"MUSIC for the AGES" - JST KLSX is: AMERICA'S COAST TO COAST

"There is a world out there, that remains in here ... only at times, it remains an illusionary feeling, but soon to fruition.

It may come to past, but only when the truest of LIES comes to the present.

A walk in the illusion gives a chill of that adventure once dreamed, and from those who never sought to conquer it themselves, until encountering the LIFE of others who awaken that spirit and passion within.

To enter a World of Wonder to be Snatched from Asunder, by prying souls waiting in the shadows of lust, for a world ... not their own, until the trusting walk by ... singing a tune; so easily captured and whisked away, as easily as a vulture who waits not for the dead, but to kill instead ... a dream so easily stolen, as if it were their own.

The dreamer still dreams, awaiting the fulfillment of the morning light upon awakening ... to find, it wasn't just a dream ... it was a dream come true."

by Mason Ramsey.

OKAY - JUST a FEW PICTURES of a GREAT TIME at OUR BBQ & the ZOO!

Okay - Here are just but, a FEW - and I mean only a few pictures of our little 'Get Together' with people who came to see us here at America's Coast to Coast / JST KLSX to share a little bit of barbecue, some of the GREAT Colorado weather, the Denver ZOO and http://www.RockandRollHeaven.net.

I have more than two hundred pictures from this last week - and I know that there must be another few hundred on camera's from Dotty, Panner's, Jan, Connie and Ron - so I am certain there will be a a couple popping up in e-mails and on Facebook.

When I get a chance to compose a little story ... it may make you laugh, knowing that there's still pictures out there of Panner's peeking through the bushes while posing with 'Tilly' the hippo, and then ... Connie scaring the crap out of me, just from the expression of knowing when the 'lighting' was going to strike behind my back, causing me to jump. Or the vicious rumor that 'Mason swiped Jan's motorized wheelchair and went for a joyride,' forgetting to tell her that the accelerator was turned 'WAY UP!' "HEY KID LOOK OUT!

Or that Dotty was so enamored, not ONLY with 'Hot Ron' but 'Harley' as she STUFFED HIM with HAM (Harley - not Ron) and then kept him busy with 'FETCH' (Ron - Not Harley) and that the whole weekend was a great time, even with Kate Brown & Joanne Barney, getting DOWN with the WISE CRACKS on Mason's tequila use. WHAT! I only had three!

I was busy giving Mary Day's daughter Alyshia the SPIKED Watermelon, and keeping the kids busy with Root beer FLOATS while trying to hold onto the RUBBER Chicken and the ONE they KEPT wanting me to SWING around my HEAD. I had a really good time, and I do hope that everyone who came by also had a GOOD time.

There will be more pictures coming - but for now ... see if you like these. Mason.

THE RICK DERRINGER SPECIAL on JUNE 20th & 21st Starting at 12 Noon Mtn TIME!

When I met Rick Derringer for the first time, it was when we crossed paths back in the summer of 1965 via a terrestrial connection "Hang On Sloopy," when his song went straight to the top of the U.S. charts and my mother was blasting it on the AM radio in that 1963 Chevy Impala.

I'm certain there must have been another Mason, whose mom or dad was infecting them with that same great tune when it was hovering at the top five position on the UK charts in that same summer. (I've come to believe that we're all connected anyway).

Rick Derringer began influencing and shaping a little more than his share of the world before I really knew that I loved GREAT southern barbecue, but with all things; I was influenced by my mother who was tuned into Rick's VIBES traversing the planet and the Universe, and a little more than 44 years later, I get a phone call from Rick saying, "Hey Mason, do you like GOOD barbecue?"

Rick Derringer had been tuning into Internet radio stations and suddenly found himself on JST KLSX - http://www.rockandrollheaven.net/ / America's Coast to Coast as he worked on his current album "Knighted by the Blues" in Clearwater / St. Petersburg, Florida - (Yeah we still call them Albums) before it was officially released on May 5th.

