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Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society

Welcome to Shannon's House...Decode Yourself

About Me

RONALD SHANNON JACKSON, musician, drummer, composer, bandleader, recording, dvd,cd,video artist, creator of the DECODING SOCIETY, welcomes you to myspace. Recordings: 1st Album, "EYE ON YOU"...Eye of the Egyptian pyramids,Eye of Horus, Eye of the back of the dollar bill, Eyes that are watching our every move,...Eye on You. 2nd Album "NASTY"... read the "Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, life can be very nasty at times. 3rd Album "STREET PRIEST"... all the things that college can't teach, those with street wisdom you know because they survived. 4th Album "MANDANCE"... self explanatory. 5th Album "PUTTIN ON DOG"... read Sterlin H. Brown. 6th Album "BAR-B-QUE DOG" written and recorded when I was a Vegan. 7th Album "DECODE YOURSELF"....barrred from being distributed in the USA, top 10 on Jazz charts in Europe. Printed in England UK, Japan, Australia, Canada, South America, Germany, etc. We have to see ourselves in order to free ourselves, so Decode Yourself. 8th Album "EARNED DREAMS"..Live at the Caravan of Dreams, Fort Worth, Texas. 9th Album "WHEN COLORS PLAY". 10th Album "TEXAS" King Curtis, Ornette Coleman, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Dewey Redmon, Julius Hemphill, John Carter, Charles Moffett, Billy Tom Robinson, Thomas Reese. The big state where these innovative Jazz musicians were born. All graduates of IM Terrell High School. The Future is Rachella Parks{Watch out for her}. Why and how did so many JAZZ giants come from Fort Worth, Texas?{Decode that!} 11th Album "RED WARRIOR"... never give up the fight for good. 12th Album "TABOO"... not to be a Christian. 13th Album "RAVEN ROC"...predicting 9/11. 14th Album "WHAT SPIRIT SAY"...listening to the truth coming from the spirit. 15th Album "SHANNON'S HOUSE"....zip code for the furture of Music.For CD and DVD Orders:Log onto:www.ronaldshannonjackson.comor email:[email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/12/2006
Band Website: [email protected]
Band Members: PUNK-FUNK ALL STARS: James 'Blood' Ulmer, Joseph Bowie, Melvin Gibbs, Ronald Shannon Jackson. POWER TOOLS: Bill Frisell, Melvin Gibbs, Pete Cosey, David Gilmore, Ronald Shannon Jackson. THE DECODING SOCIETY: Vernon Reid, Melvin Gibbs, Akbar Ali, Jef Lee Johnson, Robin Eubanks, Eric Person, James Carter, Rachella Parks, Thomas Reese, Ramon Poser, Ngolle Pokossi, Dom Richards, Rob Reddy, James "Blood" Ulmer, Bill Laswell, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Zane Massey, Onaje Allen Gumbs...More To Come...
Influences: Ornette Coleman Saturday Night Live 1979(RSJ on Drums)
Last Exit (Sharrock, Brotzmann, Laswell, Jackson) Live
Ronald Shannon Jackson at UNT part 1
Ronald Shannon Jackson at UNT part 2
The Knitting Factory
Gdansk

Dallas Musem Of Arts
Sounds Like:

Hieronymus Bosch...Decode THIS!!...

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Seeking Timotheus

Books 1. Criminal History of Mankind-Colin Wilson2. A People's History of the United States-Howard Zinn3. Mozart's Masonry and the Magic Flute-Han Josef Irmen ...
Posted by Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:43:00 PST

Absorb These..

Nicholas Paganini, Nostradamus, Hieronymus Bosch, Beethoven, Scradin, Alexander Bell, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Jesus the Magician, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, Chopin, Mozar...
Posted by Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:49:00 PST

Street Priest

Question? Which university did these musicians graduate from?Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Elvin Jones,Tony Williams, "Philly" Joe Jones, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, Horac...
Posted by Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:35:00 PST