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Letter From The Editor September 2016

Greetings readers!

We have been working on some very exciting things coming soon to the world of Steel Notes Magazine!

This issue is filled with many interesting and informative articles, such as the real story behind Charles Manson, Interview with photographer Johan Vipper, and jewelry designer Tia Marie Williams.

Concert reviews and photos of Huey Lewis & The News, Billy Joel, Christina Perry, The Go Go’s, 3 Doors Down, Candlebox, AND MORE! CD review of Punk group- Barb Wire Dolls, pictorials of the beautiful Arizona landscape, France, and “Gone Girl” movie review.

Happy reading!

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Vipper Tiamarie Williams, One Time Dezigns Jewelry Charlie Manson: You May Be A Lover But You Ain’t No Dancer Save The Hippies Comic Issue #6 Mama I grew up to be a Cowboy Billy Joel And Christina Perry Pictorial Tribute To 50 Years - John Mayall & The Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton Barb Wire Dolls Desperate, By Dana Saravia Suzi Chunk New Single Review Gone Girl (2014) Review The Go-Go's Photos and Concert Review 3 Doors Down @ Sands Event Center Candlebox Sands Event Center

ADMINISTRATIVE Alexxis SteelePublisher/EditorIn-Chief Guido ColacciAssistant Editor Mick ReynoldsProofreader/Copy Editor Jeffrey HeldDesign/Layout/ Cover

PHOTOGRAPHERS The Grouch: Oddslane, Out Of The Garage Sheri Bayne Vol. 2 Review Bob Klein The Grouch: Gnarly Wave Vol 1 Review Gary Preis Interview to Munsey Ricci from Skateboard Brian Smith Marketing Derek Mitch Inspiration from Alessia Bastianelli Travis Eisenhard Yvonne Sotomayor Poetry Brian Limage All About Music Pictorial by Elodie Salert Ron Shurey Avignon Dave Hummell Bongo Boy TV Reviews Episode 1086 & 1088 Alan Ottenstein Bongo Boy TV Reviews Episode 1083 & 1084 Larry Dell Bongo Boy TV: Summertime and the Music is Brian Matus Here Bill Des Jardins iSpin Radio worldwide Radio Gatemouth Widhat: Out Of The Garage Volume Two VIDEOGRAPHERS Jenny Cat: Out Of The Garage Volume Two Lisa Koza Journey To India with Rex Maurice OppenLarry Dell heimer Arizona Landscape Pictorial By Roddy Smith

STAFF WRITERS Alexxis Steele Marlowe B. West Dana Saravia Jerry Saravia Guido Colacchi Victor Colicchio Mick Reynolds Sheri Bayne The Gypsy Poet Noah J Gambino Kelly Mitch Tony Angelo Mike Dorn Drama D Karma Moonbeam Bob Klein JennyCat Foxxy Roxxy Yvonne Sotomayor Stormy Boz Scott Saxon Johnny Gibbs Luca Cerardi Alessia Bastianelli Scott Aber Todd Sobczak Monique Grimme Nikki Palomino Stewart Brodian Matt Roman Daniel Diefenderfer Rex Maurice Oppenheimer JR Muffley Traci Dunton Shaw Jr Peterson Patrick Campbell The Grouch DC Ryder

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Show Review

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by Noah J Gambino, Photos Bob Klein Media.com © If “The Heart of Rock N Roll” is the beat, I would say Huey Lewis and The News, get it right.

Huey, a San Francisco based native, has his musical roots in the Blues and Doo Wop, with a heavy back beat.

Catchy hooks, great melodies and excellent musicianship are what you get at a Huey Lewis show.

No, Huey doesn’t wear a fancy suit, spandex pants, or a tie with lights in it, but just a tee shirt and jeans work great for him.

He is witty, fun, and is just simply “one of the guys”.

I did talk to his main guy Johnny Colla, songwriter, saxophonist, guitar player, and his arranger. Johnny simply said to me- “Que Paso” It’s just another day at the races!

The band has a new album coming out with some new material, which they played some tracks from at the show. Huey stated that he would be happy to play the old hits all night long, but the band “insisted” that they also do some new material.

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Huey has had the same original lineup since the band’s inception in 1979, who he calls his “family”.

If you have never seen a Huey Lewis and The News show, get yourself a ticket and check them out, because they do a great job that is well worth your time and money.

Rock N Roll does keep you young, and “Do You Believe in Love”? I hope so, because it makes the world go round!

Thanks Huey for a great night out, from me and my Suzzie.

Peaches , Noah J Gambino

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NYC Rock Photographer Johan Vipper Ladies and Gentlemen and Children of All Ages ... You should all know me by now ...

I have been the Star Reporter here at Steel Notes Magazine since it’s inception 2 1/2 years ago ... My name is Marlowe B West and I am your Ring Leader ... I have thus far acquired and developed additional departments in this ongoing career of mine called Marlowe B West Takez Manhattan ... For one; I should mention that my cherished gig as monthly co-host on the Rew & Who cable TV show, after two years being Steel Notes Magazine representative, has come to an end ... Rew Starr has moved onward and upward pursuing her already blossoming other careers ... with a new single soon to be released on Manta Ray Records called House of Wine ... she is also extremely happy to be fulfilling her lifelong dream as an actress ... We all love Rew and will continue to support her every step on her way to the top ... As it works out that way for Rew, so shall things carry on for us all.

In my pursuit of finding and bringing my readers any and all treasures I uncover along my merry ole trail here in New York City, my Marlowe B West Takez Manhattan platform has branched out with an extension called The Whirling Worldz of Marlowe B West ... which includes interviews with all those outside of Manhattan ... such as Los Angeles and London ... I am also the singer/songwriter in the band by the same name Marlowe B West Takez Manhattan ... Out of the blue ... Phil Stone, trombone player in The Brooklyn Horns said “Marlowe, you would be great with horns!” ... With no further persuasion at all we have joined forces and have become Marlowe B West Takez Manhattan & The Brooklyn Horns ... Recently we made our debut in the now trending rock and roll mecca on the coveted lower east side called Sidewalk NYC ... I am thrilled to announce it was a dynamic show ... The enthusiastic reaction was it’s own reward.

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A few days had passed when I received a profound description of our show in the form of a single photograph ... The photographer was Johan Vipper ... upon viewing his work I have had to conclude that this guy is currently the most incredible photographer ever ... Not only in Rock and Roll but in all subjects his eyes and equipment choose to observe ... I mean his nature shots and landscapes are like something you would expect from Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone ... The photograph Johan took of us was a mindblower in that he captured the glitter in the air ... astounding me ...

MBW: Let’s start right there, Johan ... Can you tell us what alien supernatural powers you possess ... to perceive and grab that moment as you do ???

JV: I have the supernatural power of looking three seconds into the future … :) MBW: I detect an accent, Johan ... Do you care to tell us about your background ???

JV: Born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and an Estonian father, moved to NYC New Years Eve 1989 after spending lots of time here since the late 1970s.

MBW: You are the most joyful newlywed ... I see you and your beautiful wife Ingrid Rudefors Vipper everywhere I go in Manhattan ... As you well know I have recently interviewed Ingrid and her new book Meanwhile On A Roof In Chinatown ... Just thought I’d bring our readers up to date ... I think you are the perfect couple to ask about living in New York City ... How would you describe one of your most memorable recent happy days together ???

JV: Last weekend we spent a lazy afternoon exploring Red Hook in Brooklyn ending the afternoon at Hometown Bar-b-Que, the best in the city we think. Contemplating moving there but it is really too far. We like living a four minute walk from Sidewalk and The Bowery Electric. This particular day ended at an Anne Husick event at Sidewalk. Walking distance. We also spend a lot of time on our balcony overlooking Alphabet City.

MBW: Just a few days ago I was engaged in conversation with a beautifully inspired young novice in your field named Alice Espinosa Cincotta who said you had taken her under your wing ... how awesome and fortunate for anyone ... She told me that you have been taking serious photographs for quite some time ... Will you please tell us about your passion for photography ???

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JV: In art school in Stockholm in the early 80s my teacher of photography and mentor was one of the best fine art photographers of Sweden. From him I learnt to take photography seriously. He let me share his darkroom, spent many long nights there printing black and white, I’m a good printer. In the early 80s I shot a lot of rock bands in Sweden and NYC in clubs like Mudd Club and Peppermint Lounge. Funny thing is that some of the people i shot back then i’ve now become friends with in the last couple of years.

MBW: From what I have gathered you definitely have your own majestic stance on whatever subject you are photographing ... I mean it’s never just a snap shot ... it is art !!! ... it’s difficult to put a finger on because it is extremely unique in each and every Johan Vipper picture I’ve seen and so that is why I hope you don’t mind my asking ... but what could possibly be going through your head as you approach your subject ... it somehow reminds me of how a lizard catches a fly with his tongue ???

JV: Exactly. It’s that special moment. I catch it. It’s intuitive. The Lizard King of Photography. Ha. MBW: Do you have any stories you would like to share of when you were a boy that may have been the beginnings of your inspiration to take pictures ???

JV: Learned the basics of photography from my father at the age of eleven. My dad had set up his own darkroom in the bathroom of our apartment. I really loved watching him developing film and printing black and white.

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MBW: I have seen zillionz of your photos ... ahaha ... all varieties ... all powerful no matter what size or proportion ... you can make an ordinary city block in black and white into a still life masterpiece ... whether still life or cloud formations ... weathering storms ... solo or groups ... from a to z ... so it is almost foolish of me to ask ... but ... what is your favorite subject to take pictures of ???

JV: Anything that comes in front of my camera really. Anything from wilted flowers, a punk band, to my wife on a bench in Central Park.

MBW: Have you ever had any of your work published ... and if so where can it be found ... please provide any contact info ???

JV: Nothing published yet, except some of my work on record covers in Sweden back in the 80s. I was designing and art directing many record covers in Sweden in the 1980s. I’m working in a book of my rock photography. And here is the link to my website www.johanvipper.com.

MBW: Would you ever consider being a member of a staff ???

JV: Eh. Say what?

MBW: Alice tells me you always carry your camera which is extremely interesting ... I myself as a writer/songwriter always have a pen and paper handy to jot down anything inspirational for a later date when I settle down to write ... but I was

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going to ask how you went about taking pictures ... if it was planned or spontaneous ... because especially your exquisite studies in nature are hardly random ???

JV: It is both planned and random. The flowers are sometimes very planned and sometimes not at all. Clouds happen when they happen. And for me, rock photography is really about catching that special moment.

MBW: There are scads of things to ask ... but ... being you are a photographer ... that terrific old Rod Stewart song Every Picture Tells A Story pops into mind ... so unless there is anything else you would like to add at this time ... I will let your photographs speak for themselves ... Johan ... this interview has been a distinct pleasure ... I have one final question ... my favorite ... If I could grant you three wishes ... what would they be ???

JV: A gallery show, world-peace and an unlimited supply of oysters ...

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Artisan Spotlight Tiamarie Williams

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By Alexxis Steele WHAT SPARKED YOUR INTEREST IN ART? What sparked my interest in art is to have something that no one else has WHO WERE YOU INFLUENCED BY? I was influenced by my grandmother years ago when she was a jeweler WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST? I don’t have a favorite artist. I love all kinds of music if I were to choose it would be Nicki Minaj WHAT INSPIRES YOU TO CREATE? What inspires me to create is thinking about a new idea that no one else has come up with

WHAT TYPE OF DESIGNS DO YOU MOST LIKE TO CREATE? I like to create design that are new fresh and try to do something that no one has thought of I also like to refurbish old pieces of antique jewelry and bring them back to life

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WHEN DID YOU ACTUALLY START WORKING WITH YOUR DESIGNS? I started working with my designs 8 years ago when I lived in Florida WHAT TYPE OF MATERIALS AND COLORS DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH? I like to work with all types of high end materials and all kinds of color styles. I try to use a variety of materials depending on the seasons and the holiday. I add a personal touch for each client depending on what the customer is looking for and using for that occasion and outfit.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PARTICULAR STYLE? I would describe myself as being fresh and creative and very artistic .I working on catering for the high class women.

WHERE IS YOUR ARTWORK PRESENTLY BEING SHOWN? My work is shown online through my Facebook @ www.facebook.com/goju1980williams. My website for purchasing and ordering custom pieces will be up and running as of Jan 2017 @ one time design.com .Check out the models who model my jewelry design pieces so you can see my particular taste and sryle.

IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO THAT YOU HAVE NOT DONE YET? I would like to Brand my company name to help promote not just my jewelry line but my modeling carrier and the other two businesses I’m presently running.

You can find Tiamarie Williams and purchase at: facebook.com/goju1980williams

Phone# 610-818-8590 Email: tiamariewilliams30@gmail.com

WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN THE NEXT 5-10 YEARS? I would like to be successful with hopefully a new jewelry line for every year that will fit every special unique person as life’s trends change in the next 5 years.

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You May Be A Lover But You Ain’t No Dancer Charlie Manson By © Guido Colacci 2016

I have to confess that this has been one of the most difficult articles I have ever written. There is so much information, connections and facts that are hidden and have to be searched out and then putting them into context and trying to make a timeline of it all and showing the pattern is a daunting task for even the most talented of writers. I have done the very best I could. You would think that the state and the government could easily pull off such a hoax today given special effects, the internet, and other advances in social media. Unfortunately, this occurred 47 years ago and has stood for 43 years, without barely any truthers.

Let’s begin by looking at the history and politics that led up to it. The alleged Tate/Labianca murders took place in August 1969. Those living through the events of 1969 didn’t have any hindsight on the politics, but today looking back from the year 2016 we CERTAINLY do.

As I always say, rule number one, is to never take an event as an isolated incident, but rather to look for the pattern in events to see how they are all connected.

Sadly and unfortunately, people back in 1969 still had not learned this basic concept and the term “conspiracy theorist” was only coined perhaps 3 years earlier by the CIA & FBI and applied to people who disagreed with the Warren Commission findings on the JFK assassination or as we know it today, the coup d’état of November 1963.

Nixon took office in January of 1969, Richard M. Helms was the Director of the CIA and J. Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI. Both Nixon, Helms and Hoover hated the hippies with a passion and wished to destroy them. They saw them as a real danger in affecting public opinion, discourse and how people would live and protest. Today, this information is part of the public record, we know it from many declassified documents and subsequent events. The hatred of the hippies stemmed from many reasons but mainly two major issues threatened the status quo and very foundations of capitalism. One was

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that the hippies were non consumers, they believed in sharing not selling, dropping out and living off the land in communes. It began that way in San Francisco with the Diggers and the free clinic etc., etc.. More importantly, they believed in love not confrontation, they believed in peace not war, and this anti-war stance of the new generation was going to hurt war as america’s biggest business and as the biggest money generator.

This couldn’t be allowed to happen. It is known that the FBI created an entire mission around infiltrating and discrediting the anti-war movement. See COINTELPRO, which is not a conspiracy theory. It is declassified and common knowledge today. The FBI was not just spying under COINTELPRO. Its stated goal, according to Hoover, was “to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” any anti-war group, including hippies, socialists, the civil right est road to truth is keeping an open movement, the and forgetting 99% of what you have NAACP, AIM, the d in the past from stories, the media National Lawyers story Guild, Martin ” King and even Colacci Albert Einstein.

At the same time, the CIA had its own version of COINTELPRO, called OPERATION CHAOS. Again, this is not a conspiracy theory any longer, it is now admitted by the CIA. It is known that CHAOS was started by Johnson in 1967 and then expanded by Nixon in 1969. It was directed by Richard Helms. Nixon also linked COINTELPRO and CHAOS. Both these covert operations were offshoots of MK ULTRA OPERATION MIDNIGHT CLIMAX, MK-NAOMI, Operation Mockingbird and experiments and work being done right there in Laurel Canyon at the Air Force Base Laboratory known as Lookout Mountain. The cover was that the facility was used mostly to make military propaganda movies and films on the Atomic Bombs and PSA announcements.

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Before I actually go into the Manson part of this story there are facts that need to be brought into the light that 99% of people do not know. It is the first week of August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently dubbed the ‘Tonkin Gulf Incident,’ will result in the immediate passing by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which will, in turn, quickly lead to America’s deep immersion into the bloody Vietnam quagmire.

Before it is over, well over fifty thousand American bodies – along with literally millions of Southeast Asian bodies – will litter the battlefields of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison was coincidentally the father of the Lizard King himself, Jim Morrison.

Opposition to the Vietnam War and the draft peaked in 1968/1969. There was close to a full, all-out mutiny at The Presidio/Fort Baker base where the fathers of both Sharon Tate and Abigail Folger worked in military intelligence. Dozens of armed U.S. soldiers from the Presidio marched in a San Francisco peace rally against the Vietnam War which culminated at The Presidio/Fort Baker base. Sharon Tate’s father is Colonel Paul Tate. Abigail Folger, murdered alongside Sharon Tate in the same house that night, had similar ties to U.S. military intelligence. Her father is Peter Folger, Major Peter Folger, who was a marines major/ military intelligence officer (Associate Chief Information Officer) with the famous Black Sheep marine fighting squadron 214 stationed out of Hawaii in WWII. Another amazing and unknown coincidence is that the night before the California Primary, the night before his assassination, Robert Kennedy went to a dinner party at Cielo Drive with Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski, Abigail Folger, and John Frankenheimer. Coincidentally, tragically and sadly, he ate his last meal with two of the victim’s of the Manson family, the director of Rosemary’s Baby - a movie about Satanic ritual - and another director who made the Manchurian Candidate - a movie about mind control, and Seven Days In May, another movie that is based on

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John Kennedy’s assassination and successful coup d’état.

This was his company in the final hours of his life before he was killed.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono bought the same set of apartments used as the set for Rosemary’s Baby, which was filmed by Sharon Tate’s husband Roman Polanski just a year before Tate was murdered. Yoko Ono was planning to give birth to son Sean Lennon, and of all the places which she would choose to live would be the same apartment where dead Sharon Tate’s husband Polanski shot a film about a mother and her newborn baby being abused by a satanic cult. They knew Tate and Polanski and actress Mia Farrow (central character in Rosemary’s Baby) well before the murders. They were all in India with Mia Farrow in a huge family get together with the Lennon’s’, Farrow’s, and everyone’s brothers and sisters there doing a TM retreat in Rishikesh right after the filming of Rosemary’s Baby wrapped up in 1968.

The Beatles wrote the theme song of Helter Skelter there together with Mike Love of The Beach Boys in 1968, the year before the song became associated with Manson.

When Charlie Manson came along, he was the chemical messiah. He had been arrested thirty-seven times in his thirty-five years and not even once for any violent crime.

Charlie and his followers could become lawless and amoral and throw around their sex and their bodies, and they latched on to what he calls the “chemical messiah.”

Now, you have to ask yourself, for people with NO MONEY, who bought the LSD and the chemicals? Did our government pay Charlie’s way? His bus? His gas? The Spahn Ranch where the Family lived? It’s important to understand how hard it was at the time for an ex con, especially one who had been out of circulation to get back into the mainstream of what was happening. He came out of prison with nothing. He could play the guitar and sing and had nothing else. So where did everything come from that allowed him to recruit people almost at will, supply them with a never ending supply of drugs and give them food and a place to live. I know it HAD to have been all handed to him. The government brought it to him and put on his costume; his leather coat and his guitar and sent him on the road. But to what end did these means justify?

