George Kinney - A Theory of Eternal Life

A Theory of Eternal Life
By George Kinney

The following presentation is a brief consideration of a series of key ideas regarding possible relationships that exist between densities of matter, time, and quality of life. Further, I will attempt to shed some light on how these ideas may correspond to some of the most essential elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, specifically the concept of Qi. Without attempting to define Qi, an attempt will be made to show possible similarities between the actions or properties of Qi, inseparable from the concept of Yin and Yang, and the properties of various states or densities of matter and energy.

Comprehensively, these key ideas allude to one or more ways of attempting to understand our existences, collectively and individually, in a vast and mysterious universe that possesses qualities, aspects, and dimensionalities that are essentially beyond our ability to define or fully understand…that is, these ideas are metaphors or symbols to aide us in the search for the miraculous, a search which by all indications so far, can by nature never be completed.

POINT

Let us first examine the fundamental nature of our understanding of time, and let us use geometric symbols to do so. Primarily, time, according to our psychological apparatus, is essentially sensed as an “instant” or moment, isolated in perception and connected with past and future moments psychologically thru the application of the associative cortex of our brain. Geometrically, this may be corresponded with a point.

LINE

The extension of this span of time, a moment, linearly gives us the psychological experience, presumably, of a series of events. This expressed geometrically can be visualized as the extension of a point into a line. The same relationship that exists, therefore, between a point and a line, exists also between a moment and a linear series of events. This extension is generally considered to be infinite in the sense that there are conceivably an infinite number of points in a line and an infinite number of potential events in a series. We may further assign a dimensionality value on them and that value would be one. That is, we have begun with one dimensionality, both in geometrical space and time.

Another way of looking at it is that a point, infinitely extended one dimensionally, produces a line. By the same token, a moment extended infinitely produces a series, or infinite succession of events in linear time.

-PLANE OR SURFACE

Our one-dimensional friend, the line, if extended either vertically or horizontally, becomes a plane, or we may say that the “trace” of a point becomes a potentially infinite line and the trace of a potentially infinite number of lines forms a plane or surface.

SOLID

A plane or surface, similarly traced in a any direction perpendicular to it, forms what we refer to in Euclidian geometry as a solid. Thus we may follow these natural progressions of dimensionality to result in the following relationships:

Point> line> surface> solid… forming the continuum of 3 dimensional space that we have all come recognize as our normal sphere of observable existence.
According to the same model, we may experience seconds becoming minutes, becoming hours, becoming days, becoming weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, etc.
These are the logical extensions of aspects of our psychology into graduating levels of dimensionality. *1
In addition, these relationships can be shown to correspond to our experiences in terms of sensations, perceptions, concepts, up to and most likely beyond abstractions and idealisms.

The point of all this is to demonstrate that our sense of time and space, as well as our method of arranging them into understandable forms, systems, and patterns, depend on assigning them graduating degrees of dimensionality in order to grasp them with our understanding, or even to experience them without comprehensive understanding. That is, all the human qualities and potentials for experience are RELATIVE. This is directly associated with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.

EVERYTHING EXISTS AND IS MEASURED EXCLUSIVELY IN TERMS ITS RELATION TO SOMETHING ELSE.

A grossly oversimplified bumper-sticker understanding of E=MC2 is that something perceived in a particular state or form is observed as such due to the nature of the observer’s ability to observe and the particular conditions, internal external, under which the observation occurs. That is, energy and matter are either /or dependent, literally, on how one looks at it. This makes the existence of anything relative to the existence of something else and only such interdependence and interrelationship allows or defines such existence. This indicates that existence consists more of patterns and relationships than of tangible particles of 3-dimensional matter, shrinking in size logarithmically until they mysteriously disappear into theoretical beings such as the infamous ‘strings’ and slip away from our direct observation altogether.

You may also remember that in TCM fundamentals, we learned that Yin and Yang, the powerful creative forces of life, are interrelated and interdependent, that is, they exist only in RELATIVITY to each other. However, it is important to note here in light of modern advances in quantum physics, specifically in the observation of the characteristics of light and the behavior of energy in the ‘string theory’, that it seems reasonable at this point to speculate that the more comprehensive our awareness, that is, the more dimensions our awareness is able to embrace and process intelligently, the more comprehensive will be our experience of our environment. In fact it can also be justifiably speculated that the very nature of our environment and our ability to manipulate it constructively, which is a key element in the practice of TCM, rests in expanding this ability through increased awareness of the energies involved.

