Guided by moonlight in my Secret Dub-ratory. Cookin’ up some Halloween rock gems mixed in with the usual Smile Jamaica soundbytes, movie trailers and other ghoulish delights.
Something to steam at your parties or to chase Tricksters off your porch.
bless, I mean curse, robt
The Unholy Trinity of Musical Halloween Shows
<Nine hours of Jah-loween Stylee!>
Mixcloud: Digital Dubplate – Rock Halloween (today)
Mixcloud Digital Dubplate – Reggae Jah-loween (12:01 AM Oct. 31)
Live Smile Jamaica: 4-7 PM, Sat. Oct. 31
8 year old in Fort Benton Montana. Bought this comic from money earned raking dog poop. Mom tore it up when she found it. Happy Halloween!
From the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Best of Halloween Rockers:
Hour 1
Bobby “Boris” Pickett – Monster Mash
Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear the Reaper
She – Satan’s Angel
Five Man Electrical Band – Werewolf
Grateful Dead – Friend of the Devil
Rolling Stones – Sympathy For the Devil
Nellie McKay – Zombie
Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London
David Lindley & El Rayo-X – Werewolves of London
Roky Erickson – If You Have Ghosts
Blue Oyster Cult – Joan Crawford
Psycho mom Joan Crawford. Paid tribute by Blue Oyster Cult “Joan Crawford has risen from the grave.”
Hour 2:
Donovan – Season of the Witch
Michael Jackson – Thriller
Charlie Daniels Band – Devil Went Down to Georgia
Hooters – All You Zombies
Creepsville 666- Adonis of the Dead
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Spirits in the Night
X-Files Theme
Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy
Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell on You
Natacha Atlas – I Put a Spell on You
Meat Puppets – Attacked By Monsters
Blondie – Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)
Roky Erickson – Bermuda (1:59)
Excitable Boy or Serial Killer?
Hour 3:
Black Sabbath – War Pigs
Frank Sinatra – Witchcraft
Dusty Springfield – Spooky
Stevie Wonder – Superstition
Jeff Beck Group – Superstition
Jeff Beck Group – I Ain’t Superstitious
Bellrays – Voodoo Train
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Serpent Power – Lucifer’s Dreambox
Creepsville 666 – Undead Rebels of the Night
Maggots – Sideshow
Billy Green – Stone in a Trip
Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of death’s construction In the fields the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning
The Parliament of the World Religions was in Salt Lake City. My bredrin Mahan Khalsa, a local Sikh leader and anti-war activist called me as I went on air and asked I wold like to chat with Reggae singer and toaster Pato Banton who was in town with his musical ministry. I said bring him over.
Had a real nice chat with him in the first hour of the show. Here are the interviews:
In October of 1989 I began an excursion on the version: Radiothon (fund-drive) ’89 was when my bredrin Rutabaga Reese invited me to co-host KRCL’s long running Reggae program Smile Jamaica (then on from 1-4 pm Saturdays). I had just resigned from the grind of the Graveyard (Mondays 3-6 am) and figured I would finish my undergrad degree at the U of Utah and then head to Collie-fornya for Grad School.
Funny how things change. I stayed. Rutabaga and I shared Saturdays for about nine months and around July 1990 was when I took over the reigns solo.
For me programming Smile Jamaica is my absolute favorite thing on earth to do. And I like to say give thanks to KRCL for investing in the show and I ‘n’ I. Same guy, same channel, same time, same format.
I started in Oct. ’89. The Simpsons (post Tracey Ullman) started Dec. ’89. Both programs still running well-hot!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica: Oct. 1989; The Simpsons: Dec. 1989
High-Lights of the Jah-tober 10, 2015 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: 59 sec.