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Fresh out of prison, no money, no friends, no nothing, Manson drifted into the hippie scene. And he admits he’s another ex-con to everybody and yet he’s still more than accepted. Charlie Manson was schooled on what to do and how to do it because he was going to pretend to be a hippie, but he admitted he wasn’t a hippie, he was a beatnik and hated hippies. They gave him an old school bus and they called it the Manson Family and they headed south. Manson learned to play the guitar, to sing, and write music. This is what he was trained for in the federal prison. Charlie had an inkling for music, and he was a natural. He’s probably horny as hell and wanting to get on the road anyway. And he loved the chicks. He was just perfect for the role; he was just ripe for it. When they let him out of prison, he was going to be a musician; here was Charles Manson, a year out of prison, mingling with Hollywood stars Dennis Wilson and the Beach Boys, Neil Young, Terry Melcher, in 1968. The Manson Family was, somehow, making it with the Establishment. And Manson was going to some of Hollywood’s plushest parties, right in there with the biggest people of all. That’s pretty interesting considering the lawyer that he saw before he got out of. These boys were wined and dined in the music scene, in the art scene, by certain people before the massacres took place.

Never lose sight of the fact, the CIA’s prime objective, at the time, was to debunk the ‘hippie’ movement which was proving to be an economical and sociological threat to both the government and its Vietnam war effort.

Charles Manson was perhaps a social experiment and that the CIA had not only been supplying drugs to the Manson family but also funding their living.

It’s no secret that the CIA regularly experimented with drugs in an attempt at mass mind control. MKULTRA is one of their most famous projects and Manson was in prison during the time they were known to be using inmates at Vacaville prison in the MKULTRA experiments. Tex Watson, a family member and one of the convicted Tate-LaBianca murderers claimed that in the months leading up to the murders, the Manson family had all been taking a drug called ‘Orange Sunshine’ which was manufactured and distributed exclusively by a group known as “The Brotherhood of Eternal Love” where one of the dealers Ronald Stark, had known connections to the CIA. Now, let’s talk about the trial. On November 18, 1969, the District Attorney and his staff selected Vincent Bugliosi to be the chief prosecutor in the Tate-LaBianca case. Vincent Bugliosi headed up the entire INVESTIGATION, PROSECUTION, and PUBLICATION of the Manson saga. That’s ONE man in control of everything. Bugliosi joined in a search of the Spahn Movie Ranch, where police gathered .22 caliber bullets and shell casings from a canyon used by Family members for target practice. The next day, the search party moved on to isolated Barker Ranch, the most recent home of the Family, on the edge of Death Valley. In October, Inyo County officers raided Barker Ranch. Twenty-four members of the Manson Family were arrested on charges of arson and grand theft.

Cult leader Charles Manson (dressed entirely in buckskins) and Susan Atkins were among those arrested. In the small house at Barker Ranch, Bugliosi saw the small cabinet under the sink where Manson was found hiding during the October raid.

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After her arrest, Atkins was housed at Dormitory 8000 in Los Angeles. On November 6, she told another inmate, Virginia Graham, an almost unbelievable tale. She told of “a beautiful cat” named Charles Manson. She told of murder: of finding Sharon Tate, in bed with her bikini bra and underpants, of her victim’s futile cries for help, of tasting Tate’s blood.

Atkins expressed no remorse at all over the killings. She even told Graham a list of celebrities that she and other Family members planned to kill in the future, including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Tom Jones, Steve McQueen, and Frank Sinatra. Through an inmate friend of Graham’s, Ronnie Howard, word of Atkins’s amazing story soon reached the LAPD. About the same time, detectives on the LaBianca case interviewed Al Springer, a member of the Straight Satan biker’s group that Manson had tried to recruit into the Family. Word had leaked to police that the Straight Satans might have some knowledge about who was responsible for another recent murder with several similarities to the LaBianca killings. Springer told detectives that Manson had bragged to him in August at Spahn Ranch, after offering him his pick from among the eighteen or so “naked girls” scattered around the ranch, about “knocking off ” five people. When Springer told detectives that Manson had said the Tate killers “wrote something on the...refrigerator in blood”, “something about pigs”, the detectives knew they might be onto something. Still, it struck them as odd that anyone would confess to several murders to someone that they barely knew. It took another member of the Straight Satans, Danny DeCarlo, to move the focus of the investigation decisively to Charles Manson. DeCarlo told police he heard a Manson Family member brag, “We got five piggies,” and that Manson had asked him what to use “to decompose a body.”

Based on Ronnie Howard’s account of Susan Atkin’s jailhouse confession and interviews conducted with various Manson Family members, the LAPD eventually identified the five persons who participated in the actual Tate and LaBianca murders. The suspects consisted of four women, all in their early twenties, and one man in his mid-twenties: Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten, Linda Kasabian, and Charles “Tex” Watson.

Atkins remained in custody at Dormitory 8000. Van Houten was picked up for questioning in California. Watson was arrested by a local sheriff in Texas. Patricia Krenwinkel was apprehended in Mobile, Alabama. Kasabian voluntarily surrendered to local police in Concord, New Hampshire.

Chief Defense Lawyers: Irving Kanarek (for Manson), Daye Shinn (for Atkins), Paul Fitzgerald (for Krenwinkel), Maxwell Keith, Ronald Hughes, and Ira Reiner (for Van Houten).

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The prosecution’s case provided an example of how the U.S. Supreme Court’s Aranda ruling is applied in cases involving multiple defendants. The trial was one of the longest and costliest in California history. Prison inmates similarly told authorities that their cellmate Susan Atkins had described to them in horrifying detail how she and fellow members of the “Family” had killed Tate and her guests, the LaBiancas, and others. In return for a promise of immunity, Atkins repeated her story to a grand jury in December 1969, implicating Manson and others in the Tate- LaBianca killings. Ironically, Manson was already in jail. He had been arrested in October and charged with receiving stolen property. “Family” members Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten were indicted on murder charges and arrested. Charles “Tex” Watson, whose bloody fingerprint was found at the Tate house, was arrested at his parents’ home in Texas. Watson’s attorney forestalled his extradition for nine months, arguing that pretrial publicity made it impossible for Watson to get a fair trial in California. The Los Angeles district attorney decided to prosecute the others charged in the Tate-LaBianca slayings without waiting for Watson’s arrival.

Prosecutors lost Atkins’ cooperation in March 1970, three months before the case came to trial. After a short meeting with Manson in jail, she retracted her confession and declared that she had invented the story implicating him, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten before the grand jury. Although the four “Family” members were to be tried together, the prosecution was required to abide by the rules of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1965 Aranda decision. Statements made by one defendant, such as the stories Atkins told her cellmates about the “Family’s” bloody deeds, could not be introduced as evidence against her co-defendants. The prosecution’s task was further complicated by the fact that Manson had not been present at the Tate house the night of the slayings. Deputy District Attorneys Aaron Stovitz and Vincent Bugliosi had to try to convict Manson on the seven murder counts based on the theory that the cult leader had ordered the killings.

Manson’s request to be allowed to represent himself was denied. At first angered by this refusal, Manson then accepted Irving Kanarek as his attorney.

Worldwide publicity about the case made finding an unbiased jury unusually difficult. When Judge Charles H. Older read a press account of a conference in his chambers, the infuriated judge moved to limit public speculation, about the case. He imposed a “gag order” barring the lawyers and witnesses from speaking to the press about matters not entered as evidence. Stenographers and other court officials were forbidden from giving or selling transcripts of the case to the press.

When testimony began July 24, 1970, Manson arrived in court with an “X” scratched on his forehead.

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being judged by a society unworthy and incapable of understanding him. In protest, he had symbolically “X’d” himself from the world. Atkins, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten followed Manson’s example by burning an X into each of their foreheads.

Opening statements began on July 24. On November 19, 1970; after nearly four months of testimony by prosecution witnesses, the state rested. On that same date, November 19, 1970, Attorney Paul Fitzgerald stunned the court by resting the collective defense without calling a single witness and without having presented any evidence. The courtroom exploded.

The three “Manson girls” Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten all jumped up and shouted about how they wanted to testify. Even when order had been restored, the threesome insisted they wanted to take the stand, to tell the jury they’d killed Sharon Tate and the others on their own, that Charlie had nothing to do with the killings. That’s when Hughes stood up and told Judge Older, “I refuse to take part in any proceeding where I am forced to push a client out the window.”

Fearing their clients would incriminate themselves, the defense attorneys threatened to quit if the judge allowed the testimony.

Judge Older accused the defense of trying to wreck the trial.

In chambers, attorneys for the women explained that although their clients wanted to testify, they were strongly opposed, believing that they would, still under the powerful influence of Manson, testify that they planned and committed the murders without Manson’s help. Returning to the courtroom, Judge Older declared that the right to testify took precedence and said that the defendants could testify over the objections of their counsel. Atkins was then sworn as a witness, but her attorney, Daye Shinn, refused to question her. Returning to chambers, one defense attorney complained that questioning their clients on the stand would be like “aiding and abetting a suicide.” Hughes later told a reporter that he was confident that he could secure an acquittal for Van Houten.

After that, Manson was allowed to make his own statement to the court, but WITHOUT THE JURY PRESENT, so that potentially excludable testimony relating to evidence incriminating co-defendants might be identified before it prejudiced the jury. Hughes repeated his objections and advised his client and the other two women not to testify. Older halted proceedings there, and ordered a ten-day recess so the opposing teams of attorneys could prepare their closing arguments.

By December 2nd, Hughes had been missing for nearly two weeks. Judge Older gave up. He appointed a new attorney, Maxwell Keith, for Leslie Van Houten and ordered the proceedings to continue. The women threw a fit and demanded the judge let them fire all their lawyers, and then reopen their defense. Keep in mind that this is

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the SAME judge, who would NOT grant a change of venue even with all the negative publicity leading up to the trial and who when Kasabian was about to be cross-examined the trial was shaken by comment from an unexpected source. President Richard M. Nixon told reporters in Denver, Colorado, “Manson was guilty, directly or indirectly of eight murders.” Nixon’s remarks were meant to criticize what he perceived as a tendency of the media to glorify criminals, and the White House quickly issued a statement denying any intent to prejudice the case. Nevertheless, Manson’s defense, arguing that such a statement by the president made a fair trial impossible, motioned for a mistrial and demanded that the charges against him be dropped. Judge Older denied the motion.

The next day in court, Manson stood and displayed a newspaper with the headline, “Manson Guilty, Nixon Declares.” Judge Older questioned the jurors about their reaction to the headline. Satisfied that they would remain impartial, he ordered the trial to resume and sentenced Atkins’ attorney, Daye Shinn, to three nights in jail for leaving the newspaper within Manson’s reach.

So when court reconvened, all four defendants pitched another fit.

They accused Older of doing away with Ronald Hughes. So the judge booted all of them out of the courtroom and carried on regardless.

Hughes didn’t turn up again until March 29, 1971. A couple of fishermen found his body wedged between rocks in a gorge-like section of Sespe Creek. After four months in the water and weather, his remains were in such a state, they had to be identified by means of dental X-rays. The autopsy couldn’t determine the cause of death. It was ultimately ruled ‘Undetermined’ and the Sheriff decided to call it an accidental drowning, something he defended to the bitter end by the way.

This is a list of the most important witnesses called by the prosecutor in no particular order; • Linda Kasabian killer given immunity for all 5 murders • Ruby Pearl the manager of the ranch working for Mr. Spahn • Barbara Hoyt former Family member • Harold True, the owner of a home near the Labianca residence where Charlie and the family stayed for a while before the Labianca murders • Virginia Graham/Virginia Castro, cell mate of Susan Atkins • Paul Watkins, Family member and Manson’s foremost recruiter of young women • Juan Flynn, a Spahn Ranch worker • Al Springer • Danny DeCarlo a motorcycle gang member furnished police with tips about Manson • Shahrokh Hatami, friend of Sharon Tate and photographer who testified Manson came to the Tate home looking for Terry Melcher

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• Rudolph Weber, owner of house where Tex, Linda, Katie and Susan stopped to hose off the blood from the Labianca house • Sergeant Gutierrez PD first officer on the scene at the Tate home • Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi, Los Angeles County Coroner • Dr. Katsuyama deputy medical examiner for the Coroner’s Office Without a doubt, the most damning prosecution witness was Linda Kasabian, a former “Family” member who was granted immunity in return for her testimony. Over protests by the defense, who held that Kasabian’s use of LSD and other drugs had made her incapable of distinguishing fact from fantasy, she described sex orgies, drug use, and Manson’s domination of all facets of “Family” life.

To some judges, however, the procedure cannot be justified. It “results in serious impairment of the rights of the accused to a fair consideration by an impartial jury of the competent evidence produced against him.” It is a “fiction” and a “naive assumption” about the way juries can function. The rule calls upon the jury to perform “mental gymnastics” which is beyond not only their powers, but anybody else’s.” Involuntary Confessions: The Allocation of Responsibility between Judge and Jury. Writing for the four dissenters in Delli Paoli v. United States, Justice Frankfurter stated: “The fact of the matter is that too often such admonition against misuse is intrinsically ineffective in that the effect of such a non-admissible declaration cannot be wiped from the brains of the jurors. The admonition therefore becomes a futile collocation of words and fails of its purpose as a legal protection to defendants against whom such a declaration should not tell. ... The Government should not have the windfall of having the jury be influenced by evidence against a defendant which, as a matter of law, they should not consider but which they cannot put out of their minds.” To these critics, the rule is not basic to our jury system and is not needed to preserve the system. Instead it is a rule that perverts the jury trial since it calls upon ordinary lay people to obey an instruction that every judge realizes cannot be obeyed. It fosters what one scholar refers to as our “inconsistent attitude” toward juries. We treat them “at times as a group of low-grade morons and at other times as men endowed with a superhuman ability to control their emotions and intellects.”

Whether or not these criticisms of the present rule require its abrogation, a question we consider later herein, they clearly foreclose any assumption that error in admitting a confession that implicates both defendants is rendered harmless to the non-confessing defendant by an instruction that it should not be considered against him. At best, the rule permitting joint trials in such cases is a compromise between the policies in favor of joint trials and the policies underlying the exclusion of hearsay declarations against one who did not make them. “It is difficult, if not impossible, to prove that a confession which a jury has found to be involuntary has nevertheless influenced the verdict or that its finding of voluntariness, if this is the course it took, was affected by other evidence showing the confession was true.”

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except what the media said. The media had them programmed to believe it all happened because we were out to start a race war.

The media, called us a “family.” And it was the only true thing they said. We were a family. We were mother, father, brother, sister, daughter, son. And so for the love of a brother, a brother who was in jail on a murder rap, all those killings came down.”

Bobby Beausoleil, 1981 (Quote Source: Truman Capote) Robert Beausoleil, who is now thirty-one, is the real mystery figure of the Charles Manson cult; more to the point, and it’s a point that has never been clearly brought forth in accounts of that tribe, he is the key to the mystery of the homicidal escapades of the so-called Manson family, notably the Sharon Tate, LaBianca murders.

It all began with the murder of Gary Hinman, a middle-aged professional musician who had befriended various members of the Manson brethren and who, unfortunately for him, lived alone in a small isolated house in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles County.

Hinman had been tied up and tortured for several days (among other indignities, one of his ears had been severed) before his throat had been mercifully and lastingly slashed. When Hinman’s body, bloated and abuzz with August flies, was discovered, police found bloody graffiti on the walls of his modest house (“Death to Pigs!”), graffiti similar to the sort soon to be found in the households of Miss Tate and Mr. and Mrs. Labianca. However, just a few days prior to the Tate, Labianca slayings, Robert Beausoleil, caught driving a car that had been the property of the victim, was under arrest and in jail, accused of having murdered the helpless Mr. Hinman. I am going to include part of Bugliosi’s closing statement from the trial transcripts because I really believe that if you as a juror did not have the media circus and lies told prior to the trial, and were not allowed to hear any testimony from any witness and the defense presented no case, you might well have just bought into the nightmare fairytale. (The following is taken verbatim from Bugliosi’s closing argument to the jury). “Briefly discussing the rules of law under which these defendants are guilty of these murders, you will recall my earlier discussion, beginning with my opening argument regarding the law which you are going to be dealing with during your deliberations, all of these defendants are charged in count eight of the indictment with the crime of conspiracy to commit murder. Conspiracy is nothing more than an agreement, getting together, agreeing to commit a crime, followed by an overt act to carry out the object of the conspiracy. Conspiracies can be and normally are proven by circumstantial evidence.

In this case, we proved the conspiracy by direct evidence; Linda Kasabian, ladies and gentlemen, was present with these defendants and she told you everything that happened in her presence. To have a conspiracy it is not necessary that the conspirators enter into any formal agreement. All that is necessary is that there be a meeting of the minds; that they be working together toward a common goal. You saw a witness who took that witness stand with one and only one purpose in mind, to tell you everything she knew about these two nights of murder.

Although she testified for eighteen days, I am convinced that long, long before she was through testifying, long before that, it was obvious to each and every one of you that Linda was telling the truth. She was given immunity from prosecution of these crimes. Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the

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seven victims in this case. However, the joint responsibility rule of conspiracy makes him guilty of all seven murders.

Since Charles Manson was not one of the actual killers of the seven victims, and since Susan Atkins was not one of the killers of Mr. and Mrs. LaBianca, under what rule of law are they guilty of these murders? Manson is guilty of all seven counts of murder under the vicarious liability rule of conspiracy. It is also called the joint responsibility rule of conspiracy. “When you go back to that jury room you may consider this as circumstantial evidence against Manson, Atkins, and Krenwinkel on the LaBianca murders. Bugliosi, who labeled Manson as “diabolical” and the girls as “mindless but bloodthirsty zombies” in his summation to the jury on January 15 th , said the trial was filled with “drama and excitement.” He said that despite the pretrial publicity, the “jury is 12 people from our community who made up their minds solely on the evidence.”

So many people are curious and confused about Charles Manson they really don’t know that he killed no one, that there was no evidence linking him to any of the murders. They have been brainwashed to believe he is the worst serial killer in american history. They just don’t understand what happened to Manson.

