Headlined Guests
Headlined Guests that have appeared on BBS Radio TV
Andy Myers is a best-selling author, psychic medium, inspirational speaker, and life coach who has appeared on popular radio stations nationwide. As one of the most in-demand psychic mediums in the country, Andy is known for his sincerity, humor, and remarkable insights into the spirit world. Andy’s first book, Flying Paint Rollers from Heaven, was an instant best-seller in three categories and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. In addition to making several television appearances, Andy has been published in numerous magazines and online articles. He travels often to conduct sold-out psychic events and inspirational lectures in cities nationwide. Andy resides in Omaha, Nebraska with his wife and daughter.
Frederick (Fred) Hinton served in the U.S. Army for 21 years, 9 months. Due to his service and valor in war, he was awarded two Bronze Star Medals, the Combat Action Badge, and the Army Commendation Medal with Valor, among other awards. He served three combat tours overseas, with two tours to Iraq and one tour to Afghanistan. He spent a total of 39 months deployed to war zones. During his first deployment, he sustained his first traumatic brain injury (TBI). During the rest of his deployments, he took many direct hits by IED’s (improvised explosive devices). It wasn’t until he returned home after his first deployment that his wife starting seeing some signs that he was having trouble doing certain tasks. However, being the dedicated soldier that he was, he hid his problems as best as he could, even as he served a second and third tour overseas. Upon his final return home to the United States, things had gotten so bad that he couldn’t remember how to get home at times, and his work in Army began to suffer because of his TBI and PTSD. He retired from the Army and despite his conditions, he is now able to serve as an eligibility specialist with Operation TBI Freedom (OTF), which is a program of Craig Hospital in Colorado that provides support for veterans and active duty military personnel with traumatic brain injuries.
OTF is privately funded and assists veterans and service members who have served on or after September 11, 2001, reside in Colorado, have clinical evidence or history of TBI event(s), and whose TBI occurred after the start of his/her military service. The TBI does not need to be combat related and OTF will take referrals for any type of military discharge status. Each veteran or service member is assigned a case manager (Military Support Specialist) who is a veteran and a Certified Brain Injury Specialist. The MSS begins with a comprehensive analysis of the veteran’s needs/concerns, creating an individually tailored life plan. Services provided or coordinated by OTF include the following: crisis management, mentoring, emergency financial assistance, employment training, psychosocial education, mental health/medical referrals, assistance navigating complicated benefit processes, and much more.
Referrals to OTF can be made by the individual veteran, a community partner, a clinician, etc. If there is concern about cognitive dysfunction/impairment, yet no medical diagnosis of TBI, please refer the individual to OTF to be screened by our trained staff.
Double Your Success
Meet Vickie Helm
Discover how you can double your success by meeting Vickie Helm! She is the acclaimed bestselling author of Ultimate Freedom: Unlock the Secrets to a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Prosperity.
She has a unique combination as a recognized business-development strategist and relationship expert. Vickie shows people in business and other partnerships how to double their success and maximize their potential by working together and creating mutually beneficial partnerships. The media has called on Vickie to answer questions regarding business development and how to grow a successful business. She is an international Keynote speaker and seminar presenter.
Discover what you need to know to succeed in today’s fast-paced business world. Vickie offers invaluable tips and tools to help business owners become successful, creating more money, more influence, and more success.
Vickie shares from her own business experience and how she accidently opened her first business at ten years old, not even realizing she had developed a business.
Elaine Lopez-Bogard is a Modern Day Medicine Woman that helps women get pregnant, heal their womb and finally bring their baby into this world. Elaine considers herself a "Soul Midwife" and helps create a beautiful soul connection between the mother and spirit baby. Elaine's unique gifts and abilities allow her to help women heal through the physical, emotional and spiritual layers.
"It’s easy to see why people love Priya. She’s adventurous, bright, engaging and personable." Priya Nembhard is a serial entrepreneur with a flare for gab and loves talking about topics she’s passionate about. She once applied to be an astronaut with NASA, ran a couple of marathons, broke a state dead lift record when she was 17 and her life goal is to save the planet. She is DRIVEN.
Priya is the Co-Founder of Moms Pump Here, LLC and Co-creator of the Moms Pump Here Nursing Room Locator App helping moms find places to breastfeed and breast pump around the world; Co-owner of BlueBox Media; and Founder of the EDGE Charitable Foundation in Miami. She has also hosted YouTube vlogs, podcasts and radio. Priya is an alumna of Syracuse University and New School University. She loves science, is married and has three children.
