'THE LIST' JANUARY 18, 2007

To tune your computer to Radio Free Phoenix, click the headline above and OPEN the stream file when presented with options. Dial-up streams will be in mono on both channels.

"We are not gathered here to find a purpose - The Purpose has found us and gathered us together here."

"NEW FEATURE! Click here to email your party invitation or other communications to everyone on "The List" at the same time!"

~
Adams, Lynne
Alves, Jack
Apicella, John
Arizona Music Hall Of Fame
Arnold, Linda
Bailey, Jim
Baldwin, Mike
Baldwin, Russ
Beals,Ken
Bowen, Ray
Bell, Bob Boze
Bennett, Fran
Bentley, Connie
Bethancourt, Joe
Botkin, Jim
Boyle, Liz AMEHOF Board
Bradychocks, Julie
Cahal, John (Rebirth) (private - contact vagabondvet)
Carroll, Todd
Carter, Marsha
Carver, Sue
Clark, Doug
Collins, Michael
Compton, Bill (Deceased)
Compton-Glenn, Carole
Cookenboo, Hank (Deceased)
Covington, Dan
Crazy (Jan Isbell)(Deceased)
Curry. Robert S.
Curtis, Mike
Davis, Marc (Terros)
DeGray, Helen
Deerhake, David
Dickinson, Ted
Dixon, John (Johnny D)
Drake George F. (Springfield, Mass?)
Dunn, Bob
Emery, Vince
English, Alton
English, Jerry "Magic"
Fenimore, David
Flannigan, Julie
Fleming, Mariah AMEHOF Secretary/Treasurer
Frank, Bruce (Rebirth)
Frank, Raman (Rebirth)
Frank, Gregg (Rebirth - Contact Bruce Frank)
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, Ron (Eric) 'Pappa'
Harris, Sue Fenner
Harshberger, Dan
Herbert, Kimmer
Holmes, Chuck
Hoyle, Rich
Johnson, Don
Johnson, June
Johnson, Mike (Rebirth)
Jones, Scott
Kerr, Jon
Kinsey, Gary "Toad Hall" (Deceased)
Kinsey, Filipa
Kitchell, Nancy
Kollassa, Mike
Koors, Tim
Kothrade, Michael (Rebirth)
Lange, Patrick
Lederman, Cindy
Lehr, Bob
Magahern, Jimmy
Manning, Marty
Martin, Peter
McBroom, Dennis
McCarty, Chris
McCarty, Steve
Meighan, Bob
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 "vagabondvet" (Rebirth)
Peterson, Linda (Rebirth)
Peterson, Marsha
Porter, Sharon Elaine
Powell, Lee
Price, Bill
Pyle, Slagge T.
Radina, Kathy
Rameesh
Robb, Gary (Deceased)
Robertson, John (Crazy John)
Robinson, Duane (Rebirth)
Rogers, Bob
Rogers, Rich
Roland. Ed
Schneider, Sue
Shaw, Russell "Wonderful Russ"
Schecter, Eric
Skaggs, Ken - AMEHOF Vice President
Slagle, Bonnie
Smith, Doug
Smith, Erica
Soderquist, George (Deceased)
Soderquist, Skio
Stratton, Ted
Sussman, Terri AMEHOF President
Sweet, Cheryl
Thomson, Betty
Thomson, Ray
Thompson, Linda
Thrift, Bill (Terros)
Tindle, Dwight(Deceased)
Usry, Kent
Vascocu, Tommy
Wakefield, Ken
Wales, Lissa (Deceased)
Webb, Kevin "Do It Now" (Deceased)
Whitener, Kasey
Wortham, Ron
Wright, Tom
Zelisko, Dan

Please leave a comment to this post to have information added, updated, edited or deleted. Clicking hyperlinked (underlined) names will launch an email to that person.
Have a great day!

If you are an anonymous poster or reader and would like to be added to The List, please drop a line to freespeak@gmail.com or anyone contributing to KCAC Lives! to be added. The List has become a reference point for memories and emails to old friends. It also has become kind of a Social Register and will be something of a reference list for reunions and such in the future. Not only that, SOMEONE - maybe someone special from the old days, MAY be trying to find YOU.

So... let us know who you are, where your memories or interests tie in and what your email address is. Get on the bus. We don't know where its going and it may NEVER leave but the music is great and the people are fun!

G00GLE EARTH/GooGLE MOON/GOOgle CLEMENTINE

Hi all..

Out of the hospital but not out of the woods. I am now officially and by definition, a Cyborg. Part Man, part Machine.

Amazing it is, to become a part of the sci-fi stories I read prior to 1960. But here I am with a Pacemaker in my chest, telling my heart not to slow down to less than 60 BPM............not even for the s-l-o-w dances

Not much to add to the plethora of new KCAC info uncovered by Tom and other show-me-the-money realists here, so I shall attempt to capture your imagination instead, with a fantasy. Tom and I have reached agreement on one subject though.... GWB is most definately God and must be worshiped for his Wisdom
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You are at 60,000 feet in an airliner - several miles in the sky over desolate terrain. Empty, dry desert with lotsa rocks below. Your eyes stray to a Mesa ot Plateau below and the shape you see sets off buzzers in your head. What is that? A skillet? An egg poacher? Part of a Rolex watch? The top of a submarine?



For even more fun, GOOgle CLEMENTINE

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"26 Men" and Phoenix's Cudia City Studios

As mentioned by Tom Wright in an earlier posting, some old TV shows were filmed at the Cuda City Studios, which was a 2-street Western set at 40th Street and Camelback Road in Phoenix, Arizona. The TV series "26 Men" was filmed at this studio in the late '50's, and on location around Camelback Mountain, the Superstition Mountains, Pinnacle Peak, and other desert areas. I ordered the 3-volume DVD set of "26 Men" and having been watching some of the shows in the past few days; it's pretty neat seeing the Arizona and Phoenix-area scenery back in those days. Above are a couple of screen captures, can any reader recognize the scenery? :o) You can click on the photograph for a bigger view.

The DVD covers says "26 Men is based on the real life exploits of the Arizona Rangers, who were commissioned to clean up the outlaw territory in preparation for statehood."

There's one episode where Robert Blake plays a young outlaw, his family just kidnapped a young girl; and Robert Blake says to the girl, "You're prettier than a pearl handle pistol." I'm sure that line would be just as effective today at any of the local club scenes.

But as Marty Manning mentioned in a previous posting, the Cudia City Studios burned to the ground in 1967.

Is That A Monkey in My Tree??

A friend and former photo student of my husband Ray Bowen called us tonight from Calcutta. He sent us a link to photos he has taken on his remarkable journey back home to India. We thought you might enjoy the vicarious thrill of another way of life.

He had been unable to send anything to us until now because there were no computer hookups available throughout the various destinations on his trip. Imagine! The last shots are of a great Buddhist Temple where he found an elephant inside.

Brought to you by the God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot crowd here at KCAC Lives! Enjoy!
http://www.rahulwho.com/previews/helen/

ALWUN HOUSE Exotic Art Show

Alwun House 24th Exotic Art Show: over 70 artists, coast to coast showcase personal art “far beyond the ordinary…’exotic.’” Works in a variety of media and stylistic interpretations; expanding the envelope with eye-popping uninhibited creative passions. Arizona’s Valentine tradition. Annual fundraiser for the legendary Alwun House Foundation, downtown's leading-edge non-profit arts organization since 1971.


