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  • FLY BY NIGHT 367 – ODUM’S CAVE

    Recorded by Steve The Fly at Fly Agaric Studios, Amsterdam, with recordings by The Drifters, Lambert Hendricks & Ross, The Moonglows, The Larks, Eddie Jefferson, Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sun Ra, Akhon, Marcus Belgrave, John Sinclair, and Jay McShann.

    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
    ODUM’S CAVE
    FLY BY NIGHT 367
    Steve The Fly, Fly Agaric 23 Studios, Amsterdam, May 24, 2020 [20336]

    The Drifters: Saturday Night At The Movies
    Lambert Hendricks & Ross: April in Paris
    The Moonglows: The Beating of My Heart
    The Larks: Margie
    Eddie Jefferson: Yardbird Suite
    Miles Davis: Pee Wee
    Rahsaan Roland Kirk: inflated tear
    Sun Ra: The Lady With the Golden Stockings
    Akhon: Sun Ra
    Marcus Belgrave: Odum’s Cave
    John Sinclair: Beatnik Youth
    Jay McShann: T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness

    A JOINT PRODUCTION
    Produced by Steve “Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam (#19)
    Edited & annotated by John Sinclair
    Executive Producer: Steve Pratt

    (c) 2020 Steve Pratt. Used with permission.

    https://www.patreon.com/stevefly

  • FLY BY NIGHT 365 – LOVE FOR REAL

    Recorded by Steve The Fly at Fly Agaric Studios, Amsterdam, with recordings by Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Eddie Jefferson , Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Koko Taylor, King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lionel Hampton, and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
    LOVE FOR REAL
    FLY BY NIGHT 365
    Steve The Fly, Fly Agaric 23 Studios, Amsterdam, May 24, 2020 [20322]
    Ray Charles: Come Rain Or Come Shine
    Ella Fitzgerald: Midnight Sun
    Stevie Wonder: Loves In Need Of Love
    Eddie Jefferson : Soft And Furry
    Aretha Franklin: Do Right Women
    B.B. King: How Blue Can You Get
    Koko Taylor: Wang Dang Doodle
    King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree: Get With It
    Miles Davis: The Sorcerer
    John Coltrane: Giant Steps
    Lionel Hampton: Mr P.C.
    Modern Jazz Quartet: The Sheriff

    A JOINT PRODUCTION
    Produced by Steve “Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam (#19)
    Edited & annotated by John Sinclair
    Executive Producer: Steve Pratt

    (c) 2020 Steve Pratt. Used with permission.

  • Pandemic Time – Mark Pesce

    Of all the individuals mapping and modeling the global coronavirus pandemic, Mark Pesce has proved the most consistent, clear and concise. And he’s able to share what he knows and can fess’ up what he does not know. For me, Mark, together with Cory Doctorow and Bruce Sterling are leading voices of post-pandemic futurism. Tune in.

    –Steve Fly

  • Pirate TV And Pro Jamm

    Coldcut present Pirate TV – 9th May 2020

    I’m thrilled Matt Black of Coldcut / Pirate TV featured a mix I made using Jamm Pro, for his epic 2.2 hr Jamm Pro session for pirate TV.

    https://jammpro.net/

  • Johnson Hancock Cummings Gove

    Hancock: “We need a new slogan, er, something good”

    Johnson: “Er, er, well, I thought that, er…stop…er”

    Cummings: “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me, I like that one?

    Gove: “Oh Dominic, less of the bad language chap”

    Johnson: “Oh delightful Dom, er, or just um, do what we say in er, bod, yes bold letters, um”

    Hancock: “Gentleman, we don’t have much time, the press con’ starts in fifteen”

    Cummings: “Great, yeah, like it, jackpot”

    Johnson: “Um, hey Govey boy, after you’ve finished, er, after you’ve, er, finished, yes, finished the plate, um perhaps share your top, er, best one, quickly now…chap.

    Gove: “Thank you Boris, Thankyou. Yes, and thanks to everybody gathered here at this meeting today, I am honoured, blessed to be here at this critical moment for the Tory party, together at this moment of opportunity to increase our tight grip on the situation and a pretty good grip, er, on the people too and I’d like to thank my wife, my dealers and…”

    Hancock: Mike, you’re rambling. The best one, please”

    Johnson: “Er, come on chap, um, yes, what is the goodest one?

    Cummings: “I need more coffee”

    Johnson: “Brilliant, that’s it Dom, spaffing job, you gone done it, got it done, heh, again you rascal, meeting adjourned.”

    An intern from Government PR quickly knocked-up the new slogan and within ten minutes, printed it and stuck it to the front of the pulpit where Johnson was to address the country.

