THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: PK70 - Jefferson Starship - Blows Against the Empire (Suite) - March 20, 2011

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Rock Icon Grace Slick Announces Her Support for Protest Against Guitar Center and KMC Music

Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) announced her support today for independent musicians Michelle Mangione and Steve Soest’s in their protest against Guitar Center and KMC Music at the 2014 National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Show On Wednesday.

Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) announced her support today for independent musicians Michelle Mangione and Steve Soest’s in their protest against Guitar Center and KMC Music/Gibraltar Hardware.

Michelle Mangione and Steve Soest, launched a protest against Guitar Center and KMC Music at the 2014 National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Show On Wednesday.

"Even though we supposedly live in a democracy, corporate money always seems to win," Slick said. "Are we going to let that happen one more time?"

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Mick Farren & Andy Colquhoun review

http://www.totalmusicmagazine.com/albumreviews.htm

Mick Farren & Andy Colquhoun 
Black Vinyl Dress (Gonzo)

Michael Anthony 'Mick' Farren, writer, journo, poet, counter-culture rabble rouser, ‘proto’ punk and serial collaborator with, amongst others, Lemmy, Chrissie Hynde, Hawkwind, Wayne Kramer and, on this his final outing, ex-Deviant and Pink Fairy Andy Colquhoun. Sadly no longer with us since collapsing onstage during a Deviants performance in July of 2013 Farren, never a fan of his own voice, elects to narrate songs here, his delivery a cross between John Cooper Clarke, Alan Rickman and William Burroughs as Colquhoun ensures there is more than enough sonic variety to keep the results more than just a glorified poetry reading.
Ray Harper

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling writes: 

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)

THERE IS A LINE THROUGH ALL THINGS

You see it in those lines in stones/layers in sand

Cities buried deep in ancestral forgetting / Egypt

defies tourists while revolution draws lines between

Syria and Lebanon, Iraq and Iran - ancient divisions

encamp with weapons but no water. Arms but no legs

Sometimes you can see the jagged bright of lightning

I did not say it was a straight line (nor ever was)

Curling river/smoke from a burning oil pipeline

Signs,symbols,scars in sand and stone

Blood, oil, gas, diamonds - all need water and light

which is a line borrowed from the Nile

where stripped Pyramids sit,squat among homeless

no one speaks Ancient. No one listens. Dumb wonder

and a lack of replication. Bruce Chatwin posited songlines

as feng shui for earth/ley lines that flow electrically /

a geo-map of where significance sits. When birds complain,

it is the song of winged lines they are releasing.

It is a correspondence and a conversation.

All creatures who respond - know...

Brand X: Belgium review (translated)

BRAND X - Missing period/Published on 19-01-2014 /

Gonzo Multimedia label has recently published a handful of albums Brand X . The name of Brand X does not really over now and here is a great opportunity to talk about this active group in the English jazz fusion in the late 70s. Talk of Brand X is also an opportunity to remember that he hosted for many years an English rock luminaries, Phil Collins himself. drummer Genesis and solo artist well known actually worked for Brand X , more as a singer and drummer listen to a few albums recently reissued Brand X shows that those who do not support pop artist engrangeur million of what became Collins must nevertheless recognize his immense talents of drummer. 

And with the likes of drummer Phil Collins, together with other excellent technicians like John Goodsall (guitar) and especially Percy Jones (bass), we can say that Brand X is to rank in the top of the basket of major progressive groups Seventies and jazz fusion. Brand X starts in 1975 as a group improvisation and is signed to Island Records. It is said that the hunter talents Island, Danny Wilding had marked an X calendar studio to report the arrival of the group, which took its name from this brand (brand in English) on the calendar. At this time, Brand X thus includes John Goodsall, Percy Jones, Phil Collins and also keyboardist Robin Lumley , cousin of actress Joanna Lumley (known for her role in the new version of "Avengers leather" in 1977 and its role fifties bobo and alcohol in funky series "Ab fab" in 1996.) The group will undergo various changes in personnel but will always be managed by John Goodsall pair and Percy Jones. 

