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Hey everybody! In this episode Ill be interviewing Chuck Wrenn. Chuck Wrenn is someone who had a heavy involvement in the Richmond music scene from the first psychedelic dance in VA, all the way up to High on the Hog. Hes lived in Richmond his whole life and has been part of some crazy scenes. I love Chuck. Ive known Chuck since I was born and he helped raise me, so this is a very special interview to me.
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hey everybody! In this episode Ill be interviewing Chuck Wrenn. Chuck Wrenn is
someone who had a heavy involvement in the Richmond music scene from the first
psychedelic dance in VA, all the way up to High on the Hog. Hes lived in
Richmond his whole life and has been part of some crazy scenes. I love Chuck.
Ive known Chuck since I was born and he helped raise me, so this is a very
special interview to me. The music used is an improvised piece by Peter Lyon
Huff that he recorded in my basement for this interview.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alright man, whatcha got in mind?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You were telling me earlier that you used to explore abandoned buildings in
Richmond. Did you ever have an encounter with the police?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My closest experience with old buildings and police was when there was an empty
building downtown &amp;ndash; not all the way downtown, but I guess around first street
I&amp;rsquo;d say. Foushees. It was a vacant building that had a stained glass window in
the side of it. And me and my brother and law at the time said, &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;d really like
to get that stained glass window, and I said &amp;ldquo;alright, we can go get that.&amp;rdquo; We
took our tools, just hand tools to go in and pry that window out. While we were
in there working on the window, somebody called the cops. So the cops showed up
at the place. There was no way out. We couldn&amp;rsquo;t get out. And the cops were
heading in the house, so he and I opened up the door and got behind the door up
against the wall and the cops came in with flashlights and looked all around and
walked out the room. We were right behind the damn open door up against the
wall. Boy that was one helluva a night.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yeah, what else happened that night?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just waited for the cops to leave. If they had a dog, we would&amp;rsquo;ve been shit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When was the first show you organized?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first big one&amp;hellip; I started out doing that stuff in highschool. I had friends
in bands and I&amp;rsquo;d put on a show and advertise it around school and a couple
hundred people would come and we&amp;rsquo;d rent a place to put on a show. The first
really big one I did &amp;ndash; there used to be a ballroom called Tantilla Ballroom, it
was down on Broad St. It has a really long, great history. It was considered to
be the major ballroom in the South, it&amp;rsquo;s torn down now. Me &amp;amp; a couple of buddies
rented this ballroom and put on the first psychedelic dance in the state of VA.
We rented a bunch of equipment to put the show on. We rented so much equipment
&amp;ndash; we sold the show out &amp;ndash; and rented so much equipment we lost money on it.
That was a big one. Gosh, since then, there&amp;rsquo;s been countless shows. Up to &amp;ldquo;High
on the Hog.&amp;rdquo; Now, I wasn&amp;rsquo;t the only guy that did the &amp;ldquo;High on the Hog.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tell me about Woodstock. Did you have any role in organizing it?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;rsquo;t have anything to do with putting it on, but before that there was a
festival called Atlantic City Pop. A buddy of mine had a leather good store. And
he was gonna go out in a booth and sell the stuff that he&amp;rsquo;d made. It was a great
time. Saw a lot of great bands. We were just up there running his booth. But
while I was up there, I noticed a lot of people wearing tie-dye shirts and
people were selling them. Came back to Richmond and said, &amp;ldquo;we can do this at
Woodstock.&amp;rdquo; So my wife and I and a couple of friends started tie-dying t-shirts
at our apartment. We tie-dyed a shit ton of them. We&amp;rsquo;d go out and buy big cases
of white Hane&amp;rsquo;s t-shirts and come home and have a couple of pots on the stove.
