Seven-minute musings on music, art, books, film, fashion and food, spirituality and recovery, & the occasional song. Never scripted, always real, fly on the fly.
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Seven minute uminations on music, history, art, books, and events from a far away time, another dimension, why they matter today. Plus my music and whatever other weird shit I am working on right now.
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A beautiful acoustic remix of David Bowie's song, "Sound and Vision,"
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I prefer this version to the one on the album, but both are great. I just love the more delicate sound that reflects the very vulnerable and fragile state he was in, having escaped the cocaine-feuled hellscape that almost killed him in Los Angeles.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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As Withnail said on the way back to London, I'm making time.By thetruehippiechronicles
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Demo from my next album ~ I'll Be In The Mirror
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My friend Greg Jones wrote this beautiful ballad. It will be the only non-original song on my upcoming album. It's very rough and I will be bringing in a cellist to complete the arrangement.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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If you believe in the power of prayer, please say one for me!
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Hi, I'm looking for a new place for me and Monkey Blue, found a really cool one, but I have competition. Your thoughts and prayers appreciated.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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The KLF Part 2: Burning One Million Pounds In a Fireplace, 1994
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Here are a few links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGNz0IW8vQw https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/08/who-killed-the-klf-the-film-drummond-cauty-did-not-want-you-to-see https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/why-did-the-klf-burn-aps1-million-in-cash-on-a-scots-island-1463441…
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The KLF Part 1 - British Pop Superstars Publish "The Manual—How To Get a Number One Hit the Easy Way"
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Here are a few links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGNz0IW8vQw https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/08/who-killed-the-klf-the-film-drummond-cauty-did-not-want-you-to-see https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/why-did-the-klf-burn-aps1-million-in-cash-on-a-scots-island-1463441…
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Zorro - Planting The Seeds of the Revolution That Would Bloom in the Sixties
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Walt Disney created a perfect hero for the modern era, a Trickster, a scion of great privilege who donned a cape and mask and, with his sword, battled the colonizers and oppressors of the poor in late eighteenth century California.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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On Ken Kesey's "Sometimes A Great Notion"
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Not as well-known as his "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," but it is ten times the book. Had a huge impact on this sprout back in Sixties ...By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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AI bots from China and Russia are swarming by the millions to discourage US citizens from voting in the upcoming election. Low turnout = Republican win. Some hackers figured out a way to fight back.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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I left a remark in a recent episode for a couple days. I thought I had edited it out. I hadn't. So, a few thoughts about it and an apology.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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Thinking About JFK, His Murder and What It Still Means Sixty-One Years Out
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His killing was just the first step to undo all the progressive and civil rights legislation of the twentieth century as well as take back all the wealth from America's middle class. So far it's working pretty good. They are almost where they wanted to be all those years ago. VOTE. The illustration, "X Marks The Spot," for this episode was shot at …
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Are You A Garamond Guy? Baskerville? Palatino? Helvetica?
