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GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY DREAD
DOUG WENDT'S GHOST TOWN SOUND & WORLDBEAT
successfully returned to the WORLD ONE FESTIVAL July 3rd & 4th
and appeared at ASHKENAZ in Berkeley July 8th.
as well as THE FILLMORE in San Francisco July 3rd.
successfully returned to the WORLD ONE FESTIVAL July 3rd & 4th
and appeared at ASHKENAZ in Berkeley July 8th.
as well as THE FILLMORE in San Francisco July 3rd.
Music currently in heavy play by The Midnight Dread Sound System:
- Lee "Scratch" Perry & Adrian Sherwood DUB SETTER
- Clinton Fearon MI DEH YAH
- Brian Wilson REIMAGINES GERSHWIN
- Youssou N'Dour DAKAR-KINGSTON
- Rocky Dawuni HYMNS FOR THE REBEL SOUL
- Tony Allen SECRET AGENT
- Rusty Zinn MANIFESTATION
- Manu Chao POLITIK KILLS remix ep
- Lumanation LUMANATION ep
- Putumayo Presents TRIBUTE TO A REGGAE LEGEND (Bob Marley)
- Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars RISE & SHINE
- Gogol Bordello TRANS-CONTINENTAL HUSTLE
- Lee Perry SOUND SYSTEM SCRATCH
- Devo SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
- R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton, Will Clipman DANCING INTO SILENCE
- Various Artists FOUNDATION COMPILATION REGGAE SERIES Volume One
- Various Artists NIGERIA '70 box set
- Hai Anthony REGGAE MAN AH COM
- Laurel Aitken VOODOO WOMAN
- Al Jardine A POSTCARD FROM CALIFORNIA
- Putumayo Presents SOUTH AFRICA
- Gregory Isaacs & King Isaac ISAACS MEETS ISAAC
- Ali Farke Toure & Toumani Diabate ALI & TOUMANI
- Abu & Gary WORLD BLUES
- Gaelic Storm CABBAGE
- Natalie Merchant LEAVE YOUR SLEEP
- Khaled LIBERTE!
- 1 Giant Leap WHAT ABOUT ME
-Lee "Scratch" Perry REVELATION
- Inner Circle STATE OF DA' WORLD
- Soothsayers Meet The Red Earth Collective ONE MORE REASON & RED EARTH DUB
- John Trudell MADNESS & THE MOREMES
- Wylie & The Wild West HANG 'N' RATTLE
- Daniel Orlick Ghost Town C-Dub Sampler HOW THE WEST WAS DUBBED
- Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks MAKE SPARE MONEY (Ghost Town Sound custom compendium)
- Indigenous Resistance IR14 DIRECT ACTION DUB MISSIONS
- Casper Loma Dawa HONOR THE PEOPLE
- The Rhyth-O-Matics GHOST SKANKERS
- Jah Provide BURNING DAYLIGHT
- Paul Zarzyski ROCK 'N' ROWEL
- DJ Corky Walsh RHYTHM KILLERS and EL CHARRO DE LAS CALAVERAS
- The Beatles LOVE and reFABricated*
*Midnight Dread mix curated by Rip Rense
News and what's been posted on this site recently:
Doug's Ghost Town Sound group will be playing for free at the First Friday Artwalk September 3rd in Ohtahku, MT outside Amazing Gallery where Deeling Gregory has her ongoing major art exhibit.
Native Son Rising has begun production on its twelfth season. Listen here to one of the new programs or see the new NSR playlists here.
Doug's own award winning films in the Canyon Cinema collection can now be accessed directly on Canyon's new online catalog with recently uncovered descriptions & photos.
Three recently mastered Midnight Dread program playlists from August & September 1984 have just been posted featuring X Ray Music, Roger Steffens' amazing Sunsplash '84 reports, Cool Summer Breezes & a really rockin' Ska & Rock Steady Party from September 2nd '84, its first hour webcasting here now!
Midnight Dread Doug Wendt's Ghost Town Sound opened for Femi Kuti at The Fillmore July 3rd & for David Gans' Dead Dreams project July 8th at Ashkenaz in Berkeley, California where 2 former KFOG 'Adventure Hour' DJs came together with live music.
Five top ranking Ghost Town Sound Radio programs have made their webcast debut here: Rope in Ghost Town Sound Radio where the red, black & white unite!
The 1984-1985 Quake (KQAK) Midnight Dread archive project may use kickstarter.com to help make time to finally finish its part of the long term plan to digitize nearly 700 MD reggae radio programs from 1979-2010. KFOG, KTIM, KPFA, KGPR & KECG shows await similar treatment.
An 18 minute Video Session playback of Ghost Town Sound's live appearance at The Dorothy Gopher Memorial Round Dance 10/3/09 featuring native MC Gary Fox and three GTS songs with lyrics & vocals from Doug posting soon at Ghost Town Sound.com
Doug has finished transferring the first ever dvds of his legendary Kennel Club Worldbeat video mixes; would love to get to the other 7 years; considering also using kickstarter to carve out time to do it.
Doug has produced a series of custom-made "best of all worlds" radio programs for World One, which are currently broadcast frequently on KECG in El Cerrito, California on its upgraded transmitter. The improved signal now reaches Marin County as well as more of the East Bay & San Francisco.