In a very funky jazz and sometimes progressive record, it performs the albums"Unorthodox behavior" (1976), "Moroccan Roll" (1977) "Livestock" (1977), "Masks"(1978), "Product" (1979) , "Do They Hurt?" (1980) and "Is there anything about?"(1982). This is the classical period of the group, which enjoys a moment of separation before reforming in 1992 around Goodsall, Jones and drummer Frank Katz, for new albums "Xcommunication" (1992) and "Manifest Destiny" (1997) .album here now "Missing period" comes from the first bands of 1975 and forgotten in a drawer. All these new songs are now available restored version and it is a real treat for lovers of jazz fusion Stanley Clarke or Nucleus. Percy Jones bass is remarkable, we are dealing with a phenomenon of nature. Guitarist John Goodsall descends the handle at ultrasonic speeds and Phil Collins is just incredible."Missing period" shows that from its earliest moments, Brand X was already fully developed and operational, it will prove later on his official albums .

François Becquart

Country: GB 

Gonzo Multimedia

http://www.musicinbelgium.net/pl/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=6642

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Gary Windo album reissue featuring Robert Wyatt and Nick Mason

http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/gary-windo-album-reissue-featuring-robert-wyatt-and-nick.html Gonzo Multimedia is releasing three rare albums by the late sax legend Gary Windo, one of which features Robert Wyatt and Pink Floyd's Nick Mason. Windo was a highly original musician with an instantly recognizable style, and was involved in the Seventies with many icons of the British jazz and rock genres, including the Canterbury scene, but who sadly passed away in 1992. Windo was born in Brighton, England in 1941, into a musical family, and learned to play drums at 6, guitar at 12, and saxophone at 17. After sailing the world in the Merchant Navy, he settled in New York in 1962. A long period of apprenticeship, on and off-stage, followed during the Sixties, until he moved back to England in 1969. In March 1970, he took part in Graham Bond's all-star Sun Festival, with Jack Bruce, Mitch Mitchell, and Brian Auger. In 1971, he and Robert Wyatt formed Symbiosis, a prog-rock jamming band. By 1973, Windo was playing pub gigs with Ray Russell's heavy-rock trio The Running Man, and working with Robert Wyatt on the jazz quartet WMWM, with pianist Dave MacRae and bassist Ron Matthewson. He played on Hugh Hopper’s album 1984, and was about to join Wyatt on his new Matching Mole group when Wyatt had his accident. The Wyatt-Windo collaboration continued on Wyatt’s subsequent solo albums, Rock Bottom (1974) and Ruth Is Stranger than Richard (1975). In November of 1975, Windo formed Gary Windo & Friends for a one-off gig at Maidstone College of Art, with his wife Pam Windo on piano, guitarist Richard Brunton, and the rhythm section of Bill MacCormick, Nick Mason, and Laurie Allan. This group was the precursor to Windo's next album, which until now has never been released. In 1976, Nick Mason offered Gary Windo time in Pink Floyd's brand new Britannia Row studio, which would give Windo the opportunity to make this album, and Pink Floyd the chance to test the new systems. Nick Mason both produced and played drums, and with his typical sense of humour, Windo would call the album Steam Radio Tapes. You can place your order for this album, finally released and available as a CD or MP3 download, right now through these direct links: Amazon UK, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon France, Amazon Germany, Amazon Espana andAmazon Italy. Anything bought at Amazon after going to their sites using our links gives a small but vital contribution toward the ongoing running costs of Brain Damage, without costing you any extra, and we really appreciate it.

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Brand X German review (translated)

Brand X began known as a fun project that wanted to relax and others, a drummer named Phil Collins a little. In contrast to the first official release "Unorthodox Behaviour" in time a studio musician was before, 1975 and 1976, yet, the percussionist (outside Brand X also drummer) Preston Heyman. 

Recordings from this period can be found on "Missing Period", the first appeared in 1997 and was then re-issued in 2013 by Gonzo Multimedia. The first five shots were taken in 1976 for a radio broadcast by the BBC, the last one is from a live performance at Ronnie Scott's Club in London. 

The sound quality does not quite approach the studio production of "Unorthodox Behaviour", but it is pretty neat. "Pretty Dead" is similar but very strong "Born Ugly". More specifically dive into the two pieces of the same themes that only the accompanying chords are played much faster in "Dead Pretty". Also some ideas of "Why will not you lend me yours?" And "Miserable Virgin" were on the later Studio albums used in the plays "Why Should I Lend You Mine" and "Malaga Virgin". 

