This talk was very similar to the one David Suzuki gave at his lecture
at the 1990s event as the Prince Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
with the United Nations. A talk I attended and worked as an A/V tech.
A name and face who has led generations of Canadians, and others around the world towards the understanding that our survival on this planet is dependent upon our treatment of her, and her various children throughout the world.
A battle he's fought ever so dedicatedly long before most of us were aware of the term "climate crisis". I remember, because I was the Audio/Visual operator at the Prince Hotel at York Mills, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, when Doctor David Suzuki gave a talk before a United Nations panel (for whom I helped setup the translation booths and then later attended Doctor Suzuki's slide show talk, operating his slide projector when and if there were problems (there weren't, or if there were, he was very graceful about the fact and never mention that to me). We even spoke for a short time after his talk, when I told him I'd been watching The Nature of the Things since I was a child.
George Stroumboulopoulos has stepped forward, reminding us what Doctor David Suzuki means to Canada, and to the world, and George has been doing this kind of thing for a very long time. Both have been a big part of reminding us of the fact that we can't live without the world from which we've feasted thus far, lest we'd like to be told by that very world: so long.
Even planets have an immune system, and when we're the problem, we'll become the targets of that immune system.
Now, you can do something about this, and support the innovators who've long stood with David Suzuki, as they join his peers on stage for the best birthday party ever, in support of our Mother Aerth.
Reserve your tickets now. For David Suzuki's Birthday Bash. For yourself, and for generations to come. You'll see all the artists who are in the musical line-up on the latest episode of Era of the Spellbound (Episode 13 - Hell Hath No Fury) as its written (its still not completed at this point on April 30, 2026). This tribute to David Suzuki will reflect his inspiration, especially upon A Lady's Prerogative, Tales of the Sanctum. He and O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba (a martial art of which I'm a formal student, amongst others) were the inspiration for the legacy character of Tales of the Sanctum, Mishima Sato. He also inspired much of what became eventually became the character of Nelony Ardbloem, though she has truly a female inspiration, and one who had a very profound inspiration upon my life, and as much so an animal friend as am I.
Me? I'm just checking things out, and learning from these heroes of my own. Learning everything I can to do my part.
I'm Brian Joseph Johns, and this is Shhhh! Digital Media.
PS: George. Wanna get together some time and jam? I'm a keyboardist. Been playing since the 1970s, the son of musicians who were the highest grossing and Juno nominated act from the 1980s. My first jam was with Steve Vitale. He was eighteen, and I was thirteen, when my parents lent me their Korg 1701 analog synthesizer, and my dad's Wurlitzer Electric Piano, and of course their P.A. system, so we could hear Steve serenade his girlfriend at the time. Back then, at eighteen, he played like Eddie Van Halen. He was already a top tier guitarist, but I held my own at thirteen, playing keys for songs like Foreigner's I've Been Waiting for a Girl Like You (Thomas Dolby originally did the keyboard parts for that song for those of you who don't know).
We played a lot of Journey, and I even attempted Boston's Long Time/Foreplay back then, failing miserably at it. In the 1990s, when I gigged on a tour of Ontario with my mainstay band, The Act, we used to play Long Time/Foreplay live and regularly. What I didn't know was that Boston, had never had a live keyboard player who played that song on their tours. I was the first keyboardist of whom I'm aware, who actually played that song live, and many times.
A few years ago, when Boston found out about this (through the vine), they held several concerts, hiring a live keyboardist who, learned from the Engineering genius' sequenced keyboard part by Tom Sholz, who by the way, invented the Rockman, like a Sony Walkman or in more modern terms, an iPod for guitar players, where they could plug their guitars into the device, and listen through headphones as they played through a preamp, amp, and dual effects rack as they sat in the park, and all without an amp. Tom Sholz revolutionized practice makes perfect for guitarists back in the prime of Sony Walkmans, even capitalizing on the name of the brand. Tom Sholz also revolutionized environmentally friendly guitar amplification and effects by his creation of this device.
I'm way out of practice, but I still write music for Shhhh! Digital Media, as well as doing all of its writing, most of its artwork, and much, if not all of its coding, however, this is made possible by fans, and artists alike, who I always credit on each and every post where they are a part of that aspect.
I'd love to jam, George. Be well. You're an inspiration and don't let the gremlins get you down.
Doctor David Suzuki. You're our hero, but you're always yourself. There's nobody else who can be you or inspire exactly what you did for the environmental movement and for the sciences in Canada and the world. You were a direct inspiration of Alicia Westin (The Butterfly Dragon, both legacy and reimagined), and you were an inspiration for Mishima Sato, alongside O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba as I mentioned earlier. So I'll leave you with the best segment dedicated to you from This Hour Has 22 Minutes ;-)
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