Best cover of Woody Guthrie: John Mellencamp's "Do re mi"

Long ago...John Mellencamp joined several artists in an album called "Folkways: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and LeadBelly"

Here's one of the best covers of a Guthrie song.

 "Do re mi" about the dust bowl Okies looking for work in California.

John Fogerty wants to KEEP ON CHOOGLIN (with some guitar licks)

This is John Fogerty back touring in 2005.  You can get this on DVD ("The Long Road Home"), and it's worth it all the way.

He shows you...what he knows about Kansas City Blues.

He starts with guitar show off moves...that are subtle enough to be a perfect intro as he harks back to his
bluesy electric interpretation of Delta blues (which moved north first through Kansas City, then to Chicago, where a muddier sound fusion defined a sub genre).

Notice the pretty girl in the white tank top...at the 2:00 mark.....she's getting her groove back.

From Wikipedia:


....Fogerty traveled to Mississippi in 1990 for inspiration and visited the gravesite of blues legend Robert Johnson. According to him, there he realized that Robert Johnson was the true spiritual owner of his own songs, no matter what businessman owned the rights to them, and thus Fogerty decided to start making a new album and to perform his old Creedence material regularly in concert.^[7][8] 

 It was at this time visiting the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church cemetery that Fogerty met Skip Henderson, a New Jersey vintage guitar dealer who had formed a nonprofit corporation The Mt. Zion Memorial Fund to honor Johnson with a memorial marker. Fogerty subsequently funded headstones for Charlie Patton, James Son Thomas, Mississippi Joe Callicott, Eugene Powell, Lonnie Pitchford and helped with financial arrangements for numerous others.^[9]
.......

Salute to TODD "god" RUNDGREN

From Wikipedia:           Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop-wunderkind, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972,^[1] his career has produced a diverse range of recordings as solo artist, and during the seventies and eighties with the band Utopia. He has also been prolific as a producer and engineer on the recorded work of other musicians.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Rundgren engineered and/or produced many notable albums for other acts, including Straight Up by Badfinger, Stage Fright by The Band, We're an American Band by Grand Funk Railroad, Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf, and Skylarking by XTC. In the 1980s and 1990s his interest in video and computers led to his "Time Heals" being the eighth video played on MTV, and "Change Myself" was animated by Rundgren on commercially available Amiga Computers.^[2]

His best-known songs include "Hello It's Me" and "I Saw the Light," which have heavy rotation on classic rock radio stations, and "Bang the Drum All Day," which is featured in many sports arenas, commercials, and movie trailers. Although lesser known, "Couldn't I Just Tell You" has had a major influence on artists in the power pop musical genre.<sup>[3]....

 .....</sup>
By 1972, the Runt persona/band identity had been abandoned, and Rundgren's next project, the ambitious double LP Something/Anything? (1972) was credited simply to Rundgren, who wrote, played, sang, engineered, and produced everything on three of the four sides of the album. Something/Anything? featured the top 20 U.S. hits "I Saw The Light" (#16; not to be confused with the Hank Williams song of the same name), and a remake of the Nazz near-hit "Hello It's Me", which reached #5 in the U.S. and is Rundgren's biggest hit. The former song featured Rundgren on all vocals and instruments.....

 ...
Although he opposed the use of drugs during his days with Nazz, in the early 1970s Rundgren changed his views and began experimenting with various mind-altering substances including marijuana, LSD and the stimulant Ritalin and this had a marked effect both on the style of his music and his productivity:

"It (Ritalin) caused me to crank out songs at an incredible pace. 'I Saw the Light' took me all of 20 minutes. You can see why, too, the rhymes are just moon/June/spoon kind of stuff..."^[8]

Speaking of the effect on A Wizard, A True Star, Rundgren commented:

"With drugs I could suddenly abstract my thought processes in a certain way, and I wanted to see if I could put them on a record. A lot of people recognised it as the dynamics of a psychedelic trip—it was almost like painting with your head."^[8]

^.... Rundgren's production of Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell (on which he also played lead guitar) helped that album become one of the top selling LPs released in the 1970s. The industry regard for Rundgren's production work has been a lofty one: Jim Steinman, with whom Rundgren worked on Bat Out of Hell, has said in interviews that "Todd Rundgren is a genius and I don't use that word a lot."^[13]

Listen to THE JAYHAWKS, "Tommorrow the Green Grass" album

Here's a little something about something I've said long ago:  THE MINNESOTA ALT COUNTRY BAND, KNOWN AS THE JAYHAWKS are pretty good.

This song is "Bad Time"....and shows off their perfect break through album "Tommorrow the Green Grass".

Nice harmonies....no?

These two songs...should lead you to...consider buying this album...or, do what I do when I want to hear a whole album in it's entirety for free...with NO SIGN IN.....JUST LIKE WIKIPEDIA...just go to GROOVESHARK.COM and search something like "The Jayhawks " Tommorrow the Green Grass'"....then wait about five seconds....see an icon that says "play all"...click...and hear one of the best easy listening albums, you probabely never heard of.

