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Real Name: Bruce Thiessen Member Since: July 29, 2006 Last Signed In: November 20, 2009 Profile Views: 15464 Blog Views: 102951 Battle of the Bakersfield SounDIVAS: Poll has Penny Marie and Kim McAbee tied Update on "The Bakersfield Sound of Christmas" and "Bakersfield and Beyond" radio show Addressing rumors my new song, "Thanksgiving in Turkey" is banned in Turkey Do you take "everything for granted?" Dickenesque message contained in this new Thanksgiving song "The Bakersfield Sound of Christmas" recording project for the homeless The Cultural Signficiance of "Bakersfield and Beyond" Top 10 Dr BLTunes: "Halloween with Jim Beam" swiftly claims number one spot Update on HALLOWEEN WITH JIM BEAM: Rumors of botleg copy prompt midnight release Is this the next Buck Owens? My song aired back to back with the Man in Black? That's a fact! August 06 September 06 October 06 November 06 December 06 January 07 February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 http://www.drblt.net 
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If you can't decide between Cake, a young Buck, a young Merle Haggard or Bob Dylan, you may want to consider one of the rising stars on the folk side of the nu bako sound. His name is Kenny Reeves. He's from Bakersfield, and he's featured today at:
Bakersfield Sound Underground
http://www.bakersfieldsound...
In a moment, I'll introduce the lyrics to my soon-to-be-recorded parody, inspired by both the Doors' Light my Fire and the movie, Fatal Attraction. It's called Slash my Tires.
But first, I'd like to address the rumor about Jim Morrison. If I hear another rumor about Jim Morrison being alive...well, I'm not sure what I'll do. I don't happen to be among the believers. Are you a believer? Do you believe Jim Morrison of the Doors faked his...
Now that we're on the subject of mysterious rock star deaths, let's flashback to this blog post:
http://people.bakersfield.c...
and ponder a bit on the subject of Brian Jones. Was it a murder? Was it an accident? Was it a suicide? You decide.
http://www.beatzenith.com/t...
My dad moved the whole family down from a ranch on the Saskatchewan river, just north of Saskatoon, to Fresno, California so that he could pursue a graduate education in Los Angeles. We were kind of like the Beverly Hillbillies without the money.
If you were a teen-ager in Saskatchewan, and had never been to California, you simply assumed it was one big beach. When we arrived in Fresno, our house wasn't ready to be moved into yet, so we stayed for the night at my great...
Kurt was and is to rock what Buck was and continues to be for country music. As Mike over at KWMR said recently, the Bakersfield sound is a state of mind. It's a spirit of independence, and Kurt Cobain possessed that spirit. Typically when rock stars die, they are inclined to die in ways faster and more furious than those of country stars. Clearly the circumstances of Kurt Cobain's death were more tragic and traumatic than the circumstances surrounding the...
The new radio show, Bakersfield and Beyond, at KWMR in Marin County (see details below) is stirrring up a great deal of excitement over a burgeoning Bakersfield sound revival.
The revival and the hunger for a return to country roots, is bringing on board a whole new generation of Bakersfield sound and nu bako kccrock (Kern County country rock) fans that are exceedingly curious about the history associated with the Bakersfield sound.
That brings me to the need for...
There will be an actual pilgrimage and a virtual one. Follow the details and submit songs, memories, stories at:
Bakersfield Sound Underground
http://www.bakersfieldsound...
The show is called Bakersfield and Beyond. Amanda and Mike over there have been fanning the flames of a Bakersfield sound revival on the West Coast. Where else can you hear the old classics from the likes of Buck and Merle next to next generation artists like Big House, the Derailers, and me, Dr. BLT altogether on one big grand radio show?
If you're on the West coast, you can catch the show every other Thursday at 90.5 FM at Pt. Reyes, and 89.3 FM in...
Some people go postal. I prefer to go coastal. There's a brand new Marin county show about the music of Bakersfield where they've graciously invited me and my nu Bako sound Kccrock tunes to be a regular guest. Find out where the nu bako sound waves are travelling to next as you follow my radio interviews on the West coast. You'll need to go underground for that:
Bakersfield Sound Underground
http://www.bakersfieldsound...
*Kccrock: My nu bako brand...
There is talk of an economic recovery beginning as early as the second quarter of this year. Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke is a bit more cautious than some experts, stating that said economic recovery will "probably" kick in this year.
Could we get lucky and see this whole economic recovery sooner rather than later? Does luck have anything to do with it at all? Do human beings control their own destiny? Are they...
