Thanks for the info. Mike and I still haven't had a chance to meet up so he can give me the copy of the book he got for me. (It was to be an xmess present, but was waylaid by Seattle's SNOWPOCALYPSE 2008 -- so bad it even stopped the mails.)
At 11:10am on December 22, 2008, mike whybark said…
Muhammed! Welcome, and thanks a TON for contributing to the Ben Ishamel stuff! What a fascinating topic, huh? Hopefully the rest of the talkers in the threads will show up and we can move things forward again.
Mahan Kalpa, a respected musician in this community, works at a folkore institute associated with IU in Bloomington and has mentioned he has something on the Ben Ishmael tip - whether that's archival audio, personal thoughts, or some music that he's written I do not yet know. But I am surely looking forward to it!
I took a closer look at the box for the Gizmos tape. Apparently from a Public Library simulcast, with MX-80 and Loner. I must have most of it on a cassette, the reel is marked as overflow, studio break music and a bridge between the sides of the cas…
a random Gizmos thing, huh? I would very very much like to hear it! Hey, weren't you involved in the 'gagage band' video shoot right before they split town? I capped it and made a DVD if you want one.
March of 79 would indeed have been during my fi…
Wow missed this thread Mike-sorry I didn't answer--I don't remember Zo's Motorcycle story. He talked about 'Nam a little but never really went into details other than to say that it was one of the reasons he couldn't stand living in the White man's…
I had to go look on the tapes to check that. Luckily I'm at least organized enough to be able to find them easily, having all my tapes in the same corner of the basement. That was March 1979.
I also found a few tapes from the last day that the stud…
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Mahan Kalpa, a respected musician in this community, works at a folkore institute associated with IU in Bloomington and has mentioned he has something on the Ben Ishmael tip - whether that's archival audio, personal thoughts, or some music that he's written I do not yet know. But I am surely looking forward to it!