Podcasts about Tommy Oliver

A civil rights crusader. Wife of Ossie Davis. An Oscar nominee with a career spanning EIGHT DECADES. It's the incredible Ruby Dee!Scott and Marty scrutinize the tenacious Dee's first, last, best, and worst movies:The Jackie Robinson Story (1950, Dir. Alfred E. Green) at 2:441982 (2013, Dir. Tommy Oliver) at 16:28Do The Right Thing (1989, Dir. Spike Lee) at 30:00and *heavy sigh* Baby Geniuses (1999, Dir. Bob Clark) at 45:40Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Not all superheroes wear capes. Some are teenagers with attitude! Nic Woolfe is back to chat about arguably the greatest Power Ranger of them all, Tommy Oliver!

Nathan and Riz are back with Part Two of their MMPR The Return Limited Comic Series by the original Pink Ranger herself, Amy Jo Johnson! In this Issue, we're getting a ton of information on what happened on the moon all those years ago and the fate of fan favorite Tommy Oliver. So join in as we break down the issue, and discuss the cool Easter Eggs and throwbacks, along with a story break down so far. Remember to join us on Social Media Today! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AnimeSecrets Twitter: http://twitter.com/animesecrets Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animesecrets/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AnimeSecrets Discord: https://discord.gg/ykz6RK6

After all of the offscreen drama that made it's way onscreen, things on the Power Rangers set have stabilized, but can you tell that from the episodes? John and Natalie walk through episodes 29-32 of Season 2 of Mighty Morphin and figure out if the filler is fun. Featuring a surprising villain, a Bulk and Skull feature episode, a big mirror, pachinko, and a weirdly restrained amount of Tommy Oliver. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr @teachmesentai Contact the show at teachmesentai@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/teachmesentai Art by Eavon14 Music by Christopher Bridgmon

For Chicago's own, filmmaker Daniel Romano a martial artist himself, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers has always been a huge part of his life since elementary school. Inspired by the relatability and fun of the original series, Daniel has always been the creative one in his family amongst his four siblings. We talk family, we talk Power Rangers, we talk his Morphin Origins film project – and all about Daniel's all time favorite character, Tommy Oliver, originally the Green Ranger portrayed by the late Jason David Frank. x.com/DRomanod25, instagram.com/peoplewelovepodcast, instagram.com/adamchoit, twitter.com/adamchoit, peoplewelovepodcast.com

Gobble Gobble! Hope you're ready to stuff your face with Tommy Oliver. Join John and Natalie as they descend into madness dealing with episode after episode of Green Ranger, power losing nonsense. Mighty Morphin Season 2 episodes 9-12 to be specific! Featuring Tommy, Tommy losing his powers, Kimberly being concerned about Tommy losing his power, Zedd wanting Tommy's powers, and a stunning twist in which Zedd tries to take the rest of Tommy's powers. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr @teachmesentai Contact the show at teachmesentai@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/teachmesentai Art by Eavon14 Music by Christopher Bridgmon

An episode written and edited by Joey Sourlis (Tommy) himself! Tommy Oliver and David Trueheart return to their native tribe to discover who they truely are. And in the process get closure for their troubled past.

BearatNight Podcast is honored to have Michael R. Gotto to the pod. Michal famously played young Tommy Oliver aka the Green/White Power Ranger on MMPR, Power Ranger Alien Rangers, and Power Rangers Zeo. We get a chance to hear what it was like as child actor, his relationship Jason David Frank and the time he almost became a Big Bad Beetle Borgs.

In this final episode of our “Green with Evil” series review, we pay tribute and honor Jason David Frank, aka “Tommy Oliver” from the Power Rangers Franchise. We are once again joined by our special guest contributor from our Power Ranger friend circle, Angel Cancel the OG Green Ranger in the family. Join us, as we dive deep in “Green with Evil” part 5, and discuss the impression this episode made on us during childhood. We answer the serious questions, like can the Rangers overcome evil and defeat the Green Ranger, or did Rita win and now we are enslaved on earth? Are we recording this in a dystopian prison ran by Rita and the putties, or did the Rangers save the earth? Join us for the thrills, chills, ills as the Rangers try to find a way to defeat the greatest threat to them, another Power Ranger! Don't forget to rate and review and follow us on social media! IG: @wethenerdscast Twitter: @wethenerdscast Email your questions/comments: wethenerdsjcj@gmail.com

In this episode of Nicky and Moose, they discuss how to take advantage opportunities that will leverage your business and brand.  What You Will Learn New IG features Effects of new CEO of YouTube Super Bowl Business Opportunities  How To Successfully Leverage Your Opportunities What's Poppin Nicky shares he thoughts on the new IG feature called channels. It's a broadcast chat that provides an advantageous way of building a community for your niche. Also has opportunities for strategic releasing of content, merchandise and or exclusive deals. Moose shares the positive effects of hiring a new CEO for YouTube. He believe he advocates for new creators with the support of YouTube shorts and plus. Creator Of The Week Codi and Tommy Oliver. Founders of Black Love.    Instagram - Black Love Black Love provides insight on the work to marriage successful. They've been able to take a statistic and bring more awareness and transparency that speaks against the narrative of marriage. Blueprint For Success - Leveraging Opportunities  Exposure Results Rihanna's numbers increased becoming the #1 streamed artist globally with 118 million views.  Gained 3 million followers.  Fenty products receiving more sales.  Re-engage with people who have been apart of your journey.  How Can You Secure What You're Worth With Leverage? Creating opportunities for different avenues in your business.  Non paid opportunities can benefit your brand in gaining new customers.  Benefits of Creating a Docu-Series  Monetary opportunity with subscription based viewing.  Gain more followers for your brand.  This Or That - Nicky And Moose Share Pros & Cons of Business Control Nicky - Is having too much control bad for your business? Micromanaging can have effects on trust and moral of your employees.  Moose - Control in the beginning is necessary because of the risk being high. Good foundations need establishing up front. With control comes great responsibility over task needing completion.  Thoughtful Takeaways Education of business & leverage opportunities allows you to make effective decisions that can benefit your business and brand.  There are ways to continue growing despite currently having a large following.  Don't leverage what you're not ready to maintain.  Apply principles in the correct context.  You can't learn from your mistake if you're denying it. Own up to what needs correction. Listener Perks 1) Sponsored By Ecamm Live: An all-in-one live streaming & video production studio. With Ecamm Live, video creation is easy, professional, and fully customizable. If you can think it, you can create it in Ecamm Live. Try it for free www.nickyandmoose.com/ecamm 2) Deeper Than The Brand is a content creator community that prepares you for success in a building and sustaining a successful brand. Head over to deeperthanthebrand.com to learn more and get started today! 3) Striving to be the best we can is an on going journey. Having the blueprint of ourselves makes that goal more sustainable. Head over to flightassessment.com to learn your personality superpower and how to use it for successfully.

In this episode, we pay tribute and honor Jason David Frank, aka “Tommy Oliver” from the Power Rangers Franchise. We are joined once again by a special guest from our Power Ranger friend circle, Angel Cancel the OG Green Ranger in the family. Join us, as we dive deep in “Green with Evil” parts 3&4, and discuss the impression these episodes made on us during childhood. We answer the serious questions, like can the Rangers overcome evil and counterpunch the Green Ranger, are solar powered Zords the answer to sustainable future, and which episode  is all filler and all killer. Join us for the thrills, chills, ills as the Rangers try to find a way forward without Zordon. Don't forget to rate and review and follow us on social media! IG: @wethenerdscast Twitter: @wethenerdscast Email your questions/comments: wethenerdsjcj@gmail.com

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We the Nerds is back! Join us and find out, where we been, where we are going, and the future of the podcast. It's time to prove that Absence makes the heart grow fonder. In this episode, we pay tribute and honor Jason David Frank, aka “Tommy Oliver” from the Power Rangers Franchise. We are joined by a special guest from our Power Ranger friend circle, Angel Cancel the OG Green Ranger in the family. Join us, as we dive deep in “Green with Evil” parts 1&2, and discuss the impression these episodes made on us during childhood. We answer the serious questions, like why was Kimberly biting her lower lip, why Tommy's shield is tin foil, and will the Power Rangers overcome the Evil Green Ranger?! Don't forget to rate and review and follow us on social media! IG: @wethenerdscast Twitter: @wethenerdscast Email your questions/comments: wethenerdsjcj@gmail.com

Josh, Brother Jordan and Korey/Kylo travel back in time to the 1993 to honor the Power Rangers, Zordon and the late Jason David Frank. ***** from wiki - Green with Evil is a five-parter and serves as the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first episodes of the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It features the debut of Tommy Oliver, who would eventually become the most experienced Ranger of all time.

And so Michael and Nathan come to their journey's end…for now. After one year, 995 TV episodes, and three movies, your intrepid hosts have much to say about the Power Rangers franchise. They begin with some personal reflections on this long endeavor followed by having some fun picking their Ranger “dream teams” (and yes, they both felt obligated to include Tommy Oliver). The main event of the episode, though, is when they put every series and film into a Tiermaker tier list. There was gushing and arguing and mind changing. Then there was season two hype…. What is your Ranger dream team? Check out our “Official Power Trip PR Ranking Tier List” to make your own! Timestamps: ·      Intro: 0:00-2:44 ·      Opening discussion: 2:44-31:14 ·      Ranger “Dream Teams”: 31:14-1:40:14 ·      PR Tier Lists: 1:40:14-4:08:36 ·      Announcements/Final Thoughts: 4:08:36-end ----------------------------------------------- EMAIL FEEDBACK TO THE SHOW: powertrippod@gmail.com ----------------------------------------------- FOLLOW THE SHOW: Follow The Power Trips on Twitter: @ThePowerTripPod. Join the podcast's official Facebook group: Power Rangers Legacy. ----------------------------------------------- READ KAIJU RAMEN: kaijuramenmagazine.com ----------------------------------------------- OTHER PODCASTS WITH ATTITUDE: Kaiju Weekly Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kaiju-weekly/id1330448313 The Henshin Men Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/henshin-men/id1575547087 The Monster Island Film Vault: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-monster-island-film-vault/id1472692780 The Kaiju Groupie Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kaiju-groupie-podcast/id1519596361 ----------------------------------------------- The podcast logo was designed by Rebecca Hudgens. Follow her on Instagram @super_r_illustrations. This episode's theme was “Power Rangers Theme – Epic Trailer Version” by Epic Trailer Music UK. We also use “Galaxy Quest (Instrumental)” by HeavenWraith from the OCRemix album Jet Force Gemini: Mizar Attacks! and the original Zyuranger theme song. All film and audio clips belong to their respective copyright holders, and no infringement is intended or implied.  The Power Trip has no association with Saban Entertainment or Hasbro. Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and/or Podchaser to spread the word about the show.

