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Coyote Radio TV - Life is a Rock Opera

By: Richard Del Connor "The Hippy Coyote"
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  • Coyote Radio TV is the psychedelic rock opera world of Richard Del Connor. During the counterculture years of the sixties, Richard was performing in rock bands that performed for birthday parties and after school events. As guitarist-vocalist Richard sang and played the songs of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Burden & The Animals, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. During the 1970s Richard sang and performed heavy rock songs from Montrose, Mountain, The Cream, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter, Pink Floyd and The Doors. By 1980 Richard Del Connor had named his band THE RICH. Now fronting the trio as a singing bassist they only performed songs written by Richard Del Connor or members of his band, The Rich. During all these years of performing from 1972 to 1978, Richard’s songwriting developed as a form of self-help therapy. His songs mostly represented the difficulties of his life or falling in love moments except for his ROCK OPERAS. Then he started filling in the spaces of his fictional rock operas with his personal songs and 3-dimensional musical stories emerged with the music expressing the emotions and the lyrics carrying the events of the rock opera stories. Coyote Radio TV represents the television station Richard Del Connor “The Coyote” or “The Hippy Coyote” has always imagined as he fantasizes the stories and sequences in his mind while listening to his music. Richard is another step closer with this website, CoyoteRadio.TV, to sharing his visions and enlightenments and person moments: both good and bad. Richard believes that his attitudes in dealing with these difficulties and the outcomes based on good ethics and warrior disciplines will inspire more people to lead better lives. Richard Del Connor has been "Buddha Zhen" since 1992 when he founded the Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Kung Fu and Taoist Tai Chi Chuan schools. In 1996 he founded the nonprofit organization Tai Chi Youth. Keeping Shaolin Chi Mantis a traditional Zen Buddhist school, he founded the Buddha Kung Fu schools in 2008 which do not require a head shaving ceremony to join. Zen Buddhism included a rarely taught meditation style, "Bone Marrow Washing." Buddha Zhen teaches this ancient style of moving Qi energy throughout the body to create improved health and smarter minds. His students in maximum security prisons, drug rehabilitation centers, high schools, middle schools, Los Angeles Parks & Recreation, several churches and YMCAs and YWCAs have all achieved higher school grades, contentment and become heroes in their communities as a result of attending his classes. Buddha Zhen is experimenting with a brand new Qigong he developed for driving in his car. This may be suitable for podcast audiences and those driving in their cars to and from work. Join Buddha Zhen, the "Buddhist Scientist," as he seeks to improve your life and make the world a happier place.
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Episodes
  • American Zen Buddhist Rock Podcast L1-01.mp3

    American Zen Buddhist Rock Podcast L1-01.mp3
    Aug 16 2020
    PODCAST #1 of 20 podcasts for CD: Level 1 = Peace Of Mind by American Zen. The Coyote, of American Zen, hosts and leads a website podcast tour through the lyrics, poetry and webstories: http://www.americanZEN.org Join "America's First Buddhist Rock Band" on their ROCK OPERA spiritual journey of 8 Levels up the Zen Buddhist ladder of enlightenment. This Southern California FOLK ROCK group includes The Coyote: Flute, Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, ComposerRory G: Electric Guitar, Slide Guitar, UkuleleTom Calder: Bass, Vox OrganSteve Hixon: DrumsProduced by Richard O'Connor for Shaolin Records.Recording engineer:  Don DelaVega Complete podcast series: http://www.CoyoteRadio.TV The FIRST song of this FIRST podcast of America’s FIRST Buddhist Rock Band starts with the song, “Peace Of Mind #2,” which is the FIRST song on American Zen’s FIRST album, LEVEL 1 = Peace of Mind, from Shaolin Records, produced by Richard Del Connor (known as “Richard O’Connor from 1980 to 2007). All the songs on LEVEL 1 = Peace Of Mind were written by The Hippy Coyote in the order of the album songs EXCEPT this first song, “Peace Of Mind #2,” which was written after the album was completed and all the songs were recorded.  Coyote thought the actual first song of American Zen, “Peace Of Mind,” was too sad to start their spiritual odyssey and wrote this “Peace Of Mind #2” about a recent trip back to his birthplace in Ocean Beach, California, to visit his parents and brothers. The remainder of the songs were written about Coyote’s relocation to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he was not embraced by the Christian Mormons.  The Mormons stuck knives in his door with threatening notes, “Go back to California.”  They forced employers to fire his wife from her jobs.  They petitioned the YWCA to also fire Coyote who was teaching Tai Chi Chuan and Shaolin Kung Fu classes from his newly formed Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Kung Fu school.  When the director of the YWCA showed Coyote the letter, she was fired also. During this episode #1 Coyote leads the podcast audience on a journey of the LEVEL 1 section of the americanZEN.org website.  From the homepage, click “ENTER LEVEL 1” to begin your journey beyond superstition. Each LEVEL of the americanZEN.org website was constructed along with the release of that album created by the band, American Zen.  Each LEVEL of the website contains poetry, lyrics from the album, and webstories about the American Zen band members as they get smarter and shed the superstitions they were raised with. Coyote explains how the first album was recorded in his Utah apartment when the neighbors were gone to work and how the two story hallway leading to his front door was a great place to record his guitar through his Marshall amplifier in the middle of the stairwell.   The Hippy Coyote - AUTHOR at Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/The-Hippy-Coyote/e/B008BYAACU Utah Phase 1 poetry book by The Hippy Coyotehttps://www.shaolinrecords.com/RecordStore-R/utahphase1-R.html Autumn Flavours poetry book by Richard Del Connor, The Hippy Coyote https://www.shaolinrecords.com/RecordStore-R/autumnflavours-R.html Richard Del Connor - Record Producer website https://www.RichardDelConnor.com The song “Peace Of Mind #2” is from the album LEVEL 1 = Peace Of Mind by American Zen https://www.shaolincom.com/American_Zen/Level-1-S.html The song “Black Of Night” is from the album LEVEL 1 = Peace Of Mind by American Zen https://www.shaolincom.com/American_Zen/Level-1-S.html American Zen Official website: https://www.AmericanZen.org American Zen FACEBOOK page: https://www.Facebook.com/americanzenband Produced by Richard Del Connor for Shaolin Records. https://www.ShaolinRecords.com Copyright 1984-2021 Shaolin Communications https://www.ShaolinCOM.com  Music used by permission of Shaolin Records and licensed by Shaolin Music. ASCAP https://www.ShaolinMusic.com  *Note:  Coyote mentions a website that no longer exists:  “CoyotePodcast.com”. (Sorry.)
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    15 mins
  • American Zen Buddhist Rock Podcast L1-02.mp3

    American Zen Buddhist Rock Podcast L1-02.mp3
    Dec 30 2020

    PODCAST #2 of 20 podcasts for CD: Level 1 = Peace Of Mind by American Zen. The Coyote, of American Zen, leads a website podcast tour through the lyrics, poetry and webstories: http://www.americanZEN.org

    http://www.ShaolinRecords.com

    Produced by Richard Del Connor at Tujunga Studios.
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    20 mins
  • American Zen Buddhist Rock Podcast LEVEL_01-03

    American Zen Buddhist Rock Podcast LEVEL_01-03
    Jan 4 2021
    18 mins
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