BAND:   The Rich
ALBUM: Live in Venice

The Rich power pop punk rock band, was formed in San Diego before the band members moved into a Venice Beach house on Broadway Avenue, September 1978. In 1978 The Rich won the San Diego KPRI Radio Battle of the Bands contest with the song, "The Pauper." Original Venice Beach band members of The Rich were:
     Richard Del Connor - songs, lead vocals, bass
     Dann Linck - electric guitar, backing vocals
     Fred Paul - drums, lead vocals.
The 1979 album, Live in Venice, consisted of:
     Richard Del Connor - songs, lead vocals, bass
     Bill Stewart - drums
     Vinnie Lauria - electric guitar.
The 1986 album, Live at the Batcave, consisted of:
     Richard O'Connor - songs, lead vocals, electric guitar (Richard changed last name to "O'Connor" until 2007.)
     Bruce Candelaria - drums
     Sam Persons - bass
The 1989 album, Live at Madame Wongs, consisted of:
     Richard O'Connor - songs, electric guitar, lead vocals
     Marshall Woodson - drums
     Dan Linck - bass
Additional musicians for some performances and recording sessions included:
    Richard Augustine - drums
    John "Jack" Sherman "Dogtar" - guitar
    Mitch Thompson - trombone, electric piano, hammond organ
    Paul Atanasoff - guitar
    Pat Flannery - guitar, backing vocals
    John Merritt - drums
    Scott Hitchings - keyboards, vibraphone
    Manny delaVega - percussion
    Jason Scheff - bass

*NOTE: Some musicians have been forgotten. Sorry.
Please contact me so I can add your name.
The blonde drummer in 1982, the guitarist from Newfoundland, and others... Call me and say, "Hi."

 

All songs, lyrics and poetry written by Richard Del Connor, The Hippy Coyote.

 

Song List: Live in Venice album by The Rich

All songs, lyrics and poetry written by Richard Del Connor, The Hippy Coyote.

 

Album available from Shaolin Records at:

• product page: The Rich - Live in Venice ALBUM at shaolincom.com   (Shaolin Communications)
• product page: The Rich - Live in Venice ALBUM at shaolinrecords.com

 

Songs (in album order)

1.  Use Me

• lyrics: americanzen.org
• lyrics: shaolinmusic.com
• related website: KungFuCowboy.com "American Zen"
• DESCRIPTION:   
• Author COMMENTS:
• Song used in OTHER PRODUCTS:

 

All songs, lyrics and poetry written by Richard Del Connor, The Hippy Coyote.

Album available from Shaolin Records at:

• product page: End of the Line ALBUM at shaolincom.com   (Shaolin Communications)
• product page: End of the Line ALBUM at shaolinrecords.com

 

Songs (in album order)

1.  Use Me

• lyrics: americanzen.org
• lyrics: shaolinmusic.com
• related website: KungFuCowboy.com "American Zen"
• DESCRIPTION:   Rock blues song with a slow bounce to it.
• Author COMMENTS: Written April 24, 2012. This song starts the album and my new life without a family. After being a Mr. Mom since 1991, I was unable to support myself financially. When I moved to Las Vegas to start a Shaolin Kung Fu school, I ended up being used and told to, "hit the road," after performing a couple months of Chinese Lion Dances for the existing Vegas school of my Kung Fu brother. I ran into some "seedy characters" and with my bald head and "Buddha Zhen" name being my primary Vegas identity... people started confessing to me. I heard things I'm still trying to forget. This horrible environment, abandonment, and near starvation... was a scary life in a city where I didn't have a single friend or relative. For the first time in my life, I feared death on a daily basis...
• Song used in OTHER PRODUCTS:
  • Kung Fu Cowboy - Use Me (Live)
    • YouTube: American Zen channel
      MUSIC VIDEO: Performed September 1, 2014 at Kulak's Woodshed, North Hollywood, California

2.  High School Graduation Reunion

• lyrics: americanzen.org
• lyrics: shaolinmusic.c

 

 

  Check out the 2014 American Zen MEDIA KIT about the End of the Line album

 

 

About Shaolin Records
Shaolin Records was launched in 1984, releasing vinyl records and cassette tapes of Kung Fu music from Santa Monica, California. With its' origins in Shaolin Kung Fu and Zen Buddhism, Shaolin Records hopes to 'enlighten and entertain™.'

Media Contact:
Richard Del Connor
Producer, Shaolin Records

www.ShaolinRecords.com

About The Rich
The Rich were formed in 1978 as Richard Del Connor left San Diego with Dann Linck to become one of the first punk rock bands of Los Angeles. The Rich recorded in many of the best L.A. studios with amazing recording engineers until becoming the Coyote in a Graveyard rock opera in 1984 which altered Richard's name to "The Coyote." During the late 1980s the set list included songs from the original 1979 band and the Coyote in a Graveyard soundtrack album. This band was billed as "Coyote Graveyard." In 1992 Richard Del Connor became American Zen, and in 2007 became "The Hippy Coyote," and "Buddha Zhen." While working as a stagehand in Las Vegas, Richard became known as "Kung Fu Cowboy." Jamming on flute with his Vegas reggae musician friends, they named him, "THC The Hippy Coyote."