Playlist:
Set 1:
Winston Jarrett – Solid As a Rock; Atra 10 Track (Atra) ’72 UK vinyl
Chalawa – Natural Mystic; Exodus Dub (Westons) ’77 Can.; Dub Album of the Hour
Sly & Robbie – Sesame Street; Many Moods of Sly, Robbie & the Taxi Gang (Sonic) ‘79 kids cover
Judy Mowatt – Slave Queen; Black Woman (Shanachie) ‘76
Giorgio Tsoukalos – The Bob Marley of Ancient Aliens
<Smile Jamaica and Acoustic Levitation; 11 sec.>
Ancient Alien theory suggests: it wasn’t Hebrew slaves who built the Pyramids, it was acoustic levitation using heavy bass riddims
Greetings,
My favorite television show is Ancient Aliens. Friday Nights on H2. I am fascinated with the concept of how what we know as Mesopotamian mythology predated the Bible and was really the story of Ancient Aliens. Not Skygods. Nor Greek Gods. It was the Anunnaki
The Anunnaki – ZZ Top got nothing on these guys
A dude named Zecharia Sitchin translated thousands of Sumerian cuneiform tables and discovered a hidden history of Ancient Aliens who came from the Twelfth Planet. A place called Nibiru.
The Anunnaki – those who came from the Sky – were space miners who needed gold for their atmosphere on Nibiru.
With an elliptical orbit, there are times when Nibiru approaches Earth which has massive gold holdings. The Anunnaki land space ships in places like Sinai, Sumer (modern day, southern Iraq), the Indus Valley and of course, Egypt. Then they went to the major gold fields in Southern and Western Africa.
Nibiru intersects with Earth: 2900 AD
<The 12th Planet: Nibiru – home world of the Anunnaki; 18 sec.>
From Book IV of Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles: The Lost Realms. About the “Bearded Ones”: The Anunnaki who also visited the New World where the Mayan and Incan civilizations had so much gold, it was worthless as currency.
The Anunnaki had come to Earth 432,000 years before the Deluge – a period equivalent to 120 orbits of Nibiru. Though to the Anunnaki one orbit equalled a single year which was equivalent to 3600 Earth Years. They came and went between Nibiru and Earth each time their planet came closer to the Sun (and Earth) as it passed between Jupiter and Mars.
Nibiru suffered climate change and the Anunnaki needed Earth’s gold to turn into gold mist to make their air breathable
But these Anunnaki were lazy. So they created mankind to mine the gold to take back to Nibiru. Superior Anunnaki DNA spliced with Homo Erectus DNA. And what happened was these Anunnaki liked human women and there was plenty of bedjamming between the two groups.
“Come back to my ziggurat, baby. We’ll listen to Smile Jamaica, burn a little bush and rub a dub!”
Finally, the main Sumerian God Anu was fed up with humans. He commanded that the Anunnaki wipe them out with a massive flood.
One of the gods, Enki, took pity on mankind and decided to warn them about the Deluge meant to wipe out the annoying humans.
Was it Noah and his Ark? Pshaw. It was a Sumerian named Ziusudra in a submarine.
What makes more sensi to survive a massive flood? A wooden ark or a submarine? Of course, the latter
Do I believe any of this? Sure why not. Here are the 12 planets that the Sumerians wrote about around 2700 BC. Planet, in this case, celestial body
Do not scoff!
The Sun
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Luna (Earth’s moon)
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus (discovery 1781 AD)
Neptune (discovery 1846 AD)
Pluto (discovered 1930 AD)
Nibiru (The 12th Planet)
The Sumerians knew about these outer planets 4500 years before local astronmers knew about them. Makes sensi to me!
bless, robt
High-lights of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Sept. 19, 2015; 34 sec.
Set 1: Harvest Time
<Time to clean out the bad weeds, separate them from the good for the day of harvest is here — Don Carlos; 10 sec.>
Wayne Jarrett – Every Tongue Shall Tell; Showcase (Wackies) ’82 Brooklyn, NY vinyl; Horace Andy cover
Sly & the Revolutionaries – Marijuana; Black Ash Dub (Trojan) ’80 Dub Album of the Hour
Don Carlos & Gold – Harvest Time; Raving Tonight (RAS) ’83: Harvest Time Set
Black Survivors – Herb Pon Top; Nations of the World (Sword Lion) ’95 Revelation 22:2: the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nation
<Revelation 22:2; 12 sec.>
Dr. Israel & the Brooklyn Sound System – Sensi Man (the Ghetto Theatre Proudly Presents the Further Adventures of); Black Rose Liberation (Baraka Foundation) 2003 Brooklyn jungle herbtune
John Holt – Police in Helicopter; 12” (Holt) ’82 herbtune
<You burn down our collie fields, we burn down your cane fields — John Holt; 33 sec.>
Read your Bible. Listen to Reggae.
