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HISTORY       of Shaolin Music                               SHAOLIN  RECORDS

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Shaolin Music Website Unfolding
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2010:
LEVEL 4 = Kung Fu Cowboy PART 1
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Youtube Video: "Peace Of Mind 2"
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Handwritten Poetry of Kung Fu Cowboy ORIGINAL DRAFT
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2009:
Youtube Video: "Great Salt Lake" LIVE
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"Dharma And A Song" at The Coyote Poetry Podcast
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2008:
Sid's Place Novel Needed New Lyrics
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American Zen Buddhist Rock Podcast at CoyoteRADIO.net
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2007:
LEVEL 2 = Christ Killer is 23 Rracks by The Hippy Coyote
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2006:
Utah Phase 1 Poetry Book by Coyote
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2005:
LEVEL 1 = PEACE OF MIND
is 22 Tracks by The Coyote
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2004:
Autumn Flavours Poetry Book
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1992:
Shaolin Music Relocates to Salt Lake City, Utah
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1991:
English Composer Andrew Stevens Signed to Shaolin Music
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1990:
Composer Coyote Receives ASCAP Pop Award
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1989:
"Backseat Love" and "Show Girls," licensed to movie, For Sale
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1988:
College Radio Cassingle, "It's Your Shadow"
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1987:
New World Pictures Transforms Rock Opera to Screenplay
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1986:
Michael J. Fox Joins Rock Opera, Coyote Graveyard
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1985:
Songs Licensed to Rock Opera, Coyote In A Graveyard  and UCLA
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1984:
Shaolin Music
First Vinyl Record Release
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Shaolin Music Website Unfolding

Shaolin Music HOMEPAGE
Started in 1999, Richard Del Connor....

2010:
LEVEL 4 = Kung Fu Cowboy PART 1

coyote on bass
Originally begun with 36 songs...

YouTube Video:
"Peace Of Mind 2"

Coyote Flying

Directed by Scott Karahadian and shot in Jarrod's garage...

2009:
YouTube Video:
"Great Salt Lake" LIVE

LIVE Coyote
At the end of the Christmas videotaping sessions..

"Dharma And A Song" at The Coyote Poetry Podcast

Dharma And A Song

One lesson and one song...

2008:
Sid's Place Novel Needed New Lyrics

Sex, Drugs and rock'n'roll--really

The original drafts of SID'S PLACE included lyrics of songs that Coyote listened to in the late sixties, as they played in the background of his life and subsequently into the background of the his novel, SID'S PLACE, about a drug runner in 1969 Southern California.

American Zen Buddhist Rock Podcast at CoyoteRADIO.net

Voice of The Coyote

America's first Buddhist rock band, American Zen, ...

2007:
LEVEL 2 = Christ Killer is 23 Rracks by The Hippy Coyote

CD COVER folded open

Inside ALBUM COVER

In a bold move, Coyote has taken the poetry of LEVEL 2 and interspersed it within the songs of the LEVEL 2 album...

2006:
Utah Phase 1 Poetry Book by Coyote

Book Cover UTAH Poetry

The lyric sheets used by Coyote to record the LEVEL 1 and LEVEL 2 albums of American Zen are included in these scanned pages of Coyote's notebook of lyrics and poetry...

2005:
LEVEL 1 = PEACE OF MIND
is 22 Tracks by The Coyote

Which way did he go

Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Utah...

2004:
Autumn Flavours Poetry Book

Coyote in Wolf's Clothing

This is the first of four books of poetry comprising the SEASON OF FOURS, poetry book compilation.

1992:
Shaolin Music Relocates to Salt Lake City, Utah

Parking Ming

Flyer from 1984

In an effort to capitalize on the movie industry in Utah, and the promised club bookings of Michelle McCarty, the O'Connor family, Coyote, and Shaolin Records pack up for the Rocky Mountains.

Michelle McCarty has been booking Coyote in nightclubs around Los Angeles. Former booking agent, Greg Berutto, became the agent of Coyote after seeing a performance of the Coyote in A Graveyard rock opera at Madame Wong's West in 1985.

1991:
English Composer Andrew Stevens Signed to Shaolin Music

Shaolin Records Buddhist Business

Andrew Stevens, a talented songwriter of the group ANK...

1990:
Composer Coyote Receives ASCAP Pop Award

Burning Coyote

Coyote's many concerts and performances during the 1990s earned him many Pop Music Awards from ASCAP.

1989:
"Backseat Love" and "Show Girls"
Songs Licensed to Movie FOR SALE

Tai Mantis Federation Dog

Coyote's neighbor was starring in a low budget movie, FOR SALE, about...

