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 and 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!!" 

TO BE ALIVE IS EVERYTHING!

"GREEN!HOW MUCH I WANT YOU GREEN!"

His voice still singing FREEDOM!,wrapped in pages

She has borrowed and responded to.DUENDE?

She must go deeper into TRISTE,LACRIMAE/

those mixed emotions defiant yet sensitive to response

For every song of love is a plea for freedom

Every uniform limits love/makes OTHER of another mirror skin

Allows execution academic ,military,emotional

so we feel disconnected from that DUENDE that impels response.

Burst heart out of red pages,green hopes in Spanish bullets

that punctuate and punish Freedom's Flag of Song

when to wear one's trust in truth meets censorship ,and you

lay your only body on every line...Duende..

Leticia Ramos with Xam Zerimar TK

14 August ·

Garcia Lorca by reciting his last poem, just before his execution during the Spanish Civil War in August 1936, by a firing squad fascist.

What is man without freedom
Oh! Mariana tell me
Tell me how can I love you
If I am not free, tell me
How do you ofreceré my heart
If it is not to mine

Automatically translated · See Original

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Tangerine Dream -- Phaedra (1974)

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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 and 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 within 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!!" 

WE HAVE FOUND THE SMALLEST PARTICLE

AT FIRST,WE THOUGHT IT WAS AN ATOM

Then -an electron.Then-quarks and quasars

Now thanks to Schrodinger's Cat and Hadron's Collider

We learn that matter is largely relationships

between space/time/distances-and that most of space

is filled with dark matter and dark energy.Light travels

but if it flies,it must pay excess baggage charges(Materialism as Illusion)

Why is it important to find out what makes us?We are small in this cosmos

Tiny in our own Galaxy.Constellations spin,oblivious to our little lives.

If we learn what we are made of-DNA,RNA,XNA-Alphabet Soup-

we may extrapolate(As Above,So Below)-and seek economy of scale

for space/time/warp speed/worm hole/dimensional shifts

necessary for our future robots probes-to leave behind as archaeological artifacts

that which we could not understand about-what it truly means-to be human...

Researchers confirm: The Largest Pyramid in Mexico has been found

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MUSIC REVIEW: Badfinger triumphs at Beverly's Larcom Theatre

If 100 randomly chosen people were hooked up to a lie detector test and asked if they had heard of a band called Badfinger, all who honestly answered “no” would surely pass.
However, three-quarters or so of those same individuals would undoubtedly know most, if not all, of the band’s handful of hits if they were sang to them.
Last Saturday night, lone Badfinger surviving member Joey Molland drew repeated standing ovations from a near capacity crowd at Larcom Theatre. He wasted no time in revving up the entranced attendees, beginning his generous set with “Baby Blue.” Long a classic of 1970s popular music, the song recently acquired instant immortality in television history for having closed out the final episode of “Breaking Bad.” This resulted in Molland appearing on, of all things, “Access Hollywood.”
From there on, Molland and his band delved deeply and into both smash hits and deep cuts from Badfinger’s successful early 70s albums “No Dice” and “Straight Up,” the less memorable 1981 outing “Say No More” and the debut record “Magic Christian Music,” which was released before Molland joined.

Molland handled the vocals on the Paul McCartney-penned “Come and Get It,” (on which he left the singing of the final refrain to the audience), “Without You” (“the Badfinger version,” as he called it, given that Harry Nilsson’s #1 cover is better known), “Day After Day,” and compositions of his own such as the rollicking “I Got You,” the folkish “Sweet Tuesday Morning,” the bluesy jam “Mean Mean Jemima,” and “Vampire Wedding,” the only selection drawn from a Joey Molland solo album, namely, 1992’s “The Pilgrim.”

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Ahmet Zappa: 'Dad had super hearing powers'

Eccentric rock legend Frank Zappa's son Ahmet is convinced the radiation therapy he believes killed his dad gave him super hearing powers. Ahmet Zappa, who now runs the Zappa Family Trust following the death of his mother Gail earlier this month (Oct15), insists the methods his dad used to tackle the ulcers he'd suffered since his teens brought on the prostate cancer that killed Frank in 1993. But the treatment wasn't all bad - it gave the guitar great "mutant" hearing skills that helped him perfect his unique sound. "The strange side effect of that is an enhanced form of hearing," he explains. "He (Frank) literally was an X-Man; he got super powers!" Cancer also claimed the life of Ahmet's mother on 7 October

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Yes Steve Howe complete interview

Yes legendary guitarist Steve Howe took time ahead of the 2012 Yes tour of Hawaii for this interview with HPR / Hawaii Public Radio All Things Considered Honolulu Host Dave Lawrence. Complete.