(This episode was largely recorded and written before the tragic news of Jason David Frank's death). Hello, Kaiju Lovers! In what you could call the perfect crossover between their podcasts, MIFV MAX members Drew and Jacob of The Cel Cast sponsor a discussion of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie. It has animated kaiju in it—they're just bad CGI robots. But the real star of this film, like other pop culture blockbusters in 1995, was the villain Ivan Ooze (played by Paul Freeman), who steals every scene and eats all the scenery. If you've heard Nate discuss this on one of his other podcasts, The Power Trip, this will be an expansion on what he said there, particularly on the subject of the hero's journey. Too bad for Nate and his co-hosts, their discussion is interrupted by a certain snarky bonehead. The night before the broadcast, Nate journals about getting voicemails from Karone—an actual Power Ranger—and Raymund—who keeps claiming he was a Ranger. After the broadcast, Nate goes to a special “thank you for your service” meet-and-greet being held in honor of the recently retired Tommy Oliver. But an old foe of Tommy's crashes the party. This episode is dedicated in loving memory to Jason David Frank. The prologue and epilogue, “Return of the Green Rangers,” was written by Nathan Marchand with Michael Hamilton. “Rito Calls” written by Nathan Marchand. Guest Cast Celeste Mora as Karone Damon Noyes as Raymund Martin and Gary Steward Joey Sourlis as Tommy Oliver Shane Cochran as Ivan Ooze Daniel DiManna as Ninjor Additional music: “Go Go Power Rangers” by The Power Rangers Orchestra “Chant My Name!” by Masaaki Endo “Ivan Ooze” by Graeme Revell “Go Green Ranger Go (Instrumental Redux)” by Ron Wasserman “Susume! Gorenger (Opening Theme) Cover 秘密戦隊ゴレンジャー”by It Takes 2 to Toku Sound effects sourced from Freesound.org, including those by InspectorJ. Check out Nathan's spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power Trip. We'd like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander; Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, The Cel Cast, TofuFury, Eric Anderson of Nerd Chapel, Ted Williams, Wynja the Ninja, Brad “Batman” Eddleman, and Christopher Riner! Thanks for your support! You, too, can join MIFV MAX on Patreon to get this and other perks starting at only $3 a month! (https://www.patreon.com/monsterislandfilmvault) Buy official MIFV merch on TeePublic! (https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-monster-island-gift-shop) This episode is approved by Cameron Winter and the Monster Island Board of Directors. Timestamps: Prologue: 0:00-7:59 Intro: 7:59-21:41 Main Discussion: 21:41-1:58:18 Housekeeping & Outro: 1:58:18-2:12:15 Epilogue: 2:12:15-end Podcast Social Media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheMonsterIsla1) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MonsterIslandFilmVault/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/monsterislandfilmvault/) Follow Jimmy on Twitter: @NasaJimmy (https://twitter.com/nasajimmy?lang=en) Follow the Monster Island Board of Directors on Twitter: @MonsterIslaBOD (https://twitter.com/MonsterIslaBOD) Follow the Raymund Martin and the MIFV Legal Team on Twitter: @MIFV_LegalTeam Follow Crystal Lady Jessica on Twitter: @CystalLadyJes1 (https://twitter.com/CrystalLadyJes1) Follow Dr. Dourif on Twitter: @DrDorif (https://twitter.com/DrDoriff) www.MonsterIslandFilmVault.com #JimmyFromNASALives       #MonsterIslandFilmVault      #PowerRangers #MMPR © 2022 Moonlighting Ninjas Media Bibliography/Further Reading: Campbell, Jospeh. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Commemorative Edition). Princeton University Press. 2004. “Hero's journey.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey. “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.” IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113820/. “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.” RangerWiki. https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Mighty_Morphin_Power_Rangers:_The_Movie. “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Morphin_Power_Rangers:_The_Movie. Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie blu-ray (Shout!Factory): Blu-ray featurette. “Mighty Leap to the Silver Screen, The.” Minton, Turner. “16 Things You Never Knew About Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.” Screenrant. 2 Jan. 2018. https://screenrant.com/might-morphin-power-rangers-movie-trivia-facts/. Power Trip, The: A Journey through the Power Rangers Franchise. “Episode 03: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie.” 1 Feb. 2021.

This week's episode is a tribute to the life of Jason David Frank aka "Tommy Oliver" from the Power Rangers series. Joining us this week is @brettwilsonart from @splatattackpodcast, @kvngprimetime from @primenostalgiapod, @southpawrefusal from @heartgodmedia, @noahbaron actor/creator of "Life After Power Rangers" and Prop Master for the first 10 seasons of Power Rangers, @atmab13. We want to warn everyone who listens, this episode mentions suicide and self harm. We here at Ready 2 Retro take depression and mental health seriously, if you or someone you know is struggling right now, don't hesitate to get help. There are free resources and trained professionals to help you navigate what you're facing. If you are in the US you can visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org or call 800-273-8255.

Jason David Frank passed away on November 19, 2022. To pay tribute, this episode will cover 2 episodes spotlighting Tommy's influence both on his fellow Rangers, and the Power Rangers franchise as a whole.

Welcome to another adventure of the Ninja Please podcast  *TRIGGER WARNING* This episode contains conversations about suicide and self-harm as well as personal accounts of attempted self-transition.  On November 19th, 2022 many of the US and around the world lost a hero. Around 6 am on 11/19/22 it was reported that famed Power Ranger Star and Undefeated renowned world Martial Artist champion, Jason David Frank took his own life. In the following weeks, many questions surrounding the circumstances of his death arose but remained unanswered do to respect for his family and their privacy. While these questions do linger in our minds we choose not to dwell on the why but choose to honor his memory by reflecting on how his life and career as not just an actor (Tommy Oliver) but the many ways JDF as a person impacted us all growing up. To many, he was the green ranger but to a few, he was a symbol of self-confidence,  perseverance, and determination. He will be missed greatly, but as they say, Heroes Never Die.  (00:40:00) We question the Mandela effect collectively.  Later we discuss Shazam, Black Panther 2 , Cowboy bebop and more.      (01:26:00) we discuss our She-Hulk Sex playlist and more with our guest hosts SCOS and Z.  Original Music By Starman Ninja Please Theme - Starman .  Ninjaplease OST Coming soon. Subscribe to Ninjapleasepod on Youtube 2022 Star Superior, LLC Follow us on social Media @Ninjapleasepod and like us on Facebook. Coming soon to Youtube. #Ninjapleasepodcast #covid19 #Anime #Hulu #Crunchyroll #Funimation #Nintendo #Sony #PS5 #Marvel #DC #DIsney #syfy #Cartoonnetwork #CN #Adultswim #usa #trending #memes #life #style #Netflix #Ninjapleasepodcast #Amazonprimevideo #Hulu #PS5 #Xbox #WB #HBOMAX #Disney+ #animereview #bestanimepocast #BLERD #Bestblerdpodintheunuverse #geekoftheyear #bestgeekpod  #blackgeekculture #comedy #RIPJDF #JDF #Jasondavidfrank #Tommyoliver #powerrangers 

Tragically on November 19, 2022, many of us lost someone who was incredibly dear to our childhood. Actor Jason David Frank died at the too young age of 49. For most of his fans it was JDFs' portrayal of Tommy Oliver throughout The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers franchise. Starting as The Green Ranger then becoming The White Ranger. He would eventually wear the mantle of the Red Ranger (Zeo/Turbo) and Black Ranger (Dino Thunder). While being a Ranger was what we knew and loved him for - it was his dedication to the franchise and fan interactions that left an indelible mark on his fans and us. When people say you should never meet your heroes that was the exact opposite truth with JDF. May the Power Protect you Always Jason David Frank - and we will never forget how you made us forever shout IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jafnpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jafnpodcast/support

On November 28, 2022, a multitude of podcasters and YouTubers—Nathan Marchand, Michael Hamilton, Travis Alexander, Jack “GMan” Hudgens (The Drift Space), J.R. Villers (The Drift Space), Rebecca Hudgens (The Drift Space), Kaiju Kim, Chris Cooke, and Jimmy from Zeo 2 Hero—came together to celebrate the life and work of Jason David Frank. From acting to martial arts to teaching to motivational speaking, he did it all. But he'll always be remembered as Tommy Oliver, the most popular Power Ranger. He was the face of the brand for years and a hero to his fans. Because he took his own life, your hosts spent this long livestream raising money for To Write Love On Her Arms, “a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment and recovery.” Their goal is to raise $800, and you can still contribute at the link below.   To view the video version of the livestream on the MIFV YouTube channel. Donate to TWLOHA here in JDF's honor. Check out Nathan's spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power Trip. We'd like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander, Michael Hamilton, Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke, Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, The Cel Cast, TofuFury, Eric Anderson of Nerd Chapel, Ted Williams, Wynja the Ninja, and Brad “Batman” Eddleman! Thanks for your support! You, too, can join MIFV MAX on Patreon to get this and other perks starting at only $3 a month! (https://www.patreon.com/monsterislandfilmvault) Buy official MIFV merch on TeePublic! (https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-monster-island-gift-shop) This episode is approved by Cameron Winter and the Monster Island Board of Directors. Podcast Social Media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheMonsterIsla1) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MonsterIslandFilmVault/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/monsterislandfilmvault/) Follow Jimmy on Twitter: @NasaJimmy (https://twitter.com/nasajimmy?lang=en) Follow the Monster Island Board of Directors on Twitter: @MonsterIslaBOD (https://twitter.com/MonsterIslaBOD) Follow the Raymund Martin and the MIFV Legal Team on Twitter: @MIFV_LegalTeam Follow Crystal Lady Jessica on Twitter: @CystalLadyJes1 (https://twitter.com/CrystalLadyJes1) Follow Dr. Dourif on Twitter: @DrDorif (https://twitter.com/DrDoriff) www.MonsterIslandFilmVault.com #JimmyFromNASALives       #MonsterIslandFilmVault      #PowerRangers             #JasonDavid Frank                 #TWLOHA © 2022 Moonlighting Ninjas Media

On November 28, 2022, a multitude of podcasters and YouTubers—Nathan Marchand, Michael Hamilton, Travis Alexander, Jack “GMan” Hudgens (The Drift Space), J.R. Villers (The Drift Space), Rebecca Hudgens (The Drift Space), Kaiju Kim, Chris Cooke, and Jimmy from Zeo to Hero—came together to celebrate the life and work of Jason David Frank. From acting to martial arts to teaching to motivational speaking, he did it all. But he'll always be remembered as Tommy Oliver, the most popular Power Ranger. He was the face of the brand for years and a hero to his fans. Because he took his own life, your hosts spent this long livestream raising money for To Write Love On Her Arms, “a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment and recovery.” Their goal is to raise $800, and you can still contribute at the link below. To view the video version of the livestream on the MIFV YouTube channel. Donate to TWLOHA here in JDF's honor. ----------------------------------------------- EMAIL FEEDBACK TO THE SHOW: powertrippod@gmail.com ----------------------------------------------- FOLLOW THE SHOW: Follow The Power Trips on Twitter: @ThePowerTripPod. Join the podcast's official Facebook group: Power Rangers Legacy. ----------------------------------------------- READ KAIJU RAMEN: kaijuramenmagazine.com ----------------------------------------------- OTHER PODCASTS WITH ATTITUDE: Kaiju Weekly Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kaiju-weekly/id1330448313 The Henshin Men Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/henshin-men/id1575547087 The Monster Island Film Vault: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-monster-island-film-vault/id1472692780 The Kaiju Groupie Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kaiju-groupie-podcast/id1519596361 ----------------------------------------------- The podcast logo was designed by Rebecca Hudgens. Follow her on Instagram @super_r_illustrations. Our theme songs are from the album Power of the Grid by Niall Stenson. We also use “Galaxy Quest (Instrumental)” by HeavenWraith from the OCRemix album Jet Force Gemini: Mizar Attacks! All film and audio clips belong to their respective copyright holders, and no infringement is intended or implied.  The Power Trip has no association with Saban Entertainment or Hasbro. Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and/or Podchaser to spread the word about the show.

