DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS
My Fellow Americans, Life is actually just a microscopic, deluded moment in time, so let's cut to the freakin' chase. One look at our impending election debacle can solidify my case. It has been my contention since birth, that the answer to every difficulty we encounter on this sacred yet demented Stone, can be revealed with ultimate clarity through the ultra neurotic engagements of Music, Art, Literature, Film, Poetry and a good Pastrami sandwich. Why would any sane human spend so must time on a film set (Do you know how long you gotta wait until your 8 second deliverance of an edited beyond repair line gets a chance to become a professional embarrassment etched in time forever? ) or expend so much energy in a recording studio, piecing together another ode to a man or woman who could not care less how much love existed within your digestive tract? It's all about hymns and prayers and a quest for mercy and forgiveness and silence and faith. We were blessed with Charles Bukowski, Gene Chandler, Lenny Bruce, Mitch Ryder and a legion of creative explorers whose influences provided the air we breathe. So Let's Dance! This site shall explore the reaper, find a way to disarm the stench of injustice, discover some true loves and talk it all over before it's all over. So what's the worst that our desires could produce? Failure? So sue me. I'm going to require your assistance in making as much trouble for the grown-ups as possible. Let the record show that my childish heart yearns to disrupt the madness. Join me Ladies and Germs!
With Gratitude For Gena Rowlands, Nancy Sinatra, Jerry Quarry, Leo Gorcey, Arthur Alexander and Joey Heatherton, Your Splendid Bohemian, Rich Buckland.
Episodes
524 episodes
IN REMEMBRANCE OF 9/11/2001: MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PERFORMS HAMILTON CAMP'S "PRIDE OF MAN" - A SONG WHOSE MESSAGE, SADLY, NEVER GOES OUT OF STYLE.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"Pride of Man" is a 1964 song by Hamilton Camp. It is Camp's best-known composition.
"Put on a Stack of 45s" rewind: Bill and Rich peek beneath the banana peel of the Velvet Underground's debut album opening track: SUNDAY MORNING, (VERVE, 1966)
Sunday Morning, the opening track of the seminal, self-titled VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO, written by Lou Reed and John Cale, and produced by Tom Wilson, was originally created for the Teutonic Chanteuse, Nico, but ended up being sung by Lou.
.jpg)
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT: THE SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET with THE "MIGHTY MEZ" - SONGS TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD - WITCH DOCTOR by David Seville (Liberty, 1958)
All it takes is one good idea; one spark of Promethean fire to ignite a life-long, multi-generational success. For Ross Bagdasarian Sr., it was a sped up tape recording of a nonsense scat phrase: “Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah; Ting-tang Walla Walla Bing Bang...
MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS ASKS THE ORACLE: IS IT MODESTY OR FEAR OF MEDIOCRITY THAT PARALYZES ME? WILL MEZ RECEIVE A PAT ON THE BACK OR A KICK IN THE ASS?
I had a reunion with my box of Oblique Strategies cards today. When I opened the pack the first card that confronted me read: “Don’t be frightened to display your talents.” This started my head to spin with the question: IS IT MODESTY, OR FEAR ...
"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- CHARLIE RICH- "MOHAIR SAM" - The Unlikely Tale Of A Jazz Artist Taken Hostage By The Country Charts - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians Rich Buckland and Captain Billy Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To Loving History
The Agony, Inspiration and Exultation Of Charles Allan Rich - December 14, 1932 – July 25, 1995. Never Forget To Remember Such Brilliance. Enough Said. Listen In Friends.
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM, KENNY ROGERS AND DOLLY PARTON, 1983, RCA. RIP DOLLY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islands_in_the_Stream_(song)RIP DOLLY
MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS CONSULTS HIS FINANCIAL ADVISOR, THE I CHING - QUESTION: HOW MUCH SHOULD I BE CONCERNED OR WORRY ABOUT MONEY?
