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Commonwealth Beacon's Jennifer Smith sits down with Salem Mayor Dominick Pangallo, Brad Campbell, president of the Conservation Law Foundation, and Jessica Collins, executive director of the Public Health Institute of Western MA to discuss key statehouse priorities. They reflect on past achievements and look ahead to future efforts in education, climate, transportation, and housing.

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Episode 169 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Piece of My Heart" and the short, tragic life of Janis Joplin. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a half-hour bonus episode available, on "Spinning Wheel" by Blood, Sweat & Tears. 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 There are two Mixcloud mixes this time. As there are so many songs by Big Brother and the Holding Company and Janis Joplin excerpted, and Mixcloud won't allow more than four songs by the same artist in any mix, I've had to post the songs not in quite the same order in which they appear in the podcast. But the mixes are here — one, two . For information on Janis Joplin I used three biographies -- Scars of Sweet Paradise by Alice Echols, Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren, and Buried Alive by Myra Friedman. I also referred to the chapter '“Being Good Isn't Always Easy": Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Dusty Springfield, and the Color of Soul' in Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination by Jack Hamilton. Some information on Bessie Smith came from Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay, a book I can't really recommend given the lack of fact-checking, and Bessie by Chris Albertson. I also referred to Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis And the best place to start with Joplin's music is this five-CD box, which contains both Big Brother and the Holding Company albums she was involved in, plus her two studio albums and bonus tracks. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start, this episode contains discussion of drug addiction and overdose, alcoholism, mental illness, domestic abuse, child abandonment, and racism. If those subjects are likely to cause you upset, you may want to check the transcript or skip this one rather than listen. Also, a subject I should probably say a little more about in this intro because I know I have inadvertently caused upset to at least one listener with this in the past. When it comes to Janis Joplin, it is *impossible* to talk about her without discussing her issues with her weight and self-image. The way I write often involves me paraphrasing the opinions of the people I'm writing about, in a mode known as close third person, and sometimes that means it can look like I am stating those opinions as my own, and sometimes things I say in that mode which *I* think are obviously meant in context to be critiques of those attitudes can appear to others to be replicating them. At least once, I have seriously upset a fat listener when talking about issues related to weight in this manner. I'm going to try to be more careful here, but just in case, I'm going to say before I begin that I think fatphobia is a pernicious form of bigotry, as bad as any other form of bigotry. I'm fat myself and well aware of how systemic discrimination affects fat people. I also think more generally that the pressure put on women to look a particular way is pernicious and disgusting in ways I can't even begin to verbalise, and causes untold harm. If *ANYTHING* I say in this episode comes across as sounding otherwise, that's because I haven't expressed myself clearly enough. Like all people, Janis Joplin had negative characteristics, and at times I'm going to say things that are critical of those. But when it comes to anything to do with her weight or her appearance, if *anything* I say sounds critical of her, rather than of a society that makes women feel awful for their appearance, it isn't meant to. Anyway, on with the show. On January the nineteenth, 1943, Seth Joplin typed up a letter to his wife Dorothy, which read “I wish to tender my congratulations on the anniversary of your successful completion of your production quota for the nine months ending January 19, 1943. I realize that you passed through a period of inflation such as you had never before known—yet, in spite of this, you met your goal by your supreme effort during the early hours of January 19, a good three weeks ahead of schedule.” As you can probably tell from that message, the Joplin family were a strange mixture of ultraconformism and eccentricity, and those two opposing forces would dominate the personality of their firstborn daughter for the whole of her life.  Seth Joplin was a respected engineer at Texaco, where he worked for forty years, but he had actually dropped out of engineering school before completing his degree. His favourite pastime when he wasn't at work was to read -- he was a voracious reader -- and to listen to classical music, which would often move him to tears, but he had also taught himself to make bathtub gin during prohibition, and smoked cannabis. Dorothy, meanwhile, had had the possibility of a singing career before deciding to settle down and become a housewife, and was known for having a particularly beautiful soprano voice. Both were, by all accounts, fiercely intelligent people, but they were also as committed as anyone to the ideals of the middle-class family even as they chafed against its restrictions. Like her mother, young Janis had a beautiful soprano voice, and she became a soloist in her church choir, but after the age of six, she was not encouraged to sing much. Dorothy had had a thyroid operation which destroyed her singing voice, and the family got rid of their piano soon after (different sources say that this was either because Dorothy found her daughter's singing painful now that she couldn't sing herself, or because Seth was upset that his wife could no longer sing. Either seems plausible.) Janis was pushed to be a high-achiever -- she was given a library card as soon as she could write her name, and encouraged to use it, and she was soon advanced in school, skipping a couple of grades. She was also by all accounts a fiercely talented painter, and her parents paid for art lessons. From everything one reads about her pre-teen years, she was a child prodigy who was loved by everyone and who was clearly going to be a success of some kind. Things started to change when she reached her teenage years. Partly, this was just her getting into rock and roll music, which her father thought a fad -- though even there, she differed from her peers. She loved Elvis, but when she heard "Hound Dog", she loved it so much that she tracked down a copy of Big Mama Thornton's original, and told her friends she preferred that: [Excerpt: Big Mama Thornton, "Hound Dog"] Despite this, she was still also an exemplary student and overachiever. But by the time she turned fourteen, things started to go very wrong for her. Partly this was just down to her relationship with her father changing -- she adored him, but he became more distant from his daughters as they grew into women. But also, puberty had an almost wholly negative effect on her, at least by the standards of that time and place. She put on weight (which, again, I do not think is a negative thing, but she did, and so did everyone around her), she got a bad case of acne which didn't ever really go away, and she also didn't develop breasts particularly quickly -- which, given that she was a couple of years younger than the other people in the same classes at school, meant she stood out even more. In the mid-sixties, a doctor apparently diagnosed her as having a "hormone imbalance" -- something that got to her as a possible explanation for why she was, to quote from a letter she wrote then, "not really a woman or enough of one or something." She wondered if "maybe something as simple as a pill could have helped out or even changed that part of me I call ME and has been so messed up.” I'm not a doctor and even if I were, diagnosing historical figures is an unethical thing to do, but certainly the acne, weight gain, and mental health problems she had are all consistent with PCOS, the most common endocrine disorder among women, and it seems likely given what the doctor told her that this was the cause. But at the time all she knew was that she was different, and that in the eyes of her fellow students she had gone from being pretty to being ugly. She seems to have been a very trusting, naive, person who was often the brunt of jokes but who desperately needed to be accepted, and it became clear that her appearance wasn't going to let her fit into the conformist society she was being brought up in, while her high intelligence, low impulse control, and curiosity meant she couldn't even fade into the background. This left her one other option, and she decided that she would deliberately try to look and act as different from everyone else as possible. That way, it would be a conscious choice on her part to reject the standards of her fellow pupils, rather than her being rejected by them. She started to admire rebels. She became a big fan of Jerry Lee Lewis, whose music combined the country music she'd grown up hearing in Texas, the R&B she liked now, and the rebellious nature she was trying to cultivate: [Excerpt: Jerry Lee Lewis, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"] When Lewis' career was derailed by his marriage to his teenage cousin, Joplin wrote an angry letter to Time magazine complaining that they had mistreated him in their coverage. But as with so many people of her generation, her love of rock and roll music led her first to the blues and then to folk, and she soon found herself listening to Odetta: [Excerpt: Odetta, "Muleskinner Blues"] One of her first experiences of realising she could gain acceptance from her peers by singing was when she was hanging out with the small group of Bohemian teenagers she was friendly with, and sang an Odetta song, mimicking her voice exactly. But young Janis Joplin was listening to an eclectic range of folk music, and could mimic more than just Odetta. For all that her later vocal style was hugely influenced by Odetta and by other Black singers like Big Mama Thornton and Etta James, her friends in her late teens and early twenties remember her as a vocal chameleon with an achingly pure soprano, who would more often than Odetta be imitating the great Appalachian traditional folk singer Jean Ritchie: [Excerpt: Jean Ritchie, "Lord Randall"] She was, in short, trying her best to become a Beatnik, despite not having any experience of that subculture other than what she read in books -- though she *did* read about them in books, devouring things like Kerouac's On The Road. She came into conflict with her mother, who didn't understand what was happening to her daughter, and who tried to get family counselling to understand what was going on. Her father, who seemed to relate more to Janis, but who was more quietly eccentric, put an end to that, but Janis would still for the rest of her life talk about how her mother had taken her to doctors who thought she was going to end up "either in jail or an insane asylum" to use her words. From this point on, and for the rest of her life, she was torn between a need for approval from her family and her peers, and a knowledge that no matter what she did she couldn't fit in with normal societal expectations. In high school she was a member of the Future Nurses of America, the Future Teachers of America, the Art Club, and Slide Rule Club, but she also had a reputation as a wild girl, and as sexually active (even though by all accounts at this point she was far less so than most of the so-called "good girls" – but her later activity was in part because she felt that if she was going to have that reputation anyway she might as well earn it). She also was known to express radical opinions, like that segregation was wrong, an opinion that the other students in her segregated Texan school didn't even think was wrong, but possibly some sort of sign of mental illness. Her final High School yearbook didn't contain a single other student's signature. And her initial choice of university, Lamar State College of Technology, was not much better. In the next town over, and attended by many of the same students, it had much the same attitudes as the school she'd left. Almost the only long-term effect her initial attendance at university had on her was a negative one -- she found there was another student at the college who was better at painting. Deciding that if she wasn't going to be the best at something she didn't want to do it at all, she more or less gave up on painting at that point. But there was one positive. One of the lecturers at Lamar was Francis Edward "Ab" Abernethy, who would in the early seventies go on to become the Secretary and Editor of the Texas Folklore Society, and was also a passionate folk musician, playing double bass in string bands. Abernethy had a great collection of blues 78s. and it was through this collection that Janis first discovered classic blues, and in particular Bessie Smith: [Excerpt: Bessie Smith, "Black Mountain Blues"] A couple of episodes ago, we had a long look at the history of the music that now gets called "the blues" -- the music that's based around guitars, and generally involves a solo male vocalist, usually Black during its classic period. At the time that music was being made though it wouldn't have been thought of as "the blues" with no modifiers by most people who were aware of it. At the start, even the songs they were playing weren't thought of as blues by the male vocalist/guitarists who played them -- they called the songs they played "reels". The music released by people like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Robert Johnson, Kokomo Arnold and so on was thought of as blues music, and people would understand and agree with a phrase like "Lonnie Johnson is a blues singer", but it wasn't the first thing people thought of when they talked about "the blues". Until relatively late -- probably some time in the 1960s -- if you wanted to talk about blues music made by Black men with guitars and only that music, you talked about "country blues". If you thought about "the blues", with no qualifiers, you thought about a rather different style of music, one that white record collectors started later to refer to as "classic blues" to differentiate it from what they were now calling "the blues". Nowadays of course if you say "classic blues", most people will think you mean Muddy Waters or John Lee Hooker, people who were contemporary at the time those white record collectors were coming up with their labels, and so that style of music gets referred to as "vaudeville blues", or as "classic female blues": [Excerpt: Mamie Smith, "Crazy Blues"] What we just heard was the first big blues hit performed by a Black person, from 1920, and as we discussed in the episode on "Crossroads" that revolutionised the whole record industry when it came out. The song was performed by Mamie Smith, a vaudeville performer, and was originally titled "Harlem Blues" by its writer, Perry Bradford, before he changed the title to "Crazy Blues" to get it to a wider audience. Bradford was an important figure in the vaudeville scene, though other than being the credited writer of "Keep A-Knockin'" he's little known these days. He was a Black musician and grew up playing in minstrel shows (the history of minstrelsy is a topic for another day, but it's more complicated than the simple image of blackface that we are aware of today -- though as with many "more complicated than that" things it is, also the simple image of blackface we're aware of). He was the person who persuaded OKeh records that there would be a market for music made by Black people that sounded Black (though as we're going to see in this episode, what "sounding Black" means is a rather loaded question). "Crazy Blues" was the result, and it was a massive hit, even though it was marketed specifically towards Black listeners: [Excerpt: Mamie Smith, "Crazy Blues"] The big stars of the early years of recorded blues were all making records in the shadow of "Crazy Blues", and in the case of its very biggest stars, they were working very much in the same mould. The two most important blues stars of the twenties both got their start in vaudeville, and were both women. Ma Rainey, like Mamie Smith, first performed in minstrel shows, but where Mamie Smith's early records had her largely backed by white musicians, Rainey was largely backed by Black musicians, including on several tracks Louis Armstrong: [Excerpt: Ma Rainey, "See See Rider"] Rainey's band was initially led by Thomas Dorsey, one of the most important men in American music, who we've talked about before in several episodes, including the last one. He was possibly the single most important figure in two different genres -- hokum music, when he, under the name "Georgia Tom" recorded "It's Tight Like That" with Tampa Red: [Excerpt: Tampa Red and Georgia Tom, "It's Tight Like That"] And of course gospel music, which to all intents and purposes he invented, and much of whose repertoire he wrote: [Excerpt: Mahalia Jackson, "Take My Hand, Precious Lord"] When Dorsey left Rainey's band, as we discussed right back in episode five, he was replaced by a female pianist, Lil Henderson. The blues was a woman's genre. And Ma Rainey was, by preference, a woman's woman, though she was married to a man: [Excerpt: Ma Rainey, "Prove it on Me"] So was the biggest star of the classic blues era, who was originally mentored by Rainey. Bessie Smith, like Rainey, was a queer woman who had relationships with men but was far more interested in other women.  