Over on the Gonzo Weekly, the antecedents of Episode Six the 60s band which once featured several future members of Deep Purple, and which can be found on a Gonzo DVD, have been being discussed.
James Waterworth writes:
Hi Jon,
Thanks for the weekly newsletter, it's very enjoyable and always includes some interesting nuggets and good news (this time, for me, the Steve Hillage DVD reissue).
Your story about Episode 6 got me perusing my music bible (Terry Hounsome & Tim Chambre's "New Rock Record") to check up on the other members of the group.
Interestingly, the later line-up included drummer Mick Underwood, who was previously a member of the UK band The Outlaws, which also numbered in its ranks Chas Hodges and Ritchie Blackmore!
Best wishes & thanks again.
James Waterworth
So I decided to check them out and found this:
Sunday, 3 February 2013
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)
WEARING MY ART ON MY SLEEVE
i carry my heart in my hands
when
we meet-we exchange glances
lances
of words
Village
Hall-full
of
emotional exchanges
One
degree of separation
Drink
Egyptian sweat!
You
are not me
in
another skin
Mirror
to a mirror stand
echoing
infinities
Pain
is part of the learning
I
dropped in.
Bare
foot doctors
dispensing
medicinal words
Where
it hurts most
is
the healing
Cutting
out parts of art
that
are not of huge heart
Editing
emotions
to
fit this moment
Knitting
the fabric
of
us together
"Better"begins
with"good"
"Best"is
non-competitive
BARBARA DICKSON: Gateshead Revisited
For over four decades, Barbara Dickson has continued to deliver songs to the public in her own incomparable fashion.
Barbara is globally known for hits which include ‘Caravans‘, ‘A*nother Suitcase in Another Hall*’, ‘Answer Me‘ and her chart-topping duet with Elaine Paige, ‘I Know Him So Well‘ – and also a two-time Olivier Award-winning actress with roles including Anita Braithwaite in TV’s Band of Gold and the original Mrs Johnstone in Willy Russell’s long-running musical Blood Brothers.
JON'S NOTE: She also sent me this lovely photograph which was taken last year, and asked me to note that it was taken by Brian Aris
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LINK: CHRIS SQUIRE DISCUSSES CLASSIC ALBUMS TOUR AND UPCOMING NEW MUSIC FROM YES
As Yes enters their 45th year together as a performing unit, they’re taking an extended look at a cross-section of their work over the years, with tour dates which will feature the group performing three of their classic albums — ‘The Yes Album,’ ‘Close To The Edge’ and ‘Going For The One’ in full.
With a fluid lineup that often changed with each album, bassist/vocalist Chris Squire has been the one constant presence through it all (although as he points out, drummer Alan White has been along for nearly all of the ride as well). For Squire, he saw the member turnover as a band benefit, one which he says often “refreshed the musical approach” of Yes as they prepared to make the next album.
It will be a busy year for the group as they revisit these album classics, but there’s also new music on the horizon as well. In the following conversation, Squire lets us know what we can look forward to with the upcoming tour and what he’d like to accomplish with the next Yes album.
First of all, I know this idea has been brewing for a while. How did you end up choosing these three albums?
Well, I think the reason that we chose ‘The Yes Album’ was that was the first album that brought Yes to the attention of a worldwide audience back in 1971, so that was a landmark album for us. And of course, ‘Close To The Edge’ was the first album where we attempted to do a long 20 minute piece of music, which was one side of a vinyl album as it was in those days and so that was another landmark for us in our career. And ‘Going For The One’ was an album that was the first album that we recorded outside of the U.K., so that was a whole new different experience for us. And then we thought that the slightly different shades of Yes on those three albums also complimented each other real well too.
I think the pick of ‘Going For The One’ surprised some people who might have expected you to pick something like ‘Fragile’ or ‘Relayer’ to fill that third slot instead. What was it that pushed you towards that one? It’s an interesting period for the band. That’s the first record that you produced yourselves, right?
We pretty much had co-produced everything with Eddy Offord…..not at the beginning, because we were pretty green in the studio, but from ‘The Yes Album’ onwards, we pretty much co-produced everything. And then when we went to do ‘Going For The One,’ we changed engineers to have this guy John Timperley, who was the resident engineer at the studio in Montreux on Lake Geneva where we recorded that. So the sound changed a bit for that album and from what I remember, there were quite a few heated conversations over the amount of echo that was being used by certain people who loved echo at that time and it got a bit much at times. [Laughs]
But yeah, we missed Eddy, I think and his guiding influence that he had, so you’re right, we were kind of out there with a new character at that time and also throwing in more of our own ideas as well, of course.
