McCarty, Chris
McCarty, Steve
Mell, Ed
Migdoll, Susan
Moody, Kim (Alwun House)
Morrison, Barbara
Murray, Jim
Nadworney, Nina "Nina Joy"
Niccolson, Scott
Norton, Virginia
Nussbaum,Belle "Belle Starr"
Nykanan, Mark
Olson, Andy
Olson, Hans
P.J.
Paceley, Ken
Page, Daniel "Rebirth"
Peterson, Linda
Peterson, Marsha
Powell, Lee
Price, Bill
Pyle, Slagge T.
Radina, Kathy
Rameesh
Robb, Gary
Robertson, John (Crazy John)
Rogers, Bob
Rogers, Rich
Roland. Ed
Schneider, Sue
Shaw, Russell "Wonderful"
Slagle, Bonnie
Smith, Doug
Smith, Erica
Soderquist, George
Soderquist, Skio
Stratton, Ted
Sussman, Terri (V.P. AMEHOF)
Sweet, Cheryl
Thomson, Betty
Thomson, Ray
Thompson, Linda
Thrift, Bill (Terros)
Tindle, Dwight
Usry, Kent
Vascocu, Tommy
Wales, Lissa (Deceased)
Webb, Kevin "Do It Now" (Deceased)
Whitener, Kasey
Wortham, Ron
Wright, Tom
Zelisko, Dan

DEJA'VU Then & Now Mugshot: THE WAKE FOR HANK COOKENBOO

Gonna need some help with this one - recognize someone marked ???? drop a message!



BACK ROW: HANS OLSON, MARTY MANNING ????, ????, BOB GATELY, TONY EVANS aka JIM NELSON

MIDDLE ROW: ????, ????, ????, DWIGHT TYNDALL, CAROL COMPTON-GLENN, KATHY RADINA, LINDA THOMPSON, JULIE FLANNIGAN?

FRONT ROW: ????, NINA JOY, JOHNNY D., BOB "BOZE" BELL

This bud's for you

Now here's a TV show that may strike a chord with some of the visitors to this blog, "Weeds," on Showtime (episodes also bootlegged to torrent sites):

No that this constitutes an ad on this blog, mind you . . .

PLEA$ED TO MEET YOU - WHAT$ IN YOUR WALLET? CLICK HERE

Matthew 26:11
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

When you read Bruce Frank's perspective on The Dream (a couple of stories down) that was KCAC & Rebirth years ago, you can't help but think....... hell, we sold out. We all sold out. Zappa said we would, the Firesign Theatre said we HAD and for most of us it is something we still seek to DO - given enough ca$h flow and Financial Security.

What am I bid for The Past? Can you really afford the cost? Wanna go around again?

In the clickable headline above is a story lamenting the slow sales - in Britain - of tickets to the Rolling Stones... oh shit, they're not SELLING? PANIC! FREAK OUT!

In this link
http://leaderadvertiser.com/articles/2006/08/17/columns/columns01.txt
if you want to bother, is this choice passage;
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"The Rolling Stones concert raises many important questions though. How many rich folks are there in Western Montana who would pay $2,000 or more to see the Stones? What lucky fan will catch Keith Richards' walker when he throws it into the crowd after the show? Will members of the audience be prohibited from holding up lit cigarette lighters after the encore because of the amount of bottled oxygen in use by the band?"
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Sure fella........ we ALL want to see the Rolling Stones and we're willing to spend a good chunk of our inheritances to do it but damn, I feel so GUILTY!

Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name.

ALWUN HOUSE - Holy Sheiite! CLICK HERE

Kim Moody web@alwunhouse.org









An example of the art purveyed at Alwun House. (Ed. Note:) Here in this portrait called "Holy Cow" we have an illustration of a young Moslem woman school teacher instructing the children in the proper use of the modern single-digit calculator during a math class. Note the casual westernized fashion style of the Burka, with the veil lifted and face exposed. The photographer taking this picture said you could see RIGHT THROUGH the Burka.

Alwun House can be Googled. If you feel something funny you can be sure you are being Googled right back.

DEJA'VU2U2UV`AJED - email from Peg [Cookenboo] GANT

VISIBLE atmospheric Vortex (not a tornado) Sedona, Arizona, 2000 AD.

