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NASA

After collecting days of recordings from around the world, astrophysicist Carl Sagan curated, edited, and sequenced a collection of sound that he thought best represented our planetary home to any alien who might find it on the Voyager (satellite) as it raced it’s way away from Earth, and into the outer reaches of the Solar System and seeing and understanding as much of our Galaxy and the Universe of which it is a part. For us, the most important part.

Space & Time

NASA TIMELINE

1961 — Alan Shepard
MAY 5, 1961
FREEDOM 7 (FIRST AMERICAN IN SPACE)

1962 — John Glenn
FEB 20, 1962
FRIENDSHIP 7 (FIRST AMERICAN TO ORBIT EARTH)
OCT 16-29, 1962
A CRISIS IN CUBA (KEY WEST)
THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION
Thirteen Days (2000)
Eve of Destruction (1965) 
Matinee (1993)

“Abraham, Martin, and John”
1963 — Let the Assassinations Begin
((( Vietnam Over The Moon )))

JFK (Oliver Stone)

The Problem We All Live With — Norman Rockwell‘s painting iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old black girl in New Orleans, Louisiana, on her way to William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, November 14, 1960. It was during what was called the New Orleans school desegregation crisis, and Ruby is being escorted to school by four deputy U.S. marshals, because of threats of violence against her.

The painting was originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964, issue of Look magazine. Rockwell had ended his contract with the Saturday Evening Post the previous year because the Post was placing limits on his expressing political and social views in his art, including those on civil rights and racial integration. 

“Mississippi Goddamn”
Nina Simone (“Mississippi Goddamn“)
2015 — The Bura
((( for the love of earth )))

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“Mississippi Goddamn” — Nina Simone said later that she considered “Mississippi Goddamn” her “first civil rights song.” Written in less than an hour, Simone said the song emerged in a “rush of fury, hatred, and determination,” as she “suddenly realized what it was to be black in America in 1963.”

The song was released on her album Nina Simone in Concert in 1964, which was based on recordings from three concerts she gave at Carnegie Hall earlier that year. The album was her first release for the Dutch label Philips Records and is indicative of the more political turn her recorded music took during this period.

1964 — The Story of Greenwood, Mississippi
Produced by The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
The laughs came because Dick Gregory was fearless in the delivery of his hard-truth, anti-racist message to a mostly white, TV-watching audience. Gregory’s popularity grew fast. His reputation was as one of the best stand up comedians working in the early 1960s, and even better when considering his seriously addressing the racial inequality he saw everywhere around him. Gregory was always funny, thoughtful, and true. When he met Medgar Evers in 1962, his anti-racism mission became absolute.

Dick Gregory & Medgar Evers — Spoken word recording of the Civil Rights activists on a Smithsonian Folkways Recording, featuring Greenwood, Mississippi, the heart of the movement in 1965.

1965 — Gemini IV (nasa.gov)
MARCH 7, 1965
BLOODY SUNDAY (SELMA, ALA)
Bloody Sunday
John Lewis (Good Trouble)
Dangerous Crossing

1966 —
1967 — Summer of Love

On the night I was born, Lord I swear the Moon turned a Fire Red.”

“Voodoo Child”  
Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland
1968 — Voodoo, Assassination & War
((( premonitions )))

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“Earthrise” by Bill Anders (Apollo 8)

1968 — Apollo 8
Pink Floyd “Dark Side Of The Moon” (1973)
Apollo 8 “Earthrise” (1968)

1969 — Apollo 11

1968 — Apollo 8, Earthrise, Dark Side of The Moon
1969 — One Small Step For Man
Apollo 11, Woodstock, Vietnam

One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind.

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Galileo “Starry Messenger“ (1609)
Sir Isaac Newton  “Opticks” (1704)
“Cave of Altamira” (36,000 YEARS OLD)
Paleolithic (Stone-Age) Man
Discovered Santillana del Mar, Spain (1868)

1970 — Bitches Brew / Led Zeppelin
1971 —
1972 —
1973 —
1974 —
1975 —
1976 — “Philadelphia Freedom”

On-U Sound Records
Little Annie
w/ Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section
((( “Bless Those” )))

Little Annie Bandez

Who Do You Love?

Starting with Keith LeBlanc, and later including Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, and Bernard Fowler, a collaboration with London producer Adrian Sherwood (ON-U SOUND) resulted in a most creative musical time for all those involved. Little Annie was living in London, already working with Sherwood in a band called Crass. She was originally from Yonkers, and welcomed the idea of working with such a talented rhythm section, especially one made up of  New York City neighbors.