    “Nice, er, nice colours, they remind me of the colours on a bus, how wonderful, I once made an art bus…”

    Hancock: “Boris, get over here and tuck your shirt in, you ain’t Dom, try to look normal”

    Gove: “Here you are big dog, Boris, take this…helps you to stay alert”

    Cummings: “Hold it. Stay alert…um yes, yesssssss yesssssss vague, yesssssss, imprecise oh yesssss, divisive….um oh god yesssssss even better, confusion, yes yes yes”

    Dominic punches the sky, spills his latte and slaps Micky Gove on the back who in turn coughs out a chunk of cocaine (a.k.a Gove Dust) striking Jacob Rees Mogg on the chin and waking him from a 3 month slumber, underneath a wooden bench.

    Mogg: “Hmmmmm, wahhhhhh, hmmmmmm, yes, hmmmmmmm wahhhhh…um….”

    Johnson: “Just take it on the chin chap, heh”

    Cummings: “Moggy, you sound like a wah-wah pedde that’s running out of power”

    Mogg: “Ummmm where…..um wha…….mehhhhhh…..wahhhhh…..”

    Johnson: “Go back to sleep Moggy old boy, er, stay alert…yes yes…stay….alert.

    Johnson steps to the podium to address the country.

    “Er, um, well yes, er, I am absolutely yes, er, brilliant….and I really hope, I do hope, er, yes and alert like a…stay, er…

    “Like an Etonian sack of Satan’s spunk, Boris. Like a confused liar who’s had his head stuck inside an orange balloon….”

    Johnson: “Get him out of here…what the, um, er, what the devil…”

    Me (dragged by the hair and punched): “Fuck you and your whole Tory crew Boris. You don’t fool me, you pure….LYING….FANNY!”

  • My Covid-19 Guidelines For Small Businesses

    Lead By Example

    Hi, rather than perpetually moan and groan everytime I read an article about the impact of Covid-19 on businesses, in particular small hospitality services, I wanted to share my thoughts in the format of some clear bullet points, a mixture of gentle advice and strong recommendations. However much I wish the chaos would all go away, the new reality for us requires forward thinking optimism and criticism, in equal measure. The largest restaurant chains in the world such as McDonald’s, who don’t seem content with their existing Covid-19 safe…drive through are planning to re-open. I can understand it’s extra work and consideration on top stresses for small businesses, but please, don’t let McDonald’s be the only food outlet open for business due to the fact they published some flimsy Covid-19 measures. You can do better!             

    Certification.

    I guess, in the near future, new Health And Safety rules will apply to your business and staff. Better go look them up now, create a Google Alert (Covid-19 Health And Safety) and add your specific location, e.g. in the UK see: https://www.hse.gov.uk/news/coronavirus.html 

    Reconsider existing Health And Safety certifications and the process of gaining them. Did you or your colleagues take a test? What was it like, how might Covid-19 change questions and answers in 2020 and beyond. See the new Remote Auditing from Britsafe here: https://www.britsafe.org/audit-and-consultancy/new-remote-audits-and-consultancy/

    Perhaps go further and begin to formulate your own certification, alone or better yet as a team. Explore ways in which you can improve the efficiency, communication and protection of your business in the new Covid-19 world. If you can prove your methods and processes as a team, raise each others Covid awareness, and if you can record your progress to provide evidence of your actions, you can lead by example. #CoronaHero
    This could potentially make your business more attractive to customers and get you in-line for support…due to leading the field, doing what the government is not. Thinking for yourself. To be clear, these are extra measures on top of whatever current measures are in place.          

    Measures.

    I consider the practical measures as a finite list and I sincerely hope that innovative minds out there will think of alternative materials and methods to further reduce any chance of infection. Please consider.

    Protective Screens – At the point of purchase, materials, designs, microphone?

    Floor Markings – Set to the advised spacing apart, simple.

    Protective Masks – All staff and management wear masks (medical, non-medical grade?)

    Protective Gloves – All staff equipped with ample supply of gloves and instructed on procedures for use, frequency of change etc.    

    Ventilation – All ventilation systems are operating to ensure clean flow of air (Kitchens)

    Public Information – Certificates and public info on view to make customers feel secure. 

    Delivery And Service Providers – Share the same Covid measures and certifications?

    Updated Cleaning Schedule – Based on new methods, frequency, cleaning agents.  

    Team Building – A series of actions to encourage open feedback between teammates, a forum, Whats App group, Zoom etc.

    Insurance – What can small businesses learn from the super giants, what changes? 

    Test Trace Isolate / Flatten The Curve – Are your team and customers aware of larger goals? If not, why not?  

    Solidarity – It is critical that governments and businesses move in tandem to ensure staff who may feel sick say so immediately. Same for those who have contact with Covid-19 cases?

    Emergency Procedure – What happens if X Y Z? Protocol and plans for the future.

    This Q & A on Food Safety and Covid 19, by the European Commission is informative. https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/safety/docs/biosafety_crisis_covid19_qandas_en.pdf

    Good luck out there. I hope to produce other such guidelines on other areas of impact this month. Much love,

    Steve fly

  • The Mother Of The Mother Of Tobacco Is A Snake

    A research study conducted in France has found that inpatients and outpatients who smoke tobacco are 80 and 75 % less likely to develop symptomatic and severe Covid-19 infections. My instincts tell me these findings are worthy of investigation, new consideration. Their methodology and experimental conditions are detailed and published HERE.

