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(S4-EP 12) Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention-Absolutely Free (Verve) (Special Guest Steve DeLuca) Released May 26, 1967  recorded November 15–18, 1966 March 6, 1967[Absolutely Free, the second album by The Mothers of Invention. Expanding on the experimental nature of their debut, Freak Out!, the album blends rock, jazz, and classical music with biting social and political satire. Structured as two conceptual suites—"Absolutely Free" and "The M.O.I. American Pageant"—the album critiques American culture, consumerism, and political corruption. Tracks like "Plastic People" and "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" mock conformity and hypocrisy, while the ambitious composition of "Brown Shoes" showcases Zappa's mastery of genre fusion. Recorded in just four days with a limited budget, Absolutely Free incorporates influences from Stravinsky, Holst, and Varèse, foreshadowing Zappa's later experimental works. Though controversial and facing censorship, the album reached #41 on the Billboard 200 and has since become a cult classic. It remains a landmark in avant-garde rock, cementing Zappa's reputation as a fearless musical innovator. Joining Jay on this extended episode is returning guest music historian and drummer Steve DeLuca. Signature Tracks "Plastic People,"  "Call Any Vegetables"  "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" Playlist:  You Tube Playlist   Spotify Playlist Full Albums YouTube , Spotify Playlist

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Mitch Russo started his public life as the lead guitarist of a rock band called Absolutely Free. Since then, Mitch has been quite productive.  In 1985, Mitch co-founded Timeslips Corp, with Neil Rice Ayer, which grew to become the largest time tracking software company in the world. In 1994, Timeslips Corp was sold to Sage and Mitch became the company's Chief Operating Officer. Mitch was nominated for Inc. Magazine's “Entrepreneur of the Year” on two separate occasions and Won “Best Entrepreneur” in 1989. Mitch joined longtime friend Chet Holmes as President, later to join forces with Tony Robbins and together created Business Breakthroughs, Int'l, a company serving thousands of businesses a year with coaching, consulting and training services. Mitch was the President and CEO.  Mitch is the author of several books and now serves as the CEO of MindfulGuidance, LLC.

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In today's episode, I share a free diagnostic tool that you can use to improve your organisation and your leadership skills. The organisational gap analysis focuses on identifying gaps regarding psychological safety in the workplace and workplace relationships.  As leaders, it's our responsibility to reflect, identify the gaps and make the necessary changes. This might include an action plan with steps to follow, strategies to implement or training to attend. But it all starts with that gap analysis! If you are someone who shies away from reflection or analysing what is missing, then this gap analysis is perfect for you! The questions have been meticulously thought-out to stimulate your thinking and get you moving so that you don't have to shy away from reflection, but rather take action. CLICK HERE to access the free organisational gap analysis.  Next steps:  1. Navigate to https://www.womenoffaithinleadership.com where you can: Join the community of like-minded female Christian leaders. This is where I will be hanging out if I'm not on the podcast chatting to you all. Come share and support each other here.  Subscribe to my newsletter so you can stay up to date with all upcoming episodes and any other exclusive or special offers. 2. If you need any support, you can get in contact with me for a 1:1 coaching session. Just email me at support@rikawhelan.com 3. Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rikawhelan  

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How to spot an actual fascist in your midst! The Two Matts explore a fascinating checklist that sends shudders down their spines … and sheds light on the persistent rise of right wing populists from Geert Wilders in Holland to Javier Milei in Argentina to Nigel Farage in… as James Cleverley would say… a sh*thole in the Australian rainforest. Plus.. how to respond if invited to the cinema to watch Ridley Scott's Napoleon: “Not tonight.” All this and more in this week's Two Matts podcast.SPECIAL OFFER: Subscribe today and receive six New European Christmas cards and our hilarious 2024 Calendar (worth £25) ABSOLUTELY FREE: https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/2matts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this Q&A episode Matt Kelly and Matthew d'Ancona answer questions on Jordan Peterson, the EU, podcasting, and politics. Can the use of humour counter charlatans and populists? Does the EU need to undergo reformation before the UK rejoins, and who should you vote for?Thanks to Roland, Keith, Andrew, J.Wells and Micheal for their questions.Subscribe to The New European TODAY and receive six New European Christmas cards and our hilarious 2024 Calendar (worth £25) ABSOLUTELY FREE https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/subscribe/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First half… a sharp dissection of the asylum that has become UK politics. How did Rishi Sunak manage to make Suella Braverman look like the competent one? In the second half, the Two Matts are joined by the inimitable Dom Joly whose new book on conspiracy theories is a treat. Well, that's the rumour we heard anyway.Subscribe to The New European TODAY and receive six New European Christmas cards and our hilarious 2024 Calendar (worth £25) ABSOLUTELY FREE https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/subscribe/LINKSDom's book: "The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In the last two seasons, Trevor Bauer has gone from being the Cy Young Award-winning star of the L.A. Dodgers to pitching for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Japan's Central League, all over sexual assault charges in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Major League Baseball immediately suspended Bauer for 324 games, basically banishing him from the majors. After the due process played out, California authorities refused to bring criminal charges, and Bauer settled a civil suit without admitting guilt or paying his accuser. Jason says it's easy to lay blame for Bauer's situation, but it doesn't rest where you might think. “It's easy to simply blame the #MeToo movement and castigate the women who have used the movement to bully and terrorize men. Men are to blame for what happened to Trevor Bauer, including Trevor Bauer himself. Our immorality and cowardice have created the current environment.” Society has worked to weaken men and take their masculinity. “Women take advantage of weak men. The #MeToo environment is what we deserve.” Royce White and T.J. Moe join “Fearless” to debate Bauer's saga and the fall of men. Steve Kim shares his thoughts on Bauer and the rising tension between ESPN's Stephen A. Smith and Dan Le Batard over Skip Bayless. Shemeka Michelle stops in to discuss Jamaal Bowman's “alarming” incident and Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler's new “Karen cut." And, Pro Football Hall of Famer and Packers legend Brett Favre is here to discuss several NFL headlines, including Zach Wilson's performance on "Sunday Night Football" and whether it is finally time to turn the page on Bill Belichick and the Patriots' dynasty. We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ​​Today's Sponsors: Tired of someone else telling you where to go when you have a medical need? Are you ready to take control of your health care? Samaritan Ministries could be the solution you're looking for. Check it out today at https://Samaritanministries.org/fearless Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! It's time to take care of your liver! If you're looking to ignite your fat-burning metabolism, boost your energy, and transform how you look and feel - try Liver Health Formula and receive a FREE bottle of Blood Sugar Formula to reduce sugar cravings when you order today. Try Liver Health Formula by going to https://GetLiverHelp.com/Jason and claim your FREE bonus gift today! Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!” Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11:02 – The Appreciation is vast as Mark Rose joins Bret/PQ for an intensive look at the first two Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention albums!! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. Excerpts of Frank Zappa's music do NOT belong to us and are used as Fair Use […]

1:11:02 – The Appreciation is vast as Mark Rose joins Bret/PQ for an intensive look at the first two Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention albums!! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. Excerpts of Frank Zappa's music do NOT belong to us and are used as Fair Use […]

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Jason has some breaking news for Don Lemon, he's being squeezed out by CNN. Following the “controversy” over his comments about Nikki Haley, Lemon was given a few days off before being allowed to return to the air. Jason says this is what happens when a network is done with someone. They use a drummed up controversy to gently ease you out the door, he knows, that's how ESPN did it to him. Vladimir Putin is making headlines following his recent speech. Mainstream media is focusing on threats of escalating nuclear war with the west. Pastors Anthony Walker and Bobby Harrington join Jason to discuss the real bomb that should be garnering the attention, the truth bomb Putin dropped on America for turning its back on Biblical principles. In his latest column, “Fearless” contributor Delano Squires opines how the cancellation of VH1's “Sorority Sisters” should be used as a guideline to prevent the further feminization of black men. Plus, “The First Lady of Fearless” Shemeka Michelle tries to “Make It Make Sense” as to why Ciara continues to emasculate Russel Wilson on social media and why the internet wants to ban a dancing TikTok influencer.  We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com Visit https://www.fearlessarmyrollcall.com to get your tickets! See you at RocketTown in Nashville, TN | 04/15/23 ​​Today's Sponsor: Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!” Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tiger Woods' return to the course was off to a hot start at the Genesis Open, but a harmless prank played on a fellow competitor has the media all up in its feelings. After outdriving Justin Thomas, Tiger slipped Justin a tampon as the pair walked down the fairway; they laughed, shared a bro hug, and went on with their round. “Fearless” contributor Steve Kim joins Jason to share his thoughts on Eldrick's shenanigans. Stephen A. Smith found a way to place blame on Andy Reid for Eric Bieniemy's inability to land an NFL head coaching job. The "Korean Cosell" unloads on Stephen A. Disney's “The Proud Family” seems to be completely written by BLM. Delano Squires circles back into our conversation concerning pride, its intersection with racial identity, and how cartoons and sharing viral videos are further driving division. Even though Don Lemon isn't a biologist, he seems to know a lot about women. The CNN host said former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is past her prime. "A woman is in her prime in her 20s, 30s, and maybe 40s," and if you don't believe him, just Google it. The first lady of "Fearless," Shemeka Michelle, is definitely in her prime and addresses Lemon's sour comments. We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com Visit https://www.fearlessarmyrollcall.com to get your tickets! See you at RocketTown in Nashville, TN | 04/15/23 ​​Today's Sponsor: Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless  Army!” Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In today's “Fearless” episode, Jason discusses the recent firing of the Houston Texans' head coach, Lovie Smith. Once again, it proves that the NFL doesn't really care about the success of black head coaches, and the hiring was just another example of the diversity, inclusion, and equity agenda. Former NFL player Larry Johnson joins us once again to discuss whether the pregame prayer for Damar Hamlin is a sign the NFL is less hostile to God. “Fearless” contributor Steve Kim joins Jason to discuss Week 18 in the NFL. Is Aaron Rodgers done with football or with Green Bay? Will J.J. Watt come out of retirement? Did Mike Tomlin have a successful season? Does Michael Strahan's recent outburst on live TV mean Fox Sports is done with Skip Bayless? Also, did the NFL turn Damar Hamlin into Ukraine? "Last Chance U's" Coach Jason Brown stops by to talk to Dak Prescott, Geno Smith, and Deshaun Watson. Plus, a shocking take on whether Patrick Mahomes is overrated as an NFL quarterback.   We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com   Join the Fearless Movement by attending Roll Call in Nashville on April 15 FearlessArmyRollCall.com    ​​Today's Sponsor: Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 323 is a bargain. I mean, not like cheap socks or 2-for-1 toasters like you could get at Zellers in Canada in the 1980s. (I'm just guessing about that.) But in this episode, we're playing TIME WARP, one of two games Zellers developed in 1983 all on its own for the 2600, maybe in aisle 3 between the winter coats and MC Hammer parachute pants. And the episode is ABSOLUTELY FREE! No coupon required. You're welcome. Original Short Story: The Terminal. The Eternal. And the Guy Who Counts Time. Thanks to Kevin McLeod at Incompetech.com for creative commons use of his songs "Take a Chance", "Pinball Spring" and "Reformat".  Thanks to Sean Courtney for the "Storytime" theme. All you need to know about this show, ATARI BYTES, my other show IT'S A PODCAST, CHARLIE BROWN, and books written by me that can be owned by you can be found at https://www.carnivalofgleecreations.com/ Support the show at patreon.com here.  

Join me and my special guest Tom Scabareti; Sales Trainer, Mentor & Coach as we discuss how to master customer centric selling as a small business owner.  Tom is a Sales Trainer, Mentor and Coach specializing in Marketing Staff Development, Public Speaking, Business Partner Relationship Development with understanding and knowledge for product and brand marketing, senior housing market, recruitment and staffing, customer service, and all areas of training. He has hands on experience in business networking and development of referral business partners. Tom's passion is to find the hidden essence in each person and help them develop it and create their personal success. As a sales coach, Tom believes success in sales and life starts with mindset. Understanding your role, discovering your clients why or need and then providing the best solutions begins with an open mind, a sense of curiosity and listening to understand. This approach takes sales to a whole new level when it becomes solution focused rather than selling a product or service. In this episode, you will learn: 1. What is Customer Centric Selling? 2. How is it different? 3. Why it works? 4. How to implement it? Tune into this exciting episode of Stand Out & Grow and get an ABSOLUTELY FREE review of your current sales process without any strings attached! Tune into this Episode of Stand Out & Grow to learn more! Find all notes at www.standoutngrow.com Find adBidtise Properties at: www.adbidtise.com www.hashtagsocialbuzz.com www.linkedin4yourbusiness.com www.katherineramirez.net Please take a moment and review us so more people can find our podcast. Thanks in advance. Kat You Got This!

