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Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Daevid Allen wearing a very silly hat
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Australian beatnik Daevid Allen was a founder member of Britain's earliest psychedelic band, Soft Machine.He departed from the band after the release of their first classic single Love Makes Sweet Mus..
Australian poet and musician Daevid Allen, born in 1938, moved to Europe in 1960, inspired by the writings of the ‘Beat Generation.’ After a year or so in Paris he arrived in the UK in 196..
Whichever way you look at it, Daevid Allen is one of the most interesting and enigmatic characters in modern music. An Australian, he was working in a Melbourne book shop when he discovered the writin..
Kevin Ayers interview 2008
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Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter and a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering ..
When Kevin Ayres died a few years ago many of us mourned. John Peel wrote in his autobiography that 'Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it. ..
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:
WHO DO YOU
LOVE?
Authority in 2016 has an
image problem
With Reagan as
paterfamilias,we could believe his avuncular style
Carter was no peanut
farmer-but it helped his "common man"image
Now a tax audited
"billionaire"desires the highest office in the land
Well and good-we all have
votes.We all have opinions.Access to social media.
Much will happen between
now and November.Core of our dilemma is this-
that we still need one
person to be our parental figure.We know we are fragile.
Most of us never wish to
hold office.So we delegate-and find comfort
in someone who reflects
our core beliefs.Anger at others who do not.
Our problem is the tyranny
of minorities-one percent rich can buy office
while the poor beg for
dollars.It does not always work-Bush had bucks
but no demographic.Cruz
had a demographic but not enough bucks.
Bernie has both but mass
media has omitted his existence.
We will not run for
Presidencies-yet wish to have our wishes honored
In the words of J R Ryan"I
wish to run FROM office"
Our problem
remains-SOMEONE still wishes this most dubious of delegations
Once you hand your power
to another/one finds it gone /faster than Diebold!
Monday, 30 May 2016
Don van Vliet - News Center 4, San Francisco Interview
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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..
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes: MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
AND THOSE WHO HAVE
LEFT(have left
us with poetry circles
small as frogs
in a widening circle of
thoughts and themes
Gathering like clouds in
uncertain weather times
Knowing we are stronger
together than apart
Carrying dreams when
others open carry arms
Headlines scream
FLOODS!while humidity rises
We alternate sunshine and
tomatoes/Gardens
know what is planted will
rise.Young know
with ferocious certainty
what we intuit-
world is a hologram of
projections
We are entangled in
appearances
Response is
ability/reaction no necessity
Every moment an open
door-open mind-a window
of possibilities we may
never have considered before
That is why we remember
Memorial Day 2016
Meditate.More.
No virus found in this message
Sunday, 29 May 2016
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Bahai Arabic Prayer - Tablet of Visitation
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
Frank Zappa TV Interview- Monday Conference Australia 1973 Robert Moore
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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..
PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #165
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).
Neil Nixon, the founder and co-presenter of the show has released a book about rare albums for Gonzo Multimedia.
The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight.
The Twiggs: Beaming In
Ani Glas: Ffol
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils: Jackie Blue
Robyn Hitchcock: It's A Mystic Trip
Firmament & The Elements The Festival Of Frothy Muggament
Anchorsong: Butterflies
Sidestepper: Song for the Sinner
Jefferson Airplane: Let’s Get Together
Captain Sensible The 4 Marys Go Go Dance All Night At The Groovy Cellar
Bat for Lashes: All Your Gold
John Hall: Side B
Davy Graham: Blue Raga
Max Romeo: One Step Forward
The George Garabedian Players: Spanish Flea
The Doors: Shaman’s Blues
Charlotte Hatherley: Wrong Notes
Hawkwind: Lost in Science
Aziza Brahim: El Cando de la arena
Christopher Lee: The Seige
Christopher Lee: Massacre of the Saxons
Memphis Minnie: Frankie Jean (That Trottin’ Fool)
Irving Aaronson and his Commanders: Wimmin’ Aaah!
The High Tide: Electric Blue
The Cleaners from Venus: Wivenhoe Bells
John Martyn: Go Down Easy
Morton Valence: Go to Sleep
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:
FLESH OF THE FUTURE
ON THE BONES OF THE
PAST
Seven layers of Troy.Seven
Cities of Rome
Londonium underneath the
Thames.
DIG!They will find
computer parts,plastic..
Cockroaches,rats gnawing
upon High Rise Art.
We Are All Futurists (in
the Past!
Already,corpses turn up
and coins
Marked with an age
pre-Titanic
Stories that were once
told to children
now are whispered under
edict-global warnings!
Decapitation in Tower of
London and French Revolution
Nothing new about
Assassins(Suicide Bombers/Kamikazi)
Nothing new about
Forgetting your History/Culture/Languages/Past Lives
Nothing new about
demolishing trees to build treehouses
Putting out fires with oil
and gasoline
Nothing new about
Forgetting...
1001 Nights..
"The house of the Prophet’s first
wife, Khadijah has made way for public toilets.
A Hilton hotel stands on the site
of the house of Islam’s first caliph, Abu Bakr.