So in early April 2009 Rick found us, liked what he heard and sent me the song 'Sometimes' where I immediately began playing it on JST KLSX mixing it with the Classic 'Hang on Sloopy' and 'Rock and Roll Hootchie Coo' and it really was a 'Coo' for http://www.rockandrollheaven.net/.

Not only did I find the song exciting, I played it several times on the show for 'Our' listeners and when Rick's fan base began jumping on board requesting to hear again, not realizing that: this is exactly what is missing from the terrestrial world of Radio ... I gladly obliged their wants. It's called the FREEDOM of programming to a 'Wanting Audience' and it's what caught Rick's attention.

When Rick made the comment over dinner, I love to "Break for a little Brisket at Brady's" I laughed and said, "That's a great line that I can use in an article, when I write about this experience." Especially when the conversation turned to the New WAVE of the Future and I became a bit more impassioned with my statement, "Rick, I've been calling JST KLSX appointment Radio, because people are making it 'a point to be here' for the music and entertainment that they are not getting on terrestrial radio stations here in the present world."

Rick nodded with approval as I found myself beginning to 'Go Off' "and they can hear MORE than the 'Same Eight Great Oldies' as much as the GREAT new stuff that artist like yourself are producing, who are finding it hard to get some airplay in that WORLD where Radio Stations will not play those tunes together: and it's a shame."

It was when we began talking on the phone before the release of 'Knighted by the Blues' when I began working on the 'Rick Derringer Music Special' that Rick gave me the ultimate compliment “I saw the Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock the other night, and it reminded me of your show. And in the movie, the Disc Jockey gets more requests for the tune, after inadvertently talking over the song and listeners wanted to hear it even more ... and it reminded me exactly of when I first heard your show Mason, it was exactly the same thing ... people could call in and tell you exactly how excited they were about the song and your interaction with them, whether it was by an e-mail or the phone and it was like it was in the Old Days, so you're right ...we're part of a new generation of radio and the involvement between the listener, the DJ, the Station and the artists ... all of us."

We 'Aired' the first HOUR of the 'RICK DERRINGER MUSIC SPECIAL' on the 5th of May when the Album first debuted, and now you can hear the whole four hour MUSIC extravaganza that includes music from artist like Bonnie Tyler, Cyndi Lauper, Steely Dan, Weird Al', Elvis Presley, Steve Miller and Jenda Derringer who is also an artist in her own right and a lyricist responsible for some of the great music produced by a very down to Earth Christian (and NOT afraid to admit it) Iconic Superstar Rick Derringer on 'Knighted by the Blues.'

The SPECIAL will run on JST KLSX - America's Coast to Coast - http://www.rockandrollheaven.net/ on June 20th and June 21st. I have decided that because of the length of the SPECIAL, as we do on a program like this - we are going to run it back to back, so that listeners will have a chance to hear it at their leisure. Tune in beginning at 12 noon (MTN) till 4PM, 4PM till 8PM & again from 8PM till 12 MIDNIGHT.

I do HOPE you will enjoy the Diversity of a creative artist like Rick Derringer who has INFLUENCED a great MANY lives, from Rock and Rollers to Rollers of ALL kind.

Remember, we're all connected and will affect each other in some manner or another ... Rick Derringer is JST another KLSX example. Thank you Rick for giving me such a great compliment as being able to share a little bit of your LIFE and a GREAT NEW ALBUM (Yeah We Still Call Them ALBUMS), 'Knighted by the Blues' IT IS THAT GOOD!

BREAKING FOR BRISKET AT BRADY'S WITH RICK DERRINGER

It was only days before I was to leave Denver for Clearwater, Florida to see Henry Gross open for Joe Cocker at Ruth Eckerd Hall, when I received an e-mail from Rick Derringer, saying; "Hey Mason, I'm going to be in the studios in Clearwater right around the corner ... how would you like to have a little barbecue while you're here?"

