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“I'll be the Danny Ocean of stealing from children” The panel of peril don their blazer, matching shorts, and matching caps and pretend to be children whilst watching this week's film Clifford (Paul Flaherty, 1994). They are joined by their new friend: Seth Vargas from Movie Friends Podcast! Clifford (Martin Short) is precocious little so and so. He's fond of annoying his parents into an early grave, splitting up ostensibly happy couples, and, of course, show tunes! But when the young tyke is fobbed off on his Uncle Martin (Charles Grodin), Clifford spies an opportunity to fulfil his dream of visiting Dinosaur World – his dream theme park – and Martin spies an opportunity to impress the love of his life Sarah (Mary Steenburgen) with his parenting skills! What could go wrong? Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0o9SkZUTNA ********PLOT SPOILER ALERT******** Luckily Martin is the very person who designed the Larry the Scary Rex ride at that very park! That's everything wrapped up in a neat little package-uh! But wait, there's more. Uncle Martin reneges on his promise to the young/old fella, due to work demands mind you, and from thereon it be war! Will the boy destroy the man or vice versa? There's only one way to find out: fiiiiiiiiiight! Just what did the panel think of this week's movie, pray tell? How can they improve upon whichever character they have determined is the bad guy's plan? And who will be christened this week's most diabolical? https://twitter.com/diabolicalpod https://www.instagram.com/diabolicalpod/ https://www.facebook.com/diabolicalpod Email diabolicalpod@gmail.com