To the music of Brand X were also improvised jams with guitar and synth solos. The extended jams and solos seem to me to "Missing Period" something more relaxed and less focused, as was the case in the rule on later studio albums. But the jams of Brand X (as in "ball lightning") can convince by contagious enthusiasm and rock increases quite sometimes. 

Percy Jones seems often to use a standard bass guitar, rather than melodies to sing on a fretless bass. Committed acting Jams countered by those which have no real special features in the context of typical fusion music. Pretty neat, but not always engaging. How quickly the mood of a relaxed jam to intensive teamwork can change in the type of Mahavishnu Orchestra, evident in "Ancient Mysteries". The problem many percussionists in rock, or jazz-rock combo was also Preston Heyman given: in the few open spaces tries percussionist accommodate his contributions and has not to be easily heard. 

Overall, a decent slice for friends of angeproggter fusion music. However, the drums and the bass guitar do not act quite as unmistakable as to "Unorthodox Behaviour", which is also due to the mixing part. The bass Posts by Percy Jones but already have a considerable creativity and Phil Collins can even convince as an excellent companion if he does not really want to flaunt his technical skills. 

Those who want to learn the more through-composed pieces of Brand X had better get "Unorthodox Behaviour" for those who prefer to live Jams is better served with "Missing Period". 

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STEVEN FROMHOLZ OF MANASSAS DIES AT 68

Steven Fromholz, a Texas-based singer-songwriter who had worked with Stephen Stills and Michael Nesmith, died on Jan. 19 as a result of a hunting accident. He was 68.

According to the Dallas News, Fromholz was hunting with his girlfriend at the Flying B Ranch near Eldorado when his rifle slipped out of its case and discharged when it hit the ground. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

In 1969, Fromholz and Dan McCrimmon, working under the name Frummox, released ‘Here to There,’ which, along with albums by Jerry Jeff Walker and Michael Martin Murphy, is widely considered to have birthed the Outlaw Country movement of the ’70s. After that, he briefly toured with fellow Texas native Stephen Stills’ band Manassas, but he left in November 1971, before they entered the studio.

“What I saw, I didn’t like after I’d spent some time with it,” he told Jan Reid in ‘The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock.’ “I didn’t like the ego hassles, and I didn’t like the craziness – it wasn’t my kind of craziness. I’m as crazy as anybody else, but it wasn’t my kind of shot. I was heavily into cocaine and I was getting real sick . . . My skin was turning green.”

Fromholz signed to Michael Nesmith’s Countryside label a few years later and recorded ‘How Long Is the Road to Kentucky.’ But the album was shelved on the eve of its release due to a shakeup at its distributor Elektra Records and has never been released.

His biggest commercial success came in 1976, when Willie Nelson recorded one of his songs, ‘I’d Have to Be Crazy,’ for his album ‘The Sound in Your Mind.’ The track, on which Fromholz sings harmony, went to No. 2 on Billboard’s country chart.



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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling writes: 

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)

how deep? how far? waters of songs

tap.tap. ancestral.subterranean.to sing - not solitary - more communal
folk stories - for and on behalf of causes necessary - for survival
-for rivers/clean,clear,flowing ,redeemed from corporate toxicities
Then voice-to reclaim from obedience and silence and with a ROAR!
to show what one soul with a banjo can do in Weaving Company
Even now,we bring his songs to demonstrations/as if time
has not unlocked the secrets of change/and we begin again
on a blank page and an empty stage.For every cause is First Cause
Every issue is vital/elemental.Peace,prosperity,human rights-
freedom of speech and assembly - if limited,lost. Cost is high.
Commitment means our dreams are put on trial (like our Future)
They always try to shoot the messenger. Innocent we are-
singing in solutions.Each one listening to our ancestors -
Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger - our folk tradition/sing ON!

Joey Molland / Return To Memphis review (German, translated)

Playing time: 43:06
Format: CD
Label: Gonzo Multimedia, 2013
Style: Pop
Review on 24/01/2014 Wolfgang Giese



A 'worse finger', this Joey Molland . Why? Oh, more on that later ... I know the guitarist nor a member of a band called Gary Walker & The Rain . Walker ? Exactly, that drummer who actually Gary Leedsand is called once at the Walker Brothers was active. And it soon became Molland then a 'worse finger', because it was not long, then he joined the band Badfinger at.