    To embolden the general idea I ask… what can we scrutinize about this study? How do we make their findings more robust and further expand the study, cross-examine other such studies? 

    My hunch starts with research conducted by Jeremy Narby and published in his book The Cosmic Serpent

    Below I’ve included screenshots of these two sources, together forming a balanced picture (a roughly left-brain and right-brain stereo mix) of what I have previously mused upon: indigenous shamanic practice using Ayahuasca and Tabacco and its role in our fight, as a interconnected global species, with novel airborne Coronaviruses.

    I’d like to encourage you to refocus (defocus using stereoscopic thinking) on the recent rigorous scientific study on Tobacco / Nicotine and Covid-19.

    Please let me know if you have any feedback in the comments.

    Much love, steve fly.

    https://www.qeios.com/read/WPP19W.3

  • Warriors Of The Rainbow 2020: A Trip Back To Novelty Wave

    Warriors Of The Rainbow 2020: A Trip Back To Novelty Wave

    A Little Introduction (approx. 7 min. read)

    Hi, the following essay sprawled out of control into a what I now call a woo-woo piece. A densely packed linked up trans-media story, riddled with facts, methodology and research based thinking, yet considering epoch sized, call em’ cosmic-ramifications, or woo-woo. I’d like to thank everybody who crossed my path along the way and above all to wish readers a strong, resilient and joyous 2020 as we shuffle toward the lights. After a number of perceived synchronicities recently, charged by the universal sense of existential dread flowing through the species at the moment, I’m reflecting on 44 days that impacted my life in 2012 and what I can learn in 2020. If you get tired of my tales you can skip to video and music links.

    My story begins around 1996, when I was living in Stourbridge UK and experimenting with psychedelic drugs and trip poets. I discovered two authors simultaneously, thanks to close friends, that had a deep and lasting impact on my life: Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson. When I discovered the chapter, Law Of Acceleration, in Wilson’s popular work of non-fiction Cosmic Trigger (1977) and his inclusion of McKenna’s Timewave-Zero theory, the penny dropped, or my voice dropped, something dropped. Wilson’s model of information doubling and onward to distinguishing exponential growth, including McKenna’s model and his love for entheogens and magic mushrooms was precisely what I needed to hear. Since then, I’ve followed the 2012 stuff and chimed in now and then with my 5c contribution to what I think it all means. As I said, woo-woo, to mean BIG ideas about complex processes and esoteric knowledge, a bit like criticism of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. These were the wild and out-there things this young apprentice shaman pined for. Indeed, these are the conditions that led me to adopt the artist name: Fly Agaric 23 around 1995.

    To give at least some idea of what I had read at this point in my life, yet not necessarily understood correctly! I’ll list a few titles: Food Of The Gods, True Hallucinations, The Invisible Landscape by McKenna, Cosmic Trigger I, II and III, Sex Drugs And Magick, Quantum Psychology by Wilson.777  and The Book Of Thoth by Aleister Crowley, The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby, I-Ching And The Genetic Code by Martin Schonberger, plus dipping my toe into Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval and even a taste of David Icke (spits over shoulder, ugh). During this time (1996-2000) I was drumming, learning to DJ with Jungle/Drum and Bass, Hip Hop, Trip Hop music, plus discovering the diverse UK underground cultural melting pot, leading to collaborating on nights and events locally.

    Jump forward 16 years, after living in America for five years, attending McKenna’s Wake in San Francisco, interviewing Wilson and contributing to his biographical film: Maybe Logic, and helping to found The Maybe Logic Academy (see MaybeLogic Quarterly). I was working at the 420 Coffeeshop, Amsterdam, collaborating closely with poet John Sinclair. It’s the 19th of November, the 25th High Times Cannabis Cup  is opening.

    John Sinclair And His Amsterdam Blues Scholars At The Cannabis Cup

    As an unofficial, satellite performance, celebrating cannabis and hemp culture during the High Times Cup, John Sinclair And His Amsterdam Blues Scholars performed at Club Aknaton on November 19th, 2012. John Sinclair, Leslie Lopez, Esther Croez, Mark Ritsema, Vicente Pino, Rebbecca Waller and myself played two sets of reefer jazz, one with Sinclair front and center.

    During the show, Steven Hager (of High Times) and Fantuzzi (Of The Fantuzzi Band) turned up, danced and fluffed-up the aura of the party. At the end, Hager stepped on stage and invited the band to join his Temple Dragon Band: the official High Times 2012 house band. Half the band accepted his offer. Rebbecca, Esther and I joined up for a week of creativity, chaos and a wild path to the Kukulkan pyramid, four weeks later.

    At some point late in the week Fantuzzi asked me if I wanted to join him, to play drums at Synthesis 2012, taking place in Chichen Itza. It didn’t take me long to decide. One song I played with both The Temple Dragon Band and with Fantuzzi is called Warriors Of The Rainbow, and is his interpretation in song format, of the Hopi Prophecy.

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