FEB 13 - MAR 16 24th Exotic Art Exhibit
Viewing: Tue-Fri, 12-6pm. $4. (members free)
Mature subject matter; under 18 must be accompanied by adult
1204 E Roosevelt, Phoenix
www.alwunhouse.org




SPECIAL EVENTS CALENDAR

Eye-popping performances at the Casbah!
All Events: door opens at 7pm. Performances 8pm.
Mature Subject Matter, 21 and over.
Advance Discount Tickets: www.alwunhouse.org


FEB 9: Exotic Sneak Preview
Arizona’s original phantasmagorical multi-media theatrical experience at the Casbah, 70 artist’s uninhibited exotic fantasies on two floors, three stages of exotic entertainment, complimentary delectable buffet.

FEB 16: Erotic Poetry & Music Festivus
Titillating witty wordsmiths and musicians, out-of-the-box, over-the-top performances, impassion the muse beyond the ordinary. Stage transformed into the Casbah. Hookah’s, delectable exotic treats and drinks.

MAR 16: Spring Ball Climax
Rock The Casbah. Performances by uninhibited ritual dance companies. A Costume Dance Celebration with Spring Nymphs. Dress to dance to world class DJ’s.



Alwun House Foundation non-profit arts organization, downtown’s arts pioneer gallery and artspace.

MORE SMOKE! MORE FIRE! MORE GOLD!

Liz Boyle has worked with this gentleman and attests to his legitimacy. Sometimes while panning for gold dust, we wash up a nuggett or two.

This one's a "Lunker"
Ronco
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from Eric Schecter
subject KCAC/KDKB


Hi,
Not sure if you are the admin of the KCAC site, but I saw this email address a few times on the blog page.

I haven't figured out how those things work...but anyway, let me get to the point:
I spent many years in Phx as Chief Engineer for KDKB, KMLE, etc., but moved to Sandy Eggo a couple of years back.

Whilst going thru some items, I discovered I have a DAT (remember those?) master tape I put together of a KDKB's "Forum" show from June, 1977. It was originally given to me on cassetter by Mike Ferguson who operated a Flagstaff translator back in the day.

Anyway...this is a really interesting show..it was a roundtable of guests on the radio the day after Bill Compton passed away. This audio needs to be archived and shared!

Please let me know how I can pass it on to you for posting on the site.
Best wishes for a Happy New Year!
Eric
KC7ES
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Eric B. Schecter
San Diego, CA.

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DAN.. I have had a total crash and am sucking pickles. I am adding Eric to The List. Could you send him an invite?

Ronco

"Arizona Heat," the movie: How's your memory?

I was watching the "Arizona Heat" movie filmed on location in Phoenix and Scottsdale back in 1987, starring Michael Parks and Denise Crosby. I recognize a lot of the local scenes and some of the bar scenes, like the ones that were filmed at Warsaw Wally's and Mr. Lucky's. But there were a few places that I didn't recognize and thought maybe some KCAC/KDKB blogger might know since you all seem to have great memories. The places that were mentioned in the credits were the (1) Sands Resort Hotel, (2) Sylvester's Sizzling Catfish Restaurant and the Serendipity Cocktail Lounge. I assume these places are no longer around as I couldn't google any information on them, and hope that one of you readers might have some information of where they were, or what might be in those buildings now.

Anybody remember this movie being filmed here? There's a pretty exciting car chase in the desert somewhere. Some pretty funny dialog also I thought.

Terri, as you requested I'll pass this DVD on to you, the next time I see you.

IMPORTANT PROJECT: THE KCAC/KDKB TIMELINE!

IT'S ALL RELATIVE according to Albert and the truth is, the older I get - the more relative it becomes. Little by little I am losing it. We ALL are, we just don't notice at times.

I BELIEVE my arrival in Phoenix at the Sunnyslope house on Peoria (now a parking lot) was in the early summer of 1968. But it may have been 1969. I went to work at KOY in night news at about that time but honestly boys and girls, I am lost and becoming loster. Before I conjugate to lostED or lostEST, I need some feedback from those of you who were not so caught up in the quest for better drugs, food, clothing, shelter and sex at the time, that you actually remember WHEN it was and WHO and WHERE you were.

I figure if I can assemble some ACTUAL DATES within a week or two of the time they actually occured, I can donate the finished product and will also help Tom as he re-constructs whatever-the-hell it was that we did back then.


HERE ARE SOM KEY EVENTS ON THE TIMELINE
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(significant music mentioned as mile markers)

1. "Little Willie Sunshine is born and Bill Comton takes over KRUX underground from Ray Thomson.
"Beginnings" by Chicago
CCR Live Concert in Phoenix.

2. Family (Bill, Hank, Pegi, June & Ron) moves to Scottsdale house near Shea blvd."
"God is Alive, Magic is Afoot - Buffy St. Marie 1969
"The Great Mandella" - Theodore Bikel (1970) 1969 PROMO.
Space Cowboy - Steve Miller Band, JUNE 1969

3. Bill, Ray & Ron move to Starbright Ranch off 43rd Ave. in Laveen
"Gimme Shelter" - Stones
"Soft Parade" - Doors
4. Ron leaves Starbright, KCAC & etc. to go travelling.
"Abbey Road" - Beatles
"Ramble On" Led Zepplin IV

5. Bill Compton dies in auto accident - JUNE 21ST,1977 (?) LIGHTNING BOLT CAUSES 24-HOUR BLACKOUT IN N.Y.C.

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You get the idea. The experiences and the music grouped together create the actual timeline.

HELP US FILL IN THE BLANKS! as you REMEMBER THEM as accurately as you can, attest to WITH DATES as nearly as you can, please email me at

freespeak@gmail.com

I will share yor message with Tom and others working on these archives. I will also assemble the EVENTS along with the DATES right here on this posting and then update it like "The List" for not only Tom to refer to, but everyone else as well. You'll be amazed what you remember, just reading someon else's version.

YOU WILL BE QUOTED AS THE SOURCE for your memory so be prepared for arguments from those of us who were hallucinating!

WHO AND WHERE WERE YOU in 1968 - 1977?

Ronco

Call for Photos!

OK, everybody, while I deal with the latest batch of KCAC tapes, here's what I'd like you to do: go through your closets, attics, basements, garages, cabinets, desks, scrapbooks, whatever and FIND STILL PHOTOS (or home movies) of the old KCAC/KDKB staff! Photos taken "on the job" (at the studios or at public events) would be best, but any photos related to the radio stations and their staffs would be helpful. Provenienced photos (i.e., labeled in some way to identify what the photo shows, who took it, where, and when) are especially valuable. Anybody know if professional-quality photos taken for newspaper/magazine articles, press releases, etc. still exist? What about the original negative (or a good-quality print) of the famous "group" photo posted on the blog?

I'm not necessarily asking you to send me any photos at this time (although digital scans would be welcome); just search for photos, and let me know via email (tomwright666@yahoo.com) or on the blog what you've come up with. The photos will ultimately be archived along with the tapes and whatever else we can come up with. Our goal is to use this archive to write a book-length account of alternative radio and the counterculture in the Phoenix area in the late 60s/early 70s. One friend of mine even suggests approaching KAET (Channel 8) to see if they could use this material for a half-hour or hour-long documentary, centered around the dramatic 4th of July tape and (if they can be found) the 1974 videotapes of Bill Compton. (Channel 8 has done a number of other films about various aspects of Arizona history and culture, so why not give it a try?)

We're gaining momentum on this project, so now is the time to search your personal archives and see what you can contribute to the effort. I'm also hoping to send out an online questionnaire sometime soon, since individual or group interviews are tough (if not logistically impossible) to arrange. This would be a good way get everybody's input. So keep checking the blog and stay in touch!

