I started my show the day after Gabrielle Giffords was nearly assassinated in Tucson (01/08/11). The entire community was in a state of shock and for this host I was just Trying to get my sea legs on the radio. While the community was mourning my guest was going through a...

  Timing can be everything in life. When you're born and when you graduate college. What era did you live through and are you satisfied. When Art was considered a sustainable form of business? My guest today took advantage of his timing and luck and fused that with an adventuresome often...

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I came to Tucson in 2003. I came for no reason other than to head west. I had spent all 25 years of my life on the East Coast and while there were plenty of highlights I felt adrift, never truly feeling at home. I'm not going to say immediately but not to soon after I arrived in The Old...

  It's still the 50s vs. the 60s today in America. Those who are seekers vs. those who play by some imaginary set of rules conjured up by man's view of god and his beliefs about mysticism and magic. It's that thin layer just above consciousness when you leave the physical world and the...

All music starts with rhythm, even in the Bible Pan had his pipes and David played his harp. Our guest today is a rhythm maker on the drum and with his voice. Neptune The God of Water instilled in man the psychic quality of spiritual understanding. That is where my guest and I overlap. A...

  In the live music experience the most important aspects that can be conveyed to the audience are authenticity and individuality. True nature and differentiation. Not being a good rock star helps. You wear any old clothes and grab a hot meal not leaving on a jet plane but taking a bus....

You ever hear the expression, "you know this is really artistically appealing but not commercially viable." If you have then you were probably pursuing an artistic endeavor that reeked of the truth, dripped with humanity and exposed the status quo. My guest today heard this many times in his...

My guest on lucky week # 42 was Rafael Otto, one of the most versatile artists in Tucson, AZ. His love of poetry, ethnic studies and indigenous music has spawned a theatrical/musical performance piece called "The Story of Rhythm" designed to explore the diaspora of African music Into the...

Mike Clark is best known for his work with Herbie Hancock on the Headhunters. He and Paul Jackson roomed together in Oakland and turned into one of the most formidable rhythm sections in the world. Still, Mike is from the Art Blakey school of jazz and he loves to swing. So much so that...

I was recently asked to speak in Jacob Campbell's Anthropology class - "The Many Ways of Being Human." It was an opportunity to talk to an ethnic group of students about what they need to do in order to carve out their place in Western Society. This was one of the better "trips" I have had...