The district attorney who prosecuted Manson’s case used people as his witnesses that were bribed and/or threatened. For example, his star witness was a young woman (who was present at both nights of murder) who received immunity from murder charges in exchange for her testimony against Manson. The only way a case could be made against Manson was to bring him in on the crimes through conspiracy. The district attorney, with the help of bribed witnesses, attention seeking witnesses, a circus and style media that sensationalized every bad point about every bad person or event in the history of the hippies and placed it all on the shoulders of Charles Manson. Bugliosi then constructed the motive theory of “Helter Skelter” out of thin air, threw in parts about a race war, there were secret messages in Beatles albums, the Black Panthers, a group of kids who did nothing but participate in lurid drug crazed sex orgies and devil worshipping hedonistic low life bums

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with no morals or any conscience, who were also cold blood killers who were said to have cut a baby out of a pregnant woman’s belly when she was in her eighth month of pregnancy, which if you look at the crime scene photos and read the coroner’s report IS NOT TRUE AT ALL. The prosecutor goes on to accuse Manson of “brainwashing” the killers and the rest of “the family” in a cult-like setting. The murders were allegedly carried out in order to start this “Helter Skelter race war”, whereupon the members of “the family” would then find a bottomless pit to hide in until the war was over and they emerged to rule the new world. Thus, the murders were all Manson’s fault because he brainwashed the killers and then instructed them to kill the victims. This motive theory is completely false, implausible, absurd and absolutely laughable, so much so that you KNOW it HAD TO COME FROM THE CIA/FBI. From The NY Daily News Los Angeles, Jan. 25 - Charles Manson was convicted today as the “diabolical” dictator who ordered seven murders and his three girl co- defendants were found guilty as the “mindless but bloodthirsty zombies” who butchered actress Sharon Tate and others at his command. All four were convicted of first degree murder and now face life imprisonment or the gas chamber. The defendants sat like stones - silent and expressionless - as they heard the court clerk read aloud the 27 verdicts and heard their seven men and five women juror individually agree that this was their true verdict. Only Manson called out, remaining seated in his chair, as the jurors left the trial room. “How come we were not allowed to put on a defense?” he said, in a low but clear voice. Then, staring at Judge Charles H. Older, he called to him: “You won’t outlive that, old man - dad - hey dad - look at the truth over here. Hey!” Then, walking out of the trial room surrounded by guards, Manson again paused as he passed the bench of the 52-year-old judge and said: “You’ll never live to see the day.” The Tate-LaBianca jurors also found Manson, 36; Patricia Krenwinkel, 23; Susan Atkins, 22, and Leslie Van Houten, 21, guilty of what the prosecutor said was a “chilling, unearthly conspiracy to commit wanton orgy of murder.” Leslie was charged only with the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Leno LaBianca, and with conspiracy. The others, including Manson, who was not accused of actually killing any of the victims, were charged with all seven murders and with conspiracy. The jurors, who took 42 hours 40 minutes to agree.

Manson’s attorney, Irving Kanarek, denounced the trial as “entertainment for the public.” He accused former District Attorney Evelle Younger, recently elected state attorney-general, having “created pre-trial publicity to win the election.” “It is incredible, beyond belief,” the lawyer said, “that a criminal trial should have been used for political purposes.” The announcement that the jurors had reached a verdict was made in as weird a fashion as everything else in this weird trial. Reporters sitting in the trial room heard only one buzz, the signal that means the jurors had a question or wanted coffee. The regular verdict signal is three buzzes, which can be heard plainly in the trial room. “There’s a verdict,” they whispered to some of the reporters. It was learned that Judge Older, rather casually, had said to them: “By the way, gentleman, you should know the jury has a verdict.”

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This is from The NY Daily News; LOS ANGELES, March 29, 1971 — The three young girls who confessed to murder without remorse, and the man described as their “satanic” master, must die in the gas chamber for the Tate and LaBianca killings.

Neither Charles Manson nor his three followers were in the courtroom as the death penalties were read. They were ousted by Judge Charles H. Older when they interrupted the proceedings. The death penalties for Leslie Van Houten, 21, Susan Atkins, 22, Patricia Krenwinkel, 23, and Manson, 36, were returned by their jurors at 4:25 p.m. today, after 10 hours of deliberation.

With all four defendants listening over a public address system, Darrow read seven death penalties for Manson, Miss Atkins and Miss Krenwinkel, two death penalties for Miss Van Houten, and death penalties for all on conspiracy to commit murder. This probably was the first murder trial of such importance in which the defendants were not present to hear their verdicts. It was also believed to be the first in which a judge, after the jurors were polled, left the bench and shook the hands of the jurors, seven men and five women, and the three alternates. The jurors based their verdicts on evidence presented during a nine-week penalty phase of the trial that was as bizarre, full of unprecedented events, and as dramatic as the 32-week guilty-or-innocence phase preceding it. In a final statement, the girls said Manson knew nothing about the killings, and that it was the girls alone who decided to commit “copy-cat” murders in an attempt to free their “brother” in the Manson family, Bobby (Cupid) Beausoleil, from prison for the murder of Gary Hinman. Judge Older set April 19 for sentencing, and said he would also listen then to defense motions for a new trial and for reduction of sentence. The judge has the power to reduce the death penalty to life imprisonment.

Appeals from death sentences are automatic in California. When you look over this whole debacle of a trial which is rife with loads of no brainer appeals, mistrials, acquittals, prejudiced polluted jury pool, prosecutor and defense attorney indicted for 3 counts of perjury each, Charlie not permitted to represent himself, Charlie was not permitted Habeas Corpus, Charlie was not permitted to testify with the jury present, there were clear signs of planted evidence, witnesses who were bribed, witnesses who were not called to testify by the defense, in fact, THEY HAD NO DEFENSE TEAM AT ALL, they were all plants except for perhaps Hughes, who was murdered at the end of the prosecution’s phase of the trial. There was ONLY hearsay and secondhand hearsay evidence, flimsy circumstantial evidence, admission by prosecution that defendant was not present at either murder scene and did not participate in any way with the actual murders and there was absolutely no evidence linking him to any of the murders. There was one appeal and that was in 1976 and was denied. People V Manson (see below) …

He has been imprisoned since 1969. He has been denied parole 12 times and will not be considered for it again until 2027, when he would be 92. It is sad, but undoubtedly true, that parole boards are political bodies that base decisions as much upon anticipated public reaction to their decisions as on a careful review of a parole applicant’s prison record and statements.

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People v. Manson http://law.justia.com/cases/california/courtof-appeal/3d/61/102.html [Crim. Nos. 22239, 24376. Court of Appeals of California, Second Appellate District, Division One. August 13, 1976.] THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CHARLES MANSON et al., Defendants and Appellants (Opinion by Vogel, J., with Thompson, J., concurring. Separate concurring and dissenting opinion by Wood, P. J.) COUNSEL Albert D. Silverman, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Daye Shinn, Maxwell S. Keith, Kanarek & Berlin, Irving A. Kanarek and Roger Hanson for Defendants and Appellants. Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow and Howard J. Schwab, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Everyone who has studied the trial knows it was a sham. The defense rested without calling a single witness. Manson’s lawyers declined to cross examine most witnesses for the prosecution, and Manson was prevented by the judge from cross examining them himself, although he had asked to represent himself. There was no real evidence against Manson, and the prosecution even admitted he wasn’t at the murder scene and didn’t take part in it. He was convicted of masterminding it, not committing it. He was convicted solely on the basis of testimony of his fellow alleged perpetrators, who turned on him under duress from the State. This testimony came from a group of young girls who had done so many drugs they could barely speak. It was admitted that the main witnesses for the prosecution had taken as many as 300 acid trips in their short lives, so their brains were basically fried. The lead witness was Linda Kasabian, who also didn’t take part in the actual murders, but was nonetheless charged with seven counts of murder in order to scare her. She was given immunity for her testimony. Another main witness was Susan Atkins, who was given immunity from the death penalty for testimony against Manson, which she initially gave. However, Atkins sobered up for a moment later on and repudiated all that testimony.

Kasabian revealed clear signs of coaching during the trial, and was obviously just repeating a story given to her by the State. The judge allowed magazine articles from LIFE and other places to be entered as evidence, even though those articles had pre-judged Manson and the other defendants based on hearsay. So why was this Nixon headline such a big deal? To be consistent, the judge should have just taken the newspaper out of Manson’s hand and entered it as “evidence.” Bugliosi tells us that Manson has been denied his writ of habeas corpus because he was not pro per (or pro se) at the time. What that means is that Manson wasn’t allowed to petition the court because he was not representing himself. Bugliosi tells us that Manson’s attorney needed to petition the court, since Manson had no standing. But that is all false, since anyone can petition a judge for habeas corpus. Every prisoner automatically has standing to file habeas corpus, and it has nothing to do with whether you are representing

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yourself or whether you have an attorney. In English common law, habeas corpus is known as the “great writ,” and it has the force of a court order. It cannot be overridden or ignored by a judge based on a technicality like pro per. To see Bugliosi standing there telling us a judge ruled against habeas corpus based on pro per is beyond corrupt. In any other trial, it would be the most extraordinary sign of corruption one could imagine, but in the Manson trial, it was just one of many.

At the end of the trial, Manson was allowed to make a statement, but the jury was removed from the courtroom. The reason given was to prevent Manson from implicating his co-defendants, and they cited People v.

Aranda to justify this. But this was nonsense of the first order, since Manson’s co-defendants had been implicating him for weeks. His entire conviction was based on testimony by his co-defendants. The trial was a mockery of justice from the first day. Bugliosi was allowed not only to railroad Manson and the other defendants, but also to concoct the story for the press. His book Helter Skelter has defined the story ever since, although it is nothing but fiction. We may assume he was fed the entire story by the CIA. No trial in history was so monumentally compromised from the first day as were the original Manson trials.

Literally thousands of points of appeal were available to the defense, and everyone who followed the trials expected the appellate court to either overturn the convictions or return them to the lower court for a retrial. To confirm the proceedings of the lower court would be to admit on paper that the US legal system was finished. I think even Bugliosi expected that from the appellate court, and he no doubt looked forward to grandstanding for another year. But that isn’t what happened. I suppose the government decided it had gotten all the mileage it was going to get out of the story. http://law.justia. com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/61/102. html The entire appellate decision is at law.justia.com, and I recommend you study it if you have any interest in the law. That decision may be even more corrupt than the original decision, since it is a decision not by a jury, but by judges who are supposed to know the law. The appellate court admits that chief prosecutor Bugliosi met in private with Manson several times, without the consent of Manson’s counsel Kanarek. The appellate court admits this is a “grave” violation of Manson’s Miranda rights. It admits that it is a violation by Bugliosi of the Rules of Professional Conduct, even citing the relevant clause: Bus. & Prof. Code, § 6076. But the appellate court chooses— completely mysteriously and without explanation— to do nothing about either. It neither overturns the conviction, nor sends it back to the lower court, nor brings Bugliosi up for disciplinary action.

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so often of prejudicing the jury. On June 28, 1974, a Los Angeles Grand Jury indicted Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and defense lawyer Daye Shin on three counts each of perjury. The LA Grand Jury indicted Vincent Bugliosi and another lawyer Daye Shin for perjury. They had been twice ordered to testify by LA Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older whether they had been the source for an October 9th, 1970 Herald Examiner news story by reporter Bill Farr which contained non-public information concerning the Manson - Tate murders that could taint and prejudice the perspective jury pool. Bugliosi and Shin were each charged with 3 counts of perjury for twice lying to Judge Older and once for lying to the Grand Jury. Of course as part of the plan ALL charges against both Bugliosi and Shin were dropped and Farr served a total of 46 days in jail.

A little background on Bill Farr. His prolonged ordeal began in 1970, when he was a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner assigned to the Charles Manson murder trial. Despite a gag order imposed by the judge on attorneys, witnesses and court personnel, Farr obtained and published a prospective witness’s account of purported plans by the Manson Family to murder such famed show business personalities as Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor.

Farr refused to tell Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older where he had obtained the information, relying on a California “shield” law he believed protected reporters from being forced to name sources. But when Farr temporarily stepped from behind that shield to become press spokesman for then District Attorney Joseph Busch, Older ordered him to divulge his sources. When Farr refused, Older cited him for contempt of court.

Farr returned to journalism, going to work for The Times in 1972, but it was too late to protect him from the order. Older ordered him jailed until he gave up the names. Farr was to concede later that he had erred in letting the judge know the sources were two attorneys, who are officers of the court. Vincent Bugliosi made a whole career out of the Charles Manson trial. As late as 2009, he still bragged about it. Bugliosi told the Observer newspaper in 2009, “The Manson murders sounded the death knell for hippies and all they symbolically represented… They closed an era. The 60s, the decade of love, ended on that night, on 9 August 1969.”

I’ve included below a small timeline of 1969, just so you may see how crazy a year it was and in hindsight, perhaps you will have the foresight to also see that the CIA and FBI had much to do with the events that took place; Timeline of 1969 • • • • • • • • • •

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Mar 20 - John & Yoko fly to Gibraltar, get married then fly to Amsterdam for one week “lie-in” for peace Mar 20 - James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years for murder of Martin Luther King Jr. Apr - 543,000 US troops now in Vietnam Apr 4 - Smothers Brothers tv show canceled because it is too controversial Apr 9 - 300 Harvard students led by SDS seize University Hall and evict eight deans Apr 10 - Police called into Harvard, 37 injured, 200 arrested Apr 11 - Start of 3-day student strike at Harvard Apr 22 - Harvard faculty votes to create black studies program & give students vote in selection of its faculty Apr 22 - City College of NY closed after black & Puerto Rican students lock selves inside asking higher minority enrollment

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• Apr 23 - Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for murder of Bobby Kennedy • Apr 24 - U.S. B-52s launch biggest attack on North Vietnam. Protests in 40 cities • May 15 - Hippies in People’s Park in Berkeley attacked by police and National Guard • July 5 - Gary Hinman is killed

by Manson follower Bobby Beausoleil, accompanied by Manson Family members Mary Brunner and Susan Atkins.

• July - Stephen Gaskin starts The Farm commune in Tennessee.

• July 3 - Brian Jones of Rolling Stones dies • July 14 - Easy Rider premieres • July 20 - Men walk on the Moon (allegedly) • July 27 - Police raid on gay bar in Greenwich Village, NYC results in Stonewall Uprising.

2000 protesters battle 400 police, start of Gay Liberation Movement • Aug 8- 9 - Sharon Tate & LaBiancas found murdered…

• August 15 - 17 WOODSTOCK Festival 500,000 people gathered for three days of music and peace that changed the world • Aug 24 - Movie Alice’s Restaurant released with Arlo Guthrie • Aug 26 - FBI reports 98% increase in marijuana arrests from 1966 - 1968 • Sept 3 - Ho Chi Min, leader of North Vietnam, dies • Sept 24 - Chicago Eight trial begins. Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin et. al charged with conspiracy to incite riots • Oct - Is Paul dead? Beatles controversy • October 5 - Manson and his followers are arrested at another remote location, called Barker Ranch, on suspicion of auto theft.

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• Oct 8-11 - The Weatherman “Days of Rage” • Oct 15 - Peace Day. 500,000 protesters nationwide. First Vietnam Moratorium (which I was at with my black arm band and we blocked the streets and stopped traffic) • Oct 21 - Jack Kerouac, beat author of “On the Road” dies.

• Oct 30 - Supreme Court orders desegregation nationwide • Nov 15 - 500,000 + march in Washington DC for peace. Largest antiwar rally in U.S. history. Speakers: McCarthy, McGovern, Coretta King, Dick Gregory, Leonard Bernstein. Singers: Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, & Mary, John Denver, Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair 1969 • Nov 17 - First round of SALT talks in Helsinki • November 18 - Deputy District Attorney Vincent T. Bugliosi is assigned Manson case.

• Nov 20 - 78 American Indians seize Alcatraz Island and demand its return • Nov 20 - DDT use banned in residential areas • Nov 24 - Lt. William Calley charged with murdering 102 South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai • Dec - Over 100,000 US troops dead or injured in Vietnam.

• Dec 1 - First draft lottery since WWII held in NYC • December 8 - Manson, Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel and Kasabian are indicted for the murders of Sharon Tate and her friends. The grand jury also indicts the five, plus Van Houten, for the LaBianca murders.

• Dec 8 - Raid on Black Panther headquarters in LA - four-hour shoot- out • Dec 24 - Rolling Stones “Altamont” concert erupts in violence, one spectator killed I was 14 years old in 1969 when I first heard about Charles Manson. What followed was not lost on my young teenage mind, eyes, ears and understanding; at the time the recurring question in my mind was “why”, why would Charlie do this? Oh sure the absurd excuses of starting a race war between blacks and whites, never ever had any ring of truth to me. Too crazy and infantile… stemming ONLY the military intelligence could come up with. I learned their stories were always coated and tainted with the absurd and simplicity of knowing that the story would have to be told to a majority of people who were racist and simple minded and wanted to believe evil existed. Of course it was answered quickly by the traitors that pretended to stand by him as they sold each him out for their 30 pieces of silver…first Susan Atkins, and later Linda Kasabian. Things progressed that summer and autumn into the new year where most of us were unaware that a human being, a man who under the law is innocent till proven guilty, was stripped of his

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constitutional rights, his dignity, his basic human rights, his integrity and his humanity. Created as a monster, as the worst person in history since Hitler, as the greatest and most evil mass murderer of all time. The state and the government and the 15 and people invested in the Private Military Industrial Complex needed to end the reign of the Hippies. The word which came to my mind was “patsy” a term I heard for the first time in November 1963 uttered by that day’s scapegoat, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Charles Manson was a patsy and perhaps at the time part Manchurian Candidate. Charles Manson killed nobody in the Sharon Tate home or in the LaBianca home. He was being charged with these murders and he didn’t kill any one of those seven people. He was used. He was a person who had been in jail twenty-two of his thirty-two years of life. He was the product of our penal system. He was not a hippie or a part of the youth culture. They bought him a guitar, let his hair grow, put a leather jacket on him, gave him money, gave him a bus and credit cards, and told him to do his thing. Charles Manson was a part of our penal system, and also a part of our Federal penal system, where today through declassified documents, testimony before congress and the senate and Freedom of Information, that he was shaped by the CIA and FBI and the state, and then he was used till they were done with him, and then he was buried by the corrupt prosecutorial judicial as a product of our penal system and buried by the media in the same way the media used the 9/11 story to bury Osama Bin Laden. He was used as the big sledge hammer to slam down and smash the hippies forever, and they succeeded.

The truth is out there if you care to find it. Charles Manson was at worst, a victim and patsy of the most implausible, ramshackle, fourth rate totally HEARSAY and a whiff of circumstantial evidence, they don’t even allow hearsay evidence on Judge Judy…. at best he was 1000% completely innocent. He was used in the worst way as the sacrificial lamb to damn and end the hippies and their mantra and life style of love and peace and rock & roll and drugs (drugs courtesy of american government) and portray them as the ultimate evil. The sacrificial lamb in the disguise of a madman. I do hope you take the time to explore and research this subject. On December 6, 1969 was the concert at The Altamont Speedway Free Festival and the murder of Meredith Curly Hunter Jr. by the Hell’s Angels, to put the final nail into the coffin of the love and hippie generation and movement. When I started this article, I wanted to challenge what I believed and knew, I actually sought information other than from the Prosecutor or from the mass media that would prove me wrong and show me Charles Manson was guilty as charged…I looked, I read, I studied and I immersed myself completely in facts, the actual court proceedings and trial transcripts … and you know what, I still haven’t seen, read, or heard any proof that he is guilty of anything! No matter how hard I research the past, the only thing that seems to say he is guilty is the state, the media, and public opinion due to the media. Manson did not kill anyone and it is only the defense of the actual killers, that Manson had ordered them to do it. This is purely the defense trying to distance the guilty from responsibility and to implicate Manson as doing the same as the murderers and that Manson receives as harsh a sentence as mass murderers simply based on those murderer’s second hand hearsay and very flimsy if any circumstantial evidence that he told them to do it... a prosecution like this would not even work on The Judge Judy show to find someone guilty of anything. The very last point I want to bring up is that throughout this article there are events and facts, and circumstances that suggest strongly Charlie Manson was CIA and worked whether willingly or unwillingly for the government. I have found no definitive proof either way, I cited the facts as they exist. The one thing I will say is, if you watch Manson’s interviews, and really listen, he is quite clearly very knowledgeable and intelligent for someone who barely ever went to school. He can speak on any subject and will always make a strong point. He seems to enjoy every once in a while to throw in things like making faces, or saying crazy off the wall dialog to throw you off, all the while knowing exactly what he is doing. Unfortunately,

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people only hear what they want to hear. They will remember his few insane moments and totally disregard his incredibly accurate, damning speeches and quotes that are in the same class as some very learned men. I will say this with no hesitation, fact is I agree with almost everything he says.

