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Friday, 29 April 2016
Eric Burdon - Interview- (1982)
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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Frank Zappa - Dinah Moe Humm (Subtitulado en español)
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Frank Zappa is considered to be one of the most influential rock musicians of the late twentieth century. Between the start of his career in the late fifties and his death in 1993 he recorded and rele..
In 1965, Ray Collins asked Zappa to take over as guitarist in local R&B band the Soul Giants, following a fight between Collins and the group's original guitarist. Zappa accepted, and soon assumed..
On September 19, 1985, Frank Zappa testified before the United States Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music organizati..
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:
OUTBREAKS OF
ENTHUSIASMS
Random and unpredictable
as weather
There have been recent
examples of
both individual and group
enthusiasms
which have transcended
hobby proportions.
People have been arrested
for laughing in airports
especially when directed
at TSA or security personnel
Outbreaks of laughter in
banks and corporate offices
have led to the evacuation
of whole businesses
when folk could simply not
take Wall Street seriously.
The election of Bernie
Sanders as President
has diminished
Trumpitis,and folk have found new outlets
to direct their comic
genius.Volunteers have guided young activists
into environmental
activities which they now take quite seriously.
Prior to this,the young
could not take politics seriously(nor religion)
and this became no
laughing matter.Soon,their elders followed..
TO BE CONTINUED
Thursday, 28 April 2016
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:
i find myself singing PRINCE songs
which is fine,yet only a short time
ago
i was singing EAGLES songs
and before that DAVID BOWIE
humming along after they had "left the
building"
Liked ELVIS movies -never saw him
live
`Pre-DVD,played those videos-BLUE
HAWAII
JAILHOUSE ROCK,like HELP and A HARD
DAY'S NIGHT
after John was murdered,and George
cancered out.
Sometimes i go to George Harrison
Memorials
sing -a long poetry style to those
too-familiar lyrics
but it was not always like this.When
Hendrix died,
i gave away all his records(yes,i had
ALL his records
and tears fell in 1980 when John was
shot down.
The rate of exits may be faster now.We
may be as old as our heroes
Grief is still a flame of anger(that
they should leave us-
here,bereft of lyrics,leaving us to
replay their unreleased bootlegs
while they decompose in another
Vault.
Dave Brock and Mr Dibs Hawkwind Interview March 2015
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Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Brand X interview with Phil Collins & John Goodsall
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Dave Brock Interview
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:
AMY SCHUMER&JENNIFER
LAWRENCE
MARILYN MONROE&JAYNE
MANSFIELD
Names change yet the fame game
continues
Self-selecting females as fashion
icons/celebrities
Photo shoots ,gossip
columns,interviews
Banal and cliched ,no matter how
intelligent
This process kills both audience and
actor
Deadens the link between performer and
masses
Makes a false sense of intimacy between
strangers
Leads to the DARK KNIGHT and TRAINWRECK
slaughters
where folk seek to appropriate
celebrity status
by shooting John Lennon,or Ronald
Reagan
All relationships are personal and
private,
and massed media pumpings of Hiliarys
and Trumps fixate
folk on a CELEBRITY Fame Game.Name is
empty and changes
Relationships(if they are loving and
personal)/sustain us.
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Gong - Flying Teapot
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Tuesday, 26 April 2016
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes: FISH IN AIR
STONE IN SPACE
To define a photograph
To screen a movie sound
track
Commentary in columns
Text may change
Ride or watch
what remains?
Review what you see
Remember auric echoes
Traces only remain
Residues...Retrieve
remembrances
Add to the foundations /with
which
you build your womb house.Now start
again
Recall all past lives?Discontinuous
narratives
interrupt our perfect planned picnic
Yes 2004 Lugano Rick Wakeman interview
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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..
Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and composer best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock .
ME1 TV Talks To... Hawkwind
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Monday, 25 April 2016
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes: I DO NOT CARE THAT YOU ARE SMART
i do not care
that you do not care
my "I DON'T CARE!"
is bigger than your "I
don't care"
i am too tired to be
apathetic
about apathetic
choices
i am cynical about
cynics
and selective
virtues
every breath is
semi-precious
those best shared,increase
circulation
wisdom means more than
shared commonness
It is a map,a plan,an
improvised jazz stratagem
bridges built before
us/still carry Behomeths
lines we follow /Light
shines through
none of this is
necessary
all of this is
important
where you align/dine/find home and meaning
a nest for the
broken/sanctuary for healing.