Tommy Oliver has been many things - a hero, a himbo, a karate master. But how will he fare as the center of this two part story as Rita tries to steal his powers! Natalie and John walk through Green Candle, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Episodes 34 and 35 and then give you a 100% accurate guide to Power Ranger colors. Featuring school dances, Zack's dating advice, the Dark Dimension, a lot of Goldar, and Zordon's manipulative lies. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr @teachmesentai Contact the show at teachmesentai@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/teachmesentai Art by Eavon14 Music by Christopher Bridgmon

On November 28, 2022, a multitude of podcasters and YouTubers—Nathan Marchand, Michael Hamilton, Travis Alexander, Jack “GMan” Hudgens (The Drift Space), J.R. Villers (The Drift Space), Rebecca Hudgens (The Drift Space), Kaiju Kim, Chris Cooke, and Jimmy from Zeo 2 Hero—came together to celebrate the life and work of Jason David Frank. From acting to martial arts to teaching to motivational speaking, he did it all. But he'll always be remembered as Tommy Oliver, the most popular Power Ranger. He was the face of the brand for years and a hero to his fans. Because he took his own life, your hosts spent this long livestream raising money for To Write Love On Her Arms, “a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment and recovery.” Their goal is to raise $800, and you can still contribute at the link below. To view the video version of the livestream on the MIFV YouTube channel.Donate to TWLOHA here in JDF's honor.

On November 28, 2022, a multitude of podcasters and YouTubers—Nathan Marchand, Michael Hamilton, Travis Alexander, Jack “GMan” Hudgens (The Drift Space), J.R. Villers (The Drift Space), Rebecca Hudgens (The Drift Space), Kaiju Kim, Chris Cooke, and Jimmy from Zeo 2 Hero—came together to celebrate the life and work of Jason David Frank. From acting to martial arts to teaching to motivational speaking, he did it all. But he'll always be remembered as Tommy Oliver, the most popular Power Ranger. He was the face of the brand for years and a hero to his fans. Because he took his own life, your hosts spent this long livestream raising money for To Write Love On Her Arms, “a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment and recovery.” Their goal is to raise $800, and you can still contribute at the link below.To view the video version of the livestream on the MIFV YouTube channel.Donate to TWLOHA here in JDF's honor.Follow Henshin Men on Twitter: @HenshinMenPod. Join the official Facebook fan page for this and The Monster Island Film Vault, The Markalite Lounge.Listen to Travis's main podcast, Kaiju Weekly, and Nathan's podcasts, The Monster Island Film Vault and The Power Trip.Henshin Men is a proud member of the Kaiju Ramen Podcast Network.

Are you ready for another great episode of The Nerd Plate!? Rockman3K3, Leroy Ketchum aka Chris is with us in spirit, is holding it down once again and this time he has unearthed the mighty and secretive enclave of The Anime Triad! Rockman3K3 and The Anime Triad pay tribute to the late great Jason David Frank aka Tommy Oliver aka The Greatest Power Ranger EVA, we talk about how awesome Gungrave is and give a brief history on the game series alongside the celebration of the new Gungrave GORE, and James Gunn is in charge of creating the DCEU 10 year phases plan... Get ready for all of the hot takes and slow rakes, IT'S THE NERD PLATE!!! Special Thanks to The Anime Triad for being on the show and chopping it up with us!!! Please check out The Anime Triad Podcast on all major streaming platforms! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nerd-plate/support

The Gents return from holiday break by starting the show to pay their respects to Jason David Frank (2:00), who was most famous for playing Tommy Oliver in the hit franchise Power Rangers. The impact that Frank had on the nerd world was more than substantial, infamously debuting as the Green Ranger in the franchise and being multiple Rangers throughout the history of the series. The Gents acknowledge that Frank suffered from depression and passed due to the results of suicide. EstoBro and TV relay the information about the suicide and crisis lifeline, and want the listening audience to know that they are dedicated to bringing more attention to mental health awareness. After the salutations and introduction of the hosts, EstoBro wants to put Nintendo and GameFreak on blast for fumbling the release of the latest installment of the Pokémon franchise (13:45). He has been playing Pokémon Violet since its release earlier in the month, as he relays the abysmal reviews the game has received and all of the malfunctions players are experiencing playing the game. Could this be the downfall of EstoBro's favorite franchise that he no longer purchases another Pokémon game ever again? As the subject changes back to sports, TV has been more than excited to share the early results of the World Cup taking place in Qatar (29:30). The Gents make their analysis of the competition after the series of episodes that had their review of each national team in the group stages. The attention of their home country of the United States is given the kudos they deserve, especially after advancing to the round of sixteen after defeating Iran the day after recording (38:50). The Gents also break down other countries that will be advancing, including some surprises that they did not see originally coming. As the show wraps with the 'Who has the munchies?' segment of the show, EstoBro puts TV on the spot in the regard to Thanksgiving leftovers (48:30). The creative disasters that EstoBro conspired are met with interruptions from Hello Nurse and Mandy Hatake, as his credentials of being an ambassador of Flavortown are in jeopardy.   Song credit: "1-800-273-8255" by Logic, Alessia Cara,  and Khalid from Everybody; licensing exclusively through Visionary Music Group and Def Jam Records. April 27, 2017Interact with the Gents of the podcast on the following social media platforms:TwitterInstagramFacebookTumblrEmail: estobrotvpod@gmail.com

CD 93: In honor of our collective childhood hero, Jason David Frank aka Tommy Oliver…the original Green Ranger, were talking about fun facts you may not have known about some of the most popular shows of the 90s! Find us across all the social media platforms if you ever want to join in on the Debauchery! FB: https://www.facebook.com/CommonDebauchery Twitter: @Notorious_JOZ @The_Rotten_Jack Insta: @Notorious_JOZ @The_Rotten_Jack

Welcome to Episode 181 of the 4 Below Podcast! In this episode you will hear: - Augie reading from his old grade school journals - a farewell/tribute to the late Jason David Frank, aka Tommy Oliver the Green Ranger - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever review And much more, enjoy!

The guys start of on another somber note with the passing of Jason David Frank aka Tommy Oliver the green and white ranger (3:40) and vibe doesn't get any lighter discussing Andre Bing the Walmart shooter in Chesapeake, Virginia (5:45) followed by the Colorado Springs nightclub shooting (10:30). The American Music Awards canceled Chris Brown's MJ tribute (18:03) and Hollywood Nicky goes on another epic rant about unity amongst each other (21:17), Lotto leaked songs (22:35) Saweetie projected low album sales (28:13) Bow wow vs Jade Cargill (34:39), August Alsina potentially coming out of the closest (36:10), Balenciaga scandal (40:46). In sports Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and a controversial photo surfaced from his youth (46:15) and much more with special guest Kirbie Duncan --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toxic-masculinty-info/support

On this Thanksgiving-themed episode of CzechXicans, the boys discuss what they're thankful for this year in life, work and fandom. We raise a glass to Kevin Conroy and Jason David Frank, childhood heroes gone too soon. Kevin provided the voice for Batman/Bruce Wayne since his 1992 debut in 'Batman: The Animated Series' in a 30+ year career that spanned animation, video games, and even led to a cameo in the CW's 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' storylines as an alternate universe Bruce Wayne. Jason David Frank burst onto our screen in 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' as Tommy Oliver, the Green Power Ranger. Jason David Frank continued to be involved with the franchise for nearly 30 years and appeared in various iterations of the Power Rangers story, including the 2017 reboot. Like Kevin, Jason traveled extensively to various conventions around the world, greeting and signing autographs for thousands of fans who loved and were inspired by their performances as Bruce Wayne and Tommy Oliver. Hector shares his experience accompanying Kevin Conroy to a convention while working at one of LA's voice-acting agencies. James Gunn and Peter Safran will lead DC Studios as Co-CEOs. In these roles, James and Peter will be responsible for the next ten years of storytelling and are currently mapping out what the DC Universe will look like across film, television, and animation. This will hopefully give the brand a singular, unified voice that will lead to the return of some of the most beloved characters while also bringing new, never-before-seen characters to the screen. Details are vague, but Gunn is expected to share these plans with Warner Bros. Discovery soon and has also been active on social media to shut down any news or rumors that are false. In a shocking turn of events, Bob Iger is back at The Walt Disney Company. Bob Chapek, Iger's replacement, has been removed as CEO of the company after two years of service that was met with mixed results and responses from investors and fans worldwide. In his new two-year term, Iger will be tasked with turning things around for the company and finding a new replacement to take over as CEO. Watch this episode on YouTube and subscribe to the channel. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heroesreforged/support

On this episode I decided to divert from the normal formula of talking about music to talk about something else that greatly impacted me growing up, and that was the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and in particular the character of Tommy Oliver the Green Power Ranger. In light of the tragic news of Jason David Frank passing away I wanted to do an episode reflecting back on how much his work meant to me. I hope you guys like this one. Follow DFT'S DungeonPatreon: https://bit.ly/3UlV4puFacebook: https://bit.ly/3LnPleQTwitter: https://bit.ly/3DDa50fInstagram: https://bit.ly/3UioAwoYoutube: https://bit.ly/3LmRqYmSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3RVbOCnLast.FM: https://bit.ly/3qKGVVmEmail: dftdungeon@gmail.comJoin the DFT Dungeon Discord Server!https://discord.gg/wSpc8WcRBphttps://www.dftdungeon.com

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are out, and not looking too hot. A major shakeup at Disney, Ubisoft drops some news, A power Ranger leaves us, and Indy goes digital. Meanwhile the future of DC is on the horizon, the MCU has some interesting things in its future, and Fast X is apparently out of control.

This week I sat down with Codie Elaine Oliver, the CEO and Co-founder of Black Love, Inc. The 100% Black owned media company, founded by Codie Elaine Oliver and husband Tommy Oliver, is a hub for Black couples and singles to have transparent conversations around relationships, parenthood, dating, and more through their app, podcast network, documentaries, and live events. We get the inside scoop on how Codie built her show from the ground up and grew into a multimedia empire.  In this episode she shares:  How she and her husband Tommy Oliver self funded Black Love, Inc. The strategic moves she made to pitch Black Love to a network while maintaining ownership The systems she has in place to manage a thriving career while being a mom of three Check out this episode and others on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube  This episode is brought to you by:  HubSpot Podcast Network- The audio destination for business professionals with content designed to help you listen, learn, and grow. Listen to Side Hustle Pro and more shows on the HubSpot Podcast Network, at https://www.hubspot.com/podcastnetwork.  Shopify. Go to shopify.com/hustlepro for a free fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify's entire suite of features. Links mentioned in this episode Black Love Website: https://blacklove.com/ Own Network: https://www.oprah.com/app/own-tv.html Black Love-The Interviews Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-love-the-interviews/id1552488882 Black Love Podcast Network: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/black-love-network/id6442514914 Click here to subscribe via RSS feed (non-iTunes feed): http://sidehustlepro.libsyn.com/rss Announcements Join our Facebook Community If you're looking for a community of supportive side hustlers who are all working to take our businesses to the next level, join us here: http://sidehustlepro.co/facebook Guest Social Media Info Codie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codieco/ Black Love Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blacklove/