MICHELLE ANN OWENS is an audio/video host, voiceover talent, vocalist and
songwriter. She has stamped her business, creative & actual voice across multiple
industries, including corporate business development and marketing, composing music for television, commercial advertising, and the world of podcasting. Michelle is the owner of Ladyfox Entertainment, LLC and is currently the hostess and producer of
Nothing Off Limits (NOL) on iTunes.
Rev. Dr. Linda is a metaphysician, certified Reiki master teacher, spiritual healer, color/sound practitioner and spiritual medium. Dr. Nickolas is a licensed psychologist, social worker & certified school psychologist who has worked in clinical, university, public school and private practice settings as a therapist, diagnostician, educator and consultant for 30 years.
At the start of 2017, Larry D. Hall was appointed by the Governor of North Carolina to serve as the Secretary for the North Carolina Department of Military & Veterans Affairs. Prior to that appointment, Secretary Hall represented Durham County, North Carolina’s 29th District in the state House of Representatives, since 2006, and he led House Democrats from 2012 through 2016. Secretary Hall earned a B.S. with Honors in Political Science and Business from Johnson C. Smith University and a Juris Doctor degree from the School of Law at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Upon undergrad graduation, he was commissioned as an Officer in the United States Marine Corps. Secretary Hall served 16 years in the United States Marines and Marine Corps Reserves and served in the support of the Operations in the Middle East in Lebanon and Iran. He served as a Rifle Platoon Commander, Weapons Company Executive Officer, Training Officer, Battalion Area Security Officer, Staff Judge Advocate, Communications Security Officer and Logistics Officer. Secretary Hall also served as Legal Officer and was formerly Commandant for the Marine Corps League Detachment, which assists Marines transitioning from active duty to civilian life in locating employment, housing and educational opportunities for their families.
Secretary Hall’s other service to his nation, state and community has been very extensive. He has served as an Executive Committee Member and Economic Committee Chairman of the Durham Branch of the NAACP, as Secretary and Chairman of the Durham Business and Professional Chain, and served on the Durham Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.
He has also served as Executive Officer of the Young Marines Program, Board Chairman of the Durham Companions Mentor Program, and as an instructor and training officer teaching youth leadership, discipline, custom, courtesies, and traditions of the Marine Corps.
As House Democratic Leader, Secretary Hall served on the state’s Economic Development Board, the state’s Innovation Council, The North Carolina Courts Commission as Chairman, The Duke Medical Center Advisory Board, the Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee as Chairman, and has been inducted as a Toll Fellow by the National Conference of State Governments.
RADIO HOST MALIK SHAKUR
TALKS ABOUT LEGENDARY COUSIN TUPAC
AND KNOWS WHO MURDERED
MICHAEL JACKSON,PRINCE AND WHITNEY HOUSTON
Malik Shakur is the host of THE KNOWLEDGE SHOW a very Unique, Controversial, Educational, and Entertaining Talk Show that broadcasts live. Malik Shakur is the cousin of the late Tupac Shakur and has earned several trophies, awards, and accolades for the show and the live conversations on the show. Malik Shakur asks the real questions and gets the real answers to keep it 100 and deliver the truth, but some can't handle the truth. If you are one of the few that can, then this is the show for you. We cover conspiracy theories, current events, controversial discussions and topics, and talk about subjects that no one else is talking about, but the community needs to know about by any means necessary.
'The Knowledge Show'
airs every Sat & Sun at 6:30 pm ET
to listen in.
Tupac Shakur was a sensitive, precociously talented yet troubled soul who came to embrace the 1990s gangsta-rap aesthetic and paid the ultimate price — he was gunned down in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996 and died six days later. His murder has never been solved. He began his music career as a rebel with a cause — to articulate the travails and injustices endured by many African-Americans, often from a male point of view. His skill in doing so made him a spokesperson not just for his own generation, but for subsequent ones who continue to face the same struggle for equality. In death he became an icon symbolizing noble struggle, though in life his biggest battle was sometimes with himself. As fate drove him towards the nihilism of gangsta rap, and into the arms of the controversial Death Row Records impresario Suge Knight, the boundaries between Shakur's art and his life became increasingly blurred — with tragic consequences. Hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur was embroiled in a feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers and was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1996, leaving behind an influential musical legacy at the age of 25. Tupac sold over 75 million records worldwide.
