....The INTRO music changes with my MOODS...
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OK, there's a wee bit of my BULLSHIT ramblin's about me... Oh Well, maybe too much...but my PROFILE is mainly DEDICATED to the BEST ever band from San Diego, California to GATHER together...scribble down an amazin' PLAYLIST ...fold it up... and put it in the back pocket of a pair of jeans...and grab the one set keys to the van...(with the hopes of locatin' some payin' gigs)...then let loose on the North America continent...and then EUROPE....AFTER that.... the WORLD !.... that band was..."The Beat Farmers"...*** With the advent of YOUTUBE....and NOW this myspace thingy...San Diego fans and some overseas pals...is ABLE to SHARE SONGS and VIDEOs....with all you VIRGINS to real honest to goodness music ...that reflects just what makes San Diego the place to be KNOWN for it's MUSIC...and NOT only for a tourista-packed ZOO or it's sunny BEACHES...*** The Following Video is the first I viewed...with "The Beat Farmers" music as a sound track... ..."IGNORE the MAN behind the CURTAIN...he's just a waitin' for a bus...ANYWAY
...THANKx for STOPPIN' by...Hummm ...has anyone seen my COWBELL ?"...
...*NOTE...The FIRST PROFILE preceding "The Farmers" on my TOP FRIENDS list...as well as the very LAST of the TOP 24 is for SHOWCASING any NEW and INTERESTING PROFILE...maybe an old FLASH from my past , I recently discovered and/or just want to SHARE ...for a limited time. This will change when I get seduced by another...I'm a REAL FICKLE SON of a BITCH at times !*FYI...I had this Simpson-like MUG as a AVATAR...long before it was "Hip". Just can't remember where I got it.
I am wondering...was I a TREND setter ?...and didn't even know it ?OK...I have been DULY INFORMED by my PEERS to LIGHTEN UP with all the VIDEOS/SLIDE-SHOWS...as those things (as I've learned)...really make it a PAIN in the ASS to RACE-THUR my profile....but if got too much FREE TIME on your hands, but it's worth alittle of your effort to KILL a few HOURS of your limited existence on this soon to be destroyed planet .... one more FYI...( The VIDEO just before the CALENDAR...is set up to display any current event or something I find of INTEREST at the moment....it changes from day to day. )...*SORRY....but I've been dealin' with WAY too much time on my hands, as of late...and just can't keep away from all those fun things available ...with just a CLICK of a mouse.I was just wanting to ENTERTAIN anyone passing by...but, it seems FOLKS got better things to do...than sit for an HOUR and DEAL with a bunch of "BS" courtesy of YOURS TRULY...lol.So...I'll make an attempt to try and UNDERSTAND....where ONE CODE STOPS...and another BEGINS...and DELETE as much as possible. HELLz BELLz...when I was FIRST requested to JOIN this (myspace.com)...I still didn't know what COPY/PASTE meant.
EVERYTHING was TRIAL and ERROR...MOSTLY ERROR and still DON'T know HOW to FIX the MESS this DUNDER-HEAD as yours truly got himself into...settin' up my profile.***..."Oh Well"... The following is my story (as my faded memory best allows for re-calling) of ..."HOW I BECAME AWARE OF THE BEAT FARMERS"...
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***NOTE : This PROFILE...is "UNDER CONSTANT STATE OF CHANGES CONSTRUCTION"...I AM LIKE A HORNY MONKEY...left alone... WITH A seXy FOOTBALL...***"Oh Well".......TESTING TESTING...1...2...3...is this microphone on ?...STAND-BY to ROLL TAPE....READY to ROLL TAPE........ROLL TAPE....5...4...3...2... "HELLO DEAR FRIENDS and all SEEKERS here in the NEW AGE. Did you know there is a new SEEKER born every minute or is it every two minutes ?"........... "OH WELL"...but if this SEEKER...comes a knock...knock... KNOCKIN' on your front cyber-door of a profile...it's because I got hopelessly lost and need some directions back HOME or I just might like your STYLE/ATTITUDE/AURA/MYSTIC VIBE/ECONOMIC STANDING(in today's WORLD of an ever widing gap between the STINKY RICH BASTURDS and the rest of the huddled masses)...and wish to INVITE myself (ever-so-politely) into your myspace...and to offer an open-minded peek into mine. I'll try to make your time in my FUN ZONE...worth your valuable time ***(WARNING : (1 or 2...maybe 3) video's may be somewhat sexually suggestive in nature..."Oh Well"...I just consider them FUNNY...but for the KIDDIES...got some VIDEO's of cartoons available...also got some drug educational video's as well...hopefully as humorous for those little munchkins...as they were for me at their age. As for you grown-ups....got tons of video's packed into my file to cause your EYES to melt.
