|  | The Buzzy Diary on Gemm.com Buzzy Linhart played with Jimi Hendrix, Patti Labelle when the band switched from The Bluebells to Labelle, wrote for Carly Simon, played Carnegie Hall and is a legend in rock & roll circles. Buzzy will give us constant updates on his activities which are always exciting, compelling and way off the map. Buzzy's buzzy - the new 2009 edition | Gemm: Buzzy - on April 20th you were on Karel's radio show? Buzzy: Energy Radio, 92.7 FM - Radio KRL Karel did a big celebration, he wanted someone on to talk about how Pot Prohibition happened, one of my specialties. Someone from the government was on, it went very well. |
THE 420 Clubs 420 might have been police code for marijuana smoking in progress. The radio interview was on 4/20 -which also can be described as the fourth month and the twentieth day. This came from a group of people at some college who had a 420 club and its become popular around the world among those circles. |  | | I got to talk about how William Randolph Hearst and the liquor lobby conspired to bury marijuana because it was keeping people from going back to liquor and the fiber from Hemp, which is the fastest growing plant on the planet, grows faster and cheaper than any other fiberous plant on the planet, and was used in newspapers and was threatening to oversell trees to make paper. Remember, Hearst owned thousands of acres of trees which he sold to the newspaper industry. That's how his papers were (virtually) cost free because he grew his own trees. After prohibiton of alcohol a third of alcohol drinkers did not go back to liquor. You could buy a pound of pot at the drugstore ...for years and years it was available. In 1885 there were over 500 legal Hash parlors on Manhattan island alone! That was in reaction to the most popular exhibit at the World's Fair in 1884 - an exhibit of a hashish parlor from the mideast. You can find tons of facts like these in Jack Herer's famous book The Emperor Wears No Clothes |
 | Gemmzine: Buzzy, you've re-released your debut album, Buzzy's buzzy! Buzzy: It actually feels the same way it did in 1969, 40 years ago, I feel like I've spent forty years in the desert and its starting all over again. I'm still personally excited by this record today, the musicians we used were so exquisite and so individually original that it's difficult to - aside from the sitar - it would be hard to place timewise, musically. (see review on this page) original edition from 1969 |
I'd like to think - imagine as d.j. Eric Brenner once mentioned - that the closest I can come to explaining what the genre might be reminiscent of - honestly- would be if I had had a chance to record with Pink Floyd at that very same time. It's hard to believe that my debut album originally came out and competed with the records of 1969 including Sweet Baby James, Abbey Road, Traffic BUZZY LINHART with TENNIE KOMAR at NEWBURY MEDIA in Wilmington, Massachusetts |  | | The vibraphone sounds heard on Jimi Hendrix albums Voodoo Soup, |
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