1986 In 1985 was hired at the Journal- Star to do modern dance reviews, a job nobody wanted to do. L. Kent Walgamott was instrumental in getting me hired. I did mostly dance, opera and theatre while I was there. And a piece on Bob Dylan. Tom Barker, then program director of rock radio station KFMQ (where I worked) arranged for tickets to the show. I called them ”my last great gift from radio.” It capped my 10 year career at the Q. L. Kent arranged for the articles publication. I never would have done anything if it warn’t for the people along the way that helped get there. It was a dream show. Shortly afterwards I left Lincoln for Boulder Colorado to work on my masters degree in Psychology at the (then) Naropa Institute. Meditation, performance art and poetry and dance. My life exploded with art and spirituality. |
| On This Page:Close Encounters of the Intellectual Kind, Colorado Daily, Boulder Colorado 1988 Bob Dylan and Tom Petty at Red Rocks, Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska 1986 Richard Brautigan Interview, Daily Nebraskan, Lincoln Nebraska 1979w/ notes Legends in Concert, Honolulu Weekly, Honolulu Hawaii 1998 w/notes Kris Kristofferson, Colorado Daily 1888 w/ Notes |
1998
By this time I had taken a break from being a
federal manager in the mental health field and gone back into radio. My friend Mischelle, (then
Francis) introduced me to
radio pioneer Ron Jacobs (Who da guy?) She got me the job. Ron was developing a talk show at
KCCN. I had worked with
him before at KDEO where he was involved in programing. He did not remember me. (Thank God.) I
was a country DJ there
in between doing crisis work. I invented the phrase “We’re just hanging on to the cowboy fringe of the
South Pacific, We’re
KDEO Country.” I worked under the name Michael Taylor then. Ron and Don Taylor, the engineer
and producer of many
major Hawaiian musicians were not getting along on the air. I ended back in the mental health field
keeping them on the air
together. It was a tremendous opportunity. At KCCN. I interned on his show doing the warm ups with
guests like Theresa Bright.
I wasn’t making enough money to park the car, and the job didn’t work out. But it was one of the great
joys of my life to watch
Ron on the air. I’ll never forget how good it felt to be in the studio with them. He put me on the guest
list for the Legends show
and Yvonne and I (my girlfriend at the time) were treated very well.
| Interviews and Reviews 1979 The evening I spent with Richard Brautigan was by far the most important encounter of my life as a journalist and writer. Most of the evening was off the record. We went drinking at a local bar. I’d never seen anyone drink like that before. He downed tumbler after tumbler of Jack Daniels and never got drunk. He said he had an expense account with his publisher that paid for them. I had to leave at midnight to go to the radio station where I worked for my midnight show. Brautigan asked if he could go along. I thought he’d go on the air. But he did not want to. We just played music and talked. He spent half the night down at the studio. He sensed I needed something as a novelist, and gave me the best advice of my life. He said “Any success in the market place is luck. If you’re not enjoying what you’re doing, don’t do it.” I’ll never forget him. |
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