Well, the Tonight Show question was answered by the scads of responses I got on my other web page. Score one for the Tonight Show! Every response about them was positive! Good to know! Now lets encourage them to have more songwriters like Bright Eyes on to perform 'controversial' music. Richard Thompson's new one "Dad's Gonna Kill Me" is an outstanding example of great music that needs to be heard.
Did Neil Young ever do his anti Iraq song on any late night show? Anyone know of any performers who have done controversial songs on tv? Or for that matter, of any that are heard anywhere except on internet radio?
It would be interesting to keep track of how the climate is changing politically. People are speaking out a lot more now on the news. Maybe it will spill over into the entertainment area of tv and radio? Lets face it, the news is not very damned entertaining no matter how hard they try to make it so.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Monday, July 09, 2007
Latest KCAC Tape News
I finally got the hardware and the software to deal with the tapes Jeff and Jennifer Crawford provided to me earlier this year. Many thanks to Andy Olson for the technical advice! Anyway, I experimented yesterday by grabbing a random tape (from the box of 20-or-so that were provided by the Crawfords), setting up the gadgetry, and seeing what might happen.
The first hour or so of this particular side of this particular tape is mostly public-affairs programming with Bill Compton interviewing peace activists and so forth. But then, lo and behold, the tape also contains BILL COMPTON'S FAREWELL ON KCAC'S LAST DAY OF BROADCAST, AUGUST 14, 1971! This has been a sort of Holy Grail for me, as I remember that broadcast very well but nobody seemed to have recorded it. Well, it turns out that somebody did! Bill talks in very personal terms about what KCAC tried to do, and what it meant to him. Here (in condensed form) is some of what he says:
It's sort of been my wife and my enemy and everything all rolled into one... it's been something that meant a lot to me and something I felt strongly about. I've kind of grown to regard the station as a person rather than a lot of machinery lying around, because it has definitely had a mind of its own throughout the years. In fact, if the old radio station can do something besides broadcast, it can receive a little bit, too.
Then he plays the farewell set of music that has been burned into my brain these last 36 years, even if there was no tape to play it back: "Dear Mary" by the Steve Miller Band, "Slim Slow Slider" by Van Morrison, "Restless Farewell" by Bob Dylan, "A Very Cellular Song" by the Incredible String Band, and finally "Bookends" by Simon and Garfunkle with its very last line: preserve your memories, they're all that's left you. Then it was 7:15 PM, sign-off time, so the music faded into silence, and KCAC was history.
Magic. Pure magic, showing Bill's genius at its brightest. It's a miracle that this tape exists at all, so Jeff and Jennifer Crawford, THANK YOU for preserving it and making it available to the KCAC Lives! community.
I haven't even listened to this side of this particular tape in its entirely (it's 3 hours long) so God only knows what other treasures are on it, or on any of the other 20 or so tapes from the Crawford Collection. Jeff says they were recorded by his friend Lawrence Richardson, and by Lawrence's sister. Lawrence gave the tapes to Jeff in 1983, but his whereabouts are currently unknown, so we can't find out anything more about the tapes except by listening.
(Incidentally, if each of the 20 or so tapes runs 3 hours per side at the slow speed, that's 120 hours of KCAC! That may be too optimistic a prediction, but even if we cut it in half, that's 60 hours of historic Phoenix radio.)
The tapes are not state-of-the-art digital quality, to say the least. They were apparently recorded by placing a microphone in front of a radio speaker, and the tape deck was set to the lowest-fidelity recording speed possible (1 7/8 IPS). But, again, the miracle is that these tapes exist at all. They are perfectly listenable once your ears adjust to the rough sound. Most importantly, based on this one random sample, the tapes convey the essence of KCAC loud and clear. I'll consult with Andy Olson about the best way to clean up the audio and get the recordings preserved on disc in a format that can be made readily available to everyone. Rumor is that another KCAC gathering may happen in September, so hopefully I'll have a BUNCH of the tapes digitized by then. Watch the blog for more news as it develops.
Tom Wright
7/9/07
The first hour or so of this particular side of this particular tape is mostly public-affairs programming with Bill Compton interviewing peace activists and so forth. But then, lo and behold, the tape also contains BILL COMPTON'S FAREWELL ON KCAC'S LAST DAY OF BROADCAST, AUGUST 14, 1971! This has been a sort of Holy Grail for me, as I remember that broadcast very well but nobody seemed to have recorded it. Well, it turns out that somebody did! Bill talks in very personal terms about what KCAC tried to do, and what it meant to him. Here (in condensed form) is some of what he says:
It's sort of been my wife and my enemy and everything all rolled into one... it's been something that meant a lot to me and something I felt strongly about. I've kind of grown to regard the station as a person rather than a lot of machinery lying around, because it has definitely had a mind of its own throughout the years. In fact, if the old radio station can do something besides broadcast, it can receive a little bit, too.
Then he plays the farewell set of music that has been burned into my brain these last 36 years, even if there was no tape to play it back: "Dear Mary" by the Steve Miller Band, "Slim Slow Slider" by Van Morrison, "Restless Farewell" by Bob Dylan, "A Very Cellular Song" by the Incredible String Band, and finally "Bookends" by Simon and Garfunkle with its very last line: preserve your memories, they're all that's left you. Then it was 7:15 PM, sign-off time, so the music faded into silence, and KCAC was history.
Magic. Pure magic, showing Bill's genius at its brightest. It's a miracle that this tape exists at all, so Jeff and Jennifer Crawford, THANK YOU for preserving it and making it available to the KCAC Lives! community.
I haven't even listened to this side of this particular tape in its entirely (it's 3 hours long) so God only knows what other treasures are on it, or on any of the other 20 or so tapes from the Crawford Collection. Jeff says they were recorded by his friend Lawrence Richardson, and by Lawrence's sister. Lawrence gave the tapes to Jeff in 1983, but his whereabouts are currently unknown, so we can't find out anything more about the tapes except by listening.
(Incidentally, if each of the 20 or so tapes runs 3 hours per side at the slow speed, that's 120 hours of KCAC! That may be too optimistic a prediction, but even if we cut it in half, that's 60 hours of historic Phoenix radio.)
The tapes are not state-of-the-art digital quality, to say the least. They were apparently recorded by placing a microphone in front of a radio speaker, and the tape deck was set to the lowest-fidelity recording speed possible (1 7/8 IPS). But, again, the miracle is that these tapes exist at all. They are perfectly listenable once your ears adjust to the rough sound. Most importantly, based on this one random sample, the tapes convey the essence of KCAC loud and clear. I'll consult with Andy Olson about the best way to clean up the audio and get the recordings preserved on disc in a format that can be made readily available to everyone. Rumor is that another KCAC gathering may happen in September, so hopefully I'll have a BUNCH of the tapes digitized by then. Watch the blog for more news as it develops.
Tom Wright
7/9/07
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Live Earth today - tune in!
More than 100 artists are performing on 7 continents today to boost awareness of the climate crisis. The NBC stations are broadcasting parts of it all day, and Bravo is broadcasting 17 hours straight beginning at 9 this morning. In addition, you can hear it on XM Satellite radio (free through the AOL Radio player), and watch streaming video on MSN.com (http://liveearth.msn.com).
I was in Philadelphia at Live Aid back in the mid-80's, and this event reminds me of that, only bigger. There's something about tuning in to a live music event the world is sharing that's pretty energizing - tapping into that whole global consciousness thing. Be a part of it - right now!
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Our "Whoosh" Girl Needs A "Mega-Whoosh"
Poet Sharon Porter, old friend of the blog, wrote that her husband Ken is having unexpected open heart surgery on July 5th. She asked for prayers and good thoughts...passing it on to our community...I know we'll all be rooting for him. Godspeed, Sharon and Ken.
God is Alive, Magic is Afoot.
God is Alive, Magic is Afoot.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Radio Free Phoenix Radiothon in progress now!
Radio Free Phoenix needs your help now more then ever. As an all volunteer organization dedicated to remaining commercial free, we needs your support in the form of cash donations to help pay for the basic operating cost of the station. With the looming royalty rate increases from the RIAA and rising streaming cost, RFP is now hosting a 3 day Radiothon to draw attention to the cause. If RFP is something you don't want to see disappear, please donate to help keep this great music station on the air.
Click here to find out how.
http://radiofreephoenix.com/donation.html
Click here to find out how.
http://radiofreephoenix.com/donation.html
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Love Workshop ad 1974
I had already posted 3 other KDKB items from 1974 when I ran across this ad from Flash magazine, 1974, touting the Love Workshop comedy show from KDKB. Love Workshop was the second effort from Tod Carroll, who teamed with Barry Friedman to create Bunkhouse Capers featuring Buck & Barry. After Barry left, moving to L.A. to become a TV writer, Tod teamed up with Wonderful Russ for another exercise in tasteless excess .. which was of course very funny! Tod later became an editor for National Lampoon, working as a writer on National Lampoon Goes to the Movies. He also wrote Clean & Sober, starring Michael Keaton in 1988. Wonderful Russ will still sell your house in 30 days or less, or you can fire him.
KDKB Ad 1974
This is the first of 3 posts of KDKB items from some old Razz Revue & Flash magazines from 1974. I love the Captain Beefheart quote.Marty
Mr & Mrs Hall(!)
Toad Hall (Gary Kinsey) used to play a song for Phillipa every morning at 9am on KDKB. He got pretty flowery talking about her each morning, to the point where some beagn to doubt her existence (see photo caption)
Phillipa was indeed quite real, and they had 3 very real children (Ted came later)
I haven't seen Phillipa in quite a while, and last I heard the kids were living in San Diego, where they loved living with Gary when they were teenagers. Jerome taught himself to play guitar and one of my favorite memories is of him playing guitar while Gary sang at one of our Papago Park reunions. And not just any guitar .. it was Jack Alves' guitar! Thanks again to Tom Story, this is another photo from the Razz Revue "103 Irregular Arizonans" issue.
