Podcast - Flying Snail Studios

As a student, I had an extensive music education and have not exercised 'it' for over forty years.

The first four Podcast music compositions, Introduction, Inside Job, Passing Time, and Mood Loops, took 7 hours, 22 minutes to create; from 'open Mac Mini box until completed, as you hear them'.

Bluz Ate My Song - Created with 'stock' GarageBand and M-Audio Oxygen 8 MIDI Keyboard Controller.

These are 'no frills', 'raw tunes', created with GarageBand without 'mixdown' or enhancement. I left them as they were created, in order to show improvement.

United State Cafe

Jumpin Jupiter - Hgongcrazy a.k.a. Howie Hollenberg, drums and percussion, Sunny a.k.a. Rick McNees, synthesizer and keyboards, Larry Dunn, guitars and vocals, harmonica, Larry Klein, 6 string bass, vocals, and Kathleen McCarthy, vocals.

Howie has a web page [hgongcrazy] at: http://www.myspace.com/hgongcrazy

Happy Valley

Toad Suckers 1975 Rusty Gauthier and Friends

Erik's web page is located at: http://www.erikmoll.com/.

Bobby Kent (Soul Is Satisfied) - Actually Bobby Kent and the Christian Cadillac featuring members of Glide Memorial Choir) - 1975.

Robbie Basho (Wounded Knee) - 1975.

John and Michael Lewis (Cello and Electric Piano) - 1975.

Laura Allan (Native American Ceremonial Song) - 1975.

Robin Kilgore - 1975.

Mobius - 1975.

Gabriel Gladstar - 1975.

Ralph Eno (Kiss Up and We're Snapping by Freaky Ralph, Jeff Ross, and the Pointless Sisters) - 1975.

A descriptive companion page containing the above performers titled, United State Cafe is located at (clicking 'up arrow' on the page will provide an index:

http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/UnitedStateCafe/index.html

Nobody for President

Converted 1980 Nobody for President Video song by Country Joe McDonald to MP3

During 1980, Jim Maxwell, of Jim Maxwell & The Sundown Band, gave me a "Nobody For President" 45 record with permission to use it for Nobody.

Jim Maxwell - vocal, guitar, Roy Marden - guitar, vocals, Jerry Shebeski - drums, Joe Jedrlinic - bass guitar, Craig Grant - vocals, percussion, David Peel - vocals, percussion, Joanna D'ascoli - vocals, Sherwin Winnick - mix consultant, Recorded at Dreamland Studios, N.Y., Mixed at Sundown Recording, L.I., N.Y., Special Thanks: Andrea Katz, Cover Design: Harry Wasserman, Promotion: Michael Luckman.

http://www.nobodyforpresident.org/nobodysongs.html

Cucumber, Entrepreneur, Secretary for a Day. A Rubbermaid Information Page Located at:

http://www.flyingsnail.com/Rubbermaid/index.html

Long Gone Stranger Blues © 2007 Mike Wilhelm - Born in Los Angeles in 1942, Mike Wilhelm learned blues guitar in his teens from legendary Tennessee bluesman Brownie McGhee and Texas songster Mance Lipscomb. A U. S. Navy veteran, he is perhaps best known as one of the founding members of San Francisco's first psychedelic rock group, the Charlatans (1964-69). He led his own hard rock group, Loose Gravel, from 1969 until 1976 when he joined cult heroes and power pop originators the Flamin' Groovies, playing with them until 1982.

Ramblin' - Written by Robert Johnson

Worn Out Suits - Written by Dave Edmunds

TOKYO, 1997 - Kyon, Mike, Yotchan
TOKYO, 1997 - KYON, MIKE & YOTCHAN

Mike Wilhelm provided a series of (imo) great live MP3s recorded at Yukotopia (Deadhead's Land), Tokyo, Japan, January 16, 1997 [Right click above graphic to save CD cover] - Kyon - Keyboard, Mandolin - Mike Wilhelm - Guitar, Vocal - Yotchan - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocal:

1) Key To The Highway
2) Walkin' The Dog
3) No Sugar In My Tea
4) Someday You'll Call My Name
5) Down The Road A Piece

200808.13 - Mike Wilhelm has provided new MP3s for your listening pleasure:
Love In Vain
&Dupree
Key To The Highway
The New New Old Pawnshop Blues
See See Rider

In the late 60's, when asked to name his favorite guitarist on the San Francisco scene, Jerry Garcia replied, "Mike Wilhelm."