A video for Ghost Town Sound's "Otahku" edited by Steven Powell has been released on Vimeo & You Tube. It includes images from Wendt's 1969 16mm film "Ghost Towns & Duppies" & more.
Doug Wendt's liner notes are featured in (Bob Marley) TRIBUTE TO A REGGAE LEGEND released in July 2010 on Putumayo.
Randall Grass' book GREAT SPIRITS: Portraits of Life-Changing World Music Artists is a fantastic look inside the music, lives, inspirations & aspirations of Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Fela Kuti, Augustus Pablo, Sun Ra, The Neville Brothers, Yabby You and more. Absolutely essential reading. Crucial!
Ghost Town Sound appeared October 3rd, 2009 at MT Expo Park for the Dorothy Gopher Memorial Round Dance. An Owl Dance, childrens' circle, & a talk by recently announced candidate for US Congress Melinda Gopher, Dorothy's daughter, were among the many highlights which included several groups of players, singers, and hilarious MC Gary Fox. Hey!
Midnight Dread lists his Most Intense Concert Experiences of All Time on his ghost blog.
Videos that kind of follow along with
those shows & MD's story run with the Play All prompt on Ghost Town Sounds first YouTube custom-made playlist.
Photos from the June 5th, 2009 Ghost Town Sound concert now on Facebook and Flicker thru Ghost Town Sound.com.
Don't miss my award-winning16mm film "Up & Atom" when it was shown on Saturday Night Live now on YouTube. "Around The World In 8 Minutes", Doug's music video collage, is still at the top of our home page.
Ghost Town Sound made its Montana debut June 5th '09 with poet Paul Zarzyski slinging words like lead. The show also included recent Ghost Town Sound style paintings by Deeling Gregory and artwork by Steve Powell.
Our NATIVE SON RISING has returned regularly to KGPR and also airs EVERY weekday just about 8:15 am (and often is also heard later in the day as well) on KECG, El Cerrito & Berkeley! Look for Doug's liner notes in Putumayo's AFRICAN REGGAE cd compilation released January 2009.
Look at ghosttownsound.com now as its done with its construction! The GHOST TOWN SOUND debut performance happened and Doug Wendt's Worldbeat returned to the San Francisco bay area July 3rd & 4th, '08, see announcement thru our home page.
Midnight Dread's much talked about, killer Radio Scratch show for November 2007 is archived at upsetter.net! It will eventually be posted here. Plus several brand new NSR programs' playlists are up now including another new Native Son Rising podcast, recorded live in Otahkoo near the iMan Lab, plus check other native radio show streams including this, one of many NSRs recorded live in the Moon of One Hundred Fires at the Paris Gibson Park bandshell.
A serious Letter To The Dreaditor from MD was printed about the many ways alcohol fails I & I, which you may now also read on the Scat page.
Massive Midnight Dread merchandise with several designs including "Football Is The Gateway Drug To War" help support this website at FRESH MIDNIGHT DREAD ITEMS GALORE HERE NOW.
A webcast edition of Native Son Rising recorded in Okahtu on Thanksgiving Day available for listening here exclusively on this website. Midnight Dread's letter to The Tribune (printed November 2nd 2006) about elitists' lies and their threat to the nation is posted on the scat page.
Here's the link to the podcast where Midnight Dread does Radio Scratch featuring never-heard-before audio of our 1997 outerview with Perry and many cool, rare tunes produced by The Upsetter.
Meanwhile Mick Sleeper's ground-breaking Lee Perry website has been completely revamped as it continues to host other monthly Radio Scratch radio shows all at upsetter.net.
Recent Midnight Dread Radio Archive programs' playlists & cds from 1984 including an ace interview with Black Uhuru's Puma Jones now being webcast on this page.
Marc Wendt, webmaster of midnightdread.com reviews the Toots & The Maytals performance at The Fillmore on March 23rd, 2006 on Marc's Midday Dread page.
Bob Marley's 61st birthday arrived February 6th 2006 with an updated written version of WHO LET THE DOGMA IN article/songtrack since more time has gone by more crimes are now revealed when Midnight Dread's provocative reasonings bring Wailers & others' lyrics up against 'BushCoAnity'.
Paul Ben-Itzak, publisher of Dance Insider gushes about the Kennel Club on the mail page.
Midnight Dread writes to The Tribune to impeach (printed there in February 2006) after asking President George W. Bush to "Set A Better Example For The Youth" in his 10/26/05 DREAD TO THE PREZ email to the White House; both now posted on the scat page.
The final Midnight Dread Sound System Reggae On The River highlights cd (from 2005) is now offered in our store. Also up now: The overall MDSS 2005 Reggae On The River set playlists.
A beautiful painting by Brian Morger on the home page for the studios of WNDT Radio anchors webcasts from this site. Sound samples launch off the individual pictures of the exclusive-to-this-website cds seen on our home page and in the store. The wicked worldly Midnight Dread Sound System live in Amsterdam cd, recorded July 2004, is also available.
GHOST TOWN SOUND
featuring Midnight Dread
made its Montana debut June 5th, '09 (details below)
Its world premiere was July 4th 2008 at the
World One Festival, El Cerrito, California.