Baby ... I LOVE BARBECUE! And when Rick Derringer, one of the greatest guitarist, musician and artist in the world is inviting little ol' Mason Ramsey ... I was in shock!

I had not seen the Spanish Moss hanging from the huge Oak trees in Clearwater for years, and nearly had forgotten how majestic it looked ... draped from the limbs of those giants surrounding Ruth Eckerd Hall and how beautiful it seemed: lining the streets of Safety Harbor, a small Pinellas County community where Mastodon's and Mammoths traversed the landscape in the Paleo period, peppered with tall palm trees and a beautiful marina.

It was a great concert with Henry Gross who opened to a full house, and Joe Cocker with his dynamic band really did GIVE concert goers their 'Night's Worth of Entertainment.' Henry changed it up a little by doing his more nostalgic tune 'Shannon' in the middle of his set, and closed with a tune, yet to be released called 'If You Were Mine Again' which received tremendous applause.

Lee Obritz (Shadows of Knight) was on hand to help with Henry's gig and sound check, while taking time to share a bite backstage with me and my youngest daughter Sharon Neville.

Sharon was as COOL as the salad she was eating while Lee talked about Henry and the business of music, but was not amused when I caught her unaware as she turned to catch a flash head on. Lee just smiled as we continued to talk about the nostalgic music and the NEWER stuff 'Not getting out there.'

It is the same thing Henry is experiencing as is Lee as is Rick Derringer and a host of artist, including Cheap Trick according to Rick while we shared a bit of that barbecue at Brady's Backyard Grill right there in Safety Harbor among those Oak trees and palms. It was a story that I knew was happening for several years when I was experiencing the growth as a radio 'Disc Jockey' (as some have called me) playing the SAME OLD TUNES and growing weary, when I knew that Tommy James had released 'Little Latin Lupy Lu' in 2005 and I was chastised by a program director for playing it, and ... having the nerve to play OLDIES that were not on the play list, but for some reason I lasted for almost two years before I QUIT. And it felt GOOD, because I had almost always been fired in my career, but actually got the jump on the last two employers ... the Jones Satellite Network and CBS' KXKL (KOOL 105FM), saying; "I can't do this for $15.00 an hour, it don't make no sense at all!"

So as we share an incredible brisket and pork sandwich at Brady's, I am hearing this incredible story coming from Rick about the plight of the artists who are feeling the same frustrations of not being able to get any airplay, that I heard from Henry Gross, and others like Carl Giammarese from The Buckinghams, or that Peter Cetera or numerous others were experiencing; and it's the same story that I presented to the satellite company, only being told ... "Mason, if you feel like you can get out there and do it ... do it, but it's not what we do."

And so the story goes, "Mason, if you will give us something more concrete and in writing, we'll give it some thought" and I immediately recognized that old story and said: "The only thing I can give you that is concrete is that April 1st, 2005 will be my last show."

I guess I have been on the illusionary side of the planet for longer than I believe, since it seems like a natural progression, but hardly believable that I just may be playing a part in the 'NEW WORLD ORDER of MUSIC and ENTERTAINMENT' according to Rick. It remains hardly believable the major radio stations and record labels can not recognize the NEW GENRE of Entertainment staring them in the face, and how LUCKY I may be ... in receiving the attention of Iconic artist that are coming 'Our' way on America's Coast to Coast, because we are willing to BLEND the OLD and the NEW, and to talk with these legendary groups and artists who shaped the 'WALL of SOUND' that the Whole WORLD wants to hear and be included.

I told Rick, like I've told Henry, like I've been telling EVERYONE ... I really BELIEVE this is the NEW WAY in radio programming, and ONE of the GREATEST Compliments I have received to date came from Rick Derringer, is when he introduced me to the owner of Brady's Backyard Grill, "This is Mason Ramsey ... the man who is doing radio like it was done in the GOOD old days, and changing the future of entertainment ... he is the man who going to make it happen, not only here in the United States but across the World!"

