Sunday, 23 September 2018

JOHN LENNON IN THE NEWS


... England, the video shows Harrison playing on Lennon's blue guitar along with longtime friend Klaus Voormann on bass, Alan White on drums, Rod ...
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Friday, 21 September 2018

BITS AND PIECES FROM YES (PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE)

Yes Guest: 1999 - Jon Anderson with 4HIM - The Only Thing I Need
Yes Guest Date: 1999 Item: Jon Anderson with 4HIM Song: The Only Thing I Need For all my Yes posts see here: ...



Indeed Rabin's mid-song solo recalls early work by co-founder Peter Banks, as it threatens to fly off the rails. Rabin's attempt to propel Yes forward, ...

Chris Squire tribute CD-A Life in YES
Sorry if this has been posted. As I love everything YES & Chris Squire I will be getting this as a completist. Interesting artists and set of songs....

View From The Writing Instrument
Stream the View From The Writing Instrument episode, Jon Davison From YES, free & on demand on iHeartRadio.

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Union
DVD - £10.99

Union (2CD)
2CD - £7.99


THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, 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 Thom'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?

PRAYER IN IMPOSSIBLE TIMES
TO WHATEVER (OR WHOEVER)CARES
Petitioning clear consciousness through the fog of faux news
Being /projecting peace and love when they have become brand names
Sharing and co-operating when competition kills
Like birds do,winging their way without maps or GPS
Like bats do,with their proclivity for devouring mosquitoes
Like water does,flowing till it is blocked dammed or stopped
Till it transforms into rain or ice,snow or fog or mist
This is how we transform,to be among others(like a song on the lips
Repeated/remembered because it serves an intrinsic purpose
Giving praise to all that animates life and lets us live
in ways as brave as salmon leaping waterfalls
bees defying gravity/dolphins and whales
deciding NOT to beach their brightness,but teach us their true SEA WORLD
which is ocean,sea and shore-all free as far as waves can take us all..a way..

Fri Sept 21=METAPHORICALLY CHALLENGED 7-10pm w/POETIC BUTCHER
Sat Sept 22-POETRY ALOUD!@Georgetown Library 12.30-3pm@Georgetown Library
Hosted by Mike and Joyce Gullickson

FAIRPORTSTUFF


Tradition dictates the weekend kicks off on Thursday afternoon with a short acoustic set from Fairport, this year joined by former member Maart Allcock ...

A former resident of Barford, he had lived in Harlech for a number of years and returned to Cropredy for this year's Fairport's Cropredy Convention to ...



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Live At Maidstone Castle 1970
DVD - £7.99

THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Maartin Allcock RIP

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Osibisa - The Dawn


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Osibisa Collection Afro Mix with Gregg Kofi Brown
CD - £9.99

Osibisa Tribal
CD - £9.99

ZAPPASTUFF


Frank Zappa's Studio Tan, first released in September 1978 on DiscReet Records, is an album that Zappa would probably not be keen on ...

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The Real Porn Wars
Book - £12.99

Thursday, 20 September 2018

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Dave Bainbridge - Celestial Fire


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The Veil Of Gossamer 
CD - £7.99

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, 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 Thom'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?

ART IN SPACE
"FLY ME TO THE MOON &LET ME PLAY AMONG THE STARS"
Project your fantasies and have billionaires finance them in 2023,
when StartTodayCo.will boost Yusakau Maezawa into moon orbit.
First he buys Basquiat ($110 million)-next he invests in Elon Musk
Selling shares in the company he founded allows all this.His idea
of uplifting artists,painters,musicians,dancers into space
is better science fiction than NASA.SpaceX will put a 42 year old billionaire into orbit.
How many other passengers he can afford is unknown.Even the concept is artistic-
to create LOCATION ART while outside the limits of Earth's critical gravity field.
If you have an idea whose time has come,make sure to find a New Money billionaire
to finance your fantasy.May it not be your final fantasy..
Meanwhile,moon dreamers will fly in their astral minds,and smile..


They're actually calling it the Moon Loop? I thought I made that up! #WIP https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45550755

TONY KLINGER WRITES: The Michael Klinger film retrospective day on November 3 including the premiere of THE MAN WHO GOT CARTER

Hi,

Tickets are now available via the link below on a first come first served basis. 
Our proceeds will go to the Give-Get-Go Community Outreach Project.

Best wishes,

LEONARD COHEN TRIBUTES



On the day when Leonard Cohen would have turned 84, three young singers will come together in the Athens Concert Hall's gardens to perform songs ...


SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2018 7:30pm. New Zealand's own Leonard Cohen tribute band Imperfect Offering is presenting a commemorative concert ...

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YES feat ARW and HAWKWIND REVIEWS

REVIEW: The week's best rock albums from Uriah Heep, Yes/ARW, Hawkwind and Ben Poole
REVIEW: The week's best rock albums from Uriah Heep, Yes/ARW, Hawkwind and Ben Poole THE WEEK'S most exciting new rock releases are rated ...