DJ Doug Wendt's WORLD BEAT also appeared at same festival
Thursday July 3rd & at Club 33 Revolutions that same night
Watch MD's YouTube Playlist
"What A Way To Go" to "Sweet Light"
my journey from The Man of Constant Sorrow to Worldbeat
based on my life & its 'Most Intense Concerts Ever'
To see Midnight Dread's vintage vinyl auctions when they are active
featuring rare Jamaican ska, rock steady & reggae albums; 7 inch, 10 inch, and 12 inch 45rpm singles in vocal, dub, DJ & other styles from Studio One to Lee 'Scratch' Perry; from Channel One to concert posters and beyond
click here for Midnight Dread on eBay!
Midnight Dread Sound System last DJed at Reggae On The River August 5th-7th, 2005 near Redway, California. It was Doug's twentieth straight appearance there (1985-2005), being the first DJ ever to play at the most famous festival in the redwoods. Sets put together by MDSS were played on the main stage for DREADSTOCK 2005 September 24th and 25th, 2005 on the San Francisco Bay in Vallejo, California. Midnight Dread also kept the vibes positive for the main stage at the very first Dreadstock in 2004. It was the "best first year for a festival ever" according to MC Tony Moses and many others in attendance. Thanks to all the artists and vendors. Unity Life Youth Project does a spectacular job of producing the event. Go to Dreadstock.com for more info. Midnight Dread returned to Fairfax in Marin County, California Saturday September 25th, 2004 at the club called '19 Broadway'. One of his first ever club dates was in Fairfax in 1975. Midnight Dread played at Bitterzoet in Amsterdam with the killer live band Awareness July 20th, 2004 followed up by Midnight Dread Sound System at the 21st Annual Reggae On The River festival (for Midnight Dreads' 19th straight time) in Redway, California August 6th-8th. Complete playlists & highlights of August's Reggae On River Midnight Dread sets on cd are now posted & available thru this site. The cd is in
our online store. A 'Midnight Dread Inna Amsterdam, Holland' cd is now in our store.
Other new Midnight Dread cds recently released exclusively thru this site include the legendary Radio Showdown with Tony Moses from July 1984 on The Quake and the first Man Of Constant Sorrow radio archive cd ever made available from the summer of 1969. This Special Edition is entitled SPACE-D '69 or HIERONYMOUS ANONYMOUS' JUMPIN' JACK FLASH SPACE-D PROGRAM. That summer was the season when mankind first went to the moon & Midnight Dread roamed the airwaves nightly as the 'Man of Constant Sorrow' for a second 'straight' summer on KUDI. Hear this latest flashback and never forget. Other exclusive cds of note: 1- The crucial compilation of set highlights from the Midnight Dread Sound System live at the 20th Annual Reggae On The River in 2003.
2- "DEEP WORD DUB Bonus Singles", containing 5 new tracks including Midnight Dread's remix of his remake of Bob Dylan's "Yea! Heavy & A Bottle Of Bread". Only available on Midnight Dread Records thru
our online store now! Go deh!
"At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all, ourselves.
For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey, comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!
Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." -Hopi Elders
NATIVE SON RISING, featuring music by & for indigenous peoples is aired on World One Radio. The radio station is on break in the summer. The last 60 hours of broadcasting in June 2005 on KECG & World One were devoted entirely to Native Son Rising programs. KECG currently airs Native Son Rising often during regular programming. You can hear it and Corey Mason's great World One shows now again through either www.worldoneradio.org or listen directly to World One in the San Francisco Bay Area over the air on KECG at 88.1FM in El Cerrito and 97.7FM in Berkeley.
IT'S THE 26th ANNIVERSARY OF MIDNIGHT DREAD ON THE QUAKE! See our Radio Archive and On-Line Store for details on cds of these amazing, vintage reggae radio shows. With thousands of radio programs to draw from,
hear some great 'sounds of the century' from the archives, on the air and available from this web site now.
Give thanks and praises to the Most High that twenty-two years ago (after nearly 5 years on KTIM FM in San Rafael, California) MIDNIGHT DREAD began its first year on the Quake, KQAK, San Francisco. See E-pistles & Scat page for the ongoing reverberations. Please share your thoughts through our email address, gratefuljedi@midnightdread.com. For deep overstanding of what's really behind classic, progressive, roots reggae read Helene Lee's amazing book THE FIRST RASTA. It will blow your mind 'bout twenty time.
At the Reggae On The River festivals Midnight Dread and Invisible Mon took turntable technique to even higher heights. Mighty mix cds featuring Midnight Dread's Reggae On The River 2001-2005 Sound System sets' highlights available now for $6.98 in our online store where you can find many more exclusive items. Check our recently posted playlists from REGGAE ON THE RIVER for all the crucial selections.
Midnight Dread augmented a crucial show with the Reggae Cowboys (Toronto's twangy titans) at Mad Jack's near Black Eagle, Montana. Invisible Mon of the Midnight Dread Sound System mixed 3 killer sets of cowbwoy dread & alive performances before an enthusiastic crowd. For further touring details check their website by clicking
www.reggaecowboys.com
Segments of the legendary Peter Tosh/Midnight Dread reasoning session recently posted for the first time ever in its entirity on this site are featured in Wayne Jobson's excellent film, out on DVD, RED X - Stepping Razor. The recorder I saw Peter using at the scene of my interview was the same that he used for his late night autobiographical musings featured throughout the film. Apparently that's why you can hear my voice reasoning with Peter in the film without Midnight Dread being credited.
