Hey Patrick,
Thanks for reading my book. I looked over your web site and it looks as if you are doing interesting stuff out there. I was in Georgia in the last 60s and I remember how long hair meant something there it never meant in California or outside the South. The brotherhood was real and the danger was real.
Anyway, thank you.
Tim Sandlin
TV for Trippers
The
Now Explosion
went on the air in Atlanta, GA, in April, 1970.
Like MTV 10 years later, the show was programmed to stay on the
air for hours at a time. In Atlanta, The Now Explosion was on the air 28 hours each weekend. In an age when TV became ancient grainy movies after midnight, this was a life saver for people too altered to go out or go to sleep. It was also very imaginative for the time. “Did the TV really just do that? or is it my mind??”
Production of music videos was often done after midnight at channel 36 where many Atlanta residents performed in synch with top forty songs. Some music videos were shot on film in Atlanta and suburbs. Later, when the program was syndicated nationally the videos made in Atlanta were seen across the country in cities such as San Francisco, CA, Washington DC, Sacramento, CA and Boston. In New York City, it ran for hours with high ratings before and after Yankee baseball games.After thirteen weeks, in Atlanta, The Now Explosion was picked up by Ted Turner, and was seen on his Atlanta and Charlotte TV Stations for an additional 13 weeks.
Voices from the Farm: Adventures in Community Living (Paperback)
by Rupert Fike
Really interesting story about folks who didn’t just dream about going back to the land and creating a peaceful community. Yaah Rupert, all the way from 13th St. Workshop in Non-Violence.
An entertaining and enlightening read.
From promoting semi-mythic legendary music events in 1969 at The Sports Arena at age 16, to writing about Jerry Lee’s cousin child-bride Myra, to being roadie for the Dalai Lama’s possessions on tour, Murray Silver has had an almost unbelievable life. And he tells it very interestingly. A book blurb says he is,” the missing link between Tom Robbins and Carlos Castenada - from Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
