These CD's consist of the older, transferred recordings on old and somewhat tired cassettes & Masters,
a few of the tracks having been produced in Lion Studios (Leeds) 1985, with most of the tracks being put onto the cassettes, with the same titles as the CD's, recorded in 1989, by Zen 0'Matic Productions in a sound-proofed, high-rise tower-block flat in South Leeds, before the remnants of the old band, went off on their separate quests, Chris Tetsall, as a modern-day troubadour to the South of France, while we settled to our sought green life-style here, in, Fowey, Cornwall.

After a brief band-reunion at a Summer Solstice green-and-peace musical beach festival near Montpellier in 2002, the band, finally, ended up back together, here, in Cornwall, in 2005, and recommenced promoting live poetry & music events in 2007 in collaboration with the local Red Herring Café-Bar whose owner used to run his own professional music sound recording studios in London & Birmingham. This has made these remakes, in more durable and contemporary technologies possible - hence these C.D.'s are also Red Herring Productions.

A further C.D. of other songs by Rainbow Eagle, plus Howling Coyote, under the title of Songs Of Whimsy and Sad & Joyous Wisdom are envisaged in the near future on this label.

About the Artistes'

David Allen Stringer (Rainbow Eagle)
Born, August 1944, in a South Yorkshire coal-mining village of a part-Welsh mining family and so very much nurtured in that rich, Celtic cultural tradition of chapel choirs, theatre, musical instruments & poetry, in childhood & youth, in the local Methodist Chapels.
David began as a traditional lyrical poet, discovering and exploring a wide diversity of styles, starting with Rock 'n 'Roll, jazz, & blues, African drumming and French/continental surrealism in art & verse in his early twenties when the "sad experiences of life" turned him into a Blues singer in down-town city music pubs & clubs.
This led, more by accident than design, into a three-year progression as a Cellar-Club entertainments manager, stand-up comedian and folk, poetry & music venue promoter in the city of Manchester between 1965 & 68, a path that was abandoned when this life-style proved to be both exhausting and spiritually unsatisfying, when involvement with the early "Flower Power" movement from California in 1967 led to a growing interest especially in "Eastern philosophies" such as Hinduism & Zen-Buddhism.
So he abandoned the big city and disappeared, temporarily into a Hindu, vegetarian self-sufficient organic farm community, in the Shropshire-Welsh borders where he met the son of a Navajo Indian Medicine Man and discovered his life-ever-since path of the Native American Great Spirit Vision Quest.

Returning from wandering to live, again, in urban civilisation, in the city of Leeds in 1971, he resumed the publication of Poetry under the Fire-Bird imprint (now reborn as Phoenix).
In 1973, after brief periods as a commission-taking artist, then, voluntary social worker, David became, until 1976, a mature student at Bradford Regional College of Art, West Yorkshire, studying film, theatre and radio & television technique.
This gave ample opportunity for performance music and poetry and promoting cabaret venues in the area, singing, unaccompanied, like the original blues & gospel singers, at free Rock Concerts, as well as travelling far and wide to perform as part of the Leeds Arts Lab. (In the late 1970's, he was asked to be the backing band to Hawkwind at a benefit concert in Bradford Town Hall).
It was, then, that he met Chris Tetsall through the common link of being members of anarchist groups.
This took him back to Cornwall (where he had first moved, at 14, with the family) to set up as an organic grower, nurseryman & ecologist.

This idyllic period came to an end, between 1981 - 83, with financial, business and personal problems, prompting a return, first, to Lancashire, then the city of Leeds, to seek work to repair broken fortunes.
All endings are new beginnings.
Spiritual awakening came with visions & dreams, that prepared the way for future involvement in the Universal Alliance in the 1990's, and meeting with one of the Hopi Indian Elders at a conference on sustainable living in London in 1981, a truly powerful, healing moment.
For something creative to do, he got together with the two old friends from the musical, anarchic '70's, Chris Tetsall & Dave Hurst, as well as new friends, Fred Schofield & Ernest Noddings (an archetypal 'goon') in 1984, to make a comedy-rock band called The Bumnotes.

Born out of busking to get money around Edinburgh pubs, at the Fringe Festival in 1983, The Bumnotes sadly disintegrated in 1985, the very same year it recorded, leaving the 'rump' that remains today, Rainbow Eagle & Howling Coyote.
Rainbow Eagle & Howling Coyote continued to perform at, or promote venues in the city until 1989 providing another very fruitful period for tunes & lyrics.
Also, during that period, he was active, together with his, then, new partner, Pam, as an actor with Leeds Art Theatre, having loved all kinds of drama since childhood.

The old Fire Bird initiatives were reborn as Phoenix New Life Poetry (Fire Bird, by then, being used by another magazine) in 2001, out of the Universal Alliance, as evolved, Art being inextricably interwoven with our real experiences and development in life, even as all songs on these C.D.s were born of a real, sad or joyful, personal event or experience, in that spirit of existentialism he embraced at 19 years old.

The Phoenix always cherished the ideal of Live Performances as well as the printed or recorded word, with such means of transmission as necessary adjuncts to such, rather than total replacements for them, so as to overcome the physical barriers of Time & Space that otherwise limit them!
Having put on a live poetry & music event in a Taverna, by the Acropolis, in Athens, in 2002, it became apparent that one must act "local" as well as "think global" and "bring it all back home" as in our events at the Red Herring Café Bar, here, in Fowey, so seeking to end that old dichotomy once expressed in one of his Blues Songs - "Small Town Blues, Big City Blues" in which one is torn between living, more placidly, in a small, boring "rural backwater" where nothing "exciting or stimulating happens" and surviving in the city, with all its draw-backs, strains & stresses, alienation and artificiality, for the sake of its plethora of cultural amenities.
A yoyo pattern manifest in this biography, as in these songs, these 'random' experiences often proving to be stages/lessons in a spiritual Vision Quest that began with meeting the young Navajo in 1968, a Vision Quest being when a person goes out from his Amerindian Tribe, alone, into the wilderness, to seek his Vision from the Great Spirit, so to share its wisdom with it.

Howling Coyote (a.k.a . Chris Tetsall)
Howling Coyote first appeared on stage at the age of 6 on Clacton Pier.
He later began his career as a singer-guitarist travelling round Europe and the U.K. playing in cafes, bars and clubs etc.
He ran a record shop for a while.

He then took to the hills and became a hillbilly.

During this time he became a member of a motley band of musical clowns called the The Bumnotes a 5-piece band presenting comedy, music, performance poetry & theatre along with Rainbow Eagle.
They played in various clubs, pubs, theatres, carnivals, street festivals, etc. between 1983 & 1985. Eventually years of hard hassle and life on Maggie's Farm drove him to howling and he became re-incarnated as Howling Coyote.
In this guise he appeared with Rainbow Eagle and together they performed in various venues between 1988 & 1990. As a duo they made 2 albums of original material, namely UNITED AGAINST THE ABSURDITY and LIFE SONGS.

Afterwards he became a Thatcher refugee and moved to France.
There he became a troubadour playing in various bars, cafes & restaurants, at the terraces, on the street and the Paris Metro. He also played in Holland, Switzerland And Germany.
Howling Coyote & Rainbow Eagle re-united in Cornwall in 2006 and are performing together again. They are also in the process of making a new album.