This response from Scotti B after ordering & hearing the Tosh Tribute Midnight Dread aircheck:
"Got the Cds a few days ago. So far I've only gotten to hear
the Tosh CD. What a great disc! Just wanted to let you know how
impressed I am so far, I look forward to the other discs.
I also got Red X on DVD recently, your CD makes a great
companion!" -Scotti B {RAW (Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide) #596}
If you'd like a U.S. postpaid cd copy of my legendary Midnight Dread KFOG Tribute To Peter Tosh (featuring highlights from the interview on this site) originally aired September 15th, 1987, please PayPal to wendtworld@hotmail.com and or send $12.50 -US Postal Money Order for immediate shipment- to P.O. Box 536, Black Eagle, MT 59414. {If outside U.S: Canada & Mexico-add $3, outside North America (UK etc.)-add $5, Pacific Rim (Japan, Australia etc.)-add $6}
- Lee "Scratch" Perry & Adrian Sherwood DUB SETTER
- Clinton Fearon MI DEH YAH
- Brian Wilson REIMAGINES GERSHWIN
- Youssou N'Dour DAKAR-KINGSTON
- Rocky Dawuni HYMNS FOR THE REBEL SOUL
- Tony Allen SECRET AGENT
- Rusty Zinn MANIFESTATION
- Manu Chao POLITIK KILLS remix ep
- Lumanation LUMANATION ep
- Putumayo Presents TRIBUTE TO A REGGAE LEGEND (Bob Marley)
- Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars RISE & SHINE
- Gogol Bordello TRANS-CONTINENTAL HUSTLE
- Lee Perry SOUND SYSTEM SCRATCH
- Devo SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
- R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton, Will Clipman DANCING INTO SILENCE
- Various Artists FOUNDATION COMPILATION REGGAE SERIES Volume One
- Various Artists NIGERIA '70 box set
- Hai Anthony REGGAE MAN AH COM
- Laurel Aitken VOODOO WOMAN
- Al Jardine A POSTCARD FROM CALIFORNIA
- Putumayo Presents SOUTH AFRICA
- Gregory Isaacs & King Isaac ISAACS MEETS ISAAC
- Ali Farke Toure & Toumani Diabate ALI & TOUMANI
- Abu & Gary WORLD BLUES
- Gaelic Storm CABBAGE
- Natalie Merchant LEAVE YOUR SLEEP
- Khaled LIBERTE!
- 1 Giant Leap WHAT ABOUT ME
-Lee "Scratch" Perry REVELATION
- Inner Circle STATE OF DA' WORLD
- Soothsayers Meet The Red Earth Collective ONE MORE REASON & RED EARTH DUB
- John Trudell MADNESS & THE MOREMES
- Wylie & The Wild West HANG 'N' RATTLE
- Daniel Orlick Ghost Town C-Dub Sampler HOW THE WEST WAS DUBBED
- Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks MAKE SPARE MONEY (Ghost Town Sound custom compendium)
- Indigenous Resistance IR14 DIRECT ACTION DUB MISSIONS
- Casper Loma Dawa HONOR THE PEOPLE
- The Rhyth-O-Matics GHOST SKANKERS
- Jah Provide BURNING DAYLIGHT
- Paul Zarzyski ROCK 'N' ROWEL
- DJ Corky Walsh RHYTHM KILLERS and EL CHARRO DE LAS CALAVERAS
- The Beatles LOVE and reFABricated*
*Midnight Dread mix curated by Rip Rense
News and what's been posted on this site recently:
Doug's Ghost Town Sound group will be playing for free at the First Friday Artwalk September 3rd in Ohtahku, MT outside Amazing Gallery where Deeling Gregory has her ongoing major art exhibit.
Native Son Rising has begun production on its twelfth season. Listen here to one of the new programs or see the new NSR playlists here.
Doug's own award winning films in the Canyon Cinema collection can now be accessed directly on Canyon's new online catalog with recently uncovered descriptions & photos.
Three recently mastered Midnight Dread program playlists from August & September 1984 have just been posted featuring X Ray Music, Roger Steffens' amazing Sunsplash '84 reports, Cool Summer Breezes & a really rockin' Ska & Rock Steady Party from September 2nd '84, its first hour webcasting here now!
Midnight Dread Doug Wendt's Ghost Town Sound opened for Femi Kuti at The Fillmore July 3rd & for David Gans' Dead Dreams project July 8th at Ashkenaz in Berkeley, California where 2 former KFOG 'Adventure Hour' DJs came together with live music.
Five top ranking Ghost Town Sound Radio programs have made their webcast debut here: Rope in Ghost Town Sound Radio where the red, black & white unite!
The 1984-1985 Quake (KQAK) Midnight Dread archive project may use kickstarter.com to help make time to finally finish its part of the long term plan to digitize nearly 700 MD reggae radio programs from 1979-2010. KFOG, KTIM, KPFA, KGPR & KECG shows await similar treatment.