OUR CONCEPTS HUMAN OF LIFESPAN ARE DETERMINED BY THE LIMITS OF OUR AWARENESS

While a comprehensive understanding of this concept may be well beyond the scope of this presentation, it is not overly difficult to consider that the same limits we naturally place on matter due to the limitations of our natural sensory apparatus as it relates to our psychology and our understanding, we may also be imposing upon our concepts of our own potential lifespan. That is, our understanding of both our environment and our existence in it, as it pertains to time or duration, is deducted or induced by our method of observation, which may not include all of the potentialities existent within the phenomena themselves, apart from our ability to understand them. Here we return to the idea of the relationship that exists between the limits of our awareness and the definition of what constitutes our existence, both as matter and/or energy. Thus, varying densities of matter, or various states of matter, involve different laws of physics and time.

The implications of this concept in regard to conscious, practical manipulation of this awareness or energy and its application to healing disease and establishing and maintaining a beneficial equilibrium, or health, may be an important precursor to a vast new approach to health care and quality of life in general.

LIVING TIME

The idea of immortality can either be synonymous with the idea of eternal life or not, depending on how you want to look at it. One common connotation of immortality implies the absence of death. If taken as such, we would not consider eternal life and immorality to be synonymous terms at this time, although they are closely related. Only if we expand our understanding of death can we make these two concepts synonymous.

So right off the bat we have to say that if by death we mean the death and decomposition of the human body, and the absence of that process is immortality, then the concepts I am discussing here do not imply immortality. If, on other hand, we agree to consider death as a process that is intimately integrated with the process of life, and cannot be separated from life, then we could consider eternal life and immortality to be one and the same phenomena. So let’s say, for now, that we can have it both ways…that we can experience death, that is, the decomposition of the cellular material that makes our bodies, and yet that life, for us, can go on, relatively, forever. It is in this context that I offer the following information for consideration.

THE INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY

Let me emphasize that what I am proposing as a possibility here has almost nothing whatsoever to do with any particular religion, cult, social group, or dogmatic system of worship of any kind. It is interesting to note, however, that most all organized religions and “spiritual belief systems” stem from the fundamental concepts (and the investigations thereof) that roughly form the general category of thinking sometimes correctly referred to as esoteric knowledge. Even this distinction is fading, however, as what has formerly been considered esoteric knowledge begins to merge with the most advanced ongoing scientific discoveries.

Let us consider some of the similarities that can be found that interrelate behavior, awareness, and duration of existence. **2

Matter in our neck of the physio/psychological woods may for our purposes here be broken down into various states of density that have corresponding relationships to duration, i.e., time.
They are, in order of density and duration, the mineral state, the cellular state, the molecular state and the electronic state.

We know that the present doesn’t really exist because by the time we consider it, it is already past. So if the present doesn’t really exist, and the past doesn’t exist any more and the future doesn’t exist yet, then everything doesn’t ever exist, and also, nothing always exists. This paradox can only be solved by evolving ones’ concept of time and by lifting the restrictions we impose on the consistency of matter according to our sensory apparatus. This process can be referred to as the conscious expansion of consciousness, or psychological evolution.

Here are some examples of comprehensive systems that express evolution through the increase of their dimensionality:
Dance: a.) A concept of possible motions including all types of dance, known and unknown. These motions exist in abstraction and only as potentials, but include all possible dances and the steps therein.
b) The specification of particular dances that share some common aspects with all “dance” and have unique characteristics which define it as a particular dance
c) The various steps that formally identify the particular dance from other particular dances
d) The variations of those identifying steps according to the individual interpretation and expression of the individual dancer

Literature: a) All books and all written ideas or experiences, including all linguistic applications such as letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, etc., which make up the essential elements of literary expression
b) Any particular genre of literature such as fiction, non fiction, speeches, poetry, etc. that classify literature into particular categories
c) The various literary techniques specific to a particular author, which utilize the general characteristics of the genre to identity his work from others
d) The individual and unique interpretation of these techniques in a specific work by a reader

The point here is that the trace of a dance movement in linear time forms a segment of a dance or an entire dance, dependent upon the duration of that extension. The finite repetition of that sequence may represent the lifetime of the dance, or the dancer, and the existence of the dance throughout linear time may represent eternity for the dance. That is, eternity for the dance is repetition of the steps in an infinite field of recurrence, which is not limited by the individual dancer’s participation by any physical application.

