Dr. Timothy Leary & Bayard Johnson became friends in 1992 when Tim provided a blurb for Johnson\'s first novel, DAMNED RIGHT. Leary: \"I love this book, what do you want me to say? I give great blurb!\" Not long after, Tim heard a live recording of Johnson\'s eco-freak punk-folk band, MOTHER NATURE\'S ARMY. \"I dig this, the words matter, just like Dylan,\" said Tim. A year before Tim died, Johnson & his partner Simon Stokes played him some tracks off an album they were making with American Indian activist & actor Russell Means--the record which became THE RADICAL. After listening to Russell\'s hip hop-tinged NIXON\'S DEAD A**, Tim mused, \"Tricky Dick did once call me the \'most dangerous man in America,\' but that wasn\'t really accurate...I tried, but I think he was exaggerating...\" As the last bars of Russell\'s WACO/THE WHITE MAN\'S WOUNDED KNEE crashed to silence, Tim reached for a brownie and mused, \"I\'d love to do something like this...\" and the race was on to record & complete an album before Tim