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Episode 165 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Dark Stat” and the career of the Grateful Dead. This is a long one, even longer than the previous episode, but don't worry, that won't be the norm. There's a reason these two were much longer than average. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-minute bonus episode available, on "Codine" by the Charlatans. Errata I mispronounce Brent Mydland's name as Myland a couple of times, and in the introduction I say "Touch of Grey" came out in 1988 -- I later, correctly, say 1987. (I seem to have had a real problem with dates in the intro -- I also originally talked about "Blue Suede Shoes" being in 1954 before fixing it in the edit to be 1956) Resources No Mixcloud this week, as there are too many songs by the Grateful Dead, and Grayfolded runs to two hours. I referred to a lot of books for this episode, partly because almost everything about the Grateful Dead is written from a fannish perspective that already assumes background knowledge, rather than to provide that background knowledge. Of the various books I used, Dennis McNally's biography of the band and This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by Blair Jackson and David Gans are probably most useful for the casually interested. Other books on the Dead I used included McNally's Jerry on Jerry, a collection of interviews with Garcia; Deal, Bill Kreutzmann's autobiography; The Grateful Dead FAQ by Tony Sclafani; So Many Roads by David Browne; Deadology by Howard F. Weiner; Fare Thee Well by Joel Selvin and Pamela Turley; and Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads by David Shenk and Steve Silberman. Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is the classic account of the Pranksters, though not always reliable. I reference Slaughterhouse Five a lot. As well as the novel itself, which everyone should read, I also read this rather excellent graphic novel adaptation, and The Writer's Crusade, a book about the writing of the novel. I also reference Ted Sturgeon's More Than Human. For background on the scene around Astounding Science Fiction which included Sturgeon, John W. Campbell, L. Ron Hubbard, and many other science fiction writers, I recommend Alec Nevala-Lee's Astounding. 1,000 True Fans can be read online, as can the essay on the Californian ideology, and John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". The best collection of Grateful Dead material is the box set The Golden Road, which contains all the albums released in Pigpen's lifetime along with a lot of bonus material, but which appears currently out of print. Live/Dead contains both the live version of "Dark Star" which made it well known and, as a CD bonus track, the original single version. And archive.org has more live recordings of the group than you can possibly ever listen to. Grayfolded can be bought from John Oswald's Bandcamp Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript [Excerpt: Tuning from "Grayfolded", under the warnings Before we begin -- as we're tuning up, as it were, I should mention that this episode contains discussions of alcoholism, drug addiction, racism, nonconsensual drugging of other people, and deaths from drug abuse, suicide, and car accidents. As always, I try to deal with these subjects as carefully as possible, but if you find any of those things upsetting you may wish to read the transcript rather than listen to this episode, or skip it altogether. Also, I should note that the members of the Grateful Dead were much freer with their use of swearing in interviews than any other band we've covered so far, and that makes using quotes from them rather more difficult than with other bands, given the limitations of the rules imposed to stop the podcast being marked as adult. If I quote anything with a word I can't use here, I'll give a brief pause in the audio, and in the transcript I'll have the word in square brackets. [tuning ends] All this happened, more or less. In 1910, T. S. Eliot started work on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", which at the time was deemed barely poetry, with one reviewer imagining Eliot saying "I'll just put down the first thing that comes into my head, and call it 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.'" It is now considered one of the great classics of modernist literature. In 1969, Kurt Vonnegut wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death", a book in which the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, comes unstuck in time, and starts living a nonlinear life, hopping around between times reliving his experiences in the Second World War, and future experiences up to 1976 after being kidnapped by beings from the planet Tralfamadore. Or perhaps he has flashbacks and hallucinations after having a breakdown from PTSD. It is now considered one of the great classics of modernist literature or of science fiction, depending on how you look at it. In 1953, Theodore Sturgeon wrote More Than Human. It is now considered one of the great classics of science fiction. In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. It is now considered either a bad piece of science fiction or one of the great revelatory works of religious history, depending on how you look at it. In 1994, 1995, and 1996 the composer John Oswald released, first as two individual CDs and then as a double-CD, an album called Grayfolded, which the composer says in the liner notes he thinks of as existing in Tralfamadorian time. The Tralfamadorians in Vonnegut's novels don't see time as a linear thing with a beginning and end, but as a continuum that they can move between at will. When someone dies, they just think that at this particular point in time they're not doing so good, but at other points in time they're fine, so why focus on the bad time? In the book, when told of someone dying, the Tralfamadorians just say "so it goes". In between the first CD's release and the release of the double-CD version, Jerry Garcia died. From August 1942 through August 1995, Jerry Garcia was alive. So it goes. Shall we go, you and I? [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Dark Star (Omni 3/30/94)"] "One principle has become clear. Since motives are so frequently found in combination, it is essential that the complex types be analyzed and arranged, with an eye kept single nevertheless to the master-theme under discussion. Collectors, both primary and subsidiary, have done such valiant service that the treasures at our command are amply sufficient for such studies, so extensive, indeed, that the task of going through them thoroughly has become too great for the unassisted student. It cannot be too strongly urged that a single theme in its various types and compounds must be made predominant in any useful comparative study. This is true when the sources and analogues of any literary work are treated; it is even truer when the bare motive is discussed. The Grateful Dead furnishes an apt illustration of the necessity of such handling. It appears in a variety of different combinations, almost never alone. Indeed, it is so widespread a tale, and its combinations are so various, that there is the utmost difficulty in determining just what may properly be regarded the original kernel of it, the simple theme to which other motives were joined. Various opinions, as we shall see, have been held with reference to this matter, most of them justified perhaps by the materials in the hands of the scholars holding them, but none quite adequate in view of later evidence." That's a quote from The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story, by Gordon Hall Gerould, published in 1908. Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five opens with a chapter about the process of writing the novel itself, and how difficult it was. He says "I would hate to tell you what this lousy little book cost me in money and anxiety and time. When I got home from the Second World War twenty-three years ago, I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen. And I thought, too, that it would be a masterpiece or at least make me a lot of money, since the subject was so big." This is an episode several of my listeners have been looking forward to, but it's one I've been dreading writing, because this is an episode -- I think the only one in the series -- where the format of the podcast simply *will not* work. Were the Grateful Dead not such an important band, I would skip this episode altogether, but they're a band that simply can't be ignored, and that's a real problem here. Because my intent, always, with this podcast, is to present the recordings of the artists in question, put them in context, and explain why they were important, what their music meant to its listeners. To put, as far as is possible, the positive case for why the music mattered *in the context of its time*. Not why it matters now, or why it matters to me, but why it matters *in its historical context*. Whether I like the music or not isn't the point. Whether it stands up now isn't the point. I play the music, explain what it was they were doing, why they were doing it, what people saw in it. If I do my job well, you come away listening to "Blue Suede Shoes" the way people heard it in 1956, or "Good Vibrations" the way people heard it in 1966, and understanding why people were so impressed by those records. That is simply *not possible* for the Grateful Dead. I can present a case for them as musicians, and hope to do so. I can explain the appeal as best I understand it, and talk about things I like in their music, and things I've noticed. But what I can't do is present their recordings the way they were received in the sixties and explain why they were popular. Because every other act I have covered or will cover in this podcast has been a *recording* act, and their success was based on records. They may also have been exceptional live performers, but James Brown or Ike and Tina Turner are remembered for great *records*, like "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" or "River Deep, Mountain High". Their great moments were captured on vinyl, to be listened back to, and susceptible of analysis. That is not the case for the Grateful Dead, and what is worse *they explicitly said, publicly, on multiple occasions* that it is not possible for me to understand their art, and thus that it is not possible for me to explain it. The Grateful Dead did make studio records, some of them very good. But they always said, consistently, over a thirty year period, that their records didn't capture what they did, and that the only way -- the *only* way, they were very clear about this -- that one could actually understand and appreciate their music, was to see them live, and furthermore to see them live while on psychedelic drugs. [Excerpt: Grateful Dead crowd noise] I never saw the Grateful Dead live -- their last UK performance was a couple of years before I went to my first ever gig -- and I have never taken a psychedelic substance. So by the Grateful Dead's own criteria, it is literally impossible for me to understand or explain their music the way that it should be understood or explained. In a way I'm in a similar position to the one I was in with La Monte Young in the last episode, whose music it's mostly impossible to experience without being in his presence. This is one reason of several why I placed these two episodes back to back. Of course, there is a difference between Young and the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead allowed -- even encouraged -- the recording of their live performances. There are literally thousands of concert recordings in circulation, many of them of professional quality. I have listened to many of those, and I can hear what they were doing. I can tell you what *I* think is interesting about their music, and about their musicianship. And I think I can build up a good case for why they were important, and why they're interesting, and why those recordings are worth listening to. And I can certainly explain the cultural phenomenon that was the Grateful Dead. But just know that while I may have found *a* point, *an* explanation for why the Grateful Dead were important, by the band's own lights and those of their fans, no matter how good a job I do in this episode, I *cannot* get it right. And that is, in itself, enough of a reason for this episode to exist, and for me to try, even harder than I normally do, to get it right *anyway*. Because no matter how well I do my job this episode will stand as an example of why this series is called "*A* History", not *the* history. Because parts of the past are ephemeral. There are things about which it's true to say "You had to be there". I cannot know what it was like to have been an American the day Kennedy was shot, I cannot know what it was like to be alive when a man walked on the Moon. Those are things nobody my age or younger can ever experience. And since August the ninth, 1995, the experience of hearing the Grateful Dead's music the way they wanted it heard has been in that category. And that is by design. Jerry Garcia once said "if you work really hard as an artist, you may be able to build something they can't tear down, you know, after you're gone... What I want to do is I want it here. I want it now, in this lifetime. I want what I enjoy to last as long as I do and not last any longer. You know, I don't want something that ends up being as much a nuisance as it is a work of art, you know?" And there's another difficulty. There are only two points in time where it makes sense to do a podcast episode on the Grateful Dead -- late 1967 and early 1968, when the San Francisco scene they were part of was at its most culturally relevant, and 1988 when they had their only top ten hit and gained their largest audience. I can't realistically leave them out of the story until 1988, so it has to be 1968. But the songs they are most remembered for are those they wrote between 1970 and 1972, and those songs are influenced by artists and events we haven't yet covered in the podcast, who will be getting their own episodes in the future. I can't explain those things in this episode, because they need whole episodes of their own. I can't not explain them without leaving out important context for the Grateful Dead. So the best I can do is treat the story I'm telling as if it were in Tralfamadorian time. All of it's happening all at once, and some of it is happening in different episodes that haven't been recorded yet. The podcast as a whole travels linearly from 1938 through to 1999, but this episode is happening in 1968 and 1972 and 1988 and 1995 and other times, all at once. Sometimes I'll talk about things as if you're already familiar with them, but they haven't happened yet in the story. Feel free to come unstuck in time and revisit this time after episode 167, and 172, and 176, and 192, and experience it again. So this has to be an experimental episode. It may well be an experiment that you think fails. If so, the next episode is likely to be far more to your taste, and much shorter than this or the last episode, two episodes that between them have to create a scaffolding on which will hang much of the rest of this podcast's narrative. I've finished my Grateful Dead script now. The next one I write is going to be fun: [Excerpt: Grateful Dead, "Dark Star"] Infrastructure means everything. How we get from place to place, how we transport goods, information, and ourselves, makes a big difference in how society is structured, and in the music we hear. For many centuries, the prime means of long-distance transport was by water -- sailing ships on the ocean, canal boats and steamboats for inland navigation -- and so folk songs talked about the ship as both means of escape, means of making a living, and in some senses as a trap. You'd go out to sea for adventure, or to escape your problems, but you'd find that the sea itself brought its own problems. Because of this we have a long, long tradition of sea shanties which are known throughout the world: [Excerpt: A. L. Lloyd, "Off to Sea Once More"] But in the nineteenth century, the railway was invented and, at least as far as travel within a landmass goes, it replaced the steamboat in the popular imaginary. Now the railway was how you got from place to place, and how you moved freight from one place to another. The railway brought freedom, and was an opportunity for outlaws, whether train robbers or a romanticised version of the hobo hopping onto a freight train and making his way to new lands and new opportunity. It was the train that brought soldiers home from wars, and the train that allowed the Great Migration of Black people from the South to the industrial North. There would still be songs about the riverboats, about how ol' man river keeps rolling along and about the big river Johnny Cash sang about, but increasingly they would be songs of the past, not the present. The train quickly replaced the steamboat in the iconography of what we now think of as roots music -- blues, country, folk, and early jazz music. Sometimes this was very literal. Furry Lewis' "Kassie Jones" -- about a legendary train driver who would break the rules to make sure his train made the station on time, but who ended up sacrificing his own life to save his passengers in a train crash -- is based on "Alabamy Bound", which as we heard in the episode on "Stagger Lee", was about steamboats: [Excerpt: Furry Lewis, "Kassie Jones"] In the early episodes of this podcast we heard many, many, songs about the railway. Louis Jordan saying "take me right back to the track, Jack", Rosetta Tharpe singing about how "this train don't carry no gamblers", the trickster freight train driver driving on the "Rock Island Line", the mystery train sixteen coaches long, the train that kept-a-rollin' all night long, the Midnight Special which the prisoners wished would shine its ever-loving light on them, and the train coming past Folsom Prison whose whistle makes Johnny Cash hang his head and cry. But by the 1960s, that kind of song had started to dry up. It would happen on occasion -- "People Get Ready" by the Impressions is the most obvious example of the train metaphor in an important sixties record -- but by the late sixties the train was no longer a symbol of freedom but of the past. In 1969 Harry Nilsson sang about how "Nobody Cares About the Railroads Any More", and in 1968 the Kinks sang about "The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains". When in 1968 Merle Haggard sang about a freight train, it was as a memory, of a child with hopes that ended up thwarted by reality and his own nature: [Excerpt: Merle Haggard, "Mama Tried"] And the reason for this was that there had been another shift, a shift that had started in the forties and accelerated in the late fifties but had taken a little time to ripple through the culture. Now the train had been replaced in the popular imaginary by motorised transport. Instead of hopping on a train without paying, if you had no money in your pocket you'd have to hitch-hike all the way. Freedom now meant individuality. The ultimate in freedom was the biker -- the Hell's Angels who could go anywhere, unburdened by anything -- and instead of goods being moved by freight train, increasingly they were being moved by truck drivers. By the mid-seventies, truck drivers took a central place in American life, and the most romantic way to live life was to live it on the road. On The Road was also the title of a 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac, which was one of the first major signs of this cultural shift in America. Kerouac was writing about events in the late forties and early fifties, but his book was also a precursor of the sixties counterculture. He wrote the book on one continuous sheet of paper, as a stream of consciousness. Kerouac died in 1969 of an internal haemmorage brought on by too much alcohol consumption. So it goes. But the big key to this cultural shift was caused by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, a massive infrastructure spending bill that led to the construction of the modern American Interstate Highway system. This accelerated a program that had already started, of building much bigger, safer, faster roads. It also, as anyone who has read Robert Caro's The Power Broker knows, reinforced segregation and white flight. It did this both by making commuting into major cities from the suburbs easier -- thus allowing white people with more money to move further away from the cities and still work there -- and by bulldozing community spaces where Black people lived. More than a million people lost their homes and were forcibly moved, and orders of magnitude more lost their communities' parks and green spaces. And both as a result of deliberate actions and unconscious bigotry, the bulk of those affected were Black people -- who often found themselves, if they weren't forced to move, on one side of a ten-lane highway where the park used to be, with white people on the other side of the highway. The Federal-Aid Highway Act gave even more power to the unaccountable central planners like Robert Moses, the urban planner in New York who managed to become arguably the most powerful man in the city without ever getting elected, partly by slowly compromising away his early progressive ideals in the service of gaining more power. Of course, not every new highway was built through areas where poor Black people lived. Some were planned to go through richer areas for white people, just because you can't completely do away with geographical realities. For example one was planned to be built through part of San Francisco, a rich, white part. But the people who owned properties in that area had enough political power and clout to fight the development, and after nearly a decade of fighting it, the development was called off in late 1966. But over that time, many of the owners of the impressive buildings in the area had moved out, and they had no incentive to improve or maintain their properties while they were under threat of demolition, so many of them were rented out very cheaply. And when the beat community that Kerouac wrote about, many of whom had settled in San Francisco, grew too large and notorious for the area of the city they were in, North Beach, many of them moved to these cheap homes in a previously-exclusive area. The area known as Haight-Ashbury. [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Grayfolded"] Stories all have their starts, even stories told in Tralfamadorian time, although sometimes those starts are shrouded in legend. For example, the story of Scientology's start has been told many times, with different people claiming to have heard L. Ron Hubbard talk about how writing was a mug's game, and if you wanted to make real money, you needed to get followers, start a religion. Either he said this over and over and over again, to many different science fiction writers, or most science fiction writers of his generation were liars. Of course, the definition of a writer is someone who tells lies for money, so who knows? One of the more plausible accounts of him saying that is given by Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon's account is more believable than most, because Sturgeon went on to be a supporter of Dianetics, the "new science" that Hubbard turned into his religion, for decades, even while telling the story. The story of the Grateful Dead probably starts as it ends, with Jerry Garcia. There are three things that everyone writing about the Dead says about Garcia's childhood, so we might as well say them here too. The first is that he was named by a music-loving father after Jerome Kern, the songwriter responsible for songs like "Ol' Man River" (though as Oscar Hammerstein's widow liked to point out, "Jerome Kern wrote dum-dum-dum-dum, *my husband* wrote 'Ol' Man River'" -- an important distinction we need to bear in mind when talking about songwriters who write music but not lyrics). The second is that when he was five years old that music-loving father drowned -- and Garcia would always say he had seen his father dying, though some sources claim this was a false memory. So it goes. And the third fact, which for some reason is always told after the second even though it comes before it chronologically, is that when he was four he lost two joints from his right middle finger. Garcia grew up a troubled teen, and in turn caused trouble for other people, but he also developed a few interests that would follow him through his life. He loved the fantastical, especially the fantastical macabre, and became an avid fan of horror and science fiction -- and through his love of old monster films he became enamoured with cinema more generally. Indeed, in 1983 he bought the film rights to Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction novel The Sirens of Titan, the first story in which the Tralfamadorians appear, and wrote a script based on it. He wanted to produce the film himself, with Francis Ford Coppola directing and Bill Murray starring, but most importantly for him he wanted to prevent anyone who didn't care about it from doing it badly. And in that he succeeded. As of 2023 there is no film of The Sirens of Titan. He loved to paint, and would continue that for the rest of his life, with one of his favourite subjects being Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster. And when he was eleven or twelve, he heard for the first time a record that was hugely influential to a whole generation of Californian musicians, even though it was a New York record -- "Gee" by the Crows: [Excerpt: The Crows, "Gee"] Garcia would say later "That was an important song. That was the first kind of, like where the voices had that kind of not-trained-singer voices, but tough-guy-on-the-street voice." That record introduced him to R&B, and soon he was listening to Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, to Ray Charles, and to a record we've not talked about in the podcast but which was one of the great early doo-wop records, "WPLJ" by the Four Deuces: [Excerpt: The Four Deuces, "WPLJ"] Garcia said of that record "That was one of my anthem songs when I was in junior high school and high school and around there. That was one of those songs everybody knew. And that everybody sang. Everybody sang that street-corner favorite." Garcia moved around a lot as a child, and didn't have much time for school by his own account, but one of the few teachers he did respect was an art teacher when he was in North Beach, Walter Hedrick. Hedrick was also one of the earliest of the conceptual artists, and one of the most important figures in the San Francisco arts scene that would become known as the Beat Generation (or the Beatniks, which was originally a disparaging term). Hedrick was a painter and sculptor, but also organised happenings, and he had also been one of the prime movers in starting a series of poetry readings in San Francisco, the first one of which had involved Allen Ginsberg giving the first ever reading of "Howl" -- one of a small number of poems, along with Eliot's "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land" and possibly Pound's Cantos, which can be said to have changed twentieth-century literature. Garcia was fifteen when he got to know Hedrick, in 1957, and by then the Beat scene had already become almost a parody of itself, having become known to the public because of the publication of works like On the Road, and the major artists in the scene were already rejecting the label. By this point tourists were flocking to North Beach to see these beatniks they'd heard about on TV, and Hedrick was actually employed by one cafe to sit in the window wearing a beret, turtleneck, sandals, and beard, and draw and paint, to attract the tourists who flocked by the busload because they could see that there was a "genuine beatnik" in the cafe. Hedrick was, as well as a visual artist, a guitarist and banjo player who played in traditional jazz bands, and he would bring records in to class for his students to listen to, and Garcia particularly remembered him bringing in records by Big Bill Broonzy: [Excerpt: Big Bill Broonzy, "When Things Go Wrong (It Hurts Me Too)"] Garcia was already an avid fan of rock and roll music, but it was being inspired by Hedrick that led him to get his first guitar. Like his contemporary Paul McCartney around the same time, he was initially given the wrong instrument as a birthday present -- in Garcia's case his mother gave him an accordion -- but he soon persuaded her to swap it for an electric guitar he saw in a pawn shop. And like his other contemporary, John Lennon, Garcia initially tuned his instrument incorrectly. He said later "When I started playing the guitar, believe me, I didn't know anybody that played. I mean, I didn't know anybody that played the guitar. Nobody. They weren't around. There were no guitar teachers. You couldn't take lessons. There was nothing like that, you know? When I was a kid and I had my first electric guitar, I had it tuned wrong and learned how to play on it with it tuned wrong for about a year. And I was getting somewhere on it, you know… Finally, I met a guy that knew how to tune it right and showed me three chords, and it was like a revelation. You know what I mean? It was like somebody gave me the key to heaven." He joined a band, the Chords, which mostly played big band music, and his friend Gary Foster taught him some of the rudiments of playing the guitar -- things like how to use a capo to change keys. But he was always a rebellious kid, and soon found himself faced with a choice between joining the military or going to prison. He chose the former, and it was during his time in the Army that a friend, Ron Stevenson, introduced him to the music of Merle Travis, and to Travis-style guitar picking: [Excerpt: Merle Travis, "Nine-Pound Hammer"] Garcia had never encountered playing like that before, but he instantly recognised that Travis, and Chet Atkins who Stevenson also played for him, had been an influence on Scotty Moore. He started to realise that the music he'd listened to as a teenager was influenced by music that went further back. But Stevenson, as well as teaching Garcia some of the rudiments of Travis-picking, also indirectly led to Garcia getting discharged from the Army. Stevenson was not a well man, and became suicidal. Garcia decided it was more important to keep his friend company and make sure he didn't kill himself than it was to turn up for roll call, and as a result he got discharged himself on psychiatric grounds -- according to Garcia he told the Army psychiatrist "I was involved in stuff that was more important to me in the moment than the army was and that was the reason I was late" and the psychiatrist thought it was neurotic of Garcia to have his own set of values separate from that of the Army. After discharge, Garcia did various jobs, including working as a transcriptionist for Lenny Bruce, the comedian who was a huge influence on the counterculture. In one of the various attacks over the years by authoritarians on language, Bruce was repeatedly arrested for obscenity, and in 1961 he was arrested at a jazz club in North Beach. Sixty years ago, the parts of speech that were being criminalised weren't pronouns, but prepositions and verbs: [Excerpt: Lenny Bruce, "To is a Preposition, Come is a Verb"] That piece, indeed, was so controversial that when Frank Zappa quoted part of it in a song in 1968, the record label insisted on the relevant passage being played backwards so people couldn't hear such disgusting filth: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Harry You're a Beast"] (Anyone familiar with that song will understand that the censored portion is possibly the least offensive part of the whole thing). Bruce was facing trial, and he needed transcripts of what he had said in his recordings to present in court. Incidentally, there seems to be some confusion over exactly which of Bruce's many obscenity trials Garcia became a transcriptionist for. Dennis McNally says in his biography of the band, published in 2002, that it was the most famous of them, in autumn 1964, but in a later book, Jerry on Jerry, a book of interviews of Garcia edited by McNally, McNally talks about it being when Garcia was nineteen, which would mean it was Bruce's first trial, in 1961. We can put this down to the fact that many of the people involved, not least Garcia, lived in Tralfamadorian time, and were rather hazy on dates, but I'm placing the story here rather than in 1964 because it seems to make more sense that Garcia would be involved in a trial based on an incident in San Francisco than one in New York. Garcia got the job, even though he couldn't type, because by this point he'd spent so long listening to recordings of old folk and country music that he was used to transcribing indecipherable accents, and often, as Garcia would tell it, Bruce would mumble very fast and condense multiple syllables into one. Garcia was particularly impressed by Bruce's ability to improvise but talk in entire paragraphs, and he compared his use of language to bebop. Another thing that was starting to impress Garcia, and which he also compared to bebop, was bluegrass: [Excerpt: Bill Monroe, "Fire on the Mountain"] Bluegrass is a music that is often considered very traditional, because it's based on traditional songs and uses acoustic instruments, but in fact it was a terribly *modern* music, and largely a postwar creation of a single band -- Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. And Garcia was right when he said it was "white bebop" -- though he did say "The only thing it doesn't have is the harmonic richness of bebop. You know what I mean? That's what it's missing, but it has everything else." Both bebop and bluegrass evolved after the second world war, though they were informed by music from before it, and both prized the ability to improvise, and technical excellence. Both are musics that involved playing *fast*, in an ensemble, and being able to respond quickly to the other musicians. Both musics were also intensely rhythmic, a response to a faster paced, more stressful world. They were both part of the general change in the arts towards immediacy that we looked at in the last episode with the creation first of expressionism and then of pop art. Bluegrass didn't go into the harmonic explorations that modern jazz did, but it was absolutely as modern as anything Charlie Parker was doing, and came from the same impulses. It was tradition and innovation, the past and the future simultaneously. Bill Monroe, Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, and Lenny Bruce were all in their own ways responding to the same cultural moment, and it was that which Garcia was responding to. But he didn't become able to play bluegrass until after a tragedy which shaped his life even more than his father's death had. Garcia had been to a party and was in a car with his friends Lee Adams, Paul Speegle, and Alan Trist. Adams was driving at ninety miles an hour when they hit a tight curve and crashed. Garcia, Adams, and Trist were all severely injured but survived. Speegle died. So it goes. This tragedy changed Garcia's attitudes totally. Of all his friends, Speegle was the one who was most serious about his art, and who treated it as something to work on. Garcia had always been someone who fundamentally didn't want to work or take any responsibility for anything. And he remained that way -- except for his music. Speegle's death changed Garcia's attitude to that, totally. If his friend wasn't going to be able to practice his own art any more, Garcia would practice his, in tribute to him. He resolved to become a virtuoso on guitar and banjo. His girlfriend of the time later said “I don't know if you've spent time with someone rehearsing ‘Foggy Mountain Breakdown' on a banjo for eight hours, but Jerry practiced endlessly. He really wanted to excel and be the best. He had tremendous personal ambition in the musical arena, and he wanted to master whatever he set out to explore. Then he would set another sight for himself. And practice another eight hours a day of new licks.” But of course, you can't make ensemble music on your own: [Excerpt: Jerry Garcia and Bob Hunter, "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" (including end)] "Evelyn said, “What is it called when a person needs a … person … when you want to be touched and the … two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?” Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. “Love,” she said at length." That's from More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon, a book I'll be quoting a few more times as the story goes on. Robert Hunter, like Garcia, was just out of the military -- in his case, the National Guard -- and he came into Garcia's life just after Paul Speegle had left it. Garcia and Alan Trist met Hunter ten days after the accident, and the three men started hanging out together, Trist and Hunter writing while Garcia played music. Garcia and Hunter both bonded over their shared love for the beats, and for traditional music, and the two formed a duo, Bob and Jerry, which performed together a handful of times. They started playing together, in fact, after Hunter picked up a guitar and started playing a song and halfway through Garcia took it off him and finished the song himself. The two of them learned songs from the Harry Smith Anthology -- Garcia was completely apolitical, and only once voted in his life, for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to keep Goldwater out, and regretted even doing that, and so he didn't learn any of the more political material people like Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan were doing at the time -- but their duo only lasted a short time because Hunter wasn't an especially good guitarist. Hunter would, though, continue to jam with Garcia and other friends, sometimes playing mandolin, while Garcia played solo gigs and with other musicians as well, playing and moving round the Bay Area and performing with whoever he could: [Excerpt: Jerry Garcia, "Railroad Bill"] "Bleshing, that was Janie's word. She said Baby told it to her. She said it meant everyone all together being something, even if they all did different things. Two arms, two legs, one body, one head, all working together, although a head can't walk and arms can't think. Lone said maybe it was a mixture of “blending” and “meshing,” but I don't think he believed that himself. It was a lot more than that." That's from More Than Human In 1961, Garcia and Hunter met another young musician, but one who was interested in a very different type of music. Phil Lesh was a serious student of modern classical music, a classically-trained violinist and trumpeter whose interest was solidly in the experimental and whose attitude can be summed up by a story that's always told about him meeting his close friend Tom Constanten for the first time. Lesh had been talking with someone about serialism, and Constanten had interrupted, saying "Music stopped being created in 1750 but it started again in 1950". Lesh just stuck out his hand, recognising a kindred spirit. Lesh and Constanten were both students of Luciano Berio, the experimental composer who created compositions for magnetic tape: [Excerpt: Luciano Berio, "Momenti"] Berio had been one of the founders of the Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano, a studio for producing contemporary electronic music where John Cage had worked for a time, and he had also worked with the electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Lesh would later remember being very impressed when Berio brought a tape into the classroom -- the actual multitrack tape for Stockhausen's revolutionary piece Gesang Der Juenglinge: [Excerpt: Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Gesang Der Juenglinge"] Lesh at first had been distrustful of Garcia -- Garcia was charismatic and had followers, and Lesh never liked people like that. But he was impressed by Garcia's playing, and soon realised that the two men, despite their very different musical interests, had a lot in common. Lesh was interested in the technology of music as well as in performing and composing it, and so when he wasn't studying he helped out by engineering at the university's radio station. Lesh was impressed by Garcia's playing, and suggested to the presenter of the station's folk show, the Midnight Special, that Garcia be a guest. Garcia was so good that he ended up getting an entire solo show to himself, where normally the show would feature multiple acts. Lesh and Constanten soon moved away from the Bay Area to Las Vegas, but both would be back -- in Constanten's case he would form an experimental group in San Francisco with their fellow student Steve Reich, and that group (though not with Constanten performing) would later premiere Terry Riley's In C, a piece influenced by La Monte Young and often considered one of the great masterpieces of minimalist music. By early 1962 Garcia and Hunter had formed a bluegrass band, with Garcia on guitar and banjo and Hunter on mandolin, and a rotating cast of other musicians including Ken Frankel, who played banjo and fiddle. They performed under different names, including the Tub Thumpers, the Hart Valley Drifters, and the Sleepy Valley Hog Stompers, and played a mixture of bluegrass and old-time music -- and were very careful about the distinction: [Excerpt: The Hart Valley Drifters, "Cripple Creek"] In 1993, the Republican political activist John Perry Barlow was invited to talk to the CIA about the possibilities open to them with what was then called the Information Superhighway. He later wrote, in part "They told me they'd brought Steve Jobs in a few weeks before to indoctrinate them in modern information management. And they were delighted when I returned later, bringing with me a platoon of Internet gurus, including Esther Dyson, Mitch Kapor, Tony Rutkowski, and Vint Cerf. They sealed us into an electronically impenetrable room to discuss the radical possibility that a good first step in lifting their blackout would be for the CIA to put up a Web site... We told them that information exchange was a barter system, and that to receive, one must also be willing to share. This was an alien notion to them. They weren't even willing to share information among themselves, much less the world." 1962 brought a new experience for Robert Hunter. Hunter had been recruited into taking part in psychological tests at Stanford University, which in the sixties and seventies was one of the preeminent universities for psychological experiments. As part of this, Hunter was given $140 to attend the VA hospital (where a janitor named Ken Kesey, who had himself taken part in a similar set of experiments a couple of years earlier, worked a day job while he was working on his first novel) for four weeks on the run, and take different psychedelic drugs each time, starting with LSD, so his reactions could be observed. (It was later revealed that these experiments were part of a CIA project called MKUltra, designed to investigate the possibility of using psychedelic drugs for mind control, blackmail, and torture. Hunter was quite lucky in that he was told what was going to happen to him and paid for his time. Other subjects included the unlucky customers of brothels the CIA set up as fronts -- they dosed the customers' drinks and observed them through two-way mirrors. Some of their experimental subjects died by suicide as a result of their experiences. So it goes. ) Hunter was interested in taking LSD after reading Aldous Huxley's writings about psychedelic substances, and he brought his typewriter along to the experiment. During the first test, he wrote a six-page text, a short excerpt from which is now widely quoted, reading in part "Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist ... and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell-like (must I take you by the hand, ever so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resounding bells" Hunter's experience led to everyone in their social circle wanting to try LSD, and soon they'd all come to the same conclusion -- this was something special. But Garcia needed money -- he'd got his girlfriend pregnant, and they'd married (this would be the first of several marriages in Garcia's life, and I won't be covering them all -- at Garcia's funeral, his second wife, Carolyn, said Garcia always called her the love of his life, and his first wife and his early-sixties girlfriend who he proposed to again in the nineties both simultaneously said "He said that to me!"). So he started teaching guitar at a music shop in Palo Alto. Hunter had no time for Garcia's incipient domesticity and thought that his wife was trying to make him live a conventional life, and the two drifted apart somewhat, though they'd still play together occasionally. Through working at the music store, Garcia got to know the manager, Troy Weidenheimer, who had a rock and roll band called the Zodiacs. Garcia joined the band on bass, despite that not being his instrument. He later said "Troy was a lot of fun, but I wasn't good enough a musician then to have been able to deal with it. I was out of my idiom, really, 'cause when I played with Troy I was playing electric bass, you know. I never was a good bass player. Sometimes I was playing in the wrong key and didn't even [fuckin'] know it. I couldn't hear that low, after playing banjo, you know, and going to electric...But Troy taught me the principle of, hey, you know, just stomp your foot and get on it. He was great. A great one for the instant arrangement, you know. And he was also fearless for that thing of get your friends to do it." Garcia's tenure in the Zodiacs didn't last long, nor did this experiment with rock and roll, but two other members of the Zodiacs will be notable later in the story -- the harmonica player, an old friend of Garcia's named Ron McKernan, who would soon gain the nickname Pig Pen after the Peanuts character, and the drummer, Bill Kreutzmann: [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Drums/Space (Skull & Bones version)"] Kreutzmann said of the Zodiacs "Jerry was the hired bass player and I was the hired drummer. I only remember playing that one gig with them, but I was in way over my head. I always did that. I always played things that were really hard and it didn't matter. I just went for it." Garcia and Kreutzmann didn't really get to know each other then, but Garcia did get to know someone else who would soon be very important in his life. Bob Weir was from a very different background than Garcia, though both had the shared experience of long bouts of chronic illness as children. He had grown up in a very wealthy family, and had always been well-liked, but he was what we would now call neurodivergent -- reading books about the band he talks about being dyslexic but clearly has other undiagnosed neurodivergences, which often go along with dyslexia -- and as a result he was deemed to have behavioural problems which led to him getting expelled from pre-school and kicked out of the cub scouts. He was never academically gifted, thanks to his dyslexia, but he was always enthusiastic about music -- to a fault. He learned to play boogie piano but played so loudly and so often his parents sold the piano. He had a trumpet, but the neighbours complained about him playing it outside. Finally he switched to the guitar, an instrument with which it is of course impossible to make too loud a noise. The first song he learned was the Kingston Trio's version of an old sea shanty, "The Wreck of the John B": [Excerpt: The Kingston Trio, "The Wreck of the John B"] He was sent off to a private school in Colorado for teenagers with behavioural issues, and there he met the boy who would become his lifelong friend, John Perry Barlow. Unfortunately the two troublemakers got on with each other *so* well that after their first year they were told that it was too disruptive having both of them at the school, and only one could stay there the next year. Barlow stayed and Weir moved back to the Bay Area. By this point, Weir was getting more interested in folk music that went beyond the commercial folk of the Kingston Trio. As he said later "There was something in there that was ringing my bells. What I had grown up thinking of as hillbilly music, it started to have some depth for me, and I could start to hear the music in it. Suddenly, it wasn't just a bunch of ignorant hillbillies playing what they could. There was some depth and expertise and stuff like that to aspire to.” He moved from school to school but one thing that stayed with him was his love of playing guitar, and he started taking lessons from Troy Weidenheimer, but he got most of his education going to folk clubs and hootenannies. He regularly went to the Tangent, a club where Garcia played, but Garcia's bluegrass banjo playing was far too rigorous for a free spirit like Weir to emulate, and instead he started trying to copy one of the guitarists who was a regular there, Jorma Kaukonnen. On New Year's Eve 1963 Weir was out walking with his friends Bob Matthews and Rich Macauley, and they passed the music shop where Garcia was a teacher, and heard him playing his banjo. They knocked and asked if they could come in -- they all knew Garcia a little, and Bob Matthews was one of his students, having become interested in playing banjo after hearing the theme tune to the Beverly Hillbillies, played by the bluegrass greats Flatt and Scruggs: [Excerpt: Flatt and Scruggs, "The Beverly Hillbillies"] Garcia at first told these kids, several years younger than him, that they couldn't come in -- he was waiting for his students to show up. But Weir said “Jerry, listen, it's seven-thirty on New Year's Eve, and I don't think you're going to be seeing your students tonight.” Garcia realised the wisdom of this, and invited the teenagers in to jam with him. At the time, there was a bit of a renaissance in jug bands, as we talked about back in the episode on the Lovin' Spoonful. This was a form of music that had grown up in the 1920s, and was similar and related to skiffle and coffee-pot bands -- jug bands would tend to have a mixture of portable string instruments like guitars and banjos, harmonicas, and people using improvised instruments, particularly blowing into a jug. The most popular of these bands had been Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, led by banjo player Gus Cannon and with harmonica player Noah Lewis: [Excerpt: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, "Viola Lee Blues"] With the folk revival, Cannon's work had become well-known again. The Rooftop Singers, a Kingston Trio style folk group, had had a hit with his song "Walk Right In" in 1963, and as a result of that success Cannon had even signed a record contract with Stax -- Stax's first album ever, a month before Booker T and the MGs' first album, was in fact the eighty-year-old Cannon playing his banjo and singing his old songs. The rediscovery of Cannon had started a craze for jug bands, and the most popular of the new jug bands was Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, which did a mixture of old songs like "You're a Viper" and more recent material redone in the old style. Weir, Matthews, and Macauley had been to see the Kweskin band the night before, and had been very impressed, especially by their singer Maria D'Amato -- who would later marry her bandmate Geoff Muldaur and take his name -- and her performance of Leiber and Stoller's "I'm a Woman": [Excerpt: Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, "I'm a Woman"] Matthews suggested that they form their own jug band, and Garcia eagerly agreed -- though Matthews found himself rapidly moving from banjo to washboard to kazoo to second kazoo before realising he was surplus to requirements. Robert Hunter was similarly an early member but claimed he "didn't have the embouchure" to play the jug, and was soon also out. He moved to LA and started studying Scientology -- later claiming that he wanted science-fictional magic powers, which L. Ron Hubbard's new religion certainly offered. The group took the name Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions -- apparently they varied the spelling every time they played -- and had a rotating membership that at one time or another included about twenty different people, but tended always to have Garcia on banjo, Weir on jug and later guitar, and Garcia's friend Pig Pen on harmonica: [Excerpt: Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions, "On the Road Again"] The group played quite regularly in early 1964, but Garcia's first love was still bluegrass, and he was trying to build an audience with his bluegrass band, The Black Mountain Boys. But bluegrass was very unpopular in the Bay Area, where it was simultaneously thought of as unsophisticated -- as "hillbilly music" -- and as elitist, because it required actual instrumental ability, which wasn't in any great supply in the amateur folk scene. But instrumental ability was something Garcia definitely had, as at this point he was still practising eight hours a day, every day, and it shows on the recordings of the Black Mountain Boys: [Excerpt: The Black Mountain Boys, "Rosa Lee McFall"] By the summer, Bob Weir was also working at the music shop, and so Garcia let Weir take over his students while he and the Black Mountain Boys' guitarist Sandy Rothman went on a road trip to see as many bluegrass musicians as they could and to audition for Bill Monroe himself. As it happened, Garcia found himself too shy to audition for Monroe, but Rothman later ended up playing with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. On his return to the Bay Area, Garcia resumed playing with the Uptown Jug Champions, but Pig Pen started pestering him to do something different. While both men had overlapping tastes in music and a love for the blues, Garcia's tastes had always been towards the country end of the spectrum while Pig Pen's were towards R&B. And while the Uptown Jug Champions were all a bit disdainful of the Beatles at first -- apart from Bob Weir, the youngest of the group, who thought they were interesting -- Pig Pen had become enamoured of another British band who were just starting to make it big: [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Not Fade Away"] 29) Garcia liked the first Rolling Stones album too, and he eventually took Pig Pen's point -- the stuff that the Rolling Stones were doing, covers of Slim Harpo and Buddy Holly, was not a million miles away from the material they were doing as Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions. Pig Pen could play a little electric organ, Bob had been fooling around with the electric guitars in the music shop. Why not give it a go? The stuff bands like the Rolling Stones were doing wasn't that different from the electric blues that Pig Pen liked, and they'd all seen A Hard Day's Night -- they could carry on playing with banjos, jugs, and kazoos and have the respect of a handful of folkies, or they could get electric instruments and potentially have screaming girls and millions of dollars, while playing the same songs. This was a convincing argument, especially when Dana Morgan Jr, the son of the owner of the music shop, told them they could have free electric instruments if they let him join on bass. Morgan wasn't that great on bass, but what the hell, free instruments. Pig Pen had the best voice and stage presence, so he became the frontman of the new group, singing most of the leads, though Jerry and Bob would both sing a few songs, and playing harmonica and organ. Weir was on rhythm guitar, and Garcia was the lead guitarist and obvious leader of the group. They just needed a drummer, and handily Bill Kreutzmann, who had played with Garcia and Pig Pen in the Zodiacs, was also now teaching music at the music shop. Not only that, but about three weeks before they decided to go electric, Kreutzmann had seen the Uptown Jug Champions performing and been astonished by Garcia's musicianship and charisma, and said to himself "Man, I'm gonna follow that guy forever!" The new group named themselves the Warlocks, and started rehearsing in earnest. Around this time, Garcia also finally managed to get some of the LSD that his friend Robert Hunter had been so enthusiastic about three years earlier, and it was a life-changing experience for him. In particular, he credited LSD with making him comfortable being a less disciplined player -- as a bluegrass player he'd had to be frighteningly precise, but now he was playing rock and needed to loosen up. A few days after taking LSD for the first time, Garcia also heard some of Bob Dylan's new material, and realised that the folk singer he'd had little time for with his preachy politics was now making electric music that owed a lot more to the Beat culture Garcia considered himself part of: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"] Another person who was hugely affected by hearing that was Phil Lesh, who later said "I couldn't believe that was Bob Dylan on AM radio, with an electric band. It changed my whole consciousness: if something like that could happen, the sky was the limit." Up to that point, Lesh had been focused entirely on his avant-garde music, working with friends like Steve Reich to push music forward, inspired by people like John Cage and La Monte Young, but now he realised there was music of value in the rock world. He'd quickly started going to rock gigs, seeing the Rolling Stones and the Byrds, and then he took acid and went to see his friend Garcia's new electric band play their third ever gig. He was blown away, and very quickly it was decided that Lesh would be the group's new bass player -- though everyone involved tells a different story as to who made the decision and how it came about, and accounts also vary as to whether Dana Morgan took his sacking gracefully and let his erstwhile bandmates keep their instruments, or whether they had to scrounge up some new ones. Lesh had never played bass before, but he was a talented multi-instrumentalist with a deep understanding of music and an ability to compose and improvise, and the repertoire the Warlocks were playing in the early days was mostly three-chord material that doesn't take much rehearsal -- though it was apparently beyond the abilities of poor Dana Morgan, who apparently had to be told note-by-note what to play by Garcia, and learn it by rote. Garcia told Lesh what notes the strings of a bass were tuned to, told him to borrow a guitar and practice, and within two weeks he was on stage with the Warlocks: [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, “Grayfolded"] In September 1995, just weeks after Jerry Garcia's death, an article was published in Mute magazine identifying a cultural trend that had shaped the nineties, and would as it turned out shape at least the next thirty years. It's titled "The Californian Ideology", though it may be better titled "The Bay Area Ideology", and it identifies a worldview that had grown up in Silicon Valley, based around the ideas of the hippie movement, of right-wing libertarianism, of science fiction authors, and of Marshall McLuhan. It starts "There is an emerging global orthodoxy concerning the relation between society, technology and politics. We have called this orthodoxy `the Californian Ideology' in honour of the state where it originated. By naturalising and giving a technological proof to a libertarian political philosophy, and therefore foreclosing on alternative futures, the Californian Ideologues are able to assert that social and political debates about the future have now become meaningless. The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as WIRED and MONDO 2000 and preached in the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and others. The new faith has been embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, 30-something capitalists, hip academics, futurist bureaucrats and even the President of the USA himself. As usual, Europeans have not been slow to copy the latest fashion from America. While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the 'infobahn', cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the 'post-human' philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult. With no obvious opponents, the global dominance of the Californian ideology appears to be complete." [Excerpt: Grayfolded] The Warlocks' first gig with Phil Lesh on bass was on June the 18th 1965, at a club called Frenchy's with a teenage clientele. Lesh thought his playing had been wooden and it wasn't a good gig, and apparently the management of Frenchy's agreed -- they were meant to play a second night there, but turned up to be told they'd been replaced by a band with an accordion and clarinet. But by September the group had managed to get themselves a residency at a small bar named the In Room, and playing there every night made them cohere. They were at this point playing the kind of sets that bar bands everywhere play to this day, though at the time the songs they were playing, like "Gloria" by Them and "In the Midnight Hour", were the most contemporary of hits. Another song that they introduced into their repertoire was "Do You Believe in Magic" by the Lovin' Spoonful, another band which had grown up out of former jug band musicians. As well as playing their own sets, they were also the house band at The In Room and as such had to back various touring artists who were the headline acts. The first act they had to back up was Cornell Gunter's version of the Coasters. Gunter had brought his own guitarist along as musical director, and for the first show Weir sat in the audience watching the show and learning the parts, staring intently at this musical director's playing. After seeing that, Weir's playing was changed, because he also picked up how the guitarist was guiding the band while playing, the small cues that a musical director will use to steer the musicians in the right direction. Weir started doing these things himself when he was singing lead -- Pig Pen was the frontman but everyone except Bill sang sometimes -- and the group soon found that rather than Garcia being the sole leader, now whoever was the lead singer for the song was the de facto conductor as well. By this point, the Bay Area was getting almost overrun with people forming electric guitar bands, as every major urban area in America was. Some of the bands were even having hits already -- We Five had had a number three hit with "You Were On My Mind", a song which had originally been performed by the folk duo Ian and Sylvia: [Excerpt: We Five, "You Were On My Mind"] Although the band that was most highly regarded on the scene, the Charlatans, was having problems with the various record companies they tried to get signed to, and didn't end up making a record until 1969. If tracks like "Number One" had been released in 1965 when they were recorded, the history of the San Francisco music scene may have taken a very different turn: [Excerpt: The Charlatans, "Number One"] Bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Great Society, and Big Brother and the Holding Company were also forming, and Autumn Records was having a run of success with records by the Beau Brummels, whose records were produced by Autumn's in-house A&R man, Sly Stone: [Excerpt: The Beau Brummels, "Laugh Laugh"] The Warlocks were somewhat cut off from this, playing in a dive bar whose clientele was mostly depressed alcoholics. But the fact that they were playing every night for an audience that didn't care much gave them freedom, and they used that freedom to improvise. Both Lesh and Garcia were big fans of John Coltrane, and they started to take lessons from his style of playing. When the group played "Gloria" or "Midnight Hour" or whatever, they started to extend the songs and give themselves long instrumental passages for soloing. Garcia's playing wasn't influenced *harmonically* by Coltrane -- in fact Garcia was always a rather harmonically simple player. He'd tend to play lead lines either in Mixolydian mode, which is one of the most standard modes in rock, pop, blues, and jazz, or he'd play the notes of the chord that was being played, so if the band were playing a G chord his lead would emphasise the notes G, B, and D. But what he was influenced by was Coltrane's tendency to improvise in long, complex, phrases that made up a single thought -- Coltrane was thinking musically in paragraphs, rather than sentences, and Garcia started to try the same kind of th

