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Cara Mastrey to Visit KNAC.COM Today to Discuss Tawn Mastrey Hepatitis C Aware Project By Newsferatu, Writer Monday, August 11, 2008 @ 7:43 AM
The following press release provides more information on the project:
Groundwork is being laid for The Tawn Mastrey
Hepatitis C Aware Project. The non profit Foundation
is on a mission to assemble devoted, generous friends
of the late great, DJ Tawn Mastrey, with the goal of
creating a compilation album of tracks recorded and
donated by the formidable cache of musicians with whom
Tawn interacted over her magnificent 30 year career
that began in the freeform 70s at San Jose’s KSJO and included several years at Pure Rock 105.5 KNAC in Long Beach, CA.
The Hepatitis C Awareness Compilation album is a not a
musical epitaph but a loud and lovely celebration of
one amazing woman’s life and her eternal love of rock
n’ roll. There are more than190 million people in the
world today infected with Hepatitis C today, and the
majority are unaware of it and are spreading the
disease. This figure will triple by 2012, if nothing
is done to wake people up, get tested and live
consciously.
“The Tawn I knew and adored was personable, charming,
enchanting, loving, funny, ballsy, bossy, generous,
and inspiring,” recalls her sister, Cara Mastrey.
“Tawn was kind to everyone she met. She made
strangers and friends alike feel important. And if
their music rocked, she was not afraid to tell the
world through her sexy airwave voice and professional
media influence.”
Black Sabbath drummer, Bill Ward, recently crowned
Tawn with the venerable title, "Queen Ambassador of
Heavy Metal Music.”
“A few days before Tawn died, Cara Mastrey, Tawn's sister asked her, ‘what can I
do for you?’” “Desperately weak, she
whispered in my ear, ‘please, get the word out to stop
the spread of Hep C. Do it through my music friends.
I know they’ll help.”
We’re talking about raising awareness here, using the
power of rock and celebrity to help others avoid the
horrific medical ordeal and premature departure that
so inevitably accompanies this nefarious affliction.
Cara and the Tawn Mastrey Foundation are reaching out
to you to help us with this grand task. So far, the
responses from the artist community have been
incredible. The following individuals and/or bands
have confirmed their participation in the project.
Sammy Hagar has offered a live version of the Montrose
classic, "Rock Candy'” with Neal Schon on lead guitar.
The following artists have also acknowledged to Cara
their desire to participate.
Cara also reports that Remy Maxwell, (KNAC, 93X now
Sirius), has offered to mix a portion of the record in
Minneapolis while Stew Herrera from KNAC and KLOS
95.5, has offered to engineer other tracks in Los
Angeles. Veteran DJ, Paul ‘The Lobster’ Wells is also
onboard. “I’m in the process of assembling my
sister’s audio archives,” reports Cara. “Her vocal
presence in the form of carefully selected air checks
and sound bites will be very much a part of this
wondrous recording.”
On August 20th, Tawn's birthday, her family and friends will be
planting a tree for the Leather Nun’s in Landsboro, Minnesota
where Tawn had her fondest memories with her family.
We’re also planning an eBay auction, collecting
memorabilia from famous friends. Alice Cooper has
already donated a signed cane.” "Ozzy is donating a signed guitar and
Rock Photographer Neil Zlozower is donating 2 photos.
For more information, please visit the following
websites. And thank you all for taking the time to
read this message.
www.tawnmastreybenefit.com
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