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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)
GOODBYE MOUNTAINS!
(Hello-memories of mountains..)
Goodbye rivers-Hello Nature Documentaries
Farewell
Parks-the Budget Cuts..
Fare
thee well Endangered Species
Change
that to "Exterminated Species"
Vale
Country-Hello SubDivisions!
Bye
Bye Wilderness-This Will Be The Spot For a Shopping Village!
Improvement!
Development!Progress!
We
will not let Gaia rest.Bastrop has fires and F1
World
has become a Parking Station.
1%
get Valet,the rest on street park
or
pay at a station to avoid those new parking fines
Move
along!There is nothing to see here!
If
there were trees once-now it is ALL CLEAR!
LINK: Eric Burdon on New Album, a Third Memoir & Why the 'Animals Are Dead'
Former Soviet Union chief Mikhail Gorbachev helped give "'Til Your River Runs Dry," Eric Burdon's first solo album in six years a lift-off.
Burdon tells Billboard that he met Gorbachev in Germany a few years ago, when the former Animals singer was there to perform on a TV show. The two got into a conversation during a private reception that Burdon says led directly to "Water," which opens the 12-song set, as well as the album's title.
"I was wondering, 'What can I ask this guy that he would know more than I ever know? What can you tell me about? What's the world in for?' " Burdon remembers. "And he said to me, 'Water,' and I went, 'Wow.' The interpreter he was with told me that (Gorbachev's) whole political being is now to promote water awareness and how important it is,' and I would've told him right there and then, 'Well, look, can I join you? Can I help you? Is there anything we can do?'
"And then the lyrics to 'Water' came to my head. I thought, 'This is the best way...to join the program of making people aware of how important water is in today's world.' So that was a long time ago, but the song was just recorded in the last few months."
Read on...
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LIZ HAS ALWAYS BEEN GONZO DAILY'S #1
How fabulous - Number 1 at
last!!!.....well, in Lincolnshire
Liz
Saturday, 2 February 2013
LINK: Barbara Dickson to perform To Each And Everyone in Truro (Cornwall)
Scottish singer Barbara Dickson and her band will visit Hall for Cornwall in Truro this autumn to promote the new album To Each And Everyone.
Barbara Dickson‘s next studio album, to be released later this year, will be a selection of songs written and recorded by her friend, the singer and songwriter Gerry Rafferty, who passed away in 2011.
Barbara has already started work on the album, which is being produced and arranged by Troy Donockley. The album is due for release in September and will coincide with the autumn tour.
FESTIVAL: Björk on bill for Chicago's indie Pitchfork
This year's Pitchfork Music Festival will take place July 19-21 in Chicago's Union Park. Today, we're excited to confirm that this year's headliners will be R. Kelly, Björk, and Belle and Sebastian. The full lineup, which will consist of over 40 artists, will be announced in the coming weeks.
In addition to its musical offerings, the Pitchfork Music Festival will also feature a wide array of other activities. The fest not only supports local businesses and economy with its 50 individual vendors and specialty fairs, but also promotes the Chicago arts community as a whole.
Read on....
LINKS: HAWKWIND GIG REVIEW and A VIDEO
Hawkwind fan Si Deards videoed the start of their Bedford show last weekend - the 1972 narrative "The Awakening" followed by the even older number "Master of the Universe":
And the blog site "Louder than War" has some interesting things to say about the Manchester gig a couple of days previously:
And the blog site "Louder than War" has some interesting things to say about the Manchester gig a couple of days previously:
Manchester Ritz
25th January 2013
The space rock veterans are on tour again, but are they relevant in 2013? More so than you might have expected, it seems.€
One of the stupider things I've read about music this past year - aside, obviously, from all that "guitar music is back!" bollocks (gosh, yes, it was terrible in 2012 wasn't it when there were no guitar bands at all anywhere, well apart from the maybe 400-ish I personally saw and another few hundred thousand worldwide) - is a quote whose origin I can't even be arsed looking up, but apparently someone wrote or said of brilliant new-ish Leeds kosmische-psyche band Hookworms "they're like a Hawkwind it's OK to like". Sorry, what? I wasn't meant to like Hawkwind? Damn.