Art, Science, and even Religion may be seen to follow this pattern, as well. Religion is perhaps the most ephemeral of the pack in that its precepts and key ideas are not as easily categorized, yet contain definite and obvious concepts involving the transformation of various degrees of matter, an expanded concept of time, and an interactive paradigm of cause and effect which is largely dependent upon an individual’s psychology, expressed through behavior and the concept of choice. Beginning to sound a lot like quantum physics, isn’t it?

States or Densities of ‘Matter

Mineral states of matter.
These are the densest, and therefore the slowest instances of existence as we consider it. Relative to the next finer state, cellular life, it is 800 times slower. That is everything is experienced (if we can even use the word experienced in that reference) 800 times slower that it is in cellular life. In this context we will consider cellular life as it pertains to humans, as an 80-year span. The accompanying charts illustrate some of the variations in the velocity of matter at different densities and the relative ‘work’ done in various time spans relative to these variations.

Cellular states of matter (human body)
This is the next finer state of matter, cellular organization, specifically the human body, but also including the biological world of nature. We may consider it to last 80 years, more of less.

Molecular states of matter

Next up we have molecular life, represented theoretically as the nature of the existence of the human soul. Also, we may consider scents to be a part of this world. The sense of smell is akin to molecular states of matter, in that it can permeate and travel through cellular matter. So the soul can permeate and travel through cellular and to some degree, mineral matter. In this world everything happens roughly a 1000 times faster than in the cellular world.

Electronic states of matter

Last and certainly not least we come to the fastest of the lot, electronic matter or solar matter or the most essential expression of energy as it relates to matter, light, and how it specifically relates to a human life. Everything happens in just 40 minutes that happens in one month in the molecular world and 80 years in the cellular world and 800,000 years in the mineral world. In other words, life in the fast lane, the sub-atomic world of light, is about a million times faster than in a human cellular body.

Living Time and the Integration of Life

So what? Why does any of this really matter to anyone but speculative mathematicians, quantum mechanics (even shade tree ones) and theoretical philosophers?
Here’s why.

The beautiful paintings which follow describe the various world views of major spiritual systems covering a vast time spans and vast geographic areas.
Interesting to note is that they all involve behavior, choice, various states of matter, and duration of life force. They also include states of being superior by degree of dimensionality, which operate in realms of energy that are subject to fewer physical laws as density decreases. These higher states allude to conscious judgment of some degree and that choice and behavior are extremely important factors in determining further states of being.

INSERT PAINTINGS HERE

It is crucially relevant to notice the connection in all of these world views, the relationships of consciousness, behavior, choice, varying states of matter, and the allusion to an omnipotence that is both subjective and objective, intimately connected with what we may consider an invisible aspect or aspects of our being. All include states of being between death and birth that accommodate some form of conscious experience. All incorporate some form of existence after the decomposition of the physical or cellular body. All include some relationship between behavior and the potential outcome of some sort of ‘judgment’ that occurs after death and before birth.

EAST MEETS WEST

Understanding one’s life in time in light of the vastness that the above concepts suggests, life itself may become much more meaningful, and the idea of individual responsibility becomes inseparable from quality and duration of life. This is essential to the integration of fundamental TCM concepts into western medical modalities and research. To accept and seriously investigate the elemental properties of Qi and Yin and Yang together with the investigation of western advances in quantum physics is to initiate the ultimate merger between the ideas of the East and the West.

NEW AGE HEALTH POTENTIALS: FANTASY OR
EXPANDABLE REALITY?

Whatever else one might gain from this investigation, regardless of spiritual beliefs, the idea of being able to extend our abilities to manipulate cellular activity through the manipulation of molecular activity and ultimately through the knowledgeable manipulation of electronic or subatomic energy is an exciting and relatively limitless quest. It could even imply the refinement of health care to levels never before possible, even to the extreme of developing a capacity to treat a disease in the timeless, subatomic realm in order to literally prevent it from ever occurring in the first place. Imagine a doctor who could manipulate energies that existed in a patient that has contracted a life-threatening disease in a realm independent of time. This would be preventative medicine in the most advanced context.

PSYCHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

However you look at it, this life is most likely very important, and how you consider it, that is, the degree to which you are aware or present for you own life is a major factor in determining the overall quality of it. It affects others, too.
For instance, what if you believed that everything existed always and forever? Every thing you did or said would then be in some way more or less permanent.
You wouldn’t waste so much time on insignificancies; things would matter more to you. And this level of awareness of your life would affect everyone around you, in direct proportion to your level of interaction with him or her.
It would be less attractive to you to be unpleasant or inconsiderate of others and of yourself. Personal self-esteem would gain ground in your overall evaluation system or worldview.
This is not to be confused with moralization.. It is relevant only insofar as it applies to actual conscious experience and the potential for the improvement thereof, a process that I fondly refer to as psychological evolution.

But even if you don’t think of life as something that extends for an individual consciousness beyond death and decorporealization, all this is still relevant, if only because it affects the 80 years you might have in which to live and breath and have your being. And anyway, to master the skills in self remembering and persistence in consciousness that might allow you to exist eternally as an individual being, but not confined to the limits and laws of cellular existence would take a whole lot more energy and intent than the vast majority of us are able to muster.

So don’t worry too much if you don’t think this will happen to you. You still might be eligible for some kind of rebirth or reincarnation, as another you just like the old one, constantly recurring on and endless circle of existences without memory of the succeeding life. Or perhaps you might progress with little increments of positive change (visualized by the upward spiral a slinky toy makes when stretched upwards) that might someday qualify you for electronic existence or the life of pure spirit or energy. But in any case, I highly recommend that you do everything in your power to avoid the ultimate degradation, that is, consignment to the world of mineral existence. Remember, that one lasts 800.000 years without significant change or modification. For most of us, that would be Hell.

SO THEN:

In summation, the quality of one’s life depends upon one’s fundamental understanding of time. Everything you do, say, feel, or think, is related to how you view time in general, and specifically how much time you may or may not have. Many if not most of us have experienced the death of someone close to us. At these times, our own sense of mortality is enhanced, for better or worse. Somehow we seem to understand something that passes us right by in our normal daily lives. It has to do with being present for our lives instead of absent from them. It has to do with living our lives under the stark, tangible realization that our bodies will, indeed, succumb to decomposition and yet embrace the thrilling, invigorating sense of timelessness that may exist for more durable components of our being.

NOTES:**2: The ideas of evolution and intelligent design are anything but mutually exclusive. One only had to consider the evolution of a novel to see this. What are the chances that War and Peace wrote itself, randomly, with no intelligent design? Tolstoy had letters and words already available, a totally random field of potential combinations of them, and he organized them into patterns that communicated his essential artistic ability, emotional desire and intellectual intent. Now the letters and words were also invented by intelligent design by humans who came before Tolstoy. The origins of the written word are clearly evolutionary yet include obvious intelligent design. In fact, nearly everything you can think of follows this pattern. Why then, is it so difficult to consider the possibility of mutual participation between intelligent design and evolution? I think discounting the possibility of such a combination of complementary forces is not only unwise, but also unfruitful.

*** 3: The big bang theory, Stephen Hawking and the others notwithstanding, is not necessarily all-inclusive, even though relative to what we have to observe it the best explanation we have within the confines of an understanding of time limited to linear conceptualization.
The thus-far unanswerable question is: What existed before the big bang? Nothing? Well, nothing is something. In fact, nothing and everything are equal according to Zen philosophy. The idea that everything either does or doesn’t have to have a start and a finish is based on a linear concept of time, that is, the progression of past to present to future.

Annual Jerry Lightfoot Memorial Gig, Continental Club, Houston, 11/22/09

Check out these pictures of George Kinney and the Golden Dawn, live at Houston's Continental Club, on November 22, 2009. These pictures were from my brother's cell phone.

This was the annual Memorial/Benefit for Jerry Lightfoot. Each year, Steve Krase, former harp player for Jerry, puts together a concert to honor Jerry and to raise money for a charity that helps musicians in need.

It was a really great show this year. Besides the Golden Dawn, Charlie Pritchard played, as well as Steve Krase and Jerry's main guitar protégé, young James Henry. James really tore it up.

I was personal friends with Jerry Lightfoot and I know that he would have LOVED having his name associated with something like this. Jerry was so cool and such a nice guy; a true Southern Gentleman. Man, could he wail on that guitar. And he knew more about Rock music than anybody I have ever known. He knew everything.