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There are people who identify as "Garamond Guys/Gals." Me, Baskerville. Others Palatino, Helvetica. There's room for everybody in the world. But, please, no "Eras" Font lovers. Useful links: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/magazine/garamond.html https://medium.com/@kateboothh/typography-john-baskerville-cee9d5e74bb7 Know Your Type: Baskerville…
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An Excerpt from My Memoir, The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking ~ Cloud Stories Pt. 2
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Part two of "Cloud Stories" from my memoir, "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking ~ The Rise and Fall of the HoneyBun Empire; Riding the Wild Bubble—Berkeley To Frisco To Hollywood To Vegas & Back; Intimations Of Immortality On The Technicolor Lam, Sober."By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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An Excerpt From "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking" ~ Cloud Stories Part One
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Porting over a few episodes from The True Hippie Chronicles Podcast. In this episode, a reading from my recently completed memoir, The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking, 'Cloud Stories, Part One.'By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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Every time I see a white butterfly, I take it to be a message from elsewhere that I am not alone and things are going to be okay. Is that crazy? Maybe. As John Lennon said, "Whatever gets through the night." And I guess I need help these days.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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The Final Word on the True Hippie Chronicles Podcast
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The not-so-obvious, even to me, reason I let the True Hippie Chronicles podcast go.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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Finished Demo For My Next Album ~ Baby Knows
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I love this song. Of course I need to rerecord the vocal and guitar part. I need a sax player for the instrumental break. And I think I should bring a drummer and a stand-up bass player into the studio.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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So far, I haven't come up with anything that seems right. I'm sure it will appear or manifest itself, as they say, one of these days. Nonetheless, I'm very happy with how the album is coming along.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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Keep Giles Martin Away From The Beatles' Music
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Leave The Beatles' music alone. Stop. Right. Now. Keep this no-talent wannabe nepo baby away from their music. All anybody needs is the MONO MIXES—They contain every bit of information and musicality the Beatles and George Martin wanted to share with us.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs ~ Please Stop Trying So Hard
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Everything about this album smacks of trying to hard to be perceived as a bad boy. Good bad, not evil, as the girl said in "Leader of the Pack." Hipster rebellion signalling, forced, insincere, trying too damn hard. More appropriate for a guy fifty years younger.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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The True Hippie Celebrates and Salutes Juneteenth
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I posted this yesterday, but on the wrong podcast, so here it is where it belongs! Thank you, black people, for everything you have contributed to our our country, culture, and the world, despite all the racist bullshit you deal with every day. And here's to my first real-life hero and the greatest ball player of all time, Willie Mays, as well. May…
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Thank you Black People for everything. Happy Juneteenth.Thank you, also, Willie Mays, my first real-life hero. You will never be forgotten.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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An Excerpt From "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking" ~ Cloud Stories, Part Two
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Part Two of a couple of LSD cloud stories, harkening back to the days of the late Sixties, a darkening time, when it was getting harder to be a True Hippie. Luckily there were always reminders of good and benevolent forces in the universe.By thetruehippiechronicles
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An Excerpt From "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking" ~ Cloud Stories Part One
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A couple of LSD cloud stories, harkening back to the hippie days of the late Sixties, a darkening time, when it was getting harder to be a True Hippie. Luckily there were reminders of the good and benevolent forces in the universe.By thetruehippiechronicles
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Ken Kesey's Novel, "Sometimes A Great Notion"
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Arguably one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, "Sometimes A Great Notion" far surpassed Kesey's first novel, "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." We will certainly be revisiting Ken Kesey, his adventures, his place in our culture, and, of course, his bonafides as a True Hippie, in future episodes. What was the noti…
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My favorite quote from the good doctor’s body of work.By thetruehippiechronicles
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The True Hippie Guidelines For Living, Vol. I
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Inspired by the rules for living from the fake gangster of the YouTube channel Grim.Hustle, I thought I'd share some of my own rules. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy Grim.Hustle and agree with a lot of what he says. As I've always told my sons, any True Hippie can kick any OG butt any day of the week. I'm not a Deadhead, but I love this phot…
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The True Hippie Guidelines For Living, Vol. I
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Inspired by the rules for living from the fake gangster of the YouTube channel Grim.Hustle, I thought I'd share some of my own rules. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy Grim.Hustle and agree with a lot of what he says. As I've always told my sons, any True Hippie can kick any OG butt any day of the week. I'm not a Deadhead, but I love this phot…
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David almost joined a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Scotland after the failure of his 1969 Album, David Bowie, failed to chart. One of the monks told him that his path was music, not shaving his head and leaving the world behind.By thetruehippiechronicles
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David Bowie's Album, "Diamond Dogs," Turned Fifty Today
