"...how silent governments are
when it comes to things like that..."

On Monday, July 16 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated in the desert of New Mexico, on Apache Indian land. Jimmy was 7 years old, living in Anthony, Texas, close to the New Mexican border. He was a "downwinder", that means, he belonged to the mostly poor, white or Indian, population that lived in the path of radiation that came from the test site. Here, he tells his story.

In this collaboration with the German band "Behind The Mirror", "The Godfathers of Free Rock" meet a "Grandmother of Invention." The music was improvised: just drums, a specially detuned guitar and what we call 'holy coincidence'. "The charm of a blues band mutated on a nuclear test site."

Jimmy Carl Black was the drummer, singer and "The Indian of the Group" in Frank Zappa's "Mothers of Invention", accompanied Captain Beefheart, was the secret star of the cult-film "200 Motels", founded "Geronimo Black", and wrote classic Native American protest songs such as "Trail of Tears" and "An American National Anthem". He formed a duo with Eugene Chadbourne as "The Jack and Jim Show". In 2008 Jimmy celebrated his seventieth birthday – fifty of those years on the stage.

Jimmy passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 1, 2008. He said to say hi to everybody and that he doesn't want anybody to be sad.