Frank Moore’s Shaman’s Den streamed live on the internet almost every Sunday night from 1998 until Frank’s death in 2013. The Shaman’s Den was a 2 1/2-hour variety show featuring in-studio concerts by bands from around the world and in-depth conversations about politics, art, music, and life.
Here is how Frank described the show: “The Shaman's Den will arouse, inspire, move, threaten you, not with sound bites, but with a two hour (usually longer) feast of live streaming video show. You might get an in-studio concert of bands from around the world...or poetry reading...or an in-depth conversation about politics, art, music, and LIFE with extremely dangerous people! But then you may see beautiful women naked dancing erotically. You never know, because you are in THE SHAMAN'S DEN with Frank Moore.”
The Shaman's Den was possibly the very first long-form podcast on the internet.
Paul Krassner, March 13, 2000. Paul Krassner’s The Realist was first published in 1958. Paul went on to be a member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, and then co-founded the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. He has been a subversive cultural satirist since the ‘50s, wearing many hats … journalist, author, interviewer, comedian, editor, and joyous muckraker. “Basically he's one of the Counter Culture's mothers... And one of my heroes since high school when I got into trouble for getting The Realist, his no-bars satire zine.” – Frank Moore
Chaos Love Play Jam, October 29, 2003. From left to right: Stephen Jones, LX Rudis, Michael Peppe (front), Skye, Carlos, Frank Moore (front), Michael LaBash, Linda Mac, Erika Shaver-Nelson.
Lessons From Richmond's Tent City with (in the photo but not in order) Frank Moore, Linda Mac, Freddie Jackson, Rev. Andre Shumacke, Wilma Miller, Albert Lee, Jubrieel Ahkile and Gerald Smith. January 7, 2007. Recorded in Frank’s studio in our backyard.
Marjorie Swann Edwin, a founding member of the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), a radical pacifist organization formed in 1957 to resist the US Government’s program of nuclear weapons testing. March 8, 2009.
The room in Berkeley, California where many bands played! This is set up for a jam.
The Visitations from Athens, Georgia. September 15, 2008.
Extreme Elvis, November 18, 2001.
Two Loons For Tea from Seattle. August 26, 2006. For large bands with lots of gear, we recorded shows right down the street at the Blue House.
Frank tickling the ivories at the Hot Marshmallow Jam, May 19, 2013.
I plan to start watching them right away. It will take a while, and some may not be as interesting to me, but I do want to watch most of them over time. I hope you two are doing well. Sincerely, Gerald
I plan to start watching them right away. It will take a while, and some may not be as interesting to me, but I do want to watch most of them over time. I hope you two are doing well. Sincerely, Gerald