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On Wednesday, May 21, 1997 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, randy garn wrote:
> Does anyone out there know about the music created by R.J.Garn? R. J.
> spent twenty-five years wandering the Colorado Plataeu writing, recording
> and performing music that came to him from the past, present, future, and
> the goddamn rocks themselves. He was an Amigo of Ed Abbey, Ken Sleight,
> Bob Greenspan, John Nichols, Wallace Stegner, and the Southern Utah
> Wilderness Alliance, among many others.
> R.J.has dropped off the face of mother earth for almost three years but
> was finally located in northern N.M. hiding out from cops, strip mining
> henchmen, and other such nasty folks. He damn near spent twenty years in
> the Utah State Prison after desperately trying to preserve a beautiful
> Wilderness Study area from crackerassed mountain bikers.This area is now
> officially preserved as Grand Staircase Nat'l Monument.
> R. J. released four albums that I know of between 1979 and 1994. R.J. and
> his buddies would pack into remote redrock canyons and record his albums
> using a solar-powered Fostex four track recorder. The first and best album
> is DESERT MAGIC. It is awesome. The second is DESERT RAT, which is a
> double album and I consider it R.J.'s white album...the third is a great
> one also, LIVE FROM MOONFLOWER MESA....and the fourth album that very few
> folks have heard is SHADOWDANCER. R.J. was in court as this album was
> released and he got pissed off and only sold or gave away a few.
> To this day it would be hard to find a white water boatman or canyon
> country guide that didn't know the words to BOOTS FULL OF WATER by R.J. or
> one of his other songs like THE NIGHT THE JAVELINAS HOWLED.
> Anyway, this is no money making deal for me, no commercial thing. I have
> all of his albums and would be willing to make copies for those that are
> interested. I want his music to keep on going into future Desert Rats and
> other such folks. I'd also like to get in touch with other fans.
> ADIOS.....
>
> --
> ADIOS
I know him. He and I used to hang. We recorded a few songs together that never made it in to his releases but I have lots of good stories to tell about him and Wallace and the Abbey kids, some of the best times of my life! I'd love to share and also get fresh copies of all of those albums.