My favorite quote from the good doctor’s body of work.Autor: thetruehippiechronicles

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…

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…

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.Autor: thetruehippiechronicles

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."Autor: thetruehippiechronicles

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…

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.Autor: thetruehippiechronicles

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.Autor: thetruehippiechronicles

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.Autor: thetruehippiechronicles

"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…

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 …

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.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

I witnessed a stranger's kindness to another stranger the other night in a Safeway parking lot. It was lovely to see.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

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…

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.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

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.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

The title pretty much says it all.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

Two half-baked thoughts in one podcast.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

Former frontman of Wall of Voodoo is 70 today, Yikes! A singular talent, super intelligent, great songwriter. Happy Birthday, Stan!Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

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.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

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.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

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.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

I saw Love Lies Bleeding the other night. Really well done, but a little too noir for me.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

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…

It's very simple.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

Of course the audience cheered.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

It's rockstar Saturday night. I'm hanging out with my cat Monkey Blue. He's asleep on the bed. I might join him soon. I thought I would play a song that will be on my next album, after I create an arrangement for it and record it properly. It's called "Baby Knows." Happy to see that my weekly newsletter from my website is working again. Please go t…

So when we last encountered ort narrator, he had, having fled the loving bosom of his newly-redecorated Oakland flat under threat of death from the thugs up the street, landed, at last, in Los Angeles and had begun to explore this alien culture while trying to sell HoneyBun Spanking Kits. HoneyBun was the logical outcome of the hugely successful ar…

Another example of why Apple, invariably, misses the without Steve Jobs there. In this case, the ad campaign for the iPhone 15 camera and it’s portraiture capabilities. Putting pictures of children on billboards that no parent would ever share with any other human being.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet who she has been working for over the last 20 years, a wonderful celebration of food, friends, romance. Starring Juliette Binoche.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

I knew Bernie back in the 70s and 80s. We drank in the same newspaper bar south of market in San Francisco. He was a legend. They don’t make them like Bernie anymore. Here’s a little little video about him and the TV show that was based on his real life story. https://youtu.be/wp8kBKAzUYQ?si=woNZ-rnCQjPEyo2V…

Extraneous thoughts about the big day. One cultural phenomenon interacts with another. Do all boats rise?Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

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It was six Ty years ago today Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play, wait, no …. it was the day “I want to hold your hand” hit number one on the billboard chart in the United States. And Beatlemania took over the world.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

I was so happy to see Jason Statham back in a big budget action movie. The beekeeper is right out of the John Wick mold, but with a better story, at least a better story than the third and fourth installments of the John Wick series. Jeremy Irons plays the inimitable, aristocratic monster as only he can. Great cinematography great editing, and clea…

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A quick visit to Knickerbocker, and happy to discover that the frogs are back full force. I didn’t expect them because the pond is a little low still. There’s clearly enough for the frogs and their eggs and the pollywogs though.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

"1971—The Year That Music Changed Everything on Apple TV" is an amazing eight-part documentary series on Apple TV, chronicling the end, or the collapse, if you will, of the Sixties and the birth of the Seventies. Culture, politics, and the music of Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Sly Stone, The Rolliing Stones, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, Lo…

After two episodes of the new season of True Detective, I am underwhelmed at best. I'm going to give in one more episode. I wanted it to be great again (to coin a phrase)!Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

Compendium and apothecary. http://mycobiotas.comAutor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

A touching end, so to speak, for Paddy's quest to relive an episode from his teenage years in Ireland.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

As David Bowie sang in "We Are The Dead," something kind of hit me today.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

An Irishman wrote to HoneyBun for advice. Part one contains his first letter and HoneyBun's response. Part two will feature his follow-up letter.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

There is a movement afoot to remove Trump's star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It occurred to me that it could be used to fund much needed social services. Also: Trump sells $2.4M in cryptocurrency, the act of a "billionaire" who is dead broke and has no liquidity. #trump #urinal #hollywood #dumpingcrypto…

Her old website seems to have been replaced by a memorial page. http://jillianann.com. You can see her fashion designs at https://www.ritual.fashion/. Listen to her music at https://jillianann.bandcamp.com/.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

Trying to get to a church service on Christmas Eve, I was thwarted like Bukowski in his SRO hotel room, broke and doomed.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

Wendell Berry’s poem following that day sixty years ago. Photo: X Marks The Spot (Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas) by Marty YawnickAutor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

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Onward.Autor: Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

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