KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Wester Sun Day II

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1972.04.02

Program Length

60 min

Dates

1972-04-02 | broadcast
| 1972-04-02 | created

Description

A rather irreverent Easter Day program produced by conceptual artist, Paul Cotton and friends. Assembling a hodgepodge of popular music, strange readings, snippets of childhood stories, and sexually explicit poetry, Cotton, who is perhaps best known for appearing in public in a large bunny costume with his genitals showing, has produced here a sort of hippie celebration of all things Easter. This program was described in KPFA’s program guide as: “Eight Astro-Naught Rabb-Eyes Make a Leap of Faith into Berkeley’s Live Oak Park to be at Yore Service with Good News for Modern Man. KPFA acts as the Station of the Cross for Pauly M. Purr Verse’s ‘Breath-Taking Sculptural Feet.’” Which, while not very descriptive of the actual content, does give a good sense of the spirit of this program. If you are a devout Christian who is lacking a sense of humor you may find this show offensive, but for everybody else it can be quite a ride.

Note: contains profanity and sexual themes

Genres

Popular music
Poetry

Musical Selections

Woodstock [excerpt] / Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young -- God [excerpt] / John Lennon -- [“Zippily Buddha, Zippily Day”] -- [unidentified music with drums and panpipes] -- Take a Giant Step [excerpt] / Taj Mahal -- [unidentified electronic music] -- I’m Late [excerpt from soundtrack of animated film “Alice in Wonderland”] -- We'll Smoke the Blighter Out [excerpt from soundtrack of animated film “Alice in Wonderland”] -- [unidentified chanting] -- Kecak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant [excerpt] -- [readings about rabbits] -- [irreverent recitation] -- [courtroom psychological profiles] -- [unidentified poetry] -- [dogs howling and other animal sounds with poetry] -- [unidentified collage of electronically manipulated sounds and voices] -- [unidentified panpipes or other types of flutes] -- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [excerpt] / The Beatles -- Star Spangled Banner [excerpt, played over an alternate version of the Pledge of Allegiance] -- Eyes Of A Child (part 1) [excerpt] / The Moody Blues

Subjects

Popular music
Rock music
Conceptual art
Poetry

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Beatles
Moody Blues (Musical group)
Cotton, Paul, 1939-
Lennon, John, 1940-1980
Taj Mahal (Musician)