This is The Jayhawks playing, probabely their highest charting song, "I'm gonna make you love me" from The Smile album (video is something from some cable TV show...just hear the music).

Unknown superstar, AUSTIN TEXAS' GUY FORSYTHE celebrates the morning sun at Kerrville Folk Festival

After I permanently moved to Austin, Texas, (1993)....it was not long that I found myself walking down Sixth Street near Joe's Generic Bar.  This was a place where any decent musician could get free exposure while playing for tips.  Guy Forsythe found a quick easy home there, that vaulted him into parochial stardom as one of Austin's leading points of light and tunes.

Guys like "Guy Forsythe" made Austin...the greatest city in America during the nineties.  Now, it's a part of Los Angeles, and nobody knows nobody when it used to be something like, "...Everyone is Somebody in Austin, Texas, where we liked to keep Austin weird...".


I remember reminding Guy one day at a coffee shop...just how good and energetic his first early shows at Joe's were....but....he just smirked hopeing those shows were quickly forgotten?  Apparently, he had moved on from primitive formats and early attempts at reaching for cosmic significance?

Guy plays alone and forms groups...and stayed along time with The Asylum Street Spankers.

You can see Guy...in this video...at the SUNRISE CEREMONY held every morning at The Kerrville Folk Festival (2011)....which is comparable to a mini, hippie, Texas Woodstock.

Guy is alot of things...but mostly...a talented singer, songwriter, and another obscure superstar who hasn't reached the levels of destructive fame, that usually ruins good hearted souls.

Thank God for graceful small failures in avoidance of destructive special treatment sometimes identified as "fame" or "Transference".

Worth your time...during the Moab, Utah or Wyoming winter months....to keep the idea that "you can survive the winter blues" by searching and studying Guy Forsthe's musial history and discography.

The movie, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad....World"

This is a famous clip from a famous funny movie, made in the 60's.

The title: "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad....World".

A classic family movie loaded with comedic stars and famous actors from an earlier time.

The above scene shows Jonathon Winters at his best doing what is called.... physical comedy.

Very funny movie, and clean enough for families.

Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" (an album to buy if you don't know)

Long ago, Jazz music got recorded by a genius named Miles Davis.  If you don't know about his most famous classic Jazz album....it's called "Kind of Blue".  Everyone, should have this in their car, if their traveling long distances out west.

I used to listen to this over and over.  It's a classic.  You can always use it for mood music to reflect back
on the costs and dividends of your emotional investments.

Reporting Remote Viewer Info: double edged sword fighting?

From JOE McMONEAGLE's remote viewing website. Joe wrote several books worth your time, if you
want to test your own ability to recieve TORSION ENERGY FIELDS ("the power source") as a psychic
military spy or "remote viewer".

See movie "The Men Who Stare At Goats" and listen very, very, very....carefully to George Clooney's
dialogue.
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Do you tell anyone?



from Joe, on October 5th, 2006




The question is, if you get information “psychically or through remote viewing” that might be useful to someone in power, do you tell them?


Of course not! My recommendation would be not to do it, unless you want an FBI case number....

........ after your name and a permanent file in their regional data bank where someone will go to it every time something really screwy happens and ask to look at his “nut-balls” listing, to see if anything cross references to you — because that’s exactly where you will end up and that’s exactly what will happen.

You could volunteer your information in some secretive way?

Actually, that could prove to be much worse. What if you turn out to be right? If you are correct, then you are automatically suspected as involved and every effort will be made to hunt you down since you did deliver the information secretively. And since they have had to hunt you down, you are now automatically considered a righteous suspect, or at least until you are totally cleared (preferably by alibi.) Take my word for it. Out of any given 100 investigators, and I’m talking hard-core investigators, maybe two would believe you got it in your dreams or psychically in the first place, so you still get the case number and go in the nut-bag file drawer until you’ve solved at least five or six cases.

This is probably something not worth doing unless they come and ask you for it first. This means you must first develop a track record of some significance.

(Ding!) I heard that from the back of the room. “Gee, how do I do that if no one will ever listen to me or use me in the first place?” Great question!

Basically, it’s called sink or swim.

You jump in.

Ignore everything I just said. If you think you are that good and the information is that good, you pick up a phone and call someone at your local FBI Regional Headquarters and give them your name. You tell them you are a psychic [don't try and explain remote viewing, they don't care about it] and you have information you feel is important. Then you give them the information. They take it and put it all in the “Nut-bag File.”

If it comes true, they will show up at your door and you will be seriously interviewed and asked where you were and what you were doing when it occurred. I hope you have a great alibi for where you were when it happened.

Now, you keep doing that, until you’ve established a track record that contains more accurate information than inaccurate information, at which point they will then take you out of the “Nut-bag File” and give you a confidential informant number, and may actually accept your phone calls. However, and this is critically important you hear this because I will only say this one time.

If you tell anyone you are working for the Government or the FBI, and they find out you said that, you will go permanently into the “Nut-bag File” and they will never speak to you again. The rule is; if you talk about their business, they will have no business to do with you. And that is the same with every law enforcement agency I’ve ever had any knowledge of.