Marty
KDKB staff 1974
Recently I ran across photog Tom Story who passed on a couple of old Razz Revues, and 2 issues of Flash from 1974. The Razz issue "103 Irregular Arizonans" featured the staff of KDKB among those 103. Thought you might enjoy seeing it.Marty
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Dance to the music!
If you're ever in need of some good old school funk music, this blog features plenty of great downloads and instant streams. Here's the blogger's tribute to Sly & The Family Stone, featuring originals as well as some cool covers by everyone from Gladys Knight to Woody Herman to Brian Auger & the Trinity:
Stand!
Another good funk blog, with a sample:
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Andy Hersey: Somewhere Between God and Country
Tom Wright says:
KCAC/KDKB listeners will recall that one of Bill Compton’s favorite records was John Stewart’s California Bloodlines, with songs that expressed love and hope for America without mindless flag-waving or political posturing. It was a love based on the land and the people, and on the rich traditions of freedom, equality, and opportunity that reflected the best of what America had to offer. Amidst the anguish of Vietnam and the national doubts about what we stood for, John Stewart quietly reminded us of who we were and where we came from.
Andy Hersey, a real, honest-to-God working cowboy from southeastern Arizona, has just released his second CD, Between God and Country. It is not only the finest music to come out of Arizona in the last several years, it is also a worthy successor to California Bloodlines as a statement about America during troubled times. As the title suggests, faith is also addressed, but in terms outside of and completely beyond any religious dogma. "Somewhere between God and country, I am a patriot, I’m a believer," he sings. Not unlike John Stewart’s heartfelt "Oh mother country, I do love you."
Andy was born in Tucson 40 years ago and paid his dues as a cowboy on various ranches in southeast Arizona, including the beautiful and historic San Rafael Ranch (now a State Park). He played guitar and sang old cowboy and folk songs, just for fun, ever since he was a kid; then he started covering the likes of Robert Earl Keen and Kris Kristofferson; finally he started writing and performing his own songs. A serious injury a few years ago prompted him to retire from the more physically-demanding aspects of his work. He bought a few acres of land east of Sonoita, where he now boards horses and raises a few cows and chickens. His neighbor there (and one of Andy’s former employers) is Doc Clyne, father of Roger Clyne (former leader of the Refreshments, now of Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers). Doc introduced Andy to Roger, they formed a fast friendship, and Roger - blown away by Andy’s original songs - encouraged him to "go professional."
Andy’s first CD was Compañero Blanco, released independently in 2002. It’s a flat-out masterpiece. The title song describes his time on the San Rafael Ranch: the beauty of the land, the rewards of hard work, and the friendship that grew between Andy and Reuben Cebellos, the ranch foreman who spoke only Spanish and described the San Rafael as "occupied Mexico." This is strong, vivid, writing that says our common humanity and love of the land outshines the differences imposed by borders and fences and political rhetoric. There are several more cowboy-oriented songs on the album, along with a series of love-gone-wrong tunes that look back on failed relationships sometimes with regret, sometimes with bitterness, but often with humor. The music is a hybrid of country, rock, and folk - not a slick Nashville sound, or some market-driven fakery, but an honest, no-bullshit blend of American roots music with a strong Southwestern accent.
The new CD, Between God and Country, goes even farther. I’m tempted to just reprint the lyrics to the title song in their entirety here, but I won’t... I’ll just say it’s a meditation on those two topics, framed by a story about a blacksmith hammering out a new shoe for a lame horse, swearing that "by God she’ll walk away sound" as he looks up to the nearby Mustang Mountains, where he’s found a spirit that "brought me closer to God than a pulpit." All through the song are images of smoke and flame, sparks shooting out "like agave leaves" as the hammer strikes the red-hot iron, and a hand-forged cross hanging on the wall beneath the tin roof. Then there’s a final, spine-tingling line that fuses the themes and the imagery in a way that will leave you breathless (if you have ears, and a heart). As if that weren’t enough, the CD also contains another group of rueful lost-love songs, the rollicking "Mexican Moonshine" (co-written with Roger Clyne); a Marty Robbins-style western story with an Ennio Morricone-like arrangement ("Roughshod Range"), a stomping rocker ("Burning Georgia Down" [more fire imagery]), and a cheerful statement that he intends to go his own damn way - in life and in the music business - no matter what his critics might say ("Smile and Wave").
So there you have it: two self-released albums by a nearly-unknown singer-songwriter from the ranching country of southeastern Arizona. Both of them put most current, nationally-known artists’ work to shame.
Andy will be having a CD release party at the Last Exit in Tempe (southwestern corner of Southern and Priest) on Saturday, June 30th, around 10:30 P.M. Be there! Buy his CDs! He always puts on a fine show: all original music, all performed with energy and passion and total commitment, usually lasting 2 hours or more. Visit his website (www.andyhersey.com) for more information. He even has his new CD posted there as streaming audio so you can check it out for free.
Finally: no, I’m not his agent or publicist or any sort of a relative. I’m just someone who happened to see him at the Yucca Tap Room a few years ago and, after scraping myself off the ceiling, set out to spread the word about this major, home-grown, uniquely Arizona artist. I wouldn’t steer you wrong - this Sonoita rancher/singer/songwriter is our John Stewart, our Townes Van Zandt, our Guy Clark and John Prine and Robert Earl Keen. Yes, he’s really that good.
Tom
KCAC/KDKB listeners will recall that one of Bill Compton’s favorite records was John Stewart’s California Bloodlines, with songs that expressed love and hope for America without mindless flag-waving or political posturing. It was a love based on the land and the people, and on the rich traditions of freedom, equality, and opportunity that reflected the best of what America had to offer. Amidst the anguish of Vietnam and the national doubts about what we stood for, John Stewart quietly reminded us of who we were and where we came from.
Andy Hersey, a real, honest-to-God working cowboy from southeastern Arizona, has just released his second CD, Between God and Country. It is not only the finest music to come out of Arizona in the last several years, it is also a worthy successor to California Bloodlines as a statement about America during troubled times. As the title suggests, faith is also addressed, but in terms outside of and completely beyond any religious dogma. "Somewhere between God and country, I am a patriot, I’m a believer," he sings. Not unlike John Stewart’s heartfelt "Oh mother country, I do love you."
Andy was born in Tucson 40 years ago and paid his dues as a cowboy on various ranches in southeast Arizona, including the beautiful and historic San Rafael Ranch (now a State Park). He played guitar and sang old cowboy and folk songs, just for fun, ever since he was a kid; then he started covering the likes of Robert Earl Keen and Kris Kristofferson; finally he started writing and performing his own songs. A serious injury a few years ago prompted him to retire from the more physically-demanding aspects of his work. He bought a few acres of land east of Sonoita, where he now boards horses and raises a few cows and chickens. His neighbor there (and one of Andy’s former employers) is Doc Clyne, father of Roger Clyne (former leader of the Refreshments, now of Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers). Doc introduced Andy to Roger, they formed a fast friendship, and Roger - blown away by Andy’s original songs - encouraged him to "go professional."
Andy’s first CD was Compañero Blanco, released independently in 2002. It’s a flat-out masterpiece. The title song describes his time on the San Rafael Ranch: the beauty of the land, the rewards of hard work, and the friendship that grew between Andy and Reuben Cebellos, the ranch foreman who spoke only Spanish and described the San Rafael as "occupied Mexico." This is strong, vivid, writing that says our common humanity and love of the land outshines the differences imposed by borders and fences and political rhetoric. There are several more cowboy-oriented songs on the album, along with a series of love-gone-wrong tunes that look back on failed relationships sometimes with regret, sometimes with bitterness, but often with humor. The music is a hybrid of country, rock, and folk - not a slick Nashville sound, or some market-driven fakery, but an honest, no-bullshit blend of American roots music with a strong Southwestern accent.
The new CD, Between God and Country, goes even farther. I’m tempted to just reprint the lyrics to the title song in their entirety here, but I won’t... I’ll just say it’s a meditation on those two topics, framed by a story about a blacksmith hammering out a new shoe for a lame horse, swearing that "by God she’ll walk away sound" as he looks up to the nearby Mustang Mountains, where he’s found a spirit that "brought me closer to God than a pulpit." All through the song are images of smoke and flame, sparks shooting out "like agave leaves" as the hammer strikes the red-hot iron, and a hand-forged cross hanging on the wall beneath the tin roof. Then there’s a final, spine-tingling line that fuses the themes and the imagery in a way that will leave you breathless (if you have ears, and a heart). As if that weren’t enough, the CD also contains another group of rueful lost-love songs, the rollicking "Mexican Moonshine" (co-written with Roger Clyne); a Marty Robbins-style western story with an Ennio Morricone-like arrangement ("Roughshod Range"), a stomping rocker ("Burning Georgia Down" [more fire imagery]), and a cheerful statement that he intends to go his own damn way - in life and in the music business - no matter what his critics might say ("Smile and Wave").
So there you have it: two self-released albums by a nearly-unknown singer-songwriter from the ranching country of southeastern Arizona. Both of them put most current, nationally-known artists’ work to shame.
Andy will be having a CD release party at the Last Exit in Tempe (southwestern corner of Southern and Priest) on Saturday, June 30th, around 10:30 P.M. Be there! Buy his CDs! He always puts on a fine show: all original music, all performed with energy and passion and total commitment, usually lasting 2 hours or more. Visit his website (www.andyhersey.com) for more information. He even has his new CD posted there as streaming audio so you can check it out for free.
Finally: no, I’m not his agent or publicist or any sort of a relative. I’m just someone who happened to see him at the Yucca Tap Room a few years ago and, after scraping myself off the ceiling, set out to spread the word about this major, home-grown, uniquely Arizona artist. I wouldn’t steer you wrong - this Sonoita rancher/singer/songwriter is our John Stewart, our Townes Van Zandt, our Guy Clark and John Prine and Robert Earl Keen. Yes, he’s really that good.
Tom
Monday, June 11, 2007
Movie Alert!