Tom

Tape Cache

Holy shit. Hole Lee Shit! Last night I was handed a box containing 23 reel-to-reel tapes of KCAC (and maybe some early KDKB) broadcasts. I haven't had time yet to thoroughly examine them; in fact I only listened to a few minutes each of 4 tapes, but they appear to be mostly KCAC, and mostly talk and public affairs programming (not much music). Some of the tapes are in great condition, others are water-damaged and moldy, some are on broken or warped reels, and one is a hideous spaghetti tangle that will take a whole lotta love to salvage. The moldy ones (at least 5 of the 23) may need professional cleaning and restoration, and the spaghetti tangle may have to be sliced-and-diced by someone with good tape editing skills. Also, all but one of the tapes I've sampled so far were recorded at 1.75 IPS (or whatever the slowest speed on reel-to-reel tape decks was in those days). My tape deck only goes down to 3.75 IPS so most of what I heard was Alvin & the Chipmunks-style speeded-up gibberish, but even at that speed I could recognize Bill Compton's voice. We'll need to either find a machine that can play the tapes back at their correct speed, or use computer software that can do speed-correction (I'm told that such software exists, though I know nothing else about it).

I think all of the reels will be salvageable, but it's going to take some time and possibly some money for professional help. I'll check into this (there is at least one company here in Tempe that might be able to do tape restoration), but in the meantime, please contact me if you have the time, equipment, and expertise to help bring these ancient tapes back to life, or if you have any advice on how to do so. Best to contact me off-blog, at tomwright666@yahoo.com.

My heartfelt thanks to Jeff Crawford of Phoenix for hanging on to these tapes for so many years, recognizing their importance, and lending them to me for preservation and restoration. He runs a video production company and has a library of thousands of concerts and videos. Check out his website at www.bohemiavisualmusic.com.

I'll keep you posted via the blog.

All that Jazz (and all that Jazz) from Bob Rogers

Before KVIL and Bill and Hank and Pegi and Carole and KCAC - I was at WRR in Dallas playing a lot of Blues and Jazz. I was even a stringer for Downbeat Magazine and did a multitude of interviews with Cannonball and Nat Adderly, Roland Kirk, Lou Rawls, and etc. I even got to emcee shows by Louis Armstrong (who had the warmest smile and handshake, ever).

Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wlson and others were part of the scene and life would have been perfect except for the usual adjustments of life and spouses.

So, it is a great read, when you get a Crusaders Newsletter from an old friend like Bob Rogers.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Today's Editiion:

You Say You Want an Evolution
Bob Rogers

“I can’t stand conservatism in Jazz. That’s an absurd concept because if it’s not constantly changing, it’s not art. So a young player coming up today trying to sound like they’re from the 1920s or 1950s and pretending everything afterwards doesn’t exist is just being insincere and it will be apparent in the music. The other thing I don’t like is hearing a bunch of old people putting down younger musicians, claiming they don’t have “wisdom” or “seasoning” in their playing or some other such nonsense. Some people become better musicians with age, some become worse, but the one thing youth has is idealism and (hopefully) optimism. These attributes are priceless, and I’ll take a young player with energy and joy over a seasonal old bitter musician any day.”

Travis Shook
Cadence: the Review of Jazz & Blues: Creative Improvised Music
March 2006

I thought I heard
Buddy Bolden shout,
Open up that window
and let that bad air out.
Open up that window
and let that foul air out.

Yes, I thought I heard
Buddy Bolden say.

Jelly Roll Morton


The International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) meeting will convene its 34th annual convention in New York in a few days. In terms of the number of attendees, it is the world’s largest convocation of jazz advocates. It is also one of the very few “in-person” venues in existence for people engaged in the promulgation of jazz programming on the radio (another being the annual JazzWeek Summit). One of the upcoming IAJE panels is, “Jazz Radio In Crisis: Why That’s A Good Thing.”

As I write this I am sitting at home in North Carolina, listening to WFUV/New York’s Sunday night program, The Big Broadcast, where a 1920’s recording entitled, “Take Me To The Land of Jazz” is playing. Does that 1920s song sound archaic to me? Kind of, but maybe not so much.

I am listening on my computer, which I increasingly regard as my primary receiver. My choices are now global, soon to be easily portable to my car and to my pocket. I am forming a general awareness of what I consider my best choices for listening at any given time. For now, if it’s Sunday night and I’m at home writing and listening to the “radio,” it’s ‘FUV for me. At other times it’s other programs, but it’s always my station, whose programming I am constantly revising as I learn of other options that appeal to me. You are likely having some variation of the same experience.

Until recently I felt lucky to live in a market where there are two full-time jazz stations. That’s still nice but it’s less important than it used to be. What’s really important is to pay the broadband access bill. Now that I have global access and program choice, why should I settle for less? I am elated to have a radio station that is programmed by me, for me, one that can I can easily construct from a content bank of unprecedented range and scope. Life is good!

Music presentations served up in a half-assed manner used to deeply offend me. Luckily, I no longer have to put up with that. If I suspect that the program host doesn’t really know and love the music they present, or if I view them as mere functionaries of a station’s branding efforts, I’ll see you later. Good stations don’t exist in my world, only good programs. A station can put all the effort it wants into establishing its identity to me, but I may not even be aware of those efforts. Really, I’m just looking for good and unique programs with which to construct my own station - the listener as aggregator. That’s my reality.

Music programming in public radio has yielded broadcast hours to talk radio for each of the past several years; the trend continues. For those in jazz programming, that’s one aspect of the crisis (another being jazz radio’s apparent inability to garner a younger audience). It is quite obvious that the landscape is rapidly changing.

I’m happy about our situation in jazz radio because there is nothing so liberating as removing the dead weight of, “That’s how we do it.” It’s the spirit so refreshingly exemplified by the quotation above by jazz pianist Travis Shook (b. 1969). When I read Mr. Shook’s comments, I laughed out loud! When the young don’t occasionally tell the old how it is, there’s trouble afoot and we’re headed for the museum, as exhibits. Thankfully, that’s not yet the case; creative improvised music is very much alive. Respect is a two-way street; good for the old, good for the young. When it only runs one way it’s nothing but oppression and useless, dead weight. Jelly Roll Morton knew that.

Jazz radio has its problems but it also has its opportunities, many of which lie in new approaches to programming and having the whole world in which to apply them. I have very definite ideas about how to proceed from here. I also feel that my ideas are at least as good as anyone else’s (and a closely-held conviction that they’re considerably better). Perhaps you feel the same way about some of your ideas. In the brave new world of “the long tail,” maybe we’re both right! The possibilities make one whistle while one works. So, what’s not to celebrate?

Bob Rogers
2816 Barmettler Street
Raleigh, NC 27607
WSHA - www.wshafm.org
Bouille & Rogers Consultants
email: rwsfin@hotmail.com
phone: (919) 413-4126

Most popular first names

A few weeks ago I read in the paper where the most popular baby names for 2006 were Angel, Daniel, Anthony, Jacob and Jose for boys; and Mia, Emily, Isabella, Emma and Ashley for girls. After seeing the list of names posted below for the KCAC community, I was curious what the most popular names were for that "generation." In case you too are curious, the answer is as follows:

Males:
Bob/Robert (7)
Mike/Michael (7)
John (5)
Jim/Jimmy(4)
Ken (4)
Bill (4)

Females:
Sue/Susan (4)
Linda (3)
Marsha (2)
Julie (2)
Kathy (2)
Marsha (2)

Yes I know, a really dumb way to start the new year. So please, no "get a life" comments. :o)

▄▀▄▀▄▀▄ THE LIST ▄▀▄▀▄▀▄ 01/01/2007

To tune your computer to Radio Free Phoenix, click the headline above and OPEN the stream file when presented with options. Dial-up streams will be in mono on both channels.