And my wife and I (we were the only people that went up to Woodstock). We loaded
up all the t-shirts and went up to Woodstock. We got up there Thursday before
they closed the interstate and got within a mile from the stage. Fairly close at
the time. People were just coming in and parking on the side of the road, so if
you were there you weren&amp;rsquo;t going anywhere. There wasn&amp;rsquo;t no way you&amp;rsquo;d be getting
out. So we set up our little tie-dye shirt thing. I had some pipe and we opened
the doors and duct-taped the pipe and started hanging up the t-shirts. So we&amp;rsquo;re
selling t-shirts up there. I had a big cooler of beer with me. It was going
great. Then people started coming by and a guy came by and said, &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;d really
like to get this shirt, but I don&amp;rsquo;t have any money. Would you take some hash for
it?&amp;rdquo; I said, &amp;ldquo;yeah sure.&amp;rdquo; So we&amp;rsquo;re doing that. Now other people would come by,
&amp;ldquo;I don&amp;rsquo;t have any mother either, but I like the shirt. Would you swap for some
acid?&amp;rdquo; And next thing I know, we&amp;rsquo;ve got pot, hash, acid &amp;ndash; along with the
t-shirts. So I set a sheet over the hood of the car and I started putting out
the stuff with prices that we&amp;rsquo;d swapped for. So now we&amp;rsquo;re selling tie-dyed
t-shirts, pot, LSD. Hehehe! We never got to the stage until Sunday. We got there
on Thursday. But it was such a crazy scene. And then people were going &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m
drinking this beer.&amp;rdquo; I said &amp;ldquo;you got anmyore of that beer, you wanna sell some?&amp;rdquo;
They said, &amp;ldquo;okay!&amp;rdquo;. So now I&amp;rsquo;m selling beer. Just crazy. Crazy shit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How&amp;rsquo;d you get to know Bruce Springsteen?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, Bruce started coming to town &amp;ndash; first time I saw Bruce and his band was in
Monroe park and they came down and played free. No one had heard of them. They
were just kids from New Jersey. They came down in a beat-up old truck and
equipment and set up in Monroe park and played. I knew they were gonna be a big
deal, because even as kids &amp;ndash; I guess Bruce was like 18 &amp;ndash; and they were good
from the start. First time I ever saw them, I said &amp;ldquo;man, these guys are gonna be
&lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;rdquo; And they were one of the first bands, maybe the first band, I ever
heard that mic&amp;rsquo;d all the amps through the PA. So instead of just having the amps
and playing at that volume, they put mics in front of the amps and put them into
the PA so you get this huge sound. They&amp;rsquo;d come to Richmond and they didn&amp;rsquo;t have
a lot of places to play. They had Asbury park in NJ. Richmond got to be one of
the places that were real popular from them. They&amp;rsquo;d come down every month or
two, I guess, and play. I got to be friends with &amp;rsquo;em and did a lot of posters
for the band and that kind of stuff &amp;ndash; just liked &amp;rsquo;em. Bruce never stayed at my
house, but most of the band did. And at that time, my wife, my wife at that time
would make up a big spaghetti dinner and feed the band and they&amp;rsquo;d sleep on the
floor. We did that for a while. They got to where they didn&amp;rsquo;t need to sleep on
my floor anymore. Ahehehe! Bruce used to come to my apartment and eat dinner and
stuff, but Bruce always pretty-much stayed to himself. He was not a party guy at
all. Didn&amp;rsquo;t drink, didn&amp;rsquo;t take any drugs, didn&amp;rsquo;t smoke pot. The rest of the guys
were pretty much rollin&amp;rsquo;, they were a rock &amp;rsquo;n roll band.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaking of pot, didn&amp;rsquo;t you have a club called &amp;ldquo;The Health Club&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yeah! Heh, T-H-C. It wasn&amp;rsquo;t anything official, it was just some guys, friends of
mine. At that time we were into 10-speed bikes and we&amp;rsquo;d go out to the park early
in the morning and ride laps. We had another group called &amp;ldquo;The Bothers&amp;rdquo;. Our
motto was &amp;ldquo;we do both&amp;rdquo;. I drew a t-shirt that had a joint and a bottle of beer
walking down the street arm-and-arm. The beer was holding a joint, and the joint
was drinking holding a beer. The bothers, &amp;ldquo;we do both.&amp;rdquo; All those apartments
around &amp;ldquo;Harrison St&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Park Ave&amp;rdquo; were where a lot of kids lived. It was a
real social thing. You&amp;rsquo;d come over and knock on someone&amp;rsquo;s door, &amp;ldquo;hey what&amp;rsquo;s
happening?&amp;rdquo; smoke a joint. Everyone was just hanging out. Listening to records
and all that kind of stuff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tell me about your drug experiences?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Taken &amp;ndash; well, not every drug, but I&amp;rsquo;ve taken a lot of drugs. Not for any length
of time. Just for the experience.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Are there any trips you remember distinctly?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One experience &amp;ndash; I used to live on the corner of Harrison St and Grove Ave.
There was a 3-story building that burnt down, not there anymore. But I had an
apartment on the third floor; and I had taken some LS&amp;ndash; acid. Across the street
there was a laundromat that had a soft drink dispensing machine. I had decided
that I would like to have a Coke. Came downstairs, stood on the sidewalk. There
was a stoplight. I was waitinga nd nhe light would change and I&amp;rsquo;d step off a
couple of steps and the light would change back and I&amp;rsquo;d walk back. I could never
get across the street! Ended up just going back to my apartment. It was just
crazy shit like that. Funny stuff. It was all in good fun. Not anything at the
time about. Just everybody laughing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Where did the laughter go?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s what I&amp;rsquo;m wondering!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What time was this?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That was the late &amp;rsquo;60s. Then it got to a point where cocaine came on the scene,
and that was a whole different thing. That was awful.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &amp;rsquo;80s?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that would&amp;rsquo;ve been the disco time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cocaine and disco.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not any fun. Neither one of them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When did you buy your house in Church Hill?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I bought that house with my first wife in 1975. I was there 45 years and Hollie
was there with me for 25.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You bought it when the area was completly different.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trashed. Real dangerous to be up there. It was not a developed place like it is
today at all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not a place to raise children.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nah, I mean &lt;em&gt;dangerous&lt;/em&gt;. I got shot twice when I was living up there. It was not
a good neighborhood. Most of the houses were just flop houses, crack houses.
When I bought my house, the upstairs of the house was uninhabitable, the
downstairs had pad-locks on every door and a heater in the middle and
mattresses. I took 15 mattresses out of that place when I bought it. Our
parents thought we were nuts to buy that house, that we were gonna be killed.