Former President Donald Trump is making waves in the news once again. Unfortunately, they're very small waves. He recently declared he had a "huge announcement," and it turned out that his huge announcement was nothing more than a Donald Trump NFT card collection. This has stirred up a lot of mixed feelings on social media from his supporters. “Fearless” brings in rapper Bryson Gray and “Fearless” soldier Royce White to discuss Donald Trump's unclear tactic and what it could mean for his MAGA movement supporters. Elon Musk is stirring up the internet as well. Since his Twitter takeover, he has angered the Left — triggering people who have set out to attack his family life. This raises the question: Who is the bigger threat, Elon Musk or Donald Trump? We know the Alphabet Mafia has been the leader on social media platforms, but who is its priority target? If it's Elon Musk, then what is Musk's plan of attack? Jason, Bryson, and Royce answer these questions with differing viewpoints because Elon and his battle plans aren't very transparent. Tennessee Harmony cools down the conversation, continuing with yesterday's topic on churches — rather than YouTubers and influencers — needing to be the “marriage factories” and marriage counselors of society.    We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com   ​​Today's Sponsors: Pre-Born has a passion to save unborn babies from abortion and see women come to Christ. Help rescue babies' lives. Donate by dialing #250 and say the keyword, "BABY."  That's #250, keyword, "BABY." OR - go to https://Preborn.org/Fearless. Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! Have you struggled with shoulder pain? Let's say you've tried everything: From Stacking pillows to new sleeping positions, but nothing helped. MedCline is your solution! MedCline comes with a 60 night sleep guarantee! Get 20% off and a better night's sleep today at https://www.medcline.com/FEARLESS. Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black influencers exposed themselves as battery-backed, useful idiots during the Kyrie Irving-"Hebrews to Negroes" controversy. They unintentionally revealed a truth about modern celebrity. The digital media age rejects adherence to a set of values and requires obedience to the whims of public opinion. LeBron's forced comments about Jerry Jones are another attempt by James to establish a new position on Irving and to win "street cred" and the approval of his social media followers. “Fearless” contributor Royce White vocalizes his thoughts on LeBron's comments. “History doesn't define you. When people try to suspend you in history, it makes it easier for them to distract you in the present.” “Fearless” soldier Steve Kim also joins the discussion to rip apart the double standard that LeBron James, Stephen A. Smith, and Jay Williams hold. “Hey, LeBron, I have a question for you. What do you think of Joe Biden giving a eulogy to a former KKK member? I mean, this is what LeBron is asking for, right?”   We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com   ​​Today's Sponsors: Pre-Born has a passion to save unborn babies from abortion and see women come to Christ. Help rescue babies' lives. Donate by dialing #250 and say the keyword, "BABY." That's #250, keyword, "BABY." OR - go to https://Preborn.org/Fearless. Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode of “Fearless,” Jason brings on rapper Bryson Gray for a full show to discuss some of the hottest topics on your news feed. Former President Donald Trump announced his third bid as a presidential nominee for 2024, and there have been a lot of former Trump fans who have switched over to #TeamDeSantis — but Jason is still #TeamTrump. “Fearless” soldiers Royce White and Bryson Gray talk about the future of the MAGA movement. In recent news, the former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX has gone bankrupt, leading to the loss of millions of dollars for a multitude of investors, including celebrities like Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen, Stephen Curry, and others. Jason saw a huge red flag with FTX's ex-CEO. However, it had nothing to do with his education, background, or cryptocurrency. Bryson Gray's latest song, “Shut Up and Dribble,” is a true-to-hip-hop track that disses LeBron James and includes many political and spiritual references that make it a rap song all must hear. Steve Kim, hip-hop fan and the “Korean Cosell” of "Fearless," reviews Bryson Gray's track and gives us his take. Also, the former NFL running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, Larry Johnson, joins “Fearless.” Jason has known Larry since their early days in Kansas City. Larry brings his interesting insights on the Black Hebrew Israelite issue with Kanye West and Kyrie Irving. Larry also opens up about his past and exposes some surprising facts he learned about rapper Jay-Z from his close relationship with him during his early NFL days.   We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com   ​​Today's Sponsors: Have yourself a Black Angus Friday with two FREE steaks from Good Ranchers! Right now, they have an Exclusive Black Friday offer of 2 FREE 12oz Black Angus New York Strip Steaks! Plus, save an additional $25 on every box when you subscribe. Visit https://GoodRanchers.com/FEARLESS to redeem this offer and lock in your price for life! Pre-Born has a passion to save unborn babies from abortion and see women come to Christ. Help rescue babies' lives. Donate by dialing #250 and say keyword,  "BABY." That's #250, keyword, "BABY." OR - go to https://Preborn.org/Fearless. Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless  Army!” Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The current culture has more reverence for feelings than beliefs. Social media trained many of us to feel that the police were randomly killing black men across the country. Statistics and facts did not and do not support that feeling. We ignored the facts. We demonized and defunded law enforcement. Social media drives our overemphasis on feelings and our hostility toward religious beliefs. Our society was more unified when we judged beliefs and were less concerned with protecting feelings. In today's show, Jason discusses the disrespectful Respect for Marriage Act, which spits on the biblical faith that created the American institution. “Fearless” soldier Dave Shannon gives us a bold take on what actions our churches need to take to fight this act. In sports news, the Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green sets a bad example with unsportsmanlike conduct. Will this behavior destroy the Warriors? Also, there are rumors that LeBron James might leave the Los Angeles Lakers for the Phoenix Suns. Lakers fan and the "Fearless" crew's favorite "Cosell" Steve Kim answers these questions and slaps us with some truth about stooges LeBron James and Draymond Green. “Fearless” contributor Shemeka Michelle helps Jason make sense of a daughter's disturbing eulogy at her father's funeral.   We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ​​Today's Sponsors: Pre-Born has a passion to save unborn babies from abortion and see women come to Christ. Help rescue babies' lives. Donate by dialing #250 and say keyword,  "BABY." That's #250, keyword, "BABY." OR - go to https://Preborn.org/Fearless. Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Djason Unchained” is a “Fearless” edition of a raw, bold, one-take episode. The Left wants us compliant and they've taken Kyrie Irving to a shed to publicly beat and make an example out of him. The secular elites want to silence dissent. For anyone to try to influence with God challenges our secular establishment. It's a threat because biblical values established the United States of America and the Left doesn't want your children understanding these values. What we have today is Wrestlemania. It's Karl Marx vs Thomas Jefferson, Satan vs God, good vs evil. Former President Donald Trump may not have been on an active Christian journey, but what his red hat did was make Ron Desantis, Kari Lake, Kathy Barnette, Glenn Younkin, and so many more. It compelled men and women to wear their Christianity on their sleeves to stand up to the marxist forces in this country.   We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com   ​​Today's Sponsors: Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! There's a lot to cover this election cycle, but TheBlaze has you covered! Stu Burguiere serves as Blaze Media's psephologist(just a fancy word for someone who studies elections). Stu put together a comprehensive guide to let you know exactly what you need to look out for on election night. Head to TheBlaze.com/ElectionGuide to receive a FREE copy of Blaze Media's Ultimate Guide to the Midterms delivered straight to your inbox! Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LeBron James is in pursuit of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's NBA scoring record; this should be a huge story. Jason argues James' desire to be “more than an athlete” has diminished his professional achievements and is demeaning the game of basketball. “LeBron James' pursuit of Kareem should be a big deal, a really big deal. It won't garner near the attention and celebration it should, because LeBron has damaged the popularity of basketball. He's made us evaluate athletes in a way that exposes their shortcomings.” “Fearless” soldier Steve Kim weighs in on LeBron's legacy and why we have to stop making comparisons between modern-day athletes and Muhammad Ali. There's speculation that Tom Brady may not complete the NFL season. Jason and Steve discuss the impact it would have on his G.O.A.T status. Jason recently joined Fox News' Tucker Carlson for a conversation about the race hate being peddled by MSNBC's Tiffany Cross and Joy Reid. The first lady of "Fearless" Shemeka Michelle shares her thoughts on the proliferation of angry black women in the media. Plus, Bishop T.D. Jakes has handed over the reins of his “Woman, Thou Art Loosed” ministry to his daughter. Virgil Walker stops in to discuss the move and how Jakes' brand of Christian feminism runs counter to biblical womanhood. We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com   ​​Today's Sponsors: Get a huge OctoberFeast with over four pounds of meat for FREE! Two pounds of wagyu ground beef and two and a half pounds of their better than organic chicken for FREE with any purchase of one of their bundle boxes. Go to https://GoodRanchers.com/FEARLESS to claim your special Octoberfeast offer today. Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! The NFL is back and BET DSI is where you can bet and make extra money. Bet with me on NFL – NBA – MMA – and my favorite… Politics! Play. Win. Get paid! Go to https://www.betdsi.com and use promo code “WHITLOCK”. Please remember to bet responsibly. Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, and welcome to Beauty and the Biz where we talk about the business and marketing side of plastic surgery and 5 Shifts to a Steady Stream of Cosmetic Patients. I'm your host, Catherine Maley, author of Your Aesthetic Practice – What your patients are saying, as well as consultant to plastic surgeons, to get them more patients and more profits. Now, today's episode is called "5 Shifts to a Steady Stream of Cosmetic Patients." It takes a certain mindset to succeed today in regards to 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. You have to think different, then be different to attract a steady stream of patients you want, whenever you want, at the price you want. So, if you've been struggling with the yoyo-ing revenue from month to month that keeps you up at night because you're anxious about covering your overhead, this episode is for you. This came about because I watch so many practices advertise specials and I get it...you're trying to attract new cosmetic patients but that hurts your profit margins and typically, these patients are those price shoppers who nickel and dime you to death, which is not part of the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. And social media has become a popular patient attraction strategy; however, when done right, it takes a ton of your own personal time because prospective patients want to see, hear and watch YOU.  That's what keeps them engaged so now you're not only the service provider, you are also the marketer and social media influencer. But there's a creative way for you to increase the number of cosmetic patient visits, referrals, reviews and shares on social media, so your existing patients enthusiastically grow your practice for you. The key word here, in regards to the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients, is existing patients because they are your lowest-hanging fruit and the fastest, cheapest, easiest way to more revenues because they already know, like and trust you.  That means, you don't need to put on a show for them. They are open to you and are much more apt to respond to you, so it's always smart to start here first. Because you know how much easier your job is when you're working with patients you enjoy vs. those you don't enjoy because they zap your energy. You know those patients that are demanding, rude to your staff, freely negotiate with you and make you regret ever inviting them into your practice in the first place.  You just don't need the extra hassle of undesirable patients so let's fix that so you can succeed at the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. It no longer makes sense to play the quantity game by spending more on advertising to attract a bunch of leads your staff has to follow up on that wastes their time and wastes your time when they don't show up for consultations or they show up, but say they have other consultations with your competitors so they can't commit. You don't need that aggravation. I want to give you a step-by-step strategy to attract a Steady Stream of High-Paying Patients.....  ... Without outrageous ad budgets, discounting your services or your competitors stealing your patients. So, Does any of this sound familiar….. Do you lose cosmetic patients and revenues to the ever-growing number of competitors surrounding you (who may be utilizing the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients), even though you believe you provide better results?  That competition is NOT going away and is only going to get worse as gov regulations increase and insurance reimbursements decrease and as advancements in technology give patients so many more surgical AND non-surgical options. That last point affects you bigtime because patients will delay an expensive surgical procedure if they believe they can get a good enough result non-surgically in the short run from a non-surgeon - even if it ends up costing them more down the line.  And studies show, as it relates to the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients, if you don't develop a relationship early on with a patient who wants non-surgical procedures, you won't get them when they are ready for surgery because they have developed a relationship with your competitor instead. Just sayin... Or maybe you are bringing in good revenue but by the time you've paid for your marketing, staff, office and equipment, there's virtually nothing left over for you? Because the sign of a successful practice is if you pay yourself a nice salary AND you have money left over. And/or are you working WAY too hard and dealing with too much stress and hassle for what you're getting paid? And what about the constant state of uncertainty that the government, or a pandemic, or the economy and/or technology could put you out of business without a moment's notice? This is why you need the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. So, what's the Real Problem and How do You Fix This? Well, one of the problems is too many agencies and internet marketers are promising you the world, but rarely do you see the results you were promised so you're frustrated and skeptical and for good reason.  If any of that sounds familiar, then I have good news for you because none of those are the real problem. Those are just symptoms.  The real problem is that you have not made the 5 SHIFTS needed to set up a truly profitable practice you enjoy. Because once you make these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients, You have peace of mind knowing you have an automatic system to attract a steady stream of cash-paying patients you can count on to grow your revenues. You feel in control with a predictable and reliable plan to keep your revenues coming in month after month and all year long.  