NEW SINGLE // SUPER DOUBLE AGENT // FREE DOWNLOAD

 Trucker is pleased to announce the release of their new single
 "Super Double Agent".
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CREDITS:
 RECORDED BY : TRUCKER @ DICK JACK ED STUDIO / PERRY, KS
 MIXING : j.hall / www.thetarhythm.com
 MASTERING : Brad Blackwood / www.euphonicmasters.com

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NEW SINGLE // DOSCHA // FREE DOWNLOAD

Trucker is pleased to announce the release of their new single "Doscha".
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CREDITS:
 RECORDED BY : TRUCKER @ DICK JACK ED STUDIO / PERRY, KS
 MIXING : j.hall / www.thetarhythm.com
 MASTERING : Brad Blackwood / www.euphonicmasters.com

 © 2010 Trucker®. All rights reserved.

You don't need an Alchemist to know better.

In June 1937, during the beginning stages of the atomic age, there was an Alchemist named Fulcanelli who is believed to have discovered the secrets to reverse aging and create gold from lead (In 1980, Glenn Seaborg, at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, used nuclear physics to transmute several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold by removing protons and neutrons from the bismuth atoms.). It is said that Fulcanelli paid a visit to author Jacques Bergier, in a Paris lab, and gave him a great warning to pass along to the atomic physicist with whom he was working, André Hellbronner. His message was that the discoveries they were making had been made by Alchemist's centuries ago and that they knew then that the knowledge was too dangerous for mankind to meddle in. Furthermore, nuclear physics was a science whose side effects and potential for disaster were too destructive to justify using and that any short term benefit was completely outweighed by the potential for a long term disaster.

During certain times in our history man-kind has a nasty habit of delving into activities that are great and monumentious. The trouble sometimes in these discoveries is that we are able to achieve great things but are unable to predict or prepare for what happens when these great things create great consequence. People are blinded by the great discovery and assume that because they have conquered one giant feat they can also conquer any related by-product of it.

With the discovery and propagation of the magical splitting of an atom we harnessed great energy and a great destructive power. We were able to generate clean energy and create a weapon that potentially had the power to end all wars. What we never solved was what happens if things go wrong. As a result of our discoveries we created a circumstance where instead of a situation ending all wars, we created a situation where the world is in constant fear of complete destruction. Wherein the mis-use or mistake in using it as a clean source of energy, we risk contaminating and destroying all that it touches for millenniums. We thought we could safely use the by-products of our waste to create non-explosive ammunition only to contaminate entire countries with a contaminated dust that outshines the effects of our largest A-bomb explosions. causing death and disfigurement for many generations. Once released this dust does not discriminate from friend and foe. It is a permanent fixture in our lives and the ones that follow.

Our conversation in these days has been more focused on the use of fossil fuels and the Climate Change/Global Warming/Earth Cycle debates. There are arguments in every direction about what is happening and who or what is to blame. While the "experts" banter back and forth it seems that no one has taken a step back and simply asked everyone to take a look around at the visible results of their use. The evidence of their impact is available for everyone in any community to see. Visit a creek or pond in your neighborhood near a roadway and you will see the pockets of glistening run-off. Fly into any major city and watch as you descend through a brown cloud while landing. Visit New York and watch the constant rotation of workers power wash the soot off the facades of the buildings. It seems all of our discussion and in-fighting has been locked into a climate debate which can be easily skewed in any direction just because of the grandiose scale of it's impact and timeline. What cannot be skewed or easily discredited is what you can see right now in every place on this earth. The direct impact of using this source of energy has always been evident in the left hand but everyone has been watching the right hand.

Until a few months ago.

What we have now is an entire eco-system, a gulf, a small ocean if you will, being destroyed more and more everyday. As the Gulf dies it spreads like an infection to other bodies near and far away. The land is becoming contaminated, the air has the potential to become unbreathable and even explosive , other bodies of water all around the planet will soon be drinking from the Gulfs toxic stew spreading the problem farther and farther from its home. This does not even take into account the personal toll on peoples livelihoods but considering the other effects of this situation I would say the ability for people to make money is, as crast as it sounds, negligible. I do not say that with a lack of sympathy for the people that will continue to be affected for.....well as far as I can figure forever...but the impacts of this event makes anything monetary seem somewhat unimportant no matter how heartbreaking.

Even as our sub-conscious mind witnessed every day the immediate effects of its daily use in our local communities and as we watch the Gulf become more and more infected we focus on the muddied long term Global impact arguments. We argue that we have no other choice in what we are doing if we want to maintain our way of life. How would we function as a society without oil. Well how well are we functioning now, bubba?

