VIEWPOINT with Artimus Felding

Live performance by Hot Tuna with Papa John Creach at the Fillmore West on 7/03/1971. This concert was broadcast on KSAN 95 FM in San Francisco, like several others in the closing week of the Fillmore West. Introduction by concert promoter Bill Graham. IF you ever had a chance to go there you were lucky and the days will never be the same my friend!

David Bowie (aka David Robert Jones) was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft have had a great impact on popular music. During his li...

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band soon incorporated elements of English folk music, hard rock and classical music, forging a signature progressive rock sound. The group's founder, bandleader, principal composer, lead vocalist, and only constant member is Ian Anderson, a multi-instrumentalist who m...

During 1967, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a popular series of Sexton Blake radio adventures starring William Franklyn as Blake, David Gregory as Tinker, and Heather Chasen as Blake's secretary, Paula Dane. Broadcast on Thursday nights at 7.00pm, this series of 17 programmes (which ran weekly from 24 August to 14 December) was scripted by Donald Stuart, devised for radio by Philip Ridgeway, and produc...

As the world seems to get stranger everyday and unglued take a break with a popular TV series precursor the radio series from Europe and beyond. Find a quiet place and find your headphones and how about a hot cup of tea or coffee? Remove reality for a few minutes!

Alvin Lee is another case of the great guitarists who  left us very early . The musician left an incredible legacy ahead of  Ten Years After , a great band unfortunately little remembered in rock history. With Lee on vocals and in long guitar solos, the song “I’m Going Home” introduced Ten Years Afters to wider audiences, and was included in the 1970 documentary “Woodstock.” The band would still r...

Can you face another year without fear, concerns or uncertainty? Perhaps not, however we will muddle through the fakery and try to smile occasionally. This is a charade, while we sip champagne and sing, the rest of the world prepares for war, militarily, politically and financially. Oh, the innocent are fewer and fewer it seems and all angles of deceit are among us. When our country is fascinated...

This was an interview a few years ago with Chas and the passion, energy and the creative fire is still burning. Chas Cronk  is an English musician, best known as the bass player and acoustic guitarist for the  Strawbs [1]  from 1973 to 1980 and again from 2004 to 2023.  Cronk also toured and recorded with  Steve Hackett  and  Rick Wakeman  in the 1980s and Cry No More in the 1980s and 1990s. He re...

A good guy with a mission and hopefully he is still fighting a good fight for us, the senior citizens of the USA. Don’t think that AARP is the only organization for senior citizens look around and you might be surprised and be careful some of them are not real. I have no preference just look around and do your research before you give anything or enroll. There are good people out there just look a...

Since when does the system work against the citizens of this country? The very people that pay for everything as a tax payer, once a proud citizen and now betrayed by the same country we were proud of and fought for? The inhumanity of lacking healthcare for its people is nothing short of as incomprehensible as a “rich” country. Baffled by the shear ignorance and disrespect given to its supporters...

Can you imagine something even worse, like hearing lies and fabricated relationships with people you barely knew. The poem that paints the picture of being in a coma state where you can hear but you cannot move or defend yourself with voice. I can only imagine the anger, disappointment and questions about motives this would bring.

Are you a senior citizen that loves to discuss, narrate, talk to strangers, create content and has an imagination? The next great masterpiece or novel could be held within the memories and pages of notes written by a senior citizen. The next voiceover piece could be spoken by another senior that loves to speak or discuss the daily news. The possibility of doing an audio-bit or narration of a short...

A greater number of seniors are reliving memories from better past days to manage to make it through this current world. Why would you suggest they stop that practice? For me happiness is a choice we all make and it is not the same for each person. Your memories and the new ones you are building now will gather at some point to be your comforting pillow at night. Don’t encourage anyone to forget t...

Not sure IF that sounds crazy or familiar to you but this is my life now after surgeries and side-effects of medications and my luck. The things that we are forced to get used to or at least prepare for just in case. The amount of daily prescriptions and the new way I conduct myself according to the expectations of troubles ahead, all within a matter of time.

Not your normal investigator or your normal personality. The deception of silence and the hibernation of plots, schemes and reasoning for the outcomes of violence. Explore the files of Detective Chambers as he lowers himself into the depths of hell to find the perpetrators. Travel with us as we hear some of the more memorable cases that “Dank” has been involved in and solved with the experience of...

Bridgette Bardot the symbol of beauty, sex and power dies at the age of 91 after giving most of her life in exile and working on animal rights issues. A reality check with the upcoming 2026 year upon us please listen with an open ear and mind. Finally a release into fantasy and escape with Dimension X, The Outer Limit from 4-8-1950. The radio serial program that gathered people to their radios in...

Rain is one of those things that envelopes you in a comfortable way or in an anxious way. Once you are sure you are safe and dry can you relax to create and dream? The droning sound of the drops hitting the window sill is annoying or beating you into submission of peace? If you are in a positive mood before the rain are you pulled down by it? Strangely enough people tend to dislike the rain howeve...

Despite a career that was plagued by misunderstanding, confusion and line-up changes,  Nektar  made some of the most innovative progressive rock records of the 1970s. A common misapprehension was that they were a German band, a belief that stemmed from the fact that the group’s unmistakably English core of guitarist/vocalist Roye Albrighton, keyboard player Allan ‘Taff’ Freeman, bassist Derek ‘Mo’...

We have been a lucky generation seeing and hearing the revolution of music and all of its genres, styles and freedoms of expressions. Music has always been the international language and when nothing makes sense or we have nothing in common, somehow music bridges the gaps of countries, minds and hearts. Long live real music and NOT artificial intelligence cop outs.

New line of boats being developed for the military that are multi-functional and revenue producing while at the same time conducting war planes in and out of flights in the conflict area.

We have talked about this several times, the disappearing middle class and now called the “K” economy. The middle class is being abused, misunderstood and under appreciated. The upper class or rich crowd is feeding on the debris of the shutdown businesses of the middle class and eventually will create a larger elite level of income while the middle class will be forced into poverty. A third world...

Maybe today look up The Strawbs, a band that never had a following in the states big enough to tour. However I did see them almost 50 years ago in Atlanta, GA. Now I wish I had appreciated them more for what they were, themselves as trained musicians and singers with a strength of telling a tale.

Yes it’s true we are all getting older and some have already met Santa on the other side of the snow covered mountain just over the horizon. May you and your loved ones have a Merry Christmas!!

Fairport's Cropredy Convention is an annual festival of folk and rock music, headed by British folk-rock band Fairport Convention and held on the edge of the village of Cropredy in Oxfordshire, England. The festival has taken place in August annually since 1976. Fairport's Cropredy Convention attracts up to 20,000 people each year. In 2025 the management reduced the ticket sales down to 60...

One of the most blissfully indulgent rock songs, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is animal-instinct rock and roll, playing out for 17:05 in its unabridged form and taking up an entire album side. The mysterious title is one of the great legends in rock. You might think it has a deep, mystical meaning, but it's really a translation error. The title was supposed to be "In The Garden Of Eden.&#3...