THE GREENSCENE.

a KFCF Profile

1) Richard Gomez

2) GreenScene

3) 3rd Wednesday of each and every month starting at 3pm

4) 7 years plus. I started as a board operator of the Stir it Up shows for the Fresno Center for Nonviolence and GreenScene with Mark Stout as the host. I remember someone from the Fresno Bee interviewing and taking pictures of Randy Stover at the old studio, years ago. I happened to be there when he took pictures of Randy and me at the sound board there. I had just started and asked that maybe they should use a more experienced operator. Pictures and article about KFCF were in the next Sundays' Fresno Bee.

5) My older sister, Anna, used to produce /program/hang around in the "olden daze" with Randy, Rich, Debbie et al..

My earliest listening experienced of KFCF was of opera and symphonic music that they seem to be always playing whenever I would tuned-in. The music was NOT what most 20-something year old preferred.

The earliest news broadcast on KPFA/KFCF I remember was when Saddam Hussein had created a massive troop build-up on the Kuwait border. Mainstream television & newspapers were reporting that the CIA had claimed that despite the presence of troops on the border- that no hostility was to be expected.

6) The GreenScene provides the public information regarding the policies, issues and the people regarding the fastest growing political party in the country- the Green Party.

The Green Party has been the first, if sometimes only, political party to champion the causes that the mainstream media prefers to avoid unless there is a celebrity involved. Whereas the Greens believe that the environment is where people should learn and to strive to live within a sustainably manner that respects all life that are responsible for making this world livable. People are no better, nor are they worse than of all of natures’ other residents.

The Greens have championed the cause of the single payer health care by the taking the insurance companies out of the health care equation since its inception. As well as the end of the nuclear hypocrisy, political reform, the end of corporate rule and its need for wars & occupations.

The Green party is the first political party in the United States to acknowledge the rights of all human beings regardless of race, color, creed, gender, sexual identification and legal status long before the beginning of this 21st century.

7) Currently, I’m the sole cook and chief bottle washer. Although, it would be impossible to do a show without the help from various friend and folks from Greens, regarding guests and issues. I am under the auspices of the Fresno Co. Green Party, meaning that what is presented on the GreenScene is at best, an honest portrayal.

8) On the GreenScene, issues, policies and the people of the Green Party are ignored by the mainstream media. We are a reminder that there are people who believe in real solutions and not the comical and celebrity excuses. We are a reminder that problems and solution as well as life does exist despite the Medias attempt to ignore, stereotype and be treated as if it is unimportant.

9) "The chickens have come home to roost..." was perhaps my most memorable moment on the air. It was the first show on KFCF immediately following the 9/11 disaster. All local programming was postponed while KPFA was reporting on the event. I was board operating for the Fresno Center for Nonviolence with Vince Lavery as host. It had become normal for me to extol a few words before I introduced Vince, although he always thought I took to long to introduce him and the show despite those that thought that most people figured that it was less time for Vince to speak.

My best shows on the GreenScene were usually where the guest was relaxed and having fun. The shows I did with Peter Camejo were always funny and informative. To be truthful, I guess, I remember them more than some of my other shows that were also well done with great humorous guest, like Donna Warren and others because of his current serious illness. I remember one show where I had all 3 candidates for the CA Senate of the Green Party on a separate phone line.

I like to take the month of December to take a kind of a break and played a little John Lennon and what ever.

10) Sound and the quality of the show.

11) No, believe it or not I had no idea of what the hell I was doing before KFCF, and by now I have completely forgotten it. Although, I still remember how to turn on and off a radio, I think...

12) Democracy Now, Wasteland of the Free, all of the Stir-it Ups, Caroline Casey, Michua Kaku and as many of the local show.

13) Exhilarated, but tired. I could go for hours after really good shows and just a few for the others.

