Politician
Vernon Reid
2025 — Hoodoo Telemetry
((( Back to Where it Began )))
Portrait (guitar)
Bill Clark (CQ Roll Call)
ABC (Jimmy Kimmel)
Vernon w/ Alex Skolnick
Up From The Skies
Jimi Hendrix
Two days before Vernon Reid and Living Colour, at Jimmy Kimmel’s request, played “Cult of Personality” to close out his show that had included Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Allen White who played Bruce in Deliver Me From Nowhere, the film that had just been released. The show was just days after Kimmel’s return, after ABC had cancelled him, giving in to pressure exerted by Donald Trump, who whined that Kimmel was treating him “unfairly,” in his “unfunny” monologues.
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POLITICIAN — Reaching back to his playing guitar in Jack Bruce’s band, Spectrum Road, Vernon included the Cream classic on his second solo record, Hoodoo Telemetry.
VERNON REID 2025 — Portrait for his new Hoodoo Telemetry record.
*VERNON REID HOODOO TELEMETRY (INTERVIEW #1)
*VERNON REID HOODOO TELEMETRY (INTERVIEW #2)
“Should I Stay, Or Should I Go?” was the tune on Living Colour’s debut album, Vivid, where that paid tribute to where and from what it became. The Clash, the more sophisticated punks from London had played a legendary run at CBGB, the club Vernon Reid and his Living Colour mates called home.
SEPTEMBER 23 — A statue featuring President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein dancing, titled “In Honor of Friendship Month,” appeared on the east end of the National Mall in Washington on Tuesday morning, September 23, 2025.
The World According to Mick. After helping Living Colour secure the deal with Sony Records to make Vivid, The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger invited Vernon and the band to open for the Stones on its upcoming Steel Wheels 1989 North American Tour.
Jagger first saw Living Colour in its natural habitat, CBGB, the dirty, Downtown New York City bar, from which the Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Television, King Missile, and the Talking Heads came from. A community that accepted all kinds of music, including Living Colour’s Fusion of Hard Rock, Metal, and Avant Punk.
Living Colour and Jimmy Kimmel, just days after the Donald Trump’s regime tried to have Kimmel removed, saying that his jokes were “not fair.” (ABC)
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ARTEMIS 2 — THE DAY BEFORE
ARTEMIS 2 — KATHY’S PERSPECTIVE
ARTEMIS 2 — DAVE’S PERSPECTIVE
VERNON 2026 —
SUMMER OF ’69
JULY 8 (BEFORE THE RIDE)
JULY 11 (HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?)
JULY 15 (THE MOON AWAITS)
JULY 18 (RESTING UP)
JULY 22 (PIONEERS)
JULY 25 (HOME AGAIN)
Apollo 14
FEBRUARY 3, 1971
ON THE ROAD WITH CHARLES KURALT
Wakulla to the Moon
FLORIDA SUGAR: HOW SWEET IS IT?
EXTRA! (PG3)
A1A (FLORIDA’s EAST COAST)
A Beach For All Seasons
DAY TRIPPING (#1.)
Cassadaga and other mysteries in Florida’s interior
DAY TRIPPING (#2.)
Weeki Wachee and (SR50)
Florida’s road through Space & Time
THE ALLIGATOR AND ABORTION
It Started With Ed (JANUARY 15, 1971)
APOLLO 14 (FEBRUARY 3, 1971)
For the Alligator, America sending astronauts to the Moon was “local” news.
ARTEMIS 2 (APRIL 1, 2026)
Fifty five years after Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon, four NASA astronauts and their Orion/Artemis 2 rocket were launched from the 39B, and onto orbit the Moon, having travelled farther from Earth than any manned mission before.
Astronomy (PLAYLIST)
ROCK N ROLL [TIMELINE]