LARRY E. BUCK HUNTER is a BROADCASTER & AUTHOR. For over 30 years he worked in the marketing and communications field. Larry specializes in executive coaching, professional speaking, radio & television broadcasting and, most importantly, has real-life, in-the- trenches mass-media marketing experience. He has established a solid reputation as a top-notch publicist, event producer and entertainment communications professional with expertise in the publishing markets. Larry has a knack for bringing out the best in people and is known for his savvy style and exhilarating personality! He is the author of the book “7 Days in Hell! I was there”
Cheryl Melody Baskin is the author of the popular Amazon motivational self-help book, “Shift of Heart: Paths to Healing and Love.” This inspirational book is jam packed with personal and professional life experiences, and offers the reader a huge dose of unconditional love, encouragement, reflections. meditations, learning to listen to the whispers and signs of life, ways to open creativity, acknowledge moments of serendipity, inspirational stories of shifting our heart, as well as inner growth tools that she uses to balance herself in the midst of life’s challenges. Cheryl Melody is also a performing artist, singer and sound healer, composer and an independent recording artist of 10 albums. Some of her albums are for children, and some for adults.
Her healing albums for adults are entitled: “Voice of the Angels: A Healing Journey” “Lullabies of Love: Nurturing the Heart of the Inner Child” and “Celebrate Peace.”
All of her albums are under the name “Cheryl Melody,” and all are available on iTunes, CD Baby, http://cherylmelody.com and http://shiftofheart.com/.
Exciting news is that she is about to release a new album… with content from her inner growth workshops and concerts, filled with motivational chants and songs, reflective meditations and positive affirmations, and the name of the album is LISTEN TO THE WHISPERS. It will soon be released on CD Baby and on iTunes, and to pre-order, please e-mail her for an advanced copy at melody@shiftofheart.com.
Melody’s focus has always been her use of consciously-written words in every song and book, no matter what age the song or book is for: Words that uplift the spirit, help people feel less alone and more loved, and words that advocate for self-esteem, inner and outer peace, healing, inclusion, respect, unity, kindness, compassion and forgiveness.
From the time that she was young, "Melody" has been a creative dreamer, quietly listening to life's whispers and signs to help guide her next steps. She believes in a balance of quiet contemplation, meaningful social interaction, and the healing power of nature, reflective open listening, positive words, music and creativity. Most of all, she is passionate that peace is possible, one loving person at a time, and that we are all connected.
She proclaims herself “a work in process,” believing that the answers to our questions in life are inside each of us if we are silent and willing to listen. Most of all, Melody feels that every small moment of personal healing, compassion, love and forgiveness helps to create positive resonance that actively vibrates love into our beautiful planet.
Wes Pinkston is an Award-Winning Transformational Life Coach. Prior to venturing into personal development, however, you may recognize Wes from his many appearances on the hit Bravo television show Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles. After Wes earned his business degree from Chapman University and earned a spot in the College Football Hall of Fame, he became a well-respected real estate agent in Beverly Hills. His digital marketing prowess led to the co creation of “The Broke Agent” which was one of the top blogs in the industry; attracting more than 200,000 social media followers; and eventually won him the Swanepoel Top 20 Real Estate Influencer in the World award. In 2016 Wes chose to turn his focus towards assisting clients 1-on-1 via personal coaching full time, where he supports his clients in developing a self-sustaining guidance and growth mechanism. Today, Wes has his own private practice in Encinitas, CA.
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewespinkston/
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Kent Heckenlively is a science teacher, an attorney, and a founding editor of Age of Autism.
Kent is also a member of the Compass Group, a consortium of autism parents, leading scientists, and philanthropists in Silicon Valley looking for answers to neuro-immune diseases.
Author of the book: Inoculated: How Science Lost Its Soul in Autism.
Kent Heckenlively will join us during the show's second hour
Liz Anderson is originally from the U.K. and Spain. She has lived in SWFL for over 30 years where her Entrepreneurial spirit has soared. Her diagnosis of Stage 3 breast cancer in 2009 helped her see and appreciate life in ways she never imagined. It taught her the importance of the mind body connection as well as an enhanced awareness of what to put in the body and on the body leading her to partner with a company offering naturally based hair products which improve thinning hair and boost hair growth called MONAT Global.