If you have experienced killer months and then crickets, you know what I'm mean. This often happens because our industry can be cyclical so it's important to have a plan to avoid those feast and famine periods that cause you angst. And, once you make these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients, you lock out your competitors and make it impossible for them to steal your patients away because your patients are loyal to you and see you as the ONLY choice, as well as the BEST choice. It's liking putting golden handcuffs on your patients so they wouldn't dream of going anywhere else. And here's the best part once you make these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. You go back to enjoying your work because you are able to scale and grow a sellable practice should you decide to exit in the future....or not. It's your choice! The 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients Now I discovered these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients after consulting with hundreds of cosmetic practices for more than 2 decades, I noted what the TOP cosmetic practices were doing that other LESS successful practices weren't. I shared this with my clients and now they get unbelievable results because they made the 5 key shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients and here they are….. Shift #1:  Patient Centric vs. Money Centric When you make the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients, your thinking from a “One and Done” money grab event to a “Patients for Life” mindset, you win the long game because.... Instead of thinking about your own bottom line and what's best for you, you think about what is best for your patient.  These 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients in thinking changes your perspective as well as your attitude about the services you provide. You now see and treat patients as family and friends. They see your practice as a friendly safe haven. They trust you and your staff to take good care of them.  That trust is what keeps them coming back again and again. Think about it this way.... You cater to a very hungry audience of cosmetic patients who care about their appearance.  They have endless needs for a lifetime, thanks to the aging process.  So today, they may want Botox, then a laser treatment and now they're ready for surgery and then back to non-surgical treatments to keep their look fresh. This goes on for decades.  So, commit to treating your patients like friends and family by giving them 5-star customer service and they will stay with you for the long run.  They will also reciprocate by growing your revenues for you by returning to YOU rather than your competitors. And by referring their friends, family, coworkers and neighbors.  And by giving you great online reviews that thousands of other potential patients will see online. And by sharing you on their own social media platforms so THEIR followers get to know you and contact you because they're ready for your services. Think of your cosmetic patients as your lifeblood to all you want in life…such as a fulfilling livelihood that affords you a comfortable lifestyle that supports your family, your interests and your financial future. When you start looking at your patients in this different light, that changes your perspective, as well as your attitude and your patients feel these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients and act accordingly. Shift #2: Drop the Discounts There are only 2 reasons why you're not charging higher prices, or worse, discounting your cosmetic services… The first one is you think this industry is commoditized and                your expertise isn't worth higher prices…OR…. You think you will lose patients to your low-balling competitors             if you don't discount. But here's the thing...discounting doesn't work. You'll end up attracting price-shoppers who only care about a low price.  You'll work way harder because you need more of these low-priced patients to make a profit. And you'll deal with more issues from these penny-pinchers who end up giving you bad reviews and complaining about your service (or lack thereof).  And frankly, it's a race to the bottom that you can't win. Instead, you set higher standards to attract higher value cosmetic patients who gladly pay more for great customer service.  This group enthusiastically brags about you to their other high-value friends, leaves you 5-star reviews and is a pleasure to work with. When you really get this, it changes everything. So rather than discount, you set higher standards for great customer service and processes, so your patients have a WOW patient experience every time.  That's because you have enough revenues coming in (which is a key result of the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients), to treat your patients better than if you are penny pinching on expenses and cutting back on the very things patients will pay extra for such as smooth processes and special treatment. In terms of your revenue goals, there's an easier or harder way to get to $1 million. For example: You can cater to the “price shoppers” who are worth $500 to you so you need 2,000 of them OR you can raise your standards, attract better patients who have the financial wherewithal to pay more for a better experience, and become your practice ambassadors who are worth $5K to you so now you only need 200 of them.  That's how you scale and work less but get better results. Shift #3: Use a Secret Weapon The majority of cosmetic practices go about attracting new patients and growing their revenues by doing what everyone else is doing and then wondering why it's not working in regards to these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients.  Oftentimes, they don't even know if it's working or not because they have no easy way of seeing the results. For example…. The OLD traditional methods of getting new patients are to spend a ton of money on: New website design  And SEO using content and backlinks to get ranked And Google AdWords Maybe even a PR agency to get you exposure And directories like RealSelf And even billboards And charity events That's what we call the "hope and pray" marketing approach….Hope it's money well spent and pray you get new patients from it so you feel like you made a good investment. There is a better way within the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients, and here is the secret weapon.... An exclusive Loyalty/Rewards Club that is the most powerful way to scale for predictable revenues without advertising or discounting.... ....AND while turning your existing patients into your raving fans who gladly grow your practice for you, so you no longer worry about "slow spells" and covering your overhead. It does ALL of this while developing lasting relationships with happy patients you enjoy working with. So, you encourage your patients to return more often, refer their friends to you, give you great reviews that thousands of other prospective patients see online, and share you on social media with their OWN followers – all leading to new patients for you organically, without you spending an extra dime. A great aspect of the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. So, the new way is simple. You pull your entire list of existing patients, and it doesn't matter how long it's been since they've been in to see you. Many will return after being gone for many, many years. Now you make a marketing plan to consistently stay in front of these patients, so you are top of mind and when they are ready, they choose you. Then you reward them for their loyalty and for helping you grow your practice and reputation online. For example, you make it fun for your patients to grow your practice for you by rewarding them  when they return more often, refer their friends/family, write a review, approve their B/A photos, share you on social media, shoot a video testimonial, and completing  SX can be optional. A key component of the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. And when your patients collect enough rewards at different tier levels, they are rewarded with Free cosmetic services. Shift #4: Retention is the New Patient Attraction Strategy Because of intense competition and the Internet and social media, it's gotten increasingly more difficult, technical, confusing and time-consuming to attract new cosmetic patients.  So, retaining your cosmetic patients through the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients has become the more direct route to more revenues. Not sure about that?  Consider these recent stats showing you how: It costs 7X more to attract new patients than to retain existing patients Loyal patients spend 67% more than new patients  The average new patient conversion rate is only 5%-20% while the average existing patient conversion rate is a whopping 70%-80% Existing patients spend 31% more on their average order size value and this makes sense because your existing patients already know, like and trust you and are much more open to your recommendations and extra products and services you offer. A 5% increase in retention can increase your profits by 25% - 95% because you're not wasting money on needless advertising or hurting your profits by discounting. You're also NOT wasting a ton of time following up on bad leads. On top of that, your conversion rate is so much better, so your valuable time is spent with patients who say yes rather than with price-shopper strangers who never book. Lastly, 46% of patients spend more after they join a loyalty program and 83% of patients say a loyalty program keeps them coming back. THIS is how you leverage your time with your preferred patients who are worth 10X more to you with these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. And you stop wasting your time with those who nickel-and-dime you and then bolt for the next special deal from your competitors. And here's Shift # 5: Invest in Expertise Everyone should have a mentor or “counsel” that gives them new ideas and provides accountability. In your case, your mentors were seasoned surgeons showing you the way of surgery. In this case, we have been talking about the business and marketing side of surgery so I'll bet there are new ideas forming in your head right now that would not be there if you hadn't taken the time to listen to this and these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. So, here's how it works: It starts with your mindset and your beliefs about what is possible.  Then you take action and actually DO something based on those beliefs. And then you get an outcome which is typically an increase in your income, your happiness and your satisfaction. However, if you're not happy with the revenues in your practice, that means you need a new mindset, a new plan, and accountability. Frankly, you need an experienced mentor who can pave the way to your progress and show you the shortcuts with the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients! All of the above is possible if and ONLY if... You are committed to growth. Just like you invested in becoming a surgeon, because trying to do that WITHOUT proper training is crazy. As a side note, I personally have invested at least $140K on training and mentoring for my own business, and every time, it was a BIG decision, as it was when you invested all that time and money to become a surgeon. Now, that investment pays for itself over and over, doesn't it? The point is, don't go it alone with these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. Find the best expertise out there and spend what it takes to work with them. So, to recap, here are the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients that you need to make to win: Shift 1 - Patient Centric vs. Money Centric Shift 2 - Drop the Discounting Shift 3 - The Secret Weapon Shift 4 - Retention is the New Patient Attraction Shift 5 - Invest in Expertise These 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients alone are enough to propel you to a multi-million-dollar practice. So that leaves You with a choice... You can stay stuck and keep throwing money at advertising that isn't working and wasting time on consultations that don't book or you can give up altogether and watch your patients and revenues slip away and now you can't get them back …. But that leads to more struggle, longer hours and burn out, especially when new competitors open up shop nearby which makes you even more vulnerable to losing patients to them. OR…. if you are done with all of that and want a predictable scalable way to more patients who gladly pay the price you ask, and have the lifestyle and thriving practice you've always dreamed of, so you have more free time for your family and outside interests, then here's what I propose. I'd like to speak with you personally about how you can apply these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients to your practice starting TODAY. Whatever your biggest challenges are, I've seen it all and know how to overcome them. On this phone session, we can craft a step-by-step game plan to hit your income goals for this year - whether that's $50K/month or $500K/month… AND for attracting the exact patients you want to work with, which is all part of the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. The cost? Absolutely FREE.  Now you may be wondering why I'm doing this, and the answer is... I do this because I love helping cosmetic practices achieve their goals and have committed to it for the last 22+ years. So many practices struggle needlessly because they just don't know a better way and I want to help with that. I know that you too might want my help to transform your practice and expand upon the 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients.  If so, we can discuss it to see if it's a good fit for both of us.  If not, that's fine too. To book that call, go to: www.catherinemaley.com/apply That wraps up this episode of Beauty and the Biz and these 5 shifts to a steady stream of cosmetic patients. I hope you got a lot of it. If so, please subscribe and share this with your staff and colleagues. And if you have any questions or feedback for me, you can go ahead and leave them at my website at www.CatherineMaley.com, or you can certainly DM me on Instagram @CatherineMaleyMBA. If you've enjoyed this episode on Beauty and the Biz, please head over to Apple Podcasts and give me a review and subscribe to Beauty and the Biz so you don't miss any episodes. And of course, please share this with your staff and colleagues. And we will talk to you again soon. Take care.  

Almost immediately when the news broke of Boston Celtics Head Coach Ime Udoka facing a one-year suspension over at least one extra-marital affair with a team staff member, the question became, "why such a harsh punishment." The NBA recently banned Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver for the same amount of time over repeated racist and sexist behavior. Cue Stephen A. Smith. The ESPN blowhard immediately decided racism was the motivation behind the lengthy banishment. Jason is here to put Smith back in his place and examine the damage done when everything is filtered through the lens of race. "Fearless" soldier Steve Kim joins the discussion and adds his thoughts on the race-baiting aspects of the story. Then, Shemeka Michelle, Jill Savage, and Tiffany Odom enter the discussion of Udoka and the rumors surrounding rock star Adam Levine. Jason asks the questions: Is it wise to date a celebrity, and is it unrealistic to expect men to engage in monogamy? Finally, Delano Squires adds a biblical perspective to the story and explores whether Boston needs credit for taking a moral stand against Udoka's behavior.   We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at Fearless@TheBlaze.com   ​​Today's Sponsor: Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

G. Long and Deb are once again discussing the vagaries of the Freedom of Speech. Who has it? Who wants to take it away this week? Why do both the Extremist Left and the Extremist Right think that it's not censorship when they do it? What does the First Amendment really say about free speech and why did our government try to take that right away just a short time after creating it? That's a bunch of questions to answer in less than one hour but your intrepid hosts will endeavor answer these questions and more on this episode of the Long in the Boot Podcast! If you listen past the closing theme, there is a bonus message of love for all listeners!