New Technologies are expensive.

Before moving into a response on why we haven't developed cleaner sources of energy, I must mention something briefly. Money is bullshit. I realize the immediate reaction from the reader will probably be something about "try to live without it", and I get that. My point is there is always talk of the lack money when it comes to something that may benefit the masses, that a few may oppose. Rarely is there a time in history when there is a lack of money for something that hurts the masses and benefits a few. Money is a manmade "science' that is nothing but a rigged junk system. Inflation is nothing but a revolving cycle of greed that is constantly fluctuating so that costs and income are consistently and permanently imbalanced, mostly favoring that of cost. The experts will have you believe there is a complexity and life force in our magic money, but an economy today is nothing but a elaborate manipulation of a society to benefit those that sit on the fringe. It is a system that is by design a system of confusion and loop-holes with complex worded non-sense that will assure any criminality is protected by a deliberate fantasy based vocabulary.

They tell us that new technologies are not economically viable. We can't afford to change.
They tell us that our way of life would be jeopardized and that we would have to go backwards.
They tell us tell us it is too expensive to be 100% safe and clean in our energy harvests

Somehow we can afford to clean an entire "ocean", it's coasts and more.
Somehow we can afford to jeopardize the way of life for an entire region, creating an economic deadzone. 
Somehow we can afford to replace all the lives, human and other

I have written before about misplaced efforts and how things could've been different had another approach been taken. What if instead of feeding off the fat of their price gouged profits we had taken all of the record setting riches and placed them towards something that is beneficial for the future instead of the now. What if we had another Manhattan Project using the worlds best minds to change the way the world is powered and flows. 

Of course there would be sacrifice.
Of course it would not be easy.
Of course in the end we would succeed.

Maybe the great loss we are experiencing and will continue to experience can be the final straw in bringing down these fringe elements and stomp them down to a point to where they never rise again. They have quietly been taking from us for our entire lives (and our parents, and our grandparents and..etc) and like the mafia they have slowly inducted us into the grand crime to the point we feel we cannot live without being an everyday accomplice. No one is without fault in our energy policy, we are all with bloodied hands but those that have led us here are wielding the ax. 

A grand example needs to be made from ANY and ALL companies that have caused intentional harm to citizens for profit, were involved in creating propaganda to manipulate or distract from an dangerous and immoral issue, purchased, stolen or killed for patents to hide better alternatives to their products to ensure ongoing profitability at the expense of the public, and have used their money and influence to create legislation that benefits the right of a corporation over that of the people.

We need to change our 21st Century way of thinking assuming we can outsmart any situation and the earth will adapt to us. It's uncomfortable to think about but we are on a big blue ball in the middle of no where, as of right now this is all we got folks and we need to take care of things. There is a natural balance to the world and if we continue to be disgraceful to our home, even on a local level, it holds the same warning that Fulcanelli gave to Bergier and we shall have to atone for these things.

Just because you are able to do something, it doesn't mean you should.

From the album 2009 album "hello amero"

Too Late

the birds are flying with their tar in tow
ignoring people living far below
the rivers running from a blue to brown
they dream it build it then they tear it down

the people gather to announce the blame
they cry and scream ignoring all their shame
the air grows thick and then its hard to breathe
a life of wanting, what you want you need

but it's too late
it's gone
it's too late
always waiting
it's too late

the sky will burn and then the sea will boil
the plants will all choke on the poison soil
the fish will float then the animals die
that's just a step away from you and i

you lay your head upon a pile of ash
you feel the thunder and you hear the crash
you hope and pray that when your savior comes
that he'll forgive you for what all you've done

NEW SINGLE // IN THE MOURNING // FREE DOWNLOAD

Trucker is pleased to announce the release of their new single "In The Mourning".

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RECORDED BY : TRUCKER @ DICK JACK ED STUDIO / PERRY, KS

MIXING : j.hall / www.thetarhythm.com

MASTERING : Brad Blackwood / www.euphonicmasters.com

• © 2010 Trucker®. All rights reserved.

It is not my intent to blow your gourde.

Let's take a little trip into the land of what if's.

Some years back I picked up a copy of Dr. Emoto's "The Hidden Messages In Water". Some of you may be familiar with his work from the movie "What the (bleep) Do we Know".

Because I am super cool I knew about his work way before the movie came out. That has nothing to do with this post, I just wanted to point out how cool I was....back then.