According to this song, not much:
http://people.bakersfield.c...
I hope you enjoy this St. Patrick's Day blog n roll flashback, or should I say, "flashbuck?"
Either way, HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
Or are those who believe that setting themselves up for a Monday meltdown? What's your opinion. Time will tell, but I will tell you this: It's all about psychology. If you're an expert or a government leader, and you proclaim doom and gloom, you will become part of a self-fulfilling prophesy. On the other hand, if you offer hope, even if that hope is based on lies, or misinformation, and the people believe you, the economy may...
Welcome to Nu Bako SoundOFF. I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your blog n roll host. As your host, I will supply the topic, and the tunes. All you need to give me in return is the talk.
Personally, I don't think there's any stopping Lost Ocean. When the Sex Pistols lost EMI, they wrote and recorded a song about it, that basically said, "Ef U." Lost Ocean is not an "Ef U" type of band. They are more like the...
The Bakersfield Californian feels lighter and costs more these days, but Shellie Branco's front-page article about Korn-founding-member, Reggie "Fieldy" Aruizu's conversion to Christ was both priceless and heavy.
In my blog n roll world, I supply the topic and the tunes. The topic is posted in the subject line. So here are the tunes:
Korn Off Da Kob
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT (c) 2007
Shrink Rapped Records...
Welcome to P.sychology of P.olitics, or POP. In examining the phenomenon of partisanship, in myself, and in others, it occurred to me that in order to prevent partisanship from further dividing what I call the Divided States of America, we need to gain an understanding of the nature of partisanship.
We need to step back, and objectively analyze just what is happening, from a multi-disciplinary perspective that fuels the phenom. What sociological, psychological, environmental,...
Pythagoras, pictured here, believed that music was the highest form of thought. But it seems to me that sentiments like these have virtually vanished in Western culture.
In your opinion, to what extent do economic strategists, and political leaders, who wield the influence to put economic strategies into practice and to put economic philosophy into motion, apply critical and creative thinking to the process of coming up with and ultimately implementing ideas?
In my blog n...
Welcome to Nu Bako SoundOFF, where I provide the topics and tunes and you provide the talk. I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your host.
Currently, Bakersfield's Next Buck talent contest is not limited in terms of geography. That is, as long as the contestant's cover of the Dr. BLTune, If You Wanna Be the Next Buck Owens, carries with it, the attitude and influence of the old Bakersfield sound, and as long as the artist, duo or band takes it in a new direction, in...
You're looking at the before picture. What will the "after" picture look like after today? How about after the month's end? How about after the year's end?
The last I checked, the numbers looked something like this:
Dow J: + 4.45 %
NASDAQ + 5.81
Will this recovery be sustained, or is it just another high in a never-ending roller-coaster ride? Is this a sign an economic recovery may be just around the corner?
In the world...
Welcome to Lyric Today/Hear it Tomorrow, where you read the songs before they are ever sung. I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your host. Today's featured set of lyrics is from the theme song for my new blog series, Bringin' Buck Back.
You'll hear it tomorrow, or the next day, or the next, or one of these days at
Bakersfield Sound Underground
http://www.bakersfieldsound...
...the where you can stay grounded, and where you can find a bridge connecting the old...
Welcome to my new blog n roll series, Bringin' Buck Back. I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your host.
Have you heard I've Got you on My Mind Again by Buck Owens? It's a bit of a haunting country ballad involving a long lost flame that keeps burning in his heart and scorching what's left of his soul. Like the lost love in this song, the song is a long lost Bakersfield sound classic. I have it on an old vinyl record called Blue Ribbon Country: Volume II. ...
Isn't it time academia began to embrace modern music? Isn't it time academia began to embrace the arts? Isn't it time academia moved from obsessive compartmentalization to multi-disciplinary integration?
Do you need a "map" connecting you from Bakersfield to LA via the Grapevine? Are you a student who feels just like a number or a statistic?
On Tuesday night, March 10. 2009, students in my Behavior Methods of Psychology at Chapman...
Welcome to Dr BLT's Random Jukebox. I'm Dr. BLT and I'll be your host. While securely ground in the old Bakersfield sound, Nu Bako is experimental, embracing, fusing with and experimenting with all varieties of styles old and new.
Today's Random Jukebox is a SpekrFreks cover of a song by Dr. BLT and DJ EJ. Do you like it? We want to know what you think, but only if it's something constructive.
Stay tuned at:
http://www.drblt.net
Stay Grounded at:...