Go look up the police reports and go through all the evidence. Review the case and trial yourself. There was a serious mistrial. There was evidence excluded that would have him walking free and false evidence included to get him convicted. Manson had nothing to do with it. Tex Watson killed all 7 of the victims, it was a drug deal gone bad. It’s not hard to put all the pieces together if you don’t buy into all the propaganda. This has nothing to do with the fact that I am a huge fan of Charles Manson, this is entirely to do with the fact that I am an even bigger fan of the truth and justice.

And even more sadly, tragically and pathetically, this continues even into 2016 as stated in a recent article“Technically, he never murdered anybody, but the way people look at Manson is that he is such a charismatic individual that had the ability to control people. Essentially, all of his followers were doing his bidding. They were doing what he wanted them to do, when he wanted them to do it, how he wanted to do it. His followers were an extension of him.” How ABSOLUTELY ABSURD and SIMPLEMINDED, VAPID and IDIOTIC is this quote and what we have been continuously told and shown to us by the media over the last 47 years, and they are still at it, if you want to get a knee jerk reaction out of someone, mention “Adolph Hitler” or “Charles Manson” and people’s minds, perceptions, intelligence and perspective just shut down.

I have thought to include an address for anyone who wishes to correspond with Charles Manson, before it’s too late. He is in his 80’s and time is the enemy. Not sure if the address is valid any longer but all the information I gathered says it is; From the MansonDirect.com website. If you wish to contact Charles Manson by mail, please be aware that all out-going and in-coming mail to the prison is read and examined by CDCR staff. Please do not send cash by mail. The best way to put money on Charlie’s account is to use credit or debit card at AccessCorrections.com (California DOCR, Inmate ID # b33920) for an automatic transfer. As of April 2015, inmates cannot receive checks or money orders sent directly to the prison. To send check or money order, go to Jpay.com and print the money order deposit slip. Charlie’s mailing address is: Charles Manson B-33920 P.O. Box 3456 H.U.A.-22 Corcoran, CA 93212 Below are most of the sources I used to confirm the information in this article; http://law.jrank.org Charlesmansondirect.com Neon Nettle CIA Miles W. Mathis Bobby Beausoleil interview by Truman Capote Mae Brussels Hester Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi New York Daily News The Tate Murders - The Monsters Dupe Us Again TyrannyNewsNetwork Youtube

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MAMA I GREW UP TO BE A COWBOY I always dreamed of being a cowboy since I was a young lad growing up in Atlanta Georgia. I would watch all my favorite westerns and then I would sink into my cowboy mode and dress up in my finest cowboy outfit the best I could. We were poor so I didn’t own a horse.

I took the finest broom we had and that was my horse. I would gallop that broom all over the neighborhood until we were both worn and tired. I would dip my horse in mud puddles and stoop down and drink some of that murky water right alongside my pardner. I would later get spanked with that same broom for ruining it. I went through a few fine horses and butt whoopings for the next few years of my young life. It all ended when I got tired of the butt whoopings. I still love a good cowboy movie now and then, Tombstone is now my all time favorite right up there with John Wayne’s True Grit. Forty five years later and my dream came true. I am a cowboy. Well not really per se, I just got lucky enough to play a cowboy posse in a movie produced by my good friend John Pocino. I met John a couple of years ago through a mutual Facebook friend. John is a great writer and a fine producer. I often followed his post’s and one day he posted

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that he was writing a western and was stuck. Writers tend to get stuck on a story now and then, You are preaching to the choir here. I have a book published called Restless hearts, a Poetry book and one particular poem is a western called, The Cowboy and the Brown-Eyed Saloon girl. No not that kind of Brown Eye, get your head out of the gutter. I have been ribbed for that title more than I can count. Well it is staying rather you like it or not.

Anyway, I sent that epic poem to John and he liked it so much he decided that he wanted to make a film of it.

The production started mid August and I was on a plane to Reno Nevada. It was a fun trip out I will never forget.

After a four hour layover in sunny San Diego I killed time at the Airport people watching. San Diego has the smallest airport I have ever seen in my life. Just a circle you can walk around the whole thing in Four minutes. It was hilarious. They have great food and drinks though. The highlight of my layover was watching a woman eat about thirty Licorice candy sticks. Thank goodness she didn’t sit next to me on the plane.... Barf! I finally met John in Reno and had the pleasure of meeting the whole cast the next day. John didn’t tell me at first who the cast was and I got the surprise of my life. There were a few local actors but the biggest surprise was some fine Hollywood Actors that I not only had the pleasure of meeting but rode with me in my rental car. Sitting right next to me was none other than the beautiful and the very talented Jessica Morris. Wow....how lucky can one get?

I didn’t know how to act but I must have done something right because I didn’t scare them off. Christian Boeving was another actor straight out of Hollywood. We hit it off real good. Jessica and Christian are so down to earth and I am glad I got to meet them. It’s almost like we are good friends now...and we are! I also had the pleasure of meeting Jessica Soss, another aspiring actress. Jessica Soss kept me in tears the whole production. Not that she made me cry but she made me laugh. She is good people to be around. The whole production went well and the weather was perfect. We shot the film on location where John Wayne made his very last movie before he passed away. Washoe Lakes State Park was the name of the place. It was so beautiful there and you could actually see wild mustang running around on the side of the mountain. Lake Tahoe was close by but I did not get to visit because we were on limited time. Cast call started at 4 am and didn’t let up until it got dark. I never knew Acting could be so hard. Kudos to all actors. I will not elaborate on what the movie is about because I don’t want to spoil it, just know that it is going to be good. The Name of the Movie is called Destiny. Yes, John did not want to call

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it The Cowboy and the Brown-eyed Saloon girl. If you havn’t figured out what that means yet then I cannot help you. I wrote the Poem based on My saloon girl having brown eyes. Jessica Morris is the lead actress and she has Sparkling blue eyes. She can really penetrate you with those eyes. I have never seen anything like it. She can be kind but Just don’t get on her bad side. Those eyes can make you run. Did I tell you that I fell off my horse? Well now you know.

One scene that I have is running up on my horse to tell the marshall that I spotted the Bad guy.

Chritian is not really a bad guy, the marshall is but we didn’t know that right away. Dammit I done went and spoiled it for you. Sorry about that.

Did I mention how Purdy Jessica Morris eyes are? You don’t want to miss that. Well, I was running up to the marshall to tell him I spotted Johnny, (That is Christian Boeving character) and I fell clean off my hoss. The only thing that hurt me was my pride. I almost fell off the second time and by that time everyone was ready to give up on me. I shouted out, “I got this!! I got this!!” Third time is charm right? you better believe that after the third time I got a standing ovation. Some called me a natural born actor. I think I have found my calling. That is all I will tell you about the movie right now, you will just have to wait. Sorry to cut this short but I am a day late with my article and I don’t want to piss my editor off or there will be a showdown and I will have to be out of town by sundown. Hey.....Can I get some butter here for my popcorn!!

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Concert News

Allentown Masonic Temple

Tribute To 50 Years - John Mayall & The Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton Join Friar’s Point Band & “Special Guests” to pay tribute to the British Blues Invasion of 1966 by the Fabulous John Mayall & The Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton... This is the 50th anniversary of the release of this album which helped shape the future of Blues and Rock & Roll... Friar’s Point Band has a heavy influence of John Mayall & The Blues Breakers and has invited their friends to join them on stage to celebrate this anniversary... Don’t miss this opportunity to see many of your favorite performers along with Friar’s Point Band for an afternoon of high energy rockin’ blues in tribute to this momentous occasion!!! Hope to see you there!!!

Guests Joining Friar’s Point Band On Stage Will Be: Craig Thatcher Wade Leonard Don Plowman Dana Gaynor Charlie Brown Jenn McCracken Mike Dugan Mike Guldin Johnny T Karl Frick Bob Hogan Don Hoffman The Beano Horns The Lesson Center Kids Glenn “Mitch” Mitchell - 99.9 FM The Hawk A.J. Fritz - 91.3 FM WLVR

Produced by, The Friars Point Band & Thirteen Butterflies Productions.

Thank you to the Lesson Center for your support of this event. * The venue is not handicap accessible..Sorry for the inconvenience..

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Steel Notes Magazine September 2016 Issue Album Review Barb Wire Dolls “Desperate” Review By: Dana Saravia- Life-long rock & roller, current music critic and Girl From Baltimore

As a punk rock fan since the 70s, I’m always hoping to hear a current band who works authentically with those influences and can bring that raw power and reckless energy into the current music scene. It’s an even greater rarity when a band can also bring a hard-edged female perspective to their lyrics, singing and songcraft. However, The Barb Wire Dolls do all that and more with their new album “Desperate”.

The ferocious song “Drown” starts off the album. Featuring the throaty vocals of lead singer Isis Queen, a tight rhythm section and snarly guitar work from lead guitarist Pyn Doll and rhythm guitarist Remmington, it’s a kickass introduction to the band. “Surreal” immediately follows.

The pacing, instrumentation and melodic chorus on this song brings to mind a lost track off Nirvana’s “Incesticide” sung by Babes In Toyland’s Kat Bjelland—an addictive and unique combination. “Take Me Home” features some standout drumming from Krash Doll and on point bass playing from Iriel Blaque adding atmosphere to the chaos and fury to this powerful song about a prostitute’s life. The fourth track “Heart Attack” has a sound and tone reminiscent of one of my favourite bands, 7 Year Bitch. With lyrics such as “Some say there’s no way/But we’ll take a shot” and “We are young/We are strong/We are the ones/Here we come”, their boldness and fuck it confidence are evident here. A fine example of defiant punk rock at its best. The title track makes good use of the grunge era loud/soft dynamic with this take on a relationship turned sour. Sounding like a scream from a wounded heart, it’s a raw and intimate song that brings fresh blood to a familiar subject.

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“Blind To Your Misery”’s bass heavy groove backs lyrics like “Everybody’s right…or so they think” and “They try to bring me down/But I stand up and hold my ground” to create a strong, encouraging song about staying true to your path and moving forward, in spite of others who would drag you down into their misery and negativity. “I Will Sail” accurately describes the frustration of wanting more out of life and out of a stalled relationship. “Darby Crash” is a fantastic, frantic song named for the late, great Germs frontman. Featuring the lyrics “If you don’t stand for something/You’ll fall for anything/If you don’t live for something/You’ll die for anything”, it’s not only a tribute to Darby, but the entire punk rock movement. An excellent song, powerful and moving, certainly one of the album’s standouts and a definite punk rock gem.

“Problem Of The Poet” brings the spirit and sound of Nirvana roaring back to life both musically and lyrically. The song’s honest description of the artistic temperament, especially thinking and feeling too deeply, is sharply accurate. The closing lyric “Somebody better come and save my soul” resonates well past the song’s close. “Rhythm Method” is the album’s closer and the title isn’t the only thing smart about this track. With melancholy, contemplative lyrics like “I don’t want to sell my love/I don’t want to give her up”, this song brings to life complex, tangled emotions while the music adds compelling atmosphere.

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Barb Wire Dolls’ “Desperate” is an extraordinary album. Full of real, hard rocking, boldly expressive songs featuring a female perspective, “Desperate” gives a loud and memorable voice to feelings that often go unexpressed. When matched up with the band’s hard edged punk/grunge sound, they are a musical force to be reckoned with and definitely a band to watch. Barb Wire Dolls and their “Desperate” album are among my favourites of this year and will continue to be regulars on my stereo for years to come. ***Album available on vinyl, CD and as digital download via retailers, Amazon, and iTunes***

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Steel Notes Magazine September 2016 Issue Music Single Review Suzi Chunk “Got Up And Gone” b/w “Find The Morning” Review By: Dana Saravia- Life-long rock & roller, current music critic and Girl From Baltimore

As summer turns into fall, not only have cooler temperatures begun to arrive, but so has one of the coolest releases so far this year—the latest solo single from the fantastic Suzi Chunk. Side A is a brand new song titled “Get Up And Gone”. This song has plenty of brass, sass and style to spare and Suzi’s soulful voice is in fine form here. An upbeat, faster paced number with a bass heavy groove, it’s a funky joyride.

The single’s B side is an equally impressive work. “Find The Morning” showcases Suzi’s sultry voice over a mildly psychedelic influenced soul track with a lush, layered texture and mod era feel. Heartbreak and hope are equally present throughout the lyrics and Suzi’s gorgeous vocals bring out both elements beautifully.

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I can only imagine that there must have been a coin toss to determine which of the songs on this single got the A side. Both tunes are fully realized gems that build on the foundation set with Suzi’s 2012 “Girl From The Neck Down” LP , as well as her continued work with Groovy Uncle. This is a powerhouse of a single that will satisfy returning fans and definitely gain some new ones.

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Jerry Saravia Gone Girl Film Review Affleck is still chasing Amy

It is tempting to dismiss “Gone Girl” after its opening scenes of a somewhat haggard Ben Affleck driving to a local bar called “The Bar” with a coffee drink in his hand, talking to a female bartender who begins with the typical “Look who finally graced us with their presence” statement. I was almost ready to give up since the scene reminded me of those Edward Burns and other indie rom-coms of the 90’s, heck Affleck was in some of those. But as the scene unfolds, we learn the bartender is actually Affleck’s sister and Affleck’s character actually co-owns The Bar. Then he arrives home to find his wife is missing and one of the living room tables has been smashed. Director David Fincher immediately fashions a cool sense of suspense and menace, almost a creepy vibe washed with placid, dull colors. Affleck looks dull, his sister looks dull, and everything looks plain and rather bland. Naturally, that is the point. If everything looked as pristinely beautiful with a Technicolor tint as in the opening scenes of David Lynch’s suburban nightmare “Blue Velvet,” the creepy vibe would not be as strong for this intense story. People can go nuts in perfectly balanced bland suburban towns.

Based on a best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn who also wrote the intricate screenplay, Ben Affleck is the disaffected Nick Dunne who discovers that something besides his Best Director Oscar is missing (sorry, it had to be said). All hell breaks loose and the media has a field day with his wife’s disappearance. Naturally, Nick is seen as a murderer, the husband who did away with his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), the inspiration for her parents’ books called “Amazing Amy.” Nick makes every mistake imaginable – he smiles for the cameras, shows no real remorse or emotion especially when supposedly feigning concern at a candlelight vigil in honor of Amy, and still carries on an affair with a younger woman. This whole section of the film, including

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Ben Affleck’s demeanor, reads and smells like the infamous real-life murder case involving Scott Peterson, right down to the pregnancy factor. Only writer Flynn and director David Fincher store some grisly surprises that will take your breath away. I cannot say more for fear of spoiling but those who have read the book, you know what to expect. All I can say is do not expect to see a corpse.

Speaking of Scott Peterson and that equally grisly and profoundly disturbing media story, I recently revisited an interview Diane Sawyer had with Scott and the comparison with Affleck is uncanny – Affleck acts and looks like Scott Peterson to a tee (including in interviews). Nick Dunne is the performance of Affleck’s career and the purposeful lack of an emotional center makes him more human than he first appears. Once you consider the numerous twists in the narrative, you will understand his indifference in hindsight. As for Rosamund Pike, she delivers a scorchingly eccentric performance that will make you nervous, shocked, befuddled and downright exhausted. You are never too sure what to make of Amy and her alleged disappearance, and the minute details are revealed through her diary in voice-over and exacting flashbacks.

If I have a bone to pick, it is that “Gone Girl” has flashes of character-oriented details and nuances yet scant insight into one of its main characters. Without revealing the twists, you still wonder why one specific character behaves the way they do – motivation takes a backseat.

Despite that, “Gone Girl” is an entrancing, blood-curlingly fierce suspense thriller, one of Fincher’s very best mainstream flicks since his underrated “Panic Room” with a fantastic supporting cast (especially, in atypical roles, Tyler Perry as a cynical attorney and Neil Patrick Harris as Amy’s wealthy ex-lover). “Gone Girl” is consistently watchable and unpredictable, showcasing a marriage that is not what it seems leading to a touch of fatalism that will keep you up at night. It is a swift, intricately layered, sensational thriller that requires strict attention.

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The Go-Go’s Say Farewell

by Michael Dorn

When the Go-Go’s came to the Sands Event Center, it was clear from the get-go that they were there to have a good time.

As Grand Funk Railroad’s “We’re an American Band” blared through the PA system, the 5 ladies who make up the all girl 80’s pop band took the stage, one at a time, dancing and singing along. They looked genuinely happy to be there.

Opening with their 1982 hit, “Vacation”, they didn’t waste any time getting the crowd on their feet. Song after song Jane Weidlen, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock and newest member, Abby Travis played flawlessly, as Belinda Carlisle delivered pitch perfect vocals. Early in the night, Jane Weidlen reminded the sold out crowd that the Go-Go’s actually started in the 70’s, as part of the LA punk scene. To prove it, they launched into 2 songs

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from their punk roots that were never released on an album. The first was a song called “Screaming”, which I highly recommend looking up. It can stand up to any song today, and the catchy guitar riff will get stuck in your head.

Making sure not to disappoint a single audience member, the band threw in Belinda Carlisle’s 1986 solo hit, “Mad About You”, and Jane Weidlen’s 1983 duet with Sparks, “Cool Places”. They also threw in “Cool Jerk”, a cover by The Capitols, and a surprising encore, an acoustic rendition Miley Cirus’s “Wrecking Ball.” Sorry Miley, Belinda Carlisle sang it way better.

As the night wore on, the audience was treated to a musical journey through the career of the Go-Go’s. Song after song, hit after hit, not a single person in the Sands Event Center was sitting down. Belinda Carlisle, and the rest of the band, danced to each song they played like teenagers in a nightclub. And they looked better than some woman half their ages. I’m sure I’m not alone in wondering why they would want to call it quits.

Obviously, the band had a long, successful career, with several big hits and catchy songs. We can only hope that the 5 ageless women who make up the Go-Go’s will change their minds, and treat their fans to more music.

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**Set List** 1. Vacation 2. How Much More 3. Tonight 4. This Town 5. Mad About You (Belinda Carlisle) 6. Insincere 7. Screaming 8. Fun With Ropes 9. Good Girl 10. Fading Fast 11. Cool Places (Sparks duet with Jane Weidlen) 12. Cool Jerk (The Capitols) 13. Beautiful 14. La La Land 15. Skidmarks on My Heart 16. Our Lips Are Sealed 17. We Got the Beat Encore 18. Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus) 19. Get Up and Go 20. Head Over Heels

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Sands Event Center June 17th, 2016

3 Doors Down Hosts Sold Out Show!

by Foxxy Roxxy

On their new tour Us and the Night, 3 Doors Down completely filled up the seats at the Sands Event Center in Bethlehem, Pa on May 19. They performed songs from their new album Us and the Night as well as some of their popular hits “Kryptonite”, “Here Without You”, and “Let Me Be Myself.”

Brad Arnold, singer of 3 Doors Down, had the upmost respect for Bethlehem. After almost every song he spoke, “Thank you and God Bless you all!” Not only was the band polite but also performed a huge tribute to our military brothers and sisters.

Before starting their song, “Citizen Soldier” Arnold gave a passionate thank you and gave his story as to why our military meant so much to him and the band. 3 Doors Down are all true southern gentlemen. Us and the Night reached no.