There were stories that Bessie Smith actually got her start in the business by being kidnapped by Ma Rainey, and forced into performing on the same bills as her in the vaudeville show she was touring in, and that Rainey taught Smith to sing blues in the process. In truth, Rainey mentored Smith more in stagecraft and the ways of the road than in singing, and neither woman was only a blues singer, though both had huge success with their blues records.  Indeed, since Rainey was already in the show, Smith was initially hired as a dancer rather than a singer, and she also worked as a male impersonator. But Smith soon branched out on her own -- from the beginning she was obviously a star. The great jazz clarinettist Sidney Bechet later said of her "She had this trouble in her, this thing that would not let her rest sometimes, a meanness that came and took her over. But what she had was alive … Bessie, she just wouldn't let herself be; it seemed she couldn't let herself be." Bessie Smith was signed by Columbia Records in 1923, as part of the rush to find and record as many Black women blues singers as possible. Her first recording session produced "Downhearted Blues", which became, depending on which sources you read, either the biggest-selling blues record since "Crazy Blues" or the biggest-selling blues record ever, full stop, selling three quarters of a million copies in the six months after its release: [Excerpt: Bessie Smith, "Downhearted Blues"] Smith didn't make royalties off record sales, only making a flat fee, but she became the most popular Black performer of the 1920s. Columbia signed her to an exclusive contract, and she became so rich that she would literally travel between gigs on her own private train. She lived an extravagant life in every way, giving lavishly to her friends and family, but also drinking extraordinary amounts of liquor, having regular affairs, and also often physically or verbally attacking those around her. By all accounts she was not a comfortable person to be around, and she seemed to be trying to fit an entire lifetime into every moment. From 1923 through 1929 she had a string of massive hits. She recorded material in a variety of styles, including the dirty blues: [Excerpt: Bessie Smith, "Empty Bed Blues] And with accompanists like Louis Armstrong: [Excerpt: Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong, "Cold in Hand Blues"] But the music for which she became best known, and which sold the best, was when she sang about being mistreated by men, as on one of her biggest hits, "'Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness if I Do" -- and a warning here, I'm going to play a clip of the song, which treats domestic violence in a way that may be upsetting: [Excerpt: Bessie Smith, "'Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness if I Do"] That kind of material can often seem horrifying to today's listeners -- and quite correctly so, as domestic violence is a horrifying thing -- and it sounds entirely too excusing of the man beating her up for anyone to find it comfortable listening. But the Black feminist scholar Angela Davis has made a convincing case that while these records, and others by Smith's contemporaries, can't reasonably be considered to be feminist, they *are* at the very least more progressive than they now seem, in that they were, even if excusing it, pointing to a real problem which was otherwise left unspoken. And that kind of domestic violence and abuse *was* a real problem, including in Smith's own life. By all accounts she was terrified of her husband, Jack Gee, who would frequently attack her because of her affairs with other people, mostly women. But she was still devastated when he left her for a younger woman, not only because he had left her, but also because he kidnapped their adopted son and had him put into a care home, falsely claiming she had abused him. Not only that, but before Jack left her closest friend had been Jack's niece Ruby and after the split she never saw Ruby again -- though after her death Ruby tried to have a blues career as "Ruby Smith", taking her aunt's surname and recording a few tracks with Sammy Price, the piano player who worked with Sister Rosetta Tharpe: [Excerpt: Ruby Smith with Sammy Price, "Make Me Love You"] The same month, May 1929, that Gee left her, Smith recorded what was to become her last big hit, and most well-known song, "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out": [Excerpt: Bessie Smith, "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"] And that could have been the theme for the rest of her life. A few months after that record came out, the Depression hit, pretty much killing the market for blues records. She carried on recording until 1931, but the records weren't selling any more. And at the same time, the talkies came in in the film industry, which along with the Depression ended up devastating the vaudeville audience. Her earnings were still higher than most, but only a quarter of what they had been a year or two earlier. She had one last recording session in 1933, produced by John Hammond for OKeh Records, where she showed that her style had developed over the years -- it was now incorporating the newer swing style, and featured future swing stars Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden in the backing band: [Excerpt: Bessie Smith, "Gimme a Pigfoot"] Hammond was not hugely impressed with the recordings, preferring her earlier records, and they would be the last she would ever make. She continued as a successful, though no longer record-breaking, live act until 1937, when she and her common-law husband, Lionel Hampton's uncle Richard Morgan, were in a car crash. Morgan escaped, but Smith died of her injuries and was buried on October the fourth 1937. Ten thousand people came to her funeral, but she was buried in an unmarked grave -- she was still legally married to Gee, even though they'd been separated for eight years, and while he supposedly later became rich from songwriting royalties from some of her songs (most of her songs were written by other people, but she wrote a few herself) he refused to pay for a headstone for her. Indeed on more than one occasion he embezzled money that had been raised by other people to provide a headstone. Bessie Smith soon became Joplin's favourite singer of all time, and she started trying to copy her vocals. But other than discovering Smith's music, Joplin seems to have had as terrible a time at university as at school, and soon dropped out and moved back in with her parents. She went to business school for a short while, where she learned some secretarial skills, and then she moved west, going to LA where two of her aunts lived, to see if she could thrive better in a big West Coast city than she did in small-town Texas. Soon she moved from LA to Venice Beach, and from there had a brief sojourn in San Francisco, where she tried to live out her beatnik fantasies at a time when the beatnik culture was starting to fall apart. She did, while she was there, start smoking cannabis, though she never got a taste for that drug, and took Benzedrine and started drinking much more heavily than she had before. She soon lost her job, moved back to Texas, and re-enrolled at the same college she'd been at before. But now she'd had a taste of real Bohemian life -- she'd been singing at coffee houses, and having affairs with both men and women -- and soon she decided to transfer to the University of Texas at Austin. At this point, Austin was very far from the cultural centre it has become in recent decades, and it was still a straitlaced Texan town, but it was far less so than Port Arthur, and she soon found herself in a folk group, the Waller Creek Boys. Janis would play autoharp and sing, sometimes Bessie Smith covers, but also the more commercial country and folk music that was popular at the time, like "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", a song that had originally been recorded by Wanda Jackson but at that time was a big hit for Dusty Springfield's group The Springfields: [Excerpt: The Waller Creek Boys, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"] But even there, Joplin didn't fit in comfortably. The venue where the folk jams were taking place was a segregated venue, as everywhere around Austin was. And she was enough of a misfit that the campus newspaper did an article on her headlined "She Dares to Be Different!", which read in part "She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears Levi's to class because they're more comfortable, and carries her Autoharp with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break out into song it will be handy." There was a small group of wannabe-Beatniks, including Chet Helms, who we've mentioned previously in the Grateful Dead episode, Gilbert Shelton, who went on to be a pioneer of alternative comics and create the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and Shelton's partner in Rip-Off Press, Dave Moriarty, but for the most part the atmosphere in Austin was only slightly better for Janis than it had been in Port Arthur. The final straw for her came when in an annual charity fundraiser joke competition to find the ugliest man on campus, someone nominated her for the "award". She'd had enough of Texas. She wanted to go back to California. She and Chet Helms, who had dropped out of the university earlier and who, like her, had already spent some time on the West Coast, decided to hitch-hike together to San Francisco. Before leaving, she made a recording for her ex-girlfriend Julie Paul, a country and western musician, of a song she'd written herself. It's recorded in what many say was Janis' natural voice -- a voice she deliberately altered in performance in later years because, she would tell people, she didn't think there was room for her singing like that in an industry that already had Joan Baez and Judy Collins. In her early years she would alternate between singing like this and doing her imitations of Black women, but the character of Janis Joplin who would become famous never sang like this. It may well be the most honest thing that she ever recorded, and the most revealing of who she really was: [Excerpt: Janis Joplin, "So Sad to Be Alone"] Joplin and Helms made it to San Francisco, and she started performing at open-mic nights and folk clubs around the Bay Area, singing in her Bessie Smith and Odetta imitation voice, and sometimes making a great deal of money by sounding different from the wispier-voiced women who were the norm at those venues. The two friends parted ways, and she started performing with two other folk musicians, Larry Hanks and Roger Perkins, and she insisted that they would play at least one Bessie Smith song at every performance: [Excerpt: Janis Joplin, Larry Hanks, and Roger Perkins, "Black Mountain Blues (live in San Francisco)"] Often the trio would be joined by Billy Roberts, who at that time had just started performing the song that would make his name, "Hey Joe", and Joplin was soon part of the folk scene in the Bay Area, and admired by Dino Valenti, David Crosby, and Jerry Garcia among others. She also sang a lot with Jorma Kaukonnen, and recordings of the two of them together have circulated for years: [Excerpt: Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonnen, "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"] Through 1963, 1964, and early 1965 Joplin ping-ponged from coast to coast, spending time in the Bay Area, then Greenwich Village, dropping in on her parents then back to the Bay Area, and she started taking vast quantities of methamphetamine. Even before moving to San Francisco she had been an occasional user of amphetamines – at the time they were regularly prescribed to students as study aids during exam periods, and she had also been taking them to try to lose some of the weight she always hated. But while she was living in San Francisco she became dependent on the drug. At one point her father was worried enough about her health to visit her in San Francisco, where she managed to fool him that she was more or less OK. But she looked to him for reassurance that things would get better for her, and he couldn't give it to her. He told her about a concept that he called the "Saturday night swindle", the idea that you work all week so you can go out and have fun on Saturday in the hope that that will make up for everything else, but that it never does. She had occasional misses with what would have been lucky breaks -- at one point she was in a motorcycle accident just as record labels were interested in signing her, and by the time she got out of the hospital the chance had gone. She became engaged to another speed freak, one who claimed to be an engineer and from a well-off background, but she was becoming severely ill from what was by now a dangerous amphetamine habit, and in May 1965 she decided to move back in with her parents, get clean, and have a normal life. Her new fiance was going to do the same, and they were going to have the conformist life her parents had always wanted, and which she had always wanted to want. Surely with a husband who loved her she could find a way to fit in and just be normal. She kicked the addiction, and wrote her fiance long letters describing everything about her family and the new normal life they were going to have together, and they show her painfully trying to be optimistic about the future, like one where she described her family to him: "My mother—Dorothy—worries so and loves her children dearly. Republican and Methodist, very sincere, speaks in clichés which she really means and is very good to people. (She thinks you have a lovely voice and is terribly prepared to like you.) My father—richer than when I knew him and kind of embarrassed about it—very well read—history his passion—quiet and very excited to have me home because I'm bright and we can talk (about antimatter yet—that impressed him)! I keep telling him how smart you are and how proud I am of you.