My models were Bob Geddins, a black guy from Texas who had various little labels set up in Oakland he had a pressingplant and he taught me where to put a microphone and a Mr. Jaxyson, pronounced 'Jackson, ' who had a little label, named for himself, also in Oakland.
We also explored several pressing environmental issues as record levels of radiation were found in fish near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant and we delved into the Gates of Hell -- a burning gas crater in Turkmenistan that has been ablaze for 41 years.