George tells me that the gig was great. It sounds like a real smoking gig. The Golden Dawn sharing the bill with Charlie Pritchard. Wow.

My brother Kirby said:

"Had a great time hanging out with George in Houston this weekend. Finally got to meet Nancy which was a treat. She is a really cool. We had a great meal and conversation at the restaurant were I work inside Hotel Derek."

"Sunday went to see George perform at the Continental Club for the Jerry Lightfoot benefit. George and his band put on a high energy kick ass show. It was great spending a beautiful afternoon meeting new people, enjoying great music and eating BBQ. After the show driving home my co-workers/friends who came all said George's band by far put on the best performance."

Kirby

Johnny Winter 1968 Live CD Distribution Pirate's Bay

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13th Floor Elevators You're Gonna Miss Me 45 RPM

Check out this 13th Floor Elevators You’re Gonna Miss Me 45 rpm! Do you notice anything strange about it? The “IA” is reversed and says “AI”! International Artists did all kinds of shit like this to make the Greatest Little Record Label in Texas a store house of delights for the vinyl fascists. This is just a single variation of MANY variations of this slab o’ vinyl.

You're gonna wake up one morning as the sun greets the dawn
You're gonna wake up one morning as the sun greets the dawn
You're gonna look around in your mind, girl, you're gonna find that I'm gone

You didn't realize
You didn't realize
You didn't realize
You didn't realize
You didn't realize

Oh you're gonna miss me, baby
Oh you're gonna miss me, baby
Oh you're gonna miss me, child, yeah, yeah

I gave you the warning
But you never heeded it
How can you say you miss my lovin
When you never needed it

You're gonna wake up wonderin'
Find yourself all alone
But what's gonna stop me, baby?
I'm not comin' home
I'm not comin' home
I'm not comin' home

13th Floor Elevators - Men Who Stare At Goats

All fans of the 13th Floor Elevators should see this film. It's a dark comedy about the "Psychic Warrior" project of the the Seventies and Eighties. This was where the Army tried to weaponize the New Age Movement. Instead, they created a squad of peaceful "Jedi" warriors.

Oh yeah! All of the Jedi Warriors that the Army trained had a pyramid with an eye tattoed on their chest! The Commander was an old acid head/Special Forces Green Beret played to perfection by Jeff Bridges.

When all of the other green berets were doing push ups, these guys were doing yoga, tai chi and interpretative dance.

They talk a LOT about shit that Tommy Hall talked about. They also talk a LOT about perception. Like, change one's perception, or change the enemy's perception, and you change your/their reality.

They did cool shit like Remote View a mission. Their Commander would send them to Iraq and then remote view their mission to them. They would remote view and pick up the mission.

When Bush Sr. came to power they took the Jedi Warriors and had them kill goats by staring at them and stopping their hearts. The peaceful soldiers say that this was when the "curse" was put on them. The Bush Administration also dredged up the MKULTRA studies and began trying that shit out again. They tried to dose soldiers with LSD to "help" their remote viewing. This was a disaster.

The Commander (played by Jeff Bridges) began to say that his project was going to change the Army from within. That's when the Army drummed him out. In a hilarious scene, at his Court Martial, he was charged with using his rank and influence to obtain prostitutes and drugs for his men. Jeff Bridges leaps to his feet and bellows that "the thing about the prostitutes" is a damned lie!

It was fucking funny as shit!

The Bush (Jr) Administration took the dirty stuff and began using it in interegations of prisoners. The Jedi Warriors called this the Dark Side.

Real-life psychic warrior Major Paul H. Smith, US Army (ret.) presents the true
story behind the book and movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats.

Saturday, November 21, 2009, 7:00–9:00 P.M.
BookPeople, Third Floor Meeting Room
603 North Lamar Boulevard
Austin, Texas 70703
Free and open to public

Johnny Winter Tree Distribution

The Johnny Winter – Early Heat disc is ready for distribution. Kiloh will be running the tree. Bearmelt’s server is down for the count. Should he ever wish to start it up again you guys should like about giving him some dough to keep it up rather than be all: “gimmie, gimmie, gimmie…”

This is exactly like the old days with ol’ Kiloh running the distribution. I want things to go smoothly; no extra white hairs for Kiloh; no fucktards.