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David was a True Hippie, always, but the album was dark and dystopian as the cocaine took over. As he sang in "Sweet Thing," "It's a street with a deal, and a taste It's got claws, it's got me, it's got you." More on David, the True Hippie, next episode and "Memory of a Free Festival."By thetruehippiechronicles
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Campbell Coe, Not A Berkeley Hippie, But He Fixed All Their Guitars
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Campbell Coe was a legend around Berkeley, having graduated from UC in the mid-fifties. He was a musician, luthier, raconteur supreme, journalist, photographer, the list goes on. For some reason, he let me hang around his cluttered little shop down a narrow alley of Haste St. just above Telegraph Avenue, where I would listen to him tell stories and…
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Song in progress for my next album: "Baby Knows"
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Starting this new podcast has been concurrent with getting songs ready for my next album, or ready to go into the studio and do the actual recording. Right now, i'm establishing tempos, doing arrangements. Vocals and guitars parts are all just what we call scratch at this point, i.e., placeholders.By thetruehippiechronicles
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Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, between Dwight and Haste, in the sixties and seventies, was its own universe, a microcosm of that was weird and wonderful, & uniquely Berkeley, in the world. Hells Angels, nine-ball at the Blue Cue, Pepe's Pizza, Moes Books, Yarmo, The Mediterraneum Caffé.By thetruehippiechronicles
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Ep. 3 ~ Zorro, Planting Seeds For the Future Revolution
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Walt Disney created, for television, the seminal trickster archtype, Zorro, who battled the forces of oppression in the Spanish colonies in mid-coast California. Let us give Walt his due.By thetruehippiechronicles
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My song, "Pop Down The Years," a very rare recording
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"Pop Down The Years" is a love song to the music of my youth, to the times, and to a girl of course, all of whom seem to inhabit another dimension now, but one worth visiting. So they told the tale of the golden sun And the shining girl who lived within So pretty I'll go now I know now Just where to find her So the story goes we wore the clothes To…
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First episode, bare bones mission statement, True Hippie Chronicles=THC not intentional, the White Butterfly makes an appearance.
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Pretty much says it all in the title. I'm getting this new podcast, The True Hippie Chronicles, off the ground. Talking a little bit about the Sixties, some of the good stuff and alll the dark part that never gets talked about: the Boomers who heard the JFK/RFK/MLK/Malcolm murders as a clarion call: with the do-gooders out of the way they would be …
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I'm creating a new podcast channel ~ Knox Bronson, The True Hippie Chronicles. I won't be posting so much here anymore, but I hope you will join on the True Hippie Chronicles.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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I witnessed a stranger's kindness to another stranger the other night in a Safeway parking lot. It was lovely to see.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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It's been over four years since I posted a version of this song. I listened to the album the other night for the first time in a year or more. Inasmuch that I don't like the sound most of my vocals—I paid a guy a lot of money to mix the album who did not know how to mix vocals (live and learn!)—the arrangements stand up. They are amazing, I don't m…
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Someone wrote and asked what a roué is. A French term, a roué is many things, mostly bad. But an accomplished roué? That's another story.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution ~ A History From Below
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I'm halfway through this thoughtful and detailed biography of Candida Royalle, aka Candice Vadala, writer, singer, porn star, porn director. A renaissance woman gone far to soon.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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The title pretty much says it all.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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Mindful Dopamine Reset/Lou Reed On Frank Zappa
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Two half-baked thoughts in one podcast.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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Former frontman of Wall of Voodoo is 70 today, Yikes! A singular talent, super intelligent, great songwriter. Happy Birthday, Stan!By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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The Great American Solar Eclipse & Its Astrological Implicatioins
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Here's the whole article at http://beyondthesoulsmeridian.org : https://beyondthesoulsmeridian.org/2024/04/07/the-power-of-aries-and-the-great-american-solar-eclipse-of-april-2024/ Definitely worth a read.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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15 Best Psychedelic Songs According To SingersRoom
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Definitely a number of essential songs on this list, but they missed a number of mind-bending classic psychedelic songs, just off the top of my head. Nonetheless, fun to think about.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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Brief Thoughts Fifty Years Out From David Bowie's Diamond Dogs
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Included: another old song snippet, very dark; thoughts on Gentlemanly Art of Spanking manuscript rejection; a snippet of lyrics from "Sweet Thing" on David Bowie's Diamond Dogs album.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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I saw Love Lies Bleeding the other night. Really well done, but a little too noir for me.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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New song, very early mix ... "I'm Falling Down"
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Working on my next, as yet unnamed, album. I'm getting up to speed on all the new production techologies, thought I would start with a relatively simple song. I still don't have lyrics for the two verses. They will arrive in their own time, as they always do. So far I'm very happy with the mix, still tons and tons to do, but it's okay as a glorifie…
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It's very simple.By Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble
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