Martin Heylen (1956) is televisiemaker. Hij heeft een deel van zijn carrière aangebeld bij willekeurige huizen om aan de mensen te vragen hoe hun leven eruitziet. Hij deed dat ondermeer voor Man Bijt Hond. Voor zijn reeks Terug naar Siberië uit 2006 kreeg hij de Prijs van Televisiekritiek. Hij maakte ook God en klein Pierke, Dr Livingstone samen met Philippe Geubbels, Terug naar eigen land en Heylen en de herkomst. Wij praatten met elkaar kort nadat zijn reeks Uncle Martin op televisie kwam, waarin hij naar Amerika trok op zoek naar een tak van zijn familie. Bij het programma hoort ook een boek: Ik dacht dat ik een kleine familie had. Ik zocht Martin Heylen thuis op, in zijn appartement in Oostende. Hier komen geen camera's, zei hij. We gingen zitten in zijn werkkamer, omgeven door boekenkasten en wereldkaarten. Hij vertelt waarom hij precies in Oostende woont. Hij toont het avonturenverhaal dat zijn vader hem gaf. We praten over de bijzondere creatieve fase waarin hij nu zit, over het land dat hem het diepst onder de huid gekropen is. Over werken in de fabriek, over zijn twijfels als tv-maker en over zijn stress voor dit gesprek. En hij haalt het boek boven dat helemaal met hem meereisde naar Amerika. Alle boeken en auteurs uit deze aflevering vind je in de shownotes op wimoosterlinck.be Wil je de podcast steunen? Bestel je boeken dan steeds via een link op wimoosterlinck.be! Merci. De drie boeken van Martin Heylen zijn: 1. Max Brand: Dan Barry de ontembare 2. Alessandro Barrico: Mr. Gwyn 3. Gerard Jacobs: De goden hebben honger. Siberische reisverhalen Eerdere gasten in deze podcast zijn: Roos Van Acker, Imke Courtois, Wim Opbrouck, Evi Hanssen, Stijn Meuris, Michèle Cuvelier, Lara Chedraoui, Johan Braeckman, Sophie Dutordoir, Freek de Jonge en vele anderen.