Over the last 70 years, partially in reaction to the murder of Emmett Till, white people have been programmed to reduce their racial animus toward black people. Democrats won't tell black people that historical fact. They keep black voters loyal by telling them that nothing has changed since 1955. Decades of leftist policies have bred racial hatred, driven fathers from the home, replaced God with government, and created the black KKK. “America has adopted a different custom and a different racial animus. The culture rewards and abets anti-white racial animus. Racist political elites, primarily members of the Democratic Party, have once again rigged the system to favor a specific group based on skin color.” Jason says. “Even worse, Democrats have convinced black people that religious faith and biblical morality should be abandoned for political power. When you add in the destruction of the nuclear family, you've created a lethal Molotov cocktail of racial destruction.” Case in point, female rapper TNFW Nique and her latest song celebrating abortion. "Fearless" soldier Dave Shannon joins Jason to add his perspective as a father raising children in today's culture. This week's edition of "Tennessee Harmony" brings us Pastor Anthony Walker and Shemeka Michelle discussing the inclusion of secular artists in Christian music. Does it advance the kingdom or just the culture?    We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at Fearless@TheBlaze.com    ​​Today's Sponsor: Switch today with Patriot Mobile! Get the same great nationwide coverage while supporting the conservative values you believe in. Go to https://PATRIOTMOBILE.COM/JASON or call 972-PATRIOT. Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! Shout Out from Jason: Do you love gifts? Would you want to request a personal shout out for yourself, family or friends from Jason Whitlock?! Click either link below to get the official Shout Out app for Apple or Android and request a personal shout out from Jason Whitlock! Shout Out for Apple:  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shoutout/id1541540629 Shout Out for Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.shoutoutapp Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 152 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “For What It's Worth”, and the short but eventful career of Buffalo Springfield. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-five-minute bonus episode available, on "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glen Campbell. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources As usual, there's a Mixcloud mix containing all the songs excerpted in the episode. This four-CD box set is the definitive collection of Buffalo Springfield's work, while if you want the mono version of the second album, the stereo version of the first, and the final album as released, but no demos or outtakes, you want this more recent box set. For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield by Richey Furay and John Einarson is obviously Furay's version of the story, but all the more interesting for that. For information on Steve Stills' early life I used Stephen Stills: Change Partners by David Roberts.  Information on both Stills and Young comes from Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young by David Browne.  Jimmy McDonough's Shakey is the definitive biography of Neil Young, while Young's Waging Heavy Peace is his autobiography. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript A quick note before we begin -- this episode deals with various disabilities. In particular, there are descriptions of epileptic seizures that come from non-medically-trained witnesses, many of whom took ableist attitudes towards the seizures. I don't know enough about epilepsy to know how accurate their descriptions and perceptions are, and I apologise if that means that by repeating some of their statements, I am inadvertently passing on myths about the condition. When I talk about this, I am talking about the after-the-fact recollections of musicians, none of them medically trained and many of them in altered states of consciousness, about events that had happened decades earlier. Please do not take anything said in a podcast about music history as being the last word on the causes or effects of epileptic seizures, rather than how those musicians remember them. Anyway, on with the show. One of the things you notice if you write about protest songs is that a lot of the time, the songs that people talk about as being important or impactful have aged very poorly. Even great songwriters like Bob Dylan or John Lennon, when writing material about the political events of the time, would write material they would later acknowledge was far from their best. Too often a song will be about a truly important event, and be powered by a real sense of outrage at injustice, but it will be overly specific, and then as soon as the immediate issue is no longer topical, the song is at best a curio. For example, the sentencing of the poet and rock band manager John Sinclair to ten years in prison for giving two joints to an undercover police officer was hugely controversial in the early seventies, but by the time John Lennon's song about it was released, Sinclair had been freed by the Supreme Court, and very, very few people would use the song as an example of why Lennon's songwriting still has lasting value: [Excerpt: John Lennon, "John Sinclair"] But there are exceptions, and those tend to be songs where rather than talking about specific headlines, the song is about the emotion that current events have caused. Ninety years on from its first success, for example, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" still has resonance, because there are still people who are put out of work through no fault of their own, and even those of us who are lucky enough to be financially comfortable have the fear that all too soon it may end, and we may end up like Al begging on the streets: [Excerpt: Rudy Vallee, "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?"] And because of that emotional connection, sometimes the very best protest songs can take on new lives and new meanings, and connect with the way people feel about totally unrelated subjects. Take Buffalo Springfield's one hit. The actual subject of the song couldn't be any more trivial in the grand scheme of things -- a change in zoning regulations around the Sunset Strip that meant people under twenty-one couldn't go to the clubs after 10PM, and the subsequent reaction to that -- but because rather than talking about the specific incident, Steve Stills instead talked about the emotions that it called up, and just noted the fleeting images that he was left with, the song became adopted as an anthem by soldiers in Vietnam. Sometimes what a song says is nowhere near as important as how it says it. [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "For What It's Worth"] Steve Stills seems almost to have been destined to be a musician, although the instrument he started on, the drums, was not the one for which he would become best known. According to Stills, though, he always had an aptitude for rhythm, to the extent that he learned to tapdance almost as soon as he had learned to walk. He started on drums aged eight or nine, after somebody gave him a set of drumsticks. After his parents got sick of him damaging the furniture by playing on every available surface, an actual drum kit followed, and that became his principal instrument, even after he learned to play the guitar at military school, as his roommate owned one. As a teenager, Stills developed an idiosyncratic taste in music, helped by the record collection of his friend Michael Garcia. He didn't particularly like most of the pop music of the time, but he was a big fan of pre-war country music, Motown, girl-group music -- he especially liked the Shirelles -- and Chess blues. He was also especially enamoured of the music of Jimmy Reed, a passion he would later share with his future bandmate Neil Young: [Excerpt: Jimmy Reed, "Baby, What You Want Me To Do?"] In his early teens, he became the drummer for a band called the Radars, and while he was drumming he studied their lead guitarist, Chuck Schwin.  He said later "There was a whole little bunch of us who were into kind of a combination of all the blues guys and others including Chet Atkins, Dick Dale, and Hank Marvin: a very weird cross-section of far-out guitar players." Stills taught himself to play like those guitarists, and in particular he taught himself how to emulate Atkins' Travis-picking style, and became remarkably proficient at it. There exists a recording of him, aged sixteen, singing one of his own songs and playing finger-picked guitar, and while the song is not exactly the strongest thing I've ever heard lyrically, it's clearly the work of someone who is already a confident performer: [Excerpt: Stephen Stills, "Travellin'"] But the main reason he switched to becoming a guitarist wasn't because of his admiration for Chet Atkins or Hank Marvin, but because he started driving and discovered that if you have to load a drum kit into your car and then drive it to rehearsals and gigs you either end up bashing up your car or bashing up the drum kit. As this is not a problem with guitars, Stills decided that he'd move on from the Radars, and join a band named the Continentals as their rhythm guitarist, playing with lead guitarist Don Felder. Stills was only in the Continentals for a few months though, before being replaced by another guitarist, Bernie Leadon, and in general Stills' whole early life is one of being uprooted and moved around. His father had jobs in several different countries, and while for the majority of his time Stills was in the southern US, he also ended up spending time in Costa Rica -- and staying there as a teenager even as the rest of his family moved to El Salvador. Eventually, aged eighteen, he moved to New Orleans, where he formed a folk duo with a friend, Chris Sarns. The two had very different tastes in folk music -- Stills preferred Dylan-style singer-songwriters, while Sarns liked the clean sound of the Kingston Trio -- but they played together for several months before moving to Greenwich Village, where they performed together and separately. They were latecomers to the scene, which had already mostly ended, and many of the folk stars had already gone on to do bigger things. But Stills still saw plenty of great performers there -- Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonius Monk in the jazz clubs, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, and Richard Pryor in the comedy ones, and Simon and Garfunkel, Richie Havens, Fred Neil and Tim Hardin in the folk ones -- Stills said that other than Chet Atkins, Havens, Neil, and Hardin were the people most responsible for his guitar style. Stills was also, at this time, obsessed with Judy Collins' third album -- the album which had featured Roger McGuinn on banjo and arrangements, and which would soon provide several songs for the Byrds to cover: [Excerpt: Judy Collins, "Turn, Turn, Turn"] Judy Collins would soon become a very important figure in Stills' life, but for now she was just the singer on his favourite record. While the Greenwich Village folk scene was no longer quite what it had been a year or two earlier, it was still a great place for a young talented musician to perform. As well as working with Chris Sarns, Stills also formed a trio with his friend John Hopkins and a banjo player called Peter Tork who everyone said looked just like Stills. Tork soon headed out west to seek his fortune, and then Stills got headhunted to join the Au Go Go Singers. This was a group that was being set up in the same style as the New Christy Minstrels -- a nine-piece vocal and instrumental group that would do clean-sounding versions of currently-popular folk songs. The group were signed to Roulette Records, and recorded one album, They Call Us Au-Go-Go Singers, produced by Hugo and Luigi, the production duo we've previously seen working with everyone from the Tokens to the Isley Brothers. Much of the album is exactly the same kind of thing that a million New Christy Minstrels soundalikes were putting out -- and Stills, with his raspy voice, was clearly intended to be the Barry McGuire of this group -- but there was one exception -- a song called "High Flyin' Bird", on which Stills was able to show off the sound that would later make him famous, and which became so associated with him that even though it was written by Billy Edd Wheeler, the writer of "Jackson", even the biography of Stills I used in researching this episode credits "High Flyin' Bird" as being a Stills original: [Excerpt: The Au-Go-Go Singers, "High Flyin' Bird"] One of the other members of the Au-Go-Go Singers, Richie Furay, also got to sing a lead vocal on the album, on the Tom Paxton song "Where I'm Bound": [Excerpt: The Au-Go-Go Singers, "Where I'm Bound"] The Au-Go-Go Singers got a handful of dates around the folk scene, and Stills and Furay became friendly with another singer playing the same circuit, Gram Parsons. Parsons was one of the few people they knew who could see the value in current country music, and convinced both Stills and Furay to start paying more attention to what was coming out of Nashville and Bakersfield. But soon the Au-Go-Go Singers split up. Several venues where they might otherwise have been booked were apparently scared to book an act that was associated with Morris Levy, and also the market for big folk ensembles dried up more or less overnight when the Beatles hit the music scene. But several of the group -- including Stills but not Furay -- decided they were going to continue anyway, and formed a group called The Company, and they went on a tour of Canada. And one of the venues they played was the Fourth Dimension coffee house in Fort William, Ontario, and there their support act was a rock band called The Squires: [Excerpt: The Squires, "(I'm a Man And) I Can't Cry"] The lead guitarist of the Squires, Neil Young, had a lot in common with Stills, and they bonded instantly. Both men had parents who had split up when they were in their teens, and had a successful but rather absent father and an overbearing mother. And both had shown an interest in music even as babies. According to Young's mother, when he was still in nappies, he would pull himself up by the bars  of his playpen and try to dance every time he heard "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie": [Excerpt: Pinetop Smith, "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie"] Young, though, had had one crucial experience which Stills had not had. At the age of six, he'd come down with polio, and become partially paralysed. He'd spent months in hospital before he regained his ability to walk, and the experience had also affected him in other ways. While he was recovering, he would draw pictures of trains -- other than music, his big interest, almost an obsession, was with electric train sets, and that obsession would remain with him throughout his life -- but for the first time he was drawing with his right hand rather than his left. He later said "The left-hand side got a little screwed. Feels different from the right. If I close my eyes, my left side, I really don't know where it is—but over the years I've discovered that almost one hundred percent for sure it's gonna be