The HENRY GROSS SPECIAL February 28th 7 March 1 Beginning @ 5pm Mtn.

Sometimes when I talk with people, I feel like a blathering idiot after I've either walked away or hung up the phone. Okay, well maybe not sometimes, lately it feels like ALL OF THE TIME!

I seem to have this thought that my desire for accomplishing these entertainment goals may have some measure of reality laced around them, at least when I come across music icons like Henry Gross.

Henry may not look at himself as an Icon, but I do, possibly because I am familiar with his music from the past, and the other iconic figures Henry talks about, including Joe Brown, Felix Cavaliere, Jonathan Edwards, Tommy James, Garry Tallent or even Jimi Hendrix or his friend ...longtime music lover and promoter Barry Ollman; but, when I hear Henry talk about the music industry, it's almost as if he's talking about the radio industry, or corporate business in general ... and for the most part ... it just isn't fair to talented musicians like himself, or the other artist who are working in a world that has GONE CRAZY! Oh WAIT ... IF it HASN'T ... IT ALREADY is well on its way!

Yet, I feel connected to Henry's spirit, because he keeps on driving the music train, writing and producing a product deserving as much recognition, if not more than some of the 'So Called Commercialized Artist' who are being fueled by the 'High Almighty Almost Worthless Dollar' ... whose producers are still pumping out those irreverent tunes, or movies for that matter ... and for the most part, have no redeeming qualities. Without putting Maria Carey down, because she really is a very wonderful singer, and ultimately a sexy vixen ... and I agreed with Henry's assessment: "While she's scored as many number one hits, you just can not name one tune" especially if you're like Mason. Maybe I just don't give them as much credence as those 'Oldies' we grew up with, but even more so to the newest tunes that are coming onto the cultural mainstream ... I FEEL as IF I am BEING PUSHED ASIDE! Yes, there are some DRIVING tunes out there that I LOVE, but I can not remember their names ... other than Freak a Leak, and some other crazy tunes that are thumping ... but I only use them for other production pieces, knowing I would have to EDIT their content ... for not only the BABY BOOMERS but the GRANDCHILDREN.

Well ... if you've come to know me ... I refuse to go quietly ... and have made attempts in giving artist like Henry Gross a place to showcase those songs that are NOT being given the attention they deserve in today's entertainment landscape.

When I spoke with Barry Ollman last night, who was kind enough to call me ... I found myself beginning to fall off the edge as I started hyperventilating about the future of radio, music and all of the possibilities that I've been encountering over the last several years. And while Barry assured me that; "Mason, any friend of Henry's is a friend of mine" ... while it was a very kind thing to say, it just made me wonder ... 'Am I riding that radio train, blowing my own whistle, sucking in the fumes of my own smoke?'

We're living in a very different world, yet Henry, Barry and others are still trudging along doing the thing that makes all of the difference in the world, and I'm pretty sure that it's that ONE thing called 'Passion' that connects those who have the tenacity and fortitude to continue doing what they believe in ... for all these years.

With that being said ... I have to remember to temper my enthusiasm ... mainly because I feel that my train is sometimes behind schedule and I'm Ol' Casey barreling down the tracks trying to make up the time. If I'm not careful I may end up 'Running up on OLD NUMBER 9!'

Be listening for the great music and enthusiasm of Henry Gross this weekend beginning at 5:00pm on Saturday February 28th and again on March 1st, 2009. Henry has a tremendous repertoire of music that some you may be familiar with, from the past ... and some because we've been playing it here on JST KLSX - http://www.rockandrollheaven.net/.

And ONE more thing ... I have to believe we're all connected in this world, in one way or another, and may not even know it. But, the AGE old philosophy is that; there is an underlying energy that connecting us all, and by connecting with Henry we've become friends to some very COOL people, who are those memory makers that have sculpted our minds into the GREATEST music in the UNIVERSE. Here's a picture of Barry Ollman with his good friend Graham Nash on Graham's 60th birthday bash back in 2002. I'll bet that was a FUN party.