* I WELCOME all Human Beings such as Fans of "The Bill of Rights"/Former Freedom Riders/Rockers/Poets/Artists...* NOTE: especially a GROOVY Black FEMALE PLAYWRIGHT, that works part-time at Johnny B's in La Mesa/Spiritualists/Dancers/GUILT-RIDDEN REPUBLICANS/Fire-walkers or Fire-eaters...(including Pyromaniacs, but for yours and everyone elses safety "PLEASE STOP playing with matches")movin' on...Firefighters/Fishmongers/Killer Tomato-haters/Dudes & Dudettes/Mindreaders/Roller Derby Goddesses'/
Truckdrivers and Thieves/ ALL GIRL Nipponese punk bands ( a recent weird obsession, I've kept hidden in the closet )...and maybe even a few
Sports Icons...as possible future fans of ("The Beat Farmers" or "The Farmers")...to my ever changin'...continuing to the point of MADNESS...seemingly never ending (TMI) profile...***NOTE : 1)...YOU must ADD "The Farmers" as a FRIEND...or I'll have my FEELIN'S hurt...2)...SOME of my so-called friends and acquiantances' describe me as...("10 lbs of SH*T in a 5 lb. bag")***...OPPS...."Oh Well"... sorry I really meant(STUFF rather than SH*T)...Anyway... PLEASE use an OPEN-MIND with my TONGUE-in-CHEEKiness...can't dwell together on this Mother Earth, without alittle humor ( unless it's MIS-GUIDED as was "Old Don Imus"..."Where was Kinky Freidman to PLEAD Imus's cast of temporary FOOT in the MOUTH disease ?")...I just want to WARN any new folks before they venture any deeper... it's best to bring with you a wee bit of a very VERY good "SENSE of HUMOR"... for those who know me..."Oh Well"... they STOPPED reading this ...when they FIRST logged on...and saw it was "Stevie". *I am only here wanting to ADD and accept profiles of MUSICANS/SONGWRITERS/ARTISTS/COMEDIANS etcetera...etectera...of ALL SHAPES and SOUNDS as well as...adding tasty NEW/OLD ingredients...blending/tasting...adding alittle more spice of life..."YUM YUM"...and sharing a taste by serving up a hefty portion of my "Kosmic Rainbow Soul Stew". *Some on "Little Stevie's"...myspace I've had past contact or want to have contact with....so to INVITE others into their world. *NOW alittle something about me. READY ? OK "Let's ROCK !" ....*I was born (Aug. 14th of 1950) a MIDDLE-CLASS white child in Portland, Oregon (Ory-gun)...(HOME of Reed College...where one can get a Masters/PhD in Kommie-Basturd)...I love Kommies...sure miss them...they sure seem to be awfully quiet lately...********** *************...ANYWAY...My Pops packed up the BRAND NEW 1960 Mercury Comet and moved the family in the summer of 1960 to the Olympia, Washington (WARsh-ingtun)area...GREAT FUN, if one likes to play BASEBALL in the RAIN. OK...I learned to love baseball and
became a total Tacoma Giants fan. Then JFK died and "The Beatles" INVADED Amerika and puberty was starting to raise it's evil head and to Mom's surprize my hardworking bluecollar Pops traded in the little white Comet and once again packed up Mom and the two kiddies into a BRAND NEW TWO-TONE 1963 Chevy Impala and moved in the summer of 1964(perfect timing to catch the "FREE-SPEECH MOVEMENT"...centered in BERKELEY)live in person and just not on the evening news....where I finished off puberty in the "East Bay" of the San Francisco Bay Area.
( Here's a cute little VIDEO...of "The Shot Heard Round the World"...just for you Dodgers Fans)
... ..."Oh Well"... Yes...I became a SF Giants fan without skipping a beat. And without saying...a DEVOTED DODGER-HATER... Many of the Tacoma Giants made the "SHOW" ...such as all 3 of the Alou Brothers...Jesus, Manny and Felipe...it was GREAT ! Only problem...Pop moved us to the East Bay...and when the Kansas City A's landed in Oakland...Pops said "forget crossing the bridge(s)to "The Stick")...I tried to like the A's...even when a fellow Washington High School kid named Dennis E. was their ACE out of the BULLPEN I failed to get too excited, because the taste left in my mouth by that damn old Charlie Finley soured my attitude to support an A's team...besides the American League has the DH and that ain't BASEBALL...the pitcher should stand in the batters box. *** ( Note to LA folks ... PLEASE don't call "The City" (San Francisco)... "Frisco"...ONLY East Bay folks have that HONOR.) * Anyway Pops settled us into a nice MIDDLE CLASS house, just down the freeway about 20 or so miles south of OAKLAND (HOME of the Doggie Diner/The Black Panther Party... HQs on E.14th Street/Sly Stone/Tower of Power/my former favorite NFL team "The OAKLAND Raiders"...( before leavin' for LA...the players were FAMILY...HELL I rented my car for my GRAD-PROM from a RAIDER...Dan Birdwell a REAL nice man for a linebacker)...WHERE was I ?)..."Black Freddie" my never got ripped-off WEED connection...avoid those Hippies he said..."They be da Man"/and the infamous "OAKLAND INDUCTION CENTER"...the draft board sure kept that place in the 60's, very very busy !...watch "Alice's Resturant" for an idea of want I'm tryin' to relate...then multiple by 10...stand by for another DRAFT kiddies !...
