Syd Jeenes - inventor of the therophone.....Jen S. Seedy - intake and upkeep.....Jed Sensey - mirth and medicine.....Deen S. Jynes - weights and measures.....who collectively put the "back" back into background singer
Influences
i'm influenced by the weather, the news, the sound of children laughing, airline discount fares, hormones, the passing of James Brown, the literature of jazz, oddball effects pedals, music written by my friends, cheese, intoxicants of various ilks, fire, beautiful words no matter where they might be found, time travel, worn guitar picks, all manner of keyboard instruments, darkness...................
people who really listen
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Sounds Like
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when you drop a nickel down a flight of stairs, and your microphone positioning is such that you achieve a natural reverb so as not to impede the insight you might notice in some of the utterances of the human being behind the other, often more compressed microphone signals
...or Stevie Wonder, H.L. Mencken, and some wise but toothless person...momentarily locked inside a Beatles album...
with incessant talk radio in the background
but yet it sounds like that familiar pair of shoes feels, and it burrows into your brain...you wake up the next day humming it...
and then you check the lyrics and notice how literate they are, which isn't necessarily saying much...
the old New Orleans, with a bit of the new New Orleans woven in
it's the kind of music that video geeks should make beautiful short films out of them, and then send them to me...
Get up off your ass and do something. Okay? Quit complaining.
You voted, right? And who counted the votes?
Perhaps you emailed your Congress-whore once or twice. Fine. Great. Pat yourself on the back. Not enough. We're coming up on 4 years since the most recent chapter of Death and Destruction in Iraq was launched from Dick Cheney's bunker.
The bloodthirsty criminals running the table right now are going for broke! Do you understand me? If you don't personally do something - and quick - the last gasp of our experiment with democracy will come to haunt you. Our freedoms are being dismantled, demolished, eradicated, finished, gutted, hijacked, insubordinated, jettisoned, and so on...
..........I have had my activist-minded songs played on numerous radio stations, and have performed live on nationally syndicated radio. You should really listen to the Mike Malloy show.
I have taken to recording stuff all on my own these days. I have been known to record other folks as well. Every time I google myself (c'mon...all the cool kids are doing it) I unearth yet another video project that has used one of my songs as the soundtrack.
I am the sound man at Camp Casey...have you heard of it? What have you done today to bring the troops home?
..........Did I mention that you need to become more actively involved in the world around you, like fucking now.
I'm a Prairie Dog...know what that is? We were all arrested in Crawford, Texas standing up for your 1st Amendment rights. Only two of us have been charged, and found guilty of obstructing an un-named road by a kangaroo court in Waco. Thank us by imitating us.
Seriously, if you whine later after the neoConvict protoFascist tactical nuclear winter, I won't be around to hear you. Our planet is in trouble. Our country is in trouble. People's children are dying needlessly in wars for profit. It is a completely unnecessary horror, but a very real horror. Imagine it were your son, daughter, neice, nephew, brother, sister, friend, cousin, mama, papa getting blown up by a car bomb.
Educate yourself...listen to good music, and start to think about ways that you can make a difference...show up at a protest sometime, or organize your own...practice civil disobedience to defy unjust laws and ordinances...
Oh, yeah...and send me some friggin money, would ya? Click up on my website and buy something to support my rabble rousing activities. All tax combustible.
www.jessedyen.com
My attempts to create an Open at the Mama Buzz Cafe have failed. The will be no open mic at the Mama Buzz cafe. The "Every Second Sunday" open mic has been double booked for the second month in a row. It is clear I'm not suited to be the host of an open mic. Thank you all for your interest and support. My sincerest apologies to all musicians poets that hoped and even planned for this open mic.
Peace Sunday, June 5, 1982, Rose Bowl, no nukes - nuclear disarmament - stop nuclear madness concert - NYC - Central Park - June 12, 1982, 1,000,000 person march and rally for Nuclear Freeze. Photography and presentation by Curtis Rainbow. 'Give Peace a Chance' music by Achim Schultz. Inspiration by Yoko Ono. Dedicated to John Lennon.
The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, as we get ready for our monthlong tour of the Great Northwest! Check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J
Look for us in Washington, Oregon and California between October 15 and November 15, when our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
love is a form it calls to all, for the essence of panic is chaos of no desirable trait except wished upon thy enemy. So as i do much more than stumble through this persistant, pathetic, chaos laden frustration, I hear the call. love is in my head, love is in my very being, and i know to strut on. i laugh about 'staying alive', for I now know I will always be.
Jesse Dyen, Happy Thursday to you! Wishing you a restful and relaxed week. If you need some inspirational musical help relaxing, there are 3 albums available now at iTunes! You Can download them at Itunes by clicking below:
Thanks for being one of the 3100+ members of Musicians and Artists for World Peace, now in 57 countries, including Donovan, Melanie, Patti LaBelle, Pete Seeger, Melba Moore, the New Rascals, Willie Nelson's Peace Research Institute, the Dalai Lama, Holly Near, Country Joe, Wayne Dyer, Patch Adams, Jean Houston, Dennis Kucinich & Deepak Chopra's Alliance for a New Humanity to mention just a few.
It would be much appreciated if you would consider placing us on your top friends list. If you have lots of friends you can search for us. Go to Change my Top Friends and paste in Musicians for Peace in the "Quick Find " dialog box.
BTW, we are joining with people from all over the world to help make the 40th anniversary of Woodstock a true celebration of peace and love through music and collaboration. If you want to join our advisory committee for that, please see http://passion.edu/elearn/mod/resource/view.php?id=1712
Our 40th anniversary event is planned for Sunday, October 25, 2009 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. We are also doing the Green Zone at this event. Interested vendors and sponsors should contact me at bflyspirit8@aol.com Please also see the producers page at http://www.2b1records.com
WITH A PHENOMINAL SOUND AND LIGHTING SYSTEM, up to 200 (+ a few) per. cap., FULL BAR, FULL KITCHEN MENU, POOL TABLE, AN OUTDOOR SMOKING AREA, TONS OF PARKING.
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