Heads Up Psychedelic Music Aficionados

George Hunter, Dan Hicks, Mike Wilhelm, Mike Ferguson, Richie Olsen
The Charlatans, 1964, Golden Gate Park Conservatory

Charlatans live at the Fillmore:

I Saw Her - lead vocal by George Hunter

The Charlatans have been given credit for being the FIRST Psychedelic Band and easy to understand when listening to George Hunter's beautiful performance of "I Saw Her". Please Visit George's page Western Dovetail. It is also worthwhile remembering Jerry Garcia considered Mike Wilhelm his favorite guitarist. ~@~

On The Road Again - lead vocal by Dan Hicks

During his performance of On The Road Again, Dan Hicks touches a center experienced by few and ;-)elder(-; Deadheads may enjoy giving this tune a listen. Please Visit Dan's page: Welcome to Hicksville ~@~

Archival Track Details
by Mike Wilhelm

Chris Wilson & ex-Flamin’ Groovies:
Produced by Chris Wilson, Mike Wilhelm, James Ferrell and Danny Mihm, recorded at CD Studio, San Francisco, 1991

If Wishes Were Horses (Chris Wilson)
From: Back on the Barbary Coast
Vocal, bass, acoustic 12 – Chris Wilson
Acoustic 12 – Mike Wilhelm
Electric guitar – James Ferrell
Drums – Danny Mihm

Sympathy For The Devil (Jagger/Richards)
From: Back on the Barbary Coast
Vocal, bass – Chris Wilson
Rhythm guitar – James Ferrell
Lead guitar – Mike Wilhelm
Maracas on drums – Danny Mihm

Ahoy, Yo Ho Ho Ho - The (Real) Pirate Song

The Derelict (Fifteen Men On A Dead Man’s Chest)
(Traditional/arranged Wilhelm) NOTE: UPDATED VERSION

“This is the song sung by the pirates in Robert Louis Stevenson’s book, Treasure Island. A dead sailor’s sea chest was generally up for grabs hence a derelict vessel was known as a ‘dead man’s chest’.

“The San Francisco connection is that Stevenson was a resident of the city. In the 19th century, Pacific St. between Kearny St. and Montgomery St., known as ‘the Barbary Coast’, was the most lawless place in San Francisco. Hoodlums ruled. Sailors who patronized the bars and deadfalls often had chloral hydrate slipped into their drinks and woke up on a ship bound for Shanghai.” – Mike Wilhelm

From: Back on the Barbary Coast
Lead Vocal – Chris Wilson
Acoustic 12, back up vocal – Mike Wilhelm
Acoustic guitar, back up vocal – James Ferrell
Drums, back up vocal – Danny Mihm

The skipper lay with his head in gore,
The scullion’s axe his head had shore;
The scullion, he was stabbed times four
And there they lay and the soggy skies
Dripped down in their upstaring eyes;
In murk sunset and foul sunrise!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Chorus:

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the Devil had done for the rest,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

‘Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a gaping hole in a battered head
And the scuppers glut of a rotting red
And there they lay, ah damn their eyes!
Looking up at Paradise,
Their souls just gone the contrawise!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Repeat chorus

A flimsy girl on a bunker cot
With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot
And the lace stiff-dry in a purplish rot,
Oh, was she wench or was she jade
Or was she just a shuddering maid?
She dared the knife and took the blade!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Repeat chorus

We wrapped ‘em all in a mainsail tight
With twice ten turns of a hawser’s bight
And we heaved ‘em over and out of sight
With a yo heave ho and a fare ye well,
A sullen plunge in a sullen swell,
Ten fathoms down on the road to Hell!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Loose Gravel
(quintet w/Mike Wilhelm & Chris Wilson):
Produced by Richard Olsen (ex-Charlatans)

When You Got A Good Friend (Robert Johnson)
From: Wilhelm LP 1976 (KSAN-FM live broadcast, recorded 1972)
Vocal, lead guitar – Mike Wilhelm
Slide guitar – Chris Wilson
Rhythm guitar – Dennis Corso
Bass – Kenny Streight
Drums – Gene “Geno” Rhymer (aka Rol Gjano, Roland Grand)

Hear The People (Wilhelm/Kunstler)
From: Wilhelm LP 1976 (recorded 1971)
Lead vocal, lead guitar – Mike Wilhelm
Back up vocal – Chris Wilson
Back up vocal, acoustic guitar – Rick Kunstler
Bass – Kenny Streight
Drums – Gene Rhymer

Loose Gravel (trio):
Produced by Mike Wilhelm

Medley: Sittin’ On Top Of The World/ It’s All Over Now
(traditional, arr. Wilhelm/B. Womack)
From: Mike Wilhelm’s archives (live in San Francisco, 1976)
Lead vocal, guitar – Mike Wilhelm
Bass, vocal – Michael Deryckx
Drums – Rol Gjano