Episode one hundred and fifty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “White Rabbit”, Jefferson Airplane, and the rise of the San Francisco sound. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-three-minute bonus episode available, on "Omaha" by Moby Grape. 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/ Erratum I refer to Back to Methuselah by Robert Heinlein. This is of course a play by George Bernard Shaw. What I meant to say was Methuselah's Children. Resources I hope to upload a Mixcloud tomorrow, and will edit it in, but have had some problems with the site today. Jefferson Airplane's first four studio albums, plus a 1968 live album, can be found in this box set. I've referred to three main books here. Got a Revolution!: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane by Jeff Tamarkin is written with the co-operation of the band members, but still finds room to criticise them. Jefferson Airplane On Track by Richard Molesworth is a song-by-song guide to the band's music. And Been So Long: My Life and Music by Jorma Kaukonen is Kaukonen's autobiography. Some information on Skip Spence and Matthew Katz also comes from What's Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean?: The Moby Grape Story, by Cam Cobb, which I also used for this week's bonus. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start, I need to confess an important and hugely embarrassing error in this episode. I've only ever seen Marty Balin's name written down, never heard it spoken, and only after recording the episode, during the editing process, did I discover I mispronounce it throughout. It's usually an advantage for the podcast that I get my information from books rather than TV documentaries and the like, because they contain far more information, but occasionally it causes problems like that. My apologies. Also a brief note that this episode contains some mentions of racism, antisemitism, drug and alcohol abuse, and gun violence. One of the themes we've looked at in recent episodes is the way the centre of the musical world -- at least the musical world as it was regarded by the people who thought of themselves as hip in the mid-sixties -- was changing in 1967. Up to this point, for a few years there had been two clear centres of the rock and pop music worlds. In the UK, there was London, and any British band who meant anything had to base themselves there. And in the US, at some point around 1963, the centre of the music industry had moved West. Up to then it had largely been based in New York, and there was still a thriving industry there as of the mid sixties. But increasingly the records that mattered, that everyone in the country had been listening to, had come out of LA Soul music was, of course, still coming primarily from Detroit and from the Country-Soul triangle in Tennessee and Alabama, but when it came to the new brand of electric-guitar rock that was taking over the airwaves, LA was, up until the first few months of 1967, the only city that was competing with London, and was the place to be. But as we heard in the episode on "San Francisco", with the Monterey Pop Festival all that started to change. While the business part of the music business remained centred in LA, and would largely remain so, LA was no longer the hip place to be. Almost overnight, jangly guitars, harmonies, and Brian Jones hairstyles were out, and feedback, extended solos, and droopy moustaches were in. The place to be was no longer LA, but a few hundred miles North, in San Francisco -- something that the LA bands were not all entirely happy about: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Who Needs the Peace Corps?"] In truth, the San Francisco music scene, unlike many of the scenes we've looked at so far in this series, had rather a limited impact on the wider world of music. Bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Big Brother and the Holding Company were all both massively commercially successful and highly regarded by critics, but unlike many of the other bands we've looked at before and will look at in future, they didn't have much of an influence on the bands that would come after them, musically at least. Possibly this is because the music from the San Francisco scene was always primarily that -- music created by and for a specific group of people, and inextricable from its context. The San Francisco musicians were defining themselves by their geographical location, their peers, and the situation they were in, and their music was so specifically of the place and time that to attempt to copy it outside of that context would appear ridiculous, so while many of those bands remain much loved to this day, and many made some great music, it's very hard to point to ways in which that music influenced later bands. But what they did influence was the whole of rock music culture. For at least the next thirty years, and arguably to this day, the parameters in which rock musicians worked if they wanted to be taken seriously – their aesthetic and political ideals, their methods of collaboration, the cultural norms around drug use and sexual promiscuity, ideas of artistic freedom and authenticity, the choice of acceptable instruments – in short, what it meant to be a rock musician rather than a pop, jazz, country, or soul artist – all those things were defined by the cultural and behavioural norms of the San Francisco scene between about 1966 and 68. Without the San Francisco scene there's no Woodstock, no Rolling Stone magazine, no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, no hippies, no groupies, no rock stars. So over the next few months we're going to take several trips to the Bay Area, and look at the bands which, for a brief time, defined the counterculture in America. The story of Jefferson Airplane -- and unlike other bands we've looked at recently, like The Pink Floyd and The Buffalo Springfield, they never had a definite article at the start of their name to wither away like a vestigial organ in subsequent years -- starts with Marty Balin. Balin was born in Ohio, but was a relatively sickly child -- he later talked about being autistic, and seems to have had the chronic illnesses that so often go with neurodivergence -- so in the hope that the dry air would be good for his chest his family moved to Arizona. Then when his father couldn't find work there, they moved further west to San Francisco, in the Haight-Ashbury area, long before that area became the byword for the hippie movement. But it was in LA that he started his music career, and got his surname. Balin had been named Marty Buchwald as a kid, but when he was nineteen he had accompanied a friend to LA to visit a music publisher, and had ended up singing backing vocals on her demos. While he was there, he had encountered the arranger Jimmy Haskell. Haskell was on his way to becoming one of the most prominent arrangers in the music industry, and in his long career he would go on to do arrangements for Bobby Gentry, Blondie, Steely Dan, Simon and Garfunkel, and many others. But at the time he was best known for his work on Ricky Nelson's hits: [Excerpt: Ricky Nelson, "Hello Mary Lou"] Haskell thought that Marty had the makings of a Ricky Nelson style star, as he was a good-looking young man with a decent voice, and he became a mentor for the young man. Making the kind of records that Haskell arranged was expensive, and so Haskell suggested a deal to him -- if Marty's father would pay for studio time and musicians, Haskell would make a record with him and find him a label to put it out. Marty's father did indeed pay for the studio time and the musicians -- some of the finest working in LA at the time. The record, released under the name Marty Balin, featured Jack Nitzsche on keyboards, Earl Palmer on drums, Milt Jackson on vibraphone, Red Callender on bass, and Glen Campbell and Barney Kessell on guitars, and came out on Challenge Records, a label owned by Gene Autry: [Excerpt: Marty Balin, "Nobody But You"] Neither that, nor Balin's follow-up single, sold a noticeable amount of copies, and his career as a teen idol was over before it had begun. Instead, as many musicians of his age did, he decided to get into folk music, joining a vocal harmony group called the Town Criers, who patterned themselves after the Weavers, and performed the same kind of material that every other clean-cut folk vocal group was performing at the time -- the kind of songs that John Phillips and Steve Stills and Cass Elliot and Van Dyke Parks and the rest were all performing in their own groups at the same time. The Town Criers never made any records while they were together, but some archival recordings of them have been released over the decades: [Excerpt: The Town Criers, "900 Miles"] The Town Criers split up, and Balin started performing as a solo folkie again. But like all those other then-folk musicians, Balin realised that he had to adapt to the K/T-event level folk music extinction that happened when the Beatles hit America like a meteorite. He had to form a folk-rock group if he wanted to survive -- and given that there were no venues for such a group to play in San Francisco, he also had to start a nightclub for them to play in. He started hanging around the hootenannies in the area, looking for musicians who might form an electric band. The first person he decided on was a performer called Paul Kantner, mainly because he liked his attitude. Kantner had got on stage in front of a particularly drunk, loud, crowd, and performed precisely half a song before deciding he wasn't going to perform in front of people like that and walking off stage. Kantner was the only member of the new group to be a San Franciscan -- he'd been born and brought up in the city. He'd got into folk music at university, where he'd also met a guitar player named Jorma Kaukonen, who had turned him on to cannabis, and the two had started giving music lessons at a music shop in San Jose. There Kantner had also been responsible for booking acts at a local folk club, where he'd first encountered acts like Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, a jug band which included Jerry Garcia, Pigpen McKernan, and Bob Weir, who would later go on to be the core members of the Grateful Dead: [Excerpt: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, "In the Jailhouse Now"] Kantner had moved around a bit between Northern and Southern California, and had been friendly with two other musicians on the Californian folk scene, David Crosby and Roger McGuinn. When their new group, the Byrds, suddenly became huge, Kantner became aware of the possibility of doing something similar himself, and so when Marty Balin approached him to form a band, he agreed. On bass, they got in a musician called Bob Harvey, who actually played double bass rather than electric, and who stuck to that for the first few gigs the group played -- he had previously been in a band called the Slippery Rock String Band. On drums, they brought in Jerry Peloquin, who had formerly worked for the police, but now had a day job as an optician. And on vocals, they brought in Signe Toley -- who would soon marry and change her name to Signe Anderson, so that's how I'll talk about her to avoid confusion. The group also needed a lead guitarist though -- both Balin and Kantner were decent rhythm players and singers, but they needed someone who was a better instrumentalist. They decided to ask Kantner's old friend Jorma Kaukonen. Kaukonen was someone who was seriously into what would now be called Americana or roots music. He'd started playing the guitar as a teenager, not like most people of his generation inspired by Elvis or Buddy Holly, but rather after a friend of his had shown him how to play an old Carter Family song, "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy": [Excerpt: The Carter Family, "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy"] Kaukonen had had a far more interesting life than most of the rest of the group. His father had worked for the State Department -- and there's some suggestion he'd worked for the CIA -- and the family had travelled all over the world, staying in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Finland. For most of his childhood, he'd gone by the name Jerry, because other kids beat him up for having a foreign name and called him a Nazi, but by the time he turned twenty he was happy enough using his birth name. Kaukonen wasn't completely immune to the appeal of rock and roll -- he'd formed a rock band, The Triumphs, with his friend Jack Casady when he was a teenager, and he loved Ricky Nelson's records -- but his fate as a folkie had been pretty much sealed when he went to Antioch College. There he met up with a blues guitarist called Ian Buchanan. Buchanan never had much of a career as a professional, but he had supposedly spent nine years studying with the blues and ragtime guitar legend Rev. Gary Davis, and he was certainly a fine guitarist, as can be heard on his contribution to The Blues Project, the album Elektra put out of white Greenwich Village musicians like John Sebastian and Dave Van Ronk playing old blues songs: [Excerpt: Ian Buchanan, "The Winding Boy"] Kaukonen became something of a disciple of Buchanan -- he said later that Buchanan probably taught him how to play because he was such a terrible player and Buchanan couldn't stand to listen to it -- as did John Hammond Jr, another student at Antioch at the same time. After studying at Antioch, Kaukonen started to travel around, including spells in Greenwich Village and in the Philippines, before settling in Santa Clara, where he studied for a sociology degree and became part of a social circle that included Dino Valenti, Jerry Garcia, and Billy Roberts, the credited writer of "Hey Joe". He also started performing as a duo with a singer called Janis Joplin. Various of their recordings from this period circulate, mostly recorded at Kaukonen's home with the sound of his wife typing in the background while the duo rehearse, as on this performance of an old Bessie Smith song: [Excerpt: Jorma Kaukonen and Janis Joplin, "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out"] By 1965 Kaukonen saw himself firmly as a folk-blues purist, who would not even think of playing rock and roll music, which he viewed with more than a little contempt. But he allowed himself to be brought along to audition for the new group, and Ken Kesey happened to be there. Kesey was a novelist who had written two best-selling books, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes A Great Notion, and used the financial independence that gave him to organise a group of friends who called themselves the Merry Pranksters, who drove from coast to coast and back again in a psychedelic-painted bus, before starting a series of events that became known as Acid Tests, parties at which everyone was on LSD, immortalised in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Nobody has ever said why Kesey was there, but he had brought along an Echoplex, a reverb unit one could put a guitar through -- and nobody has explained why Kesey, who wasn't a musician, had an Echoplex to hand. But Kaukonen loved the sound that he could get by putting his guitar through the device, and so for that reason more than any other he decided to become an electric player and join the band, going out and buying a Rickenbacker twelve-string and Vox Treble Booster because that was what Roger McGuinn used. He would later also get a Guild Thunderbird six-string guitar and a Standel Super Imperial amp, following the same principle of buying the equipment used by other guitarists he liked, as they were what Zal Yanovsky of the Lovin' Spoonful used. He would use them for all his six-string playing for the next couple of years, only later to discover that the Lovin' Spoonful despised them and only used them because they had an endorsement deal with the manufacturers. Kaukonen was also the one who came up with the new group's name. He and his friends had a running joke where they had "Bluesman names", things like "Blind Outrage" and "Little Sun Goldfarb". Kaukonen's bluesman name, given to him by his friend Steve Talbot, had been Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane, a reference to the 1920s blues guitarist Blind Lemon Jefferson: [Excerpt: Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Match Box Blues"] At the band meeting where they were trying to decide on a name, Kaukonen got frustrated at the ridiculous suggestions that were being made, and said "You want a stupid name? Howzabout this... Jefferson Airplane?" He said in his autobiography "It was one of those rare moments when everyone in the band agreed, and that was that. I think it was the only band meeting that ever allowed me to come away smiling." The newly-named Jefferson Airplane started to rehearse at the Matrix Club, the club that Balin had decided to open. This was run with three sound engineer friends, who put in the seed capital for the club. Balin had stock options in the club, which he got by trading a share of the band's future earnings to his partners, though as the group became bigger he eventually sold his stock in the club back to his business partners. Before their first public performance, they started working with a manager, Matthew Katz, mostly because Katz had access to a recording of a then-unreleased Bob Dylan song, "Lay Down Your Weary Tune": [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Lay Down Your Weary Tune"] The group knew that the best way for a folk-rock band to make a name for themselves was to perform a Dylan song nobody else had yet heard, and so they agreed to be managed by Katz. Katz started a pre-publicity blitz, giving out posters, badges, and bumper stickers saying "Jefferson Airplane Loves You" all over San Francisco -- and insisting that none of the band members were allowed to say "Hello" when they answered the phone any more, they had to say "Jefferson Airplane Loves You!" For their early rehearsals and gigs, they were performing almost entirely cover versions of blues and folk songs, things like Fred Neil's "The Other Side of This Life" and Dino Valenti's "Get Together" which were the common currency of the early folk-rock movement, and songs by their friends, like one called "Flower Bomb" by David Crosby, which Crosby now denies ever having written. They did start writing the odd song, but at this point they were more focused on performance than on writing. They also hired a press agent, their friend Bill Thompson. Thompson was friends with the two main music writers at the San Francisco Chronicle, Ralph Gleason, the famous jazz critic, who had recently started also reviewing rock music, and John Wasserman. Thompson got both men to come to the opening night of the Matrix, and both gave the group glowing reviews in the Chronicle. Record labels started sniffing around the group immediately as a result of this coverage, and according to Katz he managed to get a bidding war started by making sure that when A&R men came to the club there were always two of them from different labels, so they would see the other person and realise they weren't the only ones interested. But before signing a record deal they needed to make some personnel changes. The first member to go was Jerry Peloquin, for both musical and personal reasons. Peloquin was used to keeping strict time and the other musicians had a more free-flowing idea of what tempo they should be playing at, but also he had worked for the police while the other members were all taking tons of illegal drugs. The final break with Peloquin came when he did the rest of the group a favour -- Paul Kantner's glasses broke during a rehearsal, and as Peloquin was an optician he offered to take them back to his shop and fix them. When he got back, he found them auditioning replacements for him. He beat Kantner up, and that was the end of Jerry Peloquin in Jefferson Airplane. His replacement was Skip Spence, who the group had met when he had accompanied three friends to the Matrix, which they were using as a rehearsal room. Spence's friends went on to be the core members of Quicksilver Messenger Service along with Dino Valenti: [Excerpt: Quicksilver Messenger Service, "Dino's Song"] But Balin decided that Spence looked like a rock star, and told him that he was now Jefferson Airplane's drummer, despite Spence being a guitarist and singer, not a drummer. But Spence was game, and learned to play the drums. Next they needed to get rid of Bob Harvey. According to Harvey, the decision to sack him came after David Crosby saw the band rehearsing and said "Nice song, but get rid of the bass player" (along with an expletive before the word bass which I can't say without incurring the wrath of Apple). Crosby denies ever having said this. Harvey had started out in the group on double bass, but to show willing he'd switched in his last few gigs to playing an electric bass. When he was sacked by the group, he returned to double bass, and to the Slippery Rock String Band, who released one single in 1967: [Excerpt: The Slippery Rock String Band, "Tule Fog"] Harvey's replacement was Kaukonen's old friend Jack Casady, who Kaukonen knew was now playing bass, though he'd only ever heard him playing guitar when they'd played together. Casady was rather cautious about joining a rock band, but then Kaukonen told him that the band were getting fifty dollars a week salary each from Katz, and Casady flew over from Washington DC to San Francisco to join the band. For the first few gigs, he used Bob Harvey's bass, which Harvey was good enough to lend him despite having been sacked from the band. Unfortunately, right from the start Casady and Kantner didn't get on. When Casady flew in from Washington, he had a much more clean-cut appearance than the rest of the band -- one they've described as being nerdy, with short, slicked-back, side-parted hair and a handlebar moustache. Kantner insisted that Casady shave the moustache off, and he responded by shaving only one side, so in profile on one side he looked clean-shaven, while from the other side he looked like he had a full moustache. Kantner also didn't like Casady's general attitude, or his playing style, at all -- though most critics since this point have pointed to Casady's bass playing as being the most interesting and distinctive thing about Jefferson Airplane's style. This lineup seems to have been the one that travelled to LA to audition for various record companies -- a move that immediately brought the group a certain amount of criticism for selling out, both for auditioning for record companies and for going to LA at all, two things that were already anathema on the San Francisco scene. The only audition anyone remembers them having specifically is one for Phil Spector, who according to Kaukonen was waving a gun around during the audition, so he and Casady walked out. Around this time as well, the group performed at an event billed as "A Tribute to Dr. Strange", organised by the radical hippie collective Family Dog. Marvel Comics, rather than being the multi-billion-dollar Disney-owned corporate juggernaut it is now, was regarded as a hip, almost underground, company -- and around this time they briefly started billing their comics not as comics but as "Marvel Pop Art Productions". The magical adventures of Dr. Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts, and in particular the art by far-right libertarian artist Steve Ditko, were regarded as clear parallels to both the occult dabblings and hallucinogen use popular among the hippies, though Ditko had no time for either, following as he did an extreme version of Ayn Rand's Objectivism. It was at the Tribute to Dr. Strange that Jefferson Airplane performed for the first time with a band named The Great Society, whose lead singer, Grace Slick, would later become very important in Jefferson Airplane's story: [Excerpt: The Great Society, "Someone to Love"] That gig was also the first one where the band and their friends noticed that large chunks of the audience were now dressing up in costumes that were reminiscent of the Old West. Up to this point, while Katz had been managing the group and paying them fifty dollars a week even on weeks when they didn't perform, he'd been doing so without a formal contract, in part because the group didn't trust him much. But now they were starting to get interest from record labels, and in particular RCA Records desperately wanted them. While RCA had been the label who had signed Elvis Presley, they had otherwise largely ignored rock and roll, considering that since they had the biggest rock star in the world they didn't need other ones, and concentrating largely on middle-of-the-road acts. But by the mid-sixties Elvis' star had faded somewhat, and they were desperate to get some of the action for the new music -- and unlike the other major American labels, they didn't have a reciprocal arrangement with a British label that allowed them to release anything by any of the new British stars. The group were introduced to RCA by Rod McKuen, a songwriter and poet who later became America's best-selling poet and wrote songs that sold over a hundred million copies. At this point McKuen was in his Jacques Brel phase, recording loose translations of the Belgian songwriter's songs with McKuen translating the lyrics: [Excerpt: Rod McKuen, "Seasons in the Sun"] McKuen thought that Jefferson Airplane might be a useful market for his own songs, and brought the group to RCA. RCA offered Jefferson Airplane twenty-five thousand dollars to sign with them, and Katz convinced the group that RCA wouldn't give them this money without them having signed a management contract with him. Kaukonen, Kantner, Spence, and Balin all signed without much hesitation, but Jack Casady didn't yet sign, as he was the new boy and nobody knew if he was going to be in the band for the long haul. The other person who refused to sign was Signe Anderson. In her case, she had a much better reason for refusing to sign, as unlike the rest of the band she had actually read the contract, and she found it to be extremely worrying. She did eventually back down on the day of the group's first recording session, but she later had the contract renegotiated. Jack Casady also signed the contract right at the start of the first session -- or at least, he thought he'd signed the contract then. He certainly signed *something*, without having read it. But much later, during a court case involving the band's longstanding legal disputes with Katz, it was revealed that the signature on the contract wasn't Casady's, and was badly forged. What he actually *did* sign that day has never been revealed, to him or to anyone else. Katz also signed all the group as songwriters to his own publishing company, telling them that they legally needed to sign with him if they wanted to make records, and also claimed to RCA that he had power of attorney for the band, which they say they never gave him -- though to be fair to Katz, given the band members' habit of signing things without reading or understanding them, it doesn't seem beyond the realms of possibility that they did. The producer chosen for the group's first album was Tommy Oliver, a friend of Katz's who had previously been an arranger on some of Doris Day's records, and whose next major act after finishing the Jefferson Airplane album was Trombones Unlimited, who released records like "Holiday for Trombones": [Excerpt: Trombones Unlimited, "Holiday For Trombones"] The group weren't particularly thrilled with this choice, but were happier with their engineer, Dave Hassinger, who had worked on records like "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, and had a far better understanding of the kind of music the group were making. They spent about three months recording their first album, even while continually being attacked as sellouts. The album is not considered their best work, though it does contain "Blues From an Airplane", a collaboration between Spence and Balin: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Blues From an Airplane"] Even before the album came out, though, things were starting to change for the group. Firstly, they started playing bigger venues -- their home base went from being the Matrix club to the Fillmore, a large auditorium run by the promoter Bill Graham. They also started to get an international reputation. The British singer-songwriter Donovan released a track called "The Fat Angel" which namechecked the group: [Excerpt: Donovan, "The Fat Angel"] The group also needed a new drummer. Skip Spence decided to go on holiday to Mexico without telling the rest of the band. There had already been some friction with Spence, as he was very eager to become a guitarist and songwriter, and the band already had three songwriting guitarists and didn't really see why they needed a fourth. They sacked Spence, who went on to form Moby Grape, who were also managed by Katz: [Excerpt: Moby Grape, "Omaha"] For his replacement they brought in Spencer Dryden, who was a Hollywood brat like their friend David Crosby -- in Dryden's case he was Charlie Chaplin's nephew, and his father worked as Chaplin's assistant. The story normally goes that the great session drummer Earl Palmer recommended Dryden to the group, but it's also the case that Dryden had been in a band, the Heartbeats, with Tommy Oliver and the great blues guitarist Roy Buchanan, so it may well be that Oliver had recommended him. Dryden had been primarily a jazz musician, playing with people like the West Coast jazz legend Charles Lloyd, though like most jazzers he would slum it on occasion by playing rock and roll music to pay the bills. But then he'd seen an early performance by the Mothers of Invention, and realised that rock music could have a serious artistic purpose too. He'd joined a band called The Ashes, who had released one single, the Jackie DeShannon song "Is There Anything I Can Do?" in December 1965: [Excerpt: The Ashes, "Is There Anything I Can Do?"] The Ashes split up once Dryden left the group to join Jefferson Airplane, but they soon reformed without him as The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, who hooked up with Gary Usher and released several albums of psychedelic sunshine pop. Dryden played his first gig with the group at a Republican Party event on June the sixth, 1966. But by the time Dryden had joined, other problems had become apparent. The group were already feeling like it had been a big mistake to accede to Katz's demands to sign a formal contract with him, and Balin in particular was getting annoyed that he wouldn't let the band see their finances. All the money was getting paid to Katz, who then doled out money to the band when they asked for it, and they had no idea if he was actually paying them what they were owed or not. The group's first album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, finally came out in September, and it was a comparative flop. It sold well in San Francisco itself, selling around ten thousand copies in the area, but sold basically nothing anywhere else in the country -- the group's local reputation hadn't extended outside their own immediate scene. It didn't help that the album was pulled and reissued, as RCA censored the initial version of the album because of objections to the lyrics. The song "Runnin' Round This World" was pulled off the album altogether for containing the word "trips", while in "Let Me In" they had to rerecord two lines -- “I gotta get in, you know where" was altered to "You shut the door now it ain't fair" and "Don't tell me you want money" became "Don't tell me it's so funny". Similarly in "Run Around" the phrase "as you lay under me" became "as you stay here by me". Things were also becoming difficult for Anderson. She had had a baby in May and was not only unhappy with having to tour while she had a small child, she was also the band member who was most vocally opposed to Katz. Added to that, her husband did not get on well at all with the group, and she felt trapped between her marriage and her bandmates. Reports differ as to whether she quit the band or was fired, but after a disastrous appearance at the Monterey Jazz Festival, one way or another she was out of the band. Her replacement was already waiting in the wings. Grace Slick, the lead singer of the Great Society, had been inspired by going to one of the early Jefferson Airplane gigs. She later said "I went to see Jefferson Airplane at the Matrix, and they were making more money in a day than I made in a week. They only worked for two or three hours a night, and they got to hang out. I thought 'This looks a lot better than what I'm doing.' I knew I could more or less carry a tune, and I figured if they could do it I could." She was married at the time to a film student named Jerry Slick, and indeed she had done the music for his final project at film school, a film called "Everybody Hits Their Brother Once", which sadly I can't find online. She was also having an affair with Jerry's brother Darby, though as the Slicks were in an open marriage this wasn't particularly untoward. The three of them, with a couple of other musicians, had formed The Great Society, named as a joke about President Johnson's programme of the same name. The Great Society was the name Johnson had given to his whole programme of domestic reforms, including civil rights for Black people, the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts, and more. While those projects were broadly popular among the younger generation, Johnson's escalation of the war in Vietnam had made him so personally unpopular that even his progressive domestic programme was regarded with suspicion and contempt. The Great Society had set themselves up as local rivals to Jefferson Airplane -- where Jefferson Airplane had buttons saying "Jefferson Airplane Loves You!" the Great Society put out buttons saying "The Great Society Really Doesn't Like You Much At All". They signed to Autumn Records, and recorded a song that Darby Slick had written, titled "Someone to Love" -- though the song would later be retitled "Somebody to Love": [Excerpt: The Great Society, "Someone to Love"] That track was produced by Sly Stone, who at the time was working as a producer for Autumn Records. The Great Society, though, didn't like working with Stone, because he insisted on them doing forty-five takes to try to sound professional, as none of them were particularly competent musicians. Grace Slick later said "Sly could play any instrument known to man. He could have just made the record himself, except for the singers. It was kind of degrading in a way" -- and on another occasion she said that he *did* end up playing all the instruments on the finished record. "Someone to Love" was put out as a promo record, but never released to the general public, and nor were any of the Great Society's other recordings for Autumn Records released. Their contract expired and they were let go, at which point they were about to sign to Mercury Records, but then Darby Slick and another member decided to go off to India for a while. Grace's marriage to Jerry was falling apart, though they would stay legally married for several years, and the Great Society looked like it was at an end, so when Grace got the offer to join Jefferson Airplane to replace Signe Anderson, she jumped at the chance. At first, she was purely a harmony singer -- she didn't take over any of the lead vocal parts that Anderson had previously sung, as she had a very different vocal style, and instead she just sang the harmony parts that Anderson had sung on songs with other lead vocalists. But two months after the album they were back in the studio again, recording their second album, and Slick sang lead on several songs there. As well as the new lineup, there was another important change in the studio. They were still working with Dave Hassinger, but they had a new producer, Rick Jarrard. Jarrard was at one point a member of the folk group The Wellingtons, who did the theme tune for "Gilligan's Island", though I can't find anything to say whether or not he was in the group when they recorded that track: [Excerpt: The Wellingtons, "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island"] Jarrard had also been in the similar folk group The Greenwood County Singers, where as we heard in the episode on "Heroes and Villains" he replaced Van Dyke Parks. He'd also released a few singles under his own name, including a version of Parks' "High Coin": [Excerpt: Rick Jarrard, "High Coin"] While Jarrard had similar musical roots to those of Jefferson Airplane's members, and would go on to produce records by people like Harry Nilsson and The Family Tree, he wasn't any more liked by the band than their previous producer had been. So much so, that a few of the band members have claimed that while Jarrard is the credited producer, much of the work that one would normally expect to be done by a producer was actually done by their friend Jerry Garcia, who according to the band members gave them a lot of arranging and structural advice, and was present in the studio and played guitar on several tracks. Jarrard, on the other hand, said categorically "I never met Jerry Garcia. I produced that album from start to finish, never heard from Jerry Garcia, never talked to Jerry Garcia. He was not involved creatively on that album at all." According to the band, though, it was Garcia who had the idea of almost doubling the speed of the retitled "Somebody to Love", turning it into an uptempo rocker: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love"] And one thing everyone is agreed on is that it was Garcia who came up with the album title, when after listening to some of the recordings he said "That's as surrealistic as a pillow!" It was while they were working on the album that was eventually titled Surrealistic Pillow that they finally broke with Katz as their manager, bringing Bill Thompson in as a temporary replacement. Or at least, it was then that they tried to break with Katz. Katz sued the group over their contract, and won. Then they appealed, and they won. Then Katz appealed the appeal, and the Superior Court insisted that if he wanted to appeal the ruling, he had to put up a bond for the fifty thousand dollars the group said he owed them. He didn't, so in 1970, four years after they sacked him as their manager, the appeal was dismissed. Katz appealed the dismissal, and won that appeal, and the case dragged on for another three years, at which point Katz dragged RCA Records into the lawsuit. As a result of being dragged into the mess, RCA decided to stop paying the group their songwriting royalties from record sales directly, and instead put the money into an escrow account. The claims and counterclaims and appeals *finally* ended in 1987, twenty years after the lawsuits had started and fourteen years after the band had stopped receiving their songwriting royalties. In the end, the group won on almost every point, and finally received one point three million dollars in back royalties and seven hundred thousand dollars in interest that had accrued, while Katz got a small token payment. Early in 1967, when the sessions for Surrealistic Pillow had finished, but before the album was released, Newsweek did a big story on the San Francisco scene, which drew national attention to the bands there, and the first big event of what would come to be called the hippie scene, the Human Be-In, happened in Golden Gate Park in January. As the group's audience was expanding rapidly, they asked Bill Graham to be their manager, as he was the most business-minded of the people around the group. The first single from the album, "My Best Friend", a song written by Skip Spence before he quit the band, came out in January 1967 and had no more success than their earlier recordings had, and didn't make the Hot 100. The album came out in February, and was still no higher than number 137 on the charts in March, when the second single, "Somebody to Love", was released: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love"] That entered the charts at the start of April, and by June it had made number five. The single's success also pushed its parent album up to number three by August, just behind the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Monkees' Headquarters. The success of the single also led to the group being asked to do commercials for Levis jeans: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Levis commercial"] That once again got them accused of selling out. Abbie Hoffman, the leader of the Yippies, wrote to the Village Voice about the commercials, saying "It summarized for me all the doubts I have about the hippie philosophy. I realise they are just doing their 'thing', but while the Jefferson Airplane grooves with its thing, over 100 workers in the Levi Strauss plant on the Tennessee-Georgia border are doing their thing, which consists of being on strike to protest deplorable working conditions." The third single from the album, "White Rabbit", came out on the twenty-fourth of June, the day before the Beatles recorded "All You Need is Love", nine days after the release of "See Emily Play", and a week after the group played the Monterey Pop Festival, to give you