Peg(i) was Hank's first wife, part of the Dallas migration to Phoenix and the VERY FIRST Secretary for KCAC at Wallich's Music City. We KNEW we were uptown then! Peg has promised to send many more photos for us all to share here. but for now - memories, memories, memories.
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Yes, I remember Rich and Karla Rogers – what a magnificent black man he was – and Karla with the flaming red hair! Rich had a righteous jazz show on a little station in downtown Phoenix. I’ll never forget partying at his house one night when he got off on a rap about slowing down and relaxing and if you sit on the toilet long enough, you can have two bowel movements!!! Ahhh, those were the days of enlightened, intellectual conversations!

The name of the halfway house Hank and I ran was the Maverick House. You may recall that the drug rehab part was an off-shoot of the Maverick House AA program. The house on Latham was magnificent and the people who came in and out of our lives were a kaleidoscope of kooks and some creeps, but always a rainbow of diversity. Remember “The Family”? I remember Bill and Bill, and an outrageous black woman who kept them in line. I have more info at home. They had a more holistic approach to getting folks off drugs – it was called marijuana – I have some photos I will send you of our trip to Oak Creek Canyon for a summer solstice celebration with all of those folks. I pretty much documented that whole period of my life in photos – which I treasure like precious jewels. I even have some photos of our time in Dallas before we all migrated to Phoenix and joined the wee people.

Remember Nancy Baldwin? Joe MacDonald? Mike and Frannie Baldwin? Van Johnson who changed his name to Singh Saib Singh after dropping some mind blowing acid in California?

THUS SPRACH RONCO:

Went to Oak Creek with my crew in 1995.. The forest service had walled up Slide Rock - was charging $5 to park and $5 each to get in. Same at the campgrounds. Mamma Nature came through there spring 2005 with a flood and restored it all.......... YYYYYYYYaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!

THUS SPRACH PEG:

Yeah, I was there in 2004 and couldn’t believe the changes. When we on that big summer solstice camp-a-thon, we couldn’t even reach the canyon by car. We all had to park our vehicles and hike 2 miles or so, back into the canyon and to the camp sites. But man, was it worth it. I remember we all nearly froze our bums off, but the music, food, creek, and the beautiful nature was so wonderful and the fellowship so awesome, no one notice the temperature.

Peg [Cookenboo] Gant

Media savvie warriors... dreamin of you now

You Media savvie warriors on this blogg from underground radio, above ground transmitters and above board money from corporite owners and sponsors...

{how many of you jocks have sold ads for your own shows?..station?}

YOU DA BOMB!
a veritable treasure chest of experience, insight and wisdom..
especially when it comes to being involved in introducing and marketing social, political change, awareness or could i say revolution ? shouldn't scare anyone here except...the sponsors? ahh
Well i consider you all co-conspirators in this life we share and I'm a callin you out!
Well maybe just soundin you out.

Our future is being bought and sold daily, to the highest bidder, like a commodity just to see who will control and profit from life in the future. we basically don't get to participate and do not have an alternative future to invest in or promote if nothing good gets given us...
Being in advertising and publishing, i believe we need to advertise and promote alternative futures for ourselves, like peace. We at Rebirth have always done that and been political but more on the spiritual side
On the Rebirth site,in our minds, we have refined that to Promoting...

The End of War, Hunger, and Disease...
True Peace and Enlightenment

I believe these are all reasonable and doable goals to shoot for, promote and attain for our future.
I wouldn't want to shoot lower or dilute and lose the message in temporary political battles.
Were still promoting peace... its all just a benefit or effect of enlightenment.