A few months ago there was a flurry of blog postings about movies filmed in Arizona. An obscure, older Arizona film will be on TV this week:
Lust for Gold (1949) with Glenn Ford and Ida Lupino, searching for the Lost Dutchman Mine; filmed along the Apache Trail.
Watch for it on Turner Classic Movies (TCM, Channel 42 on Cox), very early Wednesday morning (3 to 4:30 A.M.). The time is rather inconvenient but that's why God made Tivo. Or VCR's, if you haven't made that technological leap yet.
Tom
Lust for Gold (1949) with Glenn Ford and Ida Lupino, searching for the Lost Dutchman Mine; filmed along the Apache Trail.
Watch for it on Turner Classic Movies (TCM, Channel 42 on Cox), very early Wednesday morning (3 to 4:30 A.M.). The time is rather inconvenient but that's why God made Tivo. Or VCR's, if you haven't made that technological leap yet.
Tom
Friday, June 08, 2007
NO REGRETS
COMES A TIME
When the applause is too polite.
When the words don't quite fit the song.
When you realize you will never really know the people you've been drinking with.
When the next Love or Life Experience calls out to you.
When you know you must empty yourself and make the space.
Even trees move as they grow.
And that as they say, is that.
Artist: Tom Rush
Song: No Regrets
I know your leavin's too long overdue
For far too long I've had nothin' new to show to you
Goodbye dry eyes I watched your plane
Fade off west of the moon
And it felt so strange to walk away alone
No regrets, no tears goodbye
Don't want you back, we'd only cry, again
Say goodbye, again
The hours that were yours, echo like empty rooms
The thoughts we used to share, I now keep alone
I woke last night and spoke to you,
not thinking you were gone
It felt so strange to lie awake, alone
No regrets, no tears goodbye
Don't want you back, we'd only cry, again
Say goodbye, again
Our friends have tried to turn my nights to day
Strange faces in your place can't keep the ghosts away
Just beyond the darkest hour, just behind the dawn
Still feels so strange to lead my life, alone
I've no regrets, no tears goodbye
Don't want you back, we'd only cry, again
Say goodbye, again
Monday, June 04, 2007
No Joke
Dear Friends, Allies and Associates
Sometimes there seems an awkward silence on the blog after postings… especially after some of my awkward written attempts at humor, which I do often… and find useful and effective sometimes in live situations…
It may be me but… it seems something gets lost in the ebb and flow when this stuff is written out and analyzed out of live context. Maybe it’s the nature of the medium, or the nature of the blogger…
I want to apologize to any and all of the people I respect so much on this blog if anyone was offended by any of my posting.
I don’t know if I’ll ever change and I already hate “political correctness” and “people doing the worst things for the best reasons”… but I fight for and respect you and your rights…
I do love you all…
Yours Truly
Bruce Frank
Saturday, June 02, 2007
About that Croc...
Damm... I cant even sign in...!!@*&%@@... OK! got it. My computer remembered the sigh-in!
What i meant to say was nice setup Tom... for your new computer, very adequate for music to the n'th degree... and video with it... my computer only half that, and I do studio sound on sound... up to 16 tracks plus playback while recording tracks with it... you got enough to rock! Hope all your fucks turn out well. I've been corrected on writing fuck on this blog... as in 'i can't fuckin wait! [for the future...] hear me now believe me later or your money back!
...anyway fuck has over 25 distinct meanings and uses... making it hard to write with such a big part of my vocabulary missing... Oh the trials!
About that crocodile though... sounds easer than "drinking a quart of whiskey, fucking an Eskimo and wrestling a bear" which is another path I've heard of!... [don't drink the whiskey first!] but thats another story and another path!
There are many paths and many secret organizations that illuminate you by degrees, till finally, you get to hear the innermost secret of enlightenment... to be illuminated!
...one such man after many years of hard work, study and advancement...
reached the highest degree of learning and in an elaborate ceremony was to receive... "The Secret", whispered in his ear by the Grand Wazoo himself. He was amazed at the clarity and simplicity of this grand secret... he shared it with me. I hesitate to share it here with with so many un-initiates in the craft but... the time has come for all to be revealed... Please take this to heart an cherish it, and its truth.
"THE BROTHERHOOD OF ALL MANKIND"
...be careful who you tell this to as they may not understand, anyway, without the proper training to handle it!
From the BoZone
Bruce Frank
What i meant to say was nice setup Tom... for your new computer, very adequate for music to the n'th degree... and video with it... my computer only half that, and I do studio sound on sound... up to 16 tracks plus playback while recording tracks with it... you got enough to rock! Hope all your fucks turn out well. I've been corrected on writing fuck on this blog... as in 'i can't fuckin wait! [for the future...] hear me now believe me later or your money back!
...anyway fuck has over 25 distinct meanings and uses... making it hard to write with such a big part of my vocabulary missing... Oh the trials!
About that crocodile though... sounds easer than "drinking a quart of whiskey, fucking an Eskimo and wrestling a bear" which is another path I've heard of!... [don't drink the whiskey first!] but thats another story and another path!
There are many paths and many secret organizations that illuminate you by degrees, till finally, you get to hear the innermost secret of enlightenment... to be illuminated!
...one such man after many years of hard work, study and advancement...
reached the highest degree of learning and in an elaborate ceremony was to receive... "The Secret", whispered in his ear by the Grand Wazoo himself. He was amazed at the clarity and simplicity of this grand secret... he shared it with me. I hesitate to share it here with with so many un-initiates in the craft but... the time has come for all to be revealed... Please take this to heart an cherish it, and its truth.
"THE BROTHERHOOD OF ALL MANKIND"
...be careful who you tell this to as they may not understand, anyway, without the proper training to handle it!
From the BoZone
Bruce Frank
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
F#&%ing the Crocodile
OK, bear with me a moment here. The introductory paragraph is a little weird but the meaning will become clear shortly.
Joe Boyd - producer of classic albums by Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, the Incredible String band, Ivo Papasov, and many others - recently wrote a book entitled "White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s." (Highly recommended; his other big claim to fame is actually setting up the sound system the night Dylan went electric in 1965, and he provides a definitive, first-person account of the ensuing controversy.) Anyway, he writes about a decision he once made to explore Scientology - not because he intended to convert, but because he wanted to better understand friends and colleagues who had already converted. There was no way to casually learn about Scientology; you had to dive in head-first. He compared it to a William Burroughs story about a man searching for enlightenment who consulted a rainforest shaman said to know a ceremony that would unlock all the secrets of the universe. It turns out that the ceremony involved "fucking the sacred crocodile." So, Joe Boyd decided to fuck the sacred crocodile, learn all he could about Scientology, and hopefully make a safe escape once the ceremony was over.
My computer experience is pretty much limited to turning the damn thing on and off, using simple business software, sending emails, surfing the web, and of course checking in on this blog. I have no knowledge about digitally capturing, restoring, and preserving audio and/or video material related to KCAC and early KDKB. Therefore, in the past week or so, I have been consulting, via private emails, with other KCAC Lives! bloggers about buying a computer set-up that would let me do so. I received much good advice, but there was no consistent set of answers that I could translate into a particular plan of action.
Therefore, I have decided to fuck the sacred crocodile. Based on (or in spite of) the advice of many helpful people, today I went out and bought a computer and related products that will, I hope, allow me to finally get to the job at hand. I went to Fry's Electronics here in Tempe and purchased the following items:
(1) A Hewlett Packard Pavilion a1700n computer with an AMD Anthlon 64X2 Dual-Core Processor, 250GB hard-drive storage, and 1024 MB PC2-2400 DDR2 SDRAM. (If anybody knows what that last bit means, please tell me.)
(2) An Envision H190L 19-inch monitor.
(3) A Pinnacle Studio MovieBox that will supposedly allow me to convert analog video to digital, provide assorted editing and enhancement software, and allow me to burn the results to DVD. (It also has some limited audio-related functions, but it is essentially a video-oriented product.)
(4) An Internet Media Recorder that can record streaming audio and/or video off the Web.
Please notice that I did NOT buy any audio-oriented software yet. This is primarily because there are several types out there that I want to research before choosing, and also because none of them indicated (at least on the box artwork) that they had speed-correction capabilities (critical to preserving the 1 7/8th IPS tapes provided by Jeff and Jennifer Crawford). The three audio software packages I've looked at so far are Cakewalk Pyro 5, SoundForge Audio Station, and Majix Audio Cleaning 11 Lab. If anybody can recommend one over the other, or some entirely different software product, please let me know.
The above is NOT a perfect, ideal, top-end collection of hardware and software; it is what I could almost afford that also seems capable of doing what I need it to do. The choice of the HP computer was largely a matter of cost - it's a refurbished unit sold at about 60% of the cost of comparable new models. I managed to walk out of the store for just under $1000, which was my upper limit
Anyway, comments and suggestions are welcome. There will be a rather steep learning curve for me, but I hope to get some grasp on the process by the end of June, and get started in earnest on the KCAC tapes later in the summer.
Tom
Joe Boyd - producer of classic albums by Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, the Incredible String band, Ivo Papasov, and many others - recently wrote a book entitled "White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s." (Highly recommended; his other big claim to fame is actually setting up the sound system the night Dylan went electric in 1965, and he provides a definitive, first-person account of the ensuing controversy.) Anyway, he writes about a decision he once made to explore Scientology - not because he intended to convert, but because he wanted to better understand friends and colleagues who had already converted. There was no way to casually learn about Scientology; you had to dive in head-first. He compared it to a William Burroughs story about a man searching for enlightenment who consulted a rainforest shaman said to know a ceremony that would unlock all the secrets of the universe. It turns out that the ceremony involved "fucking the sacred crocodile." So, Joe Boyd decided to fuck the sacred crocodile, learn all he could about Scientology, and hopefully make a safe escape once the ceremony was over.
