The FX of War

My fellow musician friend and I were hard at work creating music in his "Mancave" studio.  It had been a pool room and a small apartment with a kitchen and a bathroom.  They had an older man tenant for a while.  When Ed's wife died of cancer, we both needed an outlet for our emotion, opinion, and musical inclination.  Ed is a drummer, a guitarist, and a vocalist, but made his living repairing automobiles at his shop, "Import Auto Repair."  The city of Fayetteville enforced imminent domain, bought his shop, and built the transportation hub in downtown Fayetteville.  We made a good team, a musical duo with a plethora of ability.  Ed wrote songs in the "Old Timey" tradition, and I had a backlog of original music I had written over the years of studying jazz and contemporary classical music.  We had the most meager recording set up, a room, a computer, a stereo in/out audio interface, a PA system, and a handful of mikes.  I convinced him to mount an X/Y pair near the ceiling at the back of the rectangular room, and we recorded most things live.  He would play his vintage Premiere drum set, which sounded like Mitch Mitchells kit.  I played Fender Precision bass through an Ampeg B3 biamped bass amp and overdubbed keyboards from my live play rig which I had set up across and facing his drums.  I routed my small Peavey keyboard mixer into his PA head and into a pair of Ross Typhoon 18" three way speakers.  These older speakers were incredibly accurate, and it was through them we mixed.  Our process was a labor of love and enjoyment, and with Ed's life long experience in music and my professional experience in academia and on ships, we were the epitome of a "stream of consciousness" style of work flow.  I decided early on that I would not project my past gig formula or work load onto our creativity.  Thus we did not play "jazz standards."  We let the Spirit guide us, and it did.  We have produced a substantial musical output consisting of a handful of complete CD's of increasingly variable styles.  We experimented with Avant Garde jazz, swing, country, blues, and Latin.  He was able to express his bereavement for his wife Ingrid, and I was able to channel the challenges of caring for aging parents.  It was a rewarding collaboration in a short period of time.  I remember when Donald Trump was elected President in 2016.  I said, "Why not let him try his hand and see how our own quality of life would change."  I was trying to be optimistic, the same view I offered Pete Hegseth.  In hindsight 2016 began a spiral downward of average quality of life.  Everything became more difficult, like we were fighting some giant invisible antagonist.  Most of all the acoustics of the Mancave deteriorated.  Ed decided to renovate the moldy smelling damp space, so he pulled up the carpet and took down the acoustical or false ceiling.  Both things affected the sound, but it was not that that made the biggest difference in our attempted recordings.  It was the first time I recall recording a tune, and having the overall volume of our playing change drastically in the middle of the song.  Since then and culminating now in 2026, a decade later, the same phenomena exists on a daily basis.  It occurs in my home, and the volume of musical performance or playback changes radically over just seconds in real time.  Therefore my attempts to record videos of my own in different rooms with different set ups are plagued with the same demon.  I often play left hand bass as a keyboardist, and setting its level is the most important thing in a mix, especially in jazz.  Suddenly my bass sounds were not consistent, and their volumes were changing continuously in real time second to second.  The tinnitus in my left ear would ebb and flow, and the efficiency of the amplification would struggle.  Only in the last few months did GOOGLE tell me what the effects of "over voltage" were.  It explained the phenomenon exactly.  Because I have a vintage Hammond console organ with tubes, it is susceptible to such influence.  Others in the Hammond world have experienced similar effects.  What it boiled down to was that not only was there a standing wave in our space, there was a myriad of RF content coming from many disparate sources like the military at Fort Bragg.  This includes radar, widespread surveillance, and downright aerial antagonism.  It should be no surprise that aviation is viable tool for such activity, and a fleet of Russian backed shell company planes were found.  They are not the only culprit.  Like many modern American corporate processes including rail, it must have become clear that the artifacts or by products of these activities also could be  weaponized.  The Republican Party used this ploy touting the weaponization of various government agencies, including voting.  The reality is, now with very little governmental oversight or regulation, the ordinary landscape for working Americans has become a mine field.  Literally we are being attacked at all levels. With the Covid outbreak and the recent President's tirades against everyone including the Pope, the Catholic Church, and the evil Democrats, etc. it commonly should be understood Americans are not immune from persecution.  Upon study America has experienced five years of blunt and acute attack while Trump has been President.  Every aspect of our lives is beset with challenges rather than being supported.  For those who have committed no crimes, unlike Donald Trump, Americans do not deserve nor merit persecution from their own democratic leadership.  We have in fact witnessed and experienced an internal coup of leadership that has attempted to transform American democracy into Fascism.  Still to this day the leader of this evil is the American President.  It is not new.  Many other countries have succumbed to the same transformation, where the elected ruling body turns against the people.  It is fairly new to the United States, and I am not a historian enough to know if another American President behaved similarly.  The ploy is to feign honesty and integrity and skull fuck the population on the down low.  While we experienced remnants of this under George W. Bush Jr., (and it seemed extreme and painful at the time), it pales in comparison to the world corruption of Donald Trump.  He is a war criminal and a convicted felon and should be removed from office along with his Vice President and the Speaker of the House.  Unfortunately the Jeffry Epstein scheme blackmailing the most powerful and influential world leaders, including members of Congress, has proven effective  eliminating dissent in Washington.  They have become spineless cowards stemming from an immature lust for teenage booty.  No enlightened society would allow pussy to bring down world leaders.  You have to pay for it any way and where you look.  Power does not and should not predicate sex for free.  The idea that screwing under age girls on Epstein's private island could and would topple the world order including the most powerful and exemplary democracy, is ludicrous.  I would assume "Original Sin" is as powerful as God has said.  It only is truncated minds akin to Appalachian inbred hillbillies that would allow physical lust to undermine civilization.  It is a natural God-given urge and nothing of which to be ashamed.  Unfortunately "Fire and Brimstone" extreme Biblical prophesying by ignorant, manipulative, evil men has become the strongest political tool of all.  It's time to move on.