some idea of how compressed a time period we've been in recently. We talked in the last episode about how there's a big difference between American and British psychedelia at this point in time, because the political nature of the American counterculture was determined by the fact that so many people were being sent off to die in Vietnam. Of all the San Francisco bands, though, Jefferson Airplane were by far the least political -- they were into the culture part of the counterculture, but would often and repeatedly disavow any deeper political meaning in their songs. In early 1968, for example, in a press conference, they said “Don't ask us anything about politics. We don't know anything about it. And what we did know, we just forgot.” So it's perhaps not surprising that of all the American groups, they were the one that was most similar to the British psychedelic groups in their influences, and in particular their frequent references to children's fantasy literature. "White Rabbit" was a perfect example of this. It had started out as "White Rabbit Blues", a song that Slick had written influenced by Alice in Wonderland, and originally performed by the Great Society: [Excerpt: The Great Society, "White Rabbit"] Slick explained the lyrics, and their association between childhood fantasy stories and drugs, later by saying "It's an interesting song but it didn't do what I wanted it to. What I was trying to say was that between the ages of zero and five the information and the input you get is almost indelible. In other words, once a Catholic, always a Catholic. And the parents read us these books, like Alice in Wonderland where she gets high, tall, and she takes mushrooms, a hookah, pills, alcohol. And then there's The Wizard of Oz, where they fall into a field of poppies and when they wake up they see Oz. And then there's Peter Pan, where if you sprinkle white dust on you, you could fly. And then you wonder why we do it? Well, what did you read to me?" While the lyrical inspiration for the track was from Alice in Wonderland, the musical inspiration is less obvious. Slick has on multiple occasions said that the idea for the music came from listening to Miles Davis' album "Sketches of Spain", and in particular to Davis' version of -- and I apologise for almost certainly mangling the Spanish pronunciation badly here -- "Concierto de Aranjuez", though I see little musical resemblance to it myself. [Excerpt: Miles Davis, "Concierto de Aranjuez"] She has also, though, talked about how the song was influenced by Ravel's "Bolero", and in particular the way the piece keeps building in intensity, starting softly and slowly building up, rather than having the dynamic peaks and troughs of most music. And that is definitely a connection I can hear in the music: [Excerpt: Ravel, "Bolero"] Jefferson Airplane's version of "White Rabbit", like their version of "Somebody to Love", was far more professional, far -- and apologies for the pun -- slicker than The Great Society's version. It's also much shorter. The version by The Great Society has a four and a half minute instrumental intro before Slick's vocal enters. By contrast, the version on Surrealistic Pillow comes in at under two and a half minutes in total, and is a tight pop song: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"] Jack Casady has more recently said that the group originally recorded the song more or less as a lark, because they assumed that all the drug references would mean that RCA would make them remove the song from the album -- after all, they'd cut a song from the earlier album because it had a reference to a trip, so how could they possibly allow a song like "White Rabbit" with its lyrics about pills and mushrooms? But it was left on the album, and ended up making the top ten on the pop charts, peaking at number eight: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"] In an interview last year, Slick said she still largely lives off the royalties from writing that one song. It would be the last hit single Jefferson Airplane would ever have. Marty Balin later said "Fame changes your life. It's a bit like prison. It ruined the band. Everybody became rich and selfish and self-centred and couldn't care about the band. That was pretty much the end of it all. After that it was just working and living the high life and watching the band destroy itself, living on its laurels." They started work on their third album, After Bathing at Baxter's, in May 1967, while "Somebody to Love" was still climbing the charts. This time, the album was produced by Al Schmitt. Unlike the two previous producers, Schmitt was a fan of the band, and decided the best thing to do was to just let them do their own thing without interfering. The album took months to record, rather than the weeks that Surrealistic Pillow had taken, and cost almost ten times as much money to record. In part the time it took was because of the promotional work the band had to do. Bill Graham was sending them all over the country to perform, which they didn't appreciate. The group complained to Graham in business meetings, saying they wanted to only play in big cities where there were lots of hippies. Graham pointed out in turn that if they wanted to keep having any kind of success, they needed to play places other than San Francisco, LA, New York, and Chicago, because in fact most of the population of the US didn't live in those four cities. They grudgingly took his point. But there were other arguments all the time as well. They argued about whether Graham should be taking his cut from the net or the gross. They argued about Graham trying to push for the next single to be another Grace Slick lead vocal -- they felt like he was trying to make them into just Grace Slick's backing band, while he thought it made sense to follow up two big hits with more singles with the same vocalist. There was also a lawsuit from Balin's former partners in the Matrix, who remembered that bit in the contract about having a share in the group's income and sued for six hundred thousand dollars -- that was settled out of court three years later. And there were interpersonal squabbles too. Some of these were about the music -- Dryden didn't like the fact that Kaukonen's guitar solos were getting longer and longer, and Balin only contributed one song to the new album because all the other band members made fun of him for writing short, poppy, love songs rather than extended psychedelic jams -- but also the group had become basically two rival factions. On one side were Kaukonen and Casady, the old friends and virtuoso instrumentalists, who wanted to extend the instrumental sections of the songs more to show off their playing. On the other side were Grace Slick and Spencer Dryden, the two oldest members of the group by age, but the most recent people to join. They were also unusual in the San Francisco scene for having alcohol as their drug of choice -- drinking was thought of by most of the hippies as being a bit classless, but they were both alcoholics. They were also sleeping together, and generally on the side of shorter, less exploratory, songs. Kantner, who was attracted to Slick, usually ended up siding with her and Dryden, and this left Balin the odd man out in the middle. He later said "I got disgusted with all the ego trips, and the band was so stoned that I couldn't even talk to them. Everybody was in their little shell". While they were still working on the album, they released the first single from it, Kantner's "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil". The "Pooneil" in the song was a figure that combined two of Kantner's influences: the Greenwich Village singer-songwriter Fred Neil, the writer of "Everybody's Talkin'" and "Dolphins"; and Winnie the Pooh. The song contained several lines taken from A.A. Milne's children's stories: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil"] That only made number forty-two on the charts. It was the last Jefferson Airplane single to make the top fifty. At a gig in Bakersfield they got arrested for inciting a riot, because they encouraged the crowd to dance, even though local by-laws said that nobody under sixteen was allowed to dance, and then they nearly got arrested again after Kantner's behaviour on the private plane they'd chartered to get them back to San Francisco that night. Kantner had been chain-smoking, and this annoyed the pilot, who asked Kantner to put his cigarette out, so Kantner opened the door of the plane mid-flight and threw the lit cigarette out. They'd chartered that plane because they wanted to make sure they got to see a new group, Cream, who were playing the Fillmore: [Excerpt: Cream, "Strange Brew"] After seeing that, the divisions in the band were even wider -- Kaukonen and Casady now *knew* that what the band needed was to do long, extended, instrumental jams. Cream were the future, two-minute pop songs were the past. Though they weren't completely averse to two-minute pop songs. The group were recording at RCA studios at the same time as the Monkees, and members of the two groups would often jam together. The idea of selling out might have been anathema to their *audience*, but the band members themselves didn't care about things like that. Indeed, at one point the group returned from a gig to the mansion they were renting and found squatters had moved in and were using their private pool -- so they shot at the water. The squatters quickly moved on. As Dryden put it "We all -- Paul, Jorma, Grace, and myself -- had guns. We weren't hippies. Hippies were the people that lived on the streets down in Haight-Ashbury. We were basically musicians and art school kids. We were into guns and machinery" After Bathing at Baxter's only went to number seventeen on the charts, not a bad position but a flop compared to their previous album, and Bill Graham in particular took this as more proof that he had been right when for the last few months he'd been attacking the group as self-indulgent. Eventually, Slick and Dryden decided that either Bill Graham was going as their manager, or they were going. Slick even went so far as to try to negotiate a solo deal with Elektra Records -- as the voice on the hits, everyone was telling her she was the only one who mattered anyway. David Anderle, who was working for the label, agreed a deal with her, but Jac Holzman refused to authorise the deal, saying "Judy Collins doesn't get that much money, why should Grace Slick?" The group did fire Graham, and went one further and tried to become his competitors. They teamed up with the Grateful Dead to open a new venue, the Carousel Ballroom, to compete with the Fillmore, but after a few months they realised they were no good at running a venue and sold it to Graham. Graham, who was apparently unhappy with the fact that the people living around the Fillmore were largely Black given that the bands he booked appealed to mostly white audiences, closed the original Fillmore, renamed the Carousel the Fillmore West, and opened up a second venue in New York, the Fillmore East. The divisions in the band were getting worse -- Kaukonen and Casady were taking more and more speed, which was making them play longer and faster instrumental solos whether or not the rest of the band wanted them to, and Dryden, whose hands often bled from trying to play along with them, definitely did not want them to. But the group soldiered on and recorded their fourth album, Crown of Creation. This album contained several songs that were influenced by science fiction novels. The most famous of these was inspired by the right-libertarian author Robert Heinlein, who was hugely influential on the counterculture. Jefferson Airplane's friends the Monkees had already recorded a song based on Heinlein's The Door Into Summer, an unintentionally disturbing novel about a thirty-year-old man who falls in love with a twelve-year-old girl, and who uses a combination of time travel and cryogenic freezing to make their ages closer together so he can marry her: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "The Door Into Summer"] Now Jefferson Airplane were recording a song based on Heinlein's most famous novel, Stranger in a Strange Land. Stranger in a Strange Land has dated badly, thanks to its casual homophobia and rape-apologia, but at the time it was hugely popular in hippie circles for its advocacy of free love and group marriages -- so popular that a religion, the Church of All Worlds, based itself on the book. David Crosby had taken inspiration from it and written "Triad", a song asking two women if they'll enter into a polygamous relationship with him, and recorded it with the Byrds: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Triad"] But the other members of the Byrds disliked the song, and it was left unreleased for decades. As Crosby was friendly with Jefferson Airplane, and as members of the band were themselves advocates of open relationships, they recorded their own version with Slick singing lead: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Triad"] The other song on the album influenced by science fiction was the title track, Paul Kantner's "Crown of Creation". This song was inspired by The Chrysalids, a novel by the British writer John Wyndham. The Chrysalids is one of Wyndham's most influential novels, a post-apocalyptic story about young children who are born with mutant superpowers and have to hide them from their parents as they will be killed if they're discovered. The novel is often thought to have inspired Marvel Comics' X-Men, and while there's an unpleasant eugenic taste to its ending, with the idea that two species can't survive in the same ecological niche and the younger, "superior", species must outcompete the old, that idea also had a lot of influence in the counterculture, as well as being a popular one in science fiction. Kantner's song took whole lines from The Chrysalids, much as he had earlier done with A.A. Milne: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Crown of Creation"] The Crown of Creation album was in some ways a return to the more focused songwriting of Surrealistic Pillow, although the sessions weren't without their experiments. Slick and Dryden collaborated with Frank Zappa and members of the Mothers of Invention on an avant-garde track called "Would You Like a Snack?" (not the same song as the later Zappa song of the same name) which was intended for the album, though went unreleased until a CD box set decades later: [Excerpt: Grace Slick and Frank Zappa, "Would You Like a Snack?"] But the finished album was generally considered less self-indulgent than After Bathing at Baxter's, and did better on the charts as a result. It reached number six, becoming their second and last top ten album, helped by the group's appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in September 1968, a month after it came out. That appearance was actually organised by Colonel Tom Parker, who suggested them to Sullivan as a favour to RCA Records. But another TV appearance at the time was less successful. They appeared on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, one of the most popular TV shows among the young, hip, audience that the group needed to appeal to, but Slick appeared in blackface. She's later said that there was no political intent behind this, and that she was just trying the different makeup she found in the dressing room as a purely aesthetic thing, but that doesn't really explain the Black power salute she gives at one point. Slick was increasingly obnoxious on stage, as her drinking was getting worse and her relationship with Dryden was starting to break down. Just before the Smothers Brothers appearance she was accused at a benefit for the Whitney Museum of having called the audience "filthy Jews", though she has always said that what she actually said was "filthy jewels", and she was talking about the ostentatious jewellery some of the audience were wearing. The group struggled through a performance at Altamont -- an event we will talk about in a future episode, so I won't go into it here, except to say that it was a horrifying experience for everyone involved -- and performed at Woodstock, before releasing their fifth studio album, Volunteers, in 1969: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Volunteers"] That album made the top twenty, but was the last album by the classic lineup of the band. By this point Spencer Dryden and Grace Slick had broken up, with Slick starting to date Kantner, and Dryden was also disappointed at the group's musical direction, and left. Balin also left, feeling sidelined in the group. They released several more albums with varying lineups, including at various points their old friend David Frieberg of Quicksilver Messenger Service, the violinist Papa John Creach, and the former drummer of the Turtles, Johnny Barbata. But as of 1970 the group's members had already started working on two side projects -- an acoustic band called Hot Tuna, led by Kaukonen and Casady, which sometimes also featured Balin, and a project called Paul Kantner's Jefferson Starship, which also featured Slick and had recorded an album, Blows Against the Empire, the second side of which was based on the Robert Heinlein novel Back to Methuselah, and which became one of the first albums ever nominated for science fiction's Hugo Awards: [Excerpt: Jefferson Starship, "Have You Seen The Stars Tonite"] That album featured contributions from David Crosby and members of the Grateful Dead, as well as Casady on two tracks, but  in 1974 when Kaukonen and Casady quit Jefferson Airplane to make Hot Tuna their full-time band, Kantner, Slick, and Frieberg turned Jefferson Starship into a full band. Over the next decade, Jefferson Starship had a lot of moderate-sized hits, with a varying lineup that at one time or another saw several members, including Slick, go and return, and saw Marty Balin back with them for a while. In 1984, Kantner left the group, and sued them to stop them using the Jefferson Starship name. A settlement was reached in which none of Kantner, Slick, Kaukonen, or Casady could use the words "Jefferson" or "Airplane" in their band-names without the permission of all the others, and the remaining members of Jefferson Starship renamed their band just Starship -- and had three number one singles in the late eighties with Slick on lead, becoming far more commercially successful than their precursor bands had ever been: [Excerpt: Starship, "We Built This City on Rock & Roll"] Slick left Starship in 1989, and there was a brief Jefferson Airplane reunion tour, with all the classic members but Dryden, but then Slick decided that she was getting too old to perform rock and roll music, and decided to retire from music and become a painter, something she's stuck to for more than thirty years. Kantner and Balin formed a new Jefferson Starship, called Jefferson Starship: The Next Generation, but Kantner died in January 2016, coincidentally on the same day as Signe Anderson, who had occasionally guested with her old bandmates in the new version of the band. Balin, who had quit the reunited Jefferson Starship due to health reasons, died two years later. Dryden had died in 2005. Currently, there are three bands touring that descend directly from Jefferson Airplane. Hot Tuna still continue to perform, there's a version of Starship that tours featuring one original member, Mickey Thomas, and the reunited Jefferson Starship still tour, led by David Frieberg. Grace Slick has given the latter group her blessing, and even co-wrote one song on their most recent album, released in 2020, though she still doesn't perform any more. Jefferson Airplane's period in the commercial spotlight was brief -- they had charting singles for only a matter of months, and while they had top twenty albums for a few years after their peak, they really only mattered to the wider world during that brief period of the Summer of Love. But precisely because their period of success was so short, their music is indelibly associated with that time. To this day there's nothing as evocative of summer 1967 as "White Rabbit", even for those of us who weren't born then. And while Grace Slick had her problems, as I've made very clear in this episode, she inspired a whole generation of women who went on to be singers themselves, as one of the first prominent women to sing lead with an electric rock band. And when she got tired of doing that, she stopped, and got on with her other artistic pursuits, without feeling the need to go back and revisit the past for ever diminishing returns. One might only wish that some of her male peers had followed her example.