Today is the 21 June 1947, born in Liverpool musicians as opposed to his former bandmate Tom Evans and Peter Ham , both took their own lives, still alive and even still touring under the band name. But now he puts under his own name before a new panel.

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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jefferson Starship

Graham's video selection for this Thursday is White Rabbit...

Sax Legend Gary Windo (w/Soft Machine, Pink Floyd Members) Gets Reissued

Robert Wyatt and Nick Mason…

 Gonzo Multimedia is releasing three rare albums by sax legend Gary Windo, one of which features Robert Wyatt and Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason. The albums are 1976’s Steam Radio Tapes (w/Wyatt and Mason), 1979’s Dogface) and 1987’s Deep Water.

 The backstory:

 Windo was involved in the Seventies with many icons of the British jazz and rock genres, including the Canterbury scene. Born in Brighton in 1941, in March 1970, he took part in Graham Bond’s all-star Sun Festival, with Jack Bruce, Mitch Mitchell, and Brian Auger. In the same year, he joined Keith Tippett’s 50-piece orchestra, Centipede, and Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath. In 1971, he and Robert Wyatt formed Symbiosis, a prog-rock jamming band featuring Mongezi Feza, Nick Evans and Roy Babbington.

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Frank Zappa a difficult act to follow for son Dweezil

Dweezil Zappa had to reinvent his approach to guitar-playing in order to master some of the music he plays onstage. Photograph by: HANDOUT

What: Zappa Plays Zappa

Where: Club 9one9

When: Tuesday, doors 6 p.m.

Tickets: $32 advance ($65 VIP) Ditch Records, Strathcona Hotel, Lyle’s Place

When Zappa Plays Zappa comes to Victoria, the bandleader hopes to put “eyebrows” on it. This is a Frank Zappa expression, said guitarist Dweezil Zappa. Putting eyebrows on music means the difference between a good performance and “absolutely astonishing expert” playing.

Simply put, it’s a higher level of artistry.

“That little extra bit in there is the ‘eyebrows,’ ” Dweezil said recently from his Los Angeles home. “That’s what makes it special and unique.”

Zappa Plays Zappa is Dweezil’s tribute band, bringing his late father’s music to both old fans and new generations of listeners. The players are necessarily tight-flight — Zappa’s adventuresome, often avant-garde music is notoriously difficult to play.

For this tour, Zappa Plays Zappa will perform, in its entirety, one of Frank Zappa’s most popular albums, Roxy & Elsewhere. The 1974 double-live LP is stuffed with challenging instrumentals such as Echidna’s Arf (Of You), Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing and Be-Bop Tango (of the Old Jazzmen’s Church).

Playing any of this music — with its virtuoso melodies and stuttering rhythms — isn’t for the faint of heart. Dweezil said the most difficult piece is Be-Bop Tango. At the same time, it’s a fun composition. Dweezil routinely asks a couple from the audience on stage to do a be-bop dance.

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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Hawkwind perform 'Master of the Universe' (2013)

With Hawkwind currently planning their February performance of the 1972 "Space Ritual Alive" set, here's a reminder that they've generally stayed in touch with the material from that era. This audience clip is from a few months ago...

OBITUARY: 'Simple, complicated Seeger changed American music' - folksinger Pete Seeger dies

Seeger, who died Monday, was many things. Sometimes he lived in the country, sometimes he lived in town. He was equally at home on the range and in the union hall, on top of Old Smoky and in the apartments of Greenwich Village as a skinny teenager making music on World War II's eve with men who would become legends and end up on postage stamps.

From the beginning, everything about Seeger's background seemed to point him toward his destiny. He was descended from dissent, from Americans who challenged authority. That stayed with him until the end, whether the authority was the mass media, large corporations or the House Un-American Activities Committee and the blacklists of the 1950s. He waited, kept singing, and outlasted it. 