In a brief nutshell Dr. Emoto's theory is that water interacts and absorbs the emotional state of its surroundings. He exposes identical samples of water to different situations audibly and/or visually (even meditation andwritten words) and then freezes the water. Once frozen he analyzes the crystal structure of the samples, and if his work is correct, he has some very drastic results. For example he exposes 2 identical samples to two different environments. One sample receives praise while another is spoken too harshly or ignored. When the two samples are compared after freezing the crystal pattern of the one that received the positive treatment forms a perfect snowflake structure with an organized branching system and balance, where as the crystal image of theof the mistreatedsample is unorganized and shows little resemblance to a "snowflake" structure.

OK, you got that? Treat water good it's pretty, treat water bad you fuck it all up.

Without reiterating Dr. Emoto's entire book the main points that lay on the bed of this information is that all living creatures are mostly made up of water. So if water is influenced by thoughts or surroundings then would it only make sense that it also affects our bodies. Let's look at a real life examples of how this principle is practiced and perhaps felt.

Holy water : A priest gives a vessel of water a blessing and then it is thought of as empowered by its believers. Dr. Emoto has also done experiments with shamans, priests and holy men from many different religions not only analyzing its structure before and after a blessing but also using the same blessings on large bodies of contaminated water and watching as the quality of the water improves. In theory this could also be lumped into the prayer healing genre if the person praying is in close proximity of the on being healed.

Plant Studies : Everyone has heard the tales of houseplants being subjected to different environments. One plant will get classical music, one heavy metal, one plant is spoken to kindly everyday while another is ignored. There are studies that show this is a myth, there are also studies that show this to be true. Again, we are off on a little trip here so for the sake of argument we are going to assume the latter.

At one of our weekly post-Trucker-practice discussions I brought this subject up. I was speaking about how the frozen structures lock in the emotional moment of the water. Our resident master-de-bater Hank posed the same question regarding salt. Like ice, it is a locked crystal structure and moving the theory from just water to everything, would it make sense that salt when formed would hold it's initial state? At the time I was staying on the train that salt is a locked structure from the get go and unlike water it is never a "free structure". We moved on from the discussion to talk about more important things like how Josh's new mustache was filling in nicely.

Because I am a super rich rock god with not much to do, I spent the next few days obsessed with this discussion. Based on our salt discussion, I kept coming back to another locked crystal formation, Quartz.

Quartz crystals are bad ass. We use them everyday and don't even realize it. Quartz has an ability to create and use energy. It's used for timing in our watches, computers and it is pretty ta-boot.

For thousands of years hippies from every generation have claimed to feel the different energies from different pieces of quartz. Different samples give different results. I would assume the same could be said in the electronic world that there are preferred sources for the quartz for different applications. Hmmmm...

Let's look at Salt and Quartz side by side:

Salt is made up of Sodium and Chlorine
Quartz is made up of Silicon and Oxygen

Hold my calls Annie, I am onto something here and I may not be coming back for a few weeks.

What I realized is that if Dr. Emoto's theory is TRUE, then he is WRONG. It is not the water storing the information, it is the Oxygen. Not only is quartz composed of oxygen, oxygen makes up over half of the quartz composition. So when the quartz is created what do you have? You would have the oxygen being locked in its given state and then it is wrapped in a conductive Silicon shell. Water is made up of Oxygen and Hydrogen. Unlike Quartz, water is of course a fluid, giving it the ability to have the oxygen to move freely and change according to its surrounding, having the intent be unfixed if you will. Just like the Silicon in the Quartz the Oxygen in the water is supported by a nice conductor, Hydrogen. So what we have are two different things that in simple terms could be looked at as "Intent conductors".

You'll get back ten folds of what you put out.
Think positive.
That place give me bad vibes.
Send that beautiful thought out to the world...

We've heard all these things. Some are wives tales, some our Guru mantras, some are on Oprah.
But what if they are true?
What if Oxygen has a component within it to store intent?
What if not only can that intent be altered by flowing in and out of our bodies lungs but what if could be altered by thoughts?

Yeah, Whoa.

Think of it this way. There is a tiny little piece of the oxygen that is a super fancy mood ring. You think something strong enough, your body transmits that in the air around you, (auras?) or through exhalation and the oxygens little mood ring changes accordingly. Let's look at some of the things that could be explained.

Ever heard someone say "They just sucked the energy right out of me, I'm exhausted."

For me personally, I have issues with some situations. Some would call it bad vibes shaking up my mojo...I call it "I need to get the hell out of here" syndrome. When I get into some situations I sometimes get the sudden bombardment of being very uncomfortable, sometimes to the point of being dizzy, patchy skin and on the verge of feeling like I am going to pass out. You could attribute this to anxiety or panic attack type things but the feelings I have are not that of panic but more of a smothering. People don't make me nervous, but what if their thoughts, emotions and intent do. One thing in particular I find interesting in my case is the patchy skin. What if there is a mechanism within our bodies to reject Oxygen that holds a negative intent? Could it be that certain people will not absorb or process Oxygen that our body deems inappropriate for us?