An 18 minute Video Session playback of Ghost Town Sound's live appearance at The Dorothy Gopher Memorial Round Dance 10/3/09 featuring native MC Gary Fox and three GTS songs with lyrics & vocals from Doug posting soon at Ghost Town Sound.com
Doug has finished transferring the first ever dvds of his legendary Kennel Club Worldbeat video mixes; would love to get to the other 7 years; considering also using kickstarter to carve out time to do it.
Doug has produced a series of custom-made "best of all worlds" radio programs for World One, which are currently broadcast frequently on KECG in El Cerrito, California on its upgraded transmitter. The improved signal now reaches Marin County as well as more of the East Bay & San Francisco.
A video for Ghost Town Sound's "Otahku" edited by Steven Powell has been released on Vimeo & You Tube. It includes images from Wendt's 1969 16mm film "Ghost Towns & Duppies" & more.
Doug Wendt's liner notes are featured in (Bob Marley) TRIBUTE TO A REGGAE LEGEND released in July 2010 on Putumayo.
Randall Grass' book GREAT SPIRITS: Portraits of Life-Changing World Music Artists is a fantastic look inside the music, lives, inspirations & aspirations of Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Fela Kuti, Augustus Pablo, Sun Ra, The Neville Brothers, Yabby You and more. Absolutely essential reading. Crucial!
Ghost Town Sound appeared October 3rd, 2009 at MT Expo Park for the Dorothy Gopher Memorial Round Dance. An Owl Dance, childrens' circle, & a talk by recently announced candidate for US Congress Melinda Gopher, Dorothy's daughter, were among the many highlights which included several groups of players, singers, and hilarious MC Gary Fox. Hey!
Midnight Dread lists his Most Intense Concert Experiences of All Time on his ghost blog.
Videos that kind of follow along with
those shows & MD's story run with the Play All prompt on Ghost Town Sounds first YouTube custom-made playlist.
Photos from the June 5th, 2009 Ghost Town Sound concert now on Facebook and Flicker thru Ghost Town Sound.com.
Don't miss my award-winning16mm film "Up & Atom" when it was shown on Saturday Night Live now on YouTube. "Around The World In 8 Minutes", Doug's music video collage, is still at the top of our home page.
Ghost Town Sound made its Montana debut June 5th '09 with poet Paul Zarzyski slinging words like lead. The show also included recent Ghost Town Sound style paintings by Deeling Gregory and artwork by Steve Powell.
Our NATIVE SON RISING has returned regularly to KGPR and also airs EVERY weekday just about 8:15 am (and often is also heard later in the day as well) on KECG, El Cerrito & Berkeley! Look for Doug's liner notes in Putumayo's AFRICAN REGGAE cd compilation released January 2009.
Look at ghosttownsound.com now as its done with its construction! The GHOST TOWN SOUND debut performance happened and Doug Wendt's Worldbeat returned to the San Francisco bay area July 3rd & 4th, '08, see announcement thru our home page.
Midnight Dread's much talked about, killer Radio Scratch show for November 2007 is archived at upsetter.net! It will eventually be posted here. Plus several brand new NSR programs' playlists are up now including another new Native Son Rising podcast, recorded live in Otahkoo near the iMan Lab, plus check other native radio show streams including this, one of many NSRs recorded live in the Moon of One Hundred Fires at the Paris Gibson Park bandshell.
A serious Letter To The Dreaditor from MD was printed about the many ways alcohol fails I & I, which you may now also read on the Scat page.
Massive Midnight Dread merchandise with several designs including "Football Is The Gateway Drug To War" help support this website at FRESH MIDNIGHT DREAD ITEMS GALORE HERE NOW.
A webcast edition of Native Son Rising recorded in Okahtu on Thanksgiving Day available for listening here exclusively on this website. Midnight Dread's letter to The Tribune (printed November 2nd 2006) about elitists' lies and their threat to the nation is posted on the scat page.
Here's the link to the podcast where Midnight Dread does Radio Scratch featuring never-heard-before audio of our 1997 outerview with Perry and many cool, rare tunes produced by The Upsetter.
Meanwhile Mick Sleeper's ground-breaking Lee Perry website has been completely revamped as it continues to host other monthly Radio Scratch radio shows all at upsetter.net.
Recent Midnight Dread Radio Archive programs' playlists & cds from 1984 including an ace interview with Black Uhuru's Puma Jones now being webcast on this page.
Marc Wendt, webmaster of midnightdread.com reviews the Toots & The Maytals performance at The Fillmore on March 23rd, 2006 on Marc's Midday Dread page.
Bob Marley's 61st birthday arrived February 6th 2006 with an updated written version of WHO LET THE DOGMA IN article/songtrack since more time has gone by more crimes are now revealed when Midnight Dread's provocative reasonings bring Wailers & others' lyrics up against 'BushCoAnity'.
Paul Ben-Itzak, publisher of Dance Insider gushes about the Kennel Club on the mail page.
Midnight Dread writes to The Tribune to impeach (printed there in February 2006) after asking President George W. Bush to "Set A Better Example For The Youth" in his 10/26/05 DREAD TO THE PREZ email to the White House; both now posted on the scat page.
The final Midnight Dread Sound System Reggae On The River highlights cd (from 2005) is now offered in our store. Also up now: The overall MDSS 2005 Reggae On The River set playlists.