Yeah, OK, maybe as a young teen who still believed in all that 1976-as-year-zero nonsense I might have scoffed at the suggestion of listening to hairy blokes from Before Punk, but it wasn't long before the twin influences of Spacemen 3 and recreational herbalism pointed my young mind in a more psychedelic direction. In which Hawkwind were very much a band it WAS OK to like, not least because they were clearly as "punk" as they were "hippy". More so, to be honest, with offshoots such as Hawklords and Inner City Unit embracing the musical shifts of the mid to late seventies and feeding this back into the mothership band. Quarter of a century further down my life - and in the 44th year of their career - Hawkwind's place in the Grand Scheme Of Things is generally better recognised - hell, even their Wikipedia entry calls them "a noted precursor to punk rock, and now considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures".
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)
Give Bees a Chance!
The food you eat? 70% of it requires pollinators-
apples,oranges,zucchini,melons,strawberries..
Colony collapse disorder?Genetic contamination from GMO pollen!
BAYER sells neonicotinoid pesticides-honey bees die off from
imidacloprid,thiamethoxam,clothianidin.EU wants to ban them!
France,Italy,Slovenia and Germany already have
Some bee species are down to 4% of their original numbers
Some blame cell phone signals disrupting bee navigation and balance
We need bees more than bees need us-o pollinators so generous!
Flower to flower,you sip and seed and share your sweetness
Gardens everywhere are healthy when you are there-
O litmus test of environmental health! Wealth comes from foods
you bless with your presence.No GM foods! Bees,please!
Ban poisons and pesticides before bees become history!
LINK: Peter Stenshoel reviews Chris Squire's 'Fish Out of Water'
When Yes members each decided to release solo LPs, all roughly in 1975, one of the stronger creations was Chris Squire's "Fish Out of Water." Composition has always been Squire's strong point; that and a muscular electric bass technique. This album readily features both.To begin the record with strains from London's St. Paul's Cathedral organ and the inclusion of a full orchestra could be warning flags for that sorry state known as rock and roll pretentiousness. Of course, from a strict punk point of view, all progressive rock is condemned as pretentious, but for those who embrace the ideal of a highly developed, through-composed, and cereberal rock music genre, Squire and his orchestrator Andrew Pryce Jackman make these out-sized collaborations work.
Friday, 1 February 2013
LINK: Eric Burdon's new album track by track
It's been 50 years since Eric Burdon joined the Animals. However, even after fronting War and the Eric Burdon Band, not to mention enjoying a long solo career, Burdon has made what might be his most personal album yet. One of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers breaks down his new album, 'Til Your River Runs Dry, track by track, revealing how he channeled such diverse inspirations as water conservation, Fats Domino and President Barack Obama.
1)"Water" – "Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink. I sing this song in the hope that I can bring some balance to the issue of water, to bring some attention to the importance of water to our future on the planet."
2)"Memorial Day" – "It is a very important day in the U.S. and the U.K. When I was a child in England, it was observed as a very solemn day. Everyone would wear a red poppy in their lapel. It represented the blood of the fallen. But on Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live. So it's the hippies, the poets and the spartans that I will remember on this Memorial Day."
Read on...
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KOZFEST 2013 - dates and lineup info
Graham's comment: OK, hands up everyone who knows where Uffculme is.
I have an advantage here, as it's only around 6 miles from where I lived as a kid, back when I'd never heard of the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet!
New Historical Pink Floyd and Genesis Boxset (Via Neptune Pink Floyd)
After
completely selling out of the second edition of the Bath and Knebworth Pink
Floyd commemorative set in less than 12 weeks, www.rockmusicmemorabilia.com realised
they had underestimated the demand for these sets.
There was also a
great deal of interest in the 1978 Knebworth Genesis commemorative set by
visitors to Neptune Pink Floyd, so Henrietta Bannister, the daughter of the
promoter Freddy Bannister, decided to produce a combined Pink Floyd/Genesis Bath
and Knebworth commemorative set, with an amazing discount of £44.99.
The set and full
details can be viewed here.
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)
Raga Time
India has a history-of classical music -ragas
for
every hour of every day-on which may be embroidered
improvised
themes to embellish and extend themes,modes and styles
to
grow from solid and secure cultural harmonic traditions
So it is
with each of us-our 4/4 bloodbeat pulse orchestra
tunes
up in womb and proceeds upon counted heartbeats
to
become the metronome of our musical lives.We thrive via attunement/
alignment
with "music of the spheres"was an Elizabethan concept
philosophically
projecting perfection as circular orbits and Heavenly cadences
You
hear "the mermaids singing each to each".You reach bliss through
this
immersion
in the waves of ocean sounds and waves of silences
Doppler
beat(your art)-silver gold veins walk you in step with all that
lives..