John Lennon promoted peace... and felt that we could sell it through modern marketing techniques like you do to sell wart remover, air fresheners , tooth paste , jeans, beer or cars.
I agree... notice the music Cadillac choose for its commercials... you know what I'm talking about. Who among us, 40 years ago, could guess or even believe that...Led Zeppelin in effect would represent Cadillac. They were probably banned on some rock station... with Hendrix.
We've brainstormed good ideas, Like an online world wide auction...what's it worth to you... a world without war hunger or disease... we could keep a running total of all bids, people are impressed by big numbers, and no one really has to pay till the item is delivered, and if they don't like it they can get there money back... so people can be honest and generous... and still feel safe.
Slick, commercials on radio and television detailing problems that exist because of politics, stupid practices,
like hunger, homelessness, political repression, the cost, in Dollar and human terms, of war and growing up in it, and give solutions.
Show a better life and world through the riches of are genius, are science and scientist, are musicians and artist, are visionaries and healers.
A cabinet level department of Peace to promote Peace, and finance communities and individuals to do the same.
A nonprofit foundation to be supported by individual and corporate interests, through donations and corporate sponsorship ie The Rebirth Foundation, The Peace Foundation,or we thought , and for many reasons, ' The Living Church,' of The Rebirth Tribe'...or the rainbow commune, what ever it's a right to establish and practice new religion, and we've done it...it's Tax exempt, traditionally serves the poor, and peoples spiritual need, is a natural agent or vehicle for man to carry out God will, peace on earth,...
and yes to protect us from being arrested, stripped of our rights , imprisoned, families broken and suffering, possessions, homes, keepsakes , even dignity and respect lost or damaged. Decent caring human being who want little more than a better life for themselves and others. All this brutal and repressive treatment from our own government and neighbors for using and sharing the drugs we have ritually and socially used for so long now in our culture and way of live and mostly just to very pleasurable, enlightening, relaxing or stimulating ends.
We've all seen and heard the horror storys of abuse and misuse... they happen and were more aware of them than most, and more able to help also. We've grown up and learned to survive as outlaws in our own country... See what that gets into
Organized religion has a very bad history and it scares the shit out of me. My God doesn't need an interpreter or spare change. And I don't like feeling like a hypocrite saying one thing and doing another for good, convenient political reasons. One of our founding forfather , Sam Adams, I think said... 'When the last King is strangled, with the entrails of the last priest, mankind will enter a new age of freedom and enlightenment'... it may be one of our mistakes but its also one of our rights.

OK Check out this bright idea that came recently...along with or simultaneous with others... Please think about this one... ... the appeal.. could we creat an engine of sorts that could generate its way $$ to drive us home and shine a little light on the road ahead...to help us get there ,how could we do it, improve it2, keep it on track...I have written inspired songs that I would gladly donate to support this idea... other musicians might too. this fires me up... I think something like this has worked before. David Bowie sold rock futures,$50,000,000.00 worth of stocks or bond, in one weekend...just 'guaranteed it' with his catalog and the offering got an A+ rating from wall street.... He got it now... his catolog paid it off and investers belived in his rock future and got paid well in return .. Different, but similar .

It has become clear that anything with a future ... has a market... as a commodity or a long-term investment or promotion opportunity. Some offerings succeed because they're popular and people want them to succeed so they invest and it grows, succeeds, and becomes more popular... people love a winner... and that's the other income... the cooperate, marketing type people will jump on your band wagon, if your popular, goanna be around and do good, and they can be associated with you... they'll support you to increase there business and image with there customers... your fans and supporters. Front runners perhaps, but your good for them they're good to you.$$
Think of this... an engine to market a better future... non-profit, but people can invest in it... with donations as usual but they get token stock... now they're part of it actively they'll talk about it and promote it and it could generate dividends for them before the money means nothing. Say some popular, influential, people help promote it, say Dylan and Bonno and Jimmy Carter...maybe do a song to generate money to keep promoting and running the best fucking commercials on tv and radio... enlightening, entertaining, memorable... with celebrities and examples of positive change a promising future coming... Corporate sponsorship could be extraordinary... people who donated would be getting rewarded with dividends... positive reinforcement. .. We could generate publicity.. make news coverage ... who don't want peace... the end of war hunger and disease....Its so hard to malign or distort what were saying... but they will... they killed John... but they just cant get rid of him!.. or that simple naive message he gave us... Give Peace A Chance... Is that to fantastic to even hope for... we can change there mind... and we will... we can shine light on the dark things and people so they know they can run but they cant hide...or if they're cool they can have fun without hurting they're bride! ... boy ,I gotta go to bed on that one.. its late , I'm tired, and im getting silly...
I'm serious about the rest though... give me some feed back if something makes sense, or don't.
Love all ya'alls
Bruce

CHAT MEETING A SUCCESS! CLICK HERE FOR ARCHIVE

About TEN or more people logged in during a 3-hour chat last night, spanning much of the US and Hawaii. The last few screens are archived by Gabby and you can check it out by clicking the headline above.

Fun? How much fun can you have in front of a computer keyboard? It was great and will be repeated. Heck, some of us have webcams and COULD do a Netmeeting - usually reserved for CEO's - but Crazy Old Hippies can do stuff too!

GREAT idea, Daniel!

Rebirth at Encanto Park

L to R - Girl (Kathy?), Joe, Child (?), Michael K., Leif, Michelle, Mary, Bruce, Barry.