My computer experience is pretty much limited to turning the damn thing on and off, using simple business software, sending emails, surfing the web, and of course checking in on this blog. I have no knowledge about digitally capturing, restoring, and preserving audio and/or video material related to KCAC and early KDKB. Therefore, in the past week or so, I have been consulting, via private emails, with other KCAC Lives! bloggers about buying a computer set-up that would let me do so. I received much good advice, but there was no consistent set of answers that I could translate into a particular plan of action.
Therefore, I have decided to fuck the sacred crocodile. Based on (or in spite of) the advice of many helpful people, today I went out and bought a computer and related products that will, I hope, allow me to finally get to the job at hand. I went to Fry's Electronics here in Tempe and purchased the following items:
(1) A Hewlett Packard Pavilion a1700n computer with an AMD Anthlon 64X2 Dual-Core Processor, 250GB hard-drive storage, and 1024 MB PC2-2400 DDR2 SDRAM. (If anybody knows what that last bit means, please tell me.)
(2) An Envision H190L 19-inch monitor.
(3) A Pinnacle Studio MovieBox that will supposedly allow me to convert analog video to digital, provide assorted editing and enhancement software, and allow me to burn the results to DVD. (It also has some limited audio-related functions, but it is essentially a video-oriented product.)
(4) An Internet Media Recorder that can record streaming audio and/or video off the Web.
Please notice that I did NOT buy any audio-oriented software yet. This is primarily because there are several types out there that I want to research before choosing, and also because none of them indicated (at least on the box artwork) that they had speed-correction capabilities (critical to preserving the 1 7/8th IPS tapes provided by Jeff and Jennifer Crawford). The three audio software packages I've looked at so far are Cakewalk Pyro 5, SoundForge Audio Station, and Majix Audio Cleaning 11 Lab. If anybody can recommend one over the other, or some entirely different software product, please let me know.
The above is NOT a perfect, ideal, top-end collection of hardware and software; it is what I could almost afford that also seems capable of doing what I need it to do. The choice of the HP computer was largely a matter of cost - it's a refurbished unit sold at about 60% of the cost of comparable new models. I managed to walk out of the store for just under $1000, which was my upper limit
Anyway, comments and suggestions are welcome. There will be a rather steep learning curve for me, but I hope to get some grasp on the process by the end of June, and get started in earnest on the KCAC tapes later in the summer.
Tom
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Recognize these guys?
I think it was April 1970. At the Janis Joplin concert at what is now called Diablo stadium. That's Ron Harris (aka Papa Eric on KCAC) on the left, and yours truly Marty Manning in the flag shirt. We were doing a really dumb comedy routine as the Captain America Repertory Company (Chapter 2). Bob Gately was the promoter, with the James Cotton Blues Band as the opening act. I met Janis briefly backstage and she gave me a shot of her Southern Comfort with a bite of her apple as a chaser. A few months later, she was gone.
Thanks to Tom Story for the photos
Friday, May 25, 2007
WHAT DID THEY KNOW? WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT?
THE FIRESIGN THEATRE
HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY KNOW That the Nazi Party would win World War II sixty years later - not with a military victory but with a slow erosion of the political structure of America - from Within?
How did they know that SHOES FOR INDUSTRY would fashion the social structure of the 1950's, 60's... right up to current times? HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY HAVE KNOWN that this nation once divided - would assume that it was Jewish?
How IS George Bushed? Why does he not ride his bicycle anymore? It's in the script - next to the cream cheese. WHY NOT invite him into the "real" skull & bones society?
Firesign Theatre
Were Bringing the War Back Home Lyrics
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We're bringing the war back home
Where it ought to have been before!
We'll kill all the bees
And spiders and flies
And we wont play in iceboxes lying on their sides
We'll wash our hands after wee-wee.
And if we're a girl, before!
And we'll march,march,march, et cetera!
'Til we never do march no more!
(All together, now, boys!)
We're bringing the war back home
Where it ought to have been before!
The pretty donut girl on the corner
Will be smilin' with a wringer in her hair!
We'll wash our hands after wee-wee,
And if we're a girl before!
And we'll march, march, march, et cetera!
'Till we don't have to march no more
(Hum along now...)
We won't have to March!
We won't have to March!
We won't have to March no more!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall Of Fame
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Baldwin, Mike
Baldwin, Russ
Beals,Ken (AMEHOF)
Bowen, Ray
Bell, Bob Boze
Bennett, Fran
Bentley, Connie
Bethancourt, Joe
Botkin, Jim
Boyle, Liz (AMEHOF/Radio Free Phoenix)
Bradychocks, Julie
Cahal, John (REBIRTH) (private - contact vagabondvet)
Carroll, Todd
Carter, Marsha
Carver, Sue
Clark, Doug
Collins, Michael
Compton, Bill (R.I.P.)
Compton-Glenn, Carole
Cookenboo, Hank (R.I.P.)
Covington, Dan
Crazy (Jan Isbell)(R.I.P.)
Curry. Robert S.
Curtis, Mike
Davis, Marc (TERROS)
DeGray, Helen
Deerhake, David
Dickinson, Ted
Dixon, John [Johnny D[\] (AMEHOF)
Drake George F. (Springfield, Mass?)
Dunn, Bob
Emery, Vince
English, Alton
English, Jerry "Magic"
Fendelman, Jane
Fenimore, David
Flannigan, Julie
Fleming, Mariah (AMEHOF)
Frank, Bruce (REBIRTH FOUNDER)
Frank, Raman (REBIRTH)
Frank, Gregg (REBIRTH - Contact Bruce Frank)
Friedman, Barry
Frieflander, Karen
Galindo, Alicia
Gant, Pegi {Cookenboo}
Garneau, Joe (REBIRTH FOUNDER.)
Garneau, Larry (REBIRTH)
Garneau, Michelle (REBIRTH) (private - contact vagabondvet)
Gately, Bill (R.I.P.)
Gately, Bob cowboysonmars.com
Geist, Barry (REBIRTH)
Goodman, Mike
Grieger, Kathy (contact through Bruce Frank)
Griffin, Dan
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 (KCAC/KDKB)
Kinsey, Gary "Toad Hall" (R.I.P.)
Kinsey, Filipa
Kitchell, Nancy
Kollassa, Mike
Koors, Tim
Kothrade, Michael (REBIRTH)
Lange, Patrick
Lederman, Cindy
Lehr, Bob
Magahern, Jimmy (KCAC LIVES!)
Manning, Marty (KCAC/KDKB)
Martin, Peter
McBroom, Dennis (KDKB)
McCarty, Chris
McCarty, Steve
Meighan, Bob
Mell, Ed
Migdoll, Susan
Moody, Kim (ALWUN HOUSE)
Morrison, Barbara
Murray, Jim
Nadworney, Nina "Nina Joy"
Niccolson, Scott (KCAC/KDKB)
Norton, Virginia
Nussbaum,Belle "Belle Starr"
Nykanan, Mark
Olson, Andy (RADIO FREE PHOENIX FOUNDER)
Olson, Hans (AMEHOF)
P.J.
Paceley, Ken
Page, Daniel "vagabondvet" (REBIRTH)
Peterson, Linda (REBIRTH)
Peterson, Marsha
Porter, Sharon Elaine
Powell, Lee
Price, Bill
Pyle, Slagge T. (KDKB)
Radina, Kathy
Rameesh
Robb, Gary (R.I.P.)
Robertson, John (KDKB)
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 (R.I.P.)
Soderquist, Skio
Stratton, Ted
Sussman, Terri (AMEHOF President)
Sweet, Cheryl
Thomson, Betty
Thomson, Ray (Private - see Freespeak@gmai.com )
Thompson, Linda
Thrift, Bill (TERROS)
Tindle, Dwight www.dwightindle.com (KDKB FOUNDER) (R.I.P.)
Usry, Kent
Vascocu, Tommy
Wakefield, Ken
Wales, Lissa www.drumpics.com (R.I.P.)
Webb, Kevin (DO IT NOW FOUNDATION) (R.I.P.)
Whitener, Kasey
Wortham, Ron (KCAC/KDKB)
Wright, Tom
Zelisko, Dan
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Monday, May 21, 2007
Link / computer advice?
Hi all -
Mariah: great article about Lissa, but... am I missing somethink or is there no link to the photos?
On another matter: I'm currently bidding (on EBay) for a vintage tape recorder with the proper playback speed for the Crawford Collection of KCAC tapes. I'm also looking into a computer system that is compatible with high-end audio recording, restoration, and storage. Ron Wortham teels me to seriously consider a Mac - and I am - but based on my limited investigations so far it looks like the iMac 24-inch model would be the best (250 GB hard drive with optional 500 or 750 GB upgrades). Trouble is, that set-up costs $2000, which is about double what I'd hoped to pay (I won't say "afford" because I can't "afford" anything right now, except by going deeper into credit-card hell). Anybody out there got some advice on a cost-effective audio work station?
Thanks,
Tom
Mariah: great article about Lissa, but... am I missing somethink or is there no link to the photos?
On another matter: I'm currently bidding (on EBay) for a vintage tape recorder with the proper playback speed for the Crawford Collection of KCAC tapes. I'm also looking into a computer system that is compatible with high-end audio recording, restoration, and storage. Ron Wortham teels me to seriously consider a Mac - and I am - but based on my limited investigations so far it looks like the iMac 24-inch model would be the best (250 GB hard drive with optional 500 or 750 GB upgrades). Trouble is, that set-up costs $2000, which is about double what I'd hoped to pay (I won't say "afford" because I can't "afford" anything right now, except by going deeper into credit-card hell). Anybody out there got some advice on a cost-effective audio work station?
Thanks,
Tom
Sunday, May 20, 2007
***LISSA WALE'S PHOTOS AVAILABLE***
How many photographers receive tributes from music icons, current rock and roll heroes all the way back to Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr? Annie Leibowitz leaps to mind, of course. And in the music industry, so does the name Lissa Wales. You'd all know it too, if Lissa's vibrant life had not been cut short in October 2005 after her 18 month battle with acute myelogenic leukemia.