It's a throwback on this week's Moviecast. Disney's old Bob replaces its new Bob as CEO. Marvel's Blade gets a new Director. Warner Bros. CEO doesn't want four Batmen. Also we give our thoughts and condolences regarding the tragic passing of Jason David Frank, known as Tommy Oliver from the Power Rangers. #powerrangers #dcu #disney #wb #batman #greenranger #riptommy #movies #tv #streaming

EDITOR'S NOTE: We talk about Suicide, and Difficult Issues Dealing with Death. In Episode 309 of GCR TFG1Mike, SCP21, and Jesse Ras are here to remember legendary people that we lost within a week of one another. This Terrific Trio of Podcasters pay tribute to Kevin Conroy and Jason David Frank. The Voice of Batman, and Tommy Oliver from Power Rangers! As Always We Want To UNLEASH THE GEEK IN YOU!!!

All 5 members of the pod are back to discuss the a few topics, including the recent passing of Jason David Frank aka Tommy Oliver from the Power Rangers franchise, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Nas' new album, King's Disease 3, the comments about Nas made by 21 Savage, the runoff election in Georgia, and some Grammy/AMA talk. The main topics on this episode cover the tragic death of Shanquella Robinson and if HBCUs are intentionally ignoring some 4 or 5 star athletes. The Pod also asks some Thanksgiving questions at the end! Check us out now on Amazon Music and iHeart Radio!! For our Spotify and Apple Listeners, be sure you give this podcast a 5 Star rating!! Subscribe to our Patreon account and contribute on any 4 levels! Hear episodes early before they release! patreon.com/khaotickulturepod Like and Follow us on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063477101518 Follow us on Twitter- https://twitter.com/Khaotic_Kulture Follow us on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/khaotickulturepod/ Follow our personal pages: Ked: @k3dthepro (IG & Twitter) Nasa: @_CallMeNasa (IG and Twitter) Law: @l.jr_96 (IG) and @Law96_ (Twitter) Sape: @scraps14 (IG & Twitter) Jay: @JayLeeTrey (IG, Twitter, and Tik-Tok) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/khaotickulturepodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/khaotickulturepodcast/support