Oh boy, strap yourselves in everyone because Pauline has chosen a truly random film from the sisters' childhoods. 1994's “Clifford” an obscure comedy starring Martin Short, Charles Grodin, and Mary Steenburgen. This weird little film was a Brunnen favourite and is often quoted by the family to this day. Is it worth the rewatch? Listen and find out!

Pauline has picked one that's sure to have us in stitches. The critics hated it when it came out, but it's developed a cult following now. Is it good? Who knows! We'll let ya know on Tuesday when we discuss! In the meantime, listen now to find out what film is happening this weekend.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 573, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tv Dualists 1: Barnaby Jones,Uncle Jed Clampett. Buddy Ebsen. 2: Tom Corbett,Dr. David Banner. Bill Bixby. 3: Sophie Berger,Mrs. Cunningham. Marion Ross. 4: Officer Bill Gannon,Col. Sherman Potter. Harry Morgan. 5: Judge Bone,Uncle Martin. Ray Walston. Round 2. Category: Sports Trivia 1: The 1988 winner of this April marathon beat the 2nd place finisher by only 1 second. Boston Marathon. 2: The Orangemen of Syracuse were NCAA champs in '88 and '89 in this Native American sport. Lacrosse. 3: At age 18, he was youngest ever to defend a Wimbledon singles title. Boris Becker. 4: In July 1987, this wife of baseball star Ray Knight was inducted in the LPGA Hall of Fame. Nancy Lopez. 5: Number worn by Sandy Koufax, O.J. Simpson, and Magic Johnson. 32. Round 3. Category: I Feel Like Such An Idiom 1: To find a reasonable compromise. strike a happy medium. 2: This idiom, meaning to show extreme modesty, has its origin in the Bible's book of Matthew. hiding your light under a bushel (keeping your light underneath a bushel accepted). 3: You can "beat" this 1987 Bond title "out of" someone. The Living Daylights. 4: To not spend more than absolutely necessary. to pinch pennies. 5: It means to be physically overdeveloped to the point of hindrance. to be muscle-bound. Round 4. Category: Tv Sports 1: He was "The Mouth" of "Monday Night Football" until he retired in 1984. Howard Cosell. 2: Jim McKay ABC series that shows "the thrill of victory" and "the agony of defeat". Wide World of Sports. 3: "TODAY" he's a host, but his "Baseball World" show won a Peabody Award in 1973. Joe Garagiola. 4: Sport you'll see if you watch NBC's late-night specials, "Saturday Night's Main Event". wrestling. 5: Thousands protested in 1968 when NBC left a Jets-Raiders game to telecast this kids' special. Heidi. Round 5. Category: Tv Title References 1: Matthew Fox and 47 others survive a plane crash but are stranded on a mysterious Pacific island. Lost. 2: On a primetime ABC soap, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and their neighbors on Wisteria Lane. Desperate Housewives. 3: The Kansas hamlet that's home to the Kents. Smallville. 4: Patricia Arquette, who sees dead people. The Medium. 5: The McCallister brothers, one of whom becomes president in 2040. Jack and Bobby. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Episode 27 – My Favorite Martian60's Reboot is back with a new episode and Matt D. is talking all things Alien with My Favorite MartianAfter a brief Hiatus Matt D. is back talking about another sci-fi classic. This show used some now classic tv tropes, as well as some fun and funny story beats. What shenanigan's does Tim and Uncle Martin get into in the new and improved My Favorite Martian?Matt gives us his picks for what modern day thespians would portray these characters.Legal stuff  –60's Reboot Theme Music provided by:Music is from (https://filmmusic.io) “Funk Game Loop” by Kevin MaeLeod (https:://incompetech.com)License: CC by (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)60's Reboot Podcast is an exclusive member of the Email the show at 60sreboot@gmail.comFollow Matt D. and the 60's Reboot on Twitter @60srebootPodcast and post content is provided by 60s Reboot. Any views, opinions, advertisements, affiliate links, or grammatical errors () contained within feed-provided content is that of 60s Reboot and NOT that of Electronic Media Collective.

This week..... after another unexpected break, we are back! Sausage rolls, new brown bread, reducing food waste, covid and funerals, Sarah's birthday week, Ash Wednesday, a wasp in the shower, the mystery of the night time sky, why or how?, new friends, annoying whatsapp groups, Sarah is very zen now!, turning off the bad news, David's school run, our inner child loves Ribena and scone or scone? this weeks episode is dedicated to Uncle Martin - a gentle, funny and forgiving man. Thanks for listening and don't forget to review - email sarahbutlerathome@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode discusses the show My Favorite Martian. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://thewritelife61.com/2021/02/08/uncle-martin-was-everyones-favorite-martian/

This episode discusses the show My Favorite Martian. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://thewritelife61.com/2021/02/08/uncle-martin-was-everyones-favorite-martian/

We had the pleasure of interviewing Bluhauz over Zoom video!  Throughout his life, singer/guitarist Bluhauz has experienced a truly unpredictable and unprecedented journey. From his native Argentina to living in Miami, from admiring Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page to being mentored by him, from attending Berklee College of Music to playing some of the most famed festivals in the world - Bluhauz has done all of these things. Now, with his debut solo album, BLUHAUZ, he's setting off on his biggest adventure yet - musically, spiritually, and personally. Bluhauz began his musical journey while growing up in Argentina. A pivotal moment came when he was thirteen years old, when his musical horizons were greatly expanded after his Uncle Martin uploaded songs onto his iPod, giving him his first introduction to Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd. But he wasn't content to simply listen to this type of music: he wanted to create it, too, so he soon learned to play the guitar. As a teenager, he joined his first band who rehearsed in a blue house, which later inspired his “Bluhauz” artist moniker. When he was seventeen years old, he started playing shows - and immediately knew this is what he needed to do with his lifeMoving to the U.S. when he was twenty years old (though he'd been visiting family in America his whole life), Bluhauz enrolled at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston - where he promptly made his mark by remaining true to rock, instead of the school's typical jazz focus. In 2013, he formed the hard rock band Stone Giant with like-minded classmates. With his clear musical vision and trusted team backing him, Bluhauz is ready release this debut solo album and fully launch this latest phase in his career. Things already look promising: the three singles have all been well-received, leading to his much-praised appearance at the Billboard AR virtual festival last July. Given all the unexpected twists and turns his life has already taken, it will undoubtedly be interesting to watch - and hear - what Bluhauz does next. We want to hear from you! Please email Tera@BringinitBackwards.com. www.BringinitBackwards.com #podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #Bluhauz #zoom  Listen & Subscribe to BiB Follow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter! 