1988:
Shaolin Records Produces Soundtrack to Rock Opera:
Coyote In A Graveyard

Cassette Case of Cassingle

Using studio "down time" at Cherokee Studios, the rock opera, Coyote In A Graveyard, was recorded in one 14 hour recording session by The Coyote on acoustic guitar, Bruce Candelaria on drums, and Scott Hitchings on keyboards. Coyote then cut the electric bass on many of the songs of the 24-track 2" tape record album.

1987:
New World Pictures Transforms Rock Opera to Screenplay

Original poetry book cover

When personnel from some record companies were hired by New World Pictures, one of them recommended the rock opera being performed by The Coyote.

1986:
Michael J. Fox Joins Rock Opera, Coyote Graveyard

Live at Madame Wong's West 1984

Borrowing the Fender guitar of Coyote In A Graveyard rock opera guitarist, Michael J. Fox, joined with Richard Del Connor, The Hippy Coyote, Scott Hitchings, and Bruce Candelaria, onstage at Madame Wong's West to perform, "Johnny B. Goode."

1985:
Songs Licensed to Rock Opera,
Coyote In A Graveyard and UCLA

Coyote Graveyard 1982

In 1983, Richard O'Connor lived out of his van for the entire year, saving enough money to release his first 12" Vinyl Album, "Temptation," in 1984.

1984:
Shaolin Music
First Vinyl Record Release

In 1983, Richard O'Connor lived out of his van for the entire year, saving enough money to release his first 12" Vinyl Album, "Temptation," in 1984.

I had attended Music Publishing classes at UCLA. Any book on the subject was on my shelf.

Realizing my library of songs was a gold mine, I desired to have my songs covered by other artists but couldn't find the time to perform this job with my many other jobs already needing more time.
Coyote Podcast

A girlfriend of mine, Michelle, was an avid fan of my songwriting. She would sneak through my cassette collections where no other human hands had ever been and dug out many songs from my fifteen years of songwriting demos.

She really really really enjoyed my music and pursued my songs like no one else. Finally, I found someone to run my music publishing company.

I had no interest in getting married or having babies with anyone. But when Michelle got pregnant accidentally, I wasn't bothered as I had been in previous relationships where I always desired termination to parenting.

Realizing that there may be a good wife in Michelle, a super fan of my music, a booking agent, and editor...it finally made sense to have a family without sacrificing any of my career goals.

Michelle was young, just turned 21. She had no professional aspirations, no job experience except food sales and was willing to train under my supervision to take over my Music Publishing company. From this we would both reap the benefits as we were both family...

So we made a marriage pact with the following terms:

I have replied our agreements a hundred times and still think I was resourceful, wise and prudent...

But it didn't work.

Michelle convinced me that she had music industry contacts in Salt Lake that could benefit my career much more than the record company execs, A&R people, and newspaper contacts I had developed as a Recording Studio Designer and photojournalist of Newspaper Guild #69.

How I could have believed her still baffles me.

Well, not really. I loved Michelle. I trusted Michelle. I dedicated my life to being partners with Michelle. Of course I should believe her and trust her.

She lied.

Within days of moving to Utah, I began to realize that Michelle had zero contacts in the music or movie industry. Why she lied?

Next, I discovered that all those clubs she said she would book me into were for heavy metal bands and Top-40 covers. She had zero industry connections. She got me zero bookings. She made me zero dollars.

So, I had been deceived and manipulated into moving back to Michelle's hometown with absolutely no benefit to my career or survival. Far from my business contacts, jobs, connections, and friends, I was stranded in Utah with a girl who had lied to me and led me astray.

Once it became evident that Michelle was not planning to "make me sucessful" as she promised, she delivered the final bomb to my soul, "I am not going to take orders from you or ever work for you again."

America's First Buddhist Rock Band, American ZenThere wasn't even the slightest incident to set off any ill-will between us, except for the fact that she had obviously never planned on fulfilling any of her promises or supporting my careers in any manner.

This was such a harsh and unrealistic turn in my life, that it took me three more years before I realized that Michelle was serious. She would never follow my instructions again. She never worked for any of my companies again. And Michelle never treated me like a husband again.

All my decade in California, building my career, working bands, studios, record companies... was gone and now of no use to me at all. My family wouldn't help me with any money whatsover to come back to California and without any of my contacts or even carpentry job connections...I couldn't even work to save my life.

Thus, Shaolin Music saw a bright future, had a new employee, and new vision, a new business plan and was destroyed the following year with Michelle's abandoning it.

Christ Killer album coverIt's 2007 now. I'm just getting my record company back to where it was when I met Michelle. I'm still looking for some bright face to take over the Shaolin Music publishing company, and hopefully I won't get married again.

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