If you love music, you'll love Lissa Wales photos. In the world of rock and roll she's legend. That is not exaggeration; just Google her to find out. Lissa photographed virtually every famous-to-mega star drummer you can think of in the last couple of decades.
Since Lissa left us for a loftier rock and roll universe, I can't count how many times people from all over the world have asked 'What happened to Lissa's rock and roll photos?" Now I'm glad to report that under the guiding hands of her loved ones, Lissa Wale's website at www.drumpics.com has been lovingly updated and features a really cool 2007 "Lissa Wales Tribute Calendar" of fantastic drummer pictures (proceeds for sales of the calendar go to the City of Hope bone marrow transplant center in Phoenix.)
For fans and collectors alike, Lissa's portfolio is the Mother Lode. Her immense collection of drummer pictures (of which only a small fraction are featured on the site so far) are rare up close and personal shots of virtually every famous drummer of the last several decades. Plus she gives an inside look at her work.
Click on one of the many images to read her entertaining and endearing descriptions of these photo shoots, as well as her comments about the photos. It's a bittersweet but truly uplifting experience to see these photos and to read what Lissa has to say about them.
Let's keep Lissa's legacy of work alive. We're lucky to have these musical fingerprints from the world of rock and roll. Lissa's photos are emotion in motion. You can have a unique piece of this rock and roll history. Check it out. These are the real deal, so rock and roll!!
God is Alive, Magic is Afoot.
For more info contact KCAC Lives!
If you love music, you'll love Lissa Wales photos. In the world of rock and roll she's legend. That is not exaggeration; just Google her to find out. Lissa photographed virtually every famous-to-mega star drummer you can think of in the last couple of decades.
Since Lissa left us for a loftier rock and roll universe, I can't count how many times people from all over the world have asked 'What happened to Lissa's rock and roll photos?" Now I'm glad to report that under the guiding hands of her loved ones, Lissa Wale's website at www.drumpics.com has been lovingly updated and features a really cool 2007 "Lissa Wales Tribute Calendar" of fantastic drummer pictures (proceeds for sales of the calendar go to the City of Hope bone marrow transplant center in Phoenix.)
For fans and collectors alike, Lissa's portfolio is the Mother Lode. Her immense collection of drummer pictures (of which only a small fraction are featured on the site so far) are rare up close and personal shots of virtually every famous drummer of the last several decades. Plus she gives an inside look at her work.
Click on one of the many images to read her entertaining and endearing descriptions of these photo shoots, as well as her comments about the photos. It's a bittersweet but truly uplifting experience to see these photos and to read what Lissa has to say about them.
Let's keep Lissa's legacy of work alive. We're lucky to have these musical fingerprints from the world of rock and roll. Lissa's photos are emotion in motion. You can have a unique piece of this rock and roll history. Check it out. These are the real deal, so rock and roll!!
God is Alive, Magic is Afoot.
For more info contact KCAC Lives!
Saturday, May 19, 2007
MY GENERATION F**KS - YOUR GENERATION S**KS
LIVE EARTH IS GOING TO BE A MONSTER THIS JULY
But you have to wonder WHERE are they gonna spend all that money - give it to commuters and truck drivers to stay parked? Give it to Al Gore to shut up? WHAT DO YOU DO with all those millions? Research on what to do to control global warming? Give it to China so we can buy more barium for chemtrails?
Of course there is the cost of advertising and promotion, staging, executive salaries, taxes, portable toilets, bank charges, vendors fees, transportation and lodgng, costumes and utilities. And oh yes - legal fees.
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The rocker, who used to sing about my g-generation, added: "My answer is to burn all the f***ing oil as quick as possible and then the politicians will have to find a solution.” CLICK THE HEADLINE FOR THE REST OF THE STORY AND A CURRENT PIC.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
SMOKING VS. MICROWAVE POPCORN
So you take a carton of cigarettes - good ones - without the addictive chemicals... You take a full case of microwave popcorn, plus some margarine and buttery-flavor salt and some of that whipped spread in a tub that looks and tastes like butter.. and you give it all to some fool to consume.
He comes down with lung cancer and dies. So you pass a law to get them nasty-smelling cigarettes outlawed. 'Course the guy is DEAD now so it doesn't matter.
Proved your point - right? Have some popcorn.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Communes for grown folks
I'm working on a story for Phoenix Magazine about the "co-housing movement" around Arizona. According to a story in AARP (yes, our generation has gone from coverage in Rolling Stone to AARP), "In cohousing, the residents themselves plan their communities and choose the appearance. They own their own units and divide duties for maintenance, gardening and other chores. And they rotate responsibilities for fixing meals that are shared two or three times a week in a community building."
Sounds like an updated version of the communes of the 60's - which I know some of y'all lived in. If you'd like to offer some comments for this article (both on what that kind of scene was like in the 60's and what might be good about it today), please drop me a line at fishcough@gmail.com.
Thanks!
-Jimmy
Sounds like an updated version of the communes of the 60's - which I know some of y'all lived in. If you'd like to offer some comments for this article (both on what that kind of scene was like in the 60's and what might be good about it today), please drop me a line at fishcough@gmail.com.
Thanks!
-Jimmy
Monday, May 07, 2007
Saturday, May 05, 2007
POLITICAL ACTIVISM HOMEWORK 1 of 4
KCAC and the spirit thereof, was hugely involved in Political Activism. It was a different era, a different war, a different time - which recalls that old, tired saying; "Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it"
As gawdawful TRITE as that old saying is, it echos down through the years and lifetimes of those we loved, as an echo that seems to be gaining in volume by the day. Think of it as echos in an open-mike feedback loop, growing louder and louder until you can't stand it anymore. Now apply that same principal to History Repeating Itself - Deja'Vu. We DIDN'T learn from it. We sold out. We dropped our guards, assuming that a military victory meant the end of The War. Wrong.
Now, we have TWO FULL GENERATIONS of younger people who don't realize what is SUPPOSED to be theirs. National Parks, highways, bridges, private properties, inheritances, water systems and much more that is being SOLD OFF without a vote or permission from anyone - to "International Corporations" (read Middle Easterners).
For reasons we don't understand YET we got involved in a hysteria that took us to Korea, Viet Nam, etc, etc, and now Afghanistan - er, Kuwait, er, Iran - No Iraq. War without end, Amen, Amen.
Meanwhile WE (you and I) are paying for the construction of an "American Embassy" in Iraq that when completed, will be bigger than The Vatican. Be sure to request your share of the deed.
In this 4-part POLITICAL ACTIVISM HOMEWORK series you can read some of the "COMPLETELY ABSURD CHARGES" circilating on the Internet having to do with the destruction of YOUR country - not from a military standpoint - but from WITHIN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.
PERHAPS this is all just attention-grabbing bullshit. But there is REASON to use REASON in your own analysis - if nothing more than to use the freedom of your own reasoning powers, as an exercise. Right or wrong, this information is being suppressed. IF IT IS NOT TRUE, THEN WHY?
In this introductory homework, we go back to repeat what was essentially the only warning we got at the time, from exiting President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
CLICK THE HEADLINE
As gawdawful TRITE as that old saying is, it echos down through the years and lifetimes of those we loved, as an echo that seems to be gaining in volume by the day. Think of it as echos in an open-mike feedback loop, growing louder and louder until you can't stand it anymore. Now apply that same principal to History Repeating Itself - Deja'Vu. We DIDN'T learn from it. We sold out. We dropped our guards, assuming that a military victory meant the end of The War. Wrong.
Now, we have TWO FULL GENERATIONS of younger people who don't realize what is SUPPOSED to be theirs. National Parks, highways, bridges, private properties, inheritances, water systems and much more that is being SOLD OFF without a vote or permission from anyone - to "International Corporations" (read Middle Easterners).
For reasons we don't understand YET we got involved in a hysteria that took us to Korea, Viet Nam, etc, etc, and now Afghanistan - er, Kuwait, er, Iran - No Iraq. War without end, Amen, Amen.
Meanwhile WE (you and I) are paying for the construction of an "American Embassy" in Iraq that when completed, will be bigger than The Vatican. Be sure to request your share of the deed.
In this 4-part POLITICAL ACTIVISM HOMEWORK series you can read some of the "COMPLETELY ABSURD CHARGES" circilating on the Internet having to do with the destruction of YOUR country - not from a military standpoint - but from WITHIN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.
PERHAPS this is all just attention-grabbing bullshit. But there is REASON to use REASON in your own analysis - if nothing more than to use the freedom of your own reasoning powers, as an exercise. Right or wrong, this information is being suppressed. IF IT IS NOT TRUE, THEN WHY?
In this introductory homework, we go back to repeat what was essentially the only warning we got at the time, from exiting President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
CLICK THE HEADLINE
POLITICAL ACTIVISM HOMEWORK 2 of 4
The story of the Deathbed Comfession of E. Howard Hunt to his son Saint John Hunt - naming names, dates, places and conspiracies regarding the assasination of JFK. Sub-plots include miscellaneous Mafia figures, FBI Director J.Edgar Hoover, CIA Operative George Bush (One of two by that name) and - would you believe - Lyndon Baines Johnson.
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"The Wink". See agent to the left, facing LBJ.
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"The Wink". See agent to the left, facing LBJ.
POLITICAL ACTIVISM HOMEWORK 3 of 4
The influence and genealogy of the Nazi Party in America since WWII, purporting that GHW Bush is an imposter, planted by those who looted the talents and inventive genius of Nicoli Tesla.
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POLITICAL ACTIVISM HOMEWORK 4 of 4
Christian faction demanding Bush be impeached for Worshiping Satan
CLICK THE HEADLINE
CLICK THE HEADLINE
Thursday, May 03, 2007
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Adams, Lynne
Alves, Jack
Apicella, John
Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall Of Fame
Arnold, Linda
Bailey, Jim
Baldwin, Mike
Baldwin, Russ
Beals,Ken (AMEHOF)
Bowen, Ray
Bell, Bob Boze
Bennett, Fran
Bentley, Connie
Bethancourt, Joe
Botkin, Jim
Boyle, Liz (AMEHOF/Radio Free Phoenix)
Bradychocks, Julie
Cahal, John (REBIRTH) (private - contact vagabondvet)
Carroll, Todd
Carter, Marsha
Carver, Sue
Clark, Doug
Collins, Michael
Compton, Bill (R.I.P.)
