Real Name: Cameron Weckerley Member Since: March 14, 2006 Last Signed In: August 25, 2008 Profile Views: 4967 Blog Views: 8356 The Coolest Place We Never Went This is so cute I want to puke...;} The Abuse of Power by Doctors and a Desperate Gamble Looking for other Kern County Podcasters Lines in the Sand...The ALL MUSIC episode of Road Show Ok this is the REAL demo.... Visiting the SideStrider home base.... 36th Annual Griffith Park Side Car Show Frankenbike lives Road Show Has a Birthday and and Album is Born 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 December 09 January 10 February 10
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Location:
498 9th St,
San Fransisco, CA
This is just a little ditty of a tale starting with an early morning train ride from Bako to San Fran to pick up a car. I had not taken a real train ride before, and I do not know if it was because it was early or just because that is the way it is, but there were not a lot of people on board. The gentleman manning the dining car slept most of the way and when I asked him for a Red Bull he said he was out and then reached under the counter and gave me one of his. Cool. Walking between the cars, that is pretty freaky though. The train took us most of the way and then a short but ride dropped us downtown.
I was fascinated by some of these shapes....
The main thing I wanted to do was have lunch at Moto Java...
Of course they were NOT OPEN....even though they said they would be!
Good Mural Though!
And, BTW...we could use your contributions to the Road Show Asthma Walk Team. The easiest way to contribute is to go to Clicky on the banner at the top which will take you directly to the American Lung Association page.
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BMWeerman...out
Location:
Greenacres, ca
Hey everybody.
Road Show Media just finished a job photographing a bunch of sheep for a Chinese client. During the shoot we found some two day old babies. Here is a short video of Patti interacting with them.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh.........
BMWeerman@out This blog post does not have a clear beginning or a foreseeable clear end. It does, however, have a clear now. For those readers who do not know that story, on May 14th 2007 I was horribly injured in a freak motorcycle accident on a desert road on the Arizona/New Mexico border. I was miraculously rescued and, in fairness, have to thank the doctors who saved my life and put me back together. That desperate place is right, here, right now. There is a specialist at UCLA who several months ago wrote a report, based on hearsay, that prevented me from returning to work and is about to make me lose my drivers license. In this report she brought into question my my cognitive functioning. Since that time I have been to another specialist at great expense to myself personally to have my cognitive functioning tested. (Oh, by the way, no thanks to my psychiatrist, who has consistently over-medicated me and then refused to take any kind of responsibility for the implications of that.) IN SHORT, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME THAT WOULD PREVENT ME FROM DRIVING OR PERFORMING ANY OTHER TASK AND I CAN PROVE IT. HOWEVER, NEITHER THE SPECIALIST AT UCLA OR THE PSYCHIATRIST WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THIS!!!!!!!! Worse still, their foot-dragging and buck-passing cost me a months work and a months disability which cost me my truck. We are now down to just motorcycles and on March the 2nd I lose my drivers license unless a doctor will sign off on my medical MY PSYCHIATRIST REFUSES TO SEE ME AND THE SPECIALIST SPECIALIST AT UCLA WILL NOT RETURN MY URGENT PHONE CALLS. HOWEVER, IN THE BACKGROUND, THEY CONTINUE TO PASS THE BUCK AND DESTROY MY LAST OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A LIVING AND DIG MYSELF OUT OF THE HOLE THAT HAS BEEN CREATED. So, here is my desperate gamble-when I finish writing this and posting all over the internet, I am going to get on a motorcycle which needs a new clutch and new rear-end bearings and driving to UCLA. This is a distance of about 120 miles over some difficult and dangerous mountain terrain. I am going to do whatever it takes to confront this doctor and/or one of her superiors and get them to take action. At this point I am not naming names and I am keeping this report in the domain of blogs and private e-mails. If I survive the day and do not get some satisfaction I will start naming names and start using my position as a member of the press to spread the story far and wide. I have nothing more to lose at this point. Wish me luck. J. Cameron Weckerley Aka BMWeerman ....out Greetings Bakersfield Denziens. I have a chance through Bakersfield Magazine to give Bakersfield and Kern County podcasting a shot in the arm, but I need to hear from you.
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Cameron
aka BMWeer,am As many of you already know, on May 14 of this year I succumbed the cumulative effects of several days in the high-desert and drove my BMW1100RT off the road with horrific results. That is old news to anyone who knows me or follows this blog. What is less known is the amazing experiences I had on that ride prior to the crash. I haven't written a lot about my experience of that journey, instead I went back to my old art form of music and made an effort to express those experiences through that medium. This podcast features full-length tracks from the entire album with explanatory material during the intros and outros. Nevertheless, I would like to take this opportunity to add some more information about each composition.
Lines in the Sand 1) Sunrise in the Mirror. That particular phrase is one of my favorite pieces of imagery from Neil Peart's book Ghost Rider. For me there is nothing like heading west into the desert at dawn with the day rising up to meet you from behind. I would like to thank my long-time friend and ace musician Michael Ferenci for contributing the guitar and bass tracks to this tune. 2) The Red Road. I was firmly on my way east on I-15 marveling at how far out the hype for Las Vegas begins. The slab outlines the northern edge of the Mojave National Preserve for many miles, and I desperately wanted to visit, but I was commited to making Durango, CO before nightfall. I thought I had made it safely past the preserve when at the last moment I spotted "The Red Road." The road was literally bright red from the local materials mixed in the asphalt. I simply could not pass that up. Once on the road I saw glimmering at the top of a small desert hill the dot of a town. "I will go only that far," I told myself. It was as far as I needed to go. I had discovered the delightful little town of Nipton, Ca. and I was hooked.