I was flabbergasted and a little embarrassed, and could hardly believe I was hearing what I was hearing coming from this extremely GIFTED man with so many accomplishments, and who has influenced so many major talented artist. Later I kept asking my oldest daughter, DeAnn who rode along with me; "Did I hear Rick really give me that kind of compliment?" "Yes, Dad, and he was very sincere about it too!"

As a Christian man, Rick Derringer shared his belief in GOD with DeAnn and myself as he gave thanks to 'JESUS' for his food when it was laid before us. As a Christian ... Rick openly speaks about his belief with his fans, as we spoke in detail about some of those aspects over dinner as well. Rick makes no bones about his beliefs and stands by his convictions as much as he stands by his music from the past, while he continues to pour out his talent today and as ... freely.

Rick Deringer's music is as genuine as is the man, and it shows in his personality ... as it sounds in his music. I do plan on completing the in-depth interview that we will 'AIR' on JST KLSX, since there is so much more to this special and the music on http://www.rockandrollheaven.net/. I am very happy that Rick would take the time in believing in someone like myself, as much as the other artist who seemingly are coming my way via the 'Unseen Hand' that some may call Fortuitous ... only I don't believe in accidental or coincidental ... only that we have 'Free Will' and I have chosen to step out on faith, because they 'Challenged Me.' Now ... I'm seeing the greatest talents who have influenced the world, coming into my reality.

Rick's album is 'Knighted by the Blues' and is a special we are doing on JST KLSX. I hope you can tune in for the rest of this special that: means a great deal to the future of America's Coast to Coast as it does for the fans of not only the OLDIES, but the Great NEW stuff being produced and worthy of being heard on the same station as their other hits. Thank you Rick, and thank you Henry and to all of the other artist who know what it's like in this changing world. I can only ask for your patience as I continue to break 'their' will and forcing them to 'GIVE IN' ... only I am hoping to be a part of the future too, without 'them' (Corporate) having hard feelings for me in holding to my convictions.

OFF TO FLORIDA ... and COMING BACK?

OH GOD! If this ship, the QE II had wings, I would be cruising to Florida, instead of flying the WILD SKIES of Frontier! But then again, I would be a lot richer, and wouldn't be bumping my ass trying to get off the ground, and most likely ... living near water.

But I am boarding that plane tomorrow for a quick turn around trip, if anything to get out of the wife's beautiful auburn hair, so that she does not want to get out of the radio and publishing business, or the Mason Ramsey Business.

If all goes according to any plan at all, I know that I will be meeting Henry Gross and getting to see him perform, and perhaps seeing a little of Joe Cocker's performance, and then seeing Rick Derringer and his people, so that we can talk about an upcoming special on JST KLSX.

But just having the chance to drive around Florida and go to the beach and take a few pictures for the other unmentionable project is an added plus, that maybe will afford me the luxury of cruising on the QE II with the wife ... if she will still have me. Otherwise, I'll have to go by myself, and I've seen episodes of 'The Love Boat' and it could go either way. But then again ... I guess it was 50 / 50 when I got up this morning.

When the other things in my LIFE start to GEL - I'm really hoping for the best, but I'm growing weary of saying it ... over and over again. If it happens ... it happens. If it doesn't it doesn't.

So far, we have a radio station, and even though we're not making any money ... yet, I'd like to think I'm going cruising one day, while working leisurely. It could happen! I saw the documentary on Trueman Capote who was writing ... while he traveled by train across the country, and by ship ... cruising the sea, or by the seashore in a villa in Spain. It COULD HAPPEN!

And when it comes to the matter of coming back from Florida ... I have to because: I can't even afford to stay much less go.

GOING TO FLORIDA! RADIO IS CHANGING!

Uh Ohh! FLORIDA?