Compton-Glenn, Carole
Cookenboo, Hank (R.I.P.)
Covington, Dan
Crazy (Jan Isbell)(R.I.P.)
Curry. Robert S.
Curtis, Mike
Davis, Marc (TERROS)
DeGray, Helen
Deerhake, David
Dickinson, Ted
Dixon, John [Johnny D[\] (AMEHOF)
Drake George F. (Springfield, Mass?)
Dunn, Bob
Emery, Vince
English, Alton
English, Jerry "Magic"
Fendelman, Jane
Fenimore, David
Flannigan, Julie
Fleming, Mariah (AMEHOF)
Frank, Bruce (REBIRTH FOUNDER)
Frank, Raman (REBIRTH)
Frank, Gregg (REBIRTH - Contact Bruce Frank)
Friedman, Barry
Frieflander, Karen
Galindo, Alicia
Gant, Pegi {Cookenboo}
Garneau, Joe (REBIRTH FOUNDER.)
Garneau, Larry (REBIRTH)
Garneau, Michelle (REBIRTH) (private - contact vagabondvet)
Gately, Bill (R.I.P.)
Gately, Bob cowboysonmars.com
Geist, Barry (REBIRTH)
Goodman, Mike
Grieger, Kathy (contact through Bruce Frank)
Griffin, Dan
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 (KCAC/KDKB)
Kinsey, Gary "Toad Hall" (R.I.P.)
Kinsey, Filipa
Kitchell, Nancy
Kollassa, Mike
Koors, Tim
Kothrade, Michael (REBIRTH)
Lange, Patrick
Lederman, Cindy
Lehr, Bob
Magahern, Jimmy (KCAC LIVES!)
Manning, Marty (KCAC/KDKB)
Martin, Peter
McBroom, Dennis (KDKB)
McCarty, Chris
McCarty, Steve
Meighan, Bob
Mell, Ed
Migdoll, Susan
Moody, Kim (ALWUN HOUSE)
Morrison, Barbara
Murray, Jim
Nadworney, Nina "Nina Joy"
Niccolson, Scott (KCAC/KDKB)
Norton, Virginia
Nussbaum,Belle "Belle Starr"
Nykanan, Mark
Olson, Andy (RADIO FREE PHOENIX FOUNDER)
Olson, Hans (AMEHOF)
P.J.
Paceley, Ken
Page, Daniel "vagabondvet" (REBIRTH)
Peterson, Linda (REBIRTH)
Peterson, Marsha
Porter, Sharon Elaine
Powell, Lee
Price, Bill
Pyle, Slagge T. (KDKB)
Radina, Kathy
Rameesh
Robb, Gary (R.I.P.)
Robertson, John (KDKB)
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 (R.I.P.)
Soderquist, Skio
Stratton, Ted
Sussman, Terri (AMEHOF President)
Sweet, Cheryl
Thomson, Betty
Thomson, Ray (Private - see Freespeak@gmai.com )
Thompson, Linda
Thrift, Bill (TERROS)
Tindle, Dwight www.dwightindle.com (KDKB FOUNDER) (R.I.P.)
Usry, Kent
Vascocu, Tommy
Wakefield, Ken
Wales, Lissa www.drumpics.com (R.I.P.)
Webb, Kevin (DO IT NOW FOUNDATION) (R.I.P.)
Whitener, Kasey
Wortham, Ron (KCAC/KDKB)
Wright, Tom
Zelisko, Dan
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
HEY ANDY - TURN THAT DAMN THING DOWN!
THE RIAA IS SNEAKNG INTERNET-RADIO LEGISLATION RIGHT IN THROUGH YOUR FEEDING TUBE. IT'S A BUST - SO WHAT'S NEW? CLICK THE HEADLINE FOR THE FREEP STORY
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
The Most Over-Rated Band of All Time>?
Yes, I'm talking about the Doors. Jim Morrison had a terrific voice and an intermittent gift for lyrics on the first album or two, then he sunk into a lot of self-indulgent bullcrap and alcohol-soaked gibberish. "The End" is widely considered his masterpiece - and it is, if you consider it a comic parody of "serious" late-60s poetry. "Father? Yes son? I want to kill you. Mother..." etc. Armchair Freudian shit, any high-schooler could come up with its equivalent. To the extent that the Doors were successful, it was usually when Morrison stifled his pretensions and just sang his dark but relatively accessible lyrics. Listen again to "Light My Fire;" that's a great BAND cooking behind him, and the words don't get in the way as they did later on. The Doors were, as a matter of fact, a "singles" band - a Top 40 act with a series of hits and a whole lot of album filler. A twisted version of Three Dog Night or similar professional entertainers. Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore had as much to do with the band's best records as their drunken, self-obsessed front man.
Yeah, this is heresy, I know. I just don't buy into the Dead Jim cult, and I never did. You don't become an Important Artist by living recklessly and dying young. You do it by creating memorable, meaningful art regardless of your personal lifestyle or fate. Ask Neil Young. Ask Bob Dylan. Ask Frank Sinatra or Louis Armstrong. Or Billie Holiday or Hank Williams or Kurt Cobain or Nick Drake or Ronnie Van Zandt, who all died young but whose achievements have lasted in a way that, ultimately, Jim Morrison's don't. In my humble opinion. For what it's worth. As Neil Young might say: rust never sleeps, but it sure does corrode some people faster than others. Better to burn out than to fade away? Neil is living proof that you don't have to do EITHER.
By the way: second most over-rated band? The Eagles. None of them died tragically, but again, they produced only a few good singles and one OK-for-its-time album. Their fame and fortune have far outstripped the quality and significance of their music. Plus, they gave rise to the whole modern Nashville sound: by watering down both country and rock, they blended the worst of both, and for that alone they should burn in hell. Well, except for Joe Walsh, who is just a hired gunslinger but clearly the most talented of the bunch. And Don Henley's voice, which can work wonders when applied to the right material (but is a smug pain in the ass the rest of the time).
Third in line? Frank Zappa, with his endless sophomoric sex/excrement/drug jokes. I'm talking about Zappa the solo artist, not the early Mothers of Invention line-up with their brilliant social satire. Zappa had the real stuff as a guitarist and bandleader but he wasted far too much time and effort on shitty, smutty material.
That's all for now, but contact me anytime if you want to see more Sacred Icons of Rock (SIR's) tossed unceremoniously off their pedestals.
Tom
Yeah, this is heresy, I know. I just don't buy into the Dead Jim cult, and I never did. You don't become an Important Artist by living recklessly and dying young. You do it by creating memorable, meaningful art regardless of your personal lifestyle or fate. Ask Neil Young. Ask Bob Dylan. Ask Frank Sinatra or Louis Armstrong. Or Billie Holiday or Hank Williams or Kurt Cobain or Nick Drake or Ronnie Van Zandt, who all died young but whose achievements have lasted in a way that, ultimately, Jim Morrison's don't. In my humble opinion. For what it's worth. As Neil Young might say: rust never sleeps, but it sure does corrode some people faster than others. Better to burn out than to fade away? Neil is living proof that you don't have to do EITHER.
By the way: second most over-rated band? The Eagles. None of them died tragically, but again, they produced only a few good singles and one OK-for-its-time album. Their fame and fortune have far outstripped the quality and significance of their music. Plus, they gave rise to the whole modern Nashville sound: by watering down both country and rock, they blended the worst of both, and for that alone they should burn in hell. Well, except for Joe Walsh, who is just a hired gunslinger but clearly the most talented of the bunch. And Don Henley's voice, which can work wonders when applied to the right material (but is a smug pain in the ass the rest of the time).
Third in line? Frank Zappa, with his endless sophomoric sex/excrement/drug jokes. I'm talking about Zappa the solo artist, not the early Mothers of Invention line-up with their brilliant social satire. Zappa had the real stuff as a guitarist and bandleader but he wasted far too much time and effort on shitty, smutty material.
That's all for now, but contact me anytime if you want to see more Sacred Icons of Rock (SIR's) tossed unceremoniously off their pedestals.
Tom
SAVE US! JESUS!
JIM MORRISON
Yeah, it ain't pretty. He looks pretty fucked-up. Having been in a lineup or two and having mugshots made, I can tell you that being photogenic and looking pretty for the camera is not the most important thing on your mind at the time.
What I am concerned with is the UNFAIR descriptions that have survived to this day of Jim Morrison being such a DARK charater of the hippie days. So maybe he was drunk out of his mind or stoned on anything handy but look at how he lived and what he SAID and where and when he SAID it - right in front of Barry Goldwater, LBJ, Nixon and Yo Mamma. He was ready to die for The Truth and that takes some guts. It also takes a lot of whiskey and smoke. As a famous guru once said; "Life is a long journey full of struggles and pain - get all the pussy you can".
I used to HEAR things wrongly while listening to music back in the old days.. especially songs that seemed to be covered in White Noise. Now I hear more clearly and while reading lyrics that have been heard and typed by others, I realize that they hear it differently too...
I believe Jim Morrison was a Christian. Not a Bible-thumping, finger-pointing antiquated jerk but a REAL Christian that called in Faith, for help - in some of his music. The lyrics below that are highlighted and notated, point out WHAT I PERSONALLY HEAR at the lines indicated. I call it to your attention because we need to get it right for history's sake.
There is THE WORD of God
and there is
The MEANING of the Word Of God.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When The Music's Over Lyrics
Artist(Band):The Doors
Yeah, c'mon
When the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights, yeah
When the music's over
When the music's over
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside
The face in the mirror won't stop
The girl in the window won't drop
A feast of friends
"Alive!" she cried
Waitin' for me
Outside!
