Music, Music, and Music - and occasionally , Art, UFO's - and Atlantis! Actually I am quite an " on /
....Peace, Understanding and Happiness to the World and All Humankind.....for which music is such a wonderful vehicle! (And all the wonderful singers and musicians on my "Friends" List have shown this time and again....)
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I'd like to meet:
The Very, VERY Talented Jack Falk ~ and The Jack Falk Project ...............WOW !!!!
Everybody needs to give Jack Falk a listen -
especially his New Music....but his talent goes back as far as the internet, and no one should miss the fun of hearing this Fantastic Blues Project.Awesome guitar Jack !!!!!!!!!!!Eric Clapton - Derek Trucks - Susan Tedeschi - I was honored to meet Ian Moore at Beck's birthday party - Peter Green, Warren Haynes, Jon Butcher..Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and my Nichiren Buddhist brothers and sisters - like President Daisaku Ikeda,Carlos Santana, Orlando Bloom, Tina Turner, Herbie Hancock, Patrick Duffy, and SO many many more - already KNEW Jerry Garcia - knew even better Ron, the wonderful keyboard player of the original Dead - "Pigpen" - BOTH of whom used to come to OUR parties - before Bill Graham would allow them to "give away" their music - Rest Well Sweet Brothers....You are and always were - loved...and Michael Bloomfield, Blues Guitar-player Extraordinaire -I know Chicago is your town, but I knew and admired you in San Francisco....Rest Well, Sweet, sweet brother....
The lady playing the Gibson Vintage Ecoustic is ME! The VERY Handsome singing gentleman with his music player is my son, Eric, and the handsome man with longer hair is my Turtle.........
- I've done almost everything and met almost everyone I've ever wanted to meet - who is alive. Many are not any more -
In writing the preceding statement, the writer was merely reflecting her own, subjective,experiences because this page is about seeing the music flourish and grow and evolve - as it should - from generation to generation...these three wonderful people were personally-known by this writer, and, therefore, were picked to represent an entire generation of love, GREAT MUSIC, and change..not death ..pls. see my blog: thanks
Music:
Everything GOOD!!! Stevie Ray Vaughn, of course, Hit n' Run (and if you want to see some of Eric Montoya's earlier pics and hear his band's music,please check out the Hit n Run Site) Steve Winwood, John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Clapton, John Mayall & The Blues Breakers, Carlos Santana,The Grateful Dead, The First (original) Fleetwood Mac w/ Peter Green, Donovan, Buffy St. Marie,Susan Tedeschi, Tracy Nelson (Mother Earth), Sass Jordan, Hot Tuna, Paul Butterfield Blues Band,Big Brother & the Holding Co., The Jefferson Airplane, The Band, Bob Dylan, The Arc Angels,Robert Cray, Alvin Lee, Hendrix, Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Bad Company, The Mothers of Invention, Alicia Keyes, The Oulaws, Derek Trucks, The Allman Brothers, Warren Haynes, The Barefoot Servants...Jimmy Vaughan...The Doors, Stephen Stills, Chaka Khan. Can't forget Daemon Familiar, Magicred and the VooDooTribe, The Jack Falk Blues Project, Ian Moore, Jonny Lang, Traffic, Kenny Wayne Shepherd,Michael Bloomfield, Rhinocerous, 10 Years After, Dr. John the Night Tripper, DareYa Blues Band,Tom Rush Blues Band (with whom I sang a couple of sets on stage @ The Troubadour in LA) xx years ago) - Albert King, Freddy King, Andres Segovia,Carlos Montoya, Eric Montoya,Erykah Badu, Pearl Bailey, Janis Joplin, Quicksilver Messenger Service,Tito & the Tarantulas, Los Lonely Boys, Los Lobos, Indigenous .....also, Savoy Brown - the Gibson Les Paul on this page belonged to Kim Simmonds - and how can Humble Pie be forgotten? Then there were the '80's - which take a bad rap - there were so many great musicians around then - it's just that there were SO many! I think I've remembered mostly everybody who deserves credit on my Space devoted to the great musicians of my time - as well as the great musicians of the future...we need you ALL! Thank you for what you've all shared with us - with the world!
Movies:
Star Wars, Shogun Assasin, Star Wars, Black Rain, Star Wars, Syrianna, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?. All X-Men movies (same with Star Wars) Kill Bill 1 & 2, etc...AND STAR WARS!!! Dogma,Desperado (all the Mariachi movies), Constantine....and more.
Television:
Battlestar Gallactica, Third Rock From the Sun, X-Files
Books:
Every book on my shelf: From Rodale Press' Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, to Brinsley LePoer Trench's fabulous treatise on the history of UFO's. Exodus, and above all, The Lotus Sutra.
Heroes:
Santo Castillo Calvera, Steve Vai, Danny Trejo, and Sensei Ikeda