very close to my right side … probably to the left. That's why I started appearing to be ambidextrous, I think. Because polio affected my left side, and I think I was left-handed when I was born. What I have done is use the weak side as the dominant one because the strong side was injured." Both Young's father Scott Young -- a very famous Canadian writer and sports broadcaster, who was by all accounts as well known in Canada during his lifetime as his son -- and Scott's brother played ukulele, and they taught Neil how to play, and his first attempt at forming a group had been to get his friend Comrie Smith to get a pair of bongos and play along with him to Preston Epps' "Bongo Rock": [Excerpt: Preston Epps, "Bongo Rock"] Neil Young had liked all the usual rock and roll stars of the fifties  -- though in his personal rankings, Elvis came a distant third behind Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis -- but his tastes ran more to the more darkly emotional. He loved "Maybe" by the Chantels, saying "Raw soul—you cannot miss it. That's the real thing. She was believin' every word she was singin'." [Excerpt: The Chantels, "Maybe"] What he liked more than anything was music that had a mainstream surface but seemed slightly off-kilter. He was a major fan of Roy Orbison, saying, "it's almost impossible to comprehend the depth of that soul. It's so deep and dark it just keeps on goin' down—but it's not black. It's blue, deep blue. He's just got it. The drama. There's something sad but proud about Roy's music", and he would say similar things about Del Shannon, saying "He struck me as the ultimate dark figure—behind some Bobby Rydell exterior, y'know? “Hats Off to Larry,” “Runaway,” “Swiss Maid”—very, very inventive. The stuff was weird. Totally unaffected." More surprisingly, perhaps, he was a particular fan of Bobby Darin, who he admired so much because Darin could change styles at the drop of a hat, going from novelty rock and roll like "Splish Splash" to crooning "Mack The Knife" to singing Tim Hardin songs like "If I Were a Carpenter", without any of them seeming any less authentic. As he put it later "He just changed. He's completely different. And he's really into it. Doesn't sound like he's not there. “Dream Lover,” “Mack the Knife,” “If I Were a Carpenter,” “Queen of the Hop,” “Splish Splash”—tell me about those records, Mr. Darin. Did you write those all the same day, or what happened? He just changed so much. Just kinda went from one place to another. So it's hard to tell who Bobby Darin really was." And one record which Young was hugely influenced by was Floyd Cramer's country instrumental, "Last Date": [Excerpt: Floyd Cramer, "Last Date"] Now, that was a very important record in country music, and if you want to know more about it I strongly recommend listening to the episode of Cocaine and Rhinestones on the Nashville A-Team, which has a long section on the track, but the crucial thing to know about that track is that it's one of the earliest examples of what is known as slip-note playing, where the piano player, before hitting the correct note, briefly hits the note a tone below it, creating a brief discord. Young absolutely loved that sound, and wanted to make a sound like that on the guitar. And then, when he and his mother moved to Winnipeg after his parents' divorce, he found someone who was doing just that. It was the guitarist in a group variously known as Chad Allan and the Reflections and Chad Allan and the Expressions. That group had relatives in the UK who would send them records, and so where most Canadian bands would do covers of American hits, Chad Allan and the Reflections would do covers of British hits, like their version of Geoff Goddard's "Tribute to Buddy Holly", a song that had originally been produced by Joe Meek: [Excerpt: Chad Allan and the Reflections, "Tribute to Buddy Holly"] That would later pay off for them in a big way, when they recorded a version of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates' "Shakin' All Over", for which their record label tried to create an air of mystery by releasing it with no artist name, just "Guess Who?" on the label. It became a hit, the name stuck, and they became The Guess Who: [Excerpt: The Guess Who, "Shakin' All Over"] But at this point they, and their guitarist Randy Bachman, were just another group playing around Winnipeg. Bachman, though, was hugely impressive to Neil Young for a few reasons. The first was that he really did have a playing style that was a lot like the piano style of Floyd Cramer -- Young would later say "it was Randy Bachman who did it first. Randy was the first one I ever heard do things on the guitar that reminded me of Floyd. He'd do these pulls—“darrr darrrr,” this two-note thing goin' together—harmony, with one note pulling and the other note stayin' the same." Bachman also had built the first echo unit that Young heard a guitarist play in person. He'd discovered that by playing with the recording heads on a tape recorder owned by his mother, he could replicate the tape echo that Sam Phillips had used at Sun Studios -- and once he'd attached that to his amplifier, he realised how much the resulting sound sounded like his favourite guitarist, Hank Marvin of the Shadows, another favourite of Neil Young's: [Excerpt: The Shadows, "Man of Mystery"] Young soon started looking to Bachman as something of a mentor figure, and he would learn a lot of guitar techniques second hand from Bachman -- every time a famous musician came to the area, Bachman would go along and stand right at the front and watch the guitarist, and make note of the positions their fingers were in. Then Bachman would replicate those guitar parts with the Reflections, and Neil Young would stand in front of him and make notes of where *his* fingers were. Young joined a band on the local circuit called the Esquires, but soon either quit or was fired, depending on which version of the story you choose to believe. He then formed his own rival band, the Squires, with no "e", much to the disgust of his ex-bandmates. In July 1963, five months after they formed, the  Squires released their first record, "Aurora" backed with "The Sultan", on a tiny local label. Both tracks were very obviously influenced by the Shadows: [Excerpt: The Squires, "Aurora"] The Squires were a mostly-instrumental band for the first year or so they were together, and then the Beatles hit North America, and suddenly people didn't want to hear surf instrumentals and Shadows covers any more, they only wanted to hear songs that sounded a bit like the Beatles. The Squires started to work up the appropriate repertoire -- two songs that have been mentioned as in their set at this point are the Beatles album track "It Won't Be Long", and "Money" which the Beatles had also covered -- but they didn't have a singer, being an instrumental group. They could get in a singer, of course, but that would mean splitting the money with another person. So instead, the guitarist, who had never had any intention of becoming a singer, was more or less volunteered for the role. Over the next eighteen months or so the group's repertoire moved from being largely instrumental to largely vocal, and the group also seem to have shuttled around a bit between two different cities -- Winnipeg and Fort William, staying in one for a while and then moving back to the other. They travelled between the two in Young's car, a Buick Roadmaster hearse. In Winnipeg, Young first met up with a singer named Joni Anderson, who was soon to get married to Chuck Mitchell and would become better known by her married name. The two struck up a friendship, though by all accounts never a particularly close one -- they were too similar in too many ways; as Mitchell later said “Neil and I have a lot in common: Canadian; Scorpios; polio in the same epidemic, struck the same parts of our body; and we both have a black sense of humor". They were both also idiosyncratic artists who never fit very well into boxes. In Fort William the Squires made a few more records, this time vocal tracks like "I'll Love You Forever": [Excerpt: The Squires, "I'll Love You Forever"] It was also in Fort William that Young first encountered two acts that would make a huge impression on him. One was a group called The Thorns, consisting of Tim Rose, Jake Holmes, and Rich Husson. The Thorns showed Young that there was interesting stuff being done on the fringes of the folk music scene. He later said "One of my favourites was “Oh Susannah”—they did this arrangement that was bizarre. It was in a minor key, which completely changed everything—and it was rock and roll. So that idea spawned arrangements of all these other songs for me. I did minor versions of them all. We got into it. That was a certain Squires stage that never got recorded. Wish there were tapes of those shows. We used to do all this stuff, a whole kinda music—folk-rock. We took famous old folk songs like “Clementine,” “She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain,” “Tom Dooley,” and we did them all in minor keys based on the Tim Rose arrangement of “Oh Susannah.” There are no recordings of the Thorns in existence that I know of, but presumably that arrangement that Young is talking about is the version that Rose also later did with the Big 3, which we've heard in a few other episodes: [Excerpt: The Big 3, "The Banjo Song"] The other big influence was, of course, Steve Stills, and the two men quickly found themselves influencing each other deeply. Stills realised that he could bring more rock and roll to his folk-music sound, saying that what amazed him was the way the Squires could go from "Cottonfields" (the Lead Belly song) to "Farmer John", the R&B song by Don and Dewey that was becoming a garage-rock staple. Young in turn was inspired to start thinking about maybe going more in the direction of folk music. The Squires even renamed themselves the High-Flying Birds, after the song that Stills had recorded with the Au Go Go Singers. After The Company's tour of Canada, Stills moved back to New York for a while. He now wanted to move in a folk-rock direction, and for a while he tried to persuade his friend John Sebastian to let him play bass in his new band, but when the Lovin' Spoonful decided against having him in the band, he decided to move West to San Francisco, where he'd heard there was a new music scene forming. He enjoyed a lot of the bands he saw there, and in particular he was impressed by the singer of a band called the Great Society: [Excerpt: The Great Society, "Somebody to Love"] He was much less impressed with the rest of her band, and seriously considered going up to her and asking if she wanted to work with some *real* musicians instead of the unimpressive ones she was working with, but didn't get his nerve up. We will, though, be hearing more about Grace Slick in future episodes. Instead, Stills decided to move south to LA, where many of the people he'd known in Greenwich Village were now based. Soon after he got there, he hooked up with two other musicians, a guitarist named Steve Young and a singer, guitarist, and pianist named Van Dyke Parks. Parks had a record contract at MGM -- he'd been signed by Tom Wilson, the same man who had turned Dylan electric, signed Simon and Garfunkel, and produced the first albums by the Mothers of Invention. With Wilson, Parks put out a couple of singles in 1966, "Come to the Sunshine": [Excerpt: The Van Dyke Parks, "Come to the Sunshine"] And "Number Nine", a reworking of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: [Excerpt: The Van Dyke Parks, "Number Nine"]Parks, Stills, and Steve Young became The Van Dyke Parks Band, though they didn't play together for very long, with their most successful performance being as the support act for the Lovin' Spoonful for a show in Arizona. But they did have a lasting resonance -- when Van Dyke Parks finally got the chance to record his first solo album, he opened it with Steve Young singing the old folk song "Black Jack Davy", filtered to sound like an old tape: [Excerpt: Steve Young, "Black Jack Davy"] And then it goes into a song written for Parks by Randy Newman, but consisting of Newman's ideas about Parks' life and what he knew about him, including that he had been third guitar in the Van Dyke Parks Band: [Excerpt: Van Dyke Parks, "Vine Street"] Parks and Stills also wrote a few songs together, with one of their collaborations, "Hello, I've Returned", later being demoed by Stills for Buffalo Springfield: [Excerpt: Steve Stills, "Hello, I've Returned"] After the Van Dyke Parks Band fell apart, Parks went on to many things, including a brief stint on keyboards in the Mothers of Invention, and we'll be talking more about him next episode. Stills formed a duo called the Buffalo Fish, with his friend Ron Long. That soon became an occasional trio when Stills met up again with his old Greenwich Village friend Peter Tork, who joined the group on the piano. But then Stills auditioned for the Monkees and was turned down because he had bad teeth -- or at least that's how most people told the story. Stills has later claimed that while he turned up for the Monkees auditions, it wasn't to audition, it was to try to pitch them songs, which seems implausible on the face of it. According to Stills, he was offered the job and turned it down because he'd never wanted it. But whatever happened, Stills suggested they might want his friend Peter, who looked just like him apart from having better teeth, and Peter Tork got the job. But what Stills really wanted to do was to form a proper band. He'd had the itch to do it ever since seeing the Squires, and he decided he should ask Neil Young to join. There was only one problem -- when he phoned Young, the phone was answered by Young's mother, who told Stills that Neil had moved out to become a folk singer, and she didn't know where he was. But then Stills heard from his old friend Richie Furay. Furay was still in Greenwich Village, and had decided to write to Stills. He didn't know where Stills was, other than that he was in California somewhere, so he'd written to Stills' father in El Salvador. The letter had been returned, because the postage had been short by one cent, so Furay had resent it with the correct postage. Stills' father had then forwarded the letter to the place Stills had been staying in San Francisco, which had in turn forwarded it on to Stills in LA. Furay's letter mentioned this new folk singer who had been on the scene for a while and then disappeared again, Neil Young, who had said he knew Stills, and had been writing some great songs, one of which Furay had added to his own set. Stills got in touch with Furay and told him about this great band he was forming in LA, which he wanted Furay to join. Furay was in, and travelled from New York to LA, only to be told that at this point there were no other members of this great band, but they'd definitely find some soon. They got a publishing deal with Columbia/Screen Gems, which gave them enough money to not starve, but what they really needed was to find some other musicians. They did, when driving down Hollywood Boulevard on April the sixth, 1966. There, stuck in traffic going the other way, they saw a hearse... After Steve Stills had left Fort William, so had Neil Young. He hadn't initially intended to -- the High-Flying Birds still had a regular gig, but Young and some of his friends had gone away for a few days on a road