Before I sink
Into the big sleep
I want to hear
I want to hear
The scream of the butterfly
Come back, baby
Back into my arm
We're gettin' tired of hangin' around
Waitin' around with our heads to the ground
I hear a very gentle sound
Very near yet very far
Very soft, yeah, very clear
Come today, come today
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down
I hear a very gentle sound
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it...
We want the world and we want it...
Now
Now?
Now!
Persian night, babe <<[WOULD YOU LIKE, BABE]
See the light, babe <<[TO SEE THE LIGHT, BABE]
Save us!
Jesus!
Save us!
So when the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Well the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end!
Thursday, April 26, 2007
YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE - AND BEND OVER WHILE I GOOGLE YOU
LOOKS HARMLESS - RIGHT? Not at all. Andrew Feldman according to the Canadian government [in cahoots with the USA Border Guards] believes he is a terrorist because they Googled his name and came up with a dissertation on LSD that he had written about, based on his experience 40 years ago.
All I can say is, stay away from Canada - it looks like a bum trip.
CLICK THE HEADLINE FOR THE WHOLE, SICK STORY
Since the Common Denominator here seems to be music, I thoght I would post more lyrics from another Canadian - Leonard Cohen
"The Future"
Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder
Things are going to slide ...
There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder
Things are going to slide ...
When they said REPENT REPENT ...
Playlists are back
The aircheck playlists, which had temporarily disappeared due to some re-coding on the end of the player provider, have now been restored. Hallelujah! (Speaking of which, you can now hear by clicking this:)
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
PLEASED TO MEET YOU - HOPE YOU GUESS MY NAME
There is no Santa Claus. There is no Elvis. Click the headline.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Mainlining Nick Drake - The Contact High
Tom Wright's observations on the similar vibes of Nick Drake and Tim Buckley, prompts this muse.. I could have just replied to his post but I wanted to work in this picture:
Ya... Tim needs a shower and he just doesn't look right without his guitar. In fact, it looks like a mug shot from a police lineup, right?
LIKE FATHER LIKE SUM This is JEFF Buckley, the next generation. And if you think the looks are piercing, you should here him sing Leonard Cohen's HALLELUJA!
You will cry. You will bleed.
Click the headline for the rest of this tragic story.
Thanks, Tom.
Ya... Tim needs a shower and he just doesn't look right without his guitar. In fact, it looks like a mug shot from a police lineup, right?
LIKE FATHER LIKE SUM This is JEFF Buckley, the next generation. And if you think the looks are piercing, you should here him sing Leonard Cohen's HALLELUJA!
You will cry. You will bleed.
Click the headline for the rest of this tragic story.
Thanks, Tom.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Four and Twenty
Not that KCAC Lives! endorses this kind of thing, but today marks a "counterculture holiday" of sorts. See the Wikipedia entry for explanation and history.
Locally (in Tempe, of course), The Organic Glass Smoke Shop (SW corner of Dobson and Guadalupe) is holding the “On It” Music Fest starting at 11 am, and at 7 pm, The Subculture Café (227 E. Baseline) is holding its own celebration.
For celebrants who can’t get off the couch, cable's G4 channel is planning an evening-long celebration that goes to Amsterdam, where the coffeeshops sell bags of grounds you won't find at Starbucks, and tonight at 9 they'll be airing (in its entirety, they say) "The Big Lebowski," starring Jeff Bridges in his immortal role as The Dude, apparently the poster boy for this particular holiday. Abide!
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
MAINLINING NICKDRAKE
It ain't Smack (Heroin). It ain't even coke or ecstacy or hash or any of them silly-sighbens. It's NICKDRAKE (Nick Drake). He died in 1974 after recording a shamelessly commercial version of Suicide Is Painless the theme song from M*A*S*H - in his parents home where he OD'd on something. But Ohhhhh my God - The Music! I've been strung out on it for two full days now and I CANNOT stop humming the "Cello Song". I just can't.
NICK DRAKE
Ya see my son - who recently turned 21 is even more of an audiophile than I am His computer and iPod is jammed with the best of The Best and he lives and breathes Incredible String Band and Leonard Cohen but he also bathes in and absorbs, music from all over the world frankly, far more sophisticated than my usual buffet.
So I get challenged to top him at times, with something old that is new again and I stepped in a great big pile of that two days ago when a zephyr that may have been a Demon from Hell, whizzed by my ear and said; "nickdrakenickdrakenickdrake".
I had forgotten. He's right up there with Fred Neil, Linda Perhacs. Moffit and Davies and Ravi Shankar if I am feeling loose.
Addictive as hell. I snatched almost 40 tunes without RIAA approval and I should feel ashamed of myself about it but I don't. Not even a little bit.
Click the headline for the Best Nick Drake website I have seen so far, complete with lyrics. I'll give you a dollar if you can listen to The Cello Song twice and not hum it.
Sure I'm strung out on Nick Drake right now but undersand I DON'T WANT TO QUIT!
NICK DRAKE
Ya see my son - who recently turned 21 is even more of an audiophile than I am His computer and iPod is jammed with the best of The Best and he lives and breathes Incredible String Band and Leonard Cohen but he also bathes in and absorbs, music from all over the world frankly, far more sophisticated than my usual buffet.
So I get challenged to top him at times, with something old that is new again and I stepped in a great big pile of that two days ago when a zephyr that may have been a Demon from Hell, whizzed by my ear and said; "nickdrakenickdrakenickdrake".
I had forgotten. He's right up there with Fred Neil, Linda Perhacs. Moffit and Davies and Ravi Shankar if I am feeling loose.
Addictive as hell. I snatched almost 40 tunes without RIAA approval and I should feel ashamed of myself about it but I don't. Not even a little bit.
Click the headline for the Best Nick Drake website I have seen so far, complete with lyrics. I'll give you a dollar if you can listen to The Cello Song twice and not hum it.
Sure I'm strung out on Nick Drake right now but undersand I DON'T WANT TO QUIT!
Monday, April 16, 2007
Mariah Reports: Shocking TV News Crawls!!
1. KARL ROVE INTERVIEW
"Bush Administration Members Were All Injected With Teflon 35 Years Ago That's Why Nothing Ever Sticks!"
2. C-SPAN COVERAGE OF KATRINA HEARINGS
"Irascible, Lovable Bart Simpson "I Didn't Do It" Catch Phrase Sold to Simpson's Writer's by Cheney Who Made Billions in Simpson Monopoly Money He Donated to Katrina Survivors."
3.TV NEWS BROADCASTS
"America's TV News: Proudly Keeping Our Country on Edge Since 9-11" (News + Pharmaceutical Ads = A Win Win!)
4. GEORGE W. BUSH PRESS CONFERENCE
"God Told Me Personally the Twelve Holy Commandments Aren't Written in Stone, so It's OK By Him if I Break Some of the Big Ones."
5. TONY SNOW PRESS BRIEFING
"You Can't Possibly Think I Believe What I'm Telling You."
6. JACK ABRAMOFF'S POST-CONVICTION PRESS COVERAGE
"Abramoff to Bush: Turn the Other Cheek My Ass!"
7. PBS PLEDGE DRIVE
"Proud to be Your Equal Opportunity Annoyer!"
8. PAT ROBERTSON & JERRY FALWELL TV SHOWS
"Earth! This Is (Insert Your Personal God's Name Here) I Want ALL You People Out By the End of the Month. I've Got a Client Who's Interested in the Property."
"Bush Administration Members Were All Injected With Teflon 35 Years Ago That's Why Nothing Ever Sticks!"
2. C-SPAN COVERAGE OF KATRINA HEARINGS
"Irascible, Lovable Bart Simpson "I Didn't Do It" Catch Phrase Sold to Simpson's Writer's by Cheney Who Made Billions in Simpson Monopoly Money He Donated to Katrina Survivors."
3.TV NEWS BROADCASTS
"America's TV News: Proudly Keeping Our Country on Edge Since 9-11" (News + Pharmaceutical Ads = A Win Win!)
4. GEORGE W. BUSH PRESS CONFERENCE
"God Told Me Personally the Twelve Holy Commandments Aren't Written in Stone, so It's OK By Him if I Break Some of the Big Ones."
5. TONY SNOW PRESS BRIEFING
"You Can't Possibly Think I Believe What I'm Telling You."
6. JACK ABRAMOFF'S POST-CONVICTION PRESS COVERAGE
"Abramoff to Bush: Turn the Other Cheek My Ass!"
7. PBS PLEDGE DRIVE
"Proud to be Your Equal Opportunity Annoyer!"
8. PAT ROBERTSON & JERRY FALWELL TV SHOWS
"Earth! This Is (Insert Your Personal God's Name Here) I Want ALL You People Out By the End of the Month. I've Got a Client Who's Interested in the Property."
Friday, April 13, 2007
Miss Holley King says goodbye to Wickenburg - and Andy Olson falls off his roof!
For years, Miss Holley King (a.k.a. Keri Plezia) has hosted a kickin' rock-a-billy show on Wickenburg's KBSZ 1250 AM, one of the last genuine small-town radio stations (click here to listen to their Web stream). Now she's moving to South Haven, Michigan, and will do her last show for KBSZ tomorrow. Here's the official scoop (including that, uh, breaking news about Andy) from Miss Holley King's group e-mail:
"Tomorrow (Saturday April 14th) is my LAST SHOW over at KBSZ 1250 AM (8 am-12 noon Arizona time).
I am going to dedicate my show 'Rock-a-billy & BEYOND' to Arizona music and I will play nothin’ but Arizona tunes for all of you. From cats like: Duane Eddy, Al Casey, Sanford Clark, Don Cole, Loy Clingman, Jimmy Spellman, Frank Fafara, Henry Thome, Lee Hazelwood, The EARPS, The Heymakers, Hans Olson, Chico Chism, Bob Corritore, Big Nick and the Gila Monsters, The Hacienda Brothers, Dave Insley, Anthony Vincent and the Rhythm Dragons, Hub Cap and the Wheels, CHUCK "WAGON" MAULTSBY and HIS OLD BAND, and Tom Tuerff (just to name a few). AND Pat Roberts from the Phoenix based band The Heymakers will be visiting us . . .
