April 15, 2016 is the fifth year for Pow Magazine and we're going back in time how Pow started in the late 1980s as a real magazine before I launched the video magazine version on Facebook April 15, 2011. The idea was to reach out to people that used to be involved with the printed version of Pow Magazine (Originally an idea started by Dave Davis from San Jose California) to tell their story on KFJC at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California. We called the special, Pow Magazine Anthology - Part 1 and 2. The eight hour special is about the bay area shows, festivals and interviews from the fanzine's archives as we do them today with the new version of Pow. KFJC DJ SAL 9000 and I worked for months to digitize cassettes, research the music, editing audio and video for the documentary and radio program from the Pow Magazine vault for their month of Mayhem extravaganza. A lot of bay area music history was discovered or re-discovered for the radio show. The shows inspired me to start the web version of Pow Magazine through social media since this is what I do for a living in Silicon Valley. It was a natural transition from music to coding to music. There were two specials on separate dates; May 10, 2011, (Part 1, four hours) and May 17, 2011, (Part 2, four hours). Both shows are on Ello/Facebook on the same dates they were broadcast five years ago. We continue with the second radio show on this day of our anniversary of the broadcast. The second special was primarily about supporting former music promoter and emcee of the San Francisco punk rock clubs Mabuhay Gardens and On Broadway, the late Dirk Dirksen. To make a long story short, Jello Biafra, Dirk Dirksen, and Suzanne Stefanac founded the No More Censorship Defense Fund (NMCDF), a benefit featuring several punk rock bands, to help pay for legal fees brought against Biafra and Alternative Tentacles. Pow Magazine got involve late in the game after Jello was acquitted from a jury deadlocked five to seven as we were working on several benefit shows in the bay area, but Dirksen still wanted us to continue to help Biafra's mounting bills in the name of protecting free speech in music. The idea was to bring together the most popular bands in San Francisco and the South Bay we've supported in our magazine to help raise money for NMCDF. These were mini-festivals in the largest venues complete with sixties liquid light shows and through college radio, newspapers and MTV, we promoted our butts off about NMCDF and the bands. The two shows were enormously successful and recorded for a video release to raise more funds which never happen because Pow Magazine ended its run one year later. The Gathering of the Tribes was not my first rodeo, but NMCDF was only the beginning. Enjoy the program and the history of Pow Magazine and Bay Area music. Dennis Gonzales Founder of POW www.ello.co/powmagazine Introductions by SAL and Dennis Gonzales The Shockwaves: Bat Wipe ( Jeff Stretch Riedle ) The Raging Marys - Like A River The Hope Thieves - The Dream That's really Me Break – SAL 9000 and Dennis Gonzales. KFJC Month of Mayhem: SAL 9000 & Dennis Gonzales at the KFJC studios, May 17, 2011. History of the No More Censorship Defense Fund & Pow! Magazine's fundraiser show at The Kennel Club - SAL 9000 & Dennis Gonzales Radio Broadcast from KUSF, Sept 16, 1987: Judy Asman (DJ) Dennis Gonzales (Pow! Magazine) Hector Penalosa (Flying Color) Chris von Sneidern (Flying Color) Leslie Medford (The Ophelias) Terry Von Blankers (The Ophelias) Show notes: The date of the Kennel Club show was switched from the 20th to the 16th, 1987. The original KUSF radio Defense Fund segment was edited for KFJC's mayhem show due to a time limit to the program. KFJC Month of Mayhem: SAL 9000 & Dennis Gonzales at the KFJC studios, May 17, 2011. No More Censorship Defense Fund & Pow! Magazine's fundraiser show at The Kennel Club: Radio Broadcast from KUSF, Sept 16, 1987: Judy Asman (DJ) Dennis Gonzales (Pow! Magazine) Hector Penalosa (Flying Color) Chris von Sneidern (Flying Color) Leslie Medford (The Ophelias) Terry Von Blankers (The Ophelias) The Ophelias - Wicked Annabella Flying Color - Wise To Her Ways Break - Sal and I talk about Jon Gon (John Tinloy) before the interview in Clip 4. KFJC Month of Mayhem: SAL 9000 & Dennis Gonzales at the KFJC studios, May 17, 2011. No More Censorship Defense Fund & Pow! Magazine's fundraiser show at The Kennel Club: * Interview with Jon Gon, 1987: Jon Gon – "After The Gold Rush" (45 – Dangerous Rhythm Records) * Jon Gon – "Where Are You?" (Live) The Kennel Club, No More Censorship Defense Fund, Sep 16, 1987.

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