1 on the Independent Albums Chart and no. 2 on Top Rock Albums. The album was released this past March and is currently available on ITunes as well as on Amazon.

Throughout their new album, Us and the Night, they put out a much younger wilder type of vibe. Their song, “In the Dark” is a rebellious party song while “Piece of Me” still keeps part of their old acoustic type of work. If you’re looking to rock out with the top down this is definitely an album worth listening to.

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CANDLEBOX @ SANDS EVENT CENTER

By Alexxis Steele, Photos by Sheri Bayne

Candlebox was the supporting act for 3 Doors Down at The Sands Event center on May 19, 2016.

This band proved they could rock the crowd like it was still the 90’s.

Although the music was very loud, and the mix prevented the vocals from coming through, Candlebox performed with the same fervor that you would expect…

They did not disappoint the fans, and stayed true to their roots with crowd pleasers in their 11 songs set, such as “You”, and my favorite Far Behind..

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Set List 1. Stand 2. Vexatious 3. Sweet Summertime 4. Change 5. Blossom 6. Alive At Last 7. Crazy 8. Cover Me 9. You 10. Far Behind 11. The Bridge

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I am back in Sweden and armed with another collection of tunes from Bongo Boy Records.

The theme this time around is Garage Rock. Specifically the album is Out of the Garage Volume II. For those who do not know, Garage Rock is basic, driving, soulful Rock and Roll that is the staple of most bands when they start out. The name comes from the fact that a great many bands practice in their parents’ garage. Generally, this form of music is raw, tends to be loud and has the intensity of youth. These are my people. I love this stuff!

(Out Of The Garage Volume Two Available on iTunes, Amazon and other music retailers)

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Track 1 - Show Me The Love - by Mark Lindsay. Anyone who has read my previous reviews knows that I have become a Mark Lindsay fan. Granted, at one time I dismissed Mark as an aging hippy who had a penchant for three-cornered hats. I was wrong. (Well, he might like those goofy hats, but that is his business.) Mark is anything but an old hippy. Mark Lindsay can rock and roll! Listen to this song and you will immediately know what I mean. The driving bassline, the pounding drums and the Steve Winwood like keys lay down a hypnotic groove.

Then the vocals come in. Man, his voice was made for this stuff! Lest you think that is all, there is a moment when the guitar just opens up and lets it rip - that makes me smile each time I listen to this track. Listen to this song and tell me this dude isn’t one cool old rocker.

Track 2 - So Fine - by the Nolas - The Nolas come from Montreal which I find interesting, partly because I spent three mind altering days in Montreal once and partly because these guys are basically doing surf music.

Hang ten, eh! In all seriousness, these guys are some really good players. Their music is crisp and haunting. The term Goth comes to mind - not the kind of Goth that is simply annoying, but the kind where you stop and think: “Wow, not sure about the whole death vibe, but these guys can play.� The fact that the vocals sound good and the guitar player has some skill make this song really enjoyable. By the end of the track I find myself wanting to hear more from this band.

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Out Of The Garage Volume Two 1. Mark Lindsay - Show Me The Love 3:27 2. The Nolas - So Fine 3:15 3. Cheap Perfume - Boys 2:05 4. Mike Daly & The Planets - Kill A Clown (No, Not Really) 2:46 5. Susan SurfTone - Little Bit Lied To 2:43 6. Mia Moravis - A Spy For Love 2:34 7. Pamela Davis - Don't Look Back 4:00 8. hooyoosay - The Wrong Kind of People 3:09 9 .The Accelerators - Sun, Surf & Sand 1:51 10. The OneNeeders - Ramones Rock 2:59 Track 3 - Boys - by Cheap Perfume - I love this band! Man, I dig chicks that can rock and have attitude!! This is a cover of the old (from November 1960) song by The Shirelles. The tune was later covered by the Beatles. What sets this version apart from other cover versions is the speed. Cheap Perfume has cranked up the tempo and turns the song into a blistering rant. I love it! At

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Track 4 -Kill A Clown (No, Not Really) - by Mike Daly & the Planets - Hands down, this is my favorite track on the album. Musically, I dig what they are doing. This is basic blues based two string rock and roll. Simply put, anyone who has learned to play since Chuck Berry turned up the volume will instinctively know where the changes are in this song. These guys take the 50s vibe and make some rocking noise. What I really enjoy, however is the lyrical content. It just makes me laugh when

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he sings about a sock full of rocks and running the little clown car off the road. The clincher is when the judge frees the protagonist of the story because, after all, he only killed a clown. (Now, the mandatory disclaimer because some wack job might think killing an actual clown might be a good idea: Don’t do it. This song is only a joke. It’s funny because no one really likes clowns anyway. Clowns are creepy, just ask Stephen King.)

Track 5 - Little Bit Lied To - by Susan SurfTone - The bio sheet says that she is out of Beavertown, Oregon, but I would not have been surprised if she came out of Texas. This track has Buddy Holly’s influence all over it. I really like this song. The guitar is good. The rhythm is infectious and the vocals sound good. You cannot really ask for anything more in a pop song. Well done Susan.

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Track 7 - Don't Look Back - by Pamela Davis - I am of two minds about this song. On the one hand, I am not really a fan of the lyrics. I do not understand what the singer is trying to tell us. I can understand each word, but I don’t understand the message. The lyrics talk about bombs and people dying. The listener is told to keep their head low and fire at the enemy. Just as we learn that body parts are flying, I find that despite the lyrical content I really like the song. Why? It is at this point that the massive guitar opens up in a flurry that would make Jeff Beck smile.

Basically, Pamela’s skill as a guitarist carries this song. The vocals sounds good, I just don’t grok the whole apocalyptic thing. What I do get is that the guitar on this track is KILLER. Listen to this song and I think you will also come away moved.

Track 8 - The Wrong Kind of People - by hooyoosay - I like these guys! I liked them when I heard them on Awesome Big Hair Bands Volume One and I like this track. These guys are really good at ironic rock. Listen to the song. It is just so cheery. The vocals sound so uplifting, so perky. Then you realize that the entire lyrical content is based on the fact that hooyoosay are lacking in all the superficial status symbols by which we tend to judge our fellow human beings. I dig what they are doing and in a way would actually classify this track as hardcore. It has been a while since I have heard such a stinging indictment of materialism. Jello would be happy.

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Track 9 - Sun, Surf & Sand - by The Accelerators - I swear this could be the Ramones. This, folks, is punk rock the way it should be played! Listen to this track and tell me punk rock is mindless noise. The vocals sound good. He is not screaming, the man is singing - in tune. The band is tight. The song has energy and the blast is short.

The entire song is just under two minutes long. Excellent job guys!

Track 10 - Ramones Rock - by The OneNeeders - This is the other side of punk rock. What I mean is that their bio sheet says The OneNeeders are a constantly changing line up of musicians who come together to make noise because they like it. I love that! These dudes are having fun and it shows. It sounds like these guys had the same feeling I did when I first heard the Ramones. News to Rolling Stone and MTV: It is NOT about the money. Rock on guys!

So what is the bottom line? Simple, this is a great album filled with tracks from bands you may not be familiar with, but whose music will make you feel better. I love rock and roll and this, folks, is some really good rock and roll. - The Grouch | Sweden

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Gnarly Wave Volume One Music Review by The Grouch from Sweden.

Bongo Boy Records Gnarly Wave Volume One is here. This digital album release includes 15 Surf recordings by 15 American Recording Surf Bands.

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I am back with another review for Bongo Boy. This time around Bongo Boy asked me to give a listen and share my thought about their new compilation album Gnarly Wave Volume One. I have to admit my first thought when I heard the title of the album was “Oh no, I hate the Beach Boys.” Then I thought to myself that really isn’t fair. There are a lot of good players who contribute to the Surf genre. Not liking Surf because you don’t like the Beach Boys is like dismissing Country because you don't like Patsy Cline. (Yes, I know she is a Country goddess, but her music gets on my nerves.) The point is: Hank Williams III is one of my favorite musicians and had I dismissed all Country due to my dislike of Patsy Cline I never would have heard Hank3. So, with that in mind, I sat down to listen to Gnarly Wave Volume One. 1.

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GNARLY WAVE VOLUME ONE LINE UP Les Fradkin - Crashing Waves 2:09 Tsunami Of Sound - Boogie Board Walk 2:05 Susan SurfTone - Green Light 3:00 The SpyTones - Over The Moon 3:29 James and The Enigmatic Light Band - Happy Happy Beach Song 2:46 Commercial Interruption - Prime Time 1:40 Blue Wave Theory - Lava Spout 3:24

8. Agent Octopus - Chaparral 2:26 9. Gar Francis - The Wave 3:10 10. Steve Laudicina - Wide Open 2:50 11. Jenny And The Felines - Psychedelic Sea 3:38 12. The OneNeeders - Hush 3:46 13. Dylan McGuire - Life Jacket 3:23 14. Nolan Voide - Surfing To Jamaica 2:14 15. The Turbosonics - Jennette’s Pier 2:28 Track 1 - Les Fradkin - Crashing Waves The first thing I noticed when I was perusing the bio sheet for the artists on the album was that Les Fradkin was an original member of the show Beatlemania. Les played the part of George Harrison. How cool is that?? Thus, it was with great expectations I cued up his track Crashing Waves. I will say this: the man can play. I really enjoyed this track. The echoing reverb on the guitar was hauntingly nice and Les provided plenty of lightning licks to show off his prowess,

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but what I found myself drawn to was the percussion. It is probably because I am an old drummer, but I have to say I really like the sound his drummer was getting. Those drums in combination with the guitar absolutely brought to mind crashing waves.

Track 2 - Tsunami of Sound - Boogie Board Walk Without a doubt, this band has a killer name! Any band that describes their music as “Huge surf-inspired instrumentals that will make your head shake and your feet move.” gets my attention. After listening to the track the band still had my attention. I particularly liked the lead that came roughly halfway through the song. This band has a raw freshness that I would describe as Surf Punk – the music is good and the band is tight enough, but they have a bit of a garage vibe going on that I dig.

Gnarly Wave Vol 2 Music Opportunity in Music Connection Track 3 - Susan SurfTone - Green Light I know Susan’s music from Bongo Boy’s Out of the Garage Volume 2 album. I really liked her work on that LP, so it was with a Grouchy smile that I listened to this track. Man, this woman can play! I challenge anyone to tell me that women can’t rock. All you have to do is listen to Ms. Surftone to realize women absolutely can rock! Hands down, this is one of the best tracks on the album. I love that massive rockabillyesque jam. Listen to this song! What would a show with both Susan SurfTone and the Gore Gore Girls be like? I can only dream.

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Track 4 - The SpyTones - Over The Moon The SpyTones are another band out of New England. Who knew that New England has such a vibrant Surf scene? Next thing I’ll learn is that Gnome Alaska is home to a plethora of righteous Hip-Hop groups…I digress. According to their bio the SpyTones “play reverb drenched original music…” Well, that sounds interesting. For a band that bills themselves as reverb maniacs, the lead guitar on this track is surprisingly clear. I have to say that I really like this song. It is nice to hear a band that can just play. The lead guitarist on this track needs to be commended. I did notice a bit of reverb in the last third of the track, but it did not distract from what can only be described as the beauty of the lead guitar.

Track 5 - James and The Enigmatic Light Band - Happy Happy Beach Song Coming out of Kentucky, I half expected to hear some Blue Grass influenced picking on this track.

(Before, you scoff and dis Blue Grass, listen to some. Those cats can tear it up!) James likes to write “unique songs with emphasis on guitar”. This is one of those songs. Despite the fact that the song was a little slow for my taste, I could not help but groove to the music. James has some interesting things going on and he deserves a listen.

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Track 6 - Commercial Interruption - Prime Time

Coming in at scant 1:40, I was eager to hear this song. I wondered how much of a wallop they could pack in such a short amount of time. The words “Gabba Gabba Hey” ran through my brain as I clicked play. After listening to the track I can say wholeheartedly that CI does indeed pack a wallop. To be clear, this is not at all close to Punk Rock, these guys are much too skillful a group of players for Punk Rock (Apologies to Me First and The Gimme Gimmes). I hear a definite Jazz influence on this track. It’s okay though, it’s good Jazz, not the kind that gives you a headache. The bio sheet says that these guys play a lot in New York City. If you happen to be in that area, theirs would be a really good show to check out.

Track 7 - Blue Wave Theory - Lava Spout BWT comes out of the Garden State and their bio says that “the group's sound is rooted in surf music of the 1960s, but often incorporates elements of other genres including reggae, punk rock, and progressive rock.” WOW – Punk and Prog. I thought those terms were mutually exclusive. (Imagine Emerson, Lake & Palmer covering NOFX??) I digress (You see; I was ADD before it was cool.) SO what about their song, Lava Spout, aside from having a cool title, what is the

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song like? The song is an absolute blast! I have never heard Reggae Surf before, but I dig it! I dig it a lot. You have to check this out. I had a big goofy grin the entire time the music was playing. In the words of my high school band teacher Mr. Case: “You cats can groove.” Well done, guys, well done.

Track 8 - Agent Octopus – Chaparral

First off, these guys have a sense of humor and a connection to old mythology which I like. Their bio not only mentions the siren's call, but also draws a comparison to “a melodious Kracken.” Music aside, Agent Octopus wins the award for best bio blurb I have seen all day. Onto their music: The term melodious is decidedly apropos. This track is 3:24 of beautiful music that is sure to keep the listener’s attention. I particularly enjoyed the leads and found myself keeping time with the drummer.

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Track 9 - Gar Francis - The Wave OK, I am biased, Gar Francis is one of my favorite musicians. This guy writes really cool songs and would be a ton of fun to jam with. This song is no exception. The bottom line is that Gar is a fretmaster with a tremendous amount of raunchy garage based soul. You really need to give this tune a listen.

Radio Rotation on iSpin Radio via New Visions Radio Track 10 - Steve Laudicina - Wide Open When I read on the bio sheet that Steve’s influences include BB King, Albert Collins, James Brown and Booker T I sat up and took notice. I really like all of those groups. (One of the best shows I have ever seen was BB King shortly before he passed.

I count myself as lucky to have seen him in person.) I can hear the James Brown influence on this track. If James had decided he wanted to Surf it would have sounded something like this, although James would have added some sort of vocal noise (you can’t really call a lot of what came out of James Brown’s mouth words). Nevertheless, even without vocals this song has a massive intensity and I can easily imagine James sliding all over the stage as Steve plays the guitar. Fantastic song, Steve!

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Track 11 - Jenny and The Felines - Psychedelic Sea

Their bio lists the band as coming from New Jersey and being a “power pop group serving up a guitar driven, female fronted assault on the ears and minds of all who listen.” Well, some of my favorite music is power pop (I think Cheap Trick can be classified as power pop?) Any band which describes their music as an assault on the ears and minds of listeners deserves to be checked out. I like this song. Is that a tambourine I hear? I could imagine people dressed in black doing a decidedly hardcore tango to this track. After the tango they would have to brush the hair from their eyes and hold their cigarettes sideways…I digress again. What really impresses me about this song is the way the intensity builds and the guitar takes off on a MASSIVE jam before slightly calming down and coming to an end. I would love to see their show! Perhaps I will be able to if I ever make it to the Bongo Boy offices in person.

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Track 12 - The OneNeeders – Hush I first heard about the OneNeeders from their track on BongoBoy’s Out of the Garage Volume 2. I really like the fact that these guys sound raw and are simply having fun. That is how Rock and Roll should be – fun! This song is no exception. It sounds RAW and the guys are definitely enjoying themselves. Take a listen and you just might find yourself inspired to start a band! Rock on guys!

Track 13 - Dylan McGuire - Life Jacket I like the blurb in Dylan’s bio about how he got into Surf “way back in the mid80s”. Funny, but 1982 seems like it was just a couple of years ago…the first thing the listener realizes when this track starts is that Dylan can play – really well! In fact, the sounds he is able to make with his guitar are nothing short of mesmerizing. Dylan, I was literally spellbound listening to your work. This song deserves airplay.

Track 14 - Nolan Voide - Surfing To Jamaica Nolan comes from the great State of Washington where he is currently recording his debut solo album, "The Forever Endeavor". The name of this track is Surfing to Jamaica which piqued my interest because I have wanted to visit Jamaica ever since I became friends with a kid we called Jamaican Bob in high school. Bob earned spending money in high school by importing various plants which were cultivated by his cousins in Jamaica … I can almost see Bob’s head moving back and forth in that semi-

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permanent daze of his as I listen to this track. The music is a slow grinding onslaught of sound accentuated by riveting guitar. The track leaves the listener breathless and gasping for air by the time it comes to an abrupt end. This is a good song and I am sure Bob would agree.

Track 15 - The Turbosonics - Jennette’s Pier The last song on the album comes from The Turbosonics who are out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The seagulls at the beginning of the track are fun. What I noticed about this track is that it reminds me of something a really fun party band would play. The fuzz and reverb effects are kind of cool. This song is the kind of tune you would want to see played at an outdoor venue where tropical drinks are served. All in all, I enjoyed the song, even the seagulls.

So folks, what is the bottom line? The bottom line is that this is another really enjoyable compilation album from Bongo Boy. If you are a fan of the Surf genre you will surely enjoy this album. If you are simply Surf-curious, this is a good album to start with. I enjoyed listening to these tracks and think you will as well.

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Luca Cerardi - Italy

August 19th, 2016 International – Italy

Interview with Munsey Ricci from Skateboard Marketing Ltd This month I have the pleasure to present an interview with Munsey Ricci from Skateboard Marketing. I have worked with him since 2003 with my former band Merendine and now with Not Over Yet. We shared many great moments together between Europe and United Stated and to me it is an honour to interview him talking about his italian roots, his long time experience in music business, skateboard marketing and much more…check this out!

Let’s start: Skateboard Marketing, is celebrating 25 years in business. For the few that don’t know your story, how would you explain what Skateboard Marketing does and what your objective is for the future?

A: We are mainly a radio promotion and marketing company. Our main focus is on radio promotion and artist development. It's a real simple process. We are known as radio promo Indies. We are the select few that have strong relationships with radio and records. We have that ability to get airplay for new and heritage artists. Every band needs airplay to turn on the fan base to something new and cool.

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The first time we met was almost 13 years ago. The first thing we had in common was our “Italian Heritage”. How does that affect you in your daily life? In terms of music, your life experiences and your personal growth?

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built on Italian, Irish and German immigrants.

They came to America, learned to speak English and flew an American flag in front of their house. They all worked 12 hour days and taught their children the same work ethic. It's that ethic you carry on, if you want something you work for it. As an Italian American we have the bond with bands from Italy. We share the same nationality.

In the music industry it's not so much your nationally as it is your ability to deliver on records at radio. At the end of the day that's what it's all about. But once thing for sure is we eat good in the office every day.

Europe?

Where did your family come from in Italy? Is the Italian lifestyle still part of your life or is everything you do very American?

A: Yes it is, it will always be part of my lifestyle. I grew up Italian and continue to live Italian. Our family is all from the south near Avellinoo and San Bartolomeo, Pomigliano D'Arco and Valata. All those areas are way cool. I went with my cousin's in Italy a few years ago to see all those cities. I've been 7 times including your neighborhood in the North.

You came to Italy many times, visiting cities from North to South. What do you remember the most and what do you miss from the last trip you had here?

A: The food and the Grappa. But the lifestyle is quite different. It's more laidback and there's less emphasis on work and more on life itself.

