1-Wrecking Ball by Glen Waldeck, Jemez, NM 1989 RRR 2-Exxon Song* by Bill Oliver & Glen Waldeck, Gravelly Range, MT 1990 RRR 3-Bugis and the Beast by Bill Oliver, Breitenbush, OR 1988 4-Offensive Fences* by Bill Oliver, Breitenbush, OR 1988 5-In These Ancient Trees by Bill Oliver & Glen Waldeck, Jemez, NM 1989 RRR Bill Oliver at http://www.mrhabitat.net Mr. Habitat Bill Oliver and his side-kick Glen Waldeck were two of the first activist musicians to entertain the Earth First! troops at the Round River Rendezvous beginning in the early 1980s. They are definers of the Gaiabilly genre and were two of the first to capture our culture–our history (Bugis), attitudes (Wrecking Ball, Ancient Trees), our reckless humor (Wrecking Ball)–in songs specific to our eco-warrior lives. They reflect in song our heroic adventures and what we see and respond to as critters immersed in this evolving and aching real world that provoke our activist responses (Exxon song). Here are five songs from a seventeen-song compilation video I made over Labor Day weekend in 1993 during the month before I became homeless for five years. "Stumped! Songs of Sanity and Survival" was the second of two Bill & Glen video compilations I made in that month–along with three other activist videos (!)–compiled from several movement gigs by them between 1988 and 1990. I suppose you could consider this the outtakes from the first video, "Woodpecker Rebellion," but really they were all too good to be left out, so it's more like the two videos together were one four-hour collection. Three summers of Bill & Glen caught during my first three years Kerouacing around Turtle Island with a camcorder, a couple of extension cables, a microphone, and a Radio Shack desktop mic stand I had bought to do Earth First! and Green Politics radio work at KPFA in Berkeley in 1985. In my photo album there's a photo of me doing that for the first time at a CA Dept. of Forestry meeting in Sacramento. One of the secrets of the success of my lowbagger videos is that I got good sound. For gigs like these I used the small mic stand and 25-foot extension cable to mic the sound right out f the PA. But mostly, I used the microphone like a conductor's wand to follow or gather sound while simultaneously my eyes sucked most of my attention into capturing the video reality. Or realities: my left eye was scanning the world for what to shoot and my right was glued to a one-inch black & white TV viewfinder to design & create the shoot. Talk about feeling like a cyborg! And I hate TV! Unfortunately most of the rest of this video has deteriorated due to twenty years of aging and being shleped around with me through firestorms, road show touring, evictions, FBI attacks, and five years of homelessness. If you would like to help me preserve these recordings please send a contribution to me at Andy Caffrey P.O. Box 324 Redway, CA 95560 * unsure of title