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Uncle Joe Interviews Jon Anderson of Yes

Former Yes lead singer Jon Anderson hangs out in the Garage and talks about his first car, his new album and the great story of when he first joined Yes!


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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 and 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!!" 

IN PRAISE OF MATHILDE GARVIA

OUR POETIC ANCESTOR

She was a film star in her native Bolivia

She founded a Poetry Festival in Nahuatl

She spoke several languages,and remembered

the poetry of Neruda and Mistral and more-

she was a declamadore!This art of recalling

the fine poetry of past poets-of performing

their works with aplomb,passion and panache.

(it is a lost skill-she lasted perhaps 100 years

No one knew .She kissed me on the lips every birthday

She shared her talents and skills @AIPF

and EXPRESSIONS.Her daughter shares Music of the Andes

on Community Radio(KOOP).You may never have met her-

a National Treasure.Remember your Declamadore!

Remember Nahuatl.Remember poetry..

Basic Nahuatl Phrases | Greetings

Hello:  Pialli (pee-ahh-lee) Thank You:  Tlazocamati (tlah-so-cah-mah-tee) It’s nothing:  Ahmitla (ahh-mee-tla) And YouYou as Well:  Huan Tah (wahn-tah) Good:  Cualli (kwal-lee) Very Good:  Cualli Cualli (kwal-lee, kwal-lee) Not Good/Bad:  Amo Cualli (ah-moh kwah-lee) Yes:  Quema (keh-ma) No

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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Hildegard von Bingen: O pastor animarum (plainchant)

Being Sunday I always post sacred music. The name of the deity may change, or even the deity Him/Herself but the spirit remains the same.

GONZO WEEKLY #153

PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #138

Strange Fruit is a unique two-hour radio show exploring the world of underground, strange and generally neglected music. All shows are themed and all shows set out to give the most hardened of sound-hounds some new delight to sample. The show is also unique in providing homework for undergraduate students on North West Kent College’s Foundation Degree in Professional Writing (who dig up many of the odd facts featured in the links between tracks). The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight. Every other week the show is now presented by Jeremy Smith and as the two promotional pictures that he sent consisted as one of him covered in mud and the other of him covered in guinea pigs he is obviously mad as a bagful of cheese, which means he will fit in here just fine!

He writes: I’ve been a huge music fan ever since my parents bought me a transistor radio and I would listen to the sixties pirate music stations at nights under the covers. This love of live music has stayed with me to this day and I still love standing in a small club like the Borderline in London with some mates and watching a band with a pint in my hand. With the Strange Fruit radio show, I want to continue the trend of doing themed shows and playing the music I love..

Strange Fruit 138 – Protest Songs

Songs where the artist had something to say and decided to say it in a song! 

 

Featured Album:  Galloping Coroners: Dancing in the Sun

 

Tracks 

1  Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Ohio

2  TV Smith: Expensive Being Poor

3  Chumbawumba: Tubthumping

4  Paul Robeson: Joe Hill

5  Bruce Springsteen: Youngstown

6  Galloping Coroners: Conjuring up the Wonder Stag

7  Special A.K.A.: War Crimes (The Crime Remains the Same)

8  Gene Clark & Carla Olsen: Deportee (Plane Wreck at los Gatos)

9  Neil Innes: Protest Song

10  The Who: My Generation

11  Generation X: Your Generation

12  Galloping Coroners: With My Ancestors

13  Country Joe and the Fish: I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die

14  Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Song

15  Blam Blam Blam: There is no Depression in New Zealand

16  MC5: Kick out the Jams

17  Utah Phillips: This Land is Not Your Land

18  Public Enemy: Fight the Power

19  Miriam Makeba: Soweto Blues

20  Joshua White: Bad Housing Blues

21  Galloping Coroners: Dancing with the Sun

22  Attila the Stockbroker's Barnstormer: This is Free Europe

23  Bob Dylan: Only a Pawn in their Game

24  Dead Kennedys: Kill the Poor

25  The Groundhogs: Thank Christ for the Bomb

26  Billy Bragg: A New England

27  The Men They Couldn't Hang: The Ghosts of Cable Street

28  The Pogues: Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six

29  Sam Cooke: A Change is Going to Come

30  Neil Young: Southern Man

COMING TOMORROW

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 and 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!!" 

BOBBING FOR APPLES&BURNING BONFIRES

Begging for hazelnuts /autumn flowers

Divination &Ceremonials/Harvest Festivals/Autumnal

Nature spirits-faeries,piskies,sprites

Opening the circle for focused attention/closing it when safe and sound

It is Somer's end/between Autumn Equinox and Summer Solstice

Thin veils between the worlds are easily torn.Spirits &skeletons

with as much presence as your remembrance of elders&ancestors.

Pumpkins as Jack O Lanterns.Rituals of Trick or Treat.Rich textures

so strong /ones needs masks and costumes.Powers afoot!