3) Under Stars. If you have ever spent the night in the desert you will understand this tune. 4) Among Giants. The next day, after a late breakfast, I pointed the Beeemer even deeper into the desert to explore the Mojave National Preserve. It is high-desert, almost alien terrain created by both volcanic and tectonic forces. The remnants of ash-cones and the upthrustings of rock are truly remarkable and huge. One feels as if one has entered the land of the giants. 5) No Mans Land. After exploring the desert sanctuary I headed east along one of the more barren stretches of Route 66. It is truly a "No Mans Land." 6) The Ravening Sun. This is a very different and strange tune. My attempt at musically creating the detrimental and hallucinatory effects of extended desert exposure. For me this signals the beginning of the end. 7) Off The Edge. Due to an egregious navigational error I ended up that night in Page, AZ rather than Durango, CO. The next morning I succumbed to the heat and at 100 MPH drove the big BMW off the road into a rocky field. 8) Beemer Babe. Many of you will recognize this as the them music to Road Show. It was originally composed for my lovely wife, "The Wrench Wench," and is dedicated to her for sticking by me through a long recovery
The Picture Book As an experiment I put the photography and story of this journey in a picture book/comic book format available for free viewing at. http://www.highslab.com/lin...
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I have attached the really album demo to this post. Thanks for you understanding. BMWeerman P.S. I also forgot to mention the album is for sale for charity at. www.highslab.com/our_music
Location:
15838 Arminta ST #25,
Van Nuys, CA 91406
It was an unexpectedly eventful trip today. The day started out as a simple drive to Van Nuys to follow up on a lead we got at the side car show the other day.  Descending the hill into Castaic we a great deal of smoke and just wondered if it was left over from last weeks fires. It smelled like brakes though which is not unusual on that part of the freeway. As we got closer, it did indeed look like it might be a brake fire.  Then a little further down the road it became stunningly apparent that it was indeed a brake fire, and a bad one at that...  Fortunatley for us traffice was not too tied up and we continued to make good progress toward our interview. Binghams shop is located in a non-descript industrial park in an unremarkable part of Van Nuys. Easy to find though with this parked out front.   Bingham has been as this same address since 1964 manufacturing and modifiying sidecares to his own and his clients specification.  Above the Wrench Wench and Doug Bingham discuss Hacks 'When not designign or wrenching on sidecars Bingham is out racking up an impressive array of awards and other honer for himself. He is the recipient of several emmy awards for his work as a camera platform driver, he has performed stunts in the movies, has been inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame as an MVP, and the list goes on. Never one to rest on his laurels, Bingham has big plan for what he sees is the next wave in motorcyclcing. We'll keep you posted. BMWeerman...out P.S I am adding a little video just for fun
Location:
Griffith Park, CA
Yesterday, on something of a whim, we jumped in the truck and headed south to check out the Griffith Park Sidecar Show. We knew where Griffith Park was, but had only a vague idea of the whereabouts of the show. Fate was kind t because as we neared the exit for the park a motorcycle with attached sidecar appeared in front of us. Not a hard guess where they were going. Sure enough the old game of "follow that sidecar" soon led us to the Crystal Springs Picnic Area and a sea of classic, unusual, and just downright bizarre sidecar rigs. The show was started almost by accident by Doug Bingham 36 years ago. Bingham is owner of Side Strider, Inc. and the first event was held just on the suggestion that he and his customers get together for a picnic. When over 40 rigs showed up Bingham knew he was on to something. Since then the show has grown to include 300-400 entries and thousands of visitors each year.  Richard Williams poses with his Vintage BMW sidecar rig which has original paint and stripes.  Some entries were wilder than others..."calling Buck Rogers." Please see the photo gallery for many more pix of the event
For those of you have been following this bike rebuilding saga
Yesterday the BMW cavalry showed up. It wasn't pretty but it had to be done. Could the scattered piles of BMW parts populating my garage ever be a bike again? To answer that burning question required calling in the experts....they came from the north and from the south and wrenched and puzzled and wrenched and puzzled.  At the end of the day the one proud Black Beauty was running again but has now been transformed into Bride of Frankenbike. There were other names proposed, but the less said about that the better!   Here Richard aka Benecia RT performs the brain transplant. Having a couple of other bikes to refer to was enormously helpful too.  Of course some hidden secrets were revealed  BeneciaRT revealed that he is the Dog Whisperer  And here Jamie reveal his need for a chocolate intervention. I will keep you posted as the story progresses. Cameron Which means, amazingly, we have been "on-the-air" for almost a year. At the same time my new album is almost done. It sort of harkens back to the late great '70's in that it is a concept album chronicling the journey I have been on these last few months. The songs are modern, but the concept of string a number of disparate elements together to tell a long form story has not been with us for some time.  This is not the album cover but it is a general concept of the feeling of the album. I have also included an mp3 file of a tune called "Under Stars" which is on of the very different things on this collection. Most importantly, however is we would like to invite you to the double birthday party, we just don't know when or where yet.....sooo will keep you posted. Enjoy. Cameron www.highslab.com |