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Belgian reviews of Gary Windo

http://www.keysandchords.com/6/post/2014/01/gary-windo-deep-water.html

Gonzo Multimedia brings three rare CDs by British saxophonist Gary Windo again ! This musician was born on 07/11/1941 in Brighton , and came from a musical family . At six, he started playing drums and accordion at the age of twelve was that guitar , and eventually at the age of seventeen he took the sax bite . During the 60s he lived in the USA, but in 1969 he returned to England . In the early '70s he founded his own group , the Gary Windo Quartet , and worked with Brotherhood of Breath , Centipede , Matching Mole , The Running Man , Carla Bley and Nick Mason ( Pink Floyd ) .

During his time in the USA , he was exposed to all types of jazz , and he could each wind instrument , from soprano to bass clarinet playing . Sony Stitt heard him once at the Berlin Jazz Festival , and asked him to join his band, but Gary refused. Gary also worked with groups such as The Psychedelic Furs , Robert Wyatt and NRBQ . However, he suffered from asthma and died on 25.07.1992 at an asthma attack . So between 1984 and 1988, he led his own rock quartet , the Gary Windo Band, containing Knox Chandler on guitar , Jack Robinson on bass , and Steve Moses , and his stepson Jamie Russell , on drums . With these musicians he recorded this LP , which was released on Island Records in 1987 . Gary called it "the sound of New York , my home for the past nine years ." " Deep Water " is about what is to be a scorpion and hidden emotions , while " Blonde Country 'is about a vision of blondes on horseback , say a Marlboro commercial. That we can not do without machines , he puts in ' Clean Machine ' , and ' Do not Bite Too Hard ( Your Teeth Are Too Sharp ) ' ex -girlfriend centrally set . The instrumental ' Ginkie "he wrote to his grandfather , followed by ' Subway Love ' because he met his wife in the New York subway . The life of junkies there he used as inspiration for Exit 'Breakfast in Bed ' he does a cover of " Sister Europe" , a song by The Furs.

Patrick Van de Wiele ( 4 )

http://www.keysandchords.com/6/post/2014/01/gary-windo-steam-radio-tapes.html

Gonzo Multimedia brings three rare CDs by British saxophonist Gary Windo again ! Born on 07.11.1941 in Brighton in a musical family , he learned to play the drums and accordion at age six , and six years later was that guitar . At 17 he picked up the sax real bite and lagged . During the 60s he lived in New York , but at the end of that decade, he returned to England . In March '70 , he played alongside Jack Bruce , Mitch Mitchell , and Brian Auger Graham Bond's all-star Sun Festival . That same year he joined Keith Tippett's Centipede orchestra and Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath . The following year, he collaborated with Robert Wyatt , formed the progressive rock group Symbiosis . Two years later he played in pubs with Ray Russell 's heavy- rock trio The Running Man , worked with Robert Wyatt in the jazz quartet WMWM . In the fall of 1975 he formed Gary Windo & Friends , and that was the precursor to this project , " Steam Radio Tapes " , recorded between 1976 and 1978 but never released . The idea was to test . 's New studio Pink Floyd You hear next to Gary , Robert Wyatt and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason . But the album was pitted against the then emerging punk , galmourrock and disco . Gary opens with ' Ginkie ' which is dedicated to his grandfather , and ' Night Train ' is a best- known song . 'Stand Fast' is a re-recording of a track he wrote for the band Symbiosis , followed by " Sweetest Angel " which Carla Bley plays the piano , and originally Healing Line ' name. " Letting Go " is sung by Julie Tippetts with Gary's wife on piano. It ends with the traditional cowboy folk song " Red River Valley " . A nice reissue for the fans !

Patrick Van de Wiele ( 4 )

