Sunday, December 06, 2015

"The Cold of the Altamont Pass Is a Whole Different Animal..."

(brief excerpt from The Night Before Altamont radio documentary


Today is the 46th anniversary of the Free Concert known as "Altamont" (December 6, 1969). Click on the photo below to hear a brief excerpt from one of the 20 interviews conducted for my forthcoming radio documentary, "The Night Before Altamont."

AC Smith (aka "Bells"): in 1969 was a 19-year-old Bay Area native working for Chet Helms at the Family Dog on the Great Highway. "Bells" and still-friend Lee Brenkman [also interviewed] drove out to the Altamont Speedway the day before Altamont--along with dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area music community--working all through the night to set up the sound and light infrastructure for the next day's Free Concert. In this brief clip, "Bells" talks about the briskness of that night...     
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Tuesday, December 01, 2015

music I'm liking to today...

Taste today leaning toward new music that calls to mind late '90s and early '00s music (except for the reggae tune, "Stars")...
new to me


old favorite...


Saturday, April 18, 2015

it's not time

Tiempo a salir mi casita en Todos Santos...es hora de irme al aeropuerto en la carretera, y ahora regreso a mi ciudad amado de San Francisco.



 California...like an angel standing in a shaft of light...