14) Time and fun. It's a process that takes time and good hard work with a lot of worry in between. You got to have a little fun or you'll go crazy. (See Vic for example)

15) KPFA/KFCF, Community Alliance, www.Indynews.org,www.wilderside.wordpress.org and just plain good ole talking to folks.

i will take the direction from richard gomez...i do not know what the questions are that he was responding to...but i will try to figure it out as i go..... jazz with jim - america's world music jim compton-schmidt...

1. jim compton-schmidt

2. jazz with jim - america's world music

3. second saturday nite of the month 9:pm to 11:pm (following annie's world music program)

4. my play lists show we have been on this program for 5 years. we did several all nighters before getting the regular slot on saturday evening....our first time on the air at kfcf was as a co host with kevin hall on his program "clearing the air" i got that gig by being married to the board op for the program annie compton-schmidt...clearing the air is still being listened to on the forth friday of the month at 3:pm...

5. we moved to the fresno area from the mid west in 1985 and have been good and faithful listeners to kfcf almost from the first day we arrived...i am a progressive news junky and i feel like i don't reeeeally wake up in the morning if i don't get to hear amy goodman at 6:am...

6. the "jazz with jim" program comes from my long love affair with the "popular" music of the 1930's thru the EARLY 1950's....that was the period of the popular song one could hum while walking to school or riding one's bike in the neighborhood...i grew up with two older brothers - both dancers - and both interested in the "swing" music of that period...soooo my first 78 speed listening experiences were to glen  miller and stan kenton.....in the navy in the 1950's i spent some quality time in new york and fell in with a "bad" crowd who used to love going to

"basin street east" and "birdland" and spend our time listening to duke ellington, and count basie, and miles davis and george shearing....i never thought about doing a radio jazz program till the late 1970's when i was asked to bring my collection onto a college station late in the evening in the mid west...i fell in love the terror of doing "live radio".......and it gave me a chance to fall in love with my jazz collection all over again...in the early 1980's we moved to another midwestern community and got a chance to do another late nite program on another college radio station....this time my co host was annie and she brought a completely new element to my listening pleasure - world music....we moved to the west coast and helped start a pirate station "kfRf" (we called ourselves "free radio fresno"...and annie and i did regular programming there for a couple of years...till someone stole our transmitter and many of the organizers moved on to other interests.....i can't remember a time that i did not want to be connected to kfcf since we came west...and now we are connected!!

7. since annie runs the board and d.j.s her own program world music program from 7:pm to 9: pm on the second saturday nite of the month it is easy to follow her on both the board and at the mic for the next two hours...

8. much of the music that i play on "jazz with jim" comes out of the song books of the 30's thru the 50's and is played either by bands of that era or are updated into the present time...i spend a lot of time playing women in jazz as well...it is my personal open ion that women jazz vocalists are the most exciting aspect of jazz old or new....

9. during december i search for seasonal music that i can play that won't (i hope) turn of people who tire of xmas music....sooo many times i dip into annies world music collection to find such material. it is a favorite program for me cause i get to listen again to stan kenton's seasonal music and some "stuff" by ellington and other favorites of mine...

10. i guess i like the mixing of classic jazz musicians (who are dying at a terrible clip now) and new jazz musicians who recognize the value of earlier popular music....

11. i have already said what my past experience on the air is...

12. waste land of the free, earthbeat!, the great jazz programs of other local d.j.'s, DEMOCRACY NOW!, the morning show, stephen kent - world music, the doug of edwards - world music, caroline casey, michua kaku and all the stur it up programs....

13. i love doing radio work on kfcf...i feel it connects me in a very unusual way to the progressive movement in this community.....

14. putting together a program takes time and involves listening to a lot of music....it is sure fun and sure worth the effort if the program goes off well and the music is what i think people might like to hear late in the evening on a saturday nite....

15... i listen to kfcf/fpfa when ever the radio is on during the day.....i read "progressive" and "the nation" and "tikkun"  for my hard copy news and information....i do NOT read the "bee"..... jim compton-schmidt, join annie at 7:pm on the second saturday nite of the month and stay with us thru till 11:pm.....we play world music and jazz!!!