Fish out of Water: A Voyage into Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
The first time I heard about Captain Beefheart was when he died in 2010. I probably listened to a few tracks back then in a half-hearted homage to van Vliet. However, I must have not taken much from it as I am only now coming round to beginning my voyage into his musical discography properly.
So why am I only starting now? Well, my theory is that I was daunted by the prospect. Similar to artists like Neil Young, Frank Zappa or Tom Waits, Beefheart’s musical library is vast and its range large. Questions such as ‘Where should I start? With the most known album or the first? Should I immediately understand it? Am I too late to fully enjoy this artist?’ et cetera usually remain unanswered and I crawl back into a metaphorical cave of familiarity and assured appreciation of my musical listening. With a three week holiday consumed by a dissertation I decided now would be a good time to get out of the cave and get into Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.
I started not with any album but with a documentary on Captain Beefheart narrated by the late John Peel. In it, I learnt about the Captain’s obsessive and, at times, brutally authoritative personality. One story remains prominent in my mind of how he kept his band cooped up inside a house for eight months during the recording ofTrout Mask Replica, only allowing them to leave for groceries. At one point, a member recalls living on one cup of soya beans-a-day. “Ok,” I thought, “this guy is slightly crazy, but the genius ones usually are.”
I then began my listening experience in chronological order. First up, 1967’s Safe As Milk. This album I really enjoyed from the first listen. I’ve probably listened to it three or four times now and will continue to do so. What struck me was the structured nature of the songs. I was expecting an avant-garde mess of an album; abstract and obtuse; unforgiving for a new listener. But it wasn’t. Instead I was welcomed by a collection of catchy songs, none more so than ‘Yellow Brick Road.’ ‘Electricity’ is really something. That voice is remarkable and is nothing like I’ve heard in music before, almost like Darth Sidius from Star Wars has joined a band. ‘I’m Glad’ was unexpectedly beautiful as well with a sort of Sam Cooke vibe.
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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..
New Rick Wakeman Compilation Features Ex-Yes Keyboardist Playing Various Classic-Rock Covers
Purple Pyramid Records
The 13-track album includes cover versions of The Doors’ “Light My Fire,” The Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me,” Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” and “Nobody Home,” Supertramp’s “Crime of the Century,” 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love” and Yes’ “Starship Trooper.” The record also features a previously unreleased rendition of Tool’s “Sober.”
Accompanying Wakeman on the various songs are such other respected musicians as current Yes members Steve Howe and Billy Sherwood, ex-Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye, Starship singer Mickey Thomas, Vanilla Fudge’s Carmine Appice, King Crimson’s Tony Levin, XTC’s Colin Moulding. In addition, William Shatner is featured on the song “Change,” which originally appeared on the Star Trek actor’s 2013 prog-rock concept album Ponder the Mystery.
Wakeman says of his recent work as a guest musician, “It’s always challenging to be involved in tracks of other people’s music and other people’s arrangements as it often makes you think and play differently and certainly on many of these tracks I play in quite an unexpected way, but there again, much of my life has been pretty unexpected anyway!”
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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..
Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and composer best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock .
Yes show will be full of Drama says drummer Alan White ahead of date at Manchester Apollo
DRUMMER Alan White admits that he and fellow members of prog rock legends Yes have had their work cut out for the UK tour which comes to Manchester next Saturday.
For the band is to perform two of its classic albums - 1971's Fragile and Drama from 1980 - from start to finish as part of the show. This will be the first time the band have played Drama live in the UK.
"We've all been doing our h
omework," said Alan. "When we decided to do this I went back and listened to the album and thought we must have been crazy to do what we did.
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Sunday, 24 April 2016
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes: EMOTIONAL HOMEOPATHY
NOT EPIDEMIC PARANOIA
not even conspiracy
theories
more a wisdom that evil
exists
and one need not be a
victim
One need not be afraid of death,nor
pain
yet seek antidotes and
panaceas
aware of and taking
precautions
via salutory Fables ,Fairy
Tales,Parables
When young,we are told to be
afraid
of those who may bear us evil
intent
"STRANGER DANGER"-while the real
horror
might well be family ,close
relations,friends
Update your fear levels/whether color
coded
for TERRORIST ALERTS,or storm
warnings
or even NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
bulletins
A little dose of caution/fear
assists
while too much may cripple and even
kill
Self-harm is the worst murder.Why do
young men
kill themselves so often?Were they not
told
that fear may stop attacks,and most
certainly helps
prevent them..
The Importance of Being Scared –
Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska on fairy tales and the necessity of
fear
“Andersen had the courage to write
stories with unhappy endings. He didn’t believe that you should try to be good
because it pays … but because evil…
brainpickings.org|By Maria
Popova
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