"We are not gathered here to find a purpose - The Purpose has found us and gathered us together here."

"NEW FEATURE! Click here to email your party invitation or other communications to everyone on "The List" at the same time!"

~
Adams, Lynne
Alves, Jack
Apicella, John
Arizona Music Hall Of Fame
Arnold, Linda
Bailey, Jim
Baldwin, Mike
Baldwin, Russ
Beals,Ken
Bowen, Ray
Bell, Bob Boze
Bennett, Fran
Bentley, Connie
Bethancourt, Joe
Botkin, Jim
Boyle, Liz AMEHOF Board
Bradychocks, Julie
Cahal, John (Rebirth) (private - contact vagabondvet)
Carroll, Todd
Carter, Marsha
Carver, Sue
Clark, Doug
Collins, Michael
Compton, Bill (Deceased)
Compton-Glenn, Carole
Cookenboo, Hank (Deceased)
Covington, Dan
Crazy (Jan Isbell)(Deceased)
Curry. Robert S.
Curtis, Mike
Davis, Marc (Terros)
DeGray, Helen
Deerhake, David
Dickinson, Ted
Dixon, John (Johnny D)
Drake George F. (Springfield, Mass?)
Dunn, Bob
Emery, Vince
English, Alton
English, Jerry "Magic"
Fenimore, David
Flannigan, Julie
Fleming, Mariah AMEHOF Secretary/Treasurer
Frank, Bruce (Rebirth)
Frank, Raman (Rebirth)
Frank, Gregg (Rebirth - Contact Bruce Frank)
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, Ron (Eric) 'Pappa'
Harris, Sue Fenner
Harshberger, Dan
Herbert, Kimmer
Holmes, Chuck
Hoyle, Rich
Johnson, Don
Johnson, June
Johnson, Mike (Rebirth)
Jones, Scott
Kerr, Jon
Kinsey, Gary "Toad Hall" (Deceased)
Kinsey, Filipa
Kitchell, Nancy
Kollassa, Mike
Koors, Tim
Kothrade, Michael (Rebirth)
Lange, Patrick
Lederman, Cindy
Lehr, Bob
Magahern, Jimmy
Manning, Marty
Martin, Peter
McBroom, Dennis
McCarty, Chris
McCarty, Steve
Meighan, Bob
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 "vagabondvet" (Rebirth)
Peterson, Linda (Rebirth)
Peterson, Marsha
Porter, Sharon Elaine
Powell, Lee
Price, Bill
Pyle, Slagge T.
Radina, Kathy
Rameesh
Robb, Gary (Deceased)
Robertson, John (Crazy John)
Robinson, Duane (Rebirth)
Rogers, Bob
Rogers, Rich
Roland. Ed
Schneider, Sue
Shaw, Russell "Wonderful Russ"
Schecter, Eric
Skaggs, Ken - AMEHOF Vice President
Slagle, Bonnie
Smith, Doug
Smith, Erica
Soderquist, George (Deceased)
Soderquist, Skio
Stratton, Ted
Sussman, Terri AMEHOF President
Sweet, Cheryl
Thomson, Betty
Thomson, Ray
Thompson, Linda
Thrift, Bill (Terros)
Tindle, Dwight(Deceased)
Usry, Kent
Vascocu, Tommy
Wakefield, Ken
Wales, Lissa (Deceased)
Webb, Kevin "Do It Now" (Deceased)
Whitener, Kasey
Wortham, Ron
Wright, Tom
Zelisko, Dan

Please leave a comment to this post to have information added, updated, edited or deleted. Clicking hyperlinked (underlined) names will launch an email to that person.
Have a great day!

If you are an anonymous poster or reader and would like to be added to The List, please drop a line to freespeak@gmail.com or anyone contributing to KCAC Lives! to be added. The List has become a reference point for memories and emails to old friends. It also has become kind of a Social Register and will be something of a reference list for reunions and such in the future. Not only that, SOMEONE - maybe someone special from the old days, MAY be trying to find YOU.

So... let us know who you are, where your memories or interests tie in and what your email address is. Get on the bus. We don't know where its going and it may NEVER leave but the music is great and the people are fun!

NOSTRADAMUS PREDICTS: TSMBATHTF

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When Facism comes to America,
it will come wrapped in the flag
and carrying a cross.

-Sinclair lewis
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Hi boys and girls. My immune system and I have lost a real recent battle. As I watched James Brown, Gerald Ford and others rejoin the spiritual world, my body has been under attack. First, with God-knows-what that taught me how to get from anywhere in the hoise to the bathroom in less than ten seconds. to now, a New Year's Cold that makes me aware I am quite capable of killing.

Since no one has posted anything here recently, I decided to go "off topic" (forgive me, Tom) and offer a Heads Up to Ye Innocent Surfers mired down in the BLOG world. Regard this as purely for entertainment purposes.

TSMBATHTF is a convenient abbreviation similar to TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) and means; The The Shit May Be About To Hit The Fan. I have reason to believe that Nostradamus' predctions relating to a mysterious MABBUS or more accurately (in the French) MABBAS may mean SADDAM spelled backwards - or more accurately a MIRROR image of the spelling. eg; Mabbas.

This allows for several hundred years of time warps, trance confusions and a bit of psychic dislexia. After all Nossie apparently confused the swastika as an "S" and came up with the name "Hister" for Hitler. But... from several hundred years distanc and the necessity of hiding the predictions within quatrains (so he would not be barbecued by the church), Nossie done good!

ENTER THE DAVINCI CODE. Great flick if you like such things, especially the mirror-imaged verses. Why this matters is that when Nossie saw his visions, it was often in a flat, polished stone or bowl of water......... a MIRROR image.

Write down Saddam on a piece of paper. Hold it up to a mirror. What does it spell? mabbaS.

READ THESE QUATRAINS:

Century 2, Quatrain 62
Mabus will soon die, then will come,
A horrible undoing of people and animals,
At once one will see vengeance,
One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

COMET INFO: http://cyberspaceorbit.com/ OR just click the headline above

Now look at this Quatrain that came to pass about HITLER:

Hitler Quatrain

Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers,
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.
Into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn,
When the child of Germany observes nothing.

Notice he spelled Hitler's name Hister, close enough and it says he rises in Germany, and thats true also.

Portions of the above borrowed from other websites.

OBSERATION: Most of Nostadamus' most notable prophecies are relevant to the eastern hemispere - particularly Europe and especially France.Ronco

More KCAC tapes?

Hope everyone had a Merry/Bah Humbug Christmas (choose one) and has a great New Year. I'm currently pursuing a lead for a significant number of "new" KCAC tapes, and for the videotapes of Bill Compton hosting the music show "Profile" on Channel 8 in 1974. I'll keep you all posted.

Tom

BAH! HUMBUG! (HO, HO, HO.)

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Coming TONIGHT this Christmas Eve at 6 pm on Radio Free Phoenix, our gift to you.....

Andy Olson's "Rock 'N' Roll Christmas!"