I’m Not Satisfied (Frank Zappa)
From: Mike Wilhelm’s archives (live in San Francisco, 1976)
Lead vocal, guitar – Mike Wilhelm
Bass, vocal – Michael Deryckx
Drums – Rol Gjano

Waitin’ In Line (Wilhelm/Kunstler)
From: Private label 45 rpm single (1975)
Lead vocal, lead guitar, 12-string rhythm guitar – Mike Wilhelm
Bass, vocal – Michael Deryckx
Drums – Rol Gjano
Backup vocal – Monica Nitz

Flamin' Groovies live
at Valencourt Plaza, Embarcadero Ctr., San Francisco 1979.

Let It Rock -> I Want You

Mike Wilhelm
Produced by Mike Wilhelm

Jesse’s Theme

From: Wood & Wire (1992)
Solo 12-string guitar – Mike Wilhelm

Learn more about Chris Wilson and his new album, "Second Life"
http://www.flamin-groovy.com/

Guitarist and multi instrumentalist Chris Wilson is the ex-singer of the best-remembered line-up San Francisco's cult classic band The Flamin' Groovies and a long-term member of The Barracudas, another band with a dedicated and loyal fan base that stretches right around the world.

The Flamin' Groovies

Mike Wilhelm & his Bottle Rock Blues & Rhythm Band
Recorded Live at Linton's

Big Boss Man featuring Neon Napalm and Mike Wilhelm
Got My Mojo Workin' featuring Mike Wilhelm and BRB&R Band
House Of Blue Lights featuring Neon Napalm and Mike Wilhelm
New Old Pawnshop Blues featuring Mike Wilhelm
The Thrill Is Gone featuring Neon Napalm

All songs provided by Mike Wilhelm as a special treat for FlyingSnail.com readers.

Neon Napalm - vocal and rhythm - Card-carrying member of Cherokee Nation and formerly lead singer of the well-known Southwest Native American band, Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers.

Mike Wilhelm - vocal and guitar - Founding member of the Charlatans (San Francisco's first psychedelic group), Loose Gravel, Lake County Blues Allstars, Bottle Rock Blues & Rhythm Band, and former member of cult heroes, Flamin' Groovies.

Stephen Holland - guitar and vocal - Formerly played with, Cottonmouth and members of Soundhole, Huey Lewis and the News, and Tower of Power.

Bill McMenomy - bass guitar and vocal - Formerly with San Francisco rock trio, Aum.

Mark Phillips - drums - Formerly with P. T. and the Pleasers and Grateful Dead cover band, Street Dogs

BRB&R Band is becoming Northern California's Number One Band, Catch them live!

More Information about Mike Wilhelm is located at:
http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/Mike_Wilhelm.html

Science Faction

My example of science faction would reference "From the Earth to the Moon". by Jules Verne, point out how people at that time could not believe a trip to the moon was possible, and NASA Apollo 11.

The first of this series is titled, Rebirth of Evil

One night, 30 plus years ago, a tape was shoved through my mail slot with no identification or label, and was wrapped in a torn, small, brown paper bag. Although somewhat outdated, I find the similarities, suggested in the audio, leading up to 1984 and 'the present' amusing.

The second of the series is titled, UFO Message 1974

While participating with an amateur radio network during 1974 I heard a high speed Morse code message that repeated three times, without identification, and went silent. The message stated a time, date, frequency, and requested the broadcast be recorded. The broadcast was on high frequency radio and starts off with poor sound and gets better a few minutes after the start. Even though some of the information is 'off', it is important to remember this was 1974 and that some things mentioned, in some cases, pertain to today. Of interest are claims the government is being taken over, references to oil crisis, and a disaster on the 'Gulf Coast'.

The following Movies are located on this site (Due to low volume there is no RSS feed.):

http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/video/1980.mov
http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/video/FatherKnowsBest.mov
http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/video/GovernmentLSD.mov

Source/Info: http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/page007.html

NCast Dancing Frogs - http://www.ncast.com/

'60s Indy film clip - Standing on seat of chopper (motorcycle) with arms outstretched, coming down mountain. - Clip is old, dark, degraded, and short. Effects added to distract from poor quality:

http://www.flyingsnail.com/Sprung/images/60schopseatstand.mov

READ MY LIPS originally appeared at: http://www.atmo.se/readmylips (currently non-working) and was/is Mirrored at:

http://www.flyingsnail.com/Dahbud/images/readmylips_blush.mov

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