"Crackers and Bagels": Josh Alan Interviewed on Virtual Memories

"Crackers and Bagels"

“I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon.”

Virtual Memories host Gil Roth shares a cup of coffee with Josh Alan at the Cafe Edison in Times Square; Josh takes his black. Recorded January 2014.

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Photo: Gil Roth

Biscontini Talks Comic Fest

"Absent any false humility, I have to say that, intellectually, sitting me next to Jerry Pournelle strikes me as a little bit like sitting Bugs Bunny, fresh out of a hole in the ground and noshing on a carrot, next to an F-16: each highly effective but in very different ways and contexts."

nu luna author Andrew Biscontini reports on San Diego Comic Fest, with guest appearances by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Greg Bear, Steven Barnes, Marv Wolfman and Eric Shanower. Plus photos by Wyatt Doyle. It's all happening now, over at AndrewBiscontini.com

photo © 2013, 2014 Wyatt Doyle

copyright © 2013, 2014 Wyatt Doyle

Shopping Trips

copyright © 2013, 2014 Wyatt Doyle

"Soil Science" by Skrowaczewski / Zappa

"Soil Science" by Skrowaczewski / Zappa

Nick Skrowaczewski, drums; Stanley Zappa, saxophone.

Video by Zappa.



© 2013, 2014 Skrowaczewski / Zappa; all rights reserved

"The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow" (w/ Brother Roland Payne) by Rev. Raymond Branch

Reverend Raymond Branch is joined on this recording by the late Brother Roland Payne on lead vocal. Roland Payne was a childhood friend of Rev. Branch's and in their youth, the two made up half of a Gospel quartet in Louisiana. A move to Los Angeles late in life reunited him with Rev. Branch, and it is from that era that this recording, "The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow," originates.

Brother Roland Payne, vocal; Rev. Branch, guitar and vocal.

Archival recording, date unknown

To view on YouTube, click above. To watch via Vimeo, see below.

© 2014 Rev. Raymond Branch, Wyatt Doyle; all rights reserved


Watch a more contemporary performance of "The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow" here.

Artist Unknown

copyright © 2013, 2014 Wyatt Doyle

copyright © 2014 Wyatt Doyle

"Fish Bladder Celebration" by Skrowaczewski / Zappa

"Fish Bladder Celebration" by Skrowaczewski / Zappa

Nick Skrowaczewski, drums; Stanley Zappa, saxophone. Video by Zappa.


© 2013, 2014 Skrowaczewski / Zappa; all rights reserved

"One of These Days" by Rev. Raymond Branch

Reverend Raymond Branch reworks "Move On Up a Little Higher" into a new composition, "One of These Days."

Featuring Sister Jean Branch, vocals. Rev. Branch, guitar and vocal.

Archival recording, date unknown

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© 2014 Rev. Raymond Branch, Wyatt Doyle; all rights reserved

KSE's Bill Shute Reviews STOP REQUESTED

"Doyle presents these mini-dramas and mini-comedies and slices of urban life with a poet’s gift for the carefully-chosen detail and a playwright’s gift for dialogue that rings true yet has a sense of both menace and comedy, like what one would hear in an Edward Albee play. This is 21st Century America. Someone who wants to understand this age 100 or 200 years from now should read this book. It’s all here."
  Poet and publisher Bill Shute of Kendra Steiner Editions reviews Wyatt Doyle and Stanley Jason Zappa's STOP REQUESTED.

Click here to read the full essay, and click here for a list of available KSE music and poetry.

Josh Alan Friedman's Big Black Ass on MR. MEDIA

"You Can Kiss Josh Alan Friedman's Big Black Ass"

Josh Alan interviewed by Bob Andelman, Mr. Media. Al Goldstein, Weasels Ripped My Flesh!, Olde Times Square, Black Cracker, plus two new songs: "(You Can Kiss) My Big Black Ass" (@ 0:44) and "This Radio Don't Play Nothin' But the Blues" (@ 1:11:30).

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Buy Black Cracker by Josh Alan Friedman here.

"Storm System," by Skrowaczewski / Zappa

"Storm System," by Skrowaczewski / Zappa

Nick Skrowaczewski, drums; Stanley Zappa, saxophone. Video by Zappa.

To view on YouTube, click above. To watch via Vimeo, see below.

© 2013, 2014 Skrowaczewski / Zappa; all rights reserved