http://www.keysandchords.com/6/post/2014/01/gary-windo-dogface.html

Gonzo Multimedia brings three rare CDs by British saxophonist Gary Windo again ! Gary was born in Brighton on 7/1 / / 1941 into a musical family , taught at the age of six all drums and accordion playing , and six years later the guitar . On his 17th , he picked up the sax bite and lagged . During the 60s he lived in New York , but at the end of that decade, he returned to England . Gary worked with Brotherhood of Breath , Centipede , Matching Mole , The Running Man , Carla Bley and Nick Mason . In the early 70s he formed his own group , the Gary Windo Quartet and he could immediately play any wind instrument . In the USA he met all kinds of styles of jazz . Furthermore, he worked with groups such as The Psychedelic Furs , Robert Wyatt and NRBQ . He died in 1992 from a massive asthma attack . His contemporaries praised the LP " Dogface " , but critics ignored it . Carla Bley called him the best saxophonist that she had ever heard . Gary was a chameleon on this 1982 recording , because here you have it with different groups . " Puppy Kisses " opens , where he is in the company of The K9 's . Then you hear him along with his wife Pam and his band in the swinging ' Feela Dog. On " Guard Duty " he plays in the company of NRBQ , after 'Rex and Spot Meet the International Bitches " performed by Pam and Gary Windo Band. ' Hound ' is then played again by Gary and The Wools , while the strange title track of him and The Law Dogs is . The K9 's return back to "The Husky " , followed by a cover of Elvis Presley's " Do not Be Cruel " , performed by Gary and The Wools . ' Baxter ' comes from Gary and NRBQ , and " That's All " . However, the dog breaks out in ' Lassie Breaks Out , "a strange makeshift track , performed with The Chows . The musical standards which have on the contrary here , but he remains an influential figure .

Patrick Van de Wiele ( 4 )

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling writes: 

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)

EYE DO NOT WANT A "NEW" WORLD

Since this is our only habitable planet

I would like to make it even more habitable

via existing eco-friendly zeroscaping 100% recycling lifestyles

Can we dump toxic ideologies of Armageddons and Mutual Assured Destruction?

Can we recognize limits-mine,yours,water,earth - this vulnerable planet?

Can we deal with plastic and radioactivity before they kill us ?

Can we prioritize sea life and ocean health over seafood harvesting?

Can we just stop killing whales and dolphins - like, immediately?

May we shift to solar, tidal, geothermal modes of renewable energies?

Can we promote best possible practices

in personal ,professional and community relationships?

Can we start now? Each of us - solo, with independent initiatives-

be our own best living example of what is possible in 2014

and evermore?

Percy Jones US review

Percy Jones Cape Catastrophe HST 2014
One man. One bass. Arguably one of the best unknown bassists in the world.

Brent Black / www.criticaljazz.com

Most people are aware that Brand X was perhaps ground zero for perennial drum titan Phil Collins. Lurking quietly in the shadows and one of the key components to the success of Brand X was bassist Percy Jones. Fretless bass players are a dime a dozen...good fretless players are priceless. While most are considered lyrical players by nature, Percy Jones is a textural bassist, As what I call a textural bassist, Jones hears an uncanny three dimensional sonic depth of field that is rare for what is considered as the role for the more traditional bassist. 

To describe the music on Cape Catastrophe is an exercise in sonic futility with perhaps the only peer that works on roughly the same harmonic level being the great Bill Laswell. Cape Catastrophe may best be described or even evaluated when you take a look at what Jones puts into his one man extravaganza here. 

Wal V Fivestring Fretless Bass

Casio CZ101 Synthesizer

Roland Sequencer

Yamaha RX 11 Drum Machine 

Korg Digital Delay

FSK Custom Sync Tone Encoder / Decoder 

Tascam 244 Four Track Recorder

Casio DAT Machine

The end result of the hardware referenced above is a manipulation of sounds, beats and even of colors one can hear that transcends genres of virtually any description. The term virtuoso is tossed about with such frequency it losses true meaning, not hear. 

Cape Catastrophe plays to both the visceral and cerebral front and is the next progression in the evolution of a true wall of sound.

4.5 Stars

Tracks: The Lie; Cape Catastrophe; Slick; Hex; Barrio; Tunnels; Thin Line; Symphony In F Major

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CRYSTAL GRENADE: Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life

Slice of Life (and Ignorant Q&A) in Oslo, 8 February 2014 by thehippiesnowwearblack Slice of Life (Steve Ignorant's new band) play their first gig of 2014 on 8 February 2014, at the the Blitz House, Oslo, Norway, Before the concert: Q&A session with anything you wanted to know about Crass but are too afraid to ask anyone but their former members about. Slice of Life - Oslo - 8 February 2014 CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM CRYSTAL GRENADE AT GONZO Lo! And Behold CD - £9.99

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Rick Wakeman - Merlin the Magician

Merlin the Magician from No Earthly Connection with the English Rock Ensemble...

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