Coyote's bass playing should earn him a magazine cover, but the sexy, sexy, bass on the bass poem, "Dear Lara," should earn him a nod from Tom Jones.

"Kill The Spider" is a a real rocker.

"Spirit Gun" is a wild song about cartoon fighting.

"Flintridge Fire" is all fingersnaps, claps = 100% natural.

"King Solomon's Temple Penny Whistle" = Penny Whistle.

"You're Lazy" is kazoos.

"Elaine" is Coyote on swords.

Retired?

Seriously. Ooops. I didn't have permission. So I took out the company's name.

One of those big-time-I've bought music books from them...hired Rory to write a guitar book.

Coyote was classically trained too. Rory still reads, but Coyote says music is better in the mind than on paper.

Course, that's not entirely true. Check out the poetry book, Utah Phase 1 to see how Coyote reads music. The lyric sheets Coyote used to cut their new album, LEVEL 2 = PEACE OF MIND.

Did you know Coyote used to play trombone?

Check out Daryoon's SLIDE GUITAR on "Daryoon" and "I Want To Laugh #2."

Steve GIVES COYOTE his Custom 500 Trophy Triumph Motorcyle. Steve and his dad are upgrading to the 650 Bonneville Triumphs.

"Bettie wanted me to ride with him, so he gave me a motorcycle. That's Steve for ya," explains Coyote.

The custom designed handlebars of Coyote's new bike look like steer antlers, heavy metal style.

"The orange flamed gas tank isn't what I would have asked for," says Coyote. "But I'm not complaining. The engine's been bored out to 580 or something -- and my favorite part: Steve said the speedometer detracted from the beauty of his custom designed handlebars -- so no speedometer."

Coyote's already had this lack of odometer/speedometer pointed out to him by a couple neighborhood policemen -- when they could catch him. I'll let Steve tell that story.

Steve and Coyote spend the most time together. They both like to sit and "veg out" listening to vinyl records and eating popcorn. They are true music lovers.

In the studio they each act as a coach for the other person. When Coyote's getting tired Steve will make him take a water break. When Steve's tired, Coyote makes him "jam-out" on something completely spontaneous. They're good for each other.

I started in the UCLA Motion Picture Program in 1984. I graduated in 1987 and made a bunch of music videos, tv commercials, MTV segments, and special effects scenes for movies.

Then I got married.

Then I got unmarried and became a photojournalist. What kind of photojournalist? Well

• ROCK CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHER
• REVIEWER
• PHOTOJOURNALIST.

Then Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy got interested in my first screenplay, COYOTE IN A GRAVEYARD.

Michael J. Fox created a buzz for me when he came onstage with my band one night and asked to play, "Johnny B. Goode," which he was getting ready to film for some upcoming movie called, BACK TO THE FUTURE.

Hey, I guess that means I may have helped him in the part a little bit. I'll have to go check out that movie and look at that scene again. I was playing bass while he borrowed the guitar player's guitar. So it was Michael J. Fox, Richard Connor, and drummer Bruce Candelaria, and keyboardist Scott Hitchings.

Oh yeah, back in those days I was still recording, but I wasn't a Recording Engineer anymore, as I had been in the seventies. Because I was well known as a studio designer, musicians like Fleetwood Mac and Producer David Foster would call me to remodel their studios or build speaker cabinets.

Mostly, I enjoyed the artistic part of building and shaping something, like sculpture. But being known as, "The Carpenter," was not what I was aiming at. I wanted to be a RECORD PRODUCER.

I graduated the very first R.I.A.A. school class offered in 1975 or 1976.

Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, Then BBA Beck Bogert and Appice, Cactus, and later the Rod Stewart band, was a principle founder of this school. I think they were separate from the other RIAA but I'm not sure.

It was a great class, with a great book -- still used today, and always held in a great studio. I was in!

After that I just needed to show anyone my skills and I had a job.

The other thing I learned from the beginning was ORGANIZATION. Even now in the digital world, without a paper trail, you need a digital trail.

Files which are "Masters" can become indistinguishable from copies so extra care has to be made to identify which ones are to used as masters which ones have the subcodes which have iTunes info...

So I'd like to see more people really be Recording Engineers and make sure that all those filing things are done -- as if there was a "real" recording engineer sitting next to you.

I graduated the very first R.I.A.A. school class offered in 1975 or 1976.

Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, Then BBA Beck Bogert and Appice, Cactus, and later the Rod Stewart band, was a principle founder of this school. I think they were separate from the other RIAA but I'm not sure.

It was a great class, with a great book -- still used today, and always held in a great studio. I was in!

After that I just needed to show anyone my skills and I had a job.

The other thing I learned from the beginning was ORGANIZATION. Even now in the digital world, without a paper trail, you need a digital trail.

Files which are "Masters" can become indistinguishable from copies so extra care has to be made to identify which ones are to used as masters which ones have the subcodes which have iTunes info...

So I'd like to see more people really be Recording Engineers and make sure that all those filing things are done -- as if there was a "real" recording engineer sitting next to you.

I graduated the very first R.I.A.A. school class offered in 1975 or 1976.

Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, Then BBA Beck Bogert and Appice, Cactus, and later the Rod Stewart band, was a principle founder of this school. I think they were separate from the other RIAA but I'm not sure.

It was a great class, with a great book -- still used today, and always held in a great studio. I was in!

After that I just needed to show anyone my skills and I had a job.

The other thing I learned from the beginning was ORGANIZATION. Even now in the digital world, without a paper trail, you need a digital trail.

Files which are "Masters" can become indistinguishable from copies so extra care has to be made to identify which ones are to used as masters which ones have the subcodes which have iTunes info...

So I'd like to see more people really be Recording Engineers and make sure that all those filing things are done -- as if there was a "real" recording engineer sitting next to you.

I graduated the very first R.I.A.A. school class offered in 1975 or 1976.

Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, Then BBA Beck Bogert and Appice, Cactus, and later the Rod Stewart band, was a principle founder of this school. I think they were separate from the other RIAA but I'm not sure.

It was a great class, with a great book -- still used today, and always held in a great studio. I was in!

After that I just needed to show anyone my skills and I had a job.

The other thing I learned from the beginning was ORGANIZATION. Even now in the digital world, without a paper trail, you need a digital trail.

Files which are "Masters" can become indistinguishable from copies so extra care has to be made to identify which ones are to used as masters which ones have the subcodes which have iTunes info...

So I'd like to see more people really be Recording Engineers and make sure that all those filing things are done -- as if there was a "real" recording engineer sitting next to you.

I graduated the very first R.I.A.A. school class offered in 1975 or 1976.

Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, Then BBA Beck Bogert and Appice, Cactus, and later the Rod Stewart band, was a principle founder of this school. I think they were separate from the other RIAA but I'm not sure.

It was a great class, with a great book -- still used today, and always held in a great studio. I was in!

After that I just needed to show anyone my skills and I had a job.

The other thing I learned from the beginning was ORGANIZATION. Even now in the digital world, without a paper trail, you need a digital trail.

Files which are "Masters" can become indistinguishable from copies so extra care has to be made to identify which ones are to used as masters which ones have the subcodes which have iTunes info...

So I'd like to see more people really be Recording Engineers and make sure that all those filing things are done -- as if there was a "real" recording engineer sitting next to you.

LEVEL 1 = Peace Of Mind

These are the first 20 podcasts recorded by The Coyote of American Zen.

We've started the LEVEL 2 = Christ Killer series of podcasts.

Stay tuned!

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