You walked in Libby park and there were just syringes and wine bottles and
liquor bottles laying around the trees. You couldn&amp;rsquo;t go out at night.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaking of which, you have two bullets in your body from being shot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yep, I told him that. I was in a robbery. I wasn&amp;rsquo;t robbing, but I was being
robbed and ended up getting shot twice. Once in the side here, and once in my
but over here. I was obviously running. The guy shot me in the back.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This was at your workshop, right?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I had a workshop that I rented with another guy. It was up on 33rd and
Marshall. I&amp;rsquo;ve been half-shot lots of times, but when you get really &lt;em&gt;shot&lt;/em&gt;. It
burns. It&amp;rsquo;s just hot. It&amp;rsquo;s like someone hit you really hard with a paddle.
That&amp;rsquo;s what it feels like. But it didn&amp;rsquo;t do any real damage. I was in the
hospital five days. It wasn&amp;rsquo;t anything life-threatening.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was a certain story I heard about you in Church Hill regarding your dog.
Tell the story, Chuck.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This was my first dog with my first wife, Mira, the dancer. We lived on Franklin
St. We had separated, so it was just me and the dog on Franlkin St and my wife
moved into another place. I was working in the restaurant business, as usual.
The dog was really old, and I had put a sheet and some plastic down in the
downstairs room. The dog was incontenent. Put the food bowl down. It was warm in
the summer, had a window fan in there for the dog. And I came back from work one
night and the dog had eaten dinner then laid down in front of the fan and died.
It was just there. So I was thinking, &amp;ldquo;what am I gonna do?&amp;rdquo; I wrapped the dog up
in the sheet and said, &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;ll just have to deal with it in the morning.&amp;rdquo; I went
upstairs and I couldn&amp;rsquo;t sleep. I just couldn&amp;rsquo;t sleep like that. I came back down
and put the dog in my van and got a shovel and put on my boots and went over to
the Libby Park overlook, which is where we used to always walk. And I dug a
significant grave for the dog at the overlook. There was a cop up there named
Mongo. Mongo was his name. He was a really good guy and friend of everybody on
Church Hill. Everybody knew him. It was back when the police had a beat. His
beat was our neighborhood. He&amp;rsquo;d go by and stop and help people take groceries in
the house and he was a good friend. So he pulled up and wanted to know what I
was doing. The dog was still wrapped up in the sheet in the truck and I&amp;rsquo;m
digging this grave.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He says, &amp;ldquo;what&amp;rsquo;s going on?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I told him tearfully and sentimentally, &amp;ldquo;my old dog died and I&amp;rsquo;m burying him. I
know I shouldn&amp;rsquo;t be doing it [here], but this is a special place.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He said, &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;ll let you go do that, no problem, but first I need to look at the
dog.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I opened up the truck and showed him the dog and pulled the blanket back and he
said, &amp;ldquo;go ahead.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I finished burying the dog and all that and the night was over. But it was
pretty damn funny. &amp;ldquo;I don&amp;rsquo;t know what you&amp;rsquo;re doing, but I need to look at the
dog.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Make sure it&amp;rsquo;s not a person.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck Wrenn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Make sure it&amp;rsquo;s not my wife! Yeah, that was pretty funny. Well it is now, but it
was rough then.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alright thanks for listening. In the next episode I&amp;rsquo;ll be interviewing Gen Ken
Montgomery who ran the Generator Sound Art gallery in NYC.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode I&amp;rsquo;ll be interviewing the head of the ISKON of Virginia, Sriman
Dasa. ISKON stands for International Society for Krishna Consciousness, which is
the organization that leads the Hare Krishna movement. I&amp;rsquo;ve known Sriman since
the summer of &amp;lsquo;22 when I started organizing shows at the heavily-affiliated
Govinda restaurant directly across from the ISKON temple.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When was the ISKON of VA founded?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That was done in 2016.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So rather recent.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recently. Real ISKON was set up in 1966 actually.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I read that, isn&amp;rsquo;t there a temple in West VA?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, many major city have temples and especially in WV there is a big temple
with 200 acres of land. That was built in the 1970s.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is it still active?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, very active, and they have a guest house and many people visit all the time
and stay there overnight. Very enjoyable. They have cows. They found some oil in
the land. Lot of visitors. They were suffering one time financially, but now
they have no problem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;re a religious leader, right?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, I am president of this organization here. ISKON of Virginia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What led you to this position?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That was because for many years I had been practicing. Being from India, born
and grew up. In India it&amp;rsquo;s very common for Hindus to go to temple and become
servant of G-d. There are many paths in India. When I came here [in 1970, there
were no other temples beside ISKON. When I went first to Chicago I found a Hare
Krishna temple and went there. Then I moved to Atlanta, and there was also a
Hare Krishna temple there and I started going there. From there I moved to
Baltimore and DC &amp;ndash; all those places. Slowly I started going. In those days,
those were the only temples we had. Now we have many temples. I met different
Hindu religion priests and many other people, but by then I was convinced that
Hare Krishna was the proper way of philosophy presented about Krishna. That&amp;rsquo;s
why I continued.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How is Hare Krishna different from the religion you grew up practicing?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Other religions that I was aware of in India believe all the demig-ds as well
as Krishna are on the same level. They do not have a differentiation. They were
not openly pointing out what the goal of life should be. In Hare Krishna, they
say Krishna is supreme &amp;hellip; of G-dhead and that the goal of the life should be to
develop love for Krishna. There are many demig-ds people in India follow and
they are representative of G-d-law. It&amp;rsquo;s just like president of the govt.