Yeah the birthplace of Mason Ramsey and no it wasn't 'Over the Moon!' I couldn't even tell you we even went to the moon, although I've been repeatedly told that we were there, but: the picture of Neil Armstrong stepping off of the Lunar lander from a photo shot that appears to be taken from several feet away, always left me wondering; 'What's the real story, did Neil run go set up a camera and run back?' It just has NEVER made any sense to me in the first place. I guess I have to believe because, who am I to believe any different?

I know that I was told, "Mason you're going to Florida to see HENRY GROSS and JOE COCKER on April 22nd!" That I do believe! Especially when Judi and Joanne made the arrangements while encouraging me with statements like; 'You can't afford not to go and meet Henry Gross and possibly Joe Cocker. We've got a radio station to promote ... and you've got to take a step here Mason."

Look out! The Eagle is landing April 21st and lifting off on the 25th of April.

Know ... when I get to the Ruth Eckerd Hall on April 22nd, 2009 I am going to be seeing a couple of guys, whom I have known for all of my broadcasting career, from afar and listening to their creative careers as I so haphazardly went strolling along ... never realizing that 'Our' paths would cross and how much it would come to mean to me ... and the changing landscape on the surface of music.

While Joe Cocker is obviously a name more recognizable in the music industry to a mainstream audience, I can not dismiss the artistry of a song writer and lyricist as much as Henry Gross who really does seem to be under appreciated as much as a few other Rock and Roller's of yesteryear, who still have that important Classic lying in wait for a 'Wanting Audience' and no where to go with it.

I have spoken of the 'Same Eight Great Oldies' that Corporate radio has been homogenizing to not only 'America' but the world, and it seems that I may be on the right path, especially when I run across great NEW MUSIC with the same feeling and blend of the Classics that; it makes me feel that ... I am in the right orbit.

Remembering a conversation with a former programmer JJ McKay from the Jones Network (A very Sweet Woman) I know she was amazed that I could even think that I would want to play a new song from Tommy James in 2005 when Tommy redid the song 'Little Latin Lupe Lu' from ... not only Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels and The Righteous Brothers from years gone by ... but JJ was hard pressed in answering phone calls from all across the Nation from LOCAL program directors who: were not mad, but amazed at how many phone calls they were getting when listeners flooded their station offices on a Monday morning asking, "Mason was playing a song called 'Last Night from Chris Anderson and DJ Robbie on an Oldies Station, and OUR listeners want to KNOW 'Where can we get that song?' "

I just happened to be working JJ's shift that Monday morning after previously doing the show JUKEBOX Sunday Night ... and having her come busting through the door on that Monday Morning nearly frantic asking, "Mason ... you are not sticking to the format, but the radio stations are receiving a tremendous amount of calls about a song you played last night more than three times?"

Looking back on it ... it was like stepping off the Lunar Lander for the first step ... never realizing that I was actually traveling to another part of the Universe ... at least consciously ... and I never got to hear her boss (old what's his name) say, "JJ ...We have a problem!"

I only wish I could see the picture of that moment instead of replaying it in my head ... over and over again. Did it really happen? As far as I'm concerned ... Mason Ramsey left a very large footprint, not on the surface of the program, but right up their whazzu! I know the Music race is changing, and people like HENRY GROSS are still in the program coming up with better shuttle devices to get us (Baby Boomers) what we want - and I would like to think that I am having an effect on the program by piloting some of the music to your ears at the expense of blowing a valve before we make it back to the planet with the GOOD NEWS!

In going to Florida my main thrust is to see that concert, but to also work on the agenda for the movie, the sound track (Location Still Shooting and Video Shots) and to take at least ONE DAY for a much needed recovery on Madeira or Clearwater Beach, where the details of Bodies in the Bay began to unravel from a distant MOON called OHIO. You'll have to read the novel in understanding, but it all comes into play when you have a tragic story which tells itself, and sold by great NEW music and a few classics from the past, while we return to the greater days of movie making and the gracious days of entertainment radio ... unafraid to step out on the surface.