Hello everyone! Normally we would say happy Monday but unfortunately this weekend was not so happy. A legendary icon for childhood television in the 90's passed away this weekend. Jason David Frank better known as Tommy Oliver from Power Rangers died at the age of 49. Kevin was a massive fan of not only the character itself but the man who played Tommy. He gives his thoughts on what he meant to him in his life and how much he will be missed. Rest in Peace to The Greatest Ranger the world will ever know... Now on a brighter note sports still did transpire this weekend! Some NFL games took place as well as some NFL news with OBJ. Then of course we have a little bit of NBA news with the surprising Kings! Lets just get right into it first we have to talk about the embarrassing performance the Vikings put out at home! Or should we say the incredible performance the Cowboys put on? We have no idea because not a single person saw this coming but the Vikings just got washed and there is no other word to describe it. Another horrible game to talk about was the Jets and Patriots game. Both teams are not 6-4 but not before a defensive showdown took place in Foxborough. Zach Wilson is the epitome of garbage after his piss poor performance against the Patriots. The Patriots hold on to win on a punt return touchdown but both teams struggled to put up points. In Indianapolis the Colts lose a nail biter to the Eagles despite Kevin's screams for a better performance. Jalen Hurts leads the Eagles down the field with under two minutes to take a 17-16 victory. The Colts once again falter in the play calling department and do not utilize Jonathan Taylor correctly... To close out the NFL games the Detroit Lions are now in second place in the NFC North. They are on a 3 game win streak after defeating the injured Giants. Jamaal Williams crushes New York with 3 rushing touchdowns as the Lions force 3 turnovers! Detroit is moving and the Giants season continues to be rattled with unfortunate injuries losing Wan'Dale Robinson for the season with a torn ACL. Odell Beckham Jr has been medically cleared to play and has narrowed his selections down to the Giants and Cowboys. Where do you think he would fit best? The Sacramento Kings are 9-6 and are on a 6 game winning streak of their own!!! Are they for real? Can the Kings actually find a way to be relevant once more after 20 years of despair? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Sunday November 20th we lost Jason David Frank.  I share my thoughts on how much fans loved his portrayal of Tommy Oliver aka The Green Ranger aka The White Ranger aka The Red Ranger aka The Black Ranger.  We, the fans, loved this guy for bringing us all so much joy. RIP JDF. Please reach out to suicide prevention hotlines like www.sprc.org or calling 988

The Boys are joined by the great Adam Egypt Mortimer to talk his career, the death of Jason David Frank and the first edition of #AdVyce!

Power rangers will never be the same without him. Damn... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letburnrant/support

Codie Elaine Oliver has had many meaningful pivots within her impressive career journey. One in particular where Oprah Winfrey, HERSELF told her where to pivot next…and when Oprah tells you to do something, you do it! Today, Codie is the CEO and co-founder of Black Love, Inc., a fast-growing media company comprised of the Black Love+ app, BlackLove.com, Black Love's social and digital platforms, and live and virtual events, including the annual Black Love Summit.  Codie is also the director and co-creator of the ground-breaking, four-time NAACP Image Awards-nominated docuseries, Black Love, which premiered as the most-viewed unscripted series in OWN's history and is set to return for its fifth season in 2021.  Her other projects include being a partner at Confluential Content, a company she shares with her husband Tommy Oliver, and the production company behind the recent HBO Documentary 40 Years A Prisoners and the upcoming Netflix film, The Perfect Find, starring Gabrielle Union. Prior to Black Love, Codie had stints at Film Independent, Fox Searchlight, and Creative Artists Agency.  Codie also hosts a bi-weekly podcast where she holds candid conversations with celebrities and influencers centered around who they are beyond the public persona.  Listen to Codie's podcast My New BFF with Codie Elaine Oliver: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-new-bff-with-codie-elaine-oliver/id1556161112 Mama's Den Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mamas-den/id1616159115 Connect with Codie on Instagram Connect with Codie on Twitter Connect with Codie on LinkedIn Connect with Black Love on ALL Platforms

Mei, Lamy, subterranean monster Goda - Zyuranger episodes 38 and 39 bring John and Natalie some awesome ladies getting it done. Episodes 32 and 33 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers bring them himbo Tommy Oliver. At least he's fun to laugh at. Featuring existentialism, Tuxedo Mask, Billy in a cowboy hat, show business, and the official hierarchy of 90s humor. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr @teachmesentai Contact the show at teachmesentai@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/teachmesentai Art by Eavon14 Music by Christopher Bridgmon

Welcome to the Infinite Taylorverse!  Here at the Infinite Taylorverse, we talk about all things nerdy and pop culture! Movies, TV, cartoons, comics, books, video games, tabletop games, and so much more! We talk about the latest pop culture news as well as rumors and fan theories.  Be advised that spoilers are eminent! In this, our eighty-second episode, we had the privilege of chatting with Jason David Frank, aka Tommy Oliver (the green/white ranger) from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers! We dive into some of the character's history, and then have a super fun chat with the man himself!  Join us as we shatter the morphin' grid, and as always, thank you for strapping in for a ride through The Infinite Taylorverse!

Codie and Tommy's love story begins at the Toronto Film festival while she was a working as a camera rep and he was presenting his feature film debut. We're not going to get into the details of who was hitting on who or who Googled who (that's why y'all gotta listen to the interview!) but the two hit it off and from there things moved FAST.One month after Codie met Tommy, they discussed this idea  to create a place where Black love stories live. That was fall 2013 and they started filming Black Love in fall 2014. They were engaged. They married in 2015, and in this 2016 interview for Black Love Doc they were about to become first time parents!Listen to not only where they stood at this point in their marriage journey, but in their partnership as entrepreneurs, business partners, and filmmakers.========Black Love is Forever! While the docuseries has taken its final bow you can still find all things Black Love on the Black Love+ app This includes rewatching all your favorite episodes of #BlackLoveDoc. catching our original series Couch Conversations and Men's Roundtable, or find your new favorite podcasts on the Black Love Podcast Network! Connect with us:@blacklove on Instagram@blacklovedoc on Facebook@blacklovedoc on Twitter

Dr. Tommy Oliver barely escapes from a mysterious island crawling with dinosaur mutants before it explodes. Some years later, he lives a quiet life as a high school science teacher. But when the evil saurian overlord Mesogog sets his sights on bringing back the age of dinosaurs, Tommy jump-kicks into action by collecting the Dino Gems. These artifacts choose three unlikely teens from very different worlds with a Dino Thunder power-up (ha!) to defend the world. As their battles with Mesogog and his minions rage on, Tommy becomes a Ranger once more and another young man with secret ties to a very divided Mesogog joins the legacy of power. -----------------------------------------------SUBSCRIBE TO KAIJU KIM ON YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/c/Godzilla101-----------------------------------------------EMAIL FEEDBACK TO THE SHOW:powertrippod@gmail.com-----------------------------------------------FOLLOW THE SHOW:Follow The Power Trips on Twitter: @ThePowerTripPod.Join the podcast's official Facebook group: Power Rangers Legacy.-----------------------------------------------READ KAIJU RAMEN:kaijuramenmagazine.com-----------------------------------------------OTHER PODCASTS WITH ATTITUDE:Kaiju Weekly Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kaiju-weekly/id1330448313The Henshin Men Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/henshin-men/id1575547087The Monster Island Film Vault:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-monster-island-film-vault/id1472692780The Kaiju Groupie Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kaiju-groupie-podcast/id1519596361-----------------------------------------------The podcast logo was designed by Rebecca Hudgens. Follow her on Instagram @super_r_illustrations.Our theme songs are from the album Power of the Grid by Niall Stenson. We also use “Galaxy Quest (Instrumental)” by HeavenWraith from the OCRemix album Jet Force Gemini: Mizar Attacks! All film and audio clips belong to their respective copyright holders, and no infringement is intended or implied. The Power Trip has no association with Saban Entertainment or Hasbro. Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and/or Podchaser to spread the word about the show.

Peace good people! Karega and Felicia still have smiles on their faces from their last couple of weeks. From their trip to The Ambies, to celebrating our Executive producers Codie and Tommy Oliver at the Uptown Awards, this has been a year(!) full of gratitude. It certainly hasn't felt like a year but in reflection, one has to be in awe of the journey that started with the understanding of grief========When the Waters Get Deep is now available to stream on YouTubeFelicia's new book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Mothers Who Are Investigating Grief's Process is available now! A collection of affirmations for Mothers who are experiencing Motherhood differently than imagined. These affirmations are carefully written with the intention to support Mothers in centering their Love through different walks of pregnancy and neonatal loss. Karega's book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Reflection and Manifesting Light Within is also available for purchase. You can find out more about Karega and Felicia (and Kamaiu and Kamali) at their website SOLandLove.com========Season 3 of Couch Conversations is HERE and it's featuring your favorite Auntie and Uncle, Tabitha and Chance Brown! The only place to watch it RIGHT NOW is on  Black Love+  . Black Love+ is the premier destination for all things Black Love. Download it today from your favorite app store and join in on the conversation!Connect with us:@blacklove on Instagram@blacklovedoc on Facebook@blacklovedoc on Twitter

Today on the show we had Conway the Machine stop by, who spoke on "God Don't Make Mistakes", Tragic Shooting, Mental Health and more. Also, the co- creator and director of Black Love Series Codie and Tommy Oliver stopped by, and spoke about black love, maintaining relationships, Faking Orgasms and more. Lastly, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to former Texas county elections administrator, for putting colon cleanser in employees' drinks, as a prank. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com