Secretary is in a different department. If you serve the secretary, you may get
some benefits, but if know the president you can get around anything.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Have you ever seen visions of Krishna?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;rsquo;t seen the G-d yet, but I look back my life and over the life I&amp;rsquo;ve been
materially much better and spiritually making progress which gives me comfort in
my life. Even though I&amp;rsquo;m 80 years old, at this age, I&amp;rsquo;m a happy person. Better
than all my 80 years behind. Normally people when they get old, they have less
happy days. Disease, not happy with the children, not happy with the govt, they
don&amp;rsquo;t have enough money to survive. But in my case, I enjoy every moment of it.
It looks like G-d is praising me and giving me what I want.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You said you first came here from India to Chicago. What were you doing for a
living?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I came from India as a student and went to University of Tennessee and did my
masters degree. At that time I was struggling a bit financially. I didn&amp;rsquo;t have
money when I came from India. But luckily within 3 months I got permission to
work within the university; then I never had problems financially. Then I did my
masters and started working a little bit part-time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Didn&amp;rsquo;t you say you got a PhD?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, I did not finish it. I did the coursework and when I was supposed to do a
dissertation I decided to move forward and work in the outside.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What were you during your PhD in?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was a NASA-related project, laser technologies and optical technology and
searching for meteor trails falling from the sky. I was doing some mathematical
model research. It was an interesting project. But I was successful to proving
my master thesis. My advisor was very happy. He came one day when I finished and
lifted up the paper and said, &amp;ldquo;you made my life.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How&amp;rsquo;d you transition from that to becoming a religious leader?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh really this was developing on the side, just like my regular job as an
engineer continued there and there, different companies. And religiously went to
this temple that temple. In the beginning not too much into it, but more and
more I got involved. But slowly I got into the service more and started cleaning
pots and pans and mopping the floor and praying and those things developed as I
continued with it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But how&amp;rsquo;d you stop being an engineer?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I did not stop, I just wanted to balance out work and life and slowly I decided
sooner or later I should quit the job and go on my own business so I have more
freedom. So I only worked in America as an engineer for 14 years of my life.
After I quit I started my own real estate business and then had more time. Do
whatever I want, just go to temple. So it worked out really good, good
combination.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Aren&amp;rsquo;t you a landlord now?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, yes. Means I got rid of most of my property. Live more simple life. More
I&amp;rsquo;m more concentrating here (the temple) &amp;amp; my sadhyna. Everyday I have to put
spice at least 4 times in the sadhnya. Go out and feed the homeless people.
People whoever come we offer them, we preach, we discuss.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What does it mean to be Krishna of Consciousness?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Krishna Consciousness means we all have a consciousness thinking what we think
inside. Somebody have a consciousness for his family, somebody has a
consciousness for his nation, somebody has a consciousness for himself, and
Krishna consciousness means we think about Krishna, a supersoul inside. We are
the soul, we are part of it. Clearly which is given in the Bhagavad Gita we try
to develop in our consciousness so that we more become apart of it. If you say
&amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m American&amp;rdquo; &amp;ndash; then as soon as you say &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m American&amp;rdquo; you feel that you&amp;rsquo;re
part of America. Even if you&amp;rsquo;re born in Africa and you live in America,
naturally your consciousness is in Africa. This is only one aspect of
consciousness. So Krishna Consciousness is trying to relate yourself as a
servant of Krishna.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does the religion believe in free will?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah, that&amp;rsquo;s why we are here. We have a free will. That was the main
fundamental situation we had that&amp;rsquo;s why we wind up in this material world.
Otherwise we live in a spritual world, with Krishna, serving Him. Take a family
for example, you have four children. Krishna is your father. One guy say I&amp;rsquo;m
going to Africa, one guy say I&amp;rsquo;m going to New York, and father is in Richmond.
Time goes by, nobody wants to come and say &amp;ldquo;hello&amp;rdquo; to his father and they&amp;rsquo;ve
forgotton. One guy who was living in New York he keeps in touch with the
Richmond father &amp;amp; mother and once a while, weekend comes by, he says &amp;ldquo;how can I
help you?&amp;rdquo; So he becomes a loving child. The other guys are not getting too much
health. And the father says, &amp;ldquo;let them&amp;rdquo;. That&amp;rsquo;s a free will example. We have
forgotten our relation with our father. We have decided to go away from him.