For now ... I am excited by the continuing possibilities of 'no true coincidences happening' on this journey. But I do need to get out of the capsule for a while, while drumming up the funding and resources for the projects that will bring us closer and back to the center of the Universe.

We remain humbled by your constant desire in wanting to tune in to http://www.rockandrollheaven.net/ JST KLSX - and can only hope that your continued patience will deliver us from the EVIL empire that may lay some claim in keeping us silent and from the terrestrial airwaves ... only the Internet is taking over anyway (only a little farther away). Are we not as good as they? Can we not be as creative as their programmers? Doth not our desires remain as prevalent as the reality of any man's dreams?

I have to say; Yes, Yes, Yes ... but I've been told by the nay Sayers; 'You're wound a little tight Mason ... you should spend at least a day at the BEACH!"

Rick Derringer "Knighted by the Blues!"

I realize that Rock and Roll has been changing as most of you have already heard me preaching on many occasions. So I will keep it short in JST KLSX form and say it like this; Thank you Rick Derringer for sending us the single on your new album "Knighted by the Blues!" that is set for release in late April.

As Rick Derringer already knows, and what listeners who are turning to the freedom of Internet Radio programmers are finding out ... is that; even the most talented artist with the most extraordinary abilities are finding it really hard to get some 'Air Play' on radio stations across the country.

With the comments I've received from playing the NEW Henry Gross material ... they are virtually the same type of comments I have been receiving from a throng of new listeners who are already familiar with Rick's new single 'Sometimes' and those comments are; 'This Music Sounds like the Rockin' tunes in the old days of radio!"

This is the truest of statements from the works of not only Henry Gross, but from Rick Derringer - and I already know: there are so many other Rock and Roller's who still have the WANT and DESIRE in CREATING some of the "Jamminest" TUNES that ... can make up for the incompetence of Radio Programmers and slothful Record Executives who are NOT giving IT their ALL, when it comes to resting on THEIR LAZY laurels and not pushing the 'GOOD STUFF!'

While talking with people in various trades and watching the world as it goes spinning by, it does have a simple solution: Get some real programmers willing to take a risk in playing some new material and blending it with the feel good stuff from the past. It can be done ... I know it, and I feel it. It's ONE of the very reasons that I keep preaching - and hoping that we can expand our audience, not only through the Internet, but back into 'Mainstream Radio and the Entertainment Industry.'

The WORLD is beginning to know we're here ... and now so do people like Rick Derringer, Henry Gross, Wayne Fontana, The Buckinghams, Bobby Hart, Barry Whitwam & Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits), Clarence Collins (Little Anthony & the Imperials), Vance Brescia, Rich Spina and others who are just as important to today's music scene as they were yesterday.

I for one, am still very excited in being 'On the Radio,' and have the same DESIRE and PASSION in being able to "Gift" the music to a 'Wanting Audience' but know that we still have a long way to go. And I do feel like people like Henry Gross have given me a gift, as much as Rick Derringer allowing me to at least preview "Sometimes' for http://www.rockandrollheaven.net/ and it does make for 'The Old Days of Radio' coming around again.

For those of you, who are just now becoming familiar with us ... you may not realize we have been here for the last couple of years ... doing shows mainly on the weekends, Saturday Night at the Oldies and Juke Box Sunday Night, and feel as if we are making the strides that we've been planning on, and seeing them come to fruition, especially when we talk with very talented musicians like Rick Derringer.

If you've missed our other interviews ... they will be on JST KLSX again, when we get a bit more sophisticated in our Web Site, and people can download or listen to them at their convenience.

I am planning on the upcoming special with Wayne Fontana and Rick Derringer, not to mention (Too Late) Felix Cavaliere. I just pray for your patience while we move forward in a World intent on keeping you tuned into the same "EIGHT GREAT OLDIES!" We're fighting them for you ... so please keep us in mind ... while we keep working on getting it done.