(WEAA)— Jawana Jackson-Richie shares her heartening story of living in a house with civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. The house in Selma, Alabama, where Jackson was raised and Dr. King often visited, is now a museum which tells a unique story of three generations.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 244, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Music To My Ears 1: The Beastie Boys opened for her during the 1985 Virgin Tour. Madonna. 2: "Forget About Dre" is by Dr. Dre (natch) and featuring this rapper also known as Slim Shady. Eminem. 3: This group was "Headin' down the Atlanta Highway...headin' on down to the Love Shack". The B-52's. 4: (Hello, we're the Dixie Chicks) Our song "Ready to Run" was on the soundtrack of this movie with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. Runaway Bride. 5: Salman Rushdie wrote the lyrics to "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", performed by this group. U2. Round 2. Category: Moroccan 'Round The Clock 1: It's Morocco's largest city and chief seaport, sweetheart. Casablanca. 2: Shortly after independence in 1956, Mohammed V changed his title from sultan to this. king. 3: A proposed 10-mile tunnel to be built between Morocco and this country would directly link Africa and Europe. Spain. 4: FDR met with this leader in Morocco for 10 days in 1943. Winston Churchill (in Casablanca). 5: At about 14,000 feet, the highest peak in this mountain chain is Morocco's Mount Toubkal. Atlas Mountains. Round 3. Category: Tv Dualists 1: Barnaby Jones,Uncle Jed Clampett. Buddy Ebsen. 2: Tom Corbett,Dr. David Banner. Bill Bixby. 3: Sophie Berger,Mrs. Cunningham. Marion Ross. 4: Officer Bill Gannon,Col. Sherman Potter. Harry Morgan. 5: Judge Bone,Uncle Martin. Ray Walston. Round 4. Category: Classic Rock Opening Lines 1: CCR:"Left a good job in the city...". "Proud Mary". 2: Pink Floyd (Part 2):"We don't need no education..."(5 words). "Another Brick In The Wall". 3: Nancy Sinatra:"You keep sayin' you've got something for me...". "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'". 4: The Beatles:"Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner...". "Get Back". 5: Elvis:"We're caught in a trap...". "Suspicious Minds". Round 5. Category: Famous "M"En 1: The lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" were penned during this U.S. president's second term of office. (James) Madison. 2: This "Olympia" painter did illustrations for a French translation of Poe's poetry. Manet. 3: He studied law at the University of Belgrade and became his country's Communist Party head in 1987. Milosevic. 4: In 2006 a Salzburg Museum that bears the name of this composer marked the 250th anniversary of his birth. Mozart. 5: In 1965 this man began 2 decades as the head of state of the Philippines. (Ferdinand) Marcos. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Today Dave is back (and healthy) and Jim is using the Audio Technica BPHS1 Headset. We talk Music in podcasts, LLCs, and more. Sponsor: podcastbranding.co If you need artwork, a logo, a full website, or a branding audit, hire Mark who is not only an award-winning graphic artist but a podcaster. Check him out at www.podcastbranding.co Support the Show at  www.askthepodcastcoach.com/store TOPICS 00:00:33 Update on Dave's Health Scare 00:01:56 Sponsor: podcastbranding.co 00:03:36 Knocking the Rust Off 00:04:29 Jim Is Using a Headset 00:10:50 Spilling Drinks on Mixers 00:11:50 Uncle Martin on Music Rights 00:21:09 When To Form an LLC 00:27:51 Thanks To Our Awesome Supporters 00:31:09 This is uhhhh Your Pilot Speaking 00:33:54 Podcast Checklist 00:37:18 Post Release Evaluation 00:41:41 Airmeet Discussion 00:45:18 Dave Might Do Another Test Show 00:47:05 Podcasters and Domains? 00:50:08 Whoava App Mentioned In This Episode Audio Technica BPHS1 podnutzpro.com unclemarv.com brosandblokes.com dogpodcastnetwork.com

Uncle Martin (aka Brother Martin) provides the setlist for the latest Karaoke Korner: Van "The Man" Morrison, Eagles (no "the"), and Boy George Harrison. Intro Music from Bensound.com Please leave us a review by heading to ratethispodcast.com/thatsauntertainment. Follow That's Auntertainment! on Twitter (@auntertainment), Instagram (thatsauntertainment), and Facebook (That's Auntertainment). Got any questions or thoughts? Email us at thatsauntertainmentpodcast@gmail.com

Actor, singer, writer, and civil rights activist Donzaleigh Abernathy is goddaughter of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and daughter of the Reverend Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, King's best friend and partner in the civil rights movement — who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and became president of it after King's assassination on April 4, 1968. Her mother was civil rights activist Juanita Abernathy. As a child, Abernathy witnessed some of the most inspiring and formative moments of the civil rights movement — and some of the most sobering. She also grew up knowing and loving the man she called Uncle Martin, whose stances against racism, poverty, and war remain as relevant today as they were when he first voiced them. Also relevant are his calls for creative maladjustment, meaning the refusal to adjust to society's many ills. Abernathy is the author of Partners to History: Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy and the Civil Rights Movement. She also contributed to the Smithsonian Institute’s In the Spirit of Martin. As an actor, she's known for her many roles in films — such as the civil war drama Gods and Generals — and many series, including the Lifetime drama Any Day Now and zombie-apocalypse series The Walking Dead. In addition, she is the lead soloist in a new choral piece, The Listening, composed by Cheryl B. Engelhardt for the Voices 21C Choir in New York City. It’s inspired by an anti-war speech King delivered exactly one year before his death, and it’s been released as a single and a video.

This week, in honor of Black History Month, Liz has an incredible chat with Dr. Martin Luther King's goddaughter, activist and actress Donzaleigh Abernathy. Her stories about "Uncle Martin" and her childhood memories of the segregated south are simply riveting -- plus we talk current events, politics, racial justice, and being more engaged as anti-racist parents. She shares her honest views about what's changed in America, what hasn't, and what she finds incredibly encouraging. (Hint: it has to do with parents like us.) We also share a great love for scented candles and Meghan Markel! // Shownotes: Cool Mom Picks podcast page // Thank you so much for listening, sharing, and for your kind reviews. If you haven't yet, please leave us a five-star review, which is an easy way to support Spawned, totally free.

Dr. Alveda King, niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr talks about her Uncle Martin growing up with her dad AD King, how she can have forgiveness with so much grief in her family, and her reason to support the Biblical definition of marriage and life in the womb. Dr. King also shares the joys of being a grandmother and spending time with those she loves.

Aunt Beth and Jeff gathered their whole family together on Black Friday to discuss what they've been eating and what they've been watching. Concludes with a poem reading by Uncle Martin. Intro and Outro Music from Bensound.com. Please leave us a review by heading to ratethispodcast.com/thatsauntertainment. Follow That's Auntertainment! on Twitter (@auntertainment), Instagram (thatsauntertainment), and Facebook (That's Auntertainment). Got any questions or thoughts? Email us at thatsauntertainmentpodcast@gmail.com

HOSTED BY LEE SANDERS. 10/1/2020: Key points on this week's AEW Dynamite vs WWE NXT===Thoughts on this week's ratings between the shows===XFL returning in 2022===Why Lee feels it's a smart move the XFL is holding off its return by an extra year and how they should re-tweaking things===Joey Ryan is suing his #SpeakingOut victims for $15 million dollars===People can't stop looking at Sonny Kiss and his behind...LITERALLY! NXT TAKEOVER 31 preview and predictions and LOADS MORE!THIS EPISODE OF THE RCWR SHOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU IN PART BY THE FOLLOWING:SHIRTSANDAPPAREL.COM where anyone can upload their own images & custom text to different styles of t-shirts, hoodies, caps, drink koozies, coffee mugs, posters, clipboards, tote bags, stickers and custom Igloo ice chests. Make your own political shirts, BLM shirts or peace & unity shirts.OPT.TV IF YOU'RE READY TO CUT THE CABLE THEN OPT.TV CAN HELP! LOW PRICES BEGINNING AT JUST $6 FOLKS! USE THE PROMO CODE "RCWRSHOW" TO RECEIVE 20% OFF ANY PRODUCT YOU SELECT AT CHECKOUT.CULT OF THE ECLIPSE! THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM WINFIELD WINFIELD! Searching for her runaway child, Jaclyn Ellsworth is led into the derelict parts of western Pennsylvania. After hearing of the supposed miracles of tech industrialist Anthony Charles, she suspects her child is taken by the surrounding cult.But as she winds up in the run-down township of Dourmsburg, its practices turn more sinister and grotesque by the hour. The cult's leader is about to return. Horrifying rituals are hidden behind the walls and under the streets. As Jaclyn tries to escape, she discovers why this place seems so familiar.Cult of the Eclipse is Winfield Winfield's explosive debut, and an electrifying ride of body horror, delusion, and why people are lured into malicious cults.BUY IN PAPERBACK OR KINDLE AT: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CWDBD35/WE THE PEOPLE SYNTHETICS AT http://www.wtp-synthetics.com/ We The People Synthetics provides you with the highest quality Synthetic Lubricants. From Gasoline to Heavy Duty Diesel, and Marine! Have a freedom machine? We have the best quality oil for your 4 stroke and 2 Stroke Motorcycles too! Our Synthetic Lubricants and Additives were designed to meet your most demanding jobs! Let us help you with your Personal Vehicle, Commercial, or Retail needs!YOU CAN OWN IT! AVAILABLE ON AMAZON AT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0851PCMCH/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_DgsDFbN56GBSQYOU CAN OWN IT TELLS THE STORY ABOUT Maurice who loves playing games with his brothers. He also enjoys playing the Monopoly game with his Uncle Martin. Their Uncle Martin takes them to work with him and Maurice discovers his love to own a mansion. Their Uncle Martin encourages his nephews and tells them “They Can Own It One Day!” You Can Own It is a children's book a part of the Learn Something Book Series that promotes the idea of home ownership in children. FOLLOW THE LEARN SOMETHING BOOK SERIES ON INSTAGRAM AT Learn_Something_Book_SeriesZILLIQA AT https://zilliqa.mintable.app/ Enabling the average Joe to upload there, art, music, NFT, Pictures, Any artist. We are leveling the playing field, while the other sites charge anywhere from $10- to $100 to mint and sell there items to the blockchain we give the ordinary person a chance to compete. we charge about $1.00, we use Zilliqa as our cryptocurrency and that is how we are able to compete and beat the other sites prices. The other sites use Ethereum cryptocurrency and that has High gas prices to mint. 2021-PROPHECY AND PREDICTION (TIME) BY Faith Okereke AT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J1J4PY8/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_JJ-DFb115WMZVYou don't need a notebook planner or calender planner to plan for a new / an approaching year, you "need" a REVELATION! Grace is given to the public to prepare....it is coming....get ready..."ANOTHER GREAT STORM"!!!AUDIBLE. BEGIN YOUR 30 DAY TRIAL ON US WITH OUR URL! AUDIBLETRIAL.COM/RCWRFree membership for 30 days with 1 audiobook + 2 Audible Originals. After trial, get 1 audiobook and 2 Audible Originals each month. You will get an email reminder 7 days before your trial ends.ScreamingBulls1, a fantastic wrestling sculptor. If you need custom figures or busts made, hit him up!This episode was made possible by our kind Patreon members as without them this content and other great content would not be possible. Special shout out to Patreon members Geno Morgan, Justin Rebstock, Shawn Kenter, Tony Bing Gaming, Michael Wolf, and John DavisJoin our DISCORD community and interact before, during, and post wrestling shows and events. Link: https://discord.gg/39qHaJeNEW! WE'RE NOW ON PANDORA! https://tinyurl.com/pandorarcwrshowSPOTIFY! https://tinyurl.com/y93fghx7SUPPORT THE SHOW FOR EVEN MORE GREAT, NEW, AND EXCLUSIVE CONTENT! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/rcwrshowGOOGLE PLAY MUSIC: http://tinyurl.com/zb73e86SPREAKER: http://bit.ly/1z81cT5ITUNES: http://bit.ly/1B9Fy1ESTITCHER: http://bit.ly/1yByytu