We are looking for both branches and leaves. Branches are people who can trade with others to give them the discs. You MUST be able to get the disc off Pirate’s Bay. We are posting it on Pirate’s Bay and you download it and then trade with the leaves. Branches must be willing to help those with nothing to trade; you’ll make discs for them too.

Leaves are people who want the discs but cannot do Pirate’s Bay. DON’T sign up for this tree if you can get this off Pirate’s Bay.

BTW, for the Branches, if you turn out to be a total fucktard I will out you on the list as a total fucktard and then throw you out. This means that you do your duty with no drama.

Branches send a blank email here: rokysyd11@yahoo.com That’s rokysyd11 @ yahoo.com (remove spaces to mail). Have nothing in the email but in the Subject line have the word: BRANCH and your home country. I am looking for USA, Europe, Australia, Asia Branches.

Leaves send a blank email here: sydfloydgod@yahoo.com That’s sydfloydgod @ yahoo.com (remove spaces to mail)

This CD is some sick stuff. This shows the power and reach of the Roky CD Club to flush out some shit like this. GRAB IT!

Look:

Johnny Winter - 1968-Winter/Late Summer, The Matrix, San Francisco,
"Early Heat", SB/M, 79:06

1/4" Master Reel (unknown equipment) > Quantegy R-94 DAT > Panasonic
SV-3700 > Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro (minor edits, level
adjust, spot declick as needed, EQ T04-08) > Flac Frontend 6 > FLAC
(no SBE)

01 My Own Fault
02 Mean Town Blues
03 Rollin' N' Tumblin'

04 Let's Talk It Over
05 Mean Mistreater
06 Easy Rider
07 Be Careful With A Fool
08 Black Cat Bone

09 You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
10 Uptempo - Untitled
11 Mama Talk To Your Daughter

12 Stones In My Passway (Solo with National Brand Guitar)
13 Rollin 'n Tumblin'

* We received a CD and DAT. The CD was marked "1968-Winter/Late
Summer, San Francisco" ("probably from The Matrix"), the DAT source
was unmarked but had been touted as 1967?, Unknown Location. The
contents of both media turned out to be the same. From the stereo mix
differences between tracks it appears that T01-03 & T09-11 are from
the same gig while T04-08 & T12-13 are from two separate gigs. It is
not clear whether all of this recording is from 1968, San Francisco.
It is also not clear whether "Winter/Late Summer" means (whichever
portion of the recording that refers to) the recordings are EITHER
from Winter or Late Summer or whether one part is from Winter &
another from Late Summer...

Red Crayola Live 1967

When the Red Crayola visited the Berkeley Folk Music Festival in July 1967, the San Francisco Bay area was hippie central. But judging from the surly reviews reproduced on the tray card of this two- disc live set, the trio did not go over with the people who wore flowers in their hair.

Instead of the trippy but well-structured pop songs of their debut album, The Parable of Arable Land, the Crayola played lengthy feedback assaults that terrorized the audience. Nowadays such abrasive sounds aren't just the province of the underground; consider Sonic Youth's Silver Session. The approach has been perfected by ensembles such as the Dead C and Rain, who have all wielded the materials employed here to greater effect.

Maybe this isn't like the other Crayola records but it's not like it came out of nowhere. It's outside-music, you know, like Sun Ra, John Cage, Albert Ayler, etc. The Red Crayola wasn't the first nor were they the last to make this kind of music, since it's still thriving and multi-faceted. It has good and bad practitioners, just like any other kind of music.

That said, this double-disc is uneven, but when it's good, it's excellent. The first, long track of the second disc is a fantastic live-set from Berkeley. Completely inspired. The next piece with John Fahey - at his most outside in that decade; is also very good. Fans of his late material will want to check this out.

The first disc from Angry Arts is not as good really. The live set falls flat, and the material recorded in the hotel only has moments. For one thing the singing is annoying. Oddly, there's no singing on the 2nd disc.

The historical value of this recording is considerable, since there weren't many Americans doing free music in a rock setting in 1967. But maybe just the second disc would have been enough.

Roky CD Club Uncovers Rare Johnny Winter - Early Heat

The Roky CD Club has done it again! They have uncovered an early Johnny Winter set from 1968 (or 1967). It is direct from the soundboard reel to reel. See… the Roky CD Club knows people. The venue was listed as the Avalon Ballroom but seems to be from two different places. The sound quality is amazing. This disc is going to be called: Early Heat.