Marilyn Joyce, PhD, RD is a Registered Dietitian, with a doctorate in Psychology and Nutrition. With her beginnings in Biochemistry and Human Nutrition, as well as Yoga and whole person (Mind-Body-Spirit) wellness, Dr Joyce approaches nutrition and lifestyle practices from both, a scientific, and a holistic, perspective. As the Director of Nutrition for the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in the mid-nineties, she helped cancer patients, from around the world, make major positive shifts in their health through changes in their eating and lifestyle habits.
Dr Marilyn is is an author, educator and internationally renowned speaker with more than thirty years of experience at the forefront of nutrition, health and education. Her thriving private practice spans the globe.
In her globally acclaimed best selling book, 5 Minutes to Health, she comprehensively addressed what we eat, why we eat, how we eat, where we buy it, how we store it, how we prepare it, and how we think and feel about what we eat. The book was a step-by-step guide, setting out how to buy, store and prepare food, and was full of easy-to-follow healthy and delicious recipes.
Well, we have great news for all of you who are looking for all of that – and much, much more – in one source. In her newest book, INSTANT E.N.E.R.G.Y.™: The 5 Keys to Unlimited Energy & Vitality, Dr Joyce has pulled out all of the stops! In this the one-stop guide to whole person wellness, she has uncovered and revealed all of the strategies she uses with her patients and clients – strategies that many people globally have willingly paid handsome fees to learn about. And she clearly and compassionately presents all of this information in a unique and memorable formula, for all aspects of healthy living. And you’ll love the fact that all of what she teaches is simple, quick, easy and FUN! And it makes complete sense.
Known for many, many years as both The Vitality Doctor™, and the Master of 5-minute healthy strategies and systems, Dr Joyce has developed INSTANT E.N.E.R.G.Y.™ strategies and recommendations that can be done in 5 minutes or less by anyone, anywhere, anytime.
And Dr Marilyn doesn’t just come by her enthusiasm for nutrition and healthy living through training or inclination; she is also a cancer survivor. Here is her story.
“In 1985, when I was at the peak of my career and feeling like I had achieved much success in my life, I was diagnosed with melanoma. I had no idea what a serious illness that was, but as if that wasn’t enough, a week after I got out of the hospital for melanoma I was rushed right back into hospital, this time with uterine cancer, stage four.
I was only thirty-five years old, so it was a real shock, because in all of my experience I had been told that this was an older woman’s illness. Of course I plunged into all the reactions everybody else has. I went into denial and anger and felt like a complete victim. Then I tried everything I could find in search of a ‘magic bullet’ cure.
Finally, in 1989, it looked like the end of the road. I was in a wheelchair, weighing eighty-eight pounds, with just weeks to live. At that point the miracles began.
I had come to the point where I could only suck on ice chips… no solid food for months. A young man with a Vita Mix machine introduced me to Cantaloupe ice (seeds and all!). I was eventually able to start eating again; first fruits, then vegetables, then soy and whole grains. I continued a diet of whole foods in whole food forms, back-to-basics nutrition. A year later I had recovered, and the challenge I had set for myself was to run an uninterrupted mile. And I did – in thirty minutes… not the fastest mile, but I knew I had achieved a major degree of health again, that I had not experienced for several years!
What I’ve found is that most people live on expensive foods – they go out and buy all kinds of processed, packaged foods, as well as consuming questionable restaurant meals. And, believe me, these foods are expensive in every aspect of the word. Not only for your pocket book, but also challenging (expensive) for your body’s digestive system. Absorption and assimilation are compromised, due to the questionable nature of the foods consumed, making it difficult for your body to derive the necessary nutrition and life force elements to function optimally.
Add to that, the sedentary lifestyle most of us embrace, and the long-term potentially detrimental effects of such a lifestyle, and it becomes apparent that the results can be extremely challenging to our wallets in healthcare costs, alone! For most of us, these negative lifestyle factors are a way of life, so it amazes me when people wonder why they are tired, and why they get sick.
The answer is simple! We, as a population, need to rediscover back-to-basics eating – whole food nutrition – eating food that looks the way it does as it grows out of the ground or on the tree. If it is fish or meat it needs to be free range, with no antibiotics or hormones. And then add to that, whole body living – consistent exercise, relaxation, spiritual time, family and community involvement, healthy optimistic self-talk and an attitude of internal gratitude for all of the good things in life!