That&amp;rsquo;s why we have ended up in this material world. We think we are happy, but
no, if we go to our father we will be much happier. Like when the New York guy
goes to his father in Richmond. Father is happy, mother is happy, they take care
of each other. And that is our duty as Krishna of Consciousness, to go back to
home and become servant of Krishna.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re in the age of Kali Yuga which means the furthest from Krishna, right?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not furthest, we are in the material world, but Kali Yuga is such a situation
that is forgetfulness and mind is not intelligent. Two days back you probably
can&amp;rsquo;t remember what you ate. That&amp;rsquo;s why this formula that is given, Hare Krishna
mantra, is very powerful. It has a spiritual vibration, and when you sing that
mantra, the mantra connects you directly to Krishna. It penetrates this planet
and goes to the spiritual plane and to Krishna &amp;ndash; that powerful. When we call
our cellular phone to Africa, that is what&amp;rsquo;s happening. Spatial frequency takes
you to Africa. Same day when you chant Hare Krishna, it has a spatial frequency
that connects you to Krishna.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What does the mantra mean in English?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s a prayer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is no translation?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sriman Dasa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe not, but you can say it&amp;rsquo;s a quick prayer. That&amp;rsquo;s it? Thank you for coming.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Francis Coogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yep, thanks for agreeing to this.&lt;/p&gt;
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<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Hey everybody! In this episode Ill be interviewing Chuck Wrenn. Chuck Wrenn is
someone who had a heavy involvement in the Richmond music scene from the first
psychedelic dance in VA, all the way up to High on the Hog. Hes lived in
Richmond his whole life and has been part of some crazy scenes. I love Chuck.
Ive known Chuck since I was born and he helped raise me, so this is a very
special interview to me. The music used is an improvised piece by Peter Lyon
Huff that he recorded in my basement for this interview.</p>
<hr>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Alright man, whatcha got in mind?</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>You were telling me earlier that you used to explore abandoned buildings in
Richmond. Did you ever have an encounter with the police?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>My closest experience with old buildings and police was when there was an empty
building downtown &ndash; not all the way downtown, but I guess around first street
I&rsquo;d say. Foushees. It was a vacant building that had a stained glass window in
the side of it. And me and my brother and law at the time said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d really like
to get that stained glass window, and I said &ldquo;alright, we can go get that.&rdquo; We
took our tools, just hand tools to go in and pry that window out. While we were
in there working on the window, somebody called the cops. So the cops showed up
at the place. There was no way out. We couldn&rsquo;t get out. And the cops were
heading in the house, so he and I opened up the door and got behind the door up
against the wall and the cops came in with flashlights and looked all around and
walked out the room. We were right behind the damn open door up against the
wall. Boy that was one helluva a night.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Yeah, what else happened that night?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Just waited for the cops to leave. If they had a dog, we would&rsquo;ve been shit.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>When was the first show you organized?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>The first big one&hellip; I started out doing that stuff in highschool. I had friends
in bands and I&rsquo;d put on a show and advertise it around school and a couple
hundred people would come and we&rsquo;d rent a place to put on a show. The first
really big one I did &ndash; there used to be a ballroom called Tantilla Ballroom, it
was down on Broad St. It has a really long, great history. It was considered to
be the major ballroom in the South, it&rsquo;s torn down now. Me &amp; a couple of buddies
rented this ballroom and put on the first psychedelic dance in the state of VA.
We rented a bunch of equipment to put the show on. We rented so much equipment
&ndash; we sold the show out &ndash; and rented so much equipment we lost money on it.
That was a big one. Gosh, since then, there&rsquo;s been countless shows. Up to &ldquo;High
on the Hog.&rdquo; Now, I wasn&rsquo;t the only guy that did the &ldquo;High on the Hog.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Tell me about Woodstock. Did you have any role in organizing it?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>I didn&rsquo;t have anything to do with putting it on, but before that there was a
festival called Atlantic City Pop. A buddy of mine had a leather good store. And
he was gonna go out in a booth and sell the stuff that he&rsquo;d made. It was a great
time. Saw a lot of great bands. We were just up there running his booth. But
while I was up there, I noticed a lot of people wearing tie-dye shirts and
people were selling them. Came back to Richmond and said, &ldquo;we can do this at
Woodstock.&rdquo; So my wife and I and a couple of friends started tie-dying t-shirts
at our apartment. We tie-dyed a shit ton of them. We&rsquo;d go out and buy big cases
of white Hane&rsquo;s t-shirts and come home and have a couple of pots on the stove.
