Ron Cabral's Blog
RSS
Aug.06.2009
As the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock draws ever closer you might want to catch the Heroes of Woodstock tour coming to a town near you soon. Hosted by Country Joe it features Big Brother and The Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Ten Years After and suprise guest appearances. The...
Continue Reading »
Jul.18.2009
Just got back from a 10 day trip to rural Eastern North Carolina. To get there we flew on U.S. Air - San Francisco to Charlotte and then on a twin engine DeHavilland - Dash 8 prop "puddle jumper" to Greenville in Pitt County. Rented a car there and drove out to Winterville where we made our...
Continue Reading »
Jun.19.2009
Due the unexpected May 21, 2009 passing of Berkeley filmmaker Claire Burch the DVD on Country Joe - Gimme an F - is according to Joe, "Up in the air." Claire was close to completion on what became her last film. Her partner on the project Mark Weiman is attempting to complete Claire's...
Continue Reading »
Jun.16.2009
The new Kindle DX from Amazon in just a short time is taking this new way to read to new heights. This one is larger at 9.7 inches, but it can hold 3,500 books and a good selection of newspapers, blogs and magazines. It is only 1/3rd of an inch thick and has an improved screen. It also can read...
Continue Reading »
Jun.05.2009
Country Joe McDonald one of the Hero's of Woodstock did a solo concert last night at the Farmer's Market in Todos Santos Plaza in Concord. He played sitting down and produced bright and vibrant versions of Section 43, Save The Whales, Janis, and Hold on It's Coming. This was the first time I have...
Continue Reading »
Jun.04.2009
I have been around airplanes since I was 17 (1958). I learned to fly a single engine seaplane at age 18 in Sausalito, California. My first solo cross country assignment was to fly to a small lake (Woodward Reservoir) way out in the Central Valley, land on the lake, beach the craft and add 10...
Continue Reading »
2 comments
Mar.29.2009
In 1976 Judy Bebelaar and I were teaching at Opportunity High School in San Francisco. Opportunity was the new name of the old Continuation High School. The school was designed to attract those students who did not have success in the mainstream high schools - drop outs, unwed mothers, chronic...
Continue Reading »
8 comments
Mar.09.2009
The new improved Kindle 2 from Amazon is out. WIth this one you can download 150 books and more magazines, newspapers and blogs than you could with Kindle 1. You can select from 250,000 books available to download to your Kindle 2 . If this isn't enough it has a new feature - it will read to...
Continue Reading »
Mar.04.2009
Been a while since I added anything here. Have decided to add another Country Joe photo gallery. This is the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock and the story of Country Joe takes on legendary qualities especially this year. If you haven't seen the Woodstock...
Continue Reading »
Aug.06.2008
Country Joe and Me just went up on KINDLE. KINDLE is a new electronic reading devise developed by Jeff Bezos and his staff at Amazon.com. It is selling for $359. Currently over 145,000 books are available for application to KINDLE. The KINDLE can hold up to 200 full length books as well as various...
Continue Reading »
May.04.2008
I decided to go through my picture file and realized I have many photographs of individuals and personalities that are in Country Joe and Me. So I added 126 photos that are now on my Media File. I recently added 70 photos of Country Joe and Country Joe and The Fish as well. These photos add some...
Continue Reading »
Feb.13.2008
Buy a copy of Country Joe and Me at www.countryjoe.com at the Country Store. Also look around in Country Joe's great website. Hear many of Joe's classic songs there on his juke box - also find out what Country Joe and The Fish sounded like. There are also 20 You Tubes posted and various Country ...
Continue Reading »
About Ron
Ron Cabral was born in San Francisco in 1941 and raised in the Mission District, Bernal Heights, and Noe Valley. He attended both Catholic and Public schools including: St. Philips, James Lick Junior High, Polytechnic High, ...
Causes Ron Cabral Supports
National Wildlife Federation, California State and National Parks, Arf, Paralyzed Veterans, National Film Preservation Foundation, California Historical...