…" She went back to Lamar, her mother started sewing her a wedding dress, and for much of the year she believed her fiance was going to be her knight in shining armour. But as it happened, the fiance in question was described by everyone else who knew him as a compulsive liar and con man, who persuaded her father to give him money for supposed medical tests before the wedding, but in reality was apparently married to someone else and having a baby with a third woman. After the engagement was broken off, she started performing again around the coffeehouses in Austin and Houston, and she started to realise the possibilities of rock music for her kind of performance. The missing clue came from a group from Austin who she became very friendly with, the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, and the way their lead singer Roky Erickson would wail and yell: [Excerpt: The 13th Floor Elevators, "You're Gonna Miss Me (live)"] If, as now seemed inevitable, Janis was going to make a living as a performer, maybe she should start singing rock music, because it seemed like there was money in it. There was even some talk of her singing with the Elevators. But then an old friend came to Austin from San Francisco with word from Chet Helms. A blues band had formed, and were looking for a singer, and they remembered her from the coffee houses. Would she like to go back to San Francisco and sing with them? In the time she'd been away, Helms had become hugely prominent in the San Francisco music scene, which had changed radically. A band from the area called the Charlatans had been playing a fake-Victorian saloon called the Red Dog in nearby Nevada, and had become massive with the people who a few years earlier had been beatniks: [Excerpt: The Charlatans, "32-20"] When their residency at the Red Dog had finished, several of the crowd who had been regulars there had become a collective of sorts called the Family Dog, and Helms had become their unofficial leader. And there's actually a lot packed into that choice of name. As we'll see in a few future episodes, a lot of West Coast hippies eventually started calling their collectives and communes families. This started as a way to get round bureaucracy -- if a helpful welfare officer put down that the unrelated people living in a house together were a family, suddenly they could get food stamps. As with many things, of course, the label then affected how people thought about themselves, and one thing that's very notable about the San Francisco scene hippies in particular is that they are some of the first people to make a big deal about what we now  call "found family" or "family of choice". But it's also notable how often the hippie found families took their model from the only families these largely middle-class dropouts had ever known, and structured themselves around men going out and doing the work -- selling dope or panhandling or being rock musicians or shoplifting -- with the women staying at home doing the housework. The Family Dog started promoting shows, with the intention of turning San Francisco into "the American Liverpool", and soon Helms was rivalled only by Bill Graham as the major promoter of rock shows in the Bay Area. And now he wanted Janis to come back and join this new band. But Janis was worried. She was clean now. She drank far too much, but she wasn't doing any other drugs. She couldn't go back to San Francisco and risk getting back on methamphetamine. She needn't worry about that, she was told, nobody in San Francisco did speed any more, they were all on LSD -- a drug she hated and so wasn't in any danger from. Reassured, she made the trip back to San Francisco, to join Big Brother and the Holding Company. Big Brother and the Holding Company were the epitome of San Francisco acid rock at the time. They were the house band at the Avalon Ballroom, which Helms ran, and their first ever gig had been at the Trips Festival, which we talked about briefly in the Grateful Dead episode. They were known for being more imaginative than competent -- lead guitarist James Gurley was often described as playing parts that were influenced by John Cage, but was equally often, and equally accurately, described as not actually being able to keep his guitar in tune because he was too stoned. But they were drawing massive crowds with their instrumental freak-out rock music. Helms thought they needed a singer, and he had remembered Joplin, who a few of the group had seen playing the coffee houses. He decided she would be perfect for them, though Joplin wasn't so sure. She thought it was worth a shot, but as she wrote to her parents before meeting the group "Supposed to rehearse w/ the band this afternoon, after that I guess I'll know whether I want to stay & do that for awhile. Right now my position is ambivalent—I'm glad I came, nice to see the city, a few friends, but I'm not at all sold on the idea of becoming the poor man's Cher.” In that letter she also wrote "I'm awfully sorry to be such a disappointment to you. I understand your fears at my coming here & must admit I share them, but I really do think there's an awfully good chance I won't blow it this time." The band she met up with consisted of lead guitarist James Gurley, bass player Peter Albin, rhythm player Sam Andrew, and drummer David Getz.  To start with, Peter Albin sang lead on most songs, with Joplin adding yelps and screams modelled on those of Roky Erickson, but in her first gig with the band she bowled everyone over with her lead vocal on the traditional spiritual "Down on Me", which would remain a staple of their live act, as in this live recording from 1968: [Excerpt: Big Brother and the Holding Company, "Down on Me (Live 1968)"] After that first gig in June 1966, it was obvious that Joplin was going to be a star, and was going to be the group's main lead vocalist. She had developed a whole new stage persona a million miles away from her folk performances. As Chet Helms said “Suddenly this person who would stand upright with her fists clenched was all over the stage. Roky Erickson had modeled himself after the screaming style of Little Richard, and Janis's initial stage presence came from Roky, and ultimately Little Richard. It was a very different Janis.” Joplin would always claim to journalists that her stage persona was just her being herself and natural, but she worked hard on every aspect of her performance, and far from the untrained emotional outpouring she always suggested, her vocal performances were carefully calculated pastiches of her influences -- mostly Bessie Smith, but also Big Mama Thornton, Odetta, Etta James, Tina Turner, and Otis Redding. That's not to say that those performances weren't an authentic expression of part of herself -- they absolutely were. But the ethos that dominated San Francisco in the mid-sixties prized self-expression over technical craft, and so Joplin had to portray herself as a freak of nature who just had to let all her emotions out, a wild woman, rather than someone who carefully worked out every nuance of her performances. Joplin actually got the chance to meet one of her idols when she discovered that Willie Mae Thornton was now living and regularly performing in the Bay Area. She and some of her bandmates saw Big Mama play a small jazz club, where she performed a song she wouldn't release on a record for another two years: [Excerpt: Big Mama Thornton, "Ball 'n' Chain"] Janis loved the song and scribbled down the lyrics, then went backstage to ask Big Mama if Big Brother could cover the song. She gave them her blessing, but told them "don't" -- and here she used a word I can't use with a clean rating -- "it up". The group all moved in together, communally, with their partners -- those who had them. Janis was currently single, having dumped her most recent boyfriend after discovering him shooting speed, as she was still determined to stay clean. But she was rapidly discovering that the claim that San Franciscans no longer used much speed had perhaps not been entirely true, as for example Sam Andrew's girlfriend went by the nickname Speedfreak Rita. For now, Janis was still largely clean, but she did start drinking more. Partly this was because of a brief fling with Pigpen from the Grateful Dead, who lived nearby. Janis liked Pigpen as someone else on the scene who didn't much like psychedelics or cannabis -- she didn't like drugs that made her think more, but only drugs that made her able to *stop* thinking (her love of amphetamines doesn't seem to fit this pattern, but a small percentage of people have a different reaction to amphetamine-type stimulants, perhaps she was one of those). Pigpen was a big drinker of Southern Comfort -- so much so that it would kill him within a few years -- and Janis started joining him. Her relationship with Pigpen didn't last long, but the two would remain close, and she would often join the Grateful Dead on stage over the years to duet with him on "Turn On Your Lovelight": [Excerpt: Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead, "Turn on Your Lovelight"] But within two months of joining the band, Janis nearly left. Paul Rothchild of Elektra Records came to see the group live, and was impressed by their singer, but not by the rest of the band. This was something that would happen again and again over the group's career. The group were all imaginative and creative -- they worked together on their arrangements and their long instrumental jams and often brought in very good ideas -- but they were not the most disciplined or technically skilled of musicians, even when you factored in their heavy drug use, and often lacked the skill to pull off their better ideas. They were hugely popular among the crowds at the Avalon Ballroom, who were on the group's chemical wavelength, but Rothchild was not impressed -- as he was, in general, unimpressed with psychedelic freakouts. He was already of the belief in summer 1966 that the fashion for extended experimental freak-outs would soon come to an end and that there would be a pendulum swing back towards more structured and melodic music. As we saw in the episode on The Band, he would be proved right in a little over a year, but being ahead of the curve he wanted to put together a supergroup that would be able to ride that coming wave, a group that would play old-fashioned blues. He'd got together Stefan Grossman, Steve Mann, and Taj Mahal, and he wanted Joplin to be the female vocalist for the group, dueting with Mahal. She attended one rehearsal, and the new group sounded great. Elektra Records offered to sign them, pay their rent while they rehearsed, and have a major promotional campaign for their first release. Joplin was very, very, tempted, and brought the subject up to her bandmates in Big Brother. They were devastated. They were a family! You don't leave your family! She was meant to be with them forever! They eventually got her to agree to put off the decision at least until after a residency they'd been booked for in Chicago, and she decided to give them the chance, writing to her parents "I decided to stay w/the group but still like to think about the other thing. Trying to figure out which is musically more marketable because my being good isn't enough, I've got to be in a good vehicle.” The trip to Chicago was a disaster. They found that the people of Chicago weren't hugely interested in seeing a bunch of white Californians play the blues, and that the Midwest didn't have the same Bohemian crowds that the coastal cities they were used to had, and so their freak-outs didn't go down well either. After two weeks of their four-week residency, the club owner stopped paying them because they were so unpopular, and they had no money to get home. And then they were approached by Bob Shad. (For those who know the film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the Bob Shad in that film is named after this one -- Judd Apatow, the film's director, is Shad's grandson) This Shad was a record producer, who had worked with people like Big Bill Broonzy, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, and Billy Eckstine over an eighteen-year career, and had recently set up a new label, Mainstream Records. He wanted to sign Big Brother and the Holding Company. They needed money and... well, it was a record contract! It was a contract that took half their publishing, paid them a five percent royalty on sales, and gave them no advance, but it was still a contract, and they'd get union scale for the first session. In that first session in Chicago, they recorded four songs, and strangely only one, "Down on Me", had a solo Janis vocal. Of the other three songs, Sam Andrew and Janis dueted on Sam's song "Call on Me", Albin sang lead on the group composition "Blindman", and Gurley and Janis sang a cover of "All Is Loneliness", a song originally by the avant-garde street musician Moondog: [Excerpt: Big Brother and the Holding Company, "All is Loneliness"] The group weren't happy with the four songs they recorded -- they had to keep the songs to the length of a single, and the engineers made sure that the needles never went into the red, so their guitars sounded far more polite and less distorted than they were used to. Janis was fascinated by the overdubbing process, though, especially double-tracking, which she'd never tried before but which she turned out to be remarkably good at. And they were now signed to a contract, which meant that Janis wouldn't be leaving the group to go solo any time soon. The family were going to stay together. But on the group's return to San Francisco, Janis started doing speed again, encouraged by the people around the group, particularly Gurley's wife. By the time the group's first single, "Blindman" backed with "All is Loneliness", came out, she was an addict again. That initial single did nothing, but the group were fast becoming one of the most popular in the Bay Area, and almost entirely down to Janis' vocals and on-stage persona. Bob Shad had already decided in the initial session that while various band members had taken lead, Janis was the one who should be focused on as the star, and when they drove to LA for their second recording session it was songs with Janis leads that they focused on. At that second session, in which they recorded ten tracks in two days, the group recorded a mix of material including one of Janis' own songs, the blues track "Women is Losers", and a version of the old folk song "the Cuckoo Bird" rearranged by Albin. Again they had to keep the arrangements to two and a half minutes a track, with no extended soloing and a pop arrangement style, and the results sound a lot more like the other San Francisco bands, notably Jefferson Airplane, than like the version of the band that shows itself in their live performances: [Excerpt: Big Brother and the Holding Company, "Coo Coo"] After returning to San Francisco after the sessions, Janis went to see Otis Redding at the Fillmore, turning up several hours before the show started on all three nights to make sure she could be right at the front. One of the other audience members later recalled “It was more fascinating for me, almost, to watch Janis watching Otis, because you could tell that she wasn't just listening to him, she was studying something. There was some kind of educational thing going on there. I was jumping around like the little hippie girl I was, thinking This is so great! and it just stopped me in my tracks—because all of a sudden Janis drew you very deeply into what the performance was all about. Watching her watch Otis Redding was an education in itself.” Joplin would, for the rest of her life, always say that Otis Redding was her all-time favourite singer, and would say “I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it.” [Excerpt: Otis Redding, "I Can't Turn You Loose (live)"] At the start of 1967, the group moved out of the rural house they'd been sharing and into separate apartments around Haight-Ashbury, and they brought the new year in by playing a free show organised by the Hell's Angels, the violent motorcycle gang who at the time were very close with the proto-hippies in the Bay Area. Janis in particular always got on well with the Angels, whose drugs of choice, like hers, were speed and alcohol more than cannabis and psychedelics. Janis also started what would be the longest on-again off-again relationship she would ever have, with a woman named Peggy Caserta. Caserta had a primary partner, but that if anything added to her appeal for Joplin -- Caserta's partner Kimmie had previously been in a relationship with Joan Baez, and Joplin, who had an intense insecurity that made her jealous of any other female singer who had any success, saw this as in some way a validation both of her sexuality and, transitively, of her talent. If she was dating Baez's ex's lover, that in some way put her on a par with Baez, and when she told friends about Peggy, Janis would always slip that fact in. Joplin and Caserta would see each other off and on for the rest of