When I started putting INSTANT E.N.E.R.G.Y.™ together for my patients and clients, and the public in general, I realized that the difference between what most people do, and what I and my clients do, is that most people actually do eat packaged, processed foods. Even though many of those packaged foods are often organically based, they are still packaged, processed foods! And these same folks would come home from work and grab that infernal clicker (You know what I am talking about? The couch potato’s God!) for hours into every evening, never moving a bone of their tired worn-out bodies. Ironically, even just 5 minutes of the right exercise – you have to read the Chapter on Fit in Fitness, to get the answer to what that exercise is! – would have shifted their bodies from fatigued and worn-out to energized and full of life!
I have also noticed that people talk about how expensive it is to eat really healthy food, and to live a healthy lifestyle. I can show you that the opposite is true.
Let me demonstrate with the #1 objection – “healthy food is expensive!” One day I met a nutritionist-friend of mine as we were both waiting in line to check out at the grocery store. She had two bags of groceries compared to my eight bags. My groceries cost less, and were all organically grown fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. She had packaged, processed foods such as chips and cookies – admittedly for her overnight guests, not the norm for her family. We talked, and over time she realized what I had discovered – whole food nutrition costs less and will keep you well. Processed foods cost more to begin with, and will keep you sick and tired – which in turn, costs more – in health care costs!
You can’t think straight if you are not getting the right kind of food into your body. And the right kind of movement with, and care of, your body! You won’t be able to exercise if you’re not getting the right foods (fuel) to burn. It is critical to eat vibrant foods that are nutrient-dense, loaded with antioxidants, phytonutrients and bioflavanoids. They fuel every metabolic function in your body, and are essential in the prevention and healing of many degenerative illnesses, including cancer, fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, arthritis, heart disease and many more.
And of course, we can’t forget the care and feeding of our emotional and spiritual wellbeing. We are multi-dimensional beings that require a multi-dimensional approach to our personal care. If any one aspect of our whole being is out of balance, we are setting ourselves up for illness. And let’s face it, the very nature of being human, seems to be fraught with the challenge of staying balanced. So, we all need every tool, strategy, idea, tip and system that we can get hold of to consistently create, re-create, and maintain balance.
It is important to emphasize here that, when it comes to illness, there are no ‘magic bullets’. There is no one thing that will be the answer for everyone. But a simple, high quality diet and overall lifestyle regime will at least give you a fighting chance. Add to that a more individualized program designed especially for you, and you will have the power in your hands again to create renewal in your health, renewal in your life.”
Dr Marilyn Joyce is the author of several unique, inspiring, and comprehensive books, including her best selling books,5 Minutes to Health, and, I Can’t Believe it’s Tofu! She is a regular contributor to Healthy and Natural Magazine, Health Editor and feature writer for New Perspectives magazine, was the official Registered Dietitian for the Original Hollywood Celebrity Diet, and is now the official Registered Dietitian, who developed and supervised the introduction of America’s reformulated version of the SoyPal Cookie Diet Weight Loss and Maintenance program, based on Japan’s #1 diet product.
Dr Marilyn conducts seminars and trainings for organizations. Some of her clients include:
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Over the past few years, Dr Marilyn is has appeared as a guest on many radio and television programs, including:
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We are Frequency Twins Flames in Union. We are and identify as Rainbow Tribe that re-calibrate frequency with our voices and music as well as crystals! We assist in attunements that lessen anxiety, pain and illness! We keep a very close eye on earth and sun changes enabling us to assist you in knowing why you may feel certain pains in the body during solar changes, such as CME's, Solar Flares, and coronal holes and show you how to watch certain sites available to any person on this planet so you can understand why the solar lows affect the body and solar highs the brain! This is just as important as knowing the weather before you leave the house to protect yourself from the rain, snow or sun!! You can add these sites to your daily routine and be aware of what is going on not only with the Earth & Sun but your own body!!!
We also assist our clients with information about the Rainbow Family/ Rainbow Ray/ Diamond Ray explaining in detail each ray and why rainbows are here to master the Rays! Also what Twin Flame Alchemy is in simple terms! Some of these things can seem very difficult and we simplify as much as we can so that you have information that can assist you and others along your path!!
We have worked to bring the most information to each of you as quickly as possible in the shortest amount of time!
Plus we will always bring the very best information to you from other light workers on our radio show each and every Sunday from 11 am - 1 pm mst. In working with us you are playing a key role in assisting us in our mission with the Radio show and bringing you the highest quality guests and information available!
We look forward to working with you very soon! Namaste Angels
Paco Alarcon Kahan, Barcelona, España.