And, there is one louder and more significant word of warning that is even more important when it comes to important people in power and that regards the President of the United States. Never mess with the President unless you are absolutely, 100%, solid-gold positive about your information and can back it up with a track record that is Platinum-clad. The Secret Service is an organization that does not muck about or play games with anyone about anything at all. You do not want to go into their “Nut-bag File.” Once you go in, you do not come out.

There is one other comment I would add here. If this is a game you want to play in, then you can’t be just good at it, you must be very, very good at it. Because there are people in power who play on more than one side of the street and they do so simultaneously.

Sometimes they even play on more than one street at a time. If you cannot see that psychically along with the information you are choosing to deliver, you may be playing in a very awkward game and be in for some very uncomfortable surprises.

As many of you know, I can be somewhat humorous when speaking. In the past, I have sometimes referred to remote viewing within the halls of government, the law, or bureaucracies as more like a ‘knife fight in a phone booth’ (then of course everyone titters and laughs.) But, no matter how many laugh whenever I make that statement, I’ve never made it to be funny. It’s absolutely true.

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Tommy:

Even worse. The nut bag file, can lead to a COINTELPRO NEUTRALIZATION involving an Involuntary Mental Health Commitment by a group of jack asses known as REPUBLICAN, HOLSTER SNIFFING, COP GROUPIES who people Mental Health Boards.

G.H.W. Bush....ready for Federal Pen?

From Ben Fulford, we have confirmation that G.H.W.BUSH is finally...going to jail with Tim "the rat face punk" Geithner flipping and talking towards a future sentence reduction?:



http://benjaminfulford.net/


Weekly Geopolitical News and Analysis20120305:


The hunt is on, cabal arrests accelerating



The ongoing financial war is accelerating with arrests and assassinations being seen on both sides.

George Bush Senior and Bill Gates were arrested last week for sabotaging the new financial system after being fingered by Timothy Geithner, pentagon sources say.

The Federal Reserve Board crime syndicate cabalists for their part murdered Lord James Blackheath on February 29th, after he denounced their theft of $15 trillion in the British House of Lords.

The White Dragon Society, meanwhile has put out an all points bulletin seeking the immediate arrest for questioning of former Hong Kong Police Chief Peter Stevens.


Stevens is wanted on charges of smuggling into Japan the nuclear weapon that was used for the 311, 2011 nuclear and tsunami attack against Japan. Stevens is currently located at the Puerto Galera yacht club in the Philippines.


The gnostic illuminati family and the hacker group anonymous have also agreed to join forces with the White Dragon Society with a program of attacks on Monsanto and other cabal strongholds.

The Rockefellers, Krugers, Openheimers, Mellons, Warburgs, Rothschilds, Bushes, Morgans and other cabal families will be systematically hunted down and rounded up if they do not surrender within the month of March.

The rest is available for a fee at his subscription site:
http://benjaminfulford.net/

Sanity and Wilderness Solitude: two kissing cousins who talk frequently?

I blew out of Needles, California and headed north to Bullhead City, Arizona (they could have called it, "Crackhead City"...but didn't...huh?).

All I got from Needles was a serendipitous bathroom novelty called "Horny Goat Weed". Hmmmmm........who am I to snicker at wasting 75 cents.

Have not tried the Horny Goat weed yet, but find myself proud of this bizarre possession and remain curious.
















With "Horny Goat" I headed for Arizona Bay along the Lake Mead National Recreation Area (Arizona north of Kingman, south of Boulder Dam).





This is a vast, intricate, lonely, overlooked area of desert accessed on delightfully remote gravel roads.









Car camping near the waters of Lake Mojave (downstream of Boulder Dam forming Lake Mead) is highlighted with owls hooting at night, coyote families howling to each other, and some shy desert fox routinely coming out of their dens to circle the food smell from my truck.

A pair of ravens always drift over and seem to remember me for all the bread crumbs I share.

Had a pair of Bald Eagles show their "too cool for school" presence as a Grebe got dive bombed with the eagle using the morning sun to hide his attack.











I did get a good dusky, softly lit shot showing the usual Mojave Desert colors.










With nothing to do, and perfect sunny winter weather...I set up a major shoot using toy figurines. This shoot started like this.



Way too many figures and little or no composition...with too many possible focal points to choose from?












But I soldiered on, and hit my stride working all the angles...and pulling in close to take advantage of all the cluttered figures in the background.














There seems no end to shooting figurines with a super macro lens adjustment.

The possibilities lead to...an existential resolution as delusions of omnipotence plays out using figurines as mere mortals?





Hint: you can get these police figurines and wrestlers in the toy aisle at The 99 cent store in Bullhead City.




A PEACE sign made...by peace officers?

I've spent a lot of good time in this area, and hope some day to talk BLM into erecting an official "desert rat" Memorial Garbage Can for beer bottles.

The inscription:

"...In honor and memory of a lost child who grew to be "a man of infinite jest" by suffering then conquering SOLITUDE as a force field, a meditation, and an awakening to what lies ahead as a road man for The Lords of Karma.... Paid for by "The Horny Goat Weed" corporation as a sponsor for emerging "desert rat, half assed, nature photographers".