That's enough about me and my terrible, terrible mental issues. I think I will survive. Let's look a few real world applications if this theory is true.

Mob-Mentality: If a crowd becomes charged up enough and that intent is sent stronger and stronger through a group of people can it amplify and have influence over individuals bypassing their normal patterns of reason? If someone's body has a higher range of acceptance and a lower rate for Oxygen rejection are they more susceptible to being influenced by outside intent. Is this why some people who are referred to as "sensitives" have the "Get me the hell out of here" syndrome? The same could be said on the opposite end of the spectrum. When the air is rich with positive attitudes and influence you often hear people say "It felt like a wave of peace", "It was like we were all family" or "It feels very safe here".

Creepy places : What if air from the past has such a build up of intent in a certain location that the concentration of that intent is so charged that it takes a more powerful event to change it. Is this why some places always feel "creepy" until they have been blessed and then take on a new feeling? Think about that for a moment. If a place is one that is thought of being "creepy" how many people that enter that environment go into it thinking I am going to change it. Most of the time when we are in an uncomfortable environment do not think about creating change. In a spooky house for instance you will exude fear, aggression or anxiety. Feeding the beast if you will. If a "holy man" enters a space with the drive and concentration to create a powerful influx of a positive, over time they could they create a cascade effect where the new intent outnumbers the old. How would a concentration of emotion and intent help to explain ghost sightings? Is there an interaction between how information would be stored and its interaction with the electromagnetic spectrum? Remember we are working with intent wrapped in a electric conductor.

Mind reading, ESP, Jinxes : How do some secrets come to light through a "feeling" by others. Why do people say the same things at the same time without provocation, does de-ja-vu happen because it was meant to be or because it was made it be?

Prayer healing, Reiki, big fat hugs : Can concentrated and pure thoughts be transmitted at a high level from one individual to another through thought and made even stronger through touch? Can the intent be focused onto a certain area for healing purposes? Can it be focused to cause destruction?

I literally could keep going through the different everyday things that could be attributed to this theory. I have a lot of questions when I think about this little theory. Again while thinking about this I assume it to be true for the sake of argument.

So far in my inner debate I would have to think that the state of an Oxygens intent is locked until influenced by another, but if that new intent is outnumbered by the previous state in surrounding Oxygen then the newly changed intent will quickly be reverted back to the previous state strictly because of its surrounding Oxygen buddies.

Do intents cluster? Are similar Oxygen pieces attracted to others with the same intent or do they randomly run around until they hit a stronger force. If I am a happy intent and I hit a negative intent do we swap states? Do I just continue on until I meet a group of more than one? Is it like a series of bouncing balls that are constantly hitting each other and changing "colors" depending on the ratio of the influence?

How far can an intent travel? Does it rely on it's strength in numbers and to propagate? (concentration level of the source person(s) and number of individuals and the duration that participate in its creation)

What role does mass media and television influence the general state of thought even if an individual claims to not be influenced by outside opinions and judgments? Is it in the end out of their control just due to the level of saturation?

When Oxygen is created is it at birth pure? Can you purify the intent out of oxygen? (Through shocking electrically? Does Lightning or Ozone generators do a hard reset?)

So there you go, thats about all I can type without losing complete focus on the subject and drift away down the rabbit hole of possibilities. I know this stream of thoughts is by no-means a complete theory, more of a series of questions and holes....but that's what makes it fun.

I tell you what, it may all be bullshit but I find it a very healthy exercise in trippy thinking.

If you want to poo poo this whole theory as some crazed crap and you choose not to give it another thought, think about this other crazy incident:

Scientists were able to beam an atom a continent away and have it appear simultaneously in 2 locations.
Same object at 2 different locations at the exact same moment. In case you missed that...ONE object, not a copy, ONE object - TWO places thousands of miles apart.

Doesn't make a mood ring hidden inside of our O2 sound so nuts after all, now does it?

jazzhaus : lawrence : june 5th

 

Captain's Blog: Stardate 0-5-0-3-2-0-1-0 - Pearl Jam

I'm going to see my favorite band of my life perform tonight at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.  I've been a member of their fan club since 1998 and as a result of this, will have very good seats.  Pearl Jam, to me, is one of the more interesting acts for a number of reasons and in this blog post, I'm going to delve into the reasons why I feel this way. 