Set 2:
The Wailers – Baby We’ve Got a Date; Catch a Fire (Tuff Gong) ’73: JA vs. US/UK overdubs
<Catch a Fire: JA original mashup Island overdubs; 57 sec.>
<Differences in JA vs. US/UK: Baby, We’ve Got a Date; 1 min. 22 sec.>
As an avid skywatcher looking for UFOs, last Saturday was a special treat. The Supermoon (aka the Sturgeon Moon). Hot end of Summer Saturday. Watched a little baseball, waited for the sun to go down and around Midnight I sat on my front steps with a little bourbon (and some spinach salad) and scanned the skies while Thievery Corporation* boomed in my living room. I look for Aliens but alas have never seen one of their crafts.
*Mutant Dub your UFO skywatching soundtrack
One summer on my way home to Montana one of the Supermoons was so bright, I shut off my headlights and drove a mile down I 15 illuminated only by Moonlight.
One day before it’s my time, I will see a UFO. Because they are out there! Do not scoff!
bless, robt
Who do you believe? The liars in the government or your own eyes?
Another tradition bites the dust on Smile Jamaica via the heinous Digital Millennium Copywrong Act.
Let us count the ways the DMCA has screwed me on Smile Jamaica
No bootlegs (I have dozens of killer Reggae bootlegs and rarities)
No more 3 hour artist shows (No Bob Marley A to Z like I have done). Can’t play more than four songs by an artist in a 3 hour bloc
No Album Side. Back in the day I used to play a whole side of a rare, non-CD disk to go beyond the one shot. Can’t play more than 2 songs in a row off an album
No more Dub Album of the Week. The latest outrage. For 27 years I have always talked over a singular dub release to keep a consistent flow bubbling so the music never stops. But Mixcloud keeps flagging the shows for DMCA violations. Their algo’s pick up the signature of the CD even tho I have “wrecked the mix” by talking over it. Nope.
<DMCA follies (1): No more Dub Album of the Week; 15 sec.>
<DMCA follies (2): No more than 4 songs per album; 30 sec.>
Fiya bun the asinine DMCA!
So I decided to just punt away from CD’s …
<…No aluminum for I ‘n’ I>
and drop down some Black Wax. All 12″ singles. Long dubble length, combination style all the while.
3 Hours of Disco Mix; 19 sec.
Plus bass-delic echo
The role that the 12″ played in Jamaica was strictly for the dance. Dreads and pretty girls would head for the club. The clubs wanted the deejays to stretch out the songs so that a guy could rub a dub with his best gal and work up a thirst.
From there the 12″ spread into the New York and Miami discos catering to the gay, Latin and urban black markets. Reggae always ahead of its time!
DISCO – Never a four letter word on Smile Jamaica
<Reggae History Lesson: The 12″ Single started in Jamaica; 37 sec.>
So enjoy these two dozen A+ riddim explosions!
<A+ for sure!; 9 sec.>
bless, robt
Fred Flintstone loves the drum and the bass to make Wilma wind up her waist!
Audio is one of the most intimate forms of media because you are constantly building your own images of the story in your mind.
—Tiffanie Wen, The Atlantic Monthly; Apr. 16, 2015
Since 1989 – Smile Jamaica; KRCL 90.9FM; Saturdays 4-7 PM
Smile Jamaica and the Oral Story Tradition:
Robert Nelson:
27 Year Veteran of Reggae Radio and the Smile Jamaica Program on Community Radio station 90.9FM KRCL
Academic approach to an ethnic music music program
History B.A. and Academic Librarian for 20+ years; personal library of over 200 books on Reggae/Rasta religion “Encyclopedic knowledge of Reggae Music and History”
Roots & Culture expression – through music – on Jamaican culture and Rastafari religion (unique to Community/Public radio)
Knowledge shared through oral stories during the radio “air checks”: Reggae History Lessons
Reggae History Lesson: Jamaican folk saying, “Rat a cut Bottle”; 9 sec.