Joplin's life, but they were never in a monogamous relationship, and Joplin had many other lovers over the years. The next of these was Country Joe McDonald of Country Joe and the Fish, who were just in the process of recording their first album Electric Music for the Mind and Body, when McDonald and Joplin first got together: [Excerpt: Country Joe and the Fish, "Grace"] McDonald would later reminisce about lying with Joplin, listening to one of the first underground FM radio stations, KMPX, and them playing a Fish track and a Big Brother track back to back. Big Brother's second single, the other two songs recorded in the Chicago session, had been released in early 1967, and the B-side, "Down on Me", was getting a bit of airplay in San Francisco and made the local charts, though it did nothing outside the Bay Area: [Excerpt: Big Brother and the Holding Company, "Down on Me"] Janis was unhappy with the record, though, writing to her parents and saying, “Our new record is out. We seem to be pretty dissatisfied w/it. I think we're going to try & get out of the record contract if we can. We don't feel that they know how to promote or engineer a record & every time we recorded for them, they get all our songs, which means we can't do them for another record company. But then if our new record does something, we'd change our mind. But somehow, I don't think it's going to." The band apparently saw a lawyer to see if they could get out of the contract with Mainstream, but they were told it was airtight. They were tied to Bob Shad no matter what for the next five years. Janis and McDonald didn't stay together for long -- they clashed about his politics and her greater fame -- but after they split, she asked him to write a song for her before they became too distant, and he obliged and recorded it on the Fish's next album: [Excerpt: Country Joe and the Fish, "Janis"] The group were becoming so popular by late spring 1967 that when Richard Lester, the director of the Beatles' films among many other classics, came to San Francisco to film Petulia, his follow-up to How I Won The War, he chose them, along with the Grateful Dead, to appear in performance segments in the film. But it would be another filmmaker that would change the course of the group's career irrevocably: [Excerpt: Scott McKenzie, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)"] When Big Brother and the Holding Company played the Monterey Pop Festival, nobody had any great expectations. They were second on the bill on the Saturday, the day that had been put aside for the San Francisco acts, and they were playing in the early afternoon, after a largely unimpressive night before. They had a reputation among the San Francisco crowd, of course, but they weren't even as big as the Grateful Dead, Moby Grape or Country Joe and the Fish, let alone Jefferson Airplane. Monterey launched four careers to new heights, but three of the superstars it made -- Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, and the Who -- already had successful careers. Hendrix and the Who had had hits in the UK but not yet broken the US market, while Redding was massively popular with Black people but hadn't yet crossed over to a white audience. Big Brother and the Holding Company, on the other hand, were so unimportant that D.A. Pennebaker didn't even film their set -- their manager at the time had not wanted to sign over the rights to film their performance, something that several of the other acts had also refused -- and nobody had been bothered enough to make an issue of it. Pennebaker just took some crowd shots and didn't bother filming the band. The main thing he caught was Cass Elliot's open-mouthed astonishment at Big Brother's performance -- or rather at Janis Joplin's performance. The members of the group would later complain, not entirely inaccurately, that in the reviews of their performance at Monterey, Joplin's left nipple (the outline of which was apparently visible through her shirt, at least to the male reviewers who took an inordinate interest in such things) got more attention than her four bandmates combined. As Pennebaker later said “She came out and sang, and my hair stood on end. We were told we weren't allowed to shoot it, but I knew if we didn't have Janis in the film, the film would be a wash. Afterward, I said to Albert Grossman, ‘Talk to her manager or break his leg or whatever you have to do, because we've got to have her in this film. I can't imagine this film without this woman who I just saw perform.” Grossman had a talk with the organisers of the festival, Lou Adler and John Phillips, and they offered Big Brother a second spot, the next day, if they would allow their performance to be used in the film. The group agreed, after much discussion between Janis and Grossman, and against the wishes of their manager: [Excerpt: Big Brother and the Holding Company, "Ball and Chain (live at Monterey)"] They were now on Albert Grossman's radar. Or at least, Janis Joplin was. Joplin had always been more of a careerist than the other members of the group. They were in music to have a good time and to avoid working a straight job, and while some of them were more accomplished musicians than their later reputations would suggest -- Sam Andrew, in particular, was a skilled player and serious student of music -- they were fundamentally content with playing the Avalon Ballroom and the Fillmore and making five hundred dollars or so a week between them. Very good money for 1967, but nothing else. Joplin, on the other hand, was someone who absolutely craved success. She wanted to prove to her family that she wasn't a failure and that her eccentricity shouldn't stop them being proud of her; she was always, even at the depths of her addictions, fiscally prudent and concerned about her finances; and she had a deep craving for love. Everyone who talks about her talks about how she had an aching need at all times for approval, connection, and validation, which she got on stage more than she got anywhere else. The bigger the audience, the more they must love her. She'd made all her decisions thus far based on how to balance making music that she loved with commercial success, and this would continue to be the pattern for her in future. And so when journalists started to want to talk to her, even though up to that point Albin, who did most of the on-stage announcements, and Gurley, the lead guitarist, had considered themselves joint leaders of the band, she was eager. And she was also eager to get rid of their manager, who continued the awkward streak that had prevented their first performance at the Monterey Pop Festival from being filmed. The group had the chance to play the Hollywood Bowl -- Bill Graham was putting on a "San Francisco Sound" showcase there, featuring Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, and got their verbal agreement to play, but after Graham had the posters printed up, their manager refused to sign the contracts unless they were given more time on stage. The next day after that, they played Monterey again -- this time the Monterey Jazz Festival. A very different crowd to the Pop Festival still fell for Janis' performance -- and once again, the film being made of the event didn't include Big Brother's set because of their manager. While all this was going on, the group's recordings from the previous year were rushed out by Mainstream Records as an album, to poor reviews which complained it was nothing like the group's set at Monterey: [Excerpt: Big Brother and the Holding Company, "Bye Bye Baby"] They were going to need to get out of that contract and sign with somewhere better -- Clive Davis at Columbia Records was already encouraging them to sign with him -- but to do that, they needed a better manager. They needed Albert Grossman. Grossman was one of the best negotiators in the business at that point, but he was also someone who had a genuine love for the music his clients made.  And he had good taste -- he managed Odetta, who Janis idolised as a singer, and Bob Dylan, who she'd been a fan of since his first album came out. He was going to be the perfect manager for the group. But he had one condition though. His first wife had been a heroin addict, and he'd just been dealing with Mike Bloomfield's heroin habit. He had one absolutely ironclad rule, a dealbreaker that would stop him signing them -- they didn't use heroin, did they? Both Gurley and Joplin had used heroin on occasion -- Joplin had only just started, introduced to the drug by Gurley -- but they were only dabblers. They could give it up any time they wanted, right? Of course they could. They told him, in perfect sincerity, that the band didn't use heroin and it wouldn't be a problem. But other than that, Grossman was extremely flexible. He explained to the group at their first meeting that he took a higher percentage than other managers, but that he would also make them more money than other managers -- if money was what they wanted. He told them that they needed to figure out where they wanted their career to be, and what they were willing to do to get there -- would they be happy just playing the same kind of venues they were now, maybe for a little more money, or did they want to be as big as Dylan or Peter, Paul, and Mary? He could get them to whatever level they wanted, and he was happy with working with clients at every level, what did they actually want? The group were agreed -- they wanted to be rich. They decided to test him. They were making twenty-five thousand dollars a year between them at that time, so they got ridiculously ambitious. They told him they wanted to make a *lot* of money. Indeed, they wanted a clause in their contract saying the contract would be void if in the first year they didn't make... thinking of a ridiculous amount, they came up with seventy-five thousand dollars. Grossman's response was to shrug and say "Make it a hundred thousand." The group were now famous and mixing with superstars -- Peter Tork of the Monkees had become a close friend of Janis', and when they played a residency in LA they were invited to John and Michelle Phillips' house to see a rough cut of Monterey Pop. But the group, other than Janis, were horrified -- the film barely showed the other band members at all, just Janis. Dave Getz said later "We assumed we'd appear in the movie as a band, but seeing it was a shock. It was all Janis. They saw her as a superstar in the making. I realized that though we were finally going to be making money and go to another level, it also meant our little family was being separated—there was Janis, and there was the band.” [Excerpt: Big Brother and the Holding Company, "Bye Bye Baby"] If the group were going to make that hundred thousand dollars a year, they couldn't remain on Mainstream Records, but Bob Shad was not about to give up his rights to what could potentially be the biggest group in America without a fight. But luckily for the group, Clive Davis at Columbia had seen their Monterey performance, and he was also trying to pivot the label towards the new rock music. He was basically willing to do anything to get them. Eventually Columbia agreed to pay Shad two hundred thousand dollars for the group's contract -- Davis and Grossman negotiated so half that was an advance on the group's future earnings, but the other half was just an expense for the label. On top of that the group got an advance payment of fifty thousand dollars for their first album for Columbia, making a total investment by Columbia of a quarter of a million dollars -- in return for which they got to sign the band, and got the rights to the material they'd recorded for Mainstream, though Shad would get a two percent royalty on their first two albums for Columbia. Janis was intimidated by signing for Columbia, because that had been Aretha Franklin's label before she signed to Atlantic, and she regarded Franklin as the greatest performer in music at that time.  Which may have had something to do with the choice of a new song the group added to their setlist in early 1968 -- one which was a current hit for Aretha's sister Erma: [Excerpt: Erma Franklin, "Piece of My Heart"] We talked a little in the last episode about the song "Piece of My Heart" itself, though mostly from the perspective of its performer, Erma Franklin. But the song was, as we mentioned, co-written by Bert Berns. He's someone we've talked about a little bit in previous episodes, notably the ones on "Here Comes the Night" and "Twist and Shout", but those were a couple of years ago, and he's about to become a major figure in the next episode, so we might as well take a moment here to remind listeners (or tell those who haven't heard those episodes) of the basics and explain where "Piece of My Heart" comes in Berns' work as a whole. Bert Berns was a latecomer to the music industry, not getting properly started until he was thirty-one, after trying a variety of other occupations. But when he did get started, he wasted no time making his mark -- he knew he had no time to waste. He had a weak heart and knew the likelihood was he was going to die young. He started an association with Wand records as a songwriter and performer, writing songs for some of Phil Spector's pre-fame recordings, and he also started producing records for Atlantic, where for a long while he was almost the equal of Jerry Wexler or Leiber and Stoller in terms of number of massive hits created. His records with Solomon Burke were the records that first got the R&B genre renamed soul (previously the word "soul" mostly referred to a kind of R&Bish jazz, rather than a kind of gospel-ish R&B). He'd also been one of the few American music industry professionals to work with British bands before the Beatles made it big in the USA, after he became alerted to the Beatles' success with his song "Twist and Shout", which he'd co-written with Phil Medley, and which had been a hit in a version Berns produced for the Isley Brothers: [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Twist and Shout"] That song shows the two elements that existed in nearly every single Bert Berns song or production. The first is the Afro-Caribbean rhythm, a feel he picked up during a stint in Cuba in his twenties. Other people in the Atlantic records team were also partial to those rhythms -- Leiber and Stoller loved what they called the baion rhythm -- but Berns more than anyone else made it his signature. He also very specifically loved the song "La Bamba", especially Ritchie Valens' version of it: [Excerpt: Ritchie Valens, "La Bamba"] He basically seemed to think that was the greatest record ever made, and he certainly loved that three-chord trick I-IV-V-IV chord sequence -- almost but not quite the same as the "Louie Louie" one.  He used it in nearly every song he wrote from that point on -- usually using a bassline that went something like this: [plays I-IV-V-IV bassline] He used it in "Twist and Shout" of course: [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Twist and Shout"] He used it in "Hang on Sloopy": [Excerpt: The McCoys, "Hang on Sloopy"] He *could* get more harmonically sophisticated on occasion, but the vast majority of Berns' songs show the power of simplicity. They're usually based around three chords, and often they're actually only two chords, like "I Want Candy": [Excerpt: The Strangeloves, "I Want Candy"] Or the chorus to "Here Comes the Night" by Them, which is two chords for most of it and only introduces a third right at the end: [Excerpt: Them, "Here Comes the Night"] And even in that song you can hear the "Twist and Shout"/"La Bamba" feel, even if it's not exactly the same chords. Berns' whole career was essentially a way of wringing *every last possible drop* out of all the implications of Ritchie Valens' record. And so even when he did a more harmonically complex song, like "Piece of My Heart", which actually has some minor chords in the bridge, the "La Bamba" chord sequence is used in both the verse: [Excerpt: Erma Franklin, "Piece of My Heart"] And the chorus: [Excerpt: Erma Franklin, "Piece of My Heart"] Berns co-wrote “Piece of My Heart” with Jerry Ragavoy. Berns and Ragavoy had also written "Cry Baby" for Garnet Mimms, which was another Joplin favourite: [Excerpt: Garnet Mimms, "Cry Baby"] And Ragavoy, with other collaborators

Brad Campbell retired from a career in advertising in 2018. These days he enjoys storytelling, writing feature articles for Our State magazine, exploring all things nature with his wife Judy, and riding his bike. This last passion included a traumatic accident and remarkable story of recovery and resilience. Join us for this inspiring account of grit, determination, and gratitude. Here are links to Brad's story in Our State magazine and his Moth storytelling account in Asheville: https://www.ourstate.com/life-cycle/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4KXe5Dg4lQ Support the showHave comments or questions for us? Interested in sharing your story on Aging Well? Please send your information and questions to Hugh via email at willowwaycreations@gmail.com or through any of our social media links on our website, findingbeautyinthegray.com. We'd love to hear from you and appreciate your feedback. Leaving feedback on your podcast host site (Apple, Spotify, etc.) is the single most important and effective way for us to stay viable and to continue to bring you great stories and helpful resources. And if you are enjoying the show and getting value from our topics and guests, we would most welcome your financial support. Producing a quality resource does require appreciable financial investment. Thank you!

Following The Call Of God For Your Life - Pastor Brad Campbell - 07/09/23 by Kingdom Living Ministries

In episode 135, Deacon is joined once again by the Doctor himself Brad Campbell to break down 72 Seasons in this final installment of the album's review and of course, much, much, more! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deaconandcoshow/support

In this week's episode of The Wellness Way with Philly J Lay, we dive into a thought-provoking and controversial conversation with Dr. Brad Campbell, MD. Join us as we explore the subject of COVID-19 and the protocols that were implemented, shedding light on alternative perspectives and challenging the status quo.Dr. Campbell brings his expertise to the table, discussing the flaws in the initial computer models that projected higher death rates. Together, we examine the evidence and delve into a deeper understanding of the situation, encouraging critical thinking and open dialogue.Tune in as we navigate through the complexities surrounding COVID-19 and its impact on our lives. This conversation aims to provoke thought, stimulate discussion, and encourage listeners to explore different viewpoints, empowering them to make informed decisions about their health.Whether you're seeking clarity, looking for alternative perspectives, or simply interested in engaging dialogue, this episode is sure to captivate and inspire. Join us as we embark on a journey of understanding, challenging the norms, and exploring the complexities of COVID-19. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode of The Wellness Way with Philly J Lay, we dive into a thought-provoking and controversial conversation with Dr. Brad Campbell, MD. Join us as we explore the subject of COVID-19 and the protocols that were implemented, shedding light on alternative perspectives and challenging the status quo.Dr. Campbell brings his expertise to the table, discussing the flaws in the initial computer models that projected higher death rates. Together, we examine the evidence and delve into a deeper understanding of the situation, encouraging critical thinking and open dialogue.Tune in as we navigate through the complexities surrounding COVID-19 and its impact on our lives. This conversation aims to provoke thought, stimulate discussion, and encourage listeners to explore different viewpoints, empowering them to make informed decisions about their health.Whether you're seeking clarity, looking for alternative perspectives, or simply interested in engaging dialogue, this episode is sure to captivate and inspire. Join us as we embark on a journey of understanding, challenging the norms, and exploring the complexities of COVID-19. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brad Campbell, corporate hospital administration executive at London Health Sciences Centre, joins 980 CFPL's Mike Stubbs to talk about LHSC's new master plan and one major area they are focusing on - mental health.

Luke Proctor and Brad Campbell walk us through the tension in Christ and culture on Sunday, November 20, 2022.

GUEST HOST: Chris Spicer was a manager for a mental health organisation and lost his job due to the vaccine mandates. Since losing his job he started his own podcast ‘The Primodcast'. He has spoken to guests such as Dr Peter McCullough, Senator Malcolm Roberts, David Icke, Professor Mattias Desmet, Dr Brad Campbell, Dr Joseph Yi, Senator Gerard Rennick, Campbell Newman, George Christensen, plus many others. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Dr Conny Turni leads a national and international reference laboratory for respiratory bacterial pathogens where identification, serotyping, genotyping, sequencing and antimicrobial sensitivity testing is performed. Her team works with the poultry, pig and cattle industries, as well as major veterinary pharmaceutical companies around the world. The group performs vaccine efficacy trials, provides advice on vaccine strain selection, performs antimicrobial sensitivity testing and evaluates candidate novel antimicrobial agents. Essentially, the services provided by the group underpins the entire Australian prevention and control programs for the major bacterial respiratory diseases of pigs, poultry and cattle. Her research has extended beyond vaccines and antibiotic sensitivity to determining optimal sample sites for collecting pathogens, understanding the association of different pathogens with disease, development of animal infection models, classification of bacteria and epidemiology of pathogens. Conny supervises PhD students with diverse projects such as antimicrobial sensitivity studies, risk factors and profiling of pathogenic Escherichia coli associated with avian collibacillosis, alternatives to antibiotics, development of on farm test for a virus and study of epidemiology of a new species of bacteria. She works in collaboration with a team of epidemiologist, veterinarian and virologist on projects in Australia and overseas. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr Astrid Lefringhausen studied biology at University Kiel in Germany, finished with Diploma in Microbiology in 1993, Doctorate in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at University Kiel in 1996. She worked from 1996 to 2004 for Qiagen (a Molecular Biology start up at the time), first as a Technical Sales Representative, from 1999 as Export Manager for the Asia Pacific Region. From 2004 to 2012 she worked for Miltenyi Biotec (German Cell therapy and Immunology company) as Export manager for Eastern Europe, Africa and South and Middle America. Main responsibility was installing, teaching and monitoring stem and immune cell therapy for terminal cancer patients across hospitals in her territory. Astrid moved to Australia in 2006 while employed by Miltenyi Biotec and took over Sales and Technical Support for AU/NZ in the molecular area, for Immunology in WA, SA, NT and QLD. She started working in the Diagnostics industry in Immunohematology in 2015 with Grifols.

GUEST HOST: Chris Spicer was a manager for a mental health organisation and lost his job due to the vaccine mandates. Since losing his job he started his own podcast ‘The Primodcast'. He has spoken to guests such as Dr Peter McCullough, Senator Malcolm Roberts, David Icke, Professor Mattias Desmet, Dr Brad Campbell, Dr Joseph Yi, Senator Gerard Rennick, Campbell Newman, George Christensen, plus many others. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Dr Conny Turni leads a national and international reference laboratory for respiratory bacterial pathogens where identification, serotyping, genotyping, sequencing and antimicrobial sensitivity testing is performed. Her team works with the poultry, pig and cattle industries, as well as major veterinary pharmaceutical companies around the world. The group performs vaccine efficacy trials, provides advice on vaccine strain selection, performs antimicrobial sensitivity testing and evaluates candidate novel antimicrobial agents. Essentially, the services provided by the group underpins the entire Australian prevention and control programs for the major bacterial respiratory diseases of pigs, poultry and cattle. Her research has extended beyond vaccines and antibiotic sensitivity to determining optimal sample sites for collecting pathogens, understanding the association of different pathogens with disease, development of animal infection models, classification of bacteria and epidemiology of pathogens. Conny supervises PhD students with diverse projects such as antimicrobial sensitivity studies, risk factors and profiling of pathogenic Escherichia coli associated with avian collibacillosis, alternatives to antibiotics, development of on farm test for a virus and study of epidemiology of a new species of bacteria. She works in collaboration with a team of epidemiologist, veterinarian and virologist on projects in Australia and overseas. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr Astrid Lefringhausen studied biology at University Kiel in Germany, finished with Diploma in Microbiology in 1993, Doctorate in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at University Kiel in 1996. She worked from 1996 to 2004 for Qiagen (a Molecular Biology start up at the time), first as a Technical Sales Representative, from 1999 as Export Manager for the Asia Pacific Region. From 2004 to 2012 she worked for Miltenyi Biotec (German Cell therapy and Immunology company) as Export manager for Eastern Europe, Africa and South and Middle America. Main responsibility was installing, teaching and monitoring stem and immune cell therapy for terminal cancer patients across hospitals in her territory. Astrid moved to Australia in 2006 while employed by Miltenyi Biotec and took over Sales and Technical Support for AU/NZ in the molecular area, for Immunology in WA, SA, NT and QLD. She started working in the Diagnostics industry in Immunohematology in 2015 with Grifols.

Brad Campbell had the unique experience of operating a startup business AND a franchise at the same time. See why he ultimately put all his eggs in the "franchise" basket. In this episode of Create Wealth Through Franchising, Franchise Consultant Kim Daly (The Daly Coach) interviews Zoom Drain Franchisee Brad Campbell. My Franchise Consulting services are totally free to you. Let's chat! ✉️ inquire@kimdaly.tv ▶️ Subscribe to The Daly Coach YouTube channel at http://kimdaly.tv #franchising #franchise #franchiseconsultant #franchiseopportunity #businesscoach #mindsetcoach #becomeyourownboss #bossup #beyourownboss #entrepreneurship #createwealth #buildalegacy #investmentopportunity #careertransition #smartinvestment #zoomdrain #alternativeinvesting #alternativeinvestment

In today's episode we dive deep into Adrenal Fatigue with Dr Brad Campbell. What is it, how to identify it and how to heal from it! Listen in as he shares amazing nuggets from his book: "Do I have Adrenal Fatigue"?This episode of The Green Life is brought to you by Namawell, the Best cold press juicers on the planet with the revolutionary J2 being the mist amazing Bulk juicing champion.  To get your Nama juicer at a discount, use code CHANTAL10 for 10% off! About Dr CampbellDr Campbell is an Holistic Physician, Chiropractic Doctor and Acupuncturist with a lengthy list of educational achievements behind his name. He has been working to make medicine accessible for the masses though empowerment! Dr. Campbell believes that we all deserve a life of vitality.  His goal is to build a compassionate, lifelong relationship with each patient.  Rather than specializing in one area of the body, and seeing all patients as having issues in that area, Dr. Campbell combines all of your history, symptoms, and body systems into one cohesive picture.  Dr. Campbell grew up nearby in Lake Forest and Naperville, IL, and majored in Saxophone Performance at Illinois Wesleyan University. He received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from National University of Health Sciences. Aside from playing music, he enjoys reading, cooking, and spending time with family, friends, and his Irish Setter, Albus Dumbledore. You can check all his achievements on his websiteGet Dr Brad's book: Do I have Adrenal Fatigue HEREFollow Dr Brad on Instagram , Telegram  and You Tube      

Lisa Talks to Dr. Bradley Campbell, a functional medicine provider in Illinois who has advice on everything from nutrition to relationships     WEBSITE:  www.drbradleycampbell.com     INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/drbradleycampbell/     TWITTER: @drbradcampbell     EPISODE SPONSOR: https://compoundingatcornerstone.com/     EPISODE SPONSOR:  https://www.ralstonfamilyfarms.com/     EPISODE SPONSOR:  https://www.davidsburgers.com/     EPISODE SPONSOR:  https://www.benicearkansas.com/     LISA'S LINKS:     Website:  lisafischersaid.com     For more information on group intermittent fasting  coaching with Lisa, email fasting@lisafischersaid.com     For more information on one-on-one or group health coaching with Lisa, email healthcoaching@lisafischersaid.com     Podcast produced by clantoncreative.com

Dr. Brad Campbell is back and bringing the fire! We were so happy to have him back on to dive deep into the latest data on coronavirus and more. We discuss topics like: the current severity and risk of COVID-19, data on efficacy of treatments and preventatives, and a logical approach to boosting your immune system and overall wellness. Make sure to follow Dr. Brad at his main account @dr.bradleycampbell and his backup account @drcampbellcares. Listen to Dr. Brad's first episode and second episode. Check out his list of favorite supplements for COVID + prevention and more uncensored info on his telegram page @drbradleycampbell. Things to look for when searching for a holistic doctor. Join his membership, Campbell Care. Order his book, “Do I have Adrenal Fatigue?” Partner Check out one of our favorite immune boosting supplements, immuneRmor and essential oil immune harmony from VerVita products. Use code COFFEE as your referral code at checkout!