And my wife and I (we were the only people that went up to Woodstock). We loaded
up all the t-shirts and went up to Woodstock. We got up there Thursday before
they closed the interstate and got within a mile from the stage. Fairly close at
the time. People were just coming in and parking on the side of the road, so if
you were there you weren&rsquo;t going anywhere. There wasn&rsquo;t no way you&rsquo;d be getting
out. So we set up our little tie-dye shirt thing. I had some pipe and we opened
the doors and duct-taped the pipe and started hanging up the t-shirts. So we&rsquo;re
selling t-shirts up there. I had a big cooler of beer with me. It was going
great. Then people started coming by and a guy came by and said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d really
like to get this shirt, but I don&rsquo;t have any money. Would you take some hash for
it?&rdquo; I said, &ldquo;yeah sure.&rdquo; So we&rsquo;re doing that. Now other people would come by,
&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have any mother either, but I like the shirt. Would you swap for some
acid?&rdquo; And next thing I know, we&rsquo;ve got pot, hash, acid &ndash; along with the
t-shirts. So I set a sheet over the hood of the car and I started putting out
the stuff with prices that we&rsquo;d swapped for. So now we&rsquo;re selling tie-dyed
t-shirts, pot, LSD. Hehehe! We never got to the stage until Sunday. We got there
on Thursday. But it was such a crazy scene. And then people were going &ldquo;I&rsquo;m
drinking this beer.&rdquo; I said &ldquo;you got anmyore of that beer, you wanna sell some?&rdquo;
They said, &ldquo;okay!&rdquo;. So now I&rsquo;m selling beer. Just crazy. Crazy shit.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>How&rsquo;d you get to know Bruce Springsteen?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Well, Bruce started coming to town &ndash; first time I saw Bruce and his band was in
Monroe park and they came down and played free. No one had heard of them. They
were just kids from New Jersey. They came down in a beat-up old truck and
equipment and set up in Monroe park and played. I knew they were gonna be a big
deal, because even as kids &ndash; I guess Bruce was like 18 &ndash; and they were good
from the start. First time I ever saw them, I said &ldquo;man, these guys are gonna be
<em>something</em>.&rdquo; And they were one of the first bands, maybe the first band, I ever
heard that mic&rsquo;d all the amps through the PA. So instead of just having the amps
and playing at that volume, they put mics in front of the amps and put them into
the PA so you get this huge sound. They&rsquo;d come to Richmond and they didn&rsquo;t have
a lot of places to play. They had Asbury park in NJ. Richmond got to be one of
the places that were real popular from them. They&rsquo;d come down every month or
two, I guess, and play. I got to be friends with &rsquo;em and did a lot of posters
for the band and that kind of stuff &ndash; just liked &rsquo;em. Bruce never stayed at my
house, but most of the band did. And at that time, my wife, my wife at that time
would make up a big spaghetti dinner and feed the band and they&rsquo;d sleep on the
floor. We did that for a while. They got to where they didn&rsquo;t need to sleep on
my floor anymore. Ahehehe! Bruce used to come to my apartment and eat dinner and
stuff, but Bruce always pretty-much stayed to himself. He was not a party guy at
all. Didn&rsquo;t drink, didn&rsquo;t take any drugs, didn&rsquo;t smoke pot. The rest of the guys
were pretty much rollin&rsquo;, they were a rock &rsquo;n roll band.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Speaking of pot, didn&rsquo;t you have a club called &ldquo;The Health Club&rdquo;?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Yeah! Heh, T-H-C. It wasn&rsquo;t anything official, it was just some guys, friends of
mine. At that time we were into 10-speed bikes and we&rsquo;d go out to the park early
in the morning and ride laps. We had another group called &ldquo;The Bothers&rdquo;. Our
motto was &ldquo;we do both&rdquo;. I drew a t-shirt that had a joint and a bottle of beer
walking down the street arm-and-arm. The beer was holding a joint, and the joint
was drinking holding a beer. The bothers, &ldquo;we do both.&rdquo; All those apartments
around &ldquo;Harrison St&rdquo; and &ldquo;Park Ave&rdquo; were where a lot of kids lived. It was a
real social thing. You&rsquo;d come over and knock on someone&rsquo;s door, &ldquo;hey what&rsquo;s
happening?&rdquo; smoke a joint. Everyone was just hanging out. Listening to records
and all that kind of stuff.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Tell me about your drug experiences?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Taken &ndash; well, not every drug, but I&rsquo;ve taken a lot of drugs. Not for any length
of time. Just for the experience.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Are there any trips you remember distinctly?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>One experience &ndash; I used to live on the corner of Harrison St and Grove Ave.
There was a 3-story building that burnt down, not there anymore. But I had an
apartment on the third floor; and I had taken some LS&ndash; acid. Across the street
there was a laundromat that had a soft drink dispensing machine. I had decided
that I would like to have a Coke. Came downstairs, stood on the sidewalk. There
was a stoplight. I was waitinga nd nhe light would change and I&rsquo;d step off a
couple of steps and the light would change back and I&rsquo;d walk back. I could never
get across the street! Ended up just going back to my apartment. It was just
crazy shit like that. Funny stuff. It was all in good fun. Not anything at the
time about. Just everybody laughing.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Where did the laughter go?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>That&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;m wondering!</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>What time was this?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>That was the late &rsquo;60s. Then it got to a point where cocaine came on the scene,
and that was a whole different thing. That was awful.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>The &rsquo;80s?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Yeah, that would&rsquo;ve been the disco time.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Cocaine and disco.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Not any fun. Neither one of them.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>When did you buy your house in Church Hill?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>I bought that house with my first wife in 1975. I was there 45 years and Hollie
was there with me for 25.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>You bought it when the area was completly different.</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Trashed. Real dangerous to be up there. It was not a developed place like it is
today at all.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Not a place to raise children.</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Nah, I mean <em>dangerous</em>. I got shot twice when I was living up there. It was not
a good neighborhood. Most of the houses were just flop houses, crack houses.
When I bought my house, the upstairs of the house was uninhabitable, the
downstairs had pad-locks on every door and a heater in the middle and
mattresses. I took 15 mattresses out of that place when I bought it. Our
parents thought we were nuts to buy that house, that we were gonna be killed.
You walked in Libby park and there were just syringes and wine bottles and
liquor bottles laying around the trees. You couldn&rsquo;t go out at night.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Speaking of which, you have two bullets in your body from being shot.</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Yep, I told him that. I was in a robbery. I wasn&rsquo;t robbing, but I was being
robbed and ended up getting shot twice. Once in the side here, and once in my
but over here. I was obviously running. The guy shot me in the back.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>This was at your workshop, right?</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Yeah, I had a workshop that I rented with another guy. It was up on 33rd and
Marshall. I&rsquo;ve been half-shot lots of times, but when you get really <em>shot</em>. It
burns. It&rsquo;s just hot. It&rsquo;s like someone hit you really hard with a paddle.