Look for the Announcement soon. We are merely working out the detail with the donor. We have some questions about the exact date and the two locations. See the details below:

1/4" Master Reel (unknown equipment) > Quantegy R-94 DAT > Panasonic SV-3700 > Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro (minor edits, level adjust, spot de-click as needed, EQ T04-08) > Flac Frontend 6 > FLAC (no SBE)

01 My Own Fault
02 Mean Town Blues
03 Rollin' N' Tumblin'
04 Let's Talk It Over
05 Mean Mistreater
06 Easy Rider
07 Be Careful With a Fool
08 Black Cat Bone
09 You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
10 Uptempo - Untitled
11 Mama Talk to Your Daughter
12 Stones in My Passway (Solo W/National)
13 Rollin 'n Tumblin'

The recording was marked "1968-Winter/Late Summer, Avalon, San Francisco"

Fever Tree Rising - The Man Who Paints The Pictures

Fever Tree Rising at Dan Electros in Houston 8-16-08. The Special Guest was David Breaux. Jack Ortman told me that this band was good. From this video, he was right! I think that the Roky CD Club needs to sit Dennis Keller down for an interview.

This song is performed by Fever Tree and appears on the album Fever Tree/Another Time Another Place

The Man Who paints The Pictures lyrics:

Don't say there's no tomorrow
When a silver bird can sig
There's a promise of forever
Every dawn can bring

So you want to build a mountain
So you want to climb real high
Stack your dreams one on another
Walk up to the sky

CHORUS:
For the man who paints the pictures
He will hear you if you call him
The man who paints the pictures
Will catch you if you fall

Take my hand and walk beside me
There's a voice that you should hear
We will dream our dreams together
Trust and have no fear

Repeat CHORUS

(Whispered - unintelligible)

Repeat CHORUS

(Whispered - unintelligible)

13th Floor Elevators Complete Reference File - Warning

I’d like you to be aware of a book to stay away from that full of work appropriated from others without permission or proper credit. It’s the 13th Floor Elevators Complete Reference File. This book is a joke full of cribbed information from the hard work of others. Much of this book was cribbed from the four Jack Ortman Scrapbooks. The photos and swaths of the information were wholesale used without permission. Jack got a crappy, one line, mention in the back of the book.

This book claims to be a “source” on bootlegs and not one of the Roky CD Club titles are mentioned in here. Like I said, it’s a joke. The guy that wrote it goes by the name of “Lama” and is a real piece of shit. He’s well known in Texas Psych circles as a tool and backstabber.

Recently, on a Walt Andrus article giving Walt a great send off “RIP”, the guy that wrote this book got on there and complained that the Houston Press used “his” photo without permission. I’ll let his own words speak for him:

“The Walt Andrus photo above comes from my International Artists label tribute page, and nowhere else.

I have another photo that shows the interior of Andrus' studio at the time of "Easter Everywhere", as well as an interview with him from 1974 where he discusses "Easter", but since people on the internet like to steal things like this without giving credit, I guess these will remain unseen.

Both my Andrus photos came from Andrew Brown, a serious Texas music researcher.

Anyway, R.I.P Walt Andrus.”

Anyway, RIP Walt Andrus? Can you believe the arrogance of this guy? The guy acts like he’s the cat’s meow about the 13th Floor Elevators and really? He’s some Swede with a collection of stuff that he bought online. His book is just material that he obtained elsewhere and arranged together under his own name. The “Tommy Hall Interview” in his book? That comes from the Roky CD Club. He used it without permission or mention.

Stay away from this book. It’s a cob job of other people’s work. This guy goes by "Lama" and is well known on the Internet Psych Circles. He's always trying to pump his own ego up somehow. His latest ploy is to create his own Wikipedia article about himself. Gawd. Pathetic.

13th Floor Elevators Vulcan Gas Company "Brain" Poster

Check out this 13th Floor Elevators Vulcan Gas Company poster with Shiva's Head Band, Swiss Movement and South Canadian Overflow in Austin, Texas on 12/8-10/1967. Art by the one and only Gilbert Shelton, image ("Brain") is #7 in the VG/Vulcan Gas Company series.

I have a handbill from this gig. It's the same design but in black and white.