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In Episode 84 Part 2, Deacon flips the record to continue the conversation with Brad Campbell (aka The Doctor). Tweet Us: @DeaconandCoShow Follow Us on IG: @DeaconandCoShow --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deaconandcoshow/support

In Episode 84, Deacon is joined by Brad Campbell (aka The Doctor) as they hit part THREE of FOUR part special on the Big FOUR bands of heavy metal. Tweet Us: @DeaconandCoShow Follow Us on IG: @DeaconandCoShow --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deaconandcoshow/support

Pastor Joel is aggressively expanding the reach of his podcast! Join him as he asks former Cross member and current Church of the Resurrection member Brad Campbell about his favorite music. Also, listen in as Joel and Brad chat vocation. Be sure to check out the Spotify playlist included so you can get a taste of Brad's picks. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4FbNAOoI4dQqcN3oStvaYi?si=e21793902edb4a52

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The Rock has officially broken Twitter by leaking that the XFL will be announcing “new teams, new cities” in the next 1-2 months on CNBC's TechCheck and we have XFL insider Mike Mitchell to answer all of your XFL, USFL and CFL questions on a LOADED show.XFL NewsHub's XFL insider Mike Mitchell joins us for a return appearance breaking down all of the latest XFL rumors, the USFL TV deals, fallout from the CFL 2021 season and more! With the news coming out today via The Rock about potentially NEW teams and cities coming in the XFL 2023 re-launch, AND the recent crop of XFL hires including Russ Giglio, Jim Monos, Brad Campbell, we have PLENTY to talk about. PLUS we answer listener voicemails on all of the latest XFL, USFL and CFL news with Mike Mitchell.THEN it's the new hot debate, are you Team XFL or Team USFL? Reid channels his inner Twilight fandom to bring about the next great debate to flood the online message boards!PLUS we tackle all of the latest CFL news including Chris Jones returning to the Edmonton Elks, the REDBLACKS officially announcing their new GM Shawn Burke, Orlando Steinauer staying put with the Hamilton Ticats, year-end CFL fines for McLeod Bethel-Thompson/Chris Edwards and more! We run down some OTHER XFL news and give some insights/analysis on the latest batch of USFL promos to air on FOX during the recent NFL slate of games.From all of us at The Markcast, we wish you a happy holiday season, thanks for listening/watching!

Make clean money doing dirty jobsHow Brad went from $2.9 Million in 2020 to over $5Million in 2021, nearly doubling revenue in the pandemic with a small family owned businessThe biggest thing Brad looks for in bringing on new team members and why its so important now more than everWhy communication is so highly regarded in business by the richest people in the world and why you need it in your business todayKey points of a Turned On business in any industryWhy "blue collar" jobs are more prestigious than the stigma presents and how to leverage yourself in the trade industryHow the education system can rob of opportunities by steering careers and learning application too systematically or myopically 

Advent is a liminal season marked by waiting and longing. We are good at believing in Christmas, but what does it mean to believe in Advent? How can we best live in this Advent season?

In this week's episode, Deacon is joined by fellow metal critic and Metallica Fan, Brad Campbell where they discuss what it's like rockin' out together at Louder Than Life. Follow us on Twitter: @DeaconandCoShow Follow us on Instagram: @DeaconandCoShow --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deaconandcoshow/support

I am happy to bring you part 2 of my favorite clips over the past year of the Get Lean Clean Podcast! Again, it was very hard to pick which highlights to bring you because we had so many great guests! Hopefully, these clips will encourage you to go back and listen to the entire interview because it would be well worth your time.  This episode highlights some of my great guests from Episode 50 and beyond: Brad Kearns (again:), Abel James, Megan Ramos, Dr. Jaime Seeman, Alexa Shirm, Connie Nightingale, Colin Stuckert, Robb Wolf and Dr. Brad Campbell! What a great lineup again!! Enjoy!!If you love the Get Lean Eat Clean Podcast, we'd love for you to subscribe, rate, and give a review on iTunes. Until next time!Links:Watch Get Lean Eat Clean podcast video episodes on YouTube!https://www.21dayfastingchallenge.com/X3 Bar: Variable Resistance Technology allows for a full body workout in only 10 minutes! Use discount code "Save50" for $50 off your purchase! | https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100286468-13650338Interested in becoming a Keto Coach - Here's a certification for you!https://kate-jaramillo.mykajabi.com/a/13557/nwzmzvre| Listen to the Get Lean Eat Clean Podcast |►iTunes | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-lean-eat-clean/id1540391210►Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/0QmJzYZsdV6tUNbDxaPJjS| Connect with Brian |►Website | https://www.briangryn.com►Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/bdgryn►Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/getleanandeatclean►Twitter | https://twitter.com/grynnerwinner

This week I interviewed my holistic physician Dr. Brad Campbell.Dr. Campbell believes that we all deserve a life of vitality. His goal is to build a compassionate, lifelong relationship with each patient. Rather than specializing in one area of the body and seeing all patients as having issues in that area, Dr. Campbell combines all of your history, symptoms, and body systems into one cohesive picture.In this episode, Dr. Brad discusses the importance of addressing the root cause of disease, the problem with our current healthcare system, along with:- Dr. Campbell's Pillars of Health- His daily healthy eating routine- Is Alcohol good for you?- Addressing Adrenal Fatigueand his one tip to get your body back!Connect with Dr. Brad:https://www.drbradleycampbell.com/https://www.instagram.com/dr.bradleycampbell/https://www.healthassurancemovement.org/If you love the Get Lean Eat Clean Podcast, we'd love for you to subscribe, rate, and give a review on iTunes. Until next time!Links:Watch Get Lean Eat Clean podcast video episodes on YouTube!https://www.21dayfastingchallenge.com/X3 Bar: Variable Resistance Technology allows for a full body workout in only 10 minutes! Use discount code "Save50" for $50 off your purchase! | https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100286468-13650338Interested in becoming a Keto Coach - Here's a certification for you!https://kate-jaramillo.mykajabi.com/a/13557/nwzmzvre| Listen to the Get Lean Eat Clean Podcast |►iTunes | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-lean-eat-clean/id1540391210►Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/0QmJzYZsdV6tUNbDxaPJjS| Connect with Brian |►Website | https://www.briangryn.com►Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/bdgryn►Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/getleanandeatclean►Twitter | https://twitter.com/grynnerwinner

I'm a playful, fun, big child In this episode: How did Brad choose the holistic way? Fear, media, and your health How to find reliable information What's happening next? How long would it take to know the real consequences of what's happening Jabs and controversial opinions Where to find Brad? About Brad: Dr. Campbell believes that we all deserve a life of vitality.  His goal is to build a compassionate, lifelong relationship with each patient.  Rather than specializing in one area of the body, and seeing all patients as having issues in that area, Dr. Campbell combines all of your history, symptoms, and body systems into one cohesive picture.   Dr. Campbell grew up nearby in Lake Forest and Naperville, and majored in Saxophone Performance at Illinois Wesleyan University. He received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from National University of Health Sciences. Aside from playing music, he enjoys reading, cooking, and spending time with family, friends, and his Irish Setter, Albus   Reviews are like a virtual hug and you know I  LOVE hugs! It would mean a world to me if you could please write me an honest review so more women can find this show

WOW this episode packs a punch! We are so excited for Dr. Bradley Campbell to join us again. His previous episode was our most downloaded episode of all time. We dive deep into all things coronavirus in this episode including: The truth about the delta variant Risk with younger populations Hospital capacities Mask efficacy Latest "jab" data What we know, and don't know regarding boosters Additional resources to learn more Best practices to boost immune function ...and more! To learn more from Dr. Brad, follow his instagram @dr.bradleycampbell Follow his telegram account here. Follow the data from the vaccine reporting system here. Listen to Dr. Brad's first episode with us, here. Partners Support your system with high quality supplements and essential oils from Vervita Nutrition products. Use code COFFEE at checkout!

In This Episode We're lucky to have Dr Brad Campbell join us on the show. He is a holistic physician, and runs an integrated holistic clinic just north of Chicago, IL, USA. He founded a nonprofit, the health assurance movement whose goal is to Robin-Hooding healthcare back to the masses. He is a chiropractic internist and acupuncturist and is finishing 10 degrees in natural healthcare. We cover health from a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual perspective in that order. Mentions and Resources: Dr. Bradley Campbell's Website Health Assurance Movement by Dr. Campbell Jeff Witzeman, and his Website Dr. Ben Tapper NET Mind Body The Holistic Psychologist, Dr. Nicole LaPera --- // SUPPORT THE SHOW // Become a member Donate to the show // COURSES // Apply to join the Woman's Wisdom™ Accelerator to be in community with women living and working in flow Have Pain Free Periods with the Period Secrets™ Course Free Career Design Masterclass // LINKS // Looking for a coach? Let's work together! - 1:1 Coaching With Kalyna Buy Lead. Merch to support grassroots charities and get great loungewear // SOCIAL // Connect with Kalyna on Instagram Connect on LinkedIn Connect on Facebook Subscribe to Get Updates on New Episodes --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kalyna/support

While saving for retirement has been simplified and streamlined in recent decades, with tools like auto-enrollment and target date funds, the retirement savings ecosystem is anything but simple. It's a complex confluence of innovators, service providers, employers, workers, consultants, lawyers, and, yes, government officials. Regulators play a huge role in our industry, so understanding who they are and how they work is an important factor in the outcomes for plan sponsors and plan participants. In this episode, we speak with two former Department of Labor EBSA directors, Brad Campbell and Phyllis Borzi, about the challenges and opportunities in regulating the employee benefits space, including the enactment of the landmark Pension Protection Act of 2006. Key Takeaways: [:04] Josh opens up today's episode with a quick recap of episode 5 which focused on the work of two innovators in the field. He opens up this part of the conversation on what made the start of Target Date Funds and automatic enrollment so very impactful, the passage of the Pension Protection Act of 2006.   [2:18] Josh explores the regulatory carrots and sticks of EPSA through the eyes of two of its leaders, we begin with Bradfrod Campbell. Brad shares about how he came to shape the world of modern retirement savings as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits in the United States Department of Labor.   [4:18] The Pension Protection Act was passed while Brad worked as a young Republican, he speaks about his beginnings in the Government and how he found ERISA, enrolled in law school and weathered the Enron scandal.   [8:15] Phyllis Borzy took over Brad's position as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits in the United States Department of Labor. She talks about how she was always drawn to law and enrolled the year ERISA passed.   [11:14] Her love for ERISA was cemented after her stay in corporate law and she brought it into her career in government all the way up to what she calls the Gingrich revolution.   [13:45] Brad and phyllis had similar challenges but different approaches. Brad talks about the balancing act between carrot and stick.   [15:09] Josh offers a quick explanation of 404C — a pivotal part of the Accidental Plan Sponsor story as well as the Pension Protection Act. Brad weighs in on the way 404C functions.   [19:14] Phyllis shares her profound hate for 404C, her multiple reasons why and what she would do differently.   [22:25] The Pension Protection Act from Brad's point of view — both pre and post Enron — and the legal implications that had to be thought over in that context.   [26:15] More carrots! 404C generated a proliferation of offers without much structure for participants to direct their investment, Brad describes how they helped write the QDIA regulation and define 3 mechanisms for an appropriate default investment that would stand the test of time.   [30:00] Brad shares the difficulties of putting regulations in place, from congress to burgeoning lawsuits inter-administration. Phyllis shares her take and the work she did on the regulation, get ready for some bi-partisan agreement!   [34:44] Phyllis takes a moment to denounce the attacks her co-workers received from the nay-sayers.   [35:54] With overwhelming bi-partisan support, the Secure Act was passed in 2019, Josh touches on some of the issues this rule attempts to address. Brad and Phyllis share their joy having worked on ERISA.   [37:48] Josh thanks his guests for sharing their stories and ends with a taste of what episode 7 has to offer.   Thank you for tuning in. If you liked what you heard, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you listen to your podcasts.   Links: The Accidental Plan Sponsor   Mentioned in this episode: More about Bradford Campbell. More about Phyllis Borzy.

Get ready for some data in this episode! Today, Dr. Brad Campbell joins us to discuss a fresh look at the research and science with all things COVID. He spends so much of his time staying up to date on the research, numbers, and statistics so we had to have him on the show to get this valuable information out to you! If you have questions regarding coronavirus, our countries' response, the vaccine, and more...this episode is for you!   Follow Brad: instagram @drbradleycampbell and @healthassurancemovement website: https://www.drbradleycampbell.com/ **password for additional resources page: lovewins non profit: https://www.healthassurancemovement.org/   Partners Looking for clean skincare and beauty products that are also effective? Try out one of our favorite brands Primally Pure! Use code CWTD at checkout for a discount!