You came also many times to Europe (outside Italy). Did you find any differences between Europe and the US, in terms of music and lifestyle? What do you like the most in Europe that you would steal and bring with you to the US? And vice versa, what do you miss about your country when you travel to

A: One thing the Europeans have are killer festivals. They blow away most of the fests We have in America. Don't get me wrong, Rock On The Range, Maryland Death Fest New England Metal Fest are all amazing. But nothing compares to Wacken as well as Roskilde or Download in the UK. One thing the Europeans have right are open air festivals.

You know many Europeans, given your job, and you interact a lot with them. Can you give me an adjective for each nationality?

What do you like the most about Italians, Germans, British, French, Spanish people? (the one you know, obviously) A: That's a tough question, I have fun anywhere I go in Europe. Some countries have better food or beer. But one thing for

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Everywhere I go we see some of the most amazing bands and venues. Especially in Norway, Sweden and Finland. The metal scene is far surpassed than anywhere else in Europe with Some of the most amazing bands. Amorphis, Soilwork, Gorgorath. But if you look at Israel you have Orphaned Land and Melechesh. Italy has Rhapsody and Lacuna Coil.The Germans dominate with thrash too!

Back to the US, let’s talk about your job and family there. I had the pleasure to meet your family and stay with you at your place. I’ll never forget your father, especially his kindness and strength. How did he influence your life? I know he was a fighter of the great generation. I guess you’ve always been inspired by him. Also, he was Italian. What’s the one thing he taught you that you will never forget?

A: To work for what you want and don't back down from anything. It's a sign of weakness. So to persevere you must always move forward.

Did your parents create an Italian atmosphere in your life as you were growing up? What do you remember the most about your youth, in relation to your Italian roots?

Any particular party, holiday, custom that represented a classic Italian family living in New York?

A: As a child they only spoke Italian in our house. Always at the dinner table and with with their friends. But when they went to work they spoke English unless it was with other Italians.

I have always seen a lot of Italian musicians (or at least with Italian origins) in the metal scene. Do you think there is a reason for this?

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language. Where someone is from seems to have influence as well as style. But if someone grew up with thrash then their biggest influences are who their hero's are.

Yes the place you're in also has a lot to do with it. Look at Maurizio from Kataklysm and Ex Deo. He is Italian and writes some of the most brutal shit I've heard with taste.

You are now a veteran of the music business.

You have seen the best years and the worst ones. How is the music scene doing right now? What’s different from 30 years ago?

How did the economic collapse and the after 9/11 affect the business?

A: it's tough all over, but that has to do with a weak economy. Also file sharing is killing record sales. Not the government would so something logical like pass a solid anti file sharing bill. But that's why we are loosing millions in publishing and mechanicals due to that alone. But it will get better. But overall we are fine, artists and record labels need airplay. That's what we do and we are and established company. Reputation is everything in the music industry.

In your opinion, is music just business or should it always be a way to express feelings and thoughts?

A: No, an artist must always express their creativity. That's what it's all about, the music.

If everything was generic then life would be boring. But the music industry is a business. You have to sell records so labels can continue to bring good music to the fans. To those that don't have compassion for the music they never last.

How did digital music change music? Do you think all these technologies have been good or bad for music and musicians?

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easier. You have to advance or you'll re-gress.

Besides it's so much easier to edit and record digitally. But still nothing sounds better than a Neeve and a 2 inch Studer.

You are a radio promoter. Europe doesn’t really work the way America does in this business. Any change from the past? And how do you think the radio landscape will look in the future?

Steel Notes Magazine Lucera. There was a table of Hershey bars, like 3 hundred of them. I knocked them all on the floor by accident. The Barista (bar tender) had a meltdown, needless to say I didn't finish my coffee!

A: Europe has never had radio. I mean there is but it's all State controlled. There isn't any privately owned stations. That is one of my biggest beefs with the EU. The government controls everything which doesn't give the people their freedom. If there was private owned stations there, life would be much different for breaking new artists.

How would you advise a young band that still dreams to be an important act? Do you think it’s still possible? If they were your kids, what would your honest suggestion be?

A: Practice and create when you feel. As a golden rule we don't get involved in the writing process of anything. Let the band create and if it's solid you go from there. But the most important thing is to gig hard. A band that plays live has chops.

What are the 5 things to do for a band that has a good record to release?

A: Every record is different so you approach everything different. I really have to hear a record first and then create a set-up and go from there. Per say, you can't do what Morbid Angel did with another record. You can in some cases but...........You as a promo guy have to come up with something cool.

What’s the funniest and worst anecdote you remember about your time in Italy/Europe?

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger - Nietzsche

Alessia Bastianelli

Throughout life, everyone has to cope with adverse situations, difficult experiences, or even tragic events.

Disappointments, daily conflicts, job loss, illness, and the death of a loved one are examples of life experiences that can upset people’s psychological stability.

These upheavals of one’s existing balance can confront people with a series of questions from which we cannot escape: Why me? What did I do to deserve this?

When looking for a clarifying response, it is possible to redefine one’s suffering, although overcoming suffering may never be realized fully. The pain that we feel can be converted into an added value, a source of greater sensitivity to our existence and empathy toward other people. While some wounds will not heal completely, any adverse situation can represent an opportunity for greater fulfillment if it is not lived passively as punishment or as a denial of happiness in its sudden and unexpected occurrence. The real challenge is discovering how to overcome these difficult times. In this sense, difficulties are like opportunities or tests that encourage us to gather and organize our resources, both internal and external: a challenge from which no one is exempt in order to achieve a more functional life balance.

To face the inevitable adversities of life, we harken to a skill known as resilience. This term was taken from the engineering sector and indicates the ability of a material to withstand a sudden impact without cracking. Its action can be compared to that of our immune system, which is called upon to protect us from external aggression. From a psychological point of view, resilience is the process of adapting in the face of adversity, tragedy, pressures, or significant sources of stress.

Resilience is therefore the ability to heal ourselves after an injury, cope, and manage to reorganize our lives successfully, in spite of difficult situations that suggest a negative result.

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Thus, being resilient does not just mean being able to resist the pressures of the environment but also to grow from them. Even if resilience does not make us invincible, it allows us to overcome difficulties.

In this view, resilience is a priceless skill: Above all, it implies a positive trend, an ability to move forward despite the crisis, thanks to the reconstruction of a life path. Sometimes, in a given moment of life or when situations are too difficult to bear (generating instability), even those who have been resilient in the past can have difficulties in overcoming a particular event. Thus, although there is no doubt that the strength developed through past battles predisposes the individual to have greater awareness through his or her struggle, throughout every moment of our lives, we could be in seriously troubling situations that require us to reorganize our lives positively.

Much research has been done to find the psychological traits of resilient people. In general, it has been shown that they find within themselves—in their human relationships and in the contexts of their lives—elements of strength to overcome adversity and develop skills to protect themselves against risk factors Looking at life optimistically and having good self-esteem, psychological hardness, positive emotions, the ability to adapt to new situations, and social support are all factors that contribute to increasing one’s resilience.

However, the roads that we can take to increase our level of resilience are numerous. Unfortunately, resilience is not sold by the pound, otherwise I would be already in the queue at the store.

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MY IOWA LIFE I am beautiful blue I am the greens and browns I breathe your love As you softly tickle the bottoms of my feet I feel your charm And the sharp crackle in your voice Your loud, tall tires Whisking the jobs away Till dim lights and cool beers Signal the day’s done Denim and dung-smelling fields Rest until the morrow For now good voices and pork sandwiches Rule the friendly intimate nite Set up in a small simple room Filled with knowing neighbs Where rock n roll and country live Where the far right; just might And a friendly smile can melt you Where you’re awakened with the clearest and cloudiest And overcome with the hush And where endless roads meet to go nowhere Down the road a piece

MI VIDA EN IOWA Soy el bello azul Tengo los verdes y marrones Respiro tu amor A medida que me haces cosquillas suavemente en las plantas de los pies Siento tu encanto Y el fuerte crujido en tu voz Tus fuertes, llantas altas Acabando con todos los trabajos Hasta que las luces tenues y cervezas frías Señalan que el día esta hecho Tela vaquera y campos oliendo a estiércol Descansan hasta el día siguiente Por ahora buenas voces y sándwiches de cerdo Gobiernan la noche íntima y amigable Establecida en una pequeña habitación sencilla Lleno de vecinos conocidos Donde el rock and roll y la musica vaquera vive Donde el extremo derecho; quizas pueda Y una sonrisa te puede derretir Donde te despiertas en lo más claro y más nublado Y eres superado con el silencio Y donde los caminos sin fin se reúnen para ir a ninguna parte Al cruzar un pedazo de la calle Steel Notes Magazine www.steelnotesmagazine.com

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by Yvonne Sotomayor THE PURGING Distracted by demons Of a past yet to unfold The transparency I seek With its beauty bright and bold Where all is understood There is no need for dispute Or suspicious eyebrows Interrogations are silenced The muted lovely world Words need not etch their mark Or make their proven points Merely blow soft kisses Reassembling the other’s esteem Marching forth towards the wide open Interlaced fingers solidly withstand The outside world’s rebuffs Instead; inner warlocks approach Tossing our muddled carcass Of a shell still yet to be shorn Toying with complications That aren’t mine to solve Calling forth my wrath Blinding me with fraught Caught up in another’s storm Repulsed while attracted To the beautiful disaster Trying to comprehend But my hammer doesn’t work And so I need translation To extract a witty lesson An advisory or some wisdom I fail to grasp the fairness And truncate myself with angst I sludge through the mire Of familial stories gone by

LA PURGA Distraída por los demonios De un pasado todavía por cumplirse La transparencia que busco Con su belleza brillante y audaz Donde todo se entiende No hay necesidad de disputa O las cejas sospechosas Los interrogatorios son silenciadas El mundo mudo y precioso Las palabras no tienen por qué grabar su huella O hacer sus puntos probados El mero hecho de soplar besos suaves Para reasamblar la estima del otro Marchando adelante hacia lo abierto Dedos entrelazados sólidamente resisten Desaires del mundo exterior En lugar; brujos interiores se acercan Lanzando nuestra carcasa confusa De una concha todavía por trasquilarse Jugando con complicaciones Que no son míos para resolver Llamando a mi ira Cegándome con plagada Atrapados en la tormenta del otro Repelidos, mientras atraídos Al hermoso desastre Tratando de comprender Pero mi martillo no funciona Necesito traducción Para extraer una lección ingenioso Un asesor o algo de sabiduría No alcanzo a comprender la equidad Y me trunco con angustia Enlodada lucho a través del fango De historias familiares del pasado Steel Notes Magazine www.steelnotesmagazine.com

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THE UNFORTUNATE TRUTH The unfortunate The entangled The mistaken The antagonized Woefully misbegotten Hurtling towards An untimely end One cannot listen While the other speaks Words that are untrue To the other’s liking Shameful and sad Angry and hurt Opposing each other Squared off in a duel Language of no hope Thickens the air Despair and no light Clench the stillness Regret and repentance Indignant hostility The end is so near For the dispute, i hope.

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LA VERDAD DESAFORTUNADA A desafortunada La enredada La errónea El antagoniza Lamentablemente misbegotten A toda velocidad hacia Un final prematuro Uno no puede escuchar Mientras que el otro habla Palabras que no son ciertas Del agrado de la otra Vergonzosa y triste Enojado y herido Opuestos entre sí Cuadrado en un duelo de Lenguaje de la esperanza El aire se espesa Desesperación y sin luz Apretar la quietud Pesar y arrepentimiento Hostilidad indignados Al final está tan cerca Para la disputa, espero.

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Review by — Gatemouth Wighat Bongo Boy Rock n Roll TV Show Ep1088 “FEEL THE MUSIC”

Preamble: I grew up in a musical era that began with, among others, Beatles & Hermits & Stones & Byrds performances on black & white broadcast TV. Then came the onslaught of live and lip-synced performances by the original artists on television variety programs.

Broadcasters soon heard cable and satellite TV knocking, but try as they may, they couldn’t keep it at bay. “I want my MTV” gave way to “Video Killed The Radio Star.”

Before long, anyone in any band who was halfway telegenic wound up in a music video, performing the song or acting out some silly skit or worse, synced with some graphic treatment that either really worked or accelerated the decline of the act it sought to promote—Dire Straits’ “Money For Nothing” is worth noting here, if only for its cannibalistic ball of confusion, the retched sum of all parts.

MTV, for all its inherent flaws, rolled merrily along, pumped up the volume and began programming its dayparts with genre-specific batches of videos. Hip hop, rock, metal, punk and glam were spread across the spectrum, twenty-four seven. Then, to prove either A) that they were bored, or B) that they were crazy, the network that called itself Music Television stopped playing music videos altogether.

That’s right—fin, the end, kaput.

MTV pushed some of its packaged video programs to its sister network, VH1. For itself, MTV began generating some of the earliest and possibly raunchiest reality programs known to all. But that’s a story for another day. Right now we need to crack the mystery: Who Stole The Show from MTV? With no music television, how would we ever know who to like, who sounded great but looked like dorks and vice versa? Depending whom you ask, nobody cared or everybody cried. Music video budgets became part of the norm for artists’ contracts, rather expensive productions oftentimes recouped from the bands that hadn’t yet broken through, big debts to shoulder before the band members had made Dime One.

BUT, all that’s ancient history—corporate-ized, compartmentalized and deconceptionalized. Thank goodness BONGO BOY is still one of the strongest proponents of individualism – in music, in music video and in all walks of life!

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Let’s have a look at the latest submissions from Episode 1088 of Bongo Boy Rock ‘n’ Roll TV, available for you to watch wherever you consume & celebrate independent music television.

just as much Satan as the devil himself!

BellVex gets this episode started with Famous – chock-a-block with nervous male-in-ahoodie video energy and a message song that blames the girl for throwing in her lot with the Devil for fifteen minutes of fame. You’re so effing sinister, look in a mirror and tell me what you see – you’re

The Young Presidents – Loner – is this whole show is having a common theme? – blame the woman who doesn’t fit your ideals.

The YPs have wrapped up their message in jangly guitars, scruffy beards, and fleeting harmonies – yes, summoning the California soft country pop of the ‘70s-era Eagles to add flavor to a room full of Mumford Sonrises.

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The Solo Cup Company must be extra delighted to know — Turner Jackson has immortalized its ubiquitous Red Plastic Cup in a video anthem. In a concrete Brooklyn basement, the cups of “jungle juice” are used to fuel old school roller skating, naked streaking, beautiful people shimmying, and something going on upstairs where the girls are screaming, trying something “new.” Sounds like fun with a bouncy beat, but I usually take my man-bun and run from such iffy

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Just when you thought Auto Tune was done to death, it’s prominent in Falling, a music video from Switzerland’s Michael Resin featuring Benjamin Karmer. I don’t know what they’re saying in the brief rap spoken in French, but it may be the analog to the Child Is The Father To The Man aspect of the video. I let my imagination wander along with these starcrossed lovers who have somehow fallen and are seeking help to get back up…together?

This is rough stuff: Can U Feel by Waheed Ahmad, featuring Cassani & Sadiyah, totally obscures hope and comprehension by using every special effect available in the video toolbox, over a track that is drenched and dripping with every special effect available from the audio toolbox. I really do appreciate the energy they’ve put into the creative process, but just because you’re invited to the smorgasbord doesn’t mean you expect that it’s all you can eat.

Here comes some straightforward positive upliftment from the group Inches From Sin and their music video I’ve Seen Better Days. First of all, I really appreciate the accents from the brass section, and the tasty – Celeste?

Glockenspiel? Xylophone? – keyboard is very cheerful, despite the theme of the video, which is looking back to your past and remembering all the joy of your youth. Bonus music video linkage: The cat playing the Gibson Explorer just about blows the roof off the auditorium with his last-solo-before-final-bell fieriness. Easily the best music video in this episode – hats-off to the artists!

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I don’t know about you, but I’m meeting Cheap Perfume at the checkout counter, where they’re making off with cartloads of Boys for breakfast, lunch, dinner and in-between meal snacks. I reviewed their studio recording of this popular Motown classic cover, and that was pretty darn revved up, but this live version proves they aren’t afraid to stand and deliver. See you soon, Cheap Perfume, and just stack your empties by the door – rock on!

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Bongo Boy Rock n Roll TV Show Season 5 Episode 1086 | “Adventure Awaits” Review by: Dawn Belotti The Bongo Boy Rock N' Roll TV Show is proud to present their episode 1088 in their Rock N' Roll TV Show series, "Adventure Awaits” featuring 6 talented independent international recording artists in 1 special ½ hour TV show. This Bongo Boy TV produced episode premiered in July on all channels in the Bongo Boy TV National Region and also rotated on TV in Philadelphia for the month of August and if off to cities like San Antonio and Los Angeles this Fall. For a complete broadcast schedule, please visit http://www.bongoboytv.com Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show Ep1086 Indie Music Videos From Around The World | “Adventure Awaits”.

Music Video Director: Last American BBboy Website: www.gabisklar.com

From New York City, Gabi Sklar’s “L.A. Changes You” is the latest release from this 16 year old native New Yorker. Her vocals have a soothing tone reminiscent of Demi Lovato; however lyrically she is wise beyond her years.

Her haunting number complete with mood setting lighting, tackles the emotional issue of addiction. Gabi Sklar has a long career ahead of her as a songwriter and a performer.

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The Dead Daisies “Long Way to Go” is the featured video from the current super group. The on stage and behind the scenes shots are implicative of the rock star life of the 1980s; when hard rock ruled the airwaves and video world. John Corabi is the perfect front man for the band. The Dead Daisies are currently touring. You definitely do not want to miss these guys.

Music Video Director: Lukas Hambach Website: www.thedeaddaisies.com From London England The Kut “Bad Man” shows us that ladies can rock.

With the popularity of bands such as The Iron Maidens the door is opened for female ensembles that play their own instruments and don’t need to churn out a sugar coated performance.

A raw, mostly live performance video with a punk flair, The Kut delivers.

Music Video Director: Mike Gripz Website: thekut.co.uk Colorado’s Les Fradkin’s “Crashing Waves” is the only instrumental video in the set and Fradkin certainly is a skilled guitarist. Taking “Crashing Waves” literally, Les Fradkin sits perched on a rocky shore with guitar in hand.

His style of playing is part 1960s throwback to the Jan and Dean California surf sound with a touch of Jeff Beck thrown in.

Music Video Director: Loretta Pieper Website: www.lesfradkin.com

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ay Gudda “The Reset” Gudda is a fierce rapper with something to say. The video has a horror film style opening and is set in an abandoned decrepit building. Gudda and director Tone Evans make perfect use of space and set the tone for Gouda’s strong performance. Music Video Director; Tone Evans Website: www.whoisjaygudda.com Chickahominy Vibe “Superstar” With a name like Chickahominy Vibe, you know they have to be an interesting band, and they are. With Christmas light stage décor and dancing girls, you know a night with these guys is going to be a lot of fun. This is a high energy performance and an entertaining video.