This Christmas Eve on Radio Free Phoenix join us for "A Rock 'N' Roll Christmas". From 6:00 p.m. Christmas Eve through Christmas day at 6:00 p.m. (MST). We will be playing an incredible deep and outrageous mix of Rock N Roll Christmas Tunes. Hosted by Andy Olson, there is no other show in the country that gathers together such a smorgasbord of absolutely cool Christmas Rock & Roll. No Elmo & Patsy, Bing or Perry Como here, just top flight Christmas Rock mixed with a generous helping of parody & novelty holiday tunes along with great background information on the artists and songs. Since 1988 this show has been gracing the Phoenix Airwaves and now makes the jump to the internet. Here's a sample list of some of the artists you'll hear on this excellent Christmas show this Christmas Eve at 6:00 p.m. only here on Radio Free Phoenix This years show can be also heard on The Point, 99.1 FM and 1630 AM in Queen Creek.

Look forward to an incredibility deep selection of Christmas rock and parody tunes! Below is just a sample of some of the artist that will be played on the show:


Queen - Jackson Browne - U2 - Adam Sandler - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Eagles - Pretenders - Eric Clapton - Dance Hall Crashers - Dan Hicks - Sting - Jimi Hendrix - Smithereens - Blues Traveler - George Thorogood - Cheech & Chong - Old 97's - Fountains of Wayne - Ramones - George Harrison - Dave Edmunds - Billy Squire - Band Aid - Graham Parker - Heart - Payolas - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - XTC - Jerry Jeff Walker - John Lennon - Waitresses - Moody Blues - Jethro Tull - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - REM - Monty Python - Ringo Starr - Kinks - Ryan Adams - Elton John - DB's - Paul McCartney - Bruce Springsteen - NRBQ - Joni Mitchell - Barenaked Ladies - T Rex - Adrian Belew - Leon Russell - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Max Headroom - Weird Al Yankovic - Ramones - Bob Rivers - Shawn Phillips - Coldplay - Crash Test Dummies - Slade - Mike Condello - Leon Redbone - Tom Waits - Peter Murphy - Alice Cooper - Bobby Lloyd & The Skeletons - Roy Wood - Mojo Nixon - Johnny & Edger Winter - Smoking Popes - Talking Meds - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Smoking Popes - Andrew Gold - Keb' Mo - Riders In The Sky- The Band - Michael Penn - Ren & Stimpy - Loudon Wainwright III - Jorma Kaukonen - Chris Rea and hundreds more!
Merry Christmas from RADIO FREE PHOENIX!

Why We Fight...

For thous of you that got the time, curiosity or the stomach for a very revealing look at Amerika'S military industrial complex... that Eisenhower warned us about... check this video documentary out... review below.
link- http://www.bruceeisner.com/new_culture/2006/12/the_rise_of_the.html

Why We Fight...

"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience,", December 8, 2006

Thought-provoking, terrifying and all the time maddening this compelling documentary attempts to explain the United States' reasons for promoting the "military-industrial complex," the synergy that has inevitably arisen between the military and big munitions businesses.

But Why We Fight does so much more as it gradually unveils the furtive reasons why the country went to war with Iraq, tracing the roots of the conflict back to the period after World War 2 when America set about building up huge armaments, gradually becoming a "dragon that has to be fed."

America now has to drum up wars for propaganda purposes, to justify the think tanks that have set about trying to remake the world, for the military and the politicians so they can create jobs, and most importantly for money, to open capitalist markets in certain parts of the world.

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki opens his film with a stirring 1961 speech Dwight Eisenhower made as he was leaving the presidency, warning of the buildup of the military-industrial complex. "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience," Ike says. "We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications."

His comments have become somewhat prophetic. Gone are the noble reasons for going to war - to defend the world from Nazism and fascism as we did in World War 2 - to be replaced by the need to go into places like Iraq is not because of 9/11 or to protect freedom but because the economy of American military self-interest demands continual new fronts.

To further the argument, Jarecki interviews a number of people and Karen Kwiatkowski, a long-time Pentagon desk officer who quit her job because she was disturbed at the influx of nonmilitary neo-conservatives and the way the Bush Administration were twisting the truth about the reasons for going to war in Iraq.

There's also a touching interview with a retired New York Police with a retired policeman - and Vietnam vet - who initially supported the Iraqi invasion because he thought it was helping avenge the death of a son in the 9/11 attacks.

He put his trust in those authority figures - namely the President - and thought that going to war with someone was better than doing nothing, but his disillusionment with everything that has happened is indeed heartbreaking.

Other popular figures pop up such as archconservative Richard Perle, Sen. John McCain, and Gore Vidal who reflects on President Truman's use of the atomic bomb on Japan and talks of the "United States of Amnesia."

With America as the world's only superpower, turning toward using its might for power and intimidation, Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity contends there is an innate struggle between democracy and capitalism and the government's increasing obligation to corporations.

Is America really a benign force for good intent to spread democracy and "freedom" around the globe? Or is the country merely promoting a malignant form of economic Imperialism?

Jarecki effectively juxtaposes his interviews with stories of the war machine at work - he visits the factories where the bombs are being made and you get a sense of the high-tech military in action at work with his inclusion of the tense countdown to the start of the Iraq invasion.

Here he interviews the two Stealth fighter pilots who fired the opening shots of the conflict and who admit that they are just doing their job and whose high-tech precision-guided bombs actually failed to hit their intended target, accidentally killing innocent Iraqi women and children.

Why We Fight is never heavy-handed or overly polemic and it's not that partisan, with Jarecki cleverly laying out his arguments and in the process providing much food for thought. He also makes the convincing point that for the United States, war is undoubtedly lucrative and money-making, which is why you keep seeing it.

Mike Leonard December 06.

Happy Birthday Frank Zappa

Subject: zappaDate: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:49:34 -0700
It's the birthday of the singer, songwriter, and composer Frank Zappa, ( books by this author) born in Baltimore, Maryland (1940). When he was 15, he read a magazine article that described the work of the avant-garde classical composer Edgar Varese as "the ugliest music in the world," and he decided he had to hear it. That turned him into a huge fan of 20th-century classical music. He later said, " I didn't have any kind of musical training, so it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim ... or Stravinsky. To me, it was all good music."
Out of high school, Zappa supported himself as a greeting-card designer, window dresser, and encyclopedia salesman. At night, he played with various bar bands, and he began experimenting with playing atonal classical music on an electric guitar, backed by a rock-and-roll rhythm. He said his goal at the time was to make music that would cause people to run from the room the moment they heard it. Eventually, he formed the band that became known as the Mothers of Invention.
Their first album, Freak Out (1966), is generally regarded as the first concept album released by a rock group, and it was also the first rock album to satirize rock and roll music itself. It included songs such as "Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder," and "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here." Other hits of his include "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow," and "Valley Girls," and he is also known for composing wildly avant-garde music, mixing jazz and blues with sound collages and tape manipulations.
Zappa once said that he first fell in love with music as a kid after he had a kind of religious experience at his grandmother's funeral. He said, "The choir was singing, and I could see from the way that the candle flames were wavering that they were responding to the sound waves coming from the choir. That was when I realized that sound, music, had a physical presence and that it could move the air around. ... [I realized that] music is, literally, a recipe for sculpted air."
Bruce Frank

A Great Little Song...

Hi!

What a gas... John Robertson, up on Orcas Island, just sent me this tune by Greg Tamblyn - A Brief History of God, or G-String Theory. Check it out!

