(np) somebody Robin knows?

[Robin Landseadel]

Don't know Thomas Lopez, sounds like I should.

Do know [and have board op'ed/recorded] Erik Bauersfeld, a man you'd  
want on tap if you're in need of someone to recite a black mass.

On May 25, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> 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.