Life is a gift.Muse
is what you give!
STEVE HACKETT NEWS
Greetings
Hackett
Fans,
There are lots of exciting Hackett related re-releases due very
soon!
At the end of February Inside Out are re-issuing 7 of Steve's solo albums; Til We Have Faces, Guitar Noir, Darktown, Feedback '86, To Watch The Storms, Wild Orchids and ... the first Genesis Revisited album! The CDs come in 6 panel digipak sleeves. All these albums are available to pre-order now on the HackettSongs webstore along with some money saving bundles of any 3, 5 or all 7 titles! Orders received on or before 25th February will be signed by Steve.
The start of March sees some classic Genesis albums being pressed on heavyweight 180g vinyl; Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. These have all been remixed and remastered by Nick Davis with input from the band and Steve will also sign these. Please note that we will only have very limited stock of these vinyls and pre-ordering is essential!
At the end of February Inside Out are re-issuing 7 of Steve's solo albums; Til We Have Faces, Guitar Noir, Darktown, Feedback '86, To Watch The Storms, Wild Orchids and ... the first Genesis Revisited album! The CDs come in 6 panel digipak sleeves. All these albums are available to pre-order now on the HackettSongs webstore along with some money saving bundles of any 3, 5 or all 7 titles! Orders received on or before 25th February will be signed by Steve.
The start of March sees some classic Genesis albums being pressed on heavyweight 180g vinyl; Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. These have all been remixed and remastered by Nick Davis with input from the band and Steve will also sign these. Please note that we will only have very limited stock of these vinyls and pre-ordering is essential!
Not forgetting that the band will be taking Genesis Revisited II on the road this year (with more dates to be announced soon):
25-30 March - Cruise To The Edge (with Yes, UK,
Tangerine Dream, etc.) - Florida USA, Cayman Islands, Jamaica
01 April - La Mirada, CA USA - CalProg at La
Mirada Theater
03 April - Baja California, Mexico - Baja Prog
Festival at Teatro Del Estado
14 April - Paris, France - La Trianon
15 April - Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne
Belgique
17 April - Amsterdam, The Netherlands -
Paradiso
20 April - Zurich, Switzerland -
Kaufleuten
21 April - Vienna, Austria - WUK
23 April - Milan, Italy - Teatro Nuovo
Ciak
24 April - Vicenza, Italy - Teatro
Comunale
27 April - Bologna, Italy - Teatro
Manzoni
29 April - Leipzig, Germany - Haus
Auensee
30 April - Stuttgart, Germany -
Theaterhaus
02 May - Munich, Germany - Herkulessaal
03 May - Mainz, Germany - Phönixhalle
05 May - Oberhausen, Germany -
Luise-Albertz-Halle
06 May - Hamburg, Germany - Kampnagel
10 May - London, UK - Hammersmth Apollo
11 May - Cardiff, UK - St. David's Hall
12 May - Liverpool, UK - Philmarmonic
14 May - Glasgow, UK - Royal Concert Hall
15 May - Gateshead, UK - The Sage
16 May - Birmingham, UK - Symphony Hall
18 May - Dublin, Ireland - Vicar
Street
21 May - Bergen - Norway- Ricks Theatre22 May - Oslo - Norway - Sentrum Scene
23 May - Copenhagen - Denmark - Amager Bio
24 May - Stockholm - Sweden - Nalen
27 September - Westbury NY - NYCB Theatre
28 September - Connecticut - Ridgefield Playhouse
3 October - Montreal QC - Place Des Arts Theatre Maisonneuve
4 October - Quebec QC - Grand Theatre Du Quebec
5 October - Gatineau QC - Le Casino Du Lac Leamy
6 October - Belleville ON - Empire Theatre
9 October Oakville ON - Oakville Centre For Performing Arts
11 and 12 October - Philadelphia - Keswick Theatre
22 October - Birmingham - Symphony Hall
23 October - Bristol - Colston Hall
24 October - London - Royal ALbert Hall
26 October - Manchester - 02 Apollo
27 October - Newcastle - City Hall
29 October - Liverpool - Philharmonic
30 October - Sheffield - City Hall
1 November - Cambridge - Corn Exchange
For full ticket details and the latest news on
extra shows be sure to check the hackettsongs website regularly.
Best Wishes,
The HackettSongs Team
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