Birth name L. B. Keilman III | Years active 1969–present | |
Also known as Kyle Mann (radio and recording) Born August 25, 1951
Chicago, Illinois ( 1951-08-25 ) Genres Rock, blues, alternative, others Occupation(s) Recording artist, radio broadcaster, film crew worker and executive producer Associated acts Beefy Red, Sons of Champlin, Ed Mann | ||
L. B. 'Kyle' Keilman (born August 25, 1951) is a recording and performing musician, a radio personality, a former mayoral candidate and community activist who was politically active in California in the last decade, and a credited movie film crew member.
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Early years and music career
Keilman moved with his family to Marin County, California in 1959. A decade later he graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California.
Keilman was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area music group Beefy Red as a harmonica player, performing from 1969–1972. In 1975, he recorded with the Sons of Champlin on the album of the same name (as 'Larry Keilman', re-released in 2007 as 'The Ariola Years') and was favorably reviewed at the time in Rolling Stone Magazine Keilman also appeared as a guest on Ed Mann's Perfect World CD (as 'Kyle Mann') on harmonica, vocals, and a co-writer on the track 'Pattern Mod (Your Karmic Monitor Speaking)', and on Mann's 1996 CD Have No Fear (again as 'Kyle Mann'.) He additionally recorded with former Sons of Champlin bandmember and solo recording artist Tim Cain.
Broadcasting career
In 1980–81 Keilman produced radio commercials on the now-defunct Marin County rock station KTIM-FM. After attending Santa Monica College in the early 1980s as a broadcasting student where he was a newscaster on Santa Monica's KCRW, Keilman joined Fred Wallin as a co-host on the Los Angeles afternoon drive KFOX Sports Forum, work which included intensive coverage of the then Los Angeles Raiders football team. He also covered the 1985 Super Bowl for KFOX.
As a newscaster he reported on the 1984 eruption of Mauna Loa volcano nationwide for Associated Press as well as statewide in Hawaii, and wrote and voiced news reports regarding eruptions of Kilauea Volcano for several years. In 1987 he was a newscaster on Maui's KMVI and in the later 1980s was a Maui morning drive deejay on KLHI's Island Mischief show which was the top-rated show in its time slot. He later worked in radio as a Program Director in central California at KOTR, and as Production Director in Acapulco, Mexico for Stereorey in the 1990s.
2003 mayoral campaign
In late 2003 Keilman challenged multi-term incumbent Al Boro for the mayor's seat in San Rafael, California. Keilman lost the race in which he expressed opposition to the local SMART train and a proposed Marin Municipal Water District desalination plant, and called for "making San Rafael a model city for renewable energy" as well as enacting a millionaire city tax. Keilman received over 2,000 votes in the election.
Community activist
After the electoral challenge to Mayor Al Boro, Keilman continued to speak out about the controversial SMART train and Boro's role in support of the project. Writing a 'Marin Voice' column in the Marin Independent Journal in 2006, he charged that Boro was in a "conflict of interest" regarding the train, as Boro was chairman of the train's board of directors. Keilman joined other activists as he spoke out against the Marin Countywide Plan before the county Planning Commission, saying the plan allowed overdevelopment and noting "Option 2 would allow hundreds of houses in the St. Vincent's/Silveira area. That's not what we want." In 2009, Keilman wrote a column in the Marin Independent Journal supporting San Anselmo Councilman Ford Greene's stand against the disputed results of a tax vote in Marin's Ross Valley; the paper had previously noted his comments before the Marin County Board of Supervisors, with reporter Rob Rogers writing "This project feels like Florida in 2000," said Keilman, a former mayoral candidate in San Rafael. "It feels like somebody tried to pull a fast one on the voters. On behalf of all who are affected by this, you should start fresh."
Film work
Keilman is a credited film crew member on at least three movies: That Thing You Do!, The Setting Son and Desperate Measures.