1975 — At the time, Frank Zappa, was mostly known for his comical, “Don’t- Eat-The-Yellow-Snow” lyrics, and his being a virtuoso guitarist was mostly unknown. Fact was that Zappa was among the finest composers, and instrumental players in the evolution of Jazz and Rock N Roll musics. Many called the new sound “FUSION,” a name another pioneer, drummer Lenny White* (Miles Davis and Return to Forever) avoids. He prefers to call the  genre “Jazz Rock” or “Electric Jazz.”

— Adrian Sherwood

Both New Yorkers, Little Annie Bandez and Bernard Fowler crossed musical paths in London, England. The year was 1989, the time when both, independently, joined the electronic madness being made by Adrian Sherwood in his On-U Sound Records Laboratory.

Wood Brass & Steel
1977 — “Funkanova”
b/ Doug Wimbish
Dance, Funk, Hip-Hop, and Jazz?
Punk, Rock, Metal, Fusion? (Living Colour)
((( eclectic mixing )))

FM (Movie)

DEEP DOWN IN FLORIDA  — Tom Petty, Linda Ronstadt, and Jimmy Buffett  all made appearances in FM, the “music” movie of the day (1978). Within the next three years, all would play legendary shows in Gainesville, Florida, at the University of Florida. (Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Outlaws …)

1976 — Wood Brass & Steel
MEANWHILE, in Hartford, Connecticut and Englewood, New Jersey, a new sound was percolating. From there, Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, and Keith LeBlanc (The Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section) were also looking to New York City as the first step in what they hoped to be a world-wide musical career. The Trio found their audience across the George Washington Bridge (The GW), from the Sugar Hill studio in New Jersey, uptown to Harlem and the Bronx, and into the streets and parks of all of NYC’s five Boroughs.

Before Sugar Hill, Skip, Keith, and Doug played in a band called Wood, Brass & Steel. Doug (Wimbish), the bassist, wrote “Funkanova,” a tune that made it onto every big-city Dj’s playlist. The  The Roxy, Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage, David Mancuso’s Loft, and Steve Rubell’s most popular and celebrity notorious Studio 54 created a pop social culture that made royalty of John Travolta, The Bee Gees, and Saturday Night Fever.

Voyagers
“Contact”
Carl Sagan’s “Cosmic Message In A Bottle.”

1977 — Carl Sagan unveiling the Golden Record, and announcing the launch of Voyager at Wolfie’s Hotel on Cocoa Beach. 
Saturday Night Fever
WKRP (“Animals”)
Gary Sandy and Lonnie Anderson visit TODAY.
Pink Floyd (Tampa Stadium)
Outlaws (Orlando)
Cocoa Beach
The Thirsty Turtle
Jonathan’s Pub
Brassy’s (Rare Earth)
BCC (Blue Oyster Cult)
THE WHO w/ Labelle (Jacksonville)
w/ Montrose (Miami Baseball Stadium)
Mayport sailors, hash, sinsemilla, and  dancing with Nona Hendryx. The benefits of mushroom (Purple) Tea.

Orlando (Church Street)

WORJ (Stormbringer/Imaginary Voyage/Blow by Blow)
Pat Travers @ The Great Southern Music Hall
one week
Billy Cobham
Sea Level
Spyro Gyra
Valentines
Fusion Clarinetist “Hotcakes” Arthritis
Social (2005)
Mofro

1977 — Voyager (nasa.gov)

1978 — A Collision In Space & Time

Gainesville Goes to Hollywood
FM — 

Linda Ronstadt
Jimmy Buffett
Tom Petty @ The O’Connell Center
Eagles w/ Jimmy Buffett @ Florida Field
Bruce Springsteen (returns)
The Police @ Disney World (Tomorrowland)
Dire Straits @ The Jacksonville Coliseum

Saturday Night Fever

Bee Gees

Studio 54

Paradise Garage

Larry Levan

Bernard Fowler
I’m just a singer in THE Rock N Roll Band
BLUE (THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN)

David Mancuso’s Loft

The Roxy

Beat Street

Style Wars

Rick James v. Ron Carter
(Super Freak v. The Distinuished Gentleman)
The Last Poets
Gil Scott-Heron

Hip-Hop Happens
1979 —