Martin Luther King ist für sie "Uncle Martin", ihr Patenonkel. Seine Frau nennt sie "Aunt Coretta". King's Tochter Yolanda war ihre beste Freundin. Und ihr Vater Ralph Abernathy war Martin Luther Kings bester Freund und sein Nachfolger und der Mitbegründer der friedlichen Bürgerrechtsbewegung in den USA. Juandalynn Abernathy hat dieses Stück Weltgeschichte miterlebt. Am Küchentisch der Eltern entstanden die Flugblätter, die Strategietreffen mit Martin Luther King fanden in ihrem Zuhause und in ihrer Kirche statt. Im ersten Teil dieser Doppelfolge berichtet Juandalynn Abernathy, die seit 40 Jahren in Baden-Württemberg lebt, von ihrer außergewöhnlichen Kindheit und vom Verhältnis zwischen ihrer und der Familie Kings. Sie erzählt, wie sie selbst einen Bombenanschlag des Ku-Klux-Klan wie durch ein Wunder überlebte und wie sie den Tag der Ermordung ihres berühmten Patenonkels im Jahr 1968 erlebt hat.

Brian Maloney from Please Forgive This Podcast. A Film Podcast, About Film is BACK! The Solecki Bro's and Brian review that 1994 classic film "Clifford" featuring Martin Short, Charles Grodin, and Mary Steenburgen. The movies focuses on the story of a young obnoxious and eccentric boy, played by a then 40 year old Martin Short, whose ultimate goal in life is to visit Dinosaur World. Clifford and his side kick Steffan ( a plastic toy dinosaur) create all sorts of chaos and mayhem for his Uncle Martin along his journey. The Bros thoroughly enjoyed this one and we hope you will too!Follow Please Forgive This Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pleaseforgivethispodcast/Follow Bro'in Up on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bro.in_up_podcast/Instacart:Copy and paste link belowFree Delivery on your first order over $35https://instacart.oloiyb.net/NqEKPBuzzSprout:Best way to host a professional podcastCopy and paste link belowYou will Receive $20 amazon gift card with subscriptionhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=198296

My Favorite Martian is an American science fiction television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966,[2] for 107 episodes. The show stars Ray Walston as Uncle Martin (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara. The first two seasons, totaling 75 episodes, were in black and white, while the 32 episodes of season three were in color. John L. Greene created the central characters and developed the core format of the series, which was produced by Jack Chertok.

We interview heavy metal musician Randall Sandrich and talk to him about ghosts! Ft. "Uncle Martin" by Animism Abstract. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/isufferformyart/support

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an opportunity to remember the life and legacy of one man who changed history forever through his courage and Christian values. In 2019, The Daily Signal spoke to his niece, Alveda King, about her uncle’s enduring legacy. Today, we share that interview once again and remember the courage of Dr. King and those who stood with him in the Civil Rights Movement. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

WOOHOO!!! Happy New Year folks, we hope you are all safe where ever you are in the world. May the new year bring you lots of joy and laughter. At the start of this episode we wish to celebrate the fact that we have achieved 100 episodes, yay!! Now, first topic of the week is from Professor, and it is looking at the PS5, yes that is right, the PS5. We seriously manage to get our one and only Professor talking about the PS5, and positively too. We discuss changes being made to the controller and what it means for the future and the past. Confused? Well listen in to find out exactly what is happening, the discussion is quite interesting.Next up we have DJ bringing us the year ahead in Anime. We have a list of some things to look forward to and what we hope for. We discuss what is looking interesting and why. DJ tells us his hopes and discusses what he likes on the list, and so does Buck. We also have news about upcoming changes to Evangelion. That’s right grab hold of something and get ready for this as it is awesome. If you want to know what is happening you know what to do.Next up we have Buck and the new Mars Rover set to launch later this year for the latest mission to Mars from NASA. This is looking sweet. Remember we were talking in a previous episode last year about the training of NASA scientists happening in Australia in preparation for the next mission? This is it! Yep, the search for signs of life on Mars is going to the next level with the new Rover. Buck is starting to Geek out about this and will be keeping us updated as news comes to hand. If you want to find out more about what is happening on the newest mission listen in and see where the smiley face is.As normal we have the regular shout outs, remembrances, Birthdays, and special events. We wish to ask that if you are able to donate to help the Rural Fire Services, or any Firefighter battling the fires in Australia please do. We have posted links on our Facebook page to a few and there are many other options, but please help, thank you. Once again we wish everyone a Happy New Year, stay safe, look out for each other and stay hydrated.PS5 Controller patent- https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/1221934/The-PS5-controller-patent-major-PlayStation-4-limitation- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-12-17-sony-launching-dualshock-4-rear-button-add-on- https://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20190366210&PageNum=1&&IDKey=&HomeUrl=/2020 in anime including Evangelion 3.0+1.0- https://www.cbr.com/anime-must-watch-releases-2020/- https://www.inverse.com/article/62024-evangelion-movies-rebuild-3-0-1-0-release-date-2020-trailer-plot-hideaki-annoMars Rover 2020 - https://phys.org/news/2019-12-mars-rover-ancient-life-human.htmlGames currently playingBuck– Raid Shadow Legends - https://raidshadowlegends.com/pc-mac-plarium-play/Rating – 4.5/5Professor– Collection of mana - https://www.nintendo.com.au/catalogue/collection-of-manaRating – 5.0/10DJ– Overstep - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1008580/Overstep/Rating – 4/10Other topics discussedMicrosoft sues Sony- https://www.itworld.com/article/2792636/microsoft--sony-sued-over-game-controllers.htmlGoogle Stadia (cloud gaming service operated by Google.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_StadiaOctodad (freeware independent video game developed by a group of students at DePaul University, many of whom would go on to form Young Horses, Inc., the developers of its sequel Octodad: Dadliest Catch.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OctodadSteam Controller (game controller developed by Valve for use with personal computers running Steam on Windows,macOS,Linux,smartphones or SteamOS.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_ControllerDetroit Become Human (2018 adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit:_Become_HumanPS4 Pro- https://www.techradar.com/au/reviews/ps4-proPrice for a PS4 Pro- https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/ps4-playstation-4-1tb-pro-console-glacier-white?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgen_x97k5gIVyiMrCh3rrgt_EAYYAiABEgKeKvD_BwENintendo Switch is the bestselling console- https://www.businessinsider.com.au/nintendo-winning-video-games-fastest-selling-console-2019-3?r=US&IR=TOther anime series coming out in 2020- https://animemotivation.com/upcoming-anime-2020/- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_animePlunderer (Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Suu Minazuki.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunderer_(manga)Sing "Yesterday" for Me (Japanese manga series by Kei Toume.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_%22Yesterday%22_for_MeA Certain Scientific Railgun (Japanese manga series written by Kazuma Kamachi, the manga is a spin-off of Kamachi's A Certain Magical Index light novel series, taking place before and during the events of that series.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Certain_Scientific_RailgunA Certain Magical Index (Japanese light novel series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura, which has been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunkoimprint since April 2004.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Certain_Magical_IndexTear Studio (Japanese animation studio founded on March 15, 2013. The studio filed for bankruptcy in December 2019 with about 43 million yen in debt, including about 8 million yen to around 50 animators.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_Studio- https://variety.com/2019/biz/asia/tear-studio-japan-anime-firm-bankruptcy-1203444697/Kyoto animation studio fire- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49027178Digimon Adventure: Last Adventure Kizuna (upcoming Japanese animated adventure film produced by Toei Animation and animated by Yumeta Company.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon_Adventure:_Last_Evolution_KizunaSorcerous Stabber Orphen (series of Japanese fantasy action adventure light novels,manga, three anime television series (Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen 2: Revenge, and Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (2020), and a video game.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerous_Stabber_OrphenNinja Scroll (1993 Japanese animated jidaigeki-chanbara film written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, starring the voices of Kōichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara,Takeshi Aono,Daisuke Gōri,Toshihiko Seki and Shūichirō Moriyama.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_ScrollSamurai Pizza Cats (American animated television adaptation of the anime series Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee), produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Sotsu Agency.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Pizza_CatsPlunderer (Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Suu Minazuki.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunderer_(manga)Sing "Yesterday" for Me (Japanese manga series by Kei Toume.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_%22Yesterday%22_for_MeMars 2020 Rover nuclear battery- https://www.space.com/mars-2020-rover-nuclear-battery-fueled-up.htmlRadioisotope thermoelectric generator ((RTG, RITEG) is an electrical generator that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity by the Seebeck effect.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generatorChina launches their rocket- https://www.space.com/china-long-march-5-rocket-2019-launch-success.htmlIndia’s second lunar mission- https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/chandrayaan-3-and-gaganyaan-top-priorities-for-isro-in-2020/articleshow/73063629.cmsRFC 791 (Internet protocol)- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791RFC 793 (Internet protocol)- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793My Favourite Martian (1999 American science-fiction comedy film starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels,Daryl Hannah,Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name in which Walston starred.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favorite_Martian_(film)Christopher Lloyd (American actor famous for roles as Emmett "Doc" Brown, Uncle Fester & Uncle Martin)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_LloydTerence Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) (English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. In television, he had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, working as a writer and also serving as the programme's script editor from 1968 to 1974.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_DicksThe Catcher in the Rye (story by J. D. Salinger, partially published in serial form in 1945–1946 and as a novel in 1951.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_RyeRobot & Frank (2012 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Jake Schreier and written by Christopher Ford.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_%26_FrankShoutouts30 Dec 2019 – Syd Mead passed away, he was an American industrial designer and neo futuristic concept artist, widely known for his designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner,Alien and Tron. Mead has been described as "the artist who illustrates the future" and "one of the most influential concept artists and industrial designers of our time." He died from lymphoma at the age of 86 in Pasadena California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Mead31 Dec 2019 - Shoutout to the people of Mallacoota, Victoria and other towns affected by the bushfires - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-509522531 Jan 1983 – The official birthday of the Internet. ARPANET and the Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard which was a new communications protocol called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP). - https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtmlRemembrances1 Jan 1796 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician, musician and chemist who worked with Bézout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with determinant theory in mathematics. He died at the age of 34 in Paris - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Th%C3%A9ophile_Vandermonde1 Jan 1894 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The unit of frequency, cycle per second, was named the "Hertz" in his honor. He was also famous for other works in areas such as meteorology, cathode rays, photoelectric effect and most famously contact mechanics. He died from granulomatosis with polyangiitis at the age of 36 in Bonn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz1 Jan 2001 - Herman Raymond Walston, American actor and comedian, well known as the title character on My Favorite Martian. His major film, television, and stage roles included Luther Billis from South Pacific, Mr. Applegate from Damn Yankees, J. J. Singleton from The Sting, Candy from Of Mice and Men) and Judge Henry Bone from Picket Fences. He died from lupus at the age of 86 in Beverly Hills, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Walston1 Jan 2002 - Julia Phillips, American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband, Michael (and others), three prominent films of the 1970s — The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind — and was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, for The Sting. She died from cancer at the age of 57 in West Hollywood, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_PhillipsFamous Birthdays1 Jan 1852 - Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Frenchchemist who designed highly specialized apparatus for use in his research. A specialist in the emerging field of spectroscopy, he detected the presence of the rare earth element europium in 1896, and isolated it as the oxide europia in 1901. He helped Marie Curie to confirm the existence of another new element, radium, in 1898. He developed an instrument for obtaining spectra, using an induction coil with pure platinum electrodes to produce a high spark temperature that eliminated impurities that could cause foreign spectral lines. By eliminating sources of error, he made it possible to separate out purer samples of various rare earths than had previously been available. He was born in Paris - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne-Anatole_Demar%C3%A7ay1 Jan 1879 - Edward Morgan Forster also known as E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India. The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. His views as a humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of personal connections in spite of the restrictions of contemporary society. He was born in Marylebone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster1 Jan 1919 - Jerome David Salinger also known as J.D Salinger, American writer known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951 and became an immediate popular success. Salinger's depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers. The novel was widely read and controversial. The success of The Catcher in the Rye led to public attention and scrutiny. Salinger became reclusive, publishing new work less frequently. He followed Catcher with a short story collection, Nine Stories; a volume containing a novella and a short story, Franny and Zooey; and a volume containing two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. His last published work, a novella entitled "Hapworth 16, 1924", appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965. He was born in Manhattan, New York - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger1 Jan 1938 - Frank A. Langella Jr. also known as Frank Langella, American stage and film actor. He has won four Tony Awards, two for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performances as Richard Nixon in the play Frost/Nixon and as André in The Father and two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performances in Edward Albee's Seascape and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. His notable film roles include George Prager in Diary of a Mad Housewife, Count Dracula in Dracula, Skeletor in Masters of the Universe, Bob Alexander in Dave, William S. Paley in Good Night, and Good Luck and Richard Nixon in the film production of Frost/Nixon, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He was born in Bayonne, New Jersey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_LangellaEvents of Interest1 Jan 1818 - Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is published anonymously by the small London publishing house of Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones. It was issued anonymously, with a preface written for Mary by Percy Bysshe Shelley and with a dedication to philosopher William Godwin, her father. It was published in an edition of just 500 copies in three volumes, the standard "triple-decker" format for 19th-century first editions. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#Publication1 Jan 1896 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays. This achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. - https://www.onthisday.com/date/1896/january/11 Jan 1901 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; the states kept the systems of government (and the bicameral legislatures) that they had developed as separate colonies, but they also agreed to have a federal government that was responsible for matters concerning the whole nation. When the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1 January 1901, Edmund Barton was appointed the first Prime Minister. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Australia1 Jan 1917 - T. E. Lawrence joins the forces of the Arabian sheik Feisal al Husayn, beginning his adventures that will lead him to Damascus by October, 1918 - https://www.onthisday.com/date/1917/january/1IntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us onFacebook- Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/- Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rssInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/General EnquiriesEmail - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.com