trip in his hearse. But unfortunately the transmission on the hearse had died, and Young and his friends had been stranded. Many years later, he would write a eulogy to the hearse, which he and Stills would record together: [Excerpt: The Stills-Young Band, "Long May You Run"] Young and his friends had all hitch-hiked in different directions -- Young had ended up in Toronto, where his dad lived, and had stayed with his dad for a while. The rest of his band had eventually followed him there, but Young found the Toronto music scene not to his taste -- the folk and rock scenes there were very insular and didn't mingle with each other, and the group eventually split up. Young even took on a day job for a while, for the only time in his life, though he soon quit. Young started basically commuting between Toronto and New York, a distance of several hundred miles, going to Greenwich Village for a while before ending up back in Toronto, and ping-ponging between the two. In New York, he met up with Richie Furay, and also had a disastrous audition for Elektra Records as a solo artist. One of the songs he sang in the audition was "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing", the song which Furay liked so much he started performing it himself. Young doesn't normally explain his songs, but as this was one of the first he ever wrote, he talked about it in interviews in the early years, before he decided to be less voluble about his art. The song was apparently about the sense of youthful hope being crushed. The instigation for it was Young seeing his girlfriend with another man, but the central image, of Clancy not singing, came from Young's schooldays. The Clancy in question was someone Young liked as one of the other weird kids at school. He was disabled, like Young, though with MS rather than polio, and he would sing to himself in the hallways at school. Sadly, of course, the other kids would mock and bully him for that, and eventually he ended up stopping. Young said about it "After awhile, he got so self-conscious he couldn't do his thing any more. When someone who is as beautiful as that and as different as that is actually killed by his fellow man—you know what I mean—like taken and sorta chopped down—all the other things are nothing compared to this." [Excerpt: Neil Young, "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing (Elektra demo)"] One thing I should say for anyone who listens to the Mixcloud for this episode, that song, which will be appearing in a couple of different versions, has one use of a term for Romani people that some (though not all) consider a slur. It's not in the excerpts I'll be using in this episode, but will be in the full versions on the Mixcloud. Sadly that word turns up time and again in songs of this era... When he wasn't in New York, Young was living in Toronto in a communal apartment owned by a folk singer named Vicki Taylor, where many of the Toronto folk scene would stay. Young started listening a lot to Taylor's Bert Jansch albums, which were his first real exposure to the British folk-baroque style of guitar fingerpicking, as opposed to the American Travis-picking style, and Young would soon start to incorporate that style into his own playing: [Excerpt: Bert Jansch, "Angie"] Another guitar influence on Young at this point was another of the temporary tenants of Taylor's flat, John Kay, who would later go on to be one of the founding members of Steppenwolf. Young credited Kay with having a funky rhythm guitar style that Young incorporated into his own. While he was in Toronto, he started getting occasional gigs in Detroit, which is "only" a couple of hundred miles away, set up by Joni and Chuck Mitchell, both of whom also sometimes stayed at Taylor's. And it was in Detroit that Neil Young became, albeit very briefly, a Motown artist. The Mynah Birds were a band in Toronto that had at one point included various future members of Steppenwolf, and they were unusual for the time in that they were a white band with a Black lead singer, Ricky Matthews. They also had a rich manager, John Craig Eaton, the heir to the Eaton's department store fortune, who basically gave them whatever money they wanted -- they used to go to his office and tell him they needed seven hundred dollars for lunch, and he'd hand it to them. They were looking for a new guitarist when Bruce Palmer, their bass player, bumped into Neil Young carrying an amp and asked if he was interested in joining. He was. The Mynah Birds quickly became one of the best bands in Toronto, and Young and Matthews became close, both as friends and as a performance team. People who saw them live would talk about things like a song called “Hideaway”, written by Young and Matthews, which had a spot in the middle where Young would start playing a harmonica solo, throw the harmonica up in the air mid-solo, Matthews would catch it, and he would then finish the solo. They got signed to Motown, who were at this point looking to branch out into the white guitar-group market, and they were put through the Motown star-making machine. They recorded an entire album, which remains unreleased, but they did release a single, "It's My Time": [Excerpt: The Mynah Birds, "It's My Time"] Or at least, they released a handful of promo copies. The single was pulled from release after Ricky Matthews got arrested. It turned out his birth name wasn't Ricky Matthews, but James Johnson, and that he wasn't from Toronto as he'd told everyone, but from Buffalo, New York. He'd fled to Canada after going AWOL from the Navy, not wanting to be sent to Vietnam, and he was arrested and jailed for desertion. After getting out of jail, he would start performing under yet another name, and as Rick James would have a string of hits in the seventies and eighties: [Excerpt: Rick James, "Super Freak"] Most of the rest of the group continued gigging as The Mynah Birds, but Young and Palmer had other plans. They sold the expensive equipment Eaton had bought the group, and Young bought a new hearse, which he named Mort 2 – Mort had been his first hearse. And according to one of the band's friends in Toronto, the crucial change in their lives came when Neil Young heard a song on a jukebox: [Excerpt: The Mamas and the Papas, "California Dreamin'"] Young apparently heard "California Dreamin'" and immediately said "Let's go to California and become rock stars". Now, Young later said of this anecdote that "That sounds like a Canadian story to me. That sounds too real to be true", and he may well be right. Certainly the actual wording of the story is likely incorrect -- people weren't talking about "rock stars" in 1966. Google's Ngram viewer has the first use of the phrase in print being in 1969, and the phrase didn't come into widespread usage until surprisingly late -- even granting that phrases enter slang before they make it to print, it still seems implausible. But even though the precise wording might not be correct, something along those lines definitely seems to have happened, albeit possibly less dramatically. Young's friend Comrie Smith independently said that Young told him “Well, Comrie, I can hear the Mamas and the Papas singing ‘All the leaves are brown, and the skies are gray …' I'm gonna go down to the States and really make it. I'm on my way. Today North Toronto, tomorrow the world!” Young and Palmer loaded up Mort 2 with a bunch of their friends and headed towards California. On the way, they fell out with most of the friends, who parted from them, and Young had an episode which in retrospect may have been his first epileptic seizure. They decided when they got to California that they were going to look for Steve Stills, as they'd heard he was in LA and neither of them knew anyone else in the state. But after several days of going round the Sunset Strip clubs asking if anyone knew Steve Stills, and sleeping in the hearse as they couldn't afford anywhere else, they were getting fed up and about to head off to San Francisco, as they'd heard there was a good music scene there, too. They were going to leave that day, and they were stuck in traffic on Sunset Boulevard, about to head off, when Stills and Furay came driving in the other direction. Furay happened to turn his head, to brush away a fly, and saw a hearse with Ontario license plates. He and Stills both remembered that Young drove a hearse, and so they assumed it must be him. They started honking at the hearse, then did a U-turn. They got Young's attention, and they all pulled into the parking lot at Ben Frank's, the Sunset Strip restaurant that attracted such a hip crowd the Monkees' producers had asked for "Ben Frank's types" in their audition advert. Young introduced Stills and Furay to Palmer, and now there *was* a group -- three singing, songwriting, guitarists and a bass player. Now all they needed was a drummer. There were two drummers seriously considered for the role. One of them, Billy Mundi, was technically the better player, but Young didn't like playing with him as much -- and Mundi also had a better offer, to join the Mothers of Invention as their second drummer -- before they'd recorded their first album, they'd had two drummers for a few months, but Denny Bruce, their second drummer, had become ill with glandular fever and they'd reverted to having Jimmy Carl Black play solo. Now they were looking for someone else, and Mundi took that role. The other drummer, who Young preferred anyway, was another Canadian, Dewey Martin. Martin was a couple of years older than the rest of the group, and by far the most experienced. He'd moved from Canada to Nashville in his teens, and according to Martin he had been taken under the wing of Hank Garland, the great session guitarist most famous for "Sugarfoot Rag": [Excerpt: Hank Garland, "Sugarfoot Rag"] We heard Garland playing with Elvis and others in some of the episodes around 1960, and by many reckonings he was the best session guitarist in Nashville, but in 1961 he had a car accident that left him comatose, and even though he recovered from the coma and lived another thirty-three years, he never returned to recording. According to Martin, though, Garland would still sometimes play jazz clubs around Nashville after the accident, and one day Martin walked into a club and saw him playing. The drummer he was playing with got up and took a break, taking his sticks with him, so Martin got up on stage and started playing, using two combs instead of sticks. Garland was impressed, and told Martin that Faron Young needed a drummer, and he could get him the gig. At the time Young was one of the biggest stars in country music. That year, 1961, he had three country top ten hits, including a number one with his version of Willie Nelson's "Hello Walls", produced by Ken Nelson: [Excerpt: Faron Young, "Hello Walls"] Martin joined Faron Young's band for a while, and also ended up playing short stints in the touring bands of various other Nashville-based country and rock stars, including Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, and the Everly Brothers, before heading to LA for a while. Then Mel Taylor of the Ventures hooked him up with some musicians in the Pacific Northwest scene, and Martin started playing there under the name Sir Raleigh and the Coupons with various musicians. After a while he travelled back to LA where he got some members of the LA group Sons of Adam to become a permanent lineup of Coupons, and they recorded several singles with Martin singing lead, including the Tommy Boyce and Steve Venet song "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day", later recorded by the Monkees: [Excerpt: Sir Raleigh and the Coupons, "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day"] He then played with the Standells, before joining the Modern Folk Quartet for a short while, as they were transitioning from their folk sound to a folk-rock style. He was only with them for a short while, and it's difficult to get precise details -- almost everyone involved with Buffalo Springfield has conflicting stories about their own careers with timelines that don't make sense, which is understandable given that people were talking about events decades later and memory plays tricks. "Fast" Eddie Hoh had joined the Modern Folk Quartet on drums in late 1965, at which point they became the Modern Folk Quintet, and nothing I've read about that group talks about Hoh ever actually leaving, but apparently Martin joined them in February 1966, which might mean he's on their single "Night-Time Girl", co-written by Al Kooper and produced and arranged by Jack Nitzsche: [Excerpt: The Modern Folk Quintet, "Night-Time Girl"] After that, Martin was taken on by the Dillards, a bluegrass band who are now possibly most famous for having popularised the Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith song "Duellin' Banjos", which they recorded on their first album and played on the Andy Griffith Show a few years before it was used in Deliverance: [Excerpt: The Dillards, "Duellin' Banjos"] The Dillards had decided to go in a country-rock direction -- and Doug Dillard would later join the Byrds and make records with Gene Clark -- but they were hesitant about it, and after a brief period with Martin in the band they decided to go back to their drummerless lineup. To soften the blow, they told him about another band that was looking for a drummer -- their manager, Jim Dickson, who was also the Byrds' manager, knew Stills and his bandmates. Dewey Martin was in the group. The group still needed a name though. They eventually took their name from a brand of steam roller, after seeing one on the streets when some roadwork was being done. Everyone involved disagrees as to who came up with the name. Steve Stills at one point said it was a group decision after Neil Young and the group's manager Frazier Mohawk stole the nameplate off the steamroller, and later Stills said that Richey Furay had suggested the name while they were walking down the street, Dewey Martin said it was his idea, Neil Young said that he, Steve Sills, and Van Dyke Parks had been walking down the street and either Young or Stills had seen the nameplate and suggested the name, and Van Dyke Parks says that *he* saw the nameplate and suggested it to Dewey Martin: [Excerpt: Steve Stills and Van Dyke Parks on the name] For what it's worth, I tend to believe Van Dyke Parks in most instances -- he's an honest man, and he seems to have a better memory of the sixties than many of his friends who led more chemically interesting lives. Whoever came up with it, the name worked -- as Stills later put it "We thought it was pretty apt, because Neil Young is from Manitoba which is buffalo country, and  Richie Furay was from Springfield, Ohio -- and I'm the field!" It almost certainly also helped that the word "buffalo" had been in the name of Stills' previous group, Buffalo Fish. On the eleventh of April, 1966, Buffalo Springfield played their first gig, at the Troubadour, using equipment borrowed from the Dillards. Chris Hillman of the Byrds was in the audience and was impressed. He got the group a support slot on a show the Byrds and the Dillards were doing a few days later in San Bernardino. That show was compered by a Merseyside-born British DJ, John Ravenscroft, who had managed to become moderately successful in US radio by playing up his regional accent so he sounded more like the Beatles. He would soon return to the UK, and start broadcasting under the