In today's episode of Toxin Terminator, Aimee is joined by Dr. Brad Campbell! He is a Chiropractor, Integrated Holistic Healthcare Acupuncturist, Author of "Do I Have Adrenal Fatigue?", Founder of Health Assurance Movement, and more! Dr. Campbell is Robin-Hooding healthcare back to the masses!! Are you exhausted? Burnt out? Feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders? This is the episode for you as we walk through adrenal fatigue!! Learn: what is adrenal fatigue, why are people suffering, how are toxins affecting the adrenal glands, and debunking the myths! We'll be talking about how everything affects everything and anything can affect anything! We'll learn about the 4 "S"s of hormones, and we'll learn the quantitative (dirt) and qualitative (clouds) steps for overcoming any illness but apply it to adrenal fatigue. And don't miss Dr. Campbell's number one tip for living a toxin-free lifestyle!!Connect with Dr. Campbell:www.healthassurancemovement.orgwww.integrativeholistic.com Connect with Aimee:http://aimeecarlson.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheToxinFreeLifestyle/https://www.instagram.com/aimeecarlson6/https://twitter.com/AimeeCa44250287https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXz7-0umMiF7jxrw_fiVEmA/featuredDisclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase I will earn a commission at no cost to you. Keep in mind that I link these companies and their products because of their quality and not because of the commission I receive from your purchases. The decision is yours, and whether or not you decide to buy something is completely up to you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aimee-carlson0/message

In today’s episode of Toxin Terminator, Aimee is joined by Dr. Bard Campbell! He is a Chiropractor, Integrated Holistic Healthcare Acupuncturist, Author of "Do I Have Adrenal Fatigue?", Founder of Health Assurance Movement, and more! Dr. Campbell is Robin-Hooding healthcare back to the masses!! Are you exhausted? Burnt out? Feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders? This is the episode for you as we walk through adrenal fatigue!! Learn: what is adrenal fatigue, why are people suffering, how are toxins affecting the adrenal glands, and debunking the myths! We'll be talking about how everything affects everything and anything can affect anything! We’ll learn about the 4 "S"s of hormones, and we'll learn the quantitative (dirt) and qualitative (clouds) steps for overcoming any illness but apply it to adrenal fatigue. And don’t miss Dr. Campbell's number one tip for living a toxin-free lifestyle!!Connect with Dr. Campbell:www.healthassurancemovement.orgwww.integrativeholistic.com Connect with Aimee:http://aimeecarlson.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheToxinFreeLifestyle/https://www.instagram.com/aimeecarlson6/https://twitter.com/AimeeCa44250287https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXz7-0umMiF7jxrw_fiVEmA/featuredDisclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase I will earn a commission at no cost to you. Keep in mind that I link these companies and their products because of their quality and not because of the commission I receive from your purchases. The decision is yours, and whether or not you decide to buy something is completely up to you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Campbell has become a grounded voice of reason regarding the pharmaceutical industry's approach to minimizing the threat of the pandemic. And while we have always honored everyone's personal choice in this matter, we have also found ourselves asking some serious questions regarding the research and rapid deployment of these unique compounds. We have all been bombarded with data and statistics, and on this show we will respectfully navigate the most important health issue in modern history.

Dr. Brad Campbell joined our show today. We talked about where his journey began and how he became thirsty for all things in holistic medicine. He shared with us the nonprofit he started, which you will definitely want to look up! Everything he says is backed by science which is great because in today's world if you question the narrative that the media portrays, you are considered a conspiracy theorist, but how can they say that when Doctors like Dr. Campbell are referencing sites like the CDC and the WHO? I ask you to please have an open mind and an open heart. As Dr. Campbell says, all we can do is educate and come from a place of love. That's the beauty of this man, he is not only super smart and knowledgeable, he is one of the kindest people we have encountered and comes from a place of pure love. Dr. Campbell is here to serve and help facilitate healing. This man is also very funny, if you follow him on social media you will instantly fall in love with his lightheartedness and be able to tell he is a genuine human being! Dr. Campbell, thanks again for joining us today! It was a pleasure to have you on our podcast! If you want to find Dr. Campbell you can find him here: Instagram: @holisticdrcampbell @healthassurancemovent Telegram: @holisticdrcampbell youtube: The Health Assurance Movement website: www.healthassurancemovement.org As always, if you want to reach out to us, please send us an email at sacredresistance1@gmail.com

The Evolve Network is now live at evolvenetwork.tvDr. Campbell believes that we all deserve a life of vitality. His goal is to build a compassionate, lifelong relationship with each patient. Rather than specialising in one area of the body, and seeing all patients as having issues in that area, Dr. Campbell combines all of your history, symptoms, and body systems into one cohesive picture. We hope you’ve enjoyed the first half of this podcast - if you’d like to listen to the rest, please visit the Evolve Network. The Evolve Network is now live at evolvenetwork.tv Subscribe for meal plans, recipes, cooking shows and our very own 'The Magic Pill' and 'The Magic Plant', as well as access to my favourite documentaries. The Evolve Network is also home to our full library of Podcasts. With new release podcasts airing first and in full on the channel. You can also watch selected Vodcast's in a video format! Enjoy this highlight of our podcast and head over to evolvenetwork.tv for the full Evolve podcast experience! I’d love to know your thoughts and experiences - join the conversation on my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/theevolvenetworkpeteevansInstagram- @theevolvenetwork https://www.instagram.com/theevolvenetwork/For more episodes of Evolve, find us on iTunes at https://apple.co/2NpsIba, Acast at https://play.acast.com/s/pete-evans, click the link on https://peteevans.com, or just look up "Evolve" in your favourite podcast app. I'd love to spread the knowledge in these podcasts far and wide. If you liked this episode, I'd love it if you could share it with your friends, and perhaps even leave a review on iTunes. For information on Waters Co Filters and to purchase - please visit https://peteevans.com/product-range/waters-co-filters/ Theme music by Mandharu. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Evolve Network is now live at evolvenetwork.tvDr. Campbell believes that we all deserve a life of vitality. His goal is to build a compassionate, lifelong relationship with each patient. Rather than specialising in one area of the body, and seeing all patients as having issues in that area, Dr. Campbell combines all of your history, symptoms, and body systems into one cohesive picture. We hope you've enjoyed the first half of this podcast - if you'd like to listen to the rest, please visit the Evolve Network. The Evolve Network is now live at evolvenetwork.tv Subscribe for meal plans, recipes, cooking shows and our very own 'The Magic Pill' and 'The Magic Plant', as well as access to my favourite documentaries. The Evolve Network is also home to our full library of Podcasts. With new release podcasts airing first and in full on the channel. You can also watch selected Vodcast's in a video format! Enjoy this highlight of our podcast and head over to evolvenetwork.tv for the full Evolve podcast experience! I'd love to know your thoughts and experiences - join the conversation on my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/theevolvenetworkpeteevansInstagram- @theevolvenetwork https://www.instagram.com/theevolvenetwork/For more episodes of Evolve, find us on iTunes at https://apple.co/2NpsIba, Acast at https://play./s/pete-evans, click the link on https://peteevans.com, or just look up "Evolve" in your favourite podcast app.    I'd love to spread the knowledge in these podcasts far and wide. If you liked this episode, I'd love it if you could share it with your friends, and perhaps even leave a review on iTunes.    For information on Waters Co Filters and to purchase - please visit https://peteevans.com/product-range/waters-co-filters/ Theme music by Mandharu.  See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, you'll learn: Dr. Campbell's personal story overcoming hardship and being exposed to the world of chiropractic care for the first time The life-changing moment of experiencing true healing through natural medicine for the first time (after countless failed efforts) The three different approaches to being a doctor How to understand the whispers of your body before it screams at you for a crisis moment The potential dangers of the Covid "vaccine" (and what you should know before getting the jab) Lifting the veil: what's even in this thing? (+ the differences between each shot and which you should get, if any) Nothing is ever totally good or bad- this is the balance of yin and yang How we'll never know the actual results of the placebo vs. vaccinated group  How vaccine manufactures are exempt from liability Insight on viral mutation and vaccine resistance  Why you should rarely trust the numbers (they're usually fabricated to an extreme one way or the other) What the benefits are (if any) of a healthy person taking the vax (your risk of getting an adverse reaction is actually higher than the dangers of you contracting the virus) Best practices for maintaining optimal immune health A bit about Wei-Qi and energetic healing practices What your thymus gland is and why you need to know about it! How virus' are necessary for evolution and serve as a "software update" to our bodies How to create harmony within our communities and peace within ourselves (and how to access different levels of consciousness) The dangers of gaslighting  How to communicate effectively with the people you care about Dr. Campbell's perspective on the future of humanity  Science is slow; logic is fast Thoughts around a potential Covid passport Tips on how to keep fighting the good fight Why you should reconsider the vaccine if you're pregnant or trying to be     Are you interested in learning more about our guest? Dr. Brad Campbell  Website: https://www.healthassurancemovement.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holisticdrcampbell/    For more insight and inspiration on becoming radically fulfilled, follow me @stormybarbara on Instagram and be sure to check out www.stormybarbara.com

Join us and our special guest, Dr. Brad Campbell, as he unleashes truth bombs regarding vaccines, rona testing, and Spiritual butt plugs!

The First Drop boys are joined by Campaspe and Goulburn Valley great, Brad Campbell. A talented sportsman, he excelled at Football and Cricket and continues to be heavily involved in the Goulburn Valley football league. Brad takes us back to his days in Tongala, his famous 450 run tally for provincial winning side Kyabram at Melbourne country week and a special moment when crossing the mighty Goulburn river. 

What the proposed rule for ERISA plans means for ESG investment selection is discussed with employer-sponsored retirement plan expert Brad Campbell.

In this episode of Human Capital, we talk with Brad Campbell, former assistant secretary of the Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration, who’s now a partner at FaegreDrinker in Washington. Campbell weighs in on Labor’s controversial fiduciary prohibited transaction exemption to align with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation Best Interest, and clarifies a couple “unusual items” that were included in Labor’s plan. Comment letters continued to flood in just before the Aug. 6 comment period on Labor’s controversial plan ended Thursday, Aug. 6. Campbell also talks about an "emerging issue" in litigation involving retirement plans: getting access to participant data, and the data privacy implications. He also clears up some confusion surrounding Labor’s ESG proposal.

Brad Campbell, Executive Vice President at Savers Marketing, talks about taking advantage of opportunities when they arise.

BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 035 with John DeBevoise Brad started Campbell Corporation in 1988, determined to bring a higher level of customer service to the window film and protective glazing industry. Today Riot Glass has grown into one of the largest specialty window film and glazing solutions companies in the nation offering window tinting, security, ballistic and blast mitigation solutions, and spandrel repair. Energy Efficiency: Campbell Corp. is recognized as an industry leader in energy efficiency for large commercial buildings. Their specialized 3M window film products reduce electricity use by blocking the sun's heat which lessens the demand for air conditioning. The EPA's Energy Star manual states that window film is "Your best opportunity to save on cooling and heating loads". Security: Campbell Corp. has security solutions that transform your existing windows and doors into high-security versions, with minimal visible change. We do this with our specialized security laminates and with our Riot Glass™ and Campbell Security Screens™ solutions. Building Wraps: Campbell Corp. also performs aesthetic make-overs on the exterior of commercial buildings for owners who wish to upgrade the appearance of older properties which bolsters occupancy, property reputation and rent rates. Our colored laminates can transform outdated view glass and spandrel with a myriad of modern colors. Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Brad Campbell about Campbell Corp and its unbreakable glass. ●     How this new method of protection can help protect you from armed intruders. ●     How this protection is more aesthetically pleasing because there is no use for metal bars. ●     How Campbell Corp creates opportunities for glazers, glass installers, and framers.   Links Mentioned riotglass.com Connect with Brad   Facebook facebook.com/RiotGlassOfficial Twitter @RiotGlass Instagram @riotglass LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/brad-campbell-67677413 linkedin.com/in/riot-glass-inc YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgVlq8S-aAY6tVaD3vWTytg?view_as=subscriber        

Brad Campbell, Riot Glass for Business and Home Safety: You can hit it, shoot it, take a sledgehammer to it and this glass still won’t break. BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 027 with John DeBevoise Brad started Campbell Corporation in 1988, determined to bring a higher level of customer service to the window film and protective glazing industry. Today Riot Glass has grown into one of the largest specialty window film and glazing solutions companies in the nation offering window tinting, security, ballistic and blast mitigation solutions, and spandrel repair. Energy Efficiency: Campbell Corp. is recognized as an industry leader in energy efficiency for large commercial buildings. Their specialized 3M window film products reduce electricity use by blocking the sun's heat which lessens the demand for air conditioning. The EPA's Energy Star manual states that window film is "Your best opportunity to save on cooling and heating loads". Security: Campbell Corp. has security solutions that transform your existing windows and doors into high-security versions, with minimal visible change. We do this with our specialized security laminates and with our Riot Glass™ and Campbell Security Screens™ solutions. Building Wraps: Campbell Corp. also performs aesthetic make-overs on the exterior of commercial buildings for owners who wish to upgrade the appearance of older properties which bolsters occupancy, property reputation and rent rates. Our colored laminates can transform outdated view glass and spandrel with a myriad of modern colors. Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Brad Campbell about Campbell Corp and its unbreakable glass. ●     How this new method of protection can help protect you from armed intruders. ●     How this protection is more aesthetically pleasing because there is no use for metal bars. ●     How Campbell Corp creates opportunities for glazers, glass installers, and framers.   Links Mentioned riotglass.com Connect with Brad  Facebook facebook.com/RiotGlassOfficial Twitter @RiotGlass Instagram @riotglass LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/brad-campbell-67677413 linkedin.com/in/riot-glass-inc YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgVlq8S-aAY6tVaD3vWTytg?view_as=subscriber        

For our November Podcast, we sit down with AALU Counsel Brad Campbell to discuss the regulatory space. Brad is the former Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits and former head of Employee Benefits Security Administration. Brad is considered a prominent voice in the debates over Department of Labor fiduciary regulation. In this episode, Brad will walk you through all of the current and upcoming regulatory initiatives relative to the profession and let you know how to best prepare for any changes or uncertainty.