Uriah Heep Living The Dream (Frontiers Music). This is Uriah Heep's 25th studio album and it's a hard rockin' beauty of a milestone in the ...

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Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for hi..


Starmus is a festival of music and astronomy on the beautiful island of Tenerife. It is the brain child of Garik Israelian (the astrophysicist who led the team which found the first observational..


On this extraordinary album, legendary keyboard player teams up with an Italian singer named Mario Fasciano. Stavros Moschopoulos  writes: 'Recorded on the Isle of Man, the CD contains 8 new..


With special guests  Various artists including: Ian Paice, Rick Parfitt, Steve Hackett, Andy Fairweather Low, John Entwistle etc..


Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known f..


Musician, producer and former Yes member Billy Sherwood has put together what he’s dubbed “the biggest super group of progressive rock players ever assembled,” to form ..


26 tracks in all, of which 10 are previously unreleased (these including an epic version of Matthew the Man - live in Tokyo 2001 and Beijing - widescreen remix from Iona, and other unreleased tra..


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Space Ritual Live - Special Edition
2DVD/2CD - £29.99

Space Ritual Live 
2CD1DVD - £19.99

Wednesday, 19 September 2018

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, 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 Thom'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?

TRUTH&THE FALSE  STORIES TOLD
WE LOVE THE MIRACLE WORKER
but we do not love the truth.Helen Keller
worked for progressive,pacifist and socialist views
and she visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1948.
Her education was enlightening-socialist leaflets,political tracts,
and a variety of suffragette leaders -which led her to advocate
for women's rights  as well as social and economic equality.
She was monitored by the FBI for her public positions
which were against war and capitalism's excesses.
Helen Keller died in 1968,having been witness to the founding of the ACLU
as well as participating in many campaigns against poverty and for workers rights.
None of this is in the movie.Little is shared in discussions of Helen Keller,
whose prodigious intellect led her to articulate how poor people
faced the brunt of disease,war,pollution and inequality.
Open our eyes to the truth of her agenda.She maintained
that society itself is rigged against the poor,the black and the dissident.
None of this is in our history books.Especially not in the New Texas Curriculum.

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: John Shuttleworth- "Smells Like White Spirit"


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England's Heartbeat
CDS - £3.99

JOEY MOLLAND NEWS


More than 40 years later, Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland is keeping the ... trail with their “Straight Up Live and Complete Starring Joey Molland.”.

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After The Pearl
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The Pilgrim
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Return To Memphis
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This Way Up
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SPIRITS BURNING REVIEW

http://midwestrecord.com/MWR1422.html


SPIRITS BURNING & MICHAEL MOORCOCK/An Alien Heat:  Well, isn’t this just the prog underground rock event of the year?  Moorcock hooks up with Spirits Burning and all hook up with BOC, Hawkwind and members of Arthur Brown, Dictators, Camper Van Beethoven, the Damned and more for a prog/sci-fi odyssey that will sate fans of all involved genres.  An amalgam of some of the heaviest cats you probably never heard of, the snickers can be heard in the distance coming from the initiated toward the uninitiated.  For the right crowd, this is a real crowd pleaser--and then some.
(Gonzo Multimedia 471)

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Spirits Burning is one of the most unique entities in the space rock galaxy. The group consists of one main member, Don Falcone, and many other participants from various  bands and projects...


Healthy Music In Large Doses is the latest offering from the Spirits Burning space rock collective, this time featuring keyboardist Cyrille 'Clearlight' Verdeaux. Clearlight is a project of French son..


BEEFHEART AND ZAPPA


Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet). Antelope Valley High School, California, when Vliet was called Don Glen Vliet. Nominated by ...

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Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, artist and poet known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work..


Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, artist and poet known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work..

Monday, 17 September 2018

WAKEMANTHINGS


Rock legend Rick Wakeman will officially reopen Dereham's cat adoption centre after its £1.2m refurbishment. Share. Email this article to a friend.


Following the hugely successful Piano Portraits tour last year, in support of the album of the same name, Rick Wakeman will return to Aylesbury later ...
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Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for hi..


Starmus is a festival of music and astronomy on the beautiful island of Tenerife. It is the brain child of Garik Israelian (the astrophysicist who led the team which found the first observational..


On this extraordinary album, legendary keyboard player teams up with an Italian singer named Mario Fasciano. Stavros Moschopoulos  writes: 'Recorded on the Isle of Man, the CD contains 8 new..


With special guests  Various artists including: Ian Paice, Rick Parfitt, Steve Hackett, Andy Fairweather Low, John Entwistle etc..


Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known f..


Musician, producer and former Yes member Billy Sherwood has put together what he’s dubbed “the biggest super group of progressive rock players ever assembled,” to form ..

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