... ...Opps SORRY...back to those loveable OAKLAND RAIDERS...had a minor FLASH BACK about walkin'lines of many different colors...carryin' a file in one hand and my pride in another......ANYWAY (before that greedy JERK Al Davis moved them south to LA)...I followed "The Family Raiders"...as I'm a SON of a real bluecollar MAN, that PROUDLY claimed bein' a WIN or LOSE fan of an original "AFL" team that reflected the lunch pail/ mostly workin' the graveyard or swing shift(s)...6 days a week with alot of OVERTIME to feed his little rascals...and bein' mortgaged up the old WAZOO/ those kids need new school clothes...again ???....sorry can't afford SEASON TICKETS...pick ONE game...NOW that's FAMILY VALUES of the EAST BAY AREA in the 60's, not TODAY's weekend faux-gangters with their custom Harley's, they keep parked in their 4-car garages...sportin' painted faces and spiked body armor...so they play up to the cameras on gameday. ***I'm now a San Diego CHARGERS fan***...(hopin' for a chance to SWEEP the Raiders every year and if the CHARGERS make it to the Super Bowl....that's GRAVY !)...and will be a CHARGERS fan, even if that wrinkled-up...crook of an extortioner Al Davis is OUT as the MAN in control...maybe takin' a DIRT NAP and/or makin' BIG rocks into little rocks. *I tried to be a 49er's fan, but I'm too BLUE-COLLAR for that San Francisco crowd.)...
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...NOTE: * I saw some of those Reed College grads on the campus of UC Berkeley...they found teaching gigs.( Anyone REMEMBER "Peoples Park" ???)...Ahhhhhhh that SMELL of TEAR GAS in the MORNING/AFTERNOON...and well in the EVENING...some folks will be spending a "Night at Santa Rita"...THANK YOU Governor Reagan...or as Gil Scot-Heron called him...."Ray-Gun Zap".***
*** I attended Washington High School (formerly known as Washington Union High School in the days when the late great Bill Walsh was the football coach)... located in Fremont aka "The Bedroom City"...in the district of "Centerville", the gateway to the "Alvarado-Decoto" District (where some BAD ASS "Pachucos" dwelled...their Pappas wore the ZOOT SUITS in the 40's...but these dudes...wore LOS CHINOS in the 60's). Now the area is known as "Union City" a more peaceful community (HIGH COST for housing changed things alot). Anyway it's still the backdoor to Niles Canyon, where the Old Muddy Alameda Creek flows gently into the San Francisco Bay. Niles Canyon was a well-known playground of the Oakland chapter of the "HELLS ANGELS". Frank Zappa called Centerville...in the film "200 Motels"...."A GREAT place to raise your kids up").(200 Motels MOVIE TRAILER...(VIDEO DELETED)....go to myspace to LOCATE).*** He (Zappa)must have never met an ANGEL. I did...way too many times. Ever read Hunter S. Thompson's book on the Hells Angels ? Hunter sure had more balls...than "Little Stevie", but I was a high school kid and CLUB RULES clearly state...little high school-boys...will not be harmed...if they bring their big tittie sisters...as the cover charge to a party.
