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Chet and I have been tight since 1963. Connie Chestnut my girl friend from Mill valley took me over to San Francisco to meet, Chet, Elsa Kali, her daughter Yoni and Oscar.
Soon after Chet introduced me to Michael Ferguson.
I wanted to help Chet get off speed so I took him to Silver city, Nevada to take Peyote with the Native American Church at the ZEN MINE. www.woodstocknation.org/peyote.htm
Their he met Don Works , Rick Mallory, and Travis T. Hipp .
Travis owned a coffee House in Berkeley called the CABAL. Many great folk singers performed there and would stop at the Zen Mine for rest and relaxation.
Michael Ferguson sooned joined in and with money from Mark, the Red Dog Saloon was open for Entertainment by THE CHARLETONS, were truly the first psychedelic. Electric Band with Michael Ferguson on rag time piano..
I was linked to the Family Dog through Michael Ferguson, Chan Laughlin, “TRAVIS T.HIPP”, Luria Castille , Ellen Harmon and Chet.
During the summer of 1965 Luria and Ellen spent almost every weekend in Big Sur where I was the bouncer. at Redwood Lodge and Tony Phillips was bartender for LSD investigator JOE K. ADAMS. That was the last LSD summer of no bummers or freak outs.
The disc Jocky Tom Donahue opened a psychedelic night club on Broadway in North beach , called MOTHERS and used Big Sur and Sausalito artists to create the trippy interior and light show.
That was Don Lewis, Neal Rose, Rodney Richmond, Chris Roberts and a few others.
Soon after the Longshoreman’s hall was leased by the Family Dog. Out of all that came the Family Dog Productions with Kelly doing the Graphics.
In 1979 I was living on a dredge in Sausalito with Charles Michael Haas II aka Michael Woodstock - the Dredge
1948 - 1986 Murdered in Mexico
Michael , Rapid Robert and I were taking a lot of LSD and felt we were the HOO KOO EE KOO Indians or Seagull people.. We wanted to do a gathering of the tribes in the spirit of the Local Natives. I told Michael I knew Chet Helms well and would introduce him. Michael came up with $150,000 and we went to see Chet. Chet got together with Bell Star and went to work.
The Tribal Stomp in 1979 at the Monterey Fairgrounds happened and the band we all wanted to see was Burning Spear- it was also the first Us appearance of The Clash -.
There is a picture of me with the Clash in the Rolling Stone taken at that show.
The police sealed off the fairgrounds and wouldnt let anyone enter of leave. as a result it was a sweet but expensive privite party. One reason was they heard we were going to give away FREE POT. Some Humbolt county growers had brought down gunny sacks full just to give away. For two days agents searched the fairgrounds looking for who had the pot. On the last day Wavy Gravy was doing a monologue on stage and the growers came running into the arena and dumped the pot on the STAGE in front of WEAVY.
Nobody got busted and everybody got high.
My son Dunn was conceived at that party.
I miss Chet a lot.
Peace Love and Music
brother daniel
Soon after Chet introduced me to Michael Ferguson.
I wanted to help Chet get off speed so I took him to Silver city, Nevada to take Peyote with the Native American Church at the ZEN MINE. www.woodstocknation.org/peyote.htm
Their he met Don Works , Rick Mallory, and Travis T. Hipp .
Travis owned a coffee House in Berkeley called the CABAL. Many great folk singers performed there and would stop at the Zen Mine for rest and relaxation.
Michael Ferguson sooned joined in and with money from Mark, the Red Dog Saloon was open for Entertainment by THE CHARLETONS, were truly the first psychedelic. Electric Band with Michael Ferguson on rag time piano..
I was linked to the Family Dog through Michael Ferguson, Chan Laughlin, “TRAVIS T.HIPP”, Luria Castille , Ellen Harmon and Chet.
During the summer of 1965 Luria and Ellen spent almost every weekend in Big Sur where I was the bouncer. at Redwood Lodge and Tony Phillips was bartender for LSD investigator JOE K. ADAMS. That was the last LSD summer of no bummers or freak outs.
The disc Jocky Tom Donahue opened a psychedelic night club on Broadway in North beach , called MOTHERS and used Big Sur and Sausalito artists to create the trippy interior and light show.
That was Don Lewis, Neal Rose, Rodney Richmond, Chris Roberts and a few others.
Soon after the Longshoreman’s hall was leased by the Family Dog. Out of all that came the Family Dog Productions with Kelly doing the Graphics.