QUESTION: HOW MUCH SHOULD I BE CONCERNED OR WORRY ABOUT MONEY?HEXAGRAMS: 35 (ADVANCE) / Fire over earthMoving lines 4,5,6 > 8 (SUPPORT} / water over earthI had a friend, Brendan, who used to say when faced with the prosp...
"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- PRINCE BUSTER - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF MAN (BLUE BEAT, 1965) - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys dig deep into the Jamaican vinyl crates.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/arts/music/prince-buster-trailblazer-of-ska-dies-at-78.html Cecil Bustamente Campbell ...
MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS ASKS THE ORACLE TO PONDER THE PROS AND CONS OF INDIVIDUALITY VS CONFORMITY? QUESTION: IS IT PREFERABLE TO MAINTAIN ONE’S INDIVIDUALITY, OR TO CONFORM TO THE GROUP?
I’ve been watching THE PRISONER, Patrick McGoohan’s ground-breaking, dystopian fantasy television series (showing currently in its entirety on the Criterion Channel), and it has set my mind reeling. The 1968 British production tells the dream-l...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "PUT ON A STACK OF 45s." BILL AND RICH DELVE INTO THE STRANGER THAN TRUTH SAGA OF EDEN AHBEZ AND "NATURE BOY."
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-strangest-hit-songwriter-in-history
BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: THE JOKER BY STEVE MILLER BAND (CAPITOL, 1973).
THE JOKER / STEVE MILLER, (CAPITOL, 1973)“The Pompatus of Love,” a nonsense phrase that Steve Miller cribbed from “The Letter,” a doo-wop song by the Medallions from 1958, entered the popular culture lexicon in 1973, when this Apostle of...
DO YOU HAVE A SECRET? THE MIGHTY MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS DOES, TOO. HE ASKS THE ORACLE IF HE SHOULD TELL? LET'S SEE WHAT THE I CHING ADVISES....
I have a secret; should I tell? Maybe you have secrets too. What might be the impact of inflicting personal information on unsuspecting receivers? In AA they say: “You’re only as sick as your secrets,” and there may be some truth in that. They ...
FROM THE "DIG THIS WITH THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS" VAULT: IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE DAYS OF SHANGRI-LA- WHEN MARY WEISS AND HER FRIENDS GUIDED BY THE GENIUS OF GEORGE "SHADOW" MORTON REINVENTED THE GIRL GROUP IN 1964.
MY HEART TOOK A LEAP - THE POETIC INNOCENCE OF THE SHANGRI-LAS" -RICH BUCKLAND'S EPIPHANY NOTEBOOKLike so many pre teens growing up in the sixites I slept with a transistor radio under my pillow. That receiver was the best friend ...
THE MIGHTY MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS ASKS THE I CHING: "HOW CAN I OVERCOME RESENTMENTS DURING PTSD?" THE ANSWER, THOUGH OBSCURE, POINTS THE WAY... MEZ MULLS IT OVER, ALONG WITH DREAMS AND SONGS.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a pervasive topic of conversation these days, and recently it’s been on my mind a lot as I endeavor to move past grief. It’s been over 5 years since my life partner departed suddenly - so suddenly that when it ...
BUCK OWENS AND DWIGHT YOAKAM, PTS 1&2: BILL AND RICH, THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS EXPLORE SOME OF THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND'S SPIRITUAL FATHER AND SON IN THIS "DIG THIS" REWIND.
Buck Owens (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006), and Dwight Yoakam (b. October 23, 1956) : two master navigators of a very unique tributary along the stream of popular music, inspired and learned from each other - one, being the progenitor ...
THE MIGHTY MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS INVITES YOU TO UNRAVEL THE THREADS AND MYSTERIES OF LIFE, DREAMS, SONG, AND SPIRITUAL PARABLE IN THIS I CHING EPISODE #4.
Inspired by the clear and evocative 1985 translation of the I CHING, by Kerson and Rosemary Huang - a team of a poet and physicist-poet, I kept a diary of musical interpretations of hexagrams which appeared to me when I consulted the orac...