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Vor ein paar Tagen erzählte mir eine Mutter aus der Nachbarschaft, hier in Buea, Kamerun, was ihr Sohn sagte, als sie ihn fragte, warum er ständig bei uns im Happy Kids Hangout ist. Seine Antwort "Wenn du zu den Happy Kids gehst, machen dich Uncle Martin und Auntie Marie glücklich." Mich freut es sehr, dass er sich bei uns wohlfühlt und das er glücklich ist. In dieser Episode möchte ich darauf eingehen, sind es wirklich andere Menschen oder auch Dinge die uns glücklich machen? +++++++++++ www.HappyKidsPodcast.comwww.facebook.com/HappyKidsWorld

Step into the words and paintings of award-winning writers and artists as we celebrate black history in literary color. Award-winning artist Michele Wood’s work reflects a deep sense of history and place. As a painter, illustrator, designer and writer, she has gained wide recognition and has earned multiple awards including the prestigious American Book Award for her first book, Going Back Home. Michelle is also a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award recipient from the American Library Association. Michele’s artistry continues to explode in her other works, I See the Rhythm and I See the Rhythm of Gospel. Fond memories of swimming with “Uncle Martin” is how a small Paula Young-Shelton recalls many days with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As the daughter of former United Nations Ambassador and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Paula offers a human side to the icons of the civil rights movement through her young eyes. Paula’s accounts are colorfully shared in her children’s book “Child of the Civil Rights Movement.” Pulitzer-Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles America’s Great Migration of African-Americans in her epic novel, The Warmth of Other Suns. Isabel shares many accounts of African-Americans who left the south between 1915 to 1970 in search of freedom and opportunity and, in doing so, changed a nation and the world. The Migration of over 6 million black folks from the south not only transformed society, politics, economics and culture, these events also changed the course of history.

Nobody is born with enough experience to fight off the last living dinosaurs - or even a pigeon, for that matter. That experience can only come with age, but even age can not guarantee that a spider won’t make you scream as much as a saltwater crocodile will. Experience and wisdom come with time, but your mindset can make up for a lack of it all. Keeping a positive mindset while you are travelling and while you are snug at home means everything to how you influence your own experience of your world. Both your home world and your travel world can be your real world, with the right mindset. Our guest for this episode, Guy Earnshaw, brings to the table a couple of fun stories where he is confronted with a beast in the wild and did little more than shriek and run away. Guy and Hayden also talk to us about taking your travel mindset home with you and inspire yourself to stay positive, even when your boots are not on the ground somewhere far from home. Plus, Guy’s northern accent helps you pronounce “Cairns”, and he dictates his fear of specific birds. Enjoy listening to Guy wax poetic about the Cairns rainforest, wax fearful about cassowaries, and join Hayden in advising on how to keep your positive travel mindset going year-round. 1:30 - Guy talks about the appeal of traveling to different locations People have tricked themselves into thinking that traveling is the only good time, but they can actually have a good time in between travels There are benefits to both “real worlds” - the travel world, and the home world Guy advises to keep a positive mentality, to bring a positive mindset to your home world, to be more open, talk to strangers, get lost, don’t go the same way to work every time, and to try to see the fun in the day-to-day Mindset matters more than anything when it comes to your outlook and your experience Travel Tips Episode #3, Having A Good Mindset Whilst Traveling Travel Tips Episode #5, Experiencing Travel 7:25 - Guy starts talking about his young life and how he started travelling Guy will be travelling around just California in August for three weeks, and he invites listeners to come and see him while he’s there! 13:00 - A Cairns Adventure, A Coward’s Surprise - Guy starts telling a story from when he, his Uncle Martin, and his Uncle Martin’s nine-year-old grandson travelled in Cairns, a rainforest wonderland in Australia Guy proves (through a couple of amusing stories in which he shrieks, grabs his second cousin, and hides) that you’re not always what you’d expect you’d be when you’re adventuring, and you never know how you’ll react to a situation until it happens 24:20 - Travel Tip - Keep on top of safety in any city you’re in, don’t get scared and go over the actions so you don’t freeze up 25:38 - Guy advises listeners not to let being at home be the end of your enjoyment and your experience; take your travel mindset home with you and apply it to your hometown life - look for the beautiful things in your life at home

Step into the words and paintings of award-winning writers and artists as we celebrate black history in literary color. Award-winning artist Michele Wood’s work reflects a deep sense of history and place. As a painter, illustrator, designer and writer, she has gained wide recognition and has earned multiple awards including the prestigious American Book Award for her first book, Going Back Home.  Michelle is also a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award recipient from the American Library Association.  Michele’s artistry continues to explode in her other works, I See the Rhythm and I See the Rhythm of Gospel. Fond memories of swimming with “Uncle Martin” is how a small Paula Young-Shelton recalls many days with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  As the daughter of former United Nations Ambassador and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Paula offers a human side to the icons of the civil rights movement through her young eyes.  Paula’s accounts are colorfully shared in her children’s book “Child of the Civil Rights Movement.” Pulitzer-Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles America’s Great Migration of African-Americans in her epic novel, The Warmth of Other Suns.  Isabel shares many accounts of African-Americans who left the south between 1915 to 1970 in search of freedom and opportunity and, in doing so, changed a nation and the world.  The Migration of over 6 million black folks from the south not only transformed society, politics, economics and culture, these events also changed the course of history

Step into the words and paintings of award-winning writers and artists as we celebrate black history in literary color. Award-winning artist Michele Wood’s work reflects a deep sense of history and place. As a painter, illustrator, designer and writer, she has gained wide recognition and has earned multiple awards including the prestigious American Book Award for her first book, Going Back Home.  Michelle is also a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award recipient from the American Library Association.  Michele’s artistry continues to explode in her other works, I See the Rhythm and I See the Rhythm of Gospel. Fond memories of swimming with “Uncle Martin” is how a small Paula Young-Shelton recalls many days with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  As the daughter of former United Nations Ambassador and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Paula offers a human side to the icons of the civil rights movement through her young eyes.  Paula’s accounts are colorfully shared in her children’s book “Child of the Civil Rights Movement.” Pulitzer-Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles America’s Great Migration of African-Americans in her epic novel, The Warmth of Other Suns.  Isabel shares many accounts of African-Americans who left the south between 1915 to 1970 in search of freedom and opportunity and, in doing so, changed a nation and the world.  The Migration of over 6 million black folks from the south not only transformed society, politics, economics and culture, these events also changed the course of history.    

Special guest Donzaleigh Abernathy, whose father co-founded the Civil Rights Movement with Dr. King and knew him as "Uncle Martin" gives us an intimate insider look at the man who not only taught but literally walked the walk of Non-Violence at home, AND

Step into the words and paintings of award-winning writers and artists as we celebrate black history in literary color. Award-winning artist Michele Wood’s work reflects a deep sense of history and place. As a painter, illustrator, designer and writer, she has gained wide recognition and has earned multiple awards including the prestigious American Book Award for her first book, Going Back Home.  Michelle is also a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award recipient from the American Library Association.  Michele’s artistry continues to explode in her other works, I See the Rhythm and I See the Rhythm of Gospel. Fond memories of swimming with “Uncle Martin” is how a small Paula Young-Shelton recalls many days with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  As the daughter of former United Nations Ambassador and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Paula offers a human side to the icons of the civil rights movement through her young eyes.  Paula’s accounts are colorfully shared in her children’s book “Child of the Civil Rights Movement.” Pulitzer-Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles America’s Great Migration of African-Americans in her epic novel, The Warmth of Other Suns.  Isabel shares many accounts of African-Americans who left the south between 1915 to 1970 in search of freedom and opportunity and, in doing so, changed a nation and the world.  The Migration of over 6 million black folks from the south not only transformed society, politics, economics and culture, these events also changed the course of history.

Doreen Block, a startup strategy consulting, entrepreneur and author of The Coolest Startups in America joins co-hosts David Biondo and Dean Rotbart in a conversation about what it takes to be a successful, standout startup business.  In her new book, Doreen identifies 72 of the best, most innovative companies in the United States. This is part two of a two-part interview. Also on this segment, B. Unconventional Certified Entrepreneur #1, Homer Hudson Hillis, Jr., pays tribute to his uncle, Martin Hillis, who passed away in February 2012 at age 90.  "Uncle Martin" was a WWII air corps veteran who lived a content life and epitomized the verse, "Godliness with contentment is great gain." B. Unconventional airs each Sunday morning at 8 a.m. (MST).  The program is also streamed over the Internet at www.710KNUS.com.  Original air date:  March 4, 2012

This week Ed will be attending Glenn Beck’s 8/28 rally to restore honor. Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be speaking on the 47th anniversary of her Uncle Martin’s “I have a Dream” speech. She has asked for Ed to stand beside her with other friends as she speaks. So look for Ed “Doc” … Read more about this episode...