In 1979 I was living on a dredge in Sausalito with Charles Michael Haas II aka Michael Woodstock - the Dredge
1948 - 1986 Murdered in Mexico
Michael , Rapid Robert and I were taking a lot of LSD and felt we were the HOO KOO EE KOO Indians or Seagull people.. We wanted to do a gathering of the tribes in the spirit of the Local Natives. I told Michael I knew Chet Helms well and would introduce him. Michael came up with $150,000 and we went to see Chet. Chet got together with Bell Star and went to work.
The Tribal Stomp in 1979 at the Monterey Fairgrounds happened and the band we all wanted to see was Burning Spear- it was also the first Us appearance of The Clash -.
There is a picture of me with the Clash in the Rolling Stone taken at that show.
The police sealed off the fairgrounds and wouldnt let anyone enter of leave. as a result it was a sweet but expensive privite party. One reason was they heard we were going to give away FREE POT. Some Humbolt county growers had brought down gunny sacks full just to give away. For two days agents searched the fairgrounds looking for who had the pot. On the last day Wavy Gravy was doing a monologue on stage and the growers came running into the arena and dumped the pot on the STAGE in front of WEAVY.
Nobody got busted and everybody got high.
My son Dunn was conceived at that party.
I miss Chet a lot.
Peace Love and Music
brother daniel
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Re: FAMILY DOG AND TRIBAL STOMP HISTORY - More stories please
Sun, October 9, 2005 - 11:12 AMThis is lovely, I made a new friend the other day a music and travel journalist from Amsterdam for Cosmopolitan. She'd never heard of Chet but everyone we ran into that afternoon just happened to know Chet and kept telling her thier stories about him. I said I would collect and send her articles and info. May I send her that one you wrote on Chet's tribe?
Also if anyone else has a Chet Story please post it here. Please state if it is ok for folks in this tribe to pass the story/s on.
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Re: FAMILY DOG AND TRIBAL STOMP HISTORY - More stories please
Thu, October 20, 2005 - 6:33 PMHmmmmmmmm....I paid the bands at Tribal Stomp II and it was Peter Tosh not Burning Spear. Our money problems had other sources, and I know, not the police. Dredge, I spent many a night on the Loafer as part of the Midnight Moving Crew, I'd heard he died of an overdose up in WA, I think Port Townsend, or was it Coos Bay, OR..... But we all know it is a sketchy at best item, this memory thing, especially those times. See you Sunday, come say hello! -
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Fri, December 23, 2005 - 8:31 AMThanks for the correction. It was Peter Tosh.
What ever happened to ANGEL BABIES? They were great.
According to Penny the Ex wife of Michael. WOODSTOCK, Haas and his daughters He died after being stabbed 4 times coming out of an Acapulco whore house at 6 in the morning. He had on him $10,000 and 10,000 hits of acid. They took the money and the acid came back to California with his body.
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Re: FAMILY DOG AND TRIBAL STOMP HISTORY
Fri, October 21, 2005 - 12:07 AMi was the one who took the photo "hippies use side door" using chets camera - out on a night at the werepad on 3rd and 20th with my friend jason wolf, we'd just been there for a party where jasons band played a set along to a horror movie being screened there.
i met chet some years back at the maritime, and was introduced by photographer michael mendelson. chet had just begun getting into digital photography and didnt know much yet about photoshop or image manipulation, and since i had some considerable background, i offered to help chet. i began by going over to the atelier dore gallery on bush nights and weekends, and spending a considerable amount of time working with him on transferring, organizing and printing his photos. we also got busy on some web work.
chet took to my musicianship, and liked very much the cds of my music that i gave to him. he and i shared a mutual friend in george michalski, and often i saw chet at many of george's performances at the cypress and at the cliffhouse.
one of my favorite memories was a birthday party i had at the cypress where chet showed up, as did also my late father, and the two met for the first time and seemed to hit it off well. my father ended up passing a few months later.
ill never forget the night chet took me to see james brown at the paramount in oakland. we sat smack in the middle of the front row. just before james came onstage one of the bandmembers tossed me a tshirt which i wore immediately - james came out saw it looked at me and gave me a big smile and a wink, then later came over and shook my hand. halfway through the performance he stopped inbetween songs and gave props to chet, whom he got to stand up and be recognized by the audience - chet got a big ovation.
through chet ive met some incredible people, to try to name them all would be futile. i have many more chet stories i could tell, but for now this is all that i feel like posting.
chet was always to me kind, openminded, unbiased, and seemed to take an interest in me like a big brother would have. there are very few people in the world like him, and i think i am definitely a better person for having known him at all. i am confident he is in good company now, is with us always, hears all of our prayers, and will continue to be there to support us in loving friendship as he always did.
i have what may be the very last recording of chet's voice, a voicemail message he left me only 2 days prior to his passing. i made an mp3 of it, and would be happy to send it to anyone who would like to have it.
see yall next weekend.