Henry thanks for taking the time with America's Coast to Coast --- and Barry, thank you for also taking the time in listening to a 'Runaway Engineer' blowing 'His' whistle ... I'm positive that you guys have heard it many times before ... I just can't slow down until I get to the next stop.

IT'S ALREADY BEEN TWO YEARS!

You really think that I am not going to make it? OMG! This is nothing!

If you haven't heard as yet, XM / Sirius is having to come up with a few million bucks just to avoid going bankrupt, because THEY ARE IDIOTS! About as much as the FOOLS who are already steeped in the 'Bail Out' Monies being given to the Bankers by 'Our' Government representatives, who are playing hide the 'Nickel' from the people who really need it ... like you and me!

This is not just about Radio, it is about the way Corporate America and the Government is fooling its people, who are supporting the 'World's Economy,' while they are systematically steering the middle class into competing against not only itself, but the 'Cheapest Labor' in the world, like those in India, China and Mexico ... who by the way, do not have even the simplest of basic Human Rights that we see here. But ... watch out ... that is rapidly eroding ... all in the name of a thing called Globalization, or 'THE NEW WORLD ORDER!'

I have seen it first hand from a Corporate side of radio, who want to devalue their talent pool by having them work for less money, while squeezing them for more hours, because of an emerging technology. Sadly; most of those people who are accepting it ... deserve it but ... not people like me, or you, who have and are becoming a little more aware ... and willing to do something about it instead of waiting for a handout. But, because those who are making the decisions at the top ... are GREEDY Bastards, and are NOT thinking of you, much less me.

It is the VERY reason that I chose to 'Walk Away' from a company who did not want to employ someone of my nature, for whatever reason, but also another VERY good reason why I have chosen to take up the legal gauntlet as 'In Pro Pria Persona' against the injustices of a few American companies and the Local and Federal Government itself.

Some of you may have heard the stories about Mason educating himself to the ways of history through 'Broad Experiential Experience' but here it is in a nutshell: GIVE ME SOME OF THAT MONEY they're giving to these companies, who are homogenizing our LIVES, and OUR MUSIC.

These bail outs to American Companies, who are still laying off people in the United States while still employing ... even ONE foreigner ... does not make ONE DAMN bit of sense ... when we are the people who deserve the natural resources ... FIRST and FOREMOST. This includes companies like XM / Sirius who are being run like most media companies, with no thought for their audiences.

But here's the problem: You're NOT getting the whole story, but do the math: 300 million Americans, allowing 'Their' government to print up Hundreds of BILLIONS of Dollars in MONEY when there are only about 6.5 Billion people in the world. It is very simple math and the numbers DO NOT ADD up, in a country where paying taxes is voluntary, but with criminal and civil penalties ... IF you don't pay them. I don't mind paying my share, but my share is being given to Juan, Pun Jab and Dong Lee, who are already being systematically trounced into oblivion, and the money they get is going back to the GREEDIEST of those at the top. I feel sorry for Juan, Pun Jab and Dong Lee, but I feel more sorry for the people in my own backyard first.

Me? I started a radio station in the hopes that I could at least have a job that would give me the freedom to branch out for the future, with a paycheck and an ability to educate, inform and entertain those who want to come along for the ride. Don't worry about the water ... I feel confident that we've got a 'Higher Power' on the other side of the river, and there is a rope attached to this vehicle we call JST KLSX and http://www.rockandrollheaven.net/ --- but, please don't mind me ... all I can say is: I really think I can do better than those nuts, if they give us the same chances. Plus I think you'll find it a whole lot more amusing ... and I don't mind you laughing at me, as long as we've got a place to lay our head, bread to eat, heat to sleep and great music to listen to when we're up to our necks in the THICK of a gushing economy.

PLEASE LET ME HELP STIMULATE THE ECONOMY or this Company! I can tickle it ever so gently, and leave a smile on more than a few faces. But I know ... I don't have the 'Papers' or the 'Pedigree' and maybe a few skeletons in the closet, but DAMN! They have those things and they're still mucking up the RIVER!

Go ahead call me a smart ass ... I can take it!