RUSHING HEADLONG TOWARDS 8,000 CLICKS/Radio Free Phoenix - CLICK HERE

<<<8/18/2006 7:30PM AZ time


Catoon image from "Belle Starr" Nusbaum, ca 1977

This is information that would be irrelevent to anyone other than Blogger, KCAC people, Salt River Project, advetising agencies, drug dealers, terrorists, SPAM promotors, Google, the IRS, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Tupperware, Homeland Security or Wonderful Russ Realty........but:

It seems the readership of KCAC LIVES! is increasing exponentially as the community expands and reawakens. "Heads UP" mail forwards, links, etcetera are driving us quickly towards 8,000 clicks. Understandably, about 25-30% of those numbers may be from contributors logging in to edit but they are significant anyway. It was just a short time ago that 6,000 clicks was remarkable.

LEST WE FORGET - the heartbeat of KCAC keeps on at Radio Free Phoenix AND you can listen as you surf! Stereo if you have DSL or Cable - monaural "simulated portable transistor radio mode" if you are on dial-up. It's the essence of the kind of eclectisism guaranteed to remind you of another great radio station long-long ago.

Then again you COULD go back to your FM and The Top Fifty Rock Hits Of All Time. "Stairway to Heaven" will be on SOME TIME today, maybe twice.

TO CONNECT to Radio Free Phoenix just click on the headline masthead above OR you can cut/paste this URL into your browser search line;

http://radiofreephoenix.com/listen.html

TIP: when you get to the RFP home page you will be presented with a number of Player Buttons. Top group is high speed DSL, bottom is dial-up. Pick one. Surf on. If in doubt, try the WinAmp button.

DON'T FORGET THE CHAT GATHERING TONIGHT "Gabby Chat" mode really deserves a workout. This is your invitation! Great idea!
TONIGHT 7pm AZ, 8pm MDT, 9pm CDT, 10pm EDT?

DEJA'VU Then & Now Mugshot: John Robertson

John Robertson Then


John Robertson Now
On the farm in paradise, Orcas Island

A Rather Unique and Creative Individual...

Frank Z. backstage at the Celebrity Theater
Photo courtesy of Bruce Frank

Local Boy Makes Good...

Vince Furnier, aka Alice Cooper, at the Phoenix Coliseum with original band.
Picture courtesy of Bruce Frank

Were you there?

Chat Request!

Hoddy!

Let's have a ChatFest. How about Wednesday night, August 16th, 7pm PDT, 7pm Arizona Real Time, 8pm MDT, 9pm CDT, 10pm EDT?

Just click on the Live Chat link in the left sidebar...

Have a fine day...

:~)

DEJA'VU Then & Now Mugshot: Ron Wortham

Ron Wortham, Jerome, 1969


Ron Wortham Now

I'd call it "Distinguished"... that look...

DEJA'VU Then & Now Mugshot: MARIAH FLEMING

Here she is; Our Lady Of Perpetual Encouragement, in three poses!

During the mid - 1970's "Love Workshop" days at KDKB. Publicity photo for a cassette project.

Onstage in Touloose, France - 1980 (Some people just can't handle applause).

Her 2006 incarnation, snatched from a group picture at Uranus Recording Studios in Tempe, with Robin Wilson. .

I firmly believe that were it not for her CONSISTENT efforts to keep this blog alive, this whole thing would have archived itself into oblivion by now. KCAC Lives! would otherwise, be quite dead.

Mariah was The Voice on the commercials for..... well, in her words; AD 1: "Hi, I'm Shirley MacLaine and in my travels through the People's Republic of China the one thing peasant women everywhere told me they wanted was their own bank..."

AD 2: "First Women's...offers interest free car loans for women, and for those of you who find procreation cumbersome and distasteful, we offer a free sperm bank for women who deposit $500 or more"

AD 3: "In Sept (?) 1976, First Women's National Credit and Trust Bank will open its doors in Phoenix..."

That last one is the one that got them the nasty 'cease and desist' order from the AZ Fiduciary Commission, so they had to stop the ads."

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Now THAT Dear Friends is Social Anarchy at it's finest.

'Tis an honor.

For all of us.

DEJA'VU Then & Now Mugshot: NINA JOY

Nina at the 1974 concert. Picture courtesy of June Johnson

Nina at the 2004 wake for Hank Cookenboo, held at Sugar Daddy's.

A refugee from KWFM in Tucson and a remarkable audiophile with a huge knowledge of music, particularly folk. Working with old photos here, hoping for an update.

More vintage airchecks

For your listening pleasure while you browse or blog, we've just added some more vintage airchecks (in the sidebar at left), these from KDKB circa 1976. Not sure who the DJ is on these, but the eclectic selection of music should be pretty much the way you remember the early KDKB. Thanks to Bob Macheska, a former Phoenix listener now living in Ransom, PA, for sending in the CDs.