I have really enjoyed my 7 years at KBSZ 1250 AM with Pete and Jo Peterson. Working with such fine folks and having the opportunity to learn from some of the best in the business was a privileged experience.
I will still continue my one hour 'Rock-a-billy & BEYOND' radio show over at RADIO FREE PHOENIX Sundays at 2pm (AZ Time)!
ALSO….
On the 'sad news front,' Andy Olson, owner and station manager of RADIO FREE PHOENIX, fell off his roof the other day and according to his wife Cheryl, 'He didn't break or fracture anything but was seriously cut on his head and lost a large portion of his scalp. He's home now and it could have been tragic.'
Please keep Andy in your thoughts for a quick recovery.
Miss Holley King"
Thursday, April 12, 2007
AHEM: -- AN ALIEN PROBLEM -- IN PHOENIX?
NOPE I'm not talking about the 80 Chicanos discovered in the house in West Phoenix being held by the Coyotes for more dinero. I am not talking about the thousands that migrate annualy from Nogales.
I am talking about The Phoenix Lights in the sky. The numeous hushed-up reports of unexplainable apparitions over Luke Air Force Base. LOTS of hushed-up reports of that type RIGHT THERE IN YOUR BACK YARD Phoenicians on March 13, 1997.
Add to that encounters at Luke AFB with 8-foot-tall "shadow people" capable of leaping into the air well over a patrol vehicle. Add to that the video footage taken just last February of this year, 2007. Add to that........ well, the stories just go on and on. Google "Phoenix Lights" for an education.
Oh sure, this has nothing to do (YOU think) about KCAC and Phoenix radio but take a good look at the picture of the Living Room with Bill Compton and the rest of the gang at the foothills of South Mountain Park. Betty Thomson the artist, took some more pictures a few days after that one that showed various members of the KCAC tribe WITH BRILLIANT PATTERNED LIGHTS in the backgound shining from South Mountain. That was 1969. I am told those old Polaroids still exist somewhere.
Since then I have seen videos, pictures, read many stories and heard a few hushed comments about Unexplainable Phenomenae right there in Maricopa County.
NOW boys and girls, you have CROP CIRCLES popping up in Chandler (hello Andy and Liz?) and in Tolleson near where I worked at KRDS - way back in what - '73? Crop circles .......... Hello? Is there anybody in there? Is it time to go yet?
CLICK THE HEADLINE for more.
I am talking about The Phoenix Lights in the sky. The numeous hushed-up reports of unexplainable apparitions over Luke Air Force Base. LOTS of hushed-up reports of that type RIGHT THERE IN YOUR BACK YARD Phoenicians on March 13, 1997.
Add to that encounters at Luke AFB with 8-foot-tall "shadow people" capable of leaping into the air well over a patrol vehicle. Add to that the video footage taken just last February of this year, 2007. Add to that........ well, the stories just go on and on. Google "Phoenix Lights" for an education.
Oh sure, this has nothing to do (YOU think) about KCAC and Phoenix radio but take a good look at the picture of the Living Room with Bill Compton and the rest of the gang at the foothills of South Mountain Park. Betty Thomson the artist, took some more pictures a few days after that one that showed various members of the KCAC tribe WITH BRILLIANT PATTERNED LIGHTS in the backgound shining from South Mountain. That was 1969. I am told those old Polaroids still exist somewhere.
Since then I have seen videos, pictures, read many stories and heard a few hushed comments about Unexplainable Phenomenae right there in Maricopa County.
NOW boys and girls, you have CROP CIRCLES popping up in Chandler (hello Andy and Liz?) and in Tolleson near where I worked at KRDS - way back in what - '73? Crop circles .......... Hello? Is there anybody in there? Is it time to go yet?
CLICK THE HEADLINE for more.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Who READS this stuff anyway?
If you are a new reader here, you deserve some explanation as to what is happening here. KCAC Lives! started almost as a joke. Actually, a catch-all for jokes between a few compulsive emailers, who were jamming up everyone's mailboxes - (at least people who were formerly involved with KCAC and KDKB radio) in Phoenix.
That was a couple of years ago. Now, steeped in nostalgia and memories, it has grown to include listeners and fans of those thrilling days of yesteryear when most of us were just out for some fun. Fun is a dangerously contagious thing, very difficult to regulate or govern and even after all these years, the spontenaity of the time frame of particularly 1969-1977 has come under scruitiny. I was very fortunate to be a small part of it. Fun after all - real fun - is free when you can find it.
We - the readers and contributors of this blog - seem to be a part of not only those times, but a part of a more recent generation that is searching for fun - like in those times in question. There was far more freedom. There was far less suspicion. There was far more fun. So much so, that we now have even youngsters visiting this site apparently in the hopes that some of that Old Magic will rub off on them.
As we Old Timers drag our aging bodies to the mirror, we begin to realize that we have become "the enemy" the Institution, the over-30 crowd that we used to identify as "other" in the times we celebrated as being Ours Forever. So it seems incongrous to read the statistics of this website (see site counters at the bottom of the page) and discover that more than a few of our voyeurs are young people, some from universities and broadcast schools as far away as Hong Kong. The number of hits on this website averagre about 25 per day and have at times, been into the hundreds! Early on, it was just a handfull per day. It used to be remarkable to watch the accumulated hits exceeding 5,000. Now we are well over 20,000 last time I looked. There is no way to tally the hits in the archives but if you are LOOKING for clues, there are a bunch there.
WHAT HAPPENED BACK THERE? in 1969 and even into the early eighties? It was a HUGE outburst of creativity in song and art that we are STILL feeling the effects of and still trying to understand. ENTIRE radio stations are now devoted to this music and the interest just keeps enduring like - "It doesn't get any better than this".
That may be. The Song has been sung and will probably never be sung again. There will never be another Woodstock. There will never be another Haight-Ashbury. There will never be another Beale Street. There will never be another time when Money didn't really matter, when love - finding and giving it - was more important than gridlock on the commute.
And yet, there are those who are seeking. Who don't remember because they were not born yet. So I guess you could say that it is YOU to whom we dedicate what we do. You who are driven to find even an echo of The Mantra that has spontaneously risen here.
WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT will be a new thing. It will be YOUR thing. Rock on.
God is Alive - Magic Is Afoot.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Hello, hello... is there anybody out there?
At the risk of sounding like a Grouchy Old Fart (which I am), has anybody read my last couple of posts??? I keep them short & sweet and not too frequent (maybe once every 7 to 10 days) and they concern news or information that I genuinely think like-minded folks will find worthwhile. But lately they tend to get buried by an avalanche of other, lengthier postings that come in at a much faster rate, so I don't know if anybody has actually read mine. My last two posts (one of which has already been "archived" and no longer appears as a current item, though it's only about 2 weeks old) have generated no response whatsoever. C'mon, folks, a little acknowledgment, a little feedback, would be appreciated. Or is it just that our circle has shrunk to a few hard-core posters? I hope not! This is supposed to be about communication, sharing, network-building, and other good stuff, Let's hear from all of you!
Tom (GOF) Wright
Tom (GOF) Wright
Sunday, April 01, 2007
PREDATORY UNCLE TARGETS TODDLERS
CHAPTER TWO: "TRUE TALES FROM THE CORPORATE UNDERBELLY"
or "FORGET YOUR KID'S COLLEGE FUND! AND WHO NEEDS MILK ANYWAY?"
1) The RIAA today sent a "SETTLEMENT LETTER" to ALL parents of children under
3 years old offering a TODDLER SETTLEMENT RATE for online copyright infringement
if they simply SEND PAYMENT to major record labels BEFORE THEIR CHILDREN LEARN
TO READ.
(AND IF PARENTS NEVER LET THEIR CHILDREN LEARN TO READ, THE RIAA WILL OFFER A
CUT RATE DEAL ON THEIR THOUGHTFUL SETTLEMENT RATE!)
2) "OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE THIS EASIER FOR THE PARENTS," said RIAA President Cary
Sherman."...It is inevitable that EVERY CHILD IN AMERICA WILL INFRINGE COPYRIGHT
SOONER OR LATER. With our 'TODDLER SETTLEMENT' RATE, PARENTS CAN AVOID THOSE
PESKY LAWSUITS. CONSIDER IT A WAY TO INVEST IN YOUR CHILD'S FUTURE."
(THEY'LL EVEN SEND COMPLIMENTARY RIAA CLOWNS TO YOUR CHILD'S PARTY!)
3)The TODDLER SETTLEMENT REQUIRES PARENTS to LOG EVERYTHING THEIR CHILD EVER DOES
ONLINE and to MAKE THOSE LOGS AVAILABLE TO THE RIAA AT REGULAR INTERVALS.
"IT CAN JUST BECOME A PART OF EVERY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION," added RIAA's counsel at
Holme, Roberts and Owen;"BLOW OUT THE CANDLES AND SEND YOUR INTERNET LOGS TO UNCLE
RIAA!"
(SNARLED UNCLE RIAA AS HE CLOSED THE BEDROOM DOOR: "SLEEP WELL, MY PRETTIES.")
Information from the Electronic Frontier Foundation newsletter. To read full post:
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Little-known music worth checking out!
Ivo Papasov and his Bulgarian Wedding Band. No, I'm not kidding. Look him up on Youtube. Watch, listen, be astonished. Makes Dave Brubeck, Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, and other folks who have experimented with multiple time signatures and polyrhythms look like hopeless amateurs. THIS is why the best music matters - it goes equally to your head, your heart, and your feet and makes it seem like anything is possible. (Although anybody who actually tries to dance to this stuff is liable to wind up in the hospital from trying to move in five different directions at once.)
Tom
Tom
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