:~)aniel

Final FBI files on John Lennon, released. CLICK HERE

RFP-Arizona Music Showcase

I didn't live in Arizona back in the KCAC/early KDKB days, but I do enjoy reading this blog and also reading about the Valley music back in those early days. So for some unknown reason, I thought I would post a comment on this blog. The last two weekends I've been listening to Andy Olson on Radio Free Phoenix (RFP); Andy's introduced a new segment for December, called the "Arizona Music Showcase." During this program, Andy talks with Arizona musicians from the past and present, and it's been one of the more interesting formats I've listened to on RFP. The first week Andy talked with Frank Fafara who was a popular Phoenix singer/songwriter in the early '60's. You can read more about Frank at http://cdbaby.com/cd/frankfafara. Plus you can still listen to that program (or download) at RFP (and scroll to bottom), or by clicking on the above title. Photos of the '60's Frank, and today's Frank available at these sites.

This past weekend, Andy interviewed Jeff Hollie, see above photo from 2005 McDowell Mountain Music Festival (MMMF), who plays saxophone with the Jerry Riopelle band. You may have recently seen Jeff at the Jerry Riopelle 2005 New Years show at the Celebrity Theatre, or with the Jerry Riopelle band at the 2005 MMMF ). Jeff has been living in the Netherlands for the past 10 years or so. Andy Olson played songs from the many bands that Jeff has been in, plus a Frank Zappa song that Jeff also performed on. The most interesting song to me was the "Belly of the Whale" song Jeff did with the Burning Sensations (an LA band) in 1983. If anyone is interested, they can view a video of this song on YouTube at Belly of the Whale. You will catch only a glimpse of Jeff in this video playing the saxophone, but it's a great song, check it out.

On December 23/24, Andy will have The Earps as his guest; and on December 30/31 Jerry Riopelle will be the guest.

▄▄▄▄▄▄ THE LIST ▄▄▄▄▄▄ 12/17/2006

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Adams, Lynne
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Arizona Music Hall Of Fame
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Baldwin, Mike
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Bennett, Fran
Bentley, Connie
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Carver, Sue
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Covington, Dan
Crazy (Jan Isbell)(Deceased)
Curry. Robert S.
Curtis, Mike
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DeGray, Helen
Deerhake, David
Dickinson, Ted
Dixon, John (Johnny D)
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So... let us know who you are, where your memories or interests tie in and what your email address is. Get on the bus. We don't know where its going and it may NEVER leave but the music is great and the people are fun!

Dreamin of You Now!...

Well, well and well… [deep subject]
Yes… I have recordings… it is about the music… [but we do look marvalous... right? LOL] and having played in many bars and many cover bands since the 60’s, I’ve devoted myself more, lately, to song writing and a home studio to record in. Dreaming of You Now is a song we would get a lot of requests for and has a lot of meaning for me… as most my songs do, as if they are your kids or part of your soul, so its hard for me to be objective.
Dreaming of You Now was written with intent… my intent to combine my study of metaphysics… with my knowledge of physics and my love of music… in itself and as a vehicle.
Einstein said ‘and event in time and space has effect from when it is perceived… ‘ even further… does not exist till it is perceived… Many people can perceive an event [the recording] as happening now [as you listen to it] from various and different places in time and space… and all partisipate in that one event AS IT HAPPENS, in a past time and space.., kinda like a time bridge. Consider the recording in the studio an event… to be perceived by many people later when they listen to it… even though separated by years and miles… they all are pertisipating in that one event… all at the same time and place… as it is recorded… every one can partisipate in one event all together at the same time and place even though separated by time and space. Well ? you play with that as you read the first verse…. Sing to the future… and the future sings with you!
Here’s the link… http://www.myspace.com/brucefrank and the lyrics to

Dreamin of You Now!
These are some words that I used yesterday….
While I was dreamin of you here…
In a dream, I was dreamin with you now…
Its as real as us today…
Seems we always had the key…
To open every door
No need now to find the key…
Its loves old sweet song as before
You’re the way, were the door….

The words I want… seem to come so dam hard…
So many words… get in the way…
In my mind… yes I do love you…
But that’s so easy just to say…
The meanings in the way we live…
Each and every day…
The little things we say and do…
For the… ones we pass on the way…
Give your love every day…

The way I live… now I live, now for you…
The ways I died… set me free
The song I sing… now I sing now to see…
Through the night to the light… where we can be…
My plans and dreams may have brought you down…
May have helped you see…
Loves the highest dream I’ve found…
It’s the dream to set us all free…
Take us home… give us the key…


‘Perfect Situation’ on that same page, is done with Tina Hall… [ a song we both got off on! ] and John Mollina... its another song with good meaning and intent for the future. Both songs are events… live, home recordings… everyone playing together, at once… with little or no over dubbing or sweetener [Some lead guitar and vocal was over dubbed on Dreamin of You Now]
Jim Glass should get some kind of metal!!! What a trooper to say the least… I think he’s playing with at least 2 or 3 different bands as the need and opportunity arise… he’s always been ready to play. That may be how we got together… someone said… Hey! Got a gig for Friday, wanta play? Yea cool we can do this… I know a good drummer! I remember one New Years Eve gig we played together… and , he got offered another gig for the same night… [New Years Eve is a good night for working musicians] he took it… threw some more musicians together and someone to fill for him while he was between gigs…. And it worked … and we worked… good payday to for New Years too. No wonder when musicians WORK… everyone says they’re PLAYING…. And we were… both
More recently, but before his heart surgery and bypass, I went along with him to his gig and he could hardly carry his amp in… he was that weak, that he could only carry it a little way before being totally exousted… He still played his heart out all night… not even taking a break for the first 2 or 3 hours.
Good guy and lord knows he has the right to sing the blues… I’ll forward to him and see if he can speak for himself on the blog… I was just tryin to give him a little plug… that’s what brothers do.
Jim… check this link out… people are talking about you! LOL! http://kcaclives.blogspot.com/
Lowell…howdy bro… the one in the pic that somewhat looks like John Ritter, is John Molline, quite a good drummer and singer who happened to grow up in a small Illinois home town with some guys from Cheap Trick. I think our band was SOS… anyway its not to suprising we got a lot of music lover on this blog and I’m sure glad to see people following and supporting local musicians.
Love Ya’ll
Bruce Frank
PS... that song 'Dreamin of You Now' has a diferent meaning the second time you partisipate in it...

Jim Glass at Coopers Town

SOS.. Tina Hall, Bruce Frank, Jim and John

Jim Glass

Yo Mariah....
Quite in interresting chain... glad i mentioned the Air Force Jackets... I also played in a few bands with Jim Glass... and Tommy Dukes... mostly when we both lived in Flagstaff, He still working with Tommy too and stays in touch. Heres a recent pic of Jim at Coopers town.
Bruce Frank

PS Here also is a pic i found of a previous band... with me and Tina Hall... SOS

Back from Have-A-Zoo

Hi all, I'm just back from 5 days of working near Lake Havasu City (Saturday thru Wednesday), and that's in addition to putting in a full week previous to that. So I'm too tired to do anything right now but tell Mariah no, sorry, I don't have the Dirty Pearl interview tape, but I'll let you know if it turns up. Everyone else, keep enjoying the KCAC tape and digging through your closets and such to come up with more. Talk to you again after I sleep for about 3 days.

Tom

KCAC Airforce Jacket

Happy Holidays Everybody...
hope the season finds you all in good health and high spirits. I have in my possession... a shiny, like new, black and gold KCAC Air Force jacket.... my younger sister Debbie bought it way back then... [KCAC merchandise] and donated it just now... upon learning about efforts toward establishing a KCAC archive... should a place become avalible for display, or someone involved, to that end, would like take care of it till such time... let me know.
HO HO HO...
[back when i worked for the 'Beat'...
that was a 3 girl special!]
Love and Laughter to Ya's
Bruce

The KCAC Archives: Where Were You When You Were Listening Then?

