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006-CoyoteRadioTV: American Zen Buddhist Rock Operas begin with LEVEL 1 = Peace Of Mind
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How the heck do I create what I can imagine? I’ve got really awesome ideas of things and visuals and music and movies that I want to put on the CoyoteRadio.TV website. I want the “Coyote Radio TV Show” to be as awesome as my hallucinations… I mean imaginations…
During THIS PODCAST I am “The Hippy Coyote.” Yippee!
“Kung Fu Cowboy” has become the senior version of me, The Coyote.
As a kid before my psychedelic years, I spent time with the coyotes of San Diego as I went collecting snakes, lizards, salamanders and toads. I was a real “nature boy.” The neighbors called my backyard “The Menagerie” because I had so many wild animals.
That’s why I didn’t mind being called, “Coyote,” after Michael J. Fox made our rock opera, Coyote In A Graveyard, famous when he came around and jammed with us on stage at Madame Wong’s nightclub in Santa Monica. My band was, THE RICH, but we billed ourselves as “Coyote In A Graveyard” because we were performing that rock opera of stories. A romantic rock opera in a looney bin. Very similar to “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” by another acid popping hippie.
In today’s “Coyote Radio TV Show” podcast I read the poem, “Romantic Chaos,” about my cat named Bear plopping onto whatever I’m working on…
Today’s song, “Whose Heaven Is This?” is from LEVEL 1 = Peace Of Mind album by American Zen. I mention about how miserable life was so you can appreciate the title of that first album by American Zen. Sometimes “Peace Of Mind” is worth its’ weight in gold. Hmmm. Maybe a brain’s weight of gold? That’s a few pounds…
Maybe I’ll turn down the heat so Bear will snuggle with me when I go to bed in a minute. When we lived in my car it would get near freezing. Bear would climb into my sleeping bag and snuggle under my left shoulder. It was a hard life, but we found some “Peace Of Mind” together everyday. He’s like my war buddy, a soldier whose been to Hell and back with me. I tell him, “I love you,” probably every day. I don’t think about it. I just get the opportunities to hold him and then I say it. (Neither of my parents have ever said those words to me.)
We’re in the story of LEVEL 1 of American Zen, and despite the hardship back then—I even had the love of my wife. I never imagined it would only last a couple more years. That love you share in hard times makes it more permanent—at least in my mind… or heart… or wherever love seems to be gone from…
“Whose Heaven Is This?” Features a UKULELE instead of an electric guitar. The song is so resentful that I thought the ukulele would lighten the mood without changing the lyrics. What do you think?
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The song “Whose Heaven Is This?” Is from the album LEVEL 1 = Peace Of Mind by American Zen
https://www.shaolinrecords.com/RecordStore-R/americanZenLevel1-R.html
American Zen Official website:
https://www.AmericanZen.org
Produced by Richard Del Connor for Shaolin Records.
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Copyright 1984-2021 Shaolin Communications
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Music used by permission of Shaolin Records and licensed by Shaolin Music. ASCAP
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