(np) somebody Robin knows?

[Michael Bailey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lopez

not saying it's a slow night at work, but I was listening to a youtube
of an interview he did with Jimi Hendrix, and apparently it's part of
a fairly substantial body of work I never heard of till now!


Thomas Lopez, aka Meatball Fulton, is one of the founders and
president of the ZBS Foundation. He writes and produces the ZBS
Foundation's audio drama productions. Some of these aired in 1984-85
as part of ZBS' stereo radio series The Cabinet of Dr. Fritz.
His output includes the entire Jack Flanders and Ruby the Galactic
Gumshoe series. His stories are identified by the humorous, insightful
and occasionally transcendental plots, plus puns and references to
1950s music. He travels widely, recording environments from such
locations as Morocco, Mexico, India, Bali, Sumatra, Java, Rio de
Janeiro, the Amazon and the United States. These recordings have been
used as the background sounds for ZBS Foundation audio dramas.
Erik Bauersfeld's radio series The Black Mass was an influence on
Lopez, who noted, "In the 1960s, I was inspired by someone at KPFA in
Berkeley, Eric Bauersfeld, who did a series called The Black Mass,
adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft and such. He helped me a lot. I
consider Erik my mentor. He also did some fine Eugene O'Neill plays
for radio."
In 1968, Lopez worked at WUHY, a Philadelphia public radio station. He
had his own show Sunday night called Feed. Lopez has conducted audio
interviews featuring such talents as Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, Don
Van Vliet of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Mel Blanc, Paul
Bowles and Dinotopia's James Gurney. He has recorded a music album
with Abbie Hoffman, appeared in an experimental film directed by Yoko
Ono and provided the sound tapestry for the Mabou Mines stage
production of Philip K. Dick's Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.