It's 5:30am, and I have yet to hit the pillow. Oh, I know I'll wind bleary eyed through my day, but my spirit will be wide awake! And I'm stuck on wondering what goes through other’s minds when they listen to these wonderful time capsules? Where were you? What do you remember about that time? Do you remember what you were doing when you when you heard 'that' song, or some commentary by Bill or to one of those Marty produced commercial gems?

Tell me, are you transformed by it all too?

I couldn't think of one good reason why I should have gone to sleep when I could listen all night to amazing music and exchanges like the one from Marty's funny, off the cuff remote at the Bootlegger! It all floods me with 'sense memories'. Yep, those voices create memories that transport me back to a time when we were made of hope, quick witted intelligence and unabashed individuality...not to mention occasional fits of giggles in between peaceful demonstrations and 'love ins' at the park. Listening to these treasured tapes sure beats the "mad, mad, mad, mad world" dreams that sometimes stomp around in my brain as I sleep.

So there I am, thirty six years ago, sitting on the floor in my little old house with my Siamese cat sleeping on my lap, purring like the motor of the world, listening with me. My hair's in those braids friends said me made me look like Leigh French (the hippie dippie flower girl of Smother’s Brothers fame) That thick, rod straight, waist length mop of hair (forever gone!) that I wore like a badge of honor. “Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair, shinin’, gleamin’, clean ‘n flaxen, waxen…” Listening to these tapes I am once again powered by lightning bolts of hope and wonder; a bona fide catholic schoolgirl 'flower child' (talk about an oxymoron!) forever transformed.

It’s the little miracles that keep us sane. Thanks from the bottom of my heart (and from deep in my ears) for bringing these little miracles back to us. Just for a little while, we can go back in time, feel nothing but the good vibrations and pretend that nothing interfered with the bliss.

God is alive, and magic is still afoot.

New Compton tape

From Tom Wright: “Thanks to Patrick Lange, we now have a "new" (previously uncirculated) tape of Bill Compton on the air at KCAC on November 14, 1970. It's an hour long and it includes music ranging from Judy Collins to the Mothers of Invention, along with several live-in-the-studio songs from Michael Collins. There are also some vintage commercials, one of which has Marty doing a remote broadcast from a clothing store and engaging in some pretty funny back-and-forth banter with Bill in the studio. Thank you, Patrick; and the rest of you, keep digging through those closets, attics, and garages - I know there's more out there!”

Begin by listening to these iTunes Music Store-style 30 second samplers (except each is over 30 seconds).

Compton on a Saturday Afternoon
Just hearing the voice of Bill Compton saying, “Weasles Ripped My Flesh” – worth the click at any price:

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Marty and Willie
“What are you trying to do, Marty?”
“I’m playing with your mind.”
“No, that’s not it. Phil Motta sent you.”
“Yes, he did! How did you know? I just got in from Columbia.”
And so the union of coolness and commerce begins:

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Then, listen to the entire one-hour show by clicking here:

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You can also open the playlist (including “bonus tracks”) in a new window here, or stream the whole show to your usual MP3 player, or download the one-hour show. To download the show plus 12 short “bonus tracks”, click here.

("That's a lot of stuff to remember, Marty. Listen, you better tell 'em when they get there.")

Gathering of the tribe?

There was some discussion a week or two ago about another gathering, presumably at the Alwun House, sometime during or just after the holiday season. Any news on that?

Also - I gave a copy of the "new" KCAC tape (November 14, 1970) to Jimmy Magahern, and he will try to make it available online as either streaming audio, a downloadble file, or both. Watch for it soon!

GOD IS A FOOT - MAGIC IS ALIVE - ALL TIME IS THE SAME

Wanna debate that? Yesterday I had a "Senior Moment" at Wal-Mart. Pay attention because you will soon be having these, too....

In the electronics section there was a new, shiny Christmas toy... a Karaoke version of Air Guitar, where you hold a plastic simulation of a guitar and then strum it..... and a MTV-type image plays on the screen in rhythm to your movements. Awesome, dude.

This tall 17 year-old kid was banging away on it, gyrating, acting out and really performing very well. So much so that a crowd was gathering to watch the show.

There I was in my handicapped electric cart with my grey beard and balding hair, teeth out, watching in awe at the show. Pretty soon I caught the eye of another man in his 40's with dark long hair and easily old enough to be the father of the kid with the MTV guitar. We both stared at each other in amusement of what we were experiencing. The kid was freaking out to Ozzy Osborne and Black Sabbath ca 1970.
I finally said [from two full generations in the future]; "They don't even know that was OUR music! From one full generation away the younger man and I cracked up laughing at how absurd even that statement was!

Just one senior moment from a day in the life.

Oh, one other...........

At the checkout there was a grandmotherly type running the register. A sweet, wrinkled lady with lightly red-tinted hair. The kind of person no one would suspect as being a serial killer.

"You don't have to say "Merry Christmas" I said. "Nowadays you can piss people off just by saying 'Ho, Ho, Ho!'".

She got it.

Ronco

MARS: VACATION PARADISE [Dedicated to Bill Compton]

Photo enhancement by "Stormin' Norman" Brydon - Surfing The Apocalypse, website.

Click the headline to be taken to the HIRISE website at the University of Arizona and a bunch of supposedly hi-res photos of the surface of Mars. No faces on Mars, sorry. Conspicuously, no ruined cities, no broken alien machinery or even seashells but heck, when you buy a postcard at the museum you don't get to see ALL the photos the photographer took.... right?

You CAN play with these images by zooming in, resizing and playing with the colorations - keeping in mind that the colors are only close guesses under weaker light and strange climate conditions. The image of "water" flowing into a "river" pictured above for instance MAY or MAY NOT have a green effect around it. Few melting glaciers on Earth, do either.

Google Earth has a new challenge.

Ronco

▄▄▄▄▄▄ THE LIST ▄▄▄▄▄▄ 12/03/2006

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Adams, Lynne
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Arizona Music Hall Of Fame
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Beals,Ken
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Bell, Bob Boze
Bennett, Fran
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OLD RADIO MEMORIES NEVER DIE..........

They just become relegated to a more important priority in the Collective Memory of Mankind.

I have been hanging on to this email from Ray Thomson for weeks, waiting for him to say it's OK to post it.

At the risk of stretching our friendship of..... 37 years, I am going to post it here to share with you. Ray is out of touch, probably doing something illegal somewhere. I know I would.

This story reeks of Magic, Serendipity, Deja' Vu and whatever it was that happened in late spring, 1969.

BACKGROUND: Ray was first a radio engineer, at KRUX. Bill Compton though credited with KRUX Underground, actually INHERITED the show from Raydeo Ray who had been leading Phoenix Youth astray for some time before Bill arrived.
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Ray writes:
Ron :

Your choice of Astral Weeks was "right on the money" :

A little bit of HisStory :

I was the first to play that album on Phoenix radio back when I started up the KRUX Underground program. Like Bill, I continued to play it over the years 'til the grooves ran out . Looking back, I too would have to say I played that album more than any other. (Van Morrison is a Virgo and once did a tune called Virgo Clowns). I eventually ended up with every album that Van ever did.