Music Video Directors: Andrew Sariti of N’Focus Video and Francis Steel of Chickahominy Vibe Website: www.ellorenzrecords.com The Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show is produced by Grammy members Gar Francis and Monique Grimme and is fully funded by sponsorships from all the indie musicians and their affiliations in each episode and Bongo Boy Records. Bongo Boy TV produces and distributes the Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show, which puts the spotlight on independent artists and their music videos worldwide. All TV episodes are available on their online channel: http://vimeo.com/bongoboy Bongo Boy TV is terrestrial Television on 54 channels across the USA offered in 2 regions – New York City and National Region. Bongo Boy TV is also available via GO INDIE TV RokuChannel, AppleTV and Amazon FireTV. Also you can watch the series on DISH ON DEMAND made possible by ROCKSTAR Multi Vitamins and Galaxy Global Television Network. For a complete broadcast schedule, please visit http://www.bongoboytv.com Email: bongoboytv@aol.com

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Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show Ep1088 Indie Music Videos From Around The World “Feel The Music” Season 5 Ep1088 Review by Dawn Belotti.

The Bongo Boy Rock N' Roll TV Show is proud to present the latest episode in their Rock N' Roll TV Show series, "Feel The Music” featuring 7 talented independent international recording artists in 1 special ½ hour TV show. This Bongo Boy TV produced episode aired on all channels in the Bongo Boy TV Network of broadcast in August. For a complete broadcast schedule, please visit http://www.bongoboytv.com Belle Vex “Famous”.

This classically trained Massachusetts native adds a harder rock edge to his style of pop music. The video, also produced

by Belle Vex, has the artist alternating between vocals and keyboard amidst dark and eerie mood lighting. With 24/7 social media availability, Belle Vex takes on the topic of what people would do for their fifteen minutes.

Belle Vex is a wise and talented young man.

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New York City’s The Young Presidents filmed the video for “Loner” in their home city. The band has a 1990’s alternative vibe while still maintaining a current sound.

The video centers on a young dancer who struggles under negative influence. She only finds herself after stumbling upon the band’s performance location. The scene symbolizes the bands’ lyrics “I wasn’t special until I found you.” The song is catchy and the video is well directed by Daniel Jackson.

Music Director: Daniel Jackson Website: www.theyoungpresidents.com

Bro oklyn’s Turner Jackson Love epitomizes the house party scene in “Red Plastic Cup.” The Hip Hop artist appears to have found himself musically and projects an air of up beat fun with his latest song. Who hasn’t had a drink in a good old red plastic cup? Love’s energy is infectious but he is no slouch when it comes to being serious. The video contrasts the two sides of the artist, a life of the party individual and a seasoned performer in a sound stage.

Music director: Cinema Raven Web Site: http://www.turnerjackson.com/

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Michael Resin ft.

Benjamin Kramer The Swiss crooner’s piece is performed in both English and French. The first thing I thought of after watching was it reminded me of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” video. Resin’s video is entirely black and white and makes excellent use of shadows. While Resin may be popular in the European markets, he certainly has the potential to reach beyond.

Music director: Michael Resin Website: www.michaelresin.com

From Oakland CA, “Can You Feel” by Waheed Ahmed ft. Cassani and Sadiyah. From a city facing its own issues, the song sends a message of positivity. “Can You Feel” is an honest account of what constitutes a good day in certain parts of the world, such as babies being safe.

Waheed asks “Can We Feel” it is going to be a good day. This is what most of us hope for.

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Inches From Sin “I’ve Seen Better Days” Duo Robert Brewer and Karen Holloway have been singing together since their teenage years.

With the addition of a horn section the video has an Earth Wind and Fire aura. The pseudo-live video constantly flashes to nostalgic yearbook photos. Most of us miss aspects of our younger days; a song, a photo or a film can trigger a memory. While capitalizing on that, Inches From Sin delivers a sold, catchy number. If this is a taste of how the due performs, they are sure to deliver in a live setting.

Music director: Ronald Deavers Website: www.inchesfromsin.com Cheap Perfume “Boys” An edgy, New York City, all female punk band that found their roots in the late 1970s. An era where CBGBs was the place to be, when the Ramones, Blondie and Lou Reed walked the streets of New York City and Cheap Perfume were fighting for their place on the tight knit punk scene. The band’s latest video “Boys” captures the essence of the down and dirty NYC heyday. Cheap Perfume are raw, tough and mean business. These ladies have earned their place and well earned it is.

Music director: Joly MacFie for Punkcast Website: https://www.facebook.com/Cheap-Perfume-213503758742148 The Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show is produced by Grammy members Gar Francis and Monique Grimme and is fully funded by sponsorships from all the indie musicians and their affiliations in each episode and Bongo Boy Records. Bongo Boy TV produces and distributes the Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show, which puts the spotlight on independent artists and their music videos worldwide. All TV episodes are available on their online channel: http://vimeo.com/bongoboy Bongo Boy TV is terrestrial Television on 54 channels across the USA offered in 2 regions – New York City and National. Bongo Boy TV is also available via GO INDIE TV RokuChannel, AppleTV and Amazon FireTV via GO INDIE TV. Also you can watch the series on DISH ON DEMAND made possible by ROCKSTAR Multi Vitamins and Galaxy Global Television Network. For a complete broadcast schedule, please visit http://www.bongoboytv.com Email: bongoboytv@aol.com

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Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show Episode 1083 “The Freedom Of Music” Synopsis By: Dana Saravia—Life-long rock & roller, current music critic and Girl From Baltimore The Bongo Boy Rock N' Roll TV Show is proud to present the latest episode in their Rock N' Roll TV Show series, "The Freedom Of Music” featuring 7 talented independent international recording artists in 1 special ½ hour TV show. This Bongo Boy TV produced episode premiered in this summer on all channels in the Bongo Boy TV National Region.

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Starting off this episode is Jacksonville, MO’s Rock Road Rebels with their latest “Freedom In Our Eyes”. Country and arena rock mix to create this driving mid-tempo number that celebrates the United States, its history and citizens. The down home feel and patriotic flavour of this tune make it a fine 4th of July song. The visual imagery of the band performing intercut with scenes of them visiting historical monuments is the perfect fit for the song.

Video Director: Larry Gann Web Site: https://www.rockroadrebels.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/RockRoadRebels Twitter: https://twitter.com/RockRoadRebels Ireland’s Colette Kavanagh is next with “Hold On”. Dramatic piano provides the intro to this adult contemporary, soft rock song. Colette’s strong and haunting vocals are the centerpiece of this lush, emotional ballad. Simple yet effective visuals of Colette singing and looking directly into the camera add to the warmth and intimacy of this number.

Video Director: Aidan Farrelly.

Web Site: https://www.reverbnation.com/colettekavanagh FB: https://www.facebook.com/colette.kavanagh.35 Twitter: https://twitter.com/colettekavmusic

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7th Break are from Florence, Italy and are here with the video for their latest song “The Kingdom”. Buzzsaw guitars start off this hard rock song that has a definite thrash metal/punk rock influence. A pounding beat drives this restless song that’s full of anger at the world’s coldness and neglect. Filmed at what looks to have once been a grand building now in ruins, the visuals give another layer to the song’s theme of destruction and uncaring. Video Director: Lorenzo Nocita Web Site: https://www.reverbnation.com/7thbreak FB: https://www.facebook.com/7thbreak Twitter: https://twitter.com/7thBreak The Netherland’s own Trip To Dover is next with their latest “Boy”.

Starting out with sweet vocals over an EDM beat, this track then turns into a melodic harderedged dance pop track.

Featuring upbeat lyrics that celebrate overcoming doubts and difficulties and encourage listeners to be brave enough to go for their dreams, this is a catchy and positive song that could light up both the pop and dance charts. The video includes all kinds of people boldly creating and engaging in activities that bring them joy, providing an inclusive visual accompaniment.

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Jonathan Cavier is from Phoenix, AZ and brings us the video for his latest “Pearl”. This adult contemporary pop song features a warm acoustic sound over a mellow upbeat groove. The gentle islandtinged flow of this laid back song is perfect for summer. The video’s beach imagery further enhances the sunny vibe of this number.

Video Director: Brad Wong Web Site: http://caviermusic.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/Jonathan-Cavier-1740450396233457 Twitter: https://twitter.com/jcaviermusic Los Angeles, CA’s Vernon Neilly is next with his latest “They Don’t Care”. A unique blend of blues, rap, and melodic hard rock backs raw, socially aware lyrics that criticize both the recent political climate and current events worldwide. News scenes of political and social unrest throughout the world are shown interspersed with scenes of the band’s energetic performance to create a powerful video for this song.

Video Director: Agustine Motta Web Site: https://www.boosweet.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/VernonNeillyBand Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernonNeilly Rev. Peter Unger from Allentown, PA closes out this episode with “Memories Of God”. This contemporary worship song features Rev. Unger’s warm voice over gentle, acoustic instrumentation that relates God to current everyday life. The video features scenes of older people in their daily lives along with the song’s lyrics shown occasionally on screen throughout, helping to enhance the song’s personal message.

Video Director: Lisa Koza Web Site: https://www.reverbnation.com/revpeterunger Every episode of Bongo Boy TV brings exposure and a bigger audience for each of these very talented independent artists.

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This episode has been brought to you in part by True Tea Magazine, Gypsy Poet Radio, Steel Notes Magazine, WNTI Stage, and The Ray Powers Hour.

The Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show is produced by Grammy members Gar Francis and Monique Grimme and is fully funded by sponsorships from all the indie musicians and their affiliations in each episode and Bongo Boy Records. Bongo Boy TV produces and distributes the Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show, which puts the spotlight on independent artists and their music videos worldwide.

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Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show Episode 1084 “Rock N’ Roll All The Way” Synopsis By: Dana Saravia—life-long rock & roller, current music critic and Girl From Baltimore The Bongo Boy Rock N' Roll TV Show is proud to present the latest episode in their Rock N' Roll TV Show Series “Rock n Roll All The Way”, featuring 7 talented international independent recording artists in 1 special ½ hour TV show. This Bongo Boy TV produced episode premiered Saturday, 4th June 2016 in New York City followed by rotation in all 5 boroughs. This episode repeated its broadcast on Tuesday, 7th June 2016 in Manhattan on Channel 67 TWC, Channel 85 RCN, and Channel 33 FiOS. Now available on Vimeo Pro Channel.

For a complete broadcast schedule, please visit http://www.bongoboytv.com Writer, producer, SiriusXM DJ and rock goddess Genya Ravan makes her home in NYC and opens this episode with “Cobblestones/Rolling Stones” from the Bongo Boy TV Show season 2 archive. Taken from her 2012 album “Cheesecake Girl”, this song blends the classic feel and production of 60s girl groups with modern style and attitude. The upbeat, melodic rock of the music backs autobiographical lyrics that celebrate Genya’s trailblazing past in Goldie and the Gingerbreads. The video shows scenes of 60s Swinging London, along with photos of several well-known British Invasion bands as well as classic footage of Goldie and the Gingerbreads, providing an excellent visual illustration to the song. Web Site: https://www.genyaravan.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/Genya-Ravan-Official-Fan-Page-117325458286473 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Genyaravan NC’s Nut Drivers are next with the video for their song “Before You Condemn”. This sweet, slower paced song features a traditional country & western sound backing lyrics that remind listeners to look beyond appearances to truly see the person underneath. This gentle song provides a kind antidote for harsh times. The video shows the band playing on a back porch as people gather to hear them, further enhancing the downhome style of the music. Video Director: Britt Warren

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Web Site: : http://www.thenutdrivers.com/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheNutDrivers Twitter: : https://twitter.com/thenutdrivers Next up is Toronto, Canada’s Danko Jones with “Had Enough”, a classic from the Season 1 archives of Bongo Boy TV. Featuring fast, loud guitars, this song has a classic hard rock/metal vibe backing lyrics of frustration with bite and bile at phoniness and dishonesty. The video is a fun, mini action movie featuring scenes with comedian Don Jamieson as well as actors Ralph Macchio and Frank Dank.

Web Site: https://www.dankojones.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/dankojones Twitter: https://twitter.com/dankojones NJ faves The Smithereens are next with their cover of the Outsiders classic “Time Won’t Let Me”, featured on the soundtrack to the 1994 movie “Timecop” as well as on Bongo Boy TV Season 1. The Smithereens maintain the melodic groove of the original song, adding more bottom end and their own energy and style to give this cover a modern twist. The video features scenes of the band performing in costumes from different eras interspersed with action footage from the Jean Claude Van Damme movie “Timecop”, tying the song and film together in a clever way that made me smile.

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From San Francisco, CA, Xavier Toscano brings the video for his latest “Apologies Wasted”. A slower paced blend of EDM and pop music back this break up song. It has a sound that would easily fit in on modern dance or Top 40 charts. The video features Xavier and backing dancers, including in some brief underwater dance sequences, which would make this eye-catching in a club setting.

Video Director: Benjamin Jones Web Site: www.xaviertoscano.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/xaviersings Twitter: https://twitter.com/XToscano From LA, CA London Ellis brings us the video for her latest “From London To LA”. This fast paced modern dance pop song is lighthearted fun. Guest rapper CharlesBlack brings additional hip hop sound to this track. The video features colourful scenes of Los Angeles, adding to the upbeat vibe of the music. Video Director: Alexander The Titan Web Site: https://londonellis.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/londonellismusic Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gabriellaellis

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Closing out the program is LA, CA’s Vernon Neilly with his latest track “They Don’t Care”. The music is a unique blend of rock, jazz and rap backing smart, thoughtful lyrics that criticize world leaders and current events as well as the media’s coverage of them. The video uses scenes of worldwide political and social unrest to further illustrate the song’s powerful message.

Video Director: Agustine Matta Web Site: https://www.boosweet.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/VernonNeillyBand Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernonNeilly

The Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show is produced by Grammy members Gar Francis and Monique Grimme and is fully funded by sponsorships from all the indie musicians and their affiliations in each episode and Bongo Boy Records. Bongo Boy TV produces and distributes the Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show, which puts the spotlight on independent artists and their music videos worldwide.

All TV episodes are available on their online channel: http://vimeo.com/bongoboy Bongo Boy TV is Real Television on 54 channels across the USA offered in 2 regions – New York City and National.

Bongo Boy TV is also available via GO INDIE TV RokuChannel for free on demand.

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Bongo Boy TV Bringing Music Videos to Television - Season 5 Episode 1085 “Summertime And The Music Is Here” Pre Review by Sophia The Gypsy Poet | San Antonio, Texas The Bongo Boy Rock N' Roll TV Show is proud to present the latest New York City episode in their Rock N' Roll TV Show series, "Summertime And The Music Is Here ” featuring 6 talented independent international recording artists in 1 special ½ hour TV show. This Bongo Boy TV produced NYC episode broadcast on July 12 2016 at 10:30 on Manhattan TV and rotated weeks after. For a complete broadcast schedule, please visit http://www.bongoboytv.com From Parker, Colorado - Les Fradkin and his Surf music video “Crashing Waves”.

Crashing Waves also is featured on Gnarly Wave Volume One on Bongo Boy Records.

“Crashing Waves” is a fun song that has a feel-good vibe to it with a cyclical chord progression. The instrumental is catchy, fun and fresh! It has a danceable, Greek feel to it, too! The broken chords actually adds some flavor and contrast to the rhythm of the song! Nimble fingers make its way to your heart with this tune! Fun, Fun, FUN! Music Video Director: Loretta Pieper Web Site: www.lesfradkin.com From Bongo Boy TV Season 3 Archive Life Size music video “Thin Air” from the first single of the album “Dream Walkin” featuring actress Zahava Bost.

“Thin Air” has a lovely melody with soul and sweetness.

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and sweet with fluid rhythm! It’s hard not to get hooked on this song!

Produced, written, directed and edited by Scott Marshall.

Web site: http://www.lifesizemusic.net/ From London The UK, the Punk Rock band The Kut are back with a brand new music video “Bad Man”. From their album “Rock Paper Scissors” on record label Criminal Records.

Okay, This song has a crunch that I can get addicted to even more than a Kit Kat bar… his song is fun, frisky and the punk sound I go for. This is truly something that would be in my CD collection and be played many, many times over! This is worth the listen to bring out your inner-fist pumping’ punk! I love it!! YES!!!

Music Video Director: Mike Gripz Web Site: http://www.thekut.co.uk

From Arizona Bruce Lev and his music video “Catwoman Returns ! “. This song was the most TOP 1 listened song on Bongo Boy iSpin Radio on New Visions Radio Network in the month of June’16. Kudos to Bruce !!

Please, do not tell me that you do not love Dr. Lev! This man has a talent that is endless. His writing style is insane and absolutely the bomb! He never fails on anything he touches and the

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guy delivers! Seriously! You gotta love his sound! Audiosoave and the Red Hot Chili Peppers could take a tip from Bruce! He ROXX this track to no end! Love it, LOOOOVE IT! Web Site: http://www.BruceLev.com/ From Bongo Boy TV archive Season 3 Muzik Box and their colorful and dance music video ‘Ear Candy”.

Ear Candy…. That is EXACTLY what this is!

Sweet to the ears and the melody rings volumes! This appeals to all the more than five senses! A fun track with many bits and rhythmic morsels! This is so much fun to listen to! Electronica, trance, funk and dance all rolled into one! Lots of experimentation on the computer, too. This is truly a delicious track that I would love to get in my iPod, too! Fabulous! Lots of fun to listen and the bits and pieces are tasty and colorful!

Web Site: http://www.muzikboxmusic.com From Greenbelt Maryland Chickahominy Vibe is bringing us his latest music video to Television “Superstar”. This song is also featured on Awesome Big Hair Bands Volume One release date 7.5.16 in Asia and 7.12.16 Worldwide.

Superstar… These guys are great and fun to listen to! I love this group because they got a great rock, pop and funk sound. The sound color is great and fun!

Something that’s been missing since the 80s and Chickahominy Vibe is bringing it back with a vengeance! I can’t wait to see more of what they bring to the screen! Awesome stuff! Bring it on!

Music Video Directors: Andrew Sariti of N’Focus Video & Francis ‘Steel of Chickahominy Vibe” E. Anderson of Ellorenz Records.

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The Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show is produced by Grammy members Gar Francis and Monique Grimme and is fully funded by sponsorships from all the indie musicians and their affiliations in each episode and Bongo Boy Records. Bongo Boy TV produces and distributes the Bongo Boy Rock N’ Roll TV Show, which puts the spotlight on independent artists and their music videos worldwide.

All TV episodes are available on their online channel: http://vimeo.com/bongoboy Bongo Boy TV is Real Television on 54 channels across the USA offered in 2 regions – New York City and National.

Bongo Boy TV is also available via GO INDIE TV RokuChannel, AppleTV and Amazon FireTV via GO INDIE TV. Also you can watch the series on DISH ON DEMAND made possible by ROCKSTAR Multi Vitamins and Galaxy Television Network. For a complete broadcast schedule, please visit http://www.bongoboytv.com Email: bongoboytv@aol.com

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The most listened radio show presented by an indie record label iSpin Radio on New Visions Radio Network is excited to announce their successful growth since their launch back in early Spring 2016. With over 300K listeners and growing; iSpin Radio Show brings the best Indie Music to listeners Worldwide.

Listeners can tune in with the free download APP or get the radio show via New Visions Radio web site. The radio show broadcast on New Visions Radio Network and is managed by Michael Nayt out of California, USA. We are sorry to report that due to health concerns Michael Nayt will be leaving New Visions Radio as of September 1st. Bongo Boy iSpin Radio welcomes

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their new owner Ray Powers with much support as we have given Michael in the past. We know that Ray will continue with the great service and support and continue to grow this dream of Michael Nayt to even greater heights. Ray Powers is from New Jersey and host The Ray Powers Hour also on New Visions Radio Network. Ray is up for a 2016 Nashville Universe Award for Radio Personality of the Year.