"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - GERRY RAFFERTY - "BAKER STREET" - Featuring The Splendid Bohemians, Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik - A CLASSIC SONG POWERED BY AN IMMORTAL SAXOPHONE RIFF!
The story of Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" has it all: a troubled, ambivalent creator, an unforgettable sax riff whose ownership has spawned controversy for almost 50 years, and a mysterious, compelling lyric. One of Scotland's leading artist...
THE MIGHTY MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS TESTIFIES AS TO THE STRANGE COINCIDENCE OF LIFE, DREAMS, MUSIC, AND FORTUNE-TELLING: HEXAGRAMS 62 & 52 TELL THE TALE.
Hexagram 52: THE ARTIFICIAL DARK (Bill Mesnik)The bird sings in his cage,His song sounds full of rage.I’ll cover him up - and he’s silent,Asleep in the artificial dark.This wine is the color of blood,
"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's- THE VANGUARD RECORDS STORY - FEATURING " THE ROOFTOP SINGERS "WALK RIGHT IN"- Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM and It's Import
Vanguard Records is best known for its eclectic catalog of pivotal jazz, folk, rock and blues recordings by iconic artists like Joan Baez, Linda Ronstadt, Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, John Fahey, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Doc Watson, Country Jo...
A Dig This Special Presentation: The Mothers Of Invention- "Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia" -Paris, 1970 -The group's highly exploratory, humorous, progressive Rock and Jazz-fusion sound during this era. W/ Flo & Eddie,Jean Luc Ponty & Aynsley Dunbar
The Mothers Of Invention- Paralipomeni Della Batracomiomachia Paris- 1970The December 1970 Paris gig was a standout date during their European tour. The setlist inclu...
THE MIGHTY MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS OFFERS THREE MORE HEXAGRAMS FROM THE I CHING, ALONG WITH SONGS, DREAMS, AND DIARY ENTRIES, ALL IN A DIALOGUE WITH THE ORACLE.
Inspired by the clear and evocative 1985 translation of the I CHING, by Kerson and Rosemary Huang - a team of a poet and physicist-poet, I kept a diary of musical interpretations of hexagrams which appeared to me when I consulted the orac...
THE MIGHTY MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS SHARES HIS I CHING MUSICAL DIARY. EPISODE #1: HEXAGRAM 7 - "THE ARMY" IN WHICH THE MEZ CONSULTS THE ORACLE TO RECONCILE A CRISIS OF INDECISION.
The Army (Bill Mesnik)The war you wage is on yourself,The soul you save is not your own.The words you're saying were said beforeby your enemy.The code you honorhas no honor,and all your wisdom ma...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT THE JULY 4TH INSTALLMENT OF "ELECTION DISAFFECTION, PT. 3" IN WHICH THE BOYS RESURRECT THOMAS JEFFERSON'S CAMPAIGN SONG, AND CROON VOTING RIGHTS DITTIES FROM THE TIMES OF THE 14TH AND 19TH AMENDMENTS.
Ok, tomorrow is July 4th, our 250th year celebration of our Declaration of Independence. The temperatures are sweltering, both outside and politically. There’s been a lot of talk recently about the nation’s division, using words like “unp...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS OFFER A TRIPLE SCOOP OF SUMMER REFRESHMENTS PAST, PROVIDED BY SLY STONE, THE YOUNGBLOODS, AND BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND. INDULGE!
HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME / SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE (EPIC, 1969)The sweltering summer of 2023 is almost over, and all over the world folks are digging themselves out from under the epic disasters of the past months. Listening to this ps...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT A "PUT ON A STACK OF 45s" Rewind: 'GROOVIN' BY THE YOUNG RASCALS! AS THE SUMMER HOLIDAY STARTS TO HEAT UP, THE BOYS TURN TO THE RASCALS TO GET THEIR GROOVE ON.
The concept to which The Rascals were dedicated was, in Felix Cavaliere's words, "Marvin Gaye's voice, Ray Charles' piano, Jimmy Smith's organ, Phil Spector's production and The Beatles' writing. Put them all together and you've got what I want...
.jpg)