Porting over a few episodes from The True Hippie Chronicles Podcast. In this episode, a reading from my recently completed memoir, The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking, 'Cloud Stories, Part One.'Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

As Withnail said on the way back to London, I'm making time.Από τον thetruehippiechronicles

Every time I see a white butterfly, I take it to be a message from elsewhere that I am not alone and things are going to be okay. Is that crazy? Maybe. As John Lennon said, "Whatever gets through the night." And I guess I need help these days.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

The not-so-obvious, even to me, reason I let the True Hippie Chronicles podcast go.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

I love this song. Of course I need to rerecord the vocal and guitar part. I need a sax player for the instrumental break. And I think I should bring a drummer and a stand-up bass player into the studio.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

So far, I haven't come up with anything that seems right. I'm sure it will appear or manifest itself, as they say, one of these days. Nonetheless, I'm very happy with how the album is coming along.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

Leave The Beatles' music alone. Stop. Right. Now. Keep this no-talent wannabe nepo baby away from their music. All anybody needs is the MONO MIXES—They contain every bit of information and musicality the Beatles and George Martin wanted to share with us.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

Everything about this album smacks of trying to hard to be perceived as a bad boy. Good bad, not evil, as the girl said in "Leader of the Pack." Hipster rebellion signalling, forced, insincere, trying too damn hard. More appropriate for a guy fifty years younger.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

I posted this yesterday, but on the wrong podcast, so here it is where it belongs! Thank you, black people, for everything you have contributed to our our country, culture, and the world, despite all the racist bullshit you deal with every day. And here's to my first real-life hero and the greatest ball player of all time, Willie Mays, as well. May…

Thank you Black People for everything. Happy Juneteenth.Thank you, also, Willie Mays, my first real-life hero. You will never be forgotten.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

Part Two of a couple of LSD cloud stories, harkening back to the days of the late Sixties, a darkening time, when it was getting harder to be a True Hippie. Luckily there were always reminders of good and benevolent forces in the universe.Από τον thetruehippiechronicles

A couple of LSD cloud stories, harkening back to the hippie days of the late Sixties, a darkening time, when it was getting harder to be a True Hippie. Luckily there were reminders of the good and benevolent forces in the universe.Από τον thetruehippiechronicles

Arguably one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, "Sometimes A Great Notion" far surpassed Kesey's first novel, "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." We will certainly be revisiting Ken Kesey, his adventures, his place in our culture, and, of course, his bonafides as a True Hippie, in future episodes. What was the noti…

My favorite quote from the good doctor’s body of work.Από τον 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.Από τον 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."Από τον 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.Από τον 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.Από τον 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.Από τον 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.Από τον 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.Από τον 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.Από τον 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.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

The title pretty much says it all.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

Two half-baked thoughts in one podcast.Από τον 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!Από τον 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.Από τον 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.Από τον 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.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

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

Of course the audience cheered.Από τον 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.Από τον 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.Από τον 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?Από τον 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.Από τον 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.Από τον Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble