The book is a compilation of poems and songs written over many years. Mark has traveled over much of the world while writing verse. He writes almost every day and considers his writing a gift from God. Although, much of the verse is evangelistic in theme intended to lead souls to heaven many different subjects are covered inluding issues like gun control, The Good of the Gun, war, Blood for Oil, greed, Monetary Man, homelessness, Cosmos Calamity and death, Before Their Time, as well as many other subjects. As this book includes poems and songs written over many years the tone, temperament and prospective vary greatly. Peace and Love

It was the summer of 1971. John and I were at his parents house sitting around talking about starting a band. John was already in a band, but was looking for something new.

We both knew of a drummer, Tom, we went to school with. He would be a good addition, if he was interested. The fourth member was Pete. Even though he didn�t play, John thought he would be able to pick up bass easy enough.

We asked, and they came.

I was born in January the year of 1934 to Dave, Ethel �Ashby� Estep. Th e fi rst of their children of four. My father was a coal miner and was killed in a cave in 1942. My mother remarried a few years later and had a total of nine children. My mother was a God loving woman and had a lot to do with the way I have lived my life and the man I am today. I have spent most of my working life as an Industrial Electrician but have done just about every kind of work that the hands can do. I have been blessed by God to have been what they call a handy man. I started writing songs when I was about 73 years old and they just keep on coming to me after I bought a guitar seems I would hear the strings saying the words of the song. I got my fi rst guitar when I was about 14 years old but hadn�t played for many years. I have been blessed by God all through my life with a family that I love with all my heart and they have loved me with so many grand children and now the family is growing with many great grand children I can hardly keep up with the number. It dose the heart good to hear the word Grandpa. So to everyone who may buy or read this song book love one another and this world will be a much better place and put your trust in God to make it that way. Th ank you very much and God bless you all.

Best wishes in applying the therapies proposed on these pages. The extent of your success will be determined primarily by the amount and quality of practice time engaged in. The great amount of time and effort required to become a professional trumpeter equates to a condition of work�hard work, not play. If you noticed, the phrases, �trumpet player�, �play the trumpet�, or any other reference to the word �play� is never used in this booklet. Pray tell me why not?

Best wishes in applying the therapies proposed on these pages. The extent of your success will be determined primarily by the amount and quality of practice time engaged in. The great amount of time and effort required to become a professional trumpeter equates to a condition of work�hard work, not play. If you noticed, the phrases, �trumpet player�, �play the trumpet�, or any other reference to the word �play� is never used in this booklet. Pray tell me why not?

Join Haniel on a magical and musical adventure with friends from the grand staff. Learn how theory is important in music and see how fun and exciting it is!

Join Haniel on a magical and musical adventure with friends from the grand staff. Learn how theory is important in music and see how fun and exciting it is!

Best wishes in applying the therapies proposed on these pages. The extent of your success will be determined primarily by the amount and quality of practice time engaged in. The great amount of time and effort required to become a professional trumpeter equates to a condition of work�hard work, not play. If you noticed, the phrases, �trumpet player�, �play the trumpet�, or any other reference to the word �play� is never used in this booklet. Pray tell me why not?

There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors' proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein's California Slim aspires to far more than that-and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the post-'50s revolution that, as a beat poet once put it, roared as it ripped the threadbare fabric of an age. Andy was no distant, casual observer during the tumultuous '60s and '70s; he was at the heart of the maelstrom, and writes about it with candor, humor, and originality.

 

The story begins, for God's sake, with Andy and his then unknown banjo teacher, a young Jerry Garcia, finger picking in a back room at Dana Morgan's Music Studio in Palo Alto in 1962. A skinny six-foot-seven-inch Jewish kid (later known as "California Slim"), Andy divided his time between the usual adolescent interests and music, for which he would go on to provide a capital M by promoting and staging concerts throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His Palo Alto nightclub, Homer's Warehouse, across the street from the Stanford University campus, brought revolutionary musicians (among them, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) to young sensibilities hungry for new driving rhythms and thought-provoking lyrics.

 

The early chapters of this book set the stage for Andy's eventual hooking-up with Willie Nelson and his Family—which felt, Andy said, "like reading a really good book that I couldn't put down." That feeling led directly, if gradually, to California Slim. And you, dear reader, won't be able to put it down, either.

 

-Tony Compagno

There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors' proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein's California Slim aspires to far more than that-and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the post-'50s revolution that, as a beat poet once put it, roared as it ripped the threadbare fabric of an age. Andy was no distant, casual observer during the tumultuous '60s and '70s; he was at the heart of the maelstrom, and writes about it with candor, humor, and originality.

 

The story begins, for God's sake, with Andy and his then unknown banjo teacher, a young Jerry Garcia, finger picking in a back room at Dana Morgan's Music Studio in Palo Alto in 1962. A skinny six-foot-seven-inch Jewish kid (later known as "California Slim"), Andy divided his time between the usual adolescent interests and music, for which he would go on to provide a capital M by promoting and staging concerts throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His Palo Alto nightclub, Homer's Warehouse, across the street from the Stanford University campus, brought revolutionary musicians (among them, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) to young sensibilities hungry for new driving rhythms and thought-provoking lyrics.

 

The early chapters of this book set the stage for Andy's eventual hooking-up with Willie Nelson and his Family—which felt, Andy said, "like reading a really good book that I couldn't put down." That feeling led directly, if gradually, to California Slim. And you, dear reader, won't be able to put it down, either.

 

-Tony Compagno

Music, Methods, and Me

The notes of music are wonders in themselves. These little, round, circles, sometimes with stems and flags, are the symbols of the metaphysical scales of tones that surround us. We must realize the infinitude of these note symbols. Like numbers they live and work forever. They can be grasped out of thin air to be used for our imagination, creativity, and compositions. They are infinite, never to die. They have lived forever before, and will live forever after. It is a marvelous way to capture what we otherwise could not see, but only hear, and probably ignorantly or carelessly keep tuned out.

Someone once said that the train whistles in England tooted in B flat. She was obviously keen on the music of the world. And what notes can be used for the many other sounds that surround us? How can the waves washing the shore, or crashing over cragged rocks be expressed with note symbols on a music score? What notes does the wind�s whistle use, or its rush as it bursts through all trees? And do the leaves answer with yet another stream of melodies? Has their voices been inked on paper using the symbols, named notes? Our four methods of easy composing found in this book, can meaningfully promote the capability to do so.

Nature sings to us through bird songs, thunder clashes, lightning flashes, roaring lions, barking dogs, meowing kittens, all with different tones and pitches. Do we hear them, and their music? Let�s find how to catch and understand their music. In a unique way we try with the E-Z �Notation Through Rhythm� Methods of Music. And so we have included eight sets of the same puppet-doll incentive to music awareness. Familiarity with the colorful individuals who have journeyed from the Music Rainbow means familiarity with music notation in a fun, yet effective method for motivation and learning retention. Puppets are recognized teaching tools. Sesame Street proves that, and alphabet puppets have been useful. Why not have Music Puppets each with the letter names of a food, and each portraying an individual personality characteristic. We believe them to be so important we have included three sets.

B. Nelson

Music, Methods, and Me

The notes of music are wonders in themselves. These little, round, circles, sometimes with stems and flags, are the symbols of the metaphysical scales of tones that surround us. We must realize the infinitude of these note symbols. Like numbers they live and work forever. They can be grasped out of thin air to be used for our imagination, creativity, and compositions. They are infinite, never to die. They have lived forever before, and will live forever after. It is a marvelous way to capture what we otherwise could not see, but only hear, and probably ignorantly or carelessly keep tuned out.

Someone once said that the train whistles in England tooted in B flat. She was obviously keen on the music of the world. And what notes can be used for the many other sounds that surround us? How can the waves washing the shore, or crashing over cragged rocks be expressed with note symbols on a music score? What notes does the wind�s whistle use, or its rush as it bursts through all trees? And do the leaves answer with yet another stream of melodies? Has their voices been inked on paper using the symbols, named notes? Our four methods of easy composing found in this book, can meaningfully promote the capability to do so.

Nature sings to us through bird songs, thunder clashes, lightning flashes, roaring lions, barking dogs, meowing kittens, all with different tones and pitches. Do we hear them, and their music? Let�s find how to catch and understand their music. In a unique way we try with the E-Z �Notation Through Rhythm� Methods of Music. And so we have included eight sets of the same puppet-doll incentive to music awareness. Familiarity with the colorful individuals who have journeyed from the Music Rainbow means familiarity with music notation in a fun, yet effective method for motivation and learning retention. Puppets are recognized teaching tools. Sesame Street proves that, and alphabet puppets have been useful. Why not have Music Puppets each with the letter names of a food, and each portraying an individual personality characteristic. We believe them to be so important we have included three sets.

B. Nelson

Elora and Gasoline Alley is a young band trying to make their name a household word. The kids range in age from eleven to fourteen and are already serious musicians. What does it take to make a band succeed? This book looks at the behind-the-scenes lives of the kids and their families. There is a lot of hard work involved in making a band successful. Daily practice, parental involvement, and a commitment to working at making every performance special are needed to be a favorite by their fans.

Elora and Gasoline Alley is a young band trying to make their name a household word. The kids range in age from eleven to fourteen and are already serious musicians. What does it take to make a band succeed? This book looks at the behind-the-scenes lives of the kids and their families. There is a lot of hard work involved in making a band successful. Daily practice, parental involvement, and a commitment to working at making every performance special are needed to be a favorite by their fans.

"Joy Ride! The Stars and Stories of Philly�s Famous Uptown Theater" is the exclusive, behind-the-scenes, inside story of iconic disc jockey Georgie Woods" spectacular R&B shows at Philadelphia�s Uptown Theater, and how the controlled creative chaos at the majestic movie house inspired "The Philly Sound." Told by the people who actually lived it, "Joy Ride!" is the fi rst comprehensive history on the Uptown, which was once a mandatory stop on the legendary "chitlin' circuit." It features the intimate, amusing, outrageous and sometimes scandalous stories of dozens of decorated entertainers, including 11 Rock and Roll Hall of Famers. All agree that like Georgie Woods' soulful theme song that opened his R&B extravaganzas, every show at the Uptown Theater was a "Joy Ride!"