Nature has Seasons,as we do .To honor them elementally

as Light and Dark,Court and Spark,Autumn to Winter

remembers our origins in a Northern Hemisphere.

Unaware ,children are dressed as monsters ,ogres ,superheroes

with plastic buckets begging toxic sugar 

Review: Steve Hackett - Leeds Town Hall

The grand surroundings of Leeds's Town Hall provide the perfect backdrop for one of the most dramatic and atmospheric guitarists of all time.

Famed for his role in the what many fans consider to be the classic period of Genesis, Hackett's guitar playing and song writing was a crucial component of the band's sound. While he lacked the presence and theatricality of Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins, his under-stated yet devastating affective playing was intrinsic to what made them so special.



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YES: BILLY SHERWOOD RELEASES NO MAN’S LAND VIDEO

View promo from solo album Citizen, out November 6

Yes bassist Billy Sherwood has released a video for his track No Man’s Land.

It’s lifted from his solo concept album Citizen, out on November 6 via Frontiers Music and tells the tale of a “lost soul reincarnated in various historical settings.”

No Man’s Land – which features guitarist Steve Morse – focuses on the story of a World War I runner, who passes messages between generals and men in the trenches.

Sherwood says: “You get the idea that he’s the only guy who walked away from the battle.”

Along with Morse’s contribution, Citizen features guest appearances from Alan Parsons, Steve Hackett, John Wetton, Tony Kaye, Steve Hillage, Partrick Moraz, John Wesley, Jerry Goodman, Dixie Dregs, Colin Moulding, Geoff Downes, Jordan Rudess, Rick Wakeman, Jon Davison and the late Chris Squire.

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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: BARBARA DICKSON AND ELAINE PAIGE - I KNOW HIM SO WELL (Full Video)

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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 and 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!!" 

AFRAID OF RAIN

They demurred

Withdrew from dark clouds 

and threatening weather forecasts

We plugged in and sang under clouds

Rain dropped tears on pages and moved on'

We sang because our very lives depend upon

whether we can find space to sing to/with/for each other

as we uncover  from consumer /a Light that defeats all weather

That creative spark that laughs at temperatures

and takes raindrops as kisses.That becomes winged

when darkness envelopes all into bundled brilliance

She sang.He declaimed.More improvised and collaborated

Thus it was that each and every and all/were choir of crickets

and harbingers of hope.We knew clouds would move along

They,too,love the sounds of songs..

PREVIEW: Steve Hackett, O2 Guildhall Southampton

GUITARIST, singer, songwriter and former member of the iconic progressive rock giants Genesis, Steve Hackett, has seen a big resurgence in his career in recent years. With his last album Wolflight rubbing shoulders with the likes of Madonna and other more modern artists, as it reached number 24 in the UK album, coming on the back of his top 40 Genesis: Revisited 11 album, Hackett finds himself in the midst of yet another career high point.

With the imminent release of a huge 14 disc retrospective box set, focusing on his recordings with the legendary Charisma label between 1975-1983 (Premonitions) and currently halfway through a successful European tour, the surge of popularity looks set to continue.

“The box set has been in the pipeline for about two or three years, when we started discussing it with Mark Powell at EMI. Then they got brought out by Universal, and I expected us to have to go back the beginning and start again. Luckily the new label liked the idea so we carried on. The set contains all my studio albums with Charisma, plus three full live shows, along with a load of unreleased material and some old BBC recordings. Steve Wilson has done some excellent 5.1 remixes on some of the tracks. The truth is I haven’t even seen the finished article yet, people in the industry are coming up to saying it's a really nice set, and I have to say is it?” laughs Hackett.

Even the artwork on the box set is a nod back to heyday of the progressive 70s, being designed by artist Roger Dean (famous for many Yes album covers amongst many other bands)

“We spent a lot of time with Roger, discussing the artwork among many other subjects, including the reflective qualities of insects. Roger wanted to create an image that looked like a combination of an animal and a craft, very bright and colourful; he was very keen to get it right. He has done a great job, and I am very proud of the whole set.”

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YES CONFIRM FULL EURO TOUR

Dates added for sets featuring Fragile and Drama in 2016

Yes have issued their complete list of 2016 European tour dates.

They’ll continue on the road with Billy Sherwood in place of Chris Squire, who died earlier this year.

The shows will feature full performances of the band’s Fragile and Drama albums, and follow a successful US tour alongside Toto.

Guitarist Steve Howe says: “This is the first time we’ll be performing Drama in its entirety – and most of the songs haven’t been performed in 30 years.”

He adds: “It’s hard to imagine the future without Chris. He will always be in our thoughts and minds. He was a one-off, larger-than-life human being who brought a serious amount to everything he was part of.”

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