International author and keynote speaker. World authority in combining Quantum Physics, Neuroscience, and Spirituality for personal and spiritual development. What is called Quantum Reality is a new concept, and experience of life amplifies the abundance, the good, and the spiritual connection of any individual. In this way, people can transform their reality and themselves, attracting the blessings and unlimited abundance of the Universe.
Kahan, has been involved in Oriental and Occidental spiritual currents for more than thirty-five years. He works with quantum energies that transform the reality of people. He transforms the daily life into a life connected to Spirit through an alignment with the unlimited energy of the Universe.
Spiritual Event That Changed My Life
Many years ago, I had a quantum leap of consciousness. My awareness went from my limited self to become one with the awareness of everything.
Biggest Accomplishments
Become an international author and travel to English- and Spanish-speaking countries to give seminars about Spiritual Reconnection and Quantum Reality.
To put in some books the main keys that bring some of the most advanced revelations for the spiritual reconnection and evolution of human consciousness now.
Comments >From People (Hundreds Available)
“You don’t know how you have changed my life. In two months since the seminar, I have grown more than in 50 years!”
—Silvia Bordon, Entrepreneur.
“The workshop with you at Omega New York is profound, transformative, and life changing. I am deeply grateful.”
—Suzzanah, Communications Specialist.
Books
The Violet Light: The Power That Changes Everything.
Flying Within.
Stargate 2012: Recovering Power for Earth-Imminent Ascension.
Contact
Email quantumreal@yahoo.com.
Steve Jaffe was born on February 14, 1944 in San Diego, California, USA as Stephen Singer Jaffe. He is a producer, known for The Exorcist III (1990), The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes (1992) and A Rush to Judgment (2015). He has been married to Susan Blakely since July 16, 1982.
Steve appeared in both The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes (1992) and The Media & and the 2nd Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Steve's PR firm has over 40 years' experience handling media about high profile companies and individual professionals, including entertainment industry star artists, athletes, politicians, physicians and leaders in business of all kinds, as well as civil litigants and targets of media coverage.
I A N M C D O N A L D
KING CRIMSON AND FOREIGNER MUSIC LEGEND
FORMS NEW BAND CALLED
HONEY WEST
Ian McDonald is an English multi-instrumental musician, best known as a founding member of progressive rock group King Crimson, formed in 1969, and of the hard rock band Foreigner in 1976. He is also well known as a rock session musician, predominantly as a saxophonist. He also plays keyboards, flute, vibraphone, and guitar.
A British rock giant and an acclaimed and respected member of New York's acting community walk into a recording studio ... and produce one of 2017's strongest and most compelling albums.
This odd couple consists of multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald, and guitarist and lead vocalist Ted Zurkowski, co-founder of New York's celebrated Shakespeare ensemble, Frog & Peach, and a long-time member of the world-famous Actors Studio. Together, this unlikely new songwriting team conjured the album Bad Old World under the banner of their quartet, HONEY WEST.
Bad Old World is filled with memorable melodies and clever and sophisticated lyrics served on a bed of guitar-driven rock 'n' roll played by top-shelf musicians, including drummer Steve Holley, whose credits include Paul McCartney & Wings and many others, and McDonald's son, Maxwell McDonald, on bass. The album also boasts a guest appearance by Graham Maby (Joe Jackson, They Might Be Giants) on bass ("Brand New Car," "California," "A Girl Called Life"). While it's a modern sound stamped by Ian McDonald's world-class musicianship and production, it also bears an instant familiarity, thanks to a sonic blueprint recalling such Brit-rock titans as The Move and Mott the Hoople.
Representative of the band's distinct sound is Bad Old World's self-deprecating first single, "Dementia," a four-on-the-floor rave-up that melds a driving beat and rampaging guitars with McDonald's signature baritone sax and Zurkowski's unique brand of lyrical mischief.
With a cheeky nod to McDonald's British roots, there also is a helping of sly humor that permeates HONEY WEST: Witness the new video containing the hard-charging "Generationless Man," which pays homage to both the visual style of the Beatles' influential film A Hard Day's Night, and the wackiness of fellow countryman Benny Hill.
As is usually the case in artistic collaborations, the pairing of McDonald and Zurkowski was the result of fate - and, in this case, proximity as well.
HONEY WEST - named in honor and celebration of the proto-feminist 1960s cult TV spy series starring the ever-alluring Anne Francis - was already up and running when the two came together. For McDonald, discovering the scope and breadth of Zurkowski's talents was the catalyst for wanting to create a musical partnership.
BAD OLD WORLD by HONEY WEST is available to purchase at amazon.com