That&rsquo;s what it feels like. But it didn&rsquo;t do any real damage. I was in the
hospital five days. It wasn&rsquo;t anything life-threatening.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>There was a certain story I heard about you in Church Hill regarding your dog.
Tell the story, Chuck.</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>This was my first dog with my first wife, Mira, the dancer. We lived on Franklin
St. We had separated, so it was just me and the dog on Franlkin St and my wife
moved into another place. I was working in the restaurant business, as usual.
The dog was really old, and I had put a sheet and some plastic down in the
downstairs room. The dog was incontenent. Put the food bowl down. It was warm in
the summer, had a window fan in there for the dog. And I came back from work one
night and the dog had eaten dinner then laid down in front of the fan and died.
It was just there. So I was thinking, &ldquo;what am I gonna do?&rdquo; I wrapped the dog up
in the sheet and said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll just have to deal with it in the morning.&rdquo; I went
upstairs and I couldn&rsquo;t sleep. I just couldn&rsquo;t sleep like that. I came back down
and put the dog in my van and got a shovel and put on my boots and went over to
the Libby Park overlook, which is where we used to always walk. And I dug a
significant grave for the dog at the overlook. There was a cop up there named
Mongo. Mongo was his name. He was a really good guy and friend of everybody on
Church Hill. Everybody knew him. It was back when the police had a beat. His
beat was our neighborhood. He&rsquo;d go by and stop and help people take groceries in
the house and he was a good friend. So he pulled up and wanted to know what I
was doing. The dog was still wrapped up in the sheet in the truck and I&rsquo;m
digging this grave.</p>
<p>He says, &ldquo;what&rsquo;s going on?&rdquo;</p>
<p>I told him tearfully and sentimentally, &ldquo;my old dog died and I&rsquo;m burying him. I
know I shouldn&rsquo;t be doing it [here], but this is a special place.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll let you go do that, no problem, but first I need to look at the
dog.&rdquo;</p>
<p>I opened up the truck and showed him the dog and pulled the blanket back and he
said, &ldquo;go ahead.&rdquo;</p>
<p>I finished burying the dog and all that and the night was over. But it was
pretty damn funny. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what you&rsquo;re doing, but I need to look at the
dog.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Make sure it&rsquo;s not a person.</p>
<p><strong>Chuck Wrenn</strong></p>
<p>Make sure it&rsquo;s not my wife! Yeah, that was pretty funny. Well it is now, but it
was rough then.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Alright thanks for listening. In the next episode I&rsquo;ll be interviewing Gen Ken
Montgomery who ran the Generator Sound Art gallery in NYC.</p>
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<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>In this episode I&rsquo;ll be interviewing the head of the ISKON of Virginia, Sriman
Dasa. ISKON stands for International Society for Krishna Consciousness, which is
the organization that leads the Hare Krishna movement. I&rsquo;ve known Sriman since
the summer of &lsquo;22 when I started organizing shows at the heavily-affiliated
Govinda restaurant directly across from the ISKON temple.</p>
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<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>When was the ISKON of VA founded?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>That was done in 2016.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>So rather recent.</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Recently. Real ISKON was set up in 1966 actually.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>I read that, isn&rsquo;t there a temple in West VA?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Yes, many major city have temples and especially in WV there is a big temple
with 200 acres of land. That was built in the 1970s.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Is it still active?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Yes, very active, and they have a guest house and many people visit all the time
and stay there overnight. Very enjoyable. They have cows. They found some oil in
the land. Lot of visitors. They were suffering one time financially, but now
they have no problem.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>You&rsquo;re a religious leader, right?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Yes, I am president of this organization here. ISKON of Virginia.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>What led you to this position?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>That was because for many years I had been practicing. Being from India, born
and grew up. In India it&rsquo;s very common for Hindus to go to temple and become
servant of G-d. There are many paths in India. When I came here [in 1970, there
were no other temples beside ISKON. When I went first to Chicago I found a Hare
Krishna temple and went there. Then I moved to Atlanta, and there was also a
Hare Krishna temple there and I started going there. From there I moved to
Baltimore and DC &ndash; all those places. Slowly I started going. In those days,
those were the only temples we had. Now we have many temples. I met different
Hindu religion priests and many other people, but by then I was convinced that
Hare Krishna was the proper way of philosophy presented about Krishna. That&rsquo;s
why I continued.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>How is Hare Krishna different from the religion you grew up practicing?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Other religions that I was aware of in India believe all the demig-ds as well
as Krishna are on the same level. They do not have a differentiation. They were
not openly pointing out what the goal of life should be. In Hare Krishna, they
say Krishna is supreme &hellip; of G-dhead and that the goal of the life should be to
develop love for Krishna. There are many demig-ds people in India follow and
they are representative of G-d-law. It&rsquo;s just like president of the govt.
Secretary is in a different department. If you serve the secretary, you may get
some benefits, but if know the president you can get around anything.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Have you ever seen visions of Krishna?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>I haven&rsquo;t seen the G-d yet, but I look back my life and over the life I&rsquo;ve been
materially much better and spiritually making progress which gives me comfort in
my life. Even though I&rsquo;m 80 years old, at this age, I&rsquo;m a happy person. Better
than all my 80 years behind. Normally people when they get old, they have less
happy days. Disease, not happy with the children, not happy with the govt, they
don&rsquo;t have enough money to survive. But in my case, I enjoy every moment of it.