A beautiful painting by Brian Morger on the home page for the studios of WNDT Radio anchors webcasts from this site. Sound samples launch off the individual pictures of the exclusive-to-this-website cds seen on our home page and in the store. The wicked worldly Midnight Dread Sound System live in Amsterdam cd, recorded July 2004, is also available.
GHOST TOWN SOUND
featuring Midnight Dread
made its Montana debut June 5th, '09 (details below)
Its world premiere was July 4th 2008 at the
World One Festival, El Cerrito, California.
DJ Doug Wendt's WORLD BEAT also appeared at same festival
Thursday July 3rd & at Club 33 Revolutions that same night
Watch MD's YouTube Playlist
"What A Way To Go" to "Sweet Light"
my journey from The Man of Constant Sorrow to Worldbeat
based on my life & its 'Most Intense Concerts Ever'
To see Midnight Dread's vintage vinyl auctions when they are active
featuring rare Jamaican ska, rock steady & reggae albums; 7 inch, 10 inch, and 12 inch 45rpm singles in vocal, dub, DJ & other styles from Studio One to Lee 'Scratch' Perry; from Channel One to concert posters and beyond
click here for Midnight Dread on eBay!
Midnight Dread Sound System last DJed at Reggae On The River August 5th-7th, 2005 near Redway, California. It was Doug's twentieth straight appearance there (1985-2005), being the first DJ ever to play at the most famous festival in the redwoods. Sets put together by MDSS were played on the main stage for DREADSTOCK 2005 September 24th and 25th, 2005 on the San Francisco Bay in Vallejo, California. Midnight Dread also kept the vibes positive for the main stage at the very first Dreadstock in 2004. It was the "best first year for a festival ever" according to MC Tony Moses and many others in attendance. Thanks to all the artists and vendors. Unity Life Youth Project does a spectacular job of producing the event. Go to Dreadstock.com for more info. Midnight Dread returned to Fairfax in Marin County, California Saturday September 25th, 2004 at the club called '19 Broadway'. One of his first ever club dates was in Fairfax in 1975. Midnight Dread played at Bitterzoet in Amsterdam with the killer live band Awareness July 20th, 2004 followed up by Midnight Dread Sound System at the 21st Annual Reggae On The River festival (for Midnight Dreads' 19th straight time) in Redway, California August 6th-8th. Complete playlists & highlights of August's Reggae On River Midnight Dread sets on cd are now posted & available thru this site. The cd is in
our online store. A 'Midnight Dread Inna Amsterdam, Holland' cd is now in our store.
Other new Midnight Dread cds recently released exclusively thru this site include the legendary Radio Showdown with Tony Moses from July 1984 on The Quake and the first Man Of Constant Sorrow radio archive cd ever made available from the summer of 1969. This Special Edition is entitled SPACE-D '69 or HIERONYMOUS ANONYMOUS' JUMPIN' JACK FLASH SPACE-D PROGRAM. That summer was the season when mankind first went to the moon & Midnight Dread roamed the airwaves nightly as the 'Man of Constant Sorrow' for a second 'straight' summer on KUDI. Hear this latest flashback and never forget. Other exclusive cds of note: 1- The crucial compilation of set highlights from the Midnight Dread Sound System live at the 20th Annual Reggae On The River in 2003.
2- "DEEP WORD DUB Bonus Singles", containing 5 new tracks including Midnight Dread's remix of his remake of Bob Dylan's "Yea! Heavy & A Bottle Of Bread". Only available on Midnight Dread Records thru
our online store now! Go deh!
"At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all, ourselves.
For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey, comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!
Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." -Hopi Elders
NATIVE SON RISING, featuring music by & for indigenous peoples is aired on World One Radio. The radio station is on break in the summer. The last 60 hours of broadcasting in June 2005 on KECG & World One were devoted entirely to Native Son Rising programs. KECG currently airs Native Son Rising often during regular programming. You can hear it and Corey Mason's great World One shows now again through either www.worldoneradio.org or listen directly to World One in the San Francisco Bay Area over the air on KECG at 88.1FM in El Cerrito and 97.7FM in Berkeley.
IT'S THE 26th ANNIVERSARY OF MIDNIGHT DREAD ON THE QUAKE! See our Radio Archive and On-Line Store for details on cds of these amazing, vintage reggae radio shows. With thousands of radio programs to draw from,
hear some great 'sounds of the century' from the archives, on the air and available from this web site now.
Give thanks and praises to the Most High that twenty-two years ago (after nearly 5 years on KTIM FM in San Rafael, California) MIDNIGHT DREAD began its first year on the Quake, KQAK, San Francisco. See E-pistles & Scat page for the ongoing reverberations. Please share your thoughts through our email address, gratefuljedi@midnightdread.com. For deep overstanding of what's really behind classic, progressive, roots reggae read Helene Lee's amazing book THE FIRST RASTA. It will blow your mind 'bout twenty time.
At the Reggae On The River festivals Midnight Dread and Invisible Mon took turntable technique to even higher heights. Mighty mix cds featuring Midnight Dread's Reggae On The River 2001-2005 Sound System sets' highlights available now for $6.98 in our online store where you can find many more exclusive items. Check our recently posted playlists from REGGAE ON THE RIVER for all the crucial selections.
