American Zen's fourth album, LEVEL 4 = KUNG FU COWBOY,
is evolving from Coyote's blueprint for the album, KUNG FU COWBOY ORIGINAL DRAFT.
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Montrose, California – July 3, 2009 – American Zen, America's first Buddhist rock band, released on September 11, 2008, LEVEL 3 = I WANT YOU TO LOVE ME, their follow-up album to LEVEL 2 = CHRIST KILLER. Both albums were released by Shaolin Records and produced and engineered by Richard Del Connor.
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Richard Del Connor, Record Producer
With Drum Tracks Completed -- Coyote Becomes American Zen BASSIST
American Zen is a one-man band now. Although we've invited and hoped for many of the original musicians to come back--they haven't. Although Steve Hixon was one of Coyote's teenage drummers, this name was used to represent the next dozen drummers who recorded and performed with The Hippy Coyote during the 1980s and 1990s.
Tom Calder, was the name given to the various bass players of American Zen. None of these bassists have shown a desire to return to Coyote's rock operas and poetry performances...so Coyote himself is once again, Tom Calder on bass.
"I love performing in bands," explains Coyote. "I performed in orchestras from 1964 to 1967. Then I sold my trombone and got a Fender Mustang guitar. I performed in rock'n'roll and blues bands until 1988 when I moved to Los Angeles with my band, THE RICH." The entire band lived together in Venice, California, until Coyote moved in with his fiancee, Rita Wolf, in Santa Monica, where he hired session players to complete his new version of THE RICH which evolved into Coyote being a front man in a band similar to OINGO BOINGO and THE CARS. Then Coyote wrote the rock opera, COYOTE IN A GRAVEYARD, which even included a performance with Michael J. Fox.
During these years, Coyote hired himself out as a session bassist and worked for many bands including THE GLYDERS, whose Dennis Logan, was featured artist of a Folk Rock Podcast of Shaolin Records. Coyote didn't realize until after the podcast, that he had performed on bass with this band in the early eighties at The Troubadour in Hollywood.
Coyote's story of how he obtained his 1957 Rickenbacker 4000 bass and performing in those early years, can be found amidst the webstories of the American Zen Website, www.americanZen.ORG
"My life is in storage," Coyote complains. "Since 2000, I haven't unpacked 3/4 of my stuff from Utah. My music amps haven't even been used except for recording. So I'm using my Marshall Mk2 50W guitar amp for my bass. My bass amps are all in storage. I started using the Marshall amp for recording bass on the CHRIST KILLER album. But, I was trying to create my bass amp sounds of my Plush amplifiers. This album is different though. Now, I'm even using FUZZ BASS."
NOTE: "Kill The Spider" is one of Coyote's new bass sounds.
"I'm trying to let go of all my romantic notions about being in a band, and move forward with my life, career, and creativity. That's why I became a drummer--I needed one."
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