We’re standing in his living room talking and I decide to blow Ray’s mind. I said, “I used to be at the Beaux Arts Coffee House in Pinellas Park, Florida. Ray’s head flipped back like I had smacked him in the face. His eyes opened wide then narrowed to the mystical inquisitiveness. “Is that place for real? Jim used to talk about it all the time.” I nodded sagely then grinned. “Oh yeah. The most famous Coffee House on the East Coast. Every great folksinger played there in the mid sixties. And there was the one local bad boy who would read his poetry at the Beuax Arts Coffee house in sleepy old St. Petersburg, Florida then leave the local scene and go to L.A. and form a band with Ray called The Doors. I regaled Ray with stories about this legendary oasis of culture in the deep South of the Sixties. The Tennessee Williams style Antibellum mansion that was drenched with Spanish Moss, sporting dim Tiki lamps in the backyard jungle garden that was the spawning ground for great music. But, I had come to be standing in Ray’s Benedict Canyon living room because I was here to shoot the only television commercial ever made for the Doors. Ray supported the local L.A. music scene and he was putting up money to help keep the local punk and New Wave live music show on the air. He was a patron of “New Wave Theater” but he was also interested in its success because he was producing one of the local bands who was getting attention from their repeated performances on the local UHF channel and public access with New Wave theater host Peter Ivers. I was shooting live band footage and the director asked me to go up and see Ray about making a Doors commercial to run in between punk /art damage bands like Suburban Lawns, the Circle Jerks and of course, “X”
Ray and I had a good time laying out the Doors album covers on his living room floor and video taping them with a soundtrack from Strange Days feeding into the Sony portapak recorder. It was our first project. We soon progressed to screenwriting. Ray had some good ideas using Punk Rock music in Chinatown with a background story from the author Maxine Hong Kingston. Good deep stuff. With a touch of Black Orpheus in the story too. Gritty downtown L.A. ARt Ghetto verite film. Ray would drive downtown to my studio loft in the worst part of Downtown L.A. and park his vintage Mercedes Gull Wing sports car amidst the bums and homeless people sleeping on the street and in the gutters. His car never got broken into.
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Mermaid painting I did in about 1989. Oil on Canvas with relief castings on frame. May 17, 2013 There has been a lot of progress with the HelmTone healing drum Protocols. I have been busy but I received some new subscribers and I also felt that it was time to replenish the energy in this private section of the blog. The drum is like a battery. You need to play it to recharge the energy in the battery and in yourself. This refers back to Wilhelm Reich’s work with Orgone Therapy dating back to the 1950′s. He discovered the life force in a scientific and quantifiable way. He described it in his lab notes as a blue white light that surrounded and infused all living cells. The orgone energy is his term for the life force. The drum generates life force. Dr. Reich created a box called the Orgone accumulator where the patient would sit inside and gather life force into their system. The box was lined with animate and inanimate material that would attract amounts of orgone and store it inside the box. This is much like what the djembe drum does….
If you want to read the rest of this essay, go to the subscriber page and sign in. http://www.buddyhelm.com/helmtone-drum-protocols-member-page If you need to become a subscriber first go here:http://www.buddyhelm.com/helmtone-healing-drum-protocols-sign-up Then I will email you a password. Then you can go into the private database and get in depth information. For the private youtube videos I will need to get your youtubre acount name so that you can view the exclusive training videos. so email me your youtube acount name.
We met a very cool guy yesterday from South Africa, Paul Tracey. Originally his family was from Great Britain. His father, Hugh Tracey is famous for being one of the first Europeans promoting African Music and created what is now called the Kalimba based on the African thumb piano called Mbira. This bass xylofon sounds incredible. The wood is from a gnarly tree commonly called “Sneeze wood” because if you sand it you will sneeze. To cure the wood they wrap the pieces in pineapple leaves and bury them in a fire pit. The wood comes out colored and very hard. The sound is deep and sweet. Here are links to a BBC documentary on Hugh Tracey and his very compassionate explanation of what it is like living in rural South Africa sixty years ago. Great footage! part 2 – 16 minutes
UPCOMING HEALING DRUMMING EVENTS IN THE FLORIDA GULF COAST Our tiny little shop in Santa Monica is about the size of three parking spaces and we squeezed thirteen drummers in last night and even had a little belly dancing too!
Next cruise is on May 24, Friday at 6pm at Dolphin Landing on St. Pete Beach. The next drumming full moon dolphin cruise will be with Capt. Dan on his 42′ Morgan called “Magic” out of St. Pete Beach. Capt Dan. is the perfect person to run the ship. He is considerate, practices yoga, eats healthy and has a great sense of humor. His compassion and wisdom of the sea is endless. It is always a pleasure to sail with Captain Dan and his crew at Dolphin Landings. Sign up on line to assure a place on board the “Magic” either on my website or on Dolphin Landing website. See you there!
Greetings Buddy! I am one of the web people for Capt Dan / Dolphin Landings. I wanted to share with you a new link for the Drumming Sail on May 24 (the old one you reference on your website no longer exists and “errors-out”). I look forward to seeing you in May!! —Pam http://www.dolphinlandings.com/special_features/drumming_sunset_full-moon_sail_with_buddy-helm_may-24-2013.html |
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