name John Peel. Hillman also got them a week-long slot at the Whisky A-Go-Go, and a bidding war started between record labels to sign the band. Dunhill offered five thousand dollars, Warners counted with ten thousand, and then Atlantic offered twelve thousand. Atlantic were *just* starting to get interested in signing white guitar groups -- Jerry Wexler never liked that kind of music, always preferring to stick with soul and R&B, but Ahmet Ertegun could see which way things were going. Atlantic had only ever signed two other white acts before -- Neil Young's old favourite Bobby Darin, who had since left the label, and Sonny and Cher. And Sonny and Cher's management and production team, Brian Stone and Charlie Greene, were also very interested in the group, who even before they had made a record had quickly become the hottest band on the circuit, even playing the Hollywood Bowl as the Rolling Stones' support act. Buffalo Springfield already had managers -- Frazier Mohawk and Richard Davis, the lighting man at the Troubadour (who was sometimes also referred to as Dickie Davis, but I'll use his full name so as not to cause unnecessary confusion in British people who remember the sports TV presenter of the same name), who Mohawk had enlisted to help him. But Stone and Greene weren't going to let a thing like that stop them. According to anonymous reports quoted without attribution in David Roberts' biography of Stills -- so take this with as many grains of salt as you want -- Stone and Greene took Mohawk for a ride around LA in a limo, just the three of them, a gun, and a used hotdog napkin. At the end of the ride, the hotdog napkin had Mohawk's scrawled signature, signing the group over to Stone and Greene. Davis stayed on, but was demoted to just doing their lights. The way things ended up, the group signed to Stone and Greene's production company, who then leased their masters to Atlantic's Atco subsidiary. A publishing company was also set up for the group's songs -- owned thirty-seven point five percent by Atlantic, thirty-seven point five percent by Stone and Greene, and the other twenty-five percent split six ways between the group and Davis, who they considered their sixth member. Almost immediately, Charlie Greene started playing Stills and Young off against each other, trying a divide-and-conquer strategy on the group. This was quite easy, as both men saw themselves as natural leaders, though Stills was regarded by everyone as the senior partner -- the back cover of their first album would contain the line "Steve is the leader but we all are". Stills and Young were the two stars of the group as far as the audience were concerned -- though most musicians who heard them play live say that the band's real strength was in its rhythm section, with people comparing Palmer's playing to that of James Jamerson. But Stills and Young would get into guitar battles on stage, one-upping each other, in ways that turned the tension between them in creative directions. Other clashes, though were more petty -- both men had very domineering mothers, who would actually call the group's management to complain about press coverage if their son was given less space than the other one. The group were also not sure about Young's voice -- to the extent that Stills was known to jokingly apologise to the audience before Young took a lead vocal -- and so while the song chosen as the group's first A-side was Young's "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing", Furay was chosen to sing it, rather than Young: [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing"] On the group's first session, though, both Stills and Young realised that their producers didn't really have a clue -- the group had built up arrangements that had a complex interplay of instruments and vocals, but the producers insisted on cutting things very straightforwardly, with a basic backing track and then the vocals. They also thought that the song was too long so the group should play faster. Stills and Young quickly decided that they were going to have to start producing their own material, though Stone and Greene would remain the producers for the first album. There was another bone of contention though, because in the session the initial plan had been for Stills' song "Go and Say Goodbye" to be the A-side with Young's song as the B-side. It was flipped, and nobody seems quite sure why -- it's certainly the case that, whatever the merits of the two tracks as songs, Stills' song was the one that would have been more likely to become a hit. "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" was a flop, but it did get some local airplay. The next single, "Burned", was a Young song as well, and this time did have Young taking the lead, though in a song dominated by harmonies: [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "Burned"] Over the summer, though, something had happened that would affect everything for the group -- Neil Young had started to have epileptic seizures. At first these were undiagnosed episodes, but soon they became almost routine events, and they would often happen on stage, particularly at moments of great stress or excitement. Several other members of the group became convinced -- entirely wrongly -- that Young was faking these seizures in order to get women to pay attention to him. They thought that what he wanted was for women to comfort him and mop his brow, and that collapsing would get him that. The seizures became so common that Richard Davis, the group's lighting tech, learned to recognise the signs of a seizure before it happened. As soon as it looked like Young was about to collapse the lights would turn on, someone would get ready to carry him off stage, and Richie Furay would know to grab Young's guitar before he fell so that the guitar wouldn't get damaged. Because they weren't properly grounded and Furay had an electric guitar of his own, he'd get a shock every time. Young would later claim that during some of the seizures, he would hallucinate that he was another person, in another world, living another life that seemed to have its own continuity -- people in the other world would recognise him and talk to him as if he'd been away for a while -- and then when he recovered he would have to quickly rebuild his identity, as if temporarily amnesiac, and during those times he would find things like the concept of lying painful. The group's first album came out in December, and they were very, very, unhappy with it. They thought the material was great, but they also thought that the production was terrible. Stone and Greene's insistence that they record the backing tracks first and then overdub vocals, rather than singing live with the instruments, meant that the recordings, according to Stills and Young in particular, didn't capture the sound of the group's live performance, and sounded sterile. Stills and Young thought they'd fixed some of that in the mono mix, which they spent ten days on, but then Stone and Greene did the stereo mix without consulting the band, in less than two days, and the album was released at precisely the time that stereo was starting to overtake mono in the album market. I'm using the mono mixes in this podcast, but for decades the only versions available were the stereo ones, which Stills and Young both loathed. Ahmet Ertegun also apparently thought that the demo versions of the songs -- some of which were eventually released on a box set in 2001 -- were much better than the finished studio recordings. The album was not a success on release, but it did contain the first song any of the group had written to chart. Soon after its release, Van Dyke Parks' friend Lenny Waronker was producing a single by a group who had originally been led by Sly Stone and had been called Sly and the Mojo Men. By this time Stone was no longer involved in the group, and they were making music in a very different style from the music their former leader would later become known for. Parks was brought in to arrange a baroque-pop version of Stills' album track "Sit Down I Think I Love You" for the group, and it became their only top forty hit, reaching number thirty-six: [Excerpt: The Mojo Men, "Sit Down I Think I Love You"] It was shortly after the first Buffalo Springfield album was released, though, that Steve Stills wrote what would turn out to be *his* group's only top forty single. The song had its roots in both LA and San Francisco. The LA roots were more obvious -- the song was written about a specific experience Stills had had. He had been driving to Sunset Strip from Laurel Canyon on November the twelfth 1966, and he had seen a mass of young people and police in riot gear, and he had immediately turned round, partly because he didn't want to get involved in what looked to be a riot, and partly because he'd been inspired -- he had the idea for a lyric, which he pretty much finished in the car even before he got home: [Excerpt: The Buffalo Springfield, "For What it's Worth"] The riots he saw were what became known later as the Riot on Sunset Strip. This was a minor skirmish between the police and young people of LA -- there had been complaints that young people had been spilling out of the nightclubs on Sunset Strip into the street, causing traffic problems, and as a result the city council had introduced various heavy-handed restrictions, including a ten PM curfew for all young people in the area, removing the permits that many clubs had which allowed people under twenty-one to be present, forcing the Whisky A-Go-Go to change its name just to "the Whisk", and forcing a club named Pandora's Box, which was considered the epicentre of the problem, to close altogether. Flyers had been passed around calling for a "funeral" for Pandora's Box -- a peaceful gathering at which people could say goodbye to a favourite nightspot, and a thousand people had turned up. The police also turned up, and in the heavy-handed way common among law enforcement, they managed to provoke a peaceful party and turn it into a riot. This would not normally be an event that would be remembered even a year later, let alone nearly sixty years later, but Sunset Strip was the centre of the American rock music world in the period, and of the broader youth entertainment field. Among those arrested at the riot, for example, were Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda, neither of whom were huge stars at the time, but who were making cheap B-movies with Roger Corman for American International Pictures. Among the cheap exploitation films that American International Pictures made around this time was one based on the riots, though neither Nicholson, Fonda, or Corman were involved. Riot on Sunset Strip was released in cinemas only four months after the riots, and it had a theme song by Dewey Martin's old colleagues The Standells, which is now regarded as a classic of garage rock: [Excerpt: The Standells, "Riot on Sunset Strip"] The riots got referenced in a lot of other songs, as well. The Mothers of Invention's second album, Absolutely Free, contains the song "Plastic People" which includes this section: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Plastic People"] And the Monkees track "Daily Nightly", written by Michael Nesmith, was always claimed by Nesmith to be an impressionistic portrait of the riots, though the psychedelic lyrics sound to me more like they're talking about drug use and street-walking sex workers than anything to do with the riots: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "Daily Nightly"] But the song about the riots that would have the most lasting effect on popular culture was the one that Steve Stills wrote that night. Although how much he actually wrote, at least of the music, is somewhat open to question. Earlier that month, Buffalo Springfield had spent some time in San Francisco. They hadn't enjoyed the experience -- as an LA band, they were thought of as a bunch of Hollywood posers by most of the San Francisco scene, with the exception of one band, Moby Grape -- a band who, like them had three guitarist/singer/songwriters, and with whom they got on very well. Indeed, they got on rather better with Moby Grape than they were getting on with each other at this point, because Young and Stills would regularly get into arguments, and every time their argument seemed to be settling down, Dewey Martin would manage to say the wrong thing and get Stills riled up again -- Martin was doing a lot of speed at this point and unable to stop talking, even when it would have been politic to do so. There was even some talk while they were in San Francisco of the bands doing a trade -- Young and Pete Lewis of Moby Grape swapping places -- though that came to nothing. But Stills, according to both Richard Davis and Pete Lewis, had been truly impressed by two Moby Grape songs. One of them was a song called "On the Other Side", which Moby Grape never recorded, but which apparently had a chorus that went "Stop, can't you hear the music ringing in your ear, right before you go, telling you the way is clear," with the group all pausing after the word "Stop". The other was a song called "Murder in my Heart for the Judge": [Excerpt: Moby Grape, "Murder in my Heart for the Judge"] The song Stills wrote had a huge amount of melodic influence from that song, and quite a bit from “On the Other Side”, though he apparently didn't notice until after the record came out, at which point he apologised to Moby Grape. Stills wasn't massively impressed with the song he'd written, and went to Stone and Greene's office to play it for them, saying "I'll play it, for what it's worth". They liked the song and booked a studio to get the song recorded and rush-released, though according to Neil Young neither Stone nor Greene were actually present at the session, and the song was recorded on December the fifth, while some outbursts of rioting were still happening, and released on December the twenty-third. [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "For What it's Worth"] The song didn't have a title when they recorded it, or so Stills thought, but when he mentioned this to Greene and Stone afterwards, they said "Of course it does. You said, 'I'm going to play the song, 'For What It's Worth'" So that became the title, although Ahmet Ertegun didn't like the idea of releasing a single with a title that wasn't in the lyric, so the early pressings of the single had "Stop, Hey, What's That Sound?" in brackets after the title. The song became a big hit, and there's a story told by David Crosby that doesn't line up correctly, but which might shed some light on why. According to Crosby, "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" got its first airplay because Crosby had played members of Buffalo Springfield a tape he'd been given of the unreleased Beatles track "A Day in the Life", and they'd told their gangster manager-producers about it. Those manager-producers had then hired a sex worker to have sex with Crosby and steal the tape, which they'd then traded to a radio station in return for airplay. That timeline doesn't work, unless the sex worker involved was also a time traveller,  because "A Day in the Life" wasn't even recorded until January 1967 while "Clancy" came out in August 1966, and there'd been two other singles released between then and January 1967. But it *might* be the case that that's what happened with "For What It's Worth", which was