Midnight Dread augmented a crucial show with the Reggae Cowboys (Toronto's twangy titans) at Mad Jack's near Black Eagle, Montana. Invisible Mon of the Midnight Dread Sound System mixed 3 killer sets of cowbwoy dread & alive performances before an enthusiastic crowd. For further touring details check their website by clicking
www.reggaecowboys.com
Segments of the legendary Peter Tosh/Midnight Dread reasoning session recently posted for the first time ever in its entirity on this site are featured in Wayne Jobson's excellent film, out on DVD, RED X - Stepping Razor. The recorder I saw Peter using at the scene of my interview was the same that he used for his late night autobiographical musings featured throughout the film. Apparently that's why you can hear my voice reasoning with Peter in the film without Midnight Dread being credited.
This response from Scotti B after ordering & hearing the Tosh Tribute Midnight Dread aircheck:
"Got the Cds a few days ago. So far I've only gotten to hear
the Tosh CD. What a great disc! Just wanted to let you know how
impressed I am so far, I look forward to the other discs.
I also got Red X on DVD recently, your CD makes a great
companion!" -Scotti B {RAW (Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide) #596}
If you'd like a U.S. postpaid cd copy of my legendary Midnight Dread KFOG Tribute To Peter Tosh (featuring highlights from the interview on this site) originally aired September 15th, 1987, please PayPal to wendtworld@hotmail.com and or send $12.50 -US Postal Money Order for immediate shipment- to P.O. Box 536, Black Eagle, MT 59414. {If outside U.S: Canada & Mexico-add $3, outside North America (UK etc.)-add $5, Pacific Rim (Japan, Australia etc.)-add $6}
Doug's Ghost Town Sound group will be playing for free at the First Friday Artwalk September 3rd in Ohtahku, MT outside Amazing Gallery where Deeling Gregory has her ongoing major art exhibit.
Native Son Rising has begun production on its twelfth season. Listen here to one of the new programs or see the new NSR playlists here.
Doug's own award winning films in the Canyon Cinema collection can now be accessed directly on Canyon's new online catalog with recently uncovered descriptions & photos.
Three recently mastered Midnight Dread program playlists from August & September 1984 have just been posted featuring X Ray Music, Roger Steffens' amazing Sunsplash '84 reports, Cool Summer Breezes & a really rockin' Ska & Rock Steady Party from September 2nd '84, its first hour webcasting here now!
Midnight Dread Doug Wendt's Ghost Town Sound opened for Femi Kuti at The Fillmore July 3rd & for David Gans' Dead Dreams project July 8th at Ashkenaz in Berkeley, California where 2 former KFOG 'Adventure Hour' DJs came together with live music.
Five top ranking Ghost Town Sound Radio programs have made their webcast debut here: Rope in Ghost Town Sound Radio where the red, black & white unite!
The 1984-1985 Quake (KQAK) Midnight Dread archive project may use kickstarter.com to help make time to finally finish its part of the long term plan to digitize nearly 700 MD reggae radio programs from 1979-2010. KFOG, KTIM, KPFA, KGPR & KECG shows await similar treatment.
An 18 minute Video Session playback of Ghost Town Sound's live appearance at The Dorothy Gopher Memorial Round Dance 10/3/09 featuring native MC Gary Fox and three GTS songs with lyrics & vocals from Doug posting soon at Ghost Town Sound.com
Doug has finished transferring the first ever dvds of his legendary Kennel Club Worldbeat video mixes; would love to get to the other 7 years; considering also using kickstarter to carve out time to do it.
Doug has produced a series of custom-made "best of all worlds" radio programs for World One, which are currently broadcast frequently on KECG in El Cerrito, California on its upgraded transmitter. The improved signal now reaches Marin County as well as more of the East Bay & San Francisco.
A video for Ghost Town Sound's "Otahku" edited by Steven Powell has been released on Vimeo & You Tube. It includes images from Wendt's 1969 16mm film "Ghost Towns & Duppies" & more.
Doug Wendt's liner notes are featured in (Bob Marley) TRIBUTE TO A REGGAE LEGEND released in July 2010 on Putumayo.
Randall Grass' book GREAT SPIRITS: Portraits of Life-Changing World Music Artists is a fantastic look inside the music, lives, inspirations & aspirations of Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Fela Kuti, Augustus Pablo, Sun Ra, The Neville Brothers, Yabby You and more. Absolutely essential reading. Crucial!
Ghost Town Sound appeared October 3rd, 2009 at MT Expo Park for the Dorothy Gopher Memorial Round Dance. An Owl Dance, childrens' circle, & a talk by recently announced candidate for US Congress Melinda Gopher, Dorothy's daughter, were among the many highlights which included several groups of players, singers, and hilarious MC Gary Fox. Hey!
Midnight Dread lists his Most Intense Concert Experiences of All Time on his ghost blog.
Videos that kind of follow along with those shows & MD's story run with the Play All prompt on Ghost Town Sounds first YouTube custom-made playlist.
Photos from the June 5th, 2009 Ghost Town Sound concert now on Facebook and Flicker thru Ghost Town Sound.com.