 <-----  Pearl Jam in 1992

Pearl Jam's origins can be traced all the way back to the band Green River, which formed in Seattle in 1984.  Two of its members, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard had stylistic conflicts with the other members of Green River (who went on to form another Seattle stalwart band, Mudhoney).  Gossard and Ament hooked up with Malfunkshun vocalist Andrew Wood to form Mother Love Bone, which almost immediately signed a lucrative recording contract with Polygram records.  Four months after their first album released, Wood died of a heroin overdose, leaving the the remaining members without a record contract or a singer.  They split up for a few months while Gossard continued writing.  During this time, he began playing with fellow Seattle guitarist Mike McCready (whose band Shadow had also just broken up) and they, along Ament and Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron (who was filling in for a drummer they didn't have) would record a five track demo to shop around for vocalists. 

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons got a hold of the tape (Gossard and Ament wanted him to be their drummer) and gave it to his friend Eddie Vedder, who was fronting the San Diego band Bad Radio and working nights at a gas station.  Vedder wrote lyrics and recorded vocals for three of the demo songs, which he titled Once, Alive, and Footsteps.  The band was very impressed with his performance and lyrics and within a week he was their lead singer.  With the addition of Dave Krusen and calling themselves Mookie Blaylock (a New Jersey Nets point guard who played at Oklahoma) they played their first show at the Off Ramp Cafe on October 22nd, 1990.  Within five months, they were signed to Epic Records and in Seattle's London Bridge Studios and cut what would become their most well-known and best-selling album, Ten. 

Ten was released on August 27, 1991 (almost a full month before Nirvana's Nevermind) and almost no one bought it.  Its success came about because of the grunge explosion, fueled by the aforementioned Nevermind album (which Ten would eventually outsell) and by their high energy, captivating live show, Pearl Jam shot to number 2 on the charts by mid-summer of 1992 (held off the number one spot by Billy Ray Cyrus).  This was also in large part to the video success of their single Jeremy. 

Here's where I'm going to cut in.  In the spring of 1992, I was a sophomore in high school and I thought grunge music (or Alternative Rock) was an absolute joke.  I thought they looked stupid, I thought they wrote heavy (both musically and thematically) music for no reason, I thought they were trying to hard, and I thought they were too serious.  I HATED them.  The reason, of course, is that all I was listening to at the time was Billy Joel and hardcore hip hop.  Trust me, at that point I had enough melodic music and enough political music.  I clearly remember making fun of Eddie Vedder's eyes-rolled-back-while-singing-about-how-sad-he-is-that-a-kid-shot-himself-mush-mouthed-nonsense-video to my sister, who had just said that they were the highlight of Lollapalooza '92. 

It wasn't until vs. came out in the fall of '93 that I really started to take them seriously.  I myself was going through my first real relationship of my life and was starting to expand my musical horizons.  For some reason, the song Daughter really struck a chord with me and I started listening to them more intently.  When Alicia (my first girlfriend) broke my heart (on Valentine's Day no less!) the song Rearviewmirror became my anthem.  Driving with all the windows down, wind blowing my (then) hair, singing this song at full blast was exactly the medicine I needed for what was then the most painful experience of my life. 

And it continued.  Cobain killed himself, Soundgarden broke up, Layne Staley died of a heroin overdose, but Pearl Jam persevered.  Vitalogy, No Code, and Yield will forever define my college experience.  Binaural and Riot Act (though flawed) will always remind me of grad school and my first years as a teacher (which were, like those albums, very flawed years).  Pearl Jam is the reason I collect records and Air Jordans.  Pearl Jam (in a roundabout way) is also the reason my wife fell in love with me.  I owe these guys a lot, and I'm very excited to hear them again.  If you haven't listened to their most recent record, Backspacer, give it a spin.  It's a very good album. 

Here are the fellas from '09, aging gracefully:

 

NEW SINGLE // ENDLESSLY // FREE DOWNLOAD

Trucker is pleased to announce the release of their new single "Endlessly".

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Endlessly

CREDITS:

RECORDED BY : TRUCKER @ DICK JACK ED STUDIO / PERRY, KS

MIXING : j.hall / www.thetarhythm.com

MASTERING : Brad Blackwood / www.euphonicmasters.com

• © 2010 Trucker®. All rights reserved.

recordBar : kcmo : may 28th

 

KKFI // Real Deal // Friday April 9th // 7 p.m.

Trucker will be featured on KKFI's Real Deal radio show,
Friday April 9th @ 7:00 p.m.

Click here to listen through itunes or tune in to 90.1 FM in Kansas City to hear the show.

Special thanks to Mike Lytle for his continued support.

o'malleys alley : manhattan ks : may 22nd