Today we had the pleasure to talk with Mr. Brad Campbell, a loving father and appreciative husband, Brad explains his journal through father while balancing his life in the military. You don't want to miss this! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/newschooldaddy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/newschooldaddy/support

On this episode of the Window Film Pros podcast, I interview Brad Campbell from Campbell Window Film. Brad has managed to grow one of the largest window film companies in the entire United States. I think you will find this interview very interesting as he describes the climb from living out of his van 30 years ago to where he ... The post Patric Fransko Interviews Brad Campbell from Campbell Window Film appeared first on Windows Film Pros.

To celebrate the festive season, Alex Stones speaks with arguably the most consistent player of 2018, Brent Wells. During the chat, Brent discloses how he celebrates with his pairs partner Dean Garnett, provides some info about an upcoming money match with Brad Campbell, and reveals the real reason for those sunglasses on his head!

Brad Campbell, Lessons From International Coaching Guest: Brad Campbell, University of Western Mustangs Head Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Brad Campbell and Chris Oliver discuss their experience coaching Canada 3D Global Sports at the 40th Jones Cup in Taiwan. This podcast is accompanied by a blog Lessons from Coaching at an International Basketball Tournament. Brad Campbell is head coach of the University of Western Mustangs. In 11 seasons at the helm, Campbell has lead his team to a pair of OUA West Division championships and a bid in the U SPORTS Final Eight National Championship in 2008 and 2009. It was in the 2008-09 season that he was named the OUA Coach of the Year.   Breakdown 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Rivals to Friends 3:00 - Experiences at the Jones Cup 5:00 - Putting a Team for a Short Amount of Time 6:30 - Going Quite Few Things 8:00 - Challenges over the Schedule 10:00 - Maximizing Time and Constant Communication to Players 11:00 - Outstanding to him to be an Assistant Coach 13:00 - Advice to other Assistant Coaches 15:00 - Timeout 16:00 - Exhausted but Focused on the Game 18:00 - Handling Adjustments and Calling Some Terminologies 20:00 - How International Teams make him Defend the Whole Court? 21:30 - Ball Screen, Rescreen and Quick Shots 23:30 - Weak Side Action 26:00 - Defense is the Difference 28:30 - Focus on Spacing and One-hand Finishes 30:30 - Fundamentals and De-Fundamentalize Players 31:30 - Perceptual Lay-ups 32:30 - Soft And-1 will be the Favorable Call 34:30 - Level of Coaching of the Asian Coaches 36:30 - Little Creativity on Inbound Plays 38:00 - Ricardo Ratcliff and Less on Scoring on Post 40:00 - Reads for the Ball Screen Offense 42:00 - Tons of Ball Screen Defense 43:00 - Chess Game 44:30 - Culture of Basketball in Taipei 46:30 - Level of Competition in the Tournament 47:30 - Brotherhood Developed to Other Teams 49:00 - Managing Players and Winning the Tournament 51:30 - Not a lot of Zone Defense 53:30 - Playing Zones 55:30 - “Travel Day is Not an Off-Day” 57:00 - Conclusion   Brad Campbell’s Bio Bio: https://westernmustangs.ca/coaches.aspx?rc=637 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Brad_Campbell_3   Basketball Immersion Website: http://basketballimmersion.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersion Facebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersion

On the eve of the Superleague Nationals, Alex Stones sits down with its creator and pioneer, Brad Campbell. In this episode Brad discusses his reasons for starting the Superleague, the logistics of getting it on television, and his attempt in 2015 to change the Chartered Club rules to World Rules.

FAR 157 Expected Air Date: 06/11/18 Opening President Trump dominates the news cycle in a way like no other public figure I’ve seen in my lifetime. It almost seems to me that he says some of the outrageous things just to stay in the limelight. I generally avoid politics on this show as you know and prefer to talk about real estate and the opportunity it presents. Although today I have to give a little credit to the President. He’s making a bunch of Chinese real estate investors rich and some may be about to hit the jackpot. I’m going to tell you about that right after the first break. We have more news from Kalispell, Montana today and the Flathead Beacon in one of the quirkiest “studies” I’ve ever seen published. It’s weird, it’s not all that useful, and I LOVE it. Later on I’ll tell you what digital real estate means and what you need to do to invest in it. We are going to talk about one unfortunate consequence of Seattle’s unprecendented real estate boom. We will talk about how to look beyond mere price and look at other indications of the health of the real estate market, particularly with commercial assets. And we’ve grouped together several questions today on the topic of wholesaling real estate. I’ll be telling you what it is, telling you like it is, and tell you how it is. How to get started, how to make it grow, and why you really should at least consider something else. There’s nothing wrong with real estate wholesaling, but many people have a false impression about what it will do for you. If you’re like Brad Campbell, you can make a career with it, but I can tell you there are few people like Brad Campbell. He’s one of those guys that could sell wood to a forest, a rope to a free climber or religion to the Pope. He’s just that good at what he does. How to Reach us www.flippingamericanetwork.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica YouTube: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnYouTube Linkedin: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnLinkedIn Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question. Announcements: Lunch with me every Wednesday. Flipping America App is in the app store. You can listen to the show, read the show notes, and n the entire catalog of shows is now available to you. It’s a free download and there are no upsells or in-app purchases. Free to download, free to listen. Go ahead and give it a try and drop me a line and let me know what you think. Want a quick analytical tool to tell you how strong a potential fix and flip deal is? Download the Property Grade app. You answer 10 simple questions about the property and the app instantly tells you what you can expect to make, your return on investment, your return on cash, and then the program gives the project a letter grade using the proprietary Flipping America Investment Property Grade algorithm.   News! Real estate is HOPPING in Dandong! https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/618204107/real-estate-jumps-in-chinese-city-bordering-north-korea http://www.dispatch.com/entertainmentlife/20180610/real-estate-matters-appraisal-thats-lower-than-offer-could-derail-sale https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-blind-force-of-seattles-real-estate-rush/ http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jun/10/motley-fool-digital-real-estate/ https://www.bisnow.com/london/news/economic-development/ahead-of-the-world-cup-russias-real-estate-market-is-a-lot-better-than-its-team-89355 https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesrealestatecouncil/2018/06/06/the-best-strategy-in-a-shifting-real-estate-market-add-value/#316f82374da0 http://flatheadbeacon.com/2018/05/30/real-estate-market-trends-5/ https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f9c9fcb1-fea3-4a6a-b654-dde5cf78f321 https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/redfin-zillow-and-opendoor-cant-disrupt-real-estate-agents-and-may-not-want-to.html https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/to-gauge-long-term-health-of-a-real-estate-market-look-beyond-sales-prices-98814 Comment Line calls and Questions Call 404-369-1018, press 1 and leave your message! Emails: Dorothy, Villages of Ocala, FL “I have heard about something called real estate wholesaling, but don’t really understand it. I retired from the wholesale grocery industry and know a thing or two about distribution. When it comes to wholesaling real estate, how is it done and what’s the point? I don’t see being a home distributor or having an inventory of homes to sell at a discount to be any great advantage. This is especially true when I hear people say this is a great way to start out, especially if you have no money. There must be a completely different understanding of what wholesaling is when it comes to real estate. Any light you can shed is much appreciated.” Steve from Miami, FL “Thank you so much for your podcast. I listen to it every day driving to and from work, appreciate your help. I have a question regarding wholesaling. I am young and extremely motivated and hungry to be successful in real estate. Being that I am out of money completely, and I love networking, wholesaling sounds like a good way to get started. My question is, what happens if I get the property under contract and then don’t find a buyer to flip to? Anythony, Las Vegas, NV, “I’m LOVING the app! I have it connected to my bluetooth in my car and now it’s all I listen to in the car. I want to dive into this business, but I have a friend who is doing this and he told me I should start with wholesaling since I have no money and don’t know how to get a home repair done. Please tell me how to get started wholesaling.” Candice from Detroit, MI. “I want to get into wholesaling but don’t know where to start. Another wholesaler friend of mine offered to let me co-wholesale her houses. She has 3 of them and offered to split her fee with me if I got them sold. But another friend told me that isn’t legal. Can you help?” Allen, Pittsburgh, PA. “I just joined the PIttsburgh REIA and at my very first networking event a guy told me that wholesaling isn’t real investing.” Now I’m confused - is it investing or not? Wendy, Sacramento, CA “I’m a new wholesaler. What recommendations do you have for building a buyers’ list?” Motivational Thoughts for the day “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” Napoleon Hill

Minister Brad Campbell ministers on faith in action. In this message, you will be challenged to renew your mind and live out your faith in a practical way. Faith is acting upon the Word of God. Enjoy this powerful message! www.kingdomlivingnj.org Kingdom Living Ministries P.O. Box 519 Rancocas, NJ 08073

Gyroscope: Forming originally as Gyroscope Sunday in 1997, Dan Sanders (lead vocals, guitar), Zoran Trivic (lead guitar), Brad Campbell (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Rob Nassif (drums) cut their teeth jamming Nirvana and Foo Fighters covers. After releasing their first set of original demo’s in 1998 the band scored support slots for international punks Millencolin and Unwritten law, as well as local favourites The Living End and 28 Days. A total of 3 EP’s were released before the band signed to Festival Mushroom Records at the beginning of 2003. This led to the release of the Midnight Express and Driving For The Storm/Doctor Doctor EP’s, both which gained national airplay and helped build momentum for their debut long player. Combining new material with previous tracks from their aforementioned EP’s, Sound Shattering Sound was Gyro’s breakthrough LP in 2004. The success of the release earned them supports for Blink 182, Dashboard Confessional, Sparta and Brand New, as well as their first national headline tour. The band quickly headed to LA to begin work on the follow up, 2005’s Are You Involved?. Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus had original agreed to produce the album after seeing the band live during their support stint, but pulled out due to other commitments. Stepping up in his place was Mark Trombino, who was no slouch, previously working on records from Jimmy Eat World and Finch. Released in September, Are You Involved? peaked at No. 20 on the ARIA album charts. First cut Fast Girl also earned the band a nomination for the Breakthrough Artist - Single category at 2006’s ARIA awards. Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Idlewild) signed on to produce Gyroscope’s next record, which was tracked at Elevator Studios in Liverpool. These sessions became 2007’s Breed Obsession, the bands 3rd and most successful album to date. Debuting at No. 1 on the ARIA album charts, thanks to the popularity of lead single Snakeskin, Breed Obsession was certified gold within 6 months of its initial release. It also earned them another ARIA nomination, this time for Best Rock Album at the 2008 awards ceremony, After completing yet another national tour, this time with mates The Living End, Gyro’s headed back to the UK to record with legendary producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Maximo Park, Foo Fighters) at Rockfield Studios. Cohesion was eventually released in 2010, debuting at No. 3. After extensive touring in support of the release the band went into an enforced hiatus when guitarist Zoran Trivic broke both his legs in a motorcycle accident. 2017 saw the band release new music for the first time in 7 years, in the form of a double A side single Crooked Thought/DABS. This set was taken from the tour in support of these two releases and includes songs spanning their entire career. Recorded at the Woolly Mammoth Alehouse in Brisbane on the 10th of January 2018. Recorded by Branko Cosic & mixed by Reuben Aptroot.

This episode features Brad Campbell from Drinker Biddle who shines light on the DOL Fiduciary Role, followed by former AALU Board Member Tim Malarkey, and where the industry has been, where its going, and what markets are the strongest right now.

Brad Campbell’s “The Real Dill” is an expertly told tale of just such a vacation, complete with rental car shaming, nude sunbathing, suspicious highway patrolmen and what happens when your dream trip up the California coastline just happens to take place while the California coastline is, for the most part, on fire.

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