While there is a device. I'm I'm Dave Lopez and I'm the number one Jason backer groupie so. He's got crazy amounts of recordings of a lot well. Get ahead of myself I thought I had a buffer there but yeah I will hear that last segment of the interview but 1st let's hear the song We Are One featuring Steve Knight and Jason Becker. Another archive Jason Becker's composition but I believe this also has. Incorporating incorporation of found or saved playing his guitar work itself here's the song. We are one here on your couch. Yeah Jason Becker. We are one for his triumphant hearts record let's hear a little more conversation with Jason Becker groups a lots of recordings and lots of work and like you said you have a whole bank of songs. Do you think that there's a sort of incorrect assumption or more incorrect kind of way that people are communicated to and they get a diagnosis like this about about the future and the possibilities and you know what would you kind of say to someone who is sort of trying to create art and trying to you know live a life in which was kind of where you were and if you could kind of say something to them. I see it. Is as t. I still s. . So the the very the I so very difficult f. O. For a in any one b. But in my b l c s my blessing I is h. a Having. A many p. e e People w. H. O. Who l. O. Love a and c. a Care if for me. I d. . Don't s. e e C h how a in any one could. D. Do. It w. With thought t. O. Tons of h. T. Help probably also just translates to everyone who you know were living in a time when I think a lot of people are you know very hopeless or view the world as they don't have the power to change things they don't have the power to you know overcome and balances of you know structure and. You know various challenges. It's probably good advice you know for everyone to kind of band together and help each other yeah that's what it takes the next Exactly but if they can get a crew together I mean that's how you live a long life if Jason they wanted him to just stay in the hospital he would not be here if he stayed in the hospital we are on it was there and we know he's coming home to live he's here he has a productive creative life that's what we all need whether you can run or whether you're paralyzed you need that and so on any scale or level she should try to get that try to get something creative and and a speed buy into the b.s. That everything's doomed it's going to become a self-fulfilling thing you know. And I know you just have this in the south and it just just came out but I see you know still all you know I ask Are there any future plans or future projects or things in the pipeline w e z Well h. And the next I ask is p r o probably r e e l e t. Releasing Oh you know old g u guitar d the demos and the material is there like any kind of possibility you think in the future of it being performed live by some of these people as likes orchestras and 4 or 5 guitar players and 450 clips but is there any kind of vision of anyone experiencing this music performed in any form that you know of. Be the bet t h a that w o would be c o cool and oh no p l a and no plans a at the moment. And. Those songs local musicians like these things together for life forms like. A great local list with the other locals. Well thanks so much friends time with us here at Kalak said it was an honor to meet you and great to have you on the program and I'm really diggin this album and just dropped into our feature been so I'd imagine we'll be hearing quite a bit on the air so thank you w o and wonder if wonderful t 2 t h a thank you d. You do wonderful thank you do. Well yeah I want to thank Jason Bakker and his whole family once again for inviting me into their home and sharing his story and music with me. Didn't wake up in the interview and sort of doesn't translate very well to the radio but I thought I'd mention Gary Becker his father who helps him is a very talented artist. And still creates and if you look up a team back here they've got a store where you can get. Into the music you can get lithographs in Princeton series cells and posters and calendars and some of the stuff on canvas and some really beautiful looking stuff that's you know signed by Kerry Packer and some is thumb print signed by Jason Bakker. And. Proceeds are needed you know help with his medical care and future recordings and musical endeavors as well so we hope he's around a long long time and I do hope that they figure out a way to get some of these players together another did it I remember seeing footage of the doing it many many years ago I think maybe even in the Jason Becker I'm not dead yet documentary. Well who did it limbs could be totally wrong on that but you know we would like to have been there some sure it was just. All star guitar. Fest with with some great. Players interpret in these compositions let's hear one more track we're just talking about the interview the track hold on to love and the r. And b. Influences there's definitely more r. And b. Oh yes Phoebe Bridger's Georgia lead from the women single weights record before that Rodriguez Gabriella brought us battery and we begin that set off with Jason Becker the song Hold on to La nice autobiographical kind of thing there. Thanks again to Jason Bakker and the backer the team Becker family for being my guest on today's program. This is John the reptilian Once again you are listening Calix perfectly listener supported u.c. Berkeley radio want to say about coral reef Alliance located in Oakland the coral reef Alliance coral works collaboratively. With global partners to restore protect the world's coral reefs in the face of climate change coral aims to expand and spread the scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change on reef ecosystems part of their goal is to rally the conservation community around scalable and effective preservation solutions through various environmental initiatives for more info about coral reef Alliance go to coral dot org that c o r a l dot o.-r. G. We got some a new here from McCabe a shakedown which I'm a big fan of this is the song Mary's corner here on your calyx. Well that city is not happy I don't know why that scratch that's too bad it's a nice track. Well it's my cd I brought from home so it's my fault. Anyway that was. Often he cleaned that off or rip it to my hard drive and then it's been played off that. Yeah that was something new from Ozzy Osborne. The song under the graveyard. That's kind of a bummer Oh before that. Cream brought us deserted cities of the heart pride which by request just slipped in as fast as I could a little track from Primus Mary the ice cube from the animals should not try to act like people record and we started that saw off with Mary's corner from the cab a shakedown Thanks again for spending a chunk of time with me thanks so much for Jason Bakker and team Becker for. Spending time and being a pro on the program I'm going to be off next week for the holiday Oh God I should know who is filling in for me but I swore at them and I just can't can't pull that information out I should have had that Prepared to that but anyway I'll be back week after next and while you some tickets want to give me a call it 51 of 64252595106425259 and I'll send you out to Tara pin crossroads 100 Yacht Club Drive in Sandra fell Friday December 6th for the David Nelson Band 16 and over wheelchair accessible and meanwhile I'm getting out of here thanks for spending the day afternoon morning whatever it is with me. And now it's time for a method that is here on your couch. This is method to the madness of my weekly public official Kal expertly celebrating the Bay Area thinkers I mean host Lisa Kiefer and today I'm speaking with Gabriel Sigmund professor of economics and public policy here at u.c. Berkeley he has just coauthored a book with Emanuel sayas called the triumph of injustice how the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay. Welcome to the program it really is about having me why did you write this book what was the problem or problems you were trying to solve so the main problem is the rise of unique quality in the u.s. So if you look for instance at what has happened to income concentration in 1980 the top one percent highest earners in the u.s. Earned about 10 percent of total u.s. National income today they are 20 percent of u.s. National income Now contrast that with what has happened for the working class for the bottom 50 percent of earners they used to 20 percent of income and now about 12 percent so essentially the top one percent and the bottom 50 percent have have switched their income share and the reality of the u.s. Today is that the one percent. Twice as much income in the bottom 50 percent a group that by definition is 50 is larger so you have this huge level of inequality and it's begin Crees quality and the tax system is a key institution to regulate inequality and so we wanted to know does it do a good job does the tax system limits inequality or does it exacerbate the rise of inequality and as you say in your book all the way back to James Madison the whole point of taxes yes is to raise revenue.