It looks like G-d is praising me and giving me what I want.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>You said you first came here from India to Chicago. What were you doing for a
living?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>I came from India as a student and went to University of Tennessee and did my
masters degree. At that time I was struggling a bit financially. I didn&rsquo;t have
money when I came from India. But luckily within 3 months I got permission to
work within the university; then I never had problems financially. Then I did my
masters and started working a little bit part-time.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Didn&rsquo;t you say you got a PhD?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>No, I did not finish it. I did the coursework and when I was supposed to do a
dissertation I decided to move forward and work in the outside.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>What were you during your PhD in?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>It was a NASA-related project, laser technologies and optical technology and
searching for meteor trails falling from the sky. I was doing some mathematical
model research. It was an interesting project. But I was successful to proving
my master thesis. My advisor was very happy. He came one day when I finished and
lifted up the paper and said, &ldquo;you made my life.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>How&rsquo;d you transition from that to becoming a religious leader?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Oh really this was developing on the side, just like my regular job as an
engineer continued there and there, different companies. And religiously went to
this temple that temple. In the beginning not too much into it, but more and
more I got involved. But slowly I got into the service more and started cleaning
pots and pans and mopping the floor and praying and those things developed as I
continued with it.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>But how&rsquo;d you stop being an engineer?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>I did not stop, I just wanted to balance out work and life and slowly I decided
sooner or later I should quit the job and go on my own business so I have more
freedom. So I only worked in America as an engineer for 14 years of my life.
After I quit I started my own real estate business and then had more time. Do
whatever I want, just go to temple. So it worked out really good, good
combination.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Aren&rsquo;t you a landlord now?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Yes, yes. Means I got rid of most of my property. Live more simple life. More
I&rsquo;m more concentrating here (the temple) &amp; my sadhyna. Everyday I have to put
spice at least 4 times in the sadhnya. Go out and feed the homeless people.
People whoever come we offer them, we preach, we discuss.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>What does it mean to be Krishna of Consciousness?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Krishna Consciousness means we all have a consciousness thinking what we think
inside. Somebody have a consciousness for his family, somebody has a
consciousness for his nation, somebody has a consciousness for himself, and
Krishna consciousness means we think about Krishna, a supersoul inside. We are
the soul, we are part of it. Clearly which is given in the Bhagavad Gita we try
to develop in our consciousness so that we more become apart of it. If you say
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m American&rdquo; &ndash; then as soon as you say &ldquo;I&rsquo;m American&rdquo; you feel that you&rsquo;re
part of America. Even if you&rsquo;re born in Africa and you live in America,
naturally your consciousness is in Africa. This is only one aspect of
consciousness. So Krishna Consciousness is trying to relate yourself as a
servant of Krishna.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Does the religion believe in free will?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Oh yeah, that&rsquo;s why we are here. We have a free will. That was the main
fundamental situation we had that&rsquo;s why we wind up in this material world.
Otherwise we live in a spritual world, with Krishna, serving Him. Take a family
for example, you have four children. Krishna is your father. One guy say I&rsquo;m
going to Africa, one guy say I&rsquo;m going to New York, and father is in Richmond.
Time goes by, nobody wants to come and say &ldquo;hello&rdquo; to his father and they&rsquo;ve
forgotton. One guy who was living in New York he keeps in touch with the
Richmond father &amp; mother and once a while, weekend comes by, he says &ldquo;how can I
help you?&rdquo; So he becomes a loving child. The other guys are not getting too much
health. And the father says, &ldquo;let them&rdquo;. That&rsquo;s a free will example. We have
forgotten our relation with our father. We have decided to go away from him.
That&rsquo;s why we have ended up in this material world. We think we are happy, but
no, if we go to our father we will be much happier. Like when the New York guy
goes to his father in Richmond. Father is happy, mother is happy, they take care
of each other. And that is our duty as Krishna of Consciousness, to go back to
home and become servant of Krishna.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>We&rsquo;re in the age of Kali Yuga which means the furthest from Krishna, right?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Not furthest, we are in the material world, but Kali Yuga is such a situation
that is forgetfulness and mind is not intelligent. Two days back you probably
can&rsquo;t remember what you ate. That&rsquo;s why this formula that is given, Hare Krishna
mantra, is very powerful. It has a spiritual vibration, and when you sing that
mantra, the mantra connects you directly to Krishna. It penetrates this planet
and goes to the spiritual plane and to Krishna &ndash; that powerful. When we call
our cellular phone to Africa, that is what&rsquo;s happening. Spatial frequency takes
you to Africa. Same day when you chant Hare Krishna, it has a spatial frequency
that connects you to Krishna.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>What does the mantra mean in English?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>It&rsquo;s a prayer.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>There is no translation?</p>
<p><strong>Sriman Dasa</strong></p>
<p>Maybe not, but you can say it&rsquo;s a quick prayer. That&rsquo;s it? Thank you for coming.</p>
<p><strong>Leonard Francis Coogan</strong></p>
<p>Yep, thanks for agreeing to this.</p>
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