Don't miss my award-winning16mm film "Up & Atom" when it was shown on Saturday Night Live now on YouTube. "Around The World In 8 Minutes", Doug's music video collage, is still at the top of our home page.
Ghost Town Sound made its Montana debut June 5th '09 with poet Paul Zarzyski slinging words like lead. The show also included recent Ghost Town Sound style paintings by Deeling Gregory and artwork by Steve Powell.
Our NATIVE SON RISING has returned regularly to KGPR and also airs EVERY weekday just about 8:15 am (and often is also heard later in the day as well) on KECG, El Cerrito & Berkeley! Look for Doug's liner notes in Putumayo's AFRICAN REGGAE cd compilation released January 2009.
Look at ghosttownsound.com now as its done with its construction! The GHOST TOWN SOUND debut performance happened and Doug Wendt's Worldbeat returned to the San Francisco bay area July 3rd & 4th, '08, see announcement thru our home page.
Midnight Dread's much talked about, killer Radio Scratch show for November 2007 is archived at upsetter.net! It will eventually be posted here. Plus several brand new NSR programs' playlists are up now including another new Native Son Rising podcast, recorded live in Otahkoo near the iMan Lab, plus check other native radio show streams including this, one of many NSRs recorded live in the Moon of One Hundred Fires at the Paris Gibson Park bandshell.
A serious Letter To The Dreaditor from MD was printed about the many ways alcohol fails I & I, which you may now also read on the Scat page.
Massive Midnight Dread merchandise with several designs including "Football Is The Gateway Drug To War" help support this website at FRESH MIDNIGHT DREAD ITEMS GALORE HERE NOW.
A webcast edition of Native Son Rising recorded in Okahtu on Thanksgiving Day available for listening here exclusively on this website. Midnight Dread's letter to The Tribune (printed November 2nd 2006) about elitists' lies and their threat to the nation is posted on the scat page.
Here's the link to the podcast where Midnight Dread does Radio Scratch featuring never-heard-before audio of our 1997 outerview with Perry and many cool, rare tunes produced by The Upsetter. Meanwhile Mick Sleeper's ground-breaking Lee Perry website has been completely revamped as it continues to host other monthly Radio Scratch radio shows all at upsetter.net.
Recent Midnight Dread Radio Archive programs' playlists & cds from 1984 including an ace interview with Black Uhuru's Puma Jones now being webcast on this page. Marc Wendt, webmaster of midnightdread.com reviews the Toots & The Maytals performance at The Fillmore on March 23rd, 2006 on Marc's Midday Dread page.
Bob Marley's 61st birthday arrived February 6th 2006 with an updated written version of WHO LET THE DOGMA IN article/songtrack since more time has gone by more crimes are now revealed when Midnight Dread's provocative reasonings bring Wailers & others' lyrics up against 'BushCoAnity'.
Paul Ben-Itzak, publisher of Dance Insider gushes about the Kennel Club on the mail page.
Midnight Dread writes to The Tribune to impeach (printed there in February 2006) after asking President George W. Bush to "Set A Better Example For The Youth" in his 10/26/05 DREAD TO THE PREZ email to the White House; both now posted on the scat page.
The final Midnight Dread Sound System Reggae On The River highlights cd (from 2005) is now offered in our store. Also up now: The overall MDSS 2005 Reggae On The River set playlists.
A beautiful painting by Brian Morger on the home page for the studios of WNDT Radio anchors webcasts from this site. Sound samples launch off the individual pictures of the exclusive-to-this-website cds seen on our home page and in the store. The wicked worldly Midnight Dread Sound System live in Amsterdam cd, recorded July 2004, is also available.
GHOST TOWN SOUND
featuring Midnight Dread
made its Montana debut June 5th, '09 (details below)
Its world premiere was July 4th 2008 at the
World One Festival, El Cerrito, California.
DJ Doug Wendt's WORLD BEAT also appeared at same festival
Thursday July 3rd & at Club 33 Revolutions that same night
Watch MD's YouTube Playlist
"What A Way To Go" to "Sweet Light"
my journey from The Man of Constant Sorrow to Worldbeat
based on my life & its 'Most Intense Concerts Ever'
To see Midnight Dread's vintage vinyl auctions when they are active
featuring rare Jamaican ska, rock steady & reggae albums; 7 inch, 10 inch, and 12 inch 45rpm singles in vocal, dub, DJ & other styles from Studio One to Lee 'Scratch' Perry; from Channel One to concert posters and beyond
click here for Midnight Dread on eBay!
featuring Midnight Dread
made its Montana debut June 5th, '09 (details below)
Its world premiere was July 4th 2008 at the
World One Festival, El Cerrito, California.
DJ Doug Wendt's WORLD BEAT also appeared at same festival
Thursday July 3rd & at Club 33 Revolutions that same night
"What A Way To Go" to "Sweet Light"
my journey from The Man of Constant Sorrow to Worldbeat
based on my life & its 'Most Intense Concerts Ever'
To see Midnight Dread's vintage vinyl auctions when they are active featuring rare Jamaican ska, rock steady & reggae albums; 7 inch, 10 inch, and 12 inch 45rpm singles in vocal, dub, DJ & other styles from Studio One to Lee 'Scratch' Perry; from Channel One to concert posters and beyond click here for Midnight Dread on eBay!