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Looking for "The Mustard Seed"

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FriscoKid51

Does anyone out there remember a late '60s public affairs program titled "The Ever Changing Transcendental Multilingual Two Ton Mustard Seed?" It was produced by a fellow named Allan Pierce and broadcast circa 1967-68. I'm not sure how many stations carried the program, but at least KFAX, KFRC, and later KYA did. I'm hoping to find someone with audio archives (tapes, MP3, whatever) of the shows.

If you can help me out, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks!
 
FriscoKid51 said:
Does anyone out there remember a late '60s public affairs program titled "The Ever Changing Transcendental Multilingual Two Ton Mustard Seed?" It was produced by a fellow named Allan Pierce and broadcast circa 1967-68. I'm not sure how many stations carried the program, but at least KFAX, KFRC, and later KYA did. I'm hoping to find someone with audio archives (tapes, MP3, whatever) of the shows.

If you can help me out, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks!
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Gosh, that could have been me posting the question. You even have his first name spelling correct. I was a big fan from the time I first heard it on KFAX early Saturday evenings. I have 3 shows, thanks to someone who allowed me to FTP them from his server. I'm not sure how to send it because I don't have an FTP server.

For people who are unfamiliar, Allan Pierce, an announcer at the old KFAX (a brokered religion station) put out this very hip, very current program which mixed philosophical messages, rock music, audio clips and such that (except for the psychedelic music) sounds as current as any sound collage today, even though it was done 40 years ago.

I tried to follow Allan Pierce's career after he left KFAX. I know he was briefly a DJ at KNEW, and then he disappeared from local radio. Apparently he turned up in the Republic of South Africa as a program producer and DJ, and was well-loved until he passed away a few years ago.

I just with there was more of his stuff out there. I have a feeling he did at least 100 programs, but I only have 3.
 
David,

Any chance you'd burn them to CD and mail it to me if I emailed you an address?

FK_51
 
FriscoKid51 said:
Does anyone out there remember a late '60s public affairs program titled "The Ever Changing Transcendental Multilingual Two Ton Mustard Seed?" It was produced by a fellow named Allan Pierce and broadcast circa 1967-68. I'm not sure how many stations carried the program, but at least KFAX, KFRC, and later KYA did. I'm hoping to find someone with audio archives (tapes, MP3, whatever) of the shows.

If you can help me out, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks!
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I think I have the files small enough now that I can email them to you one by one.
 
With thanks to David Kaye, Al Covaia (of KUSF), Craig Roberts (of KFAX), David Marks (of the 3rd Ear Music Hidden Years Archive in South Africa) and Larry Vanerwegen, who made the original recordings in late 1967 or early 1968, here is the museum's presentation of Allan Pierce's "Ever Changing Transcendental Multilingual Two-Ton Mustard Seed," as heard on KFRC AM and FM:

http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/mustardseed/

The sound quality isn't always perfect, but it's worth hearing. Episode 4 is my personal favorite, juxtaposing vintage Paul Harvey with other voices and sounds.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
With thanks to David Kaye, Al Covaia (of KUSF), Craig Roberts (of KFAX), David Marks (of the 3rd Ear Music Hidden Years Archive in South Africa) and Larry Vanerwegen, who made the original recordings in late 1967 or early 1968, here is the museum's presentation of Allan Pierce's "Ever Changing Transcendental Multilingual Two-Ton Mustard Seed," as heard on KFRC AM and FM:
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Did Al Covaia have any particular insights or comments about the broadcast, the production of it, KFAX's involvement, etc? Does he have any old airchecks or any supporting material? Do you know why Allan left KFAX? I guess I should probably write Al myself but....
 
Thanks for the tribute to Allan Pierce and The Mustard Seed, David. He truly was a gem of Bay Area radio. He deserves the remembrance and the recognition With luck, maybe a few more tapes of him can be unearthed somewhere. I'll pass along anything I find in my search. Take care!
 
Long Shot

I know this is a long shot but is this available still? The link goes to a blank page (? maybe my browser, will check again when fully awake!).
Or do you have this saved? I was just talking with a friend tonight about how this show literally saved my life by telling me I wasn't crazy, other people were interested too in how to have an inner life, how to question, and where, and that questioning wasn't crazy but necessary. Often wished I could thank him personally, though never got the chance.
 
JanPattersonRN said:
I know this is a long shot but is this available still? The link goes to a blank page (? maybe my browser, will check again when fully awake!).
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The Mustard Seed page was moved to:

https://bayarearadio.org/audio/mustard-seed

The Mustard Seed page was repaired just last week. The audio is, quite frankly, some of the most interesting stuff I have ever heard.

Speaking of which, I have repaired nearly 800 of the nearly 1400 broken links on the museum website over the past few weeks. CHRS manually converted the website a few years ago to WordPress from my creaky hand-coded HTML and, in the process, many of the old links were broken; they then assigned somebody to go through and "fix" those breaks, which actually broke it even more – hundreds of links to articles were linked instead directly to MP3 audio files.

I get five or six messages each week letting me know that a page isn't there or an aircheck isn't playing. I fix them as quickly as I can. I appreciate that people are still interested in this stuff!

D.J.
 
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