* I graduated (ON TIME) with the ("Class of 69")...then HAD TO ASAP GET into the...US Navy...before the Draft-board....knew I was not in Harvard Law School or had NO latent HOMOSEXUAL urges....NO HARVARD LAW... and very sure I'm NOT GAY.*******
************* "Oh Well"...Let's sing !!!.."In the Navy"....(come on Kids... YOU know the words... sing along)...."In the Navy"...la la la WHAT ?..can't REMEMBER the words ?)**********
************..."Oh Well"...joined Uncle Sam's Yacht Club. Shipped off TWO DAZE after for the 1st MOON landing... (I left Momma's lovin' arms heading via that FU*King OAKLAND Induction Center)...which had...honestly...No class for Nuthin', but it(USN)did get me to San Diego in the summer of 1969 ... with only a short de-tour to Southeast Asia (Vietnam) in 1972...where I found some more Kommies...but they weren't much interested in teaching, just wanting to BLOW my skinny Amerikan butt to little tiny bitsy pieces....(VIDEO DELETED of "Good Morning Vietnam - DMZ"...it's on myspace)...GOOD BYE Vietnam...This VIDEO is STAYIN'...I was in BOOT CAMP of AUGUST of 1969...and when I was BACK in the REAL WORLD...heard about WOODSTOCK...from friends. I was NOW MARCHING for Uncle Sam...when others were MARCHING for PEACE in Vietnam... ......."Oh Well"..and after I wore out my welcome with Uncle Ho's NVA and their comrades in arms the Viet Cong (VC) aka Victor Charlie...got back to SD with all my fingers/toes and a minor BAD attitude..."Oh Well". After bein' HONORABLY discharged in 1973...and screwin' around at college...bein'a part-time hippy with a serious date that turned into a MARRIAGE and then quickly into a divorce...I had to somehow REGROUP. Got into helping with music promotions...mostly tryin' to get Jamacians thur CUSTOMS...last success story was "BMW"...and all I got was 4 free front rows...an "Oz" of some EXCELLENT herb from Columbia...(which I shared later on with "Les McCann"). Also as a thank you, got backstaged and handshaked by one of the "Barrett Brothers"...not sure which one...Carly or Aston...too IRIE at the time.
*In the late 70's. really needed to split from SD for alittle change of atmosphere...for 2 wonderful years of LA smog...in a little burg called Montclair...the gateway to Pomona, so to attend Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut...the barrier separating West Covina and Pomona. Did some college radio (KSAK 90.1 FM)...3.5 watts at the time....the transmitter antenna was attached up a tree...I was in BIG TIME broadcasting..."Oh Well". A love muffin girlfriend of one DJ worked at a major record store called "Big Ben"...she'd "five-finger discount" new stock
, of yet to be released LP's...and we were the FIRST station in all of SoCal to play Springsteen's long awaited 2nd LP....Man did our phone lines EXPLODE...not just our tiny little demographics of mostly Cal Poly Pomona frat-boys....but from the big LA market stations...."SCREW'em...We ROCKED" !
*KMET/KLOS/KROQ would dial in to steal our ideas to juice up their format....KROQ was just starting up...and KSAK was kool at sharing.
"Oh Well"...got my A.A. and then HOTFOOTED ASAP back to SD...LA sure was a MIND-F*#K. a recent D-I-V-O-R-C-E...plus my past NAVAL career...explains why I only use INTOXICATES to avoid being SOBER. Somehow I got myself into SDSU...there I met a third-eye cutie on campus at a street corner...thus the start of a 5 year relationship, (note about Mz Cutie ...she was a Gal-friend of a gal, that tried to put Jerry Garcia on some sort of weird VEGAN-like diet)... OK...Mz Cutie knew a local SD band called "Glory" with some yahoo named "JERRY RANEY" at the wheel. Sure had to listen to alot of music by "The Kinks"... NO PROBLEM with that... I really liked those Davies Bros..."They REALLY GOT me".
Anyway back to the topic of INTOXICATE use...*I never accept a FREE buzz....without sayin' THANK YOU before and after...I'm always grateful!"
After awhile, I learned to almost NEVER listen to the voices in my head, if they tell me to do great bodily harm to myself...call it MATURITY ?
Even now...I am a constant work in progress( to be continued at a later SPACE and TIME )....I'm in this myspace thingy ONLY because of "The Beat Farmers"...both (present/former members and those Missing In Action)and to stay in touch with all of the late (RIP) Mistra Bernie Siegal's (Known to the WORLD as "Buddy Blue") lovable and ALWAYS huggable LOVE TURNIPS !!!
ALSO...it's a good way of hookin' up with FREE-SPENDERS...lol.*******Did I forget more (TMI) details....????....you betcha your sweet ass, I did****COME AGAIN and review any changes****I do know ONE thing...what this profile needs is..."MORE COWBELLS"****
***ALSO...I sort of feel I'm being RUDE...when I fail to return a THANKx for the ADD...but...I have been TOTALLY amazed...with the FEEDBACK to my silly profile...I'm NOT some famous ICON...maybe in a past life...but in the HERE and NOW...I'm just a FAN to ALL I have contact with...even if I don't totally understand where YOU are coming from...ALL I know is "The HERE and NOW".
