The ‘Mickocaster’ guitar had a bit of an auspicious beginning, being as it started it’s life as the only thing I could afford at the time after a robbery from a gig in Victoria BC. Christmas into New Years of 1989, our then newly assembled band ‘Cease & Desist’ with Marc LaFrance on drums, Brent […]
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Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that […]
A PEACE ACADEMY
TO BUILD THE CHANNELS
Milton C. Mapes, Jr.
In a society as conflict-ridden as ours.
it would be hard to imagine an institu-
tion more timely or more greatly need-
ed than a National Academy of Peace and
Conflict Resolution.
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So if you read this post on September 9, 2024, my sweet daughter Carolyn would have been 50 years old. It’s now reached the time where Carolyn has been gone as many years as she was alive. She passed away on November 17, 1999 at the age of 25. Since, I’ve lived my life “Pre-Carolyn” […]
Vancouver bar band Trama rose from the ashes of Shama to make good music, that’s all ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON MARCH 18, 1983 By Steve Newton “We’re not trying to shake up the music world,” says Trama bassist-vocalist Michael Sicoly “We’re just trying to make good music, that’s all.” They may not be shaking up the […]
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I came across this article from 2017 that I had saved. I found it intriguing and close to many of the things I have thought personally. I wonder what your feedback would be on this. Please feel free to respond! Sunday, January 1, 2017 Naples Daily News Your Kids Should Not Be the Most Important […]
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Joe Johnson’s Beatle Brunch with Guest Host Mick Dalla-Vee (Aired April 21, 2024)
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I was very honoured to be asked by Joe to be a guest host for his show. I was allowed to pick whatever topic I liked so I decided to have my first show be about anomalies and alternate mixes of some Beatles songs. These certainly aren’t all that I have but there’s only […]
Carolyn in September of 1999 with her little dog, Puggy. I have to preface this little true story by saying that I am not a ‘believer’ of anything supernatural. I can always figure out a logical reason for something happening that seems to be ‘unexplainable’… except for what I’m about to share with you. My […]
The Infamous “SHAMA $50.00 Bill” It was an ingenious marketing strategy dreamed up by Shama’s ‘manager of the moment’, Dallas Goodmanson, who operated the Regina, Saskatchewan office of the Canadian prairie’s leading music agency, “Nellis Booking Agency” The idea was to literally ‘spread’ these fake fifties everywhere. On the front, when folded in half (note […]
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The Ballad of Mick & Kelly (Picture taken at Tal Bachman’s costume party in Victoria Saturday, February 23, 2019) The following video is of great significance. In it, Kelly is with her friend Julie Demelo (who took the video) on a girl’s getaway weekend on Saltspring Island and in the video, they had happened to […]
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“Place Called Home” – A New Single and Video from Cease & Desist After many years of being a band Cease & Desist have finally released their first single, ‘Place Called Home’. On the week of Feb 20-25, 1989, Mick Dalla-Vee, Marc LaFrance, and Brent Knudsen had their first public performance. Who would have thought […]