released in the last week of December 1966, and didn't really start to do well on the charts for a couple of months. Right after recording the song, the group went to play a residency in New York, of which Ahmet Ertegun said “When they performed there, man, there was no band I ever heard that had the electricity of that group. That was the most exciting group I've ever seen, bar none. It was just mind-boggling.” During that residency they were joined on stage at various points by Mitch Ryder, Odetta, and Otis Redding. While in New York, the group also recorded "Mr. Soul", a song that Young had originally written as a folk song about his experiences with epilepsy, the nature of the soul, and dealing with fame. However, he'd noticed a similarity to "Satisfaction" and decided to lean into it. The track as finally released was heavily overdubbed by Young a few months later, but after it was released he decided he preferred the original take, which by then only existed as a scratchy acetate, which got released on a box set in 2001: [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "Mr. Soul (original version)"] Everyone has a different story of how the session for that track went -- at least one version of the story has Otis Redding turning up for the session and saying he wanted to record the song himself, as his follow-up to his version of "Satisfaction", but Young being angry at the idea. According to other versions of the story, Greene and Stills got into a physical fight, with Greene having to be given some of the valium Young was taking for his epilepsy to calm him down. "For What it's Worth" was doing well enough on the charts that the album was recalled, and reissued with "For What It's Worth" replacing Stills' song "Baby Don't Scold", but soon disaster struck the band. Bruce Palmer was arrested on drugs charges, and was deported back to Canada just as the song started to rise through the charts. The group needed a new bass player, fast. For a lipsynch appearance on local TV they got Richard Davis to mime the part, and then they got in Ken Forssi, the bass player from Love, for a couple of gigs. They next brought in Ken Koblun, the bass player from the Squires, but he didn't fit in with the rest of the group. The next replacement was Jim Fielder. Fielder was a friend of the group, and knew the material -- he'd subbed for Palmer a few times in 1966 when Palmer had been locked up after less serious busts. And to give some idea of how small a scene the LA scene was, when Buffalo Springfield asked him to become their bass player, he was playing rhythm guitar for the Mothers of Invention, while Billy Mundi was on drums, and had played on their second, as yet unreleased, album, Absolutely Free: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Call any Vegetable"] And before joining the Mothers, Fielder and Mundi had also played together with Van Dyke Parks, who had served his own short stint as a Mother of Invention already, backing Tim Buckley on Buckley's first album: [Excerpt: Tim Buckley, "Aren't You the Girl?"] And the arrangements on that album were by Jack Nitzsche, who would soon become a very close collaborator with Young. "For What it's Worth" kept rising up the charts. Even though it had been inspired by a very local issue, the lyrics were vague enough that people in other situations could apply it to themselves, and it soon became regarded as an anti-war protest anthem -- something Stills did nothing to discourage, as the band were all opposed to the war. The band were also starting to collaborate with other people. When Stills bought a new house, he couldn't move in to it for a while, and so Peter Tork invited him to stay at his house. The two got on so well that Tork invited Stills to produce the next Monkees album -- only to find that Michael Nesmith had already asked Chip Douglas to do it. The group started work on a new album, provisionally titled "Stampede", but sessions didn't get much further than Stills' song "Bluebird" before trouble arose between Young and Stills. The root of the argument seems to have been around the number of songs each got on the album. With Richie Furay also writing, Young was worried that given the others' attitudes to his songwriting, he might get as few as two songs on the album. And Young and Stills were arguing over which song should be the next single, with Young wanting "Mr. Soul" to be the A-side, while Stills wanted "Bluebird" -- Stills making the reasonable case that they'd released two Neil Young songs as singles and gone nowhere, and then they'd released one of Stills', and it had become a massive hit. "Bluebird" was eventually chosen as the A-side, with "Mr. Soul" as the B-side: [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "Bluebird"] The "Bluebird" session was another fraught one. Fielder had not yet joined the band, and session player Bobby West subbed on bass. Neil Young had recently started hanging out with Jack Nitzsche, and the two were getting very close and working on music together. Young had impressed Nitzsche not just with his songwriting but with his arrogance -- he'd played Nitzsche his latest song, "Expecting to Fly", and Nitzsche had said halfway through "That's a great song", and Young had shushed him and told him to listen, not interrupt. Nitzsche, who had a monstrous ego himself and was also used to working with people like Phil Spector, the Rolling Stones and Sonny Bono, none of them known for a lack of faith in their own abilities, was impressed. Shortly after that, Stills had asked Nitzsch

The path that led to Aqib Talib's involvement in the death of a youth football coach was set long ago. It's a path he chose. Talib embraced a dangerous persona to present to the world. It was a reputation he needed to live up to, on and off the field. “Aqib Talib spent the better part of two decades projecting an identity and image of himself as a football-playing thug. He wanted everyone he came in contact with to know he was 'about that life.'” Jason says this identity, influenced by pop culture and hip hop music, is killing black men. “Popular culture celebrates the bad guy. From Tony Soprano to Jay Z, the American zeitgeist rewards the unrepentant criminal.” "Fearless" soldier T.J. Moe joins Jason to discuss how the identity you adopt impacts your life. Virgil Walker stops in to discuss authenticity in the black community. Royce White shares his thoughts on the cultural influences that shape the black community and asks for Ice Cube to get the respect he deserves. Wednesdays mean Tennessee Harmony. Pastors Anthony Walker and Bobby Harrington join Jason and T.J. to discuss why society rewards the wicked. We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at Fearless@TheBlaze.com ​​Today's Sponsor: Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE. Shout Out from Jason: Do you love gifts? Would you want to request a personal shout out for yourself, family or friends from Jason Whitlock?! Click either link below to get the official Shout Out app for Apple or Android and request a personal shout out from Jason Whitlock! Shout Out for Apple:  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shoutout/id1541540629 Shout Out for Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.shoutoutapp Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know what they say, a way to a consumer's wallet is… through their heart? At least that's what emotional marketing expert Brian Gregory has found when creating Admanity's algorithm for The ADMANITY® Protocol. In this episode of Uncooked we're diving into the feelings behind the decisions we make and how technology can help us break down the emotions of our customers into a formula for marketing success. Some highlights of what we cover: Why finding the right formula is critical for marketing success How to trigger customer emotions in a positive way The power of the inner child when it comes to purchasing power How to use technology to build your branding toolbox FREE OFFER TO LISTENERS OF UNCOOKED: To get your own ADMANITY Brand Analysis on YOUR brand, all you have to do is request a FREE assessment. Simply write to info@admanity.com, say you're a listener of Uncooked and request one.  Please make sure we have your first name, last name and the email you'd like us to send the free link to.  Emails only please. We cannot send to social media profiles or text it.  Absolutely FREE.  NO Obligation. After your test is complete, you'll gain free access to your own brand's materials in your private, digital portal. You'll also gain access to over 200 million high-resolution stock photos that you can instantly download for just pennies on the dollar! About Brian Gregory: Brian is a former 20-year owner/publisher of large, citywide magazines in the Phoenix market as well as an expert in direct selling. In addition to creating ADMANITY's algorithm for The ADMANITY® Protocol, he has written over 2,000 pages of ADMANITY® curriculum and training materials, as well as being the author of the book “Sheep Don't Eat Complicated Grass!” Brian is an expert in emotional marketing and advertising tactics. You can learn more about Brian and Admanity at www.admanity.com   Hey listeners✋

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Lucas Kitchen continue their series called, “What’s in the GES bookstore?” In this series of discussions, the guys are giving a tour of our bookstore, highlighting certain books that have special significance. On this episode, we will hear the guys unpack the books, “Absolutely Free,”

The NFL brought the hammer down on the Miami Dolphins, but not for the reasons that former head coach Brian Flores had alleged. The league fined and suspended owner Stephen Ross and docked the team two draft picks but found no evidence that the team intentionally lost games as Flores said in a lawsuit. What is the takeaway from the NFL's decision? Jason says it's that Brian Flores is a snitch that's hurting the cause of black coaches. “Sure, the NFL found the Dolphins guilty of tampering with Tom Brady and Sean Payton and docked the franchise two draft picks. But the wrongdoing of Dolphins owner Stephen Ross isn't the story here. Flores is. He looks weak and untrustworthy.” "Fearless" contributors Steve Kim and T.J. Moe join the conversation, and T.J. shares his theory on the real reason Flores didn't want Tom Brady as the quarterback of the Dolphins. MSNBC clown Elie Mystal called Georgia senatorial candidate and football legend​ Herschel Walker a “house negro,” saying he's only doing what his white GOP masters are telling him to do. Virgil Walker joins "Fearless" to call out Mystal's and the Democrats' hypocrisy, plus he shares his thoughts on Tony Evans' “Kingdom Race Theory,” which he believes is built on the foundations of CRT. Finally, time for some Tennessee Harmony with Pastors Anthony Walker, Bobby Harrington, and Virgil Walker. Jason asks the pastors if the Christian church is truly holding its members accountable and if there are lessons to be learned from the disciplines in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' and Catholic faiths. ​​Today's Sponsor: Bring the American family to the table again with Good Ranchers! Right now, get $30 off your order! Plus, FREE shipping is a huge cost covered for customers. Use my code, “FEARLESS”, or visit https://GoodRanchers.com/FEARLESS. Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster at GNC. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE. Shout Out from Jason: Do you love gifts? Would you want to request a personal shout out for yourself, family or friends from Jason Whitlock?! Click either link below to get the official Shout Out app for Apple or Android and request a personal shout out from Jason Whitlock! Shout Out for Apple:  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shoutout/id1541540629 Shout Out for Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.shoutoutapp Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason received an Instagram message that left him shaken. Loretta, a long-time follower, questioned his commitment to the African-American community. She accused Jason of only being critical of black people and black culture, but never providing any answers to the problems he exposes. This one message leaves Jason questioning everything about "Fearless." He explores the questions raised by Loretta's letter and delves deep into the reasons he's critical of black culture, its white peddlers, and offers the solution to all of America's problems in one word. Jason cites plenty of source material, from Charles Barkley's appearance on “The Pivot Podcast” to Tony Evans' sermon on “The Idol of Culture” to the over-dramatic campaign video of a weed-smoking, abortion-loving minister running for Senate. “This culture is sick and perverted and satanic, and this show is going to continue to hold a mirror up to it every chance we get, because it's killing us.” ​​Today's Sponsors:   Bring the American family to the table again with Good Ranchers! Right now, get $30 off your order! Plus, FREE shipping is a huge cost covered for customers. Use my code, “FEARLESS”, or visit https://GoodRanchers.com/FEARLESS. Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE. Shout Out from Jason: Do you love gifts? Would you want to request a personal shout out for yourself, family or friends from Jason Whitlock?! Click either link below to get the official Shout Out app for Apple or Android and request a personal shout out from Jason Whitlock! Shout Out for Apple:  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shoutout/id1541540629 Shout Out for Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.shoutoutapp Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

​​New York Mayor Eric Adams spent the last week tweeting about Juneteenth, the LGBTQ movement, and the importance of Drag Queen Story Hour. Adams embodies the 60-years-in-the-making marriage between black political elites and the LGBTQ movement. Jason argues in his Fire-starter that membership in the Democratic Party requires black voters and politicians to reject their religious beliefs and embrace sexual immorality. "Fearless" contributor Royce White trashes Adams as a “sellout” and explains that black voters exist in a political wilderness that causes them to devalue their American citizenship. The first lady of the Fearless Army, Shemeka Michelle, focuses on Jason's use of the catchphrase “dragged kings,” imploring black men to stop allowing politics and women to define their values. Steve Kim, the Korean Cosell, wraps up the show discussing Steph Curry's legacy. After winning his fourth NBA title, is Curry now one of the 10 greatest players of all time? Steve and Jason answer that question. Today's Sponsor: Pre-Born has a passion to save unborn babies from abortion and see women come to Christ. Help rescue babies' lives. Donate by dialing #250 and say keyword, "baby."  That's #250, keyword, "baby." OR - go to https://Preborn.org/Fearless. Nugenix Total T is the number one selling testosterone booster. Text “FEARLESS” to 231-231 and get a bottle of Nugenix Thermo, their most powerful fat incinerator ever, with key ingredients to help you get back into shape fast… ABSOLUTELY FREE! Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!”   Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $10 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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