Reggae History Lesson: Jamaican folk saying – Rat a cut Bottle
Value Added listening experience: human element you don’t get on Itunes, Pandora or Satellite radio
Stories enhance the “secret history” behind the music: Active as opposed to passive listening experience
Nearly 3 decades in broadcast communication translates as an “elder” passing on “wisdom” to the younger generation
Jamaican saying, “New broom sweeps clean, but old broom knows the corners!”
Smile Jamaica’s Podcasting/Social Media
Smile Jamaica – Digital Archives at Mixcloud.com
SmileJ_KRCL – Twitter
smilejamaicakrcl.com – multi-media blog with Reggae History Lessons, soundbytes, sound effects, photos/captions, youtube
(I boycott Facebook because of their privacy policies)
Along with some steps to reduce costs and develop new strategies, the Internet is helping to save the radio star.
NPR president and CEO Jarl Mohn told the AP that podcasts are attracting younger listeners to the network, but not because it’s altering its message—just its medium.
“We don’t have to change the essence of who we are to get a younger audience. We just need to tell great stories,” Mohn told the AP.
NPR’s Ira Glass. Brilliant storyteller
How Stories can enhance teaching students in the Classroom:
On-demand talk radio, interviews, and audio storytelling is on the rise:
smart phones allow for immediate “consumption” of media
cars with Wi Fi
Podcasting/media streaming services come standard in the stereo package now
3. Stories enhance arousal in students’ emotional connections to other media they read (i.e. textbook chapters, assigned readings, Course Reserve articles)
From the Atlantic article:
“What we have found in our research is that people require some sort of stressor, some sort of arousal response in the brain to have this type of narrative transportation where we begin to share the emotions of the characters in a story,” Zak says. “It makes sense that we need some sufficient reason to have that response. Our brain is trying to save resources and energy and having this arousal response is costly. Therefore we only want to give attention to something when it matters, when there’s something going on.”
4. Oral connection to textual information – a story can embellish course readings. Stimulates thought to conjure an image to fit the story
Through oral history, students can reinforce their knowledge of the historical content presented in the Standard Course of Study by hearing about historical events…
They can also extend their knowledge of history beyond what’s in their textbooks. Through oral history, students can learn about the everyday people who don’t appear in history books, uncover the ways in which major historical events reshaped their own communities, and document history that is too new to appear in books, recording events that are still unfolding.
Glasses of milk: How you coax a snake out from under your stove in rural Australia
5. Stories convey knowledge and experience that students expect in their Professors/Instructors – build trust in your authority. Hold their attention
“Digital Storytelling: Augmenting Student Engagement and Success in Diverse Learning Environments” – Ejournal of Public Affairs (Aug 30, 2013 • Vol. 2, Issue 2); Eleanor Morris & Tamra Ortgies-Young
Traditional writing assignments were transformed to digital stories in order to increase student engagement, critical reflection, and media literacy, while still maintaining an overall emphasis on critical thinking and analysis, always important in the social sciences.
Overall, the assignments were well-received by students, and both professors felt the assignments realized all of the learning objectives.
Outcomes:
Increase in literacy skills
High level of student enthusiasm and satisfaction
Data indicates that the assignments were useful in generating early student engagement with political science and international relations majors and should be viewed as a possible tool to promote long-term student success and retention across diverse learning environments.
Storytelling is the oldest form of teaching. It bonded the early human communities, giving children the answers to the biggest questions of creation, life, and the afterlife. Stories define us, shape us, control us, and make us. Not every human culture in the world is literate, but every single culture tells stories.
Epic of Gilgamesh – The original story. Sumerians told this story before someone wrote it into clay cuneiform tablets
They prattle on about their impending retirement while I choose the music
6:30 – Grab some dinner
7-9 pm – Ancient Aliens on History Channel.