Welcome to another episode of the blog n roll series Dr. BLT Replies: Dr. BLT answers fan questions and addresses fan rumors. I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your humble host.
*In certain cases, details surrounding question submissions are slightly altered to protect the identities of fans, and to make the series more entertaining.
Here's today's fan question, coming from Jane via email. Apparently, Jane is a die-hard fan from Saskatoon,...
Welcome to Dr. BLT's Random Jukebox. I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your host. Today's random jukebox is Neil Young (Have You Forgotten?), a song named by this blog critic as the # 8 best record of 2006.
http://www.morethings.com/m...
The song can be heard by hitting the play button on the attached play station. Ready? Set? Blog und rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroll!
You'll find both at:
Bakersfield Sound Underground
http://www.bakersfieldsound...
They lost their EMI contract, but gained their independence: My interview with Bakersfield's Beatles
I was going to say it was on its way, but I couldn't fit it in the subject line. I'm sorry to disappoint those of you that were expecting instant access to the Dr. BLT/Lost Ocean Interview. It should be up at Bakersfield Sound Underground, Phantom Tollbooth, over here, and at Bakotopia within the next few days.
Buck Owen's favorite band was the Beatles, so I know that if he were around today, he would love this band. I'm not ready to declare the begininng of a...
In keeping with my new non-partisan, or bi-partisan spirit, I will step aside and allow folks of all political bents and persuasions to join the fray (and I don't mean the rock band, The Fray).
Please enter this debate at your own risk, and please refrain from the mind-altering, self-destructive drug I call poisonous partisanship.
Ready? Set? Blog n roll!
When I was working as a practicum doctoral student trainee at California Institute for Men, the state prison in San Luis Obispo, my then supervisor told me that I was the first supervisee he had worked with that wasn't narcissistic.
Well, I'm not saying I agree with him 100%. I knew of at least one other supervisee of his that I wouldn't consider narcissistic in the least bit. But I can assure you that my goal of becoming Kern County's first Nu Bako Kccrock star is not a...
The keys are quite simple. They will alive me to survive (at least), and to thrive (at best) in this business of music. Buck taught me to be myself and to take musical risks by fusing together different genres and different sounds. Merle taught me that you can be a country singer and a poet at the same time.
With a little help from Mark Yeary, a 20-year member of Merle Haggard and the Strangers, and Merle's once right-hand man, I put the lessons Merle Haggard gave me...
I'm Goin' to Walk through Every Slammin' Door
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2009
chorus:
I'm goin' to walk through
every slammin' door
I'm goin' to walk through
like folks who've gone before
I had so many doors slammed in my face
and they're be more
but in the end I'll walk through every slammin' door
it started with a woman who lost her love for me
perhaps it wasn't love
but only lust she had for me
she thought I'd be a country star
just like old Buck...
For those unfamiliar with my efforts to embrace and incorporate a little bit of the Bakersfield sound of yore into a style of my own I call Kccrock (K.ern C.ounty C.ountry R.ock) aka Nu Bako or Nu Bako sound, it is something any Kern county artist of any genre, with a deep appreciation for his/her Kern County country roots, can create.
The formula is simple: Bakersfield sound + you = Nu Bako sound. The spirit is something you borrow from the past, but the...
Welcome to Dr. BLT Replies, a brand new blog in which Dr. BLT answers fan questions and addresses fan rumors. I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your host. Here's today's question, from a fan who also wishes to remain anonymous:
Dr. BLT: When did your band, Practically Poetz break up?
Dear Fan: Practically Poetz (pictured here and audio sampled here) has never officially broken up, we've only taken a break since the release of our freshman CD,...
Welcome to Dr. BLT Replies, a brand new blog in which Dr. BLT answers fan questions and addresses fan rumors. I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your host. Here's today's question, from a fan who wishes to remain anonymous:
Yo, Dr. BLT, people tell me you used to wear a red suit. Then I heard you had a hit song called Black Santa. That brings you to my two questions:
1. Were you Santa Claus in a past life?
2. Are you black?
Big Anonymous...
Welcome to Dr. BLT's Random Jukebox. I'm Dr. BLT and I'll be your host. Today's random song is from my CD of mostly original songs about the music and life of the Rolling Stones.
It's called:
Mick, Don't Ya Gimme No Lip (remix)
Dr. BLT and the Rolling Scones
http://www.drblt.net/music/...
Rolling Scones are:
Dr. BLT: vocals, rhythm guitar, bass, guitar solo
Drums: Pat Frase (formerly of the Dusk Devils)
second...
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