When Bill took over the Underground I gave him my copy as well as the rest of my stash so he could "hit the deck runnin' "

Don't know if Hank ever told you this story, but :

He and Bill were driving into Phx late on a Sunday nite (to check out the radio job situation) when they tuned into the Underground . Bill says to Hank, "That's the kind of radio I want to do". He went out to KRUX shortly thereafter and landed the afternoon gig. Part of his deal was that he got to do the Underground, so I gave him my record stash at the station and away he went, Bless his heart. When he discovered the Starbright, he set me up to get the avail cottage and so began our desert adventure only to be continued later at KDKB:

I had accepted the Engineer position at KRLD in Dallas and called Bill to say goodbye and he says, "you don't wanna go back to Texas, and neither do I . Come on over to KDKB and twist some wires " And the beat went on...

All the above info (and five dollars) will get you a beer at the airport. Your mention of Astral Weeks just sorta jogged the failing memory banks. Playing Little Wille Sunshine's collage as I write this.

My most vivid "Musical Event" that that remains with me to this day:

The Rolling Stones "Let it Bleed" album had just been released . It's early in the morn out at Starbrite and I have "Gimme Shelter" cranked up loud in the ole cottage, and I hear something sounding rather strange with my system. Turning the volume down to try and sort out the "echo sound", only to hear Bill's system next door cranked up to the max in perfect time synchronization on the same tune. It was like we both were tuned to same "Radio Station".Hearing Gimme Shelter stills takes me back to that morning.
And now Astral Weeks...

Raydeo

The rest of the story :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_Weeks
Or just click the headline.

KARMA & ECHOS

We have a tendency to colloquialize ourselves - often into obscurity. We as DJ's and Creative Outbursts, can get so concentrated on what we know and whar we are doing that we can often forget that there are OTHERS who are also having great ideas and doing creative things AT THE SAME TIME that we are.

Gods is alives.
Magics is afeet.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Radio Stories from Bob Rogers
Ronco


There's an article in this week's New Yorker (Dec. 4) profiling WBAI's Bob Fass, a very dear friend. He visited me for a couple of weeks when I did radio in Houston in the mid-70's. We co-hosted several programs on the Pacifica station there. When I visited New York I stayed with Fass (this was before I met Brian). He was usualy living illegally in some supposedly abandoned building in a desolate part of the East 20's or the lower East Side -- the kinds of places where the bathtub might be in the kitchen or something equally as odd. He'd (usually) have all the utilities hooked up in some jackleg fashion whereby services were rendered but no expenses
incurred, all the windows blacked out to cloak any evidence of occupancy. It was forbidden to enter or leave the building except in the quiet, preferably dark hours.

Shanti, his girlfriend, was a petite, vaguelly French-looking woman, sort of a gamin look, quiet, mysterious. She drove a cab, hair cut very short and her hat pulled down to just above her eyes. Most passengers never wondered if they were being driven by a man or a woman. Eight-five pounds of invulnerability.

When WBAI was in the church location described in the article, I used to go with Bob to do "Radio Unnamable." I was "his friend from Houston, another radio guy." He invited people to call and ask me questions or just to say hello. He would often have several conversations on the air at once. Often it was just people talking among themselves. His technical ineptitue exceeded even my own, which is to say it was bordering on life-threatening. He could somehow manage to get several concurrent conversations going on the air, but the interconnectivity was often pretty sketchy.

For example, one night he got the calls switched around so that a man in Queens was asking a woman in Brooklyn what life was like in Houston. And a man in the Bronx, who thought he was speaking to a well-known JFK assassination theorist in California, was asking me, "Okay, so who killed Kennedy?" Not seeing how things could get any more mixed up but willing to do my part, "The Beatles," I replied, "They did it. I'll send you a very detailed book that explains everything. Gu-bye!" I looked over at Fass. He was reading some album liner notes, seemingly oblivious to what was going out over the air. I never mentioned it to him, but I was profoundly impressed.

Later I thought about how strange it was that the only NY DJs I knew were Bob Fass and Mort Fega. After that, I always thought of them both as my radio fathers.

Bob Rogers
WSHA - www.wshafm.org
Bouille & Rogers Consultants
email: rwsfin@hotmail.com


PT II
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Ron,

I sent that story to Barry Everitt in London, like myself, another KDKB/KSML veteteran. Barry and I were roommates in Lake Tahoe and again in San Francisco, where we both worked for Earth News. Anyway, he sent back this recollection. We've stayed in pretty close contact and I attended his wedding last spring in Llano, Texas.

***

Hi Bob, please mail me a cutting of the New Yorker article......your writings managed to get me memory working as to that amazing experience I had with Larry.

speak soon Barry
****

In 1971 I was working on the then new NBC station WPLJ-fm, my mentor, Larry Yurdin introduced me to Bob Fass and my world changed.

I was a young independent free form radical dj, coming from Radio Geronimo,a London based 'progressive' free form commercial free hippy, drug induced, anti-draft, White Panther loving, MC5 playing station that broadcasted from Prince Rainier's station in Monte-Carlo, backed by Jimmy Miller and Tony Secunda. www.radiogeronimo.co.uk

Arriving for the first time in New York, walking into the NBC studios to be greeted by Larry and the team was to say the least, a tad mind blowing. The corporate blanket was being allowed to be 'free formed' by this bunch of crazy dj's that Larry had brought together, it of course was not going to last for long but fun was had whilst the moment lasted.

Larry turned me on to WBAI, I was spell bound by Bob's all night show and one night Larry dropped me off at the WBAI studios and left me with Bob for the duration of his show. What happened that night opened my mind to what cool, free form radio was all about, I'd never worked 'live' radio and his methods or lack of them, in bringing his audience into the show taught me a lot, his honesty, his weirdness, his open mind showed me what it was to broadcast 'real' radio.

This experience helped me a lot when I joined another of Larry Yurdin's gatherings of radio crazy's on KSML in Lake Tahoe a few years later.

Barry is The Music Rhino
www.myspace.com/barryrhino
playing the greatest of Americana Music
every Saturday night at Midnight
on Total Rock Radio
www.totalrock.com

Hans Olson: Stronger Than The Devil

There's a new and promising Arizona video project called “AZ You Like It” that Stephen Michael Barnes and Uriel Jeremiah of Cinesilencia have been working on. As part of their project, they have produced a video documentary about Hans Olson. The new video documentary is part of a special TV project they are working on.

From the Producers: "Hans Olson: Stronger Than The Devil" is in high-definition format featuring local blues artist Hans Olson. It is presented here, as a sample of a proposed series of video documentaries called ‘AZ You Like It.’ The series will feature residents of Arizona who come from all walks of life. These individuals all share one common characteristic - passion. They each possess a love, a desire or a vision that drives them to perform and express themselves in remarkable ways. The series will showcase persons engaged in activities that are life affirming and which ultimately uphold a sense of community."

Lowell Hollars sent me the info about Olson's documentary. In Lowell's words: "I saw a great 25 minute documentary about Hans Olson on You Tube. It's 25 minutes long but well worth watching. The documentary was done in 2006. You may recognize that some of the musical scenes were filmed at Pranksters Too in Scottsdale. Stephen Michael Barnes and Uriel Jeremiah of Cinesilencia produced the video with Hans Olson. It's part of a special TV project they are working on. Cinesilencia uploaded the video to You Tube; Hans is aware that the documentary is on You Tube; I've talked with him about it."

Since Hans rarely toots his own horn his friends need to do it for him, and Lowell thought the KCAC blog might like to post it. Absolutely! Lowell says there are other Hans Olson videos on You Tube dating back to 1985. To view them on You Tube, just go to You Tube and type in a search for 'Hans Olson'

To view "Hans Olson: Stronger than the Devil"on You Tube here's the URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLzA_ivOftE&NR

Thanks for the heads up, Lowell. And bravo to the "Az You Like It" fellas!