11pm – Watch 1 Episode per night when the sun goes down. Can’t skywatch in the daylight
Midnight – Decompress while looking for UFO’s in the moonlight
Read a Chapter of Ancient Alien Expert: Zecharia Sitchin: Earth Chronicle Series: The Lost Realms (Book 4) – About the Maya and new world Alien contact
My night time reading. Book 4 of 7: The Earth Chronicles
Saturday: Start putting my music together for Smile Jamaica…
<Roadmap for Jah-gust 8, 2015 Ark-Ive; 90 sec.>
Wailers Family Tree: Wailers Catch a Fire mix ‘n’ match. Tosh live. Bunny does Bob; Melody Makers love Jah. 3 takes of Stir It Up
Roots Dawtas: Contemporary Reggae stylee
Disco Mix ‘n’ Vinyl Is Vital: Black Wax Attack
Mutant Dub: Intergalactic Dubwize
Best of 27 Years: My faves from 80’s Reggae Radio
Tribute to HIM – Held over, never left over from Selassie’s birthday: July 23, 1902
Set 1:
Junior Byles – Thanks & Praise; Rasta No Pickpocket (Nighthawk) ’86 St. Louis, MO vinyl
Alek6 – Inside; Inside (Hammerbass) 2010 Fr.; Dubstep Album of the Week
Aswad – Pass the Cup; BBC Sessions (BBC) 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; Live in the Studio: 6/3/82
<The Cup = Chalice: 30 sec.>
Black Roots – I Am Flying; On the Ground (Sugar Shack) 2012 UK reunion
Sister Carol – Get It Straight Africans; Jah Disciple (RAS) ‘89
Enforcer – Pension; 10” (Narrows)
<Youth better save for your pension! 13 sec.>
Bunny Wailer – Pieaka (Bus Dem Shut); Gumption (Shanachie) ’90; dancehall Bob Marley cover
<Wailers Family Tree: Bunny does Bob in a Digital Stylee! 20 sec.>
Hey bwoy, better save for your pension. No Social Security for sure-ty for I ‘n’ I
Set 2:
Peter Tosh – Not Gonna Give It Up; Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival (Tosh Foundation) 11/27/82: Montego Bay, JA
Alpha & Omega – Rastafari; Voice in the Wilderness (A & O) ’96 trance dub w/ female vox
Johnny Nash – Stir It Up; I Can See Clearly Now (Columbia) ’72 Bob cover
<Johnny Nash cover Bob Marley; 20 sec.>
Johnny Nash – Texas Soul covers Bob Marley
Set 3: Roots Dawta Set
Ayo – Get Out of My Way; Gravity at Last (Wrass) 2008; Roots Dawta Set: German-Nigerian singer songwriter
Set 7: Livicated to His Imperial Majesty: July 23, 1892
Third World – Jah Glory; 96 Degrees in the Shade (Mango) ’76: Livicated to Jah: July 23, 1892
Dillinger – Only Jah Can Help; Songs For Jah (Reggae Best) over Wayne Jarrett vox
Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers – Get Up Jah Jah Children; Hey World! (EMI America) ‘86
Hell and Fire – Show Us the Way; Hit Bound! The Revolutionary Sound of Channel One (Heartbeat) ‘77
Livicated to the Lion of Judah: b. July 23, 1892
Set 8: Mutant Dub
<Smile Jamaica’s 2nd favorite hobby>
Sir Larsie I – Hail Up Harderwise; Dub Budz Vol. 1 (Phoenix Upliftment) 2006 Mutant Dub Set
David Holmes feat. Sarah Cracknell – Gone (Second Night Without Charge); This Films Crap Let’s Slash the Seats (Go) ’95 Soundtrack
Systemwide – Snipers; Pure and Applied (BSI) 2002 Portland dub w/ female vox
New Age Steppers – Radial Drill; New Age Steppers (Statik/ON U Sound) ’81 Adrian Sherwood UK
Audio Active & Laraaji – Think Cosmically; The Way Out Is the Way In (All Saints) ’95 Jah-pon
Audio Active – From Jahpon to the Galaxy looking for Space Dust
Smile Jamaica is hosted by Robert Nelson on 90.9 FM KRCL in Salt Lake City, Utah (Saturdays, 4-7 p.m. MT). Ark-ives available weekly here at the Smile Jamaica blog.
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