August Highlights on New Visions Radio and Sponsored by Bongo Boy Records

1st week of August TOP SONG OF THE WEEK was by The Accelerators – “Take It Or Leave It” - Bongo Boy Records Out Of The Garage Volume One

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2nd Week TOP SONG OF THE WEEK was by Rage Of Angels – “Nothing to Brag About” -Bongo Boy Records Out Of The Garage Volume One.

To find out the other TOP SONG FOR THE WEEK for August tune in at www.newvisionsradio.com Also airing this month and sponsored by Bongo Boy Records are 4 Radio Interview Specials produced and hosted by Gypsy Poet Radio Show.

Mondays at 2PM Pacific Time and Thursdays 8PM Pacific Time.

1st week Inches From Sin | 2nd week Lisa Coppola | 3rd week Mike Daly & The Planets | 4th week Mia Moravis of Rage Of Angels

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Starting with September Plainfield Slim aka Gar Francis will launch his own Blues Hour Radio show on iSpin Radio. The one hour radio show will be distributed through New Vision Radio Network and with other Online and FM stations. Bongo Boy Records’ goal is set to grew this radio show like their Bongo Boy TV; with total distribution in the USA and The World.

This one hour show is dedicated to The Backroom Blues Volume Series released on Bongo Boy Records. Bongo Boy Records is looking for the Blues artists that are featured on these releases to introduce their own song on the radio show. They can email their radio drops and announcement to bongoboyrecords@aol.com Backroom Blues Hour airs on Mondays at 5:00PM EST Time and Thursdays 11:00PM EST Time on New Visions Radio Network.

If you like to be on iSpin Radio and your music video was in rotation on the Music Video Television show The Bongo Boy Rock n Roll TV shows we encourage you to email Bongo Boy Records your MP3 and making arrangements to get the same song as your music video, rotated on iSpin Radio in the upcoming month’s radio show.

This promotion is offered at no charge with your DIY sponsored music videos rotation promotions. Don't miss out!

SUBMIT TODAY submit@bongoboyrecords.com

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Every month your will find a new playlist on iSpin Radio Show. Tune in this September to hear all the music from the latest music compilations releases like Gnarly Wave Volume One, Bongo Boy Beach, Awesome Big Hair Bands Volume One, Bongo Boy Records Compilations Volume Nine and songs from Out Of The Garage Volume One and Volume Two and Bongo Boy TV episodes.

Bongo Boy iSpin Radio is live 7 days a week via New Visions Radio Network at http://www.newvisionsradio.com/ with the best Indie Music Non Stop.

Times of broadcast: NEW YORK CITY. EST Sunday through Saturday Sundays: 3am-6am, 2pm-5pm, and 11pm-2am Mondays: 10am-1pm, and 6pm-12am Tuesdays: 5am-8am and 8pm-11pm Wednesdays: 3am-6am, 10am-1pm, and 9pm-12am Thursdays: 5am-8pm, and 5pm-8pm Fridays: 10am-1pm, 4pm-7pm, and 11pm-2am Saturdays: 3am-6am, 2pm-5pm, 8pm-11pm WWW.NEWVISIONSRADIO.COM WWW.BONGOBOYRECORDS.COM/iSpinRadio

Coming soon new studio album from Lehigh Valley recording artist Tom Vicario.

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Music Review by Gatemouth Wighat Bongo Boy Records Out Of The Garage Volume Two Step away from those power tools, dudes and dudettes – this garage is gonna rock without ‘em. The mavens from Bongo Boy Records have ginned up a brand new batch of the ultimate American homegrown sound – jangly reverb’d guitars, Vox-Velveeta® cheesy organ sounds and untuned drums slapping back from the close quarters where your old man stored his never-ending car restoration projects and dirty mags. Out Of The Garage, Volume Two picks up where Volume One left off, and it’s hitting on all ten cylinders here. Check ‘em out and lighten up on the accelerator, just enjoy the ride.

Mark “Ponytail” Lindsay gets the party in gear with Show Me The Love – muy macho and the most authentic balls-out strut from the ‘60s you’d ever expect. Fist-pumping rumpity bumping – dare you not to shake your groove thing.

Somewhere a swamp garage is missing a bunch of gassed-up gators – that’s the vibe on So Fine by The Nolas. Big spoiler alert – these croc-o-dialers turn on a dime and make surf’s-up waves that zap you right back to the ‘60s.

A revved-up raveup classic: cars, girls and Cheap Perfume’s take on Boys, a B-side for The Shirelles and a Ringo sing-song on a record by his old side group, The Beatles. Cheap Perfume makes the case for high-octane rocking with four on the floor for this Motown classic.

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Can’t say I agree with the sentiment (even with its parenthetical disclaimer), but that doesn’t stop the oil pan slickness of Mike Daly & The Planets motoring through Kill A Clown (No, Not Really). These guys make music that purrs like a kitten with a tiger in its tank, meanwhile apparently knowing a million ways to kill clowns wherever they are encountered.

I love my car, I love my guitar, I love you but you broke my heart when you took me to the beach and didn’t give me what you promised – the story in a nutshell in A Little Bit Lied To from Susan SurfTone. A rock-blocked engine drop on love’s lost highway, with heartache in the rearview.

Mia Moravis and her tune A Spy For Love makes me feel like I’m in a cartoon car from the past, slinking around corners late at night, doing the perviest things in the nicest way.

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she’s got her eye on me, just poised to snatch me up and wrap her cuffs around me.

In Pamela Davis’ Don’t Look Back, her overdriven fuzz-drenched guitar reacquaints me with the feeling I have every time I see the blue lights blazing behind me. I try her advice, but you know what they say: if you make eye contact, they’ve got you. License and registration, please!

I may have noted previously that hooyoosay sound like they’re at some kind of eternal dance party in their minds. The Wrong Kind Of People is a happy-go-larky tune, driven by artists who thought they had a map, but damned if they can find the glove box to check it.

The Accelerators invite us to their drop-top drive-along, on the lookout for Sun Surf And Sand. Mind your MPH, fellows – and keep the SPF handy.

Imagine if Neil Young had sung about The Ramones instead of Johnny Rotten. That’s the point of departure for The OneNeeders’ Ramones Rock. Three gears and a dream, barreling down the lost highway, eyes peeled for the last chance gas.

Happy motoring, from yours truly, Gatemouth Wighat Label Web Page: https://bongoboyrecords.com/outofthegaragevolumetwo/ Out Of The Garage Volume Two 1. Mark Lindsay - Show Me The Love 3:27 2. The Nolas - So Fine 3:15 3. Cheap Perfume - Boys 2:05 4. Mike Daly & The Planets - Kill A Clown (No, Not Really) 2:46 5. Susan SurfTone - Little Bit Lied To 2:43 6. Mia Moravis - A Spy For Love 2:34 7. Pamela Davis - Don't Look Back 4:00 8. hooyoosay - The Wrong Kind of People 3:09 9 .The Accelerators - Sun, Surf & Sand 1:51 10. The OneNeeders - Ramones Rock 2:59

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Music Review by Jenny Cat Bongo Boy Records Out Of The Garage Volume Two by Various Artists.

Mark Lindsey - Show Me The Love We want more FOUR ON THE FLOOR! That’s exactly what you get with this healthy track fresh from rock God, Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders fame.

What is exactly four on the floor? Well, it’s that hard driving beat developed by early garage rock pioneers and “Show Me The Love” merges that early feeling with modern vibe and production value. This is a high quality, top-notch, sexy song that is sure to get the point across: SHOW ME THE LOVE! Mark Lindsay sounds better than ever.

The Nolas - So Fine

A sleeper surf track with a sleek opening guitar and rhythmic beat. The Nolas do not leave us hanging in the dark for long as the song carefully builds into a groovy, shimmering, garage rock tapestry. Just when you think you’re hung up on the girls in the song, we are treated to a surf guitar breakdown in which you can’t help but to shake what the good lord gave you.

The Nolas with So Fine will make anyone with a pulse get up and wiggle (in a good way).

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Cheap Perfume - Boys A delightfully refreshing cover of that awesome early rock standard, “Boys.” The all-girl punk fortress, Cheap Perfume raises the bar for girls worldwide as they prove that they can produce hard-hitting music that floats like a butterfly and stings like an Africanized bee (those are the tougher bees because I heard they’re killer). This song has only one problem: It’s a tease. It makes you want more from this band. Maybe that’s the plan? I know I want more CHEAP PERFUME! Mike Daly and the Planets - Kill A Clown (No, Not Really) In this day in age, it’s not always appropriate to sing songs about people you’d like to kill, but I bet you’d have a hard time finding someone who would be mad if you sang about killing a clown (unless you’re a clown). Mike Daly and the Planets arm us with the definitive soundtrack to our clown killing spree complete with a kazoo solo cut short by gunfire. This has to be a showstopper during a live show - especially if performing at Barnum & Bailey. A sucker is born every minute, but you won’t be a sucker for blasting this song on your stereo. Great and funny track with a hardrocking beat. LOVE it!

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Susan SurfTone - Little Bit Lied To

Casting our fishing pole back into time when life was good and America was in it’s golden age the 1950’s. That’s the vibe “Little Bit Lied To” by Susan SurfTone provides and it’s a headbopping good time (even if the song is about being lied to (just a little bit). Thank goodness love never goes smooth or we’d never have little musical gems like this one. We’ve all been A Little Bit Lied to and now we have an official theme song to celebrate the occasion. Bravo!

SusanSurfTone!

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Mia Moravis - A Spy For Love A spy theme for love. Mia Moravis gives us an official theme for when we’re creeping hard for love. No, it’s not a stalker theme, but gives us the impression that no matter what, Mia Moravis will do what it takes to get true love as she openly sings, I’m A Spy For Love.

The song has a great middles section buildup that showcases the strong song arrangement. If you were ever a sleuth in search of love in all of the wrong places, “A Spy For Love” is your song.

Tune in at 365 Radio Network Pamela Davis - Don’t Look Back A War Song. You don’t have to be a veteran, but you might relate to this tune. We’ve all fought battles that have felt like open warfare and this song reminds us to keep moving forward despite the opposition.

Firefighters, Police and anyone who has ever worn a uniform in defense of others will feel this one. The frantic yet steady pace of the drums sets the ominous tone of this song but also works together with the words giving the ultimate sense of prosody. If you need a song of encouragement during a time of strife, “Don’t Look Back”

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hooyoosay - The Wrong Kind of People This one is fun. It sounds like a cheeky TV jingle. If you’ve ever gone to a weird party with the wrong types of people (call the fashion police) then this song will make the most sense. It’s a playfully celebration of diversity. It’s ok to be different or “wrong” as stated in the song but no one is really better than the rest so it’s ok to show up to your aunt’s funeral in a clown suit (as long as Mike Daly and The Planets aren’t there with their anti-clown anthem). Even though we may be the wrong kind of people, hooyoosay says, “It’s Fine” and I agree. See you at Aunt Myrtle’s funeral.

The Accelerators - Sun Surf and Sand I heard them say, SEASIDE HEIGHTS! Everyone knows that NJ invented the boardwalk and all the shenanigans that take place down the shore every year and The Accelerators give us a solid theme to play while we check out the beaches and chill down by the sea. The straight ahead oldschool warm and fuzzy punk coupled with pop sensible melodies really make this track sparkle and I’d love to see it used somewhere to advertise all that is fun down the shore. Rock on!

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The OneNeeders - Ramones Rock All hail THE RAMONES. The OneNeeders give us an aural homage to our long lost but not forgotten pioneers of punk with this track. Not only does this band manage to capture the raw sound and spirit of THE RAMONES, but they pay excellent lyrical tribute to the boys in black leather. For those of you longing for something to fill the void of losing our Ramones, check out The OneNeeders and zip up that leather jacket (even if it’s 100 degrees out). GET ON IT.

Record Label: Bongo Boy Records Out Of The Garage Volume Two is here. Out Of The Garage Volume Two includes 10 Garage Rock Songs by 10 International recording artists.

This compilation is a part of Bongo Boy’s Compilation series on Bongo Boy Records with Worldwide digital Distribution and Promotions.

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JOURNEY TO INDIA Chapter Two: Dharamsala Rex Maurice Oppenheimer I remember not long after I’d first arrived in Kashmir I would repeat a mantra that went, “descend slowly.” What I meant was that although I wanted to live as cheaply as possible, I had no idea of how well I would be able to deal with conditions that seemed as though they could be severe.

Throughout my couple of years in the country I never had hot running water and at times had no running water at all. Food one purchases on the street can be covered in flies, buying a train ticket can mean waiting in line for hours. Busses could be so crowded that people were two deep out of the door, holding on to each other as their only protection from falling into the street.

I’ve seen villages where the open sewers ran along beside the open trenches that carried the water supply, and boys squatting on the street washing dishes in front of the restaurants, placing the clean dishes on the street where everyone walks and spits.

Despite the hardships and unpleasantness, by the time I’d reached Dharamsala, I relished the slower pace and didn’t miss the modern conveniences, except maybe hot water for a shower once in a while. My moments were filled with the reality of the world right up against me. No constant bombardment of news from beyond the borders of my daily life. I would go for long stretches of time having no idea what was happening in the world at large.

Unlike in the developed world, where history was relegated to books or quaint recreations at tourist sites, here every image seemed to coexist with its history; the past lived visibly within the present, and the continuity of survival somehow provided a sense of security. Negative thoughts and imagined fears about the future paled against the vividness of the moment. In India there was a basic confrontation with the processes of life and death that was somehow comforting.

I remember when I was living on my little houseboat on Nagin Lake in Kashmir, having breakfast one morning when a little mouse ran right across the table. I looked up and said, “get outta here!” And he scampered off. I took it so much more in stride than I would have back in the States. In India living so much closer to the natural world, and with oxen everywhere, cows in the streets, chickens, roosters, ducks, goats, all kinds of birdlife, and now this little mouse, I recall thinking that it was as though I was part of the barnyard and maybe “The Farmer” was looking out for me, too.

It seems strange that I had come to India with a one-way ticket, knew nothing about the country, had a very limited amount of money and no idea where I would ever get any more, was surrounded by a culture that was always strange and at times bizarre, and living conditions that would strike horror into the hearts of many Americans, and yet I felt secure. It was a relatively short time after arriving in Dharamsala that I remember saying out loud to myself, “I think I’m falling in love with India.”

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Dharamsala was very different than Kashmir. The first thing that hit me was the lack of hustle and come-on by touts. It may have partly been the strong Tibetan influence, but I think the main difference is that Dharamsala is truly part of Hindu India, while Kashmir is mostly Muslim.

My first stop in Dharamsala was the Rose Hotel, which I think was about 80 cents to a dollar a night. Perhaps it was more, because the next day I went looking for different accommodations, which I found at the Deepak Hotel.

The Rose Hotel was much more difficult, being up a hill with a steep climb. The Deepak was in town, cheap and decent. It probably cost about sixty cents a night. There wasn’t a bathroom in the room, but there was one right down the hall, with a toilet and shower, no hot water, of course.

When you think of a hotel in the States being so cheap, not that you could even find anything remotely close to less than a dollar a night, you think of flophouses. These hotels in India were not that. The Indians I met staying at these hotels were middle or lower-middle class. For example I would meet government workers, such as engineers, who were traveling on business.

Dharamsala was an adventure in Tibetan food, such as Momo, baked or fried dough filled with meat paste, and Thukpa, a soup of meat, vegetables and noodles, meeting some interesting travelers, taking walks along the hills and up goat trails, to peer from this 12,000-foot high perch and see the sun sinking below the Earth’s horizon line. I would wander out of town and find beautiful mountains and hills that looked like ancient Chinese paintings, with green-tufted, scalloped edges, fast-running streams and gorgeous lacey waterfalls, which I could stand under letting the refreshing mountain water shower down upon me.

The Dali Lama’s home in exile is in McCleod Ganj, about a kilometer or so up the mountain from Dharamsala.

You can take the bus or walk; the trip takes about an hour whichever method of transportation you choose, since the climb is so steep the bus just crawls along. The hike is exhausting, but incredibly beautiful, both for the views where one can literally see over the Earth’s curvature, and the Tibetan presence.

I’d huff and puff along the steep trail beside piles of stones stacked on a boulder as some kind of esoteric marker, while prayer flags fluttered in the breeze, and the deep, echoing sound of chanting came from temples and homes. Stooped old men swathed in orange cloth feeling their way along the trail with walking sticks taller than they were would pass by.

It was in McCleod Ganj that I met Peter. I’m really not sure if Peter’s last name was Cooper or Cook. Greg had written to me about Peter, in either his first or second letter. They had met in Dharamsala where Peter was staying at the Tibetan Association Hotel. Greg had said that Peter was about fifty years old, which to my thirty at the time seemed quite old. He was English, but was born in India. Peter was well educated; he had taught in the university, and he had known and traveled with Ram Das, during the latter’s first sojourn of discovery in India. By the time Greg had met him, however, Peter had been reduced to what one might describe in the West as a downon-his-luck intellectual, or perhaps even a bum.

I didn’t remember any of this, nor did I know that Peter was Peter when I met him. It was in a café in McCleod Ganj. He was sitting at a table drinking tea with some French and Italian travelers, whom I had joined to also drink tea and smoke some hash. We were all sitting and talking when Peter asked who would like to go and get some Chhaang. I was the only one, perhaps the only other alcoholic, who said yes.

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lanes. We continued down the dusty road to an old stone house, which we entered and were then led down some stone steps into a cave, where we sat at a table and were served bottles of Chhaang by a wizened, stout, hunched and smiling Tibetan woman.

I extracted the leather tobacco pouch that held my dope, rolled a joint of hash and tobacco, drank and talked to Peter. I told Peter, as I told everyone, that I was a writer.

Of course, all I’d ever really written were poems, and lyrics, and I hadn’t published anything except some songs, such as “Come to Me,” which had been recorded by Juice Newton and later Kacey Cisyk and Jennifer Warnes.

I had done almost nothing to promote or publish the poems that I loved to write. I think I may have submitted one or two over the years, and I had given a couple of readings, one accompanied by musicians, for the poet Kenneth Rexroth, at the University of Southern California at Santa Barbara.

I’d been waiting to be discovered. Ironically, I was discovered that day, although not in the way I had been hoping.

Peter and I left the Tibetan Chhaang den and walked through the village streets. He asked about my poetry, and as I’m wont to do I began to recite some. He was very complimentary. Suddenly he stopped and looked at me, “Are you Greg’s friend?” he asked.

When I heard that, the light went off in my head, and I asked him if he were Peter. I don’t remember if I said Peter Cooper and his said, “Cook,” or is I said Peter Cook and he said, “Cooper.” I couldn’t remember his last name then or now.

How incredible it was that I was in India, which at that time still had a population of more than 700 million, that I happened to be in Dharamsala and meet somebody who realizes who I am because of my poetry?

It was after I’d gotten back to my hotel that I realized I’d left my tobacco pouch, which in addition to some hash also held the little bit of opium I had left from Lassa in Kashmir. Could I find my way back to the unmarked Chhaang house hidden deep in the twisting intestines of McCleod Ganj? Would my pouch be there?

Uncanny as it may be, that’s exactly what happened. I went back to McCleod Ganj, found the house and was greeted by the old, hunched women who, smiling, handed me my pouch with its contents intact.

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