Famously, the Kaaba now stands in
the shade of one of the world’s tallest buildings, the Mecca Royal Clock
Tower"
Over 98% of the Kingdom's
historical and religious sites have been destroyed since 1985, according to the
U.K.-based Islamic Heritage Research Foundation
time.com
Friday, 27 May 2016
GONZO WEEKLY #184
Gonzo Magazine #184 Mick Abrahams, Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull. The Who, Quintessence, Raja Ram, Lev Grossman, Bruce Springsteen, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
And once again we have another monumental groovefest for you all, starting with the Mick Abrahams Benefit at the borderline in pictures, Alan writes about Quintessence and Raja Ram, Doug goes to see The Who, Shosh goes to see Bruce Springsteen, Jon goes to the magickal land of Fillory and bitches about the government. Biffo in the meantime, goes on a ghost train. Bloody hell we’re great!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontières, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons ouyside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
This issue features: Pink Floyd, Stick Men, Prince, Tony Henderson, Pink Fairies, Carl Palmer, Keith Emerson, Corky Laing, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Nicholas "Nick" Menza, Herbert Tsangtse "Burt" Kwouk, OBE, The Beatles, Osibisa, Billy Cobham, Wayne Kramer at the Pink Fairies, Al Stewart, The RAZ Band, The Flying Burrito Bros, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rick Wakeman, Mick Abrahams, The Who, Alan Dearling, Quintessence, Raja Ram, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Shoshannah McCarthy, Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, The Beatles, Bill Graham, Happy Mondays, Berry Gordy, Neil Nixon, The Butthole Surfers
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)
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Issue 182 (Wally)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo182.html
Issue 181 (Beatles)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo181.html
Issue 180 (Beltane)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo180.html
Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html
Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo177.html
Issue 177 (David Gilmour)
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Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
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Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
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Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
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Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
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Issue 172 (4th Eden)
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Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
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Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
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Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
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Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
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Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
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Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
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Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland looks back on the making of 'Straight Up'
Joey Molland
Image used with permission from Paul Davie
Badfinger’s story is one of triumph and tragedy, songs that remain classics, and careers — and lives — that ended much too soon.
Their history began in the early 1960s; by the time they became Badfinger in 1969, the lineup included lead guitarist Peter Ham, guitarist-turned-bassist Tom Evans, drummer Mike Gibbins, and guitarist Joey Molland. As the first band signed to The Beatles’ Apple Records, Badfinger enjoyed worldwide Top 10 hits with “Come and Get It,” written and produced by Paul McCartney (Magic Christian Music, 1970), and “No Matter What” (No Dice, 1970). When they began working on their third album, Straight Up (December 1971 U.S. release, February 1972 U.K.), they had been on the road, recorded with George Harrison on All Things Must Pass, and were receiving accolades from fans, radio, and media. “Things were going quite well for us,” Joey Molland recalls. “We’d made our first tour of America, which was a big deal for us, and that was the main thrust of the band — getting those tours together, improving ourselves as a live band, and writing songs all day, every day. We were uncomfortable with the idea of being in a ‘rock star’ band. We never thought of ourselves like that. We just thought of ourselves as a little band, and we were getting quite famous. They were saying extraordinary things about us and the music we were doing, but it was a little embarrassing to be compared to such great artists as The Beatles. At the same time, we were overjoyed that people were enjoying the songs.”
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:
AMERICA's FIRST SUPERSTAR PHOTOGRAPHER
HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO
DO-
Mix myth and celebrity in iconic
fashion
so folk will not know which is
fraud
and which is fashion.Claim higher art
as a pretext for depicting animal
lust.
Hollywood will love you best-in black
and white
you sell sepia and silver.Images of
witches
and of ritual.Classical inferences from
King Kong to Beauty and the
Beast/
from Nosferatu to vampire horror
flicks.
World is made of image/made for images
such as these-and those who sell will
score
a reputation/forgotten,posthumous..
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The Photographer Who Ansel Adams Called the Anti-Christ
William Mortensen’s grotesque, retouched photos of celebrities were a far cry from the realism favored by the photography elite
By Bess
Lovejoy
smithsonian.com
In 1937, the photographer Edward
Weston wrote Ansel Adams a letter noting that he had recently "got a beautiful
negative of a fresh corpse." Adams wrote back expressing his enthusiasm, saying,
"It was swell to hear from you—and I look forward to the picture of the corpse.
My only regret is that the identity of said corpse is not our Laguna Beach
colleague." The "colleague" Adams referred to was William Mortensen, one of the
most popular and otherwise respected photographers of the 1930s, whose artistic
techniques and grotesque, erotic subject matter saw him banished from
"official" histories of the art form. For Adams, Mortensen was enemy number one;
he was known to describe him as "the anti-Christ."
Born in Park City, Utah, in 1897,
Mortensen studied painting in New York City before World War I, then moved to
Hollywood in the 1920s, where he worked with filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille and shot
portraits of celebrities Rudolph Valentino, Fay Wray, Peter Lorre, Jean Harlow
and others, often in historical costume. He also created more abstract portraits
of anonymous models, interpreting historical or mythological characters such as
Circe, Machiavelli and Cesar Borgia, and shot images of witchcraft, monsters,
torture and Satanic rituals, rarely shying away from nudity or blood. Despite
his outlandish themes, between the 1930s and 1950s his images were widely shown
both in America and abroad, published in magazines including Vanity Fair, and collected by the
Royal Photographic Society in London. He wrote a series of bestselling
instructional books and a weekly photography column in the Los Angeles Times, and ran the
Mortensen School of Photography in Laguna Beach, where some 3,000 students
passed through the doors. The artist and photography scholar Larry Lytle, who
has done extensive research on Mortensen, calls him "photography's first
superstar."
Yet Mortensen has been left out of
most retrospectives and books devoted to the history of photography until
relatively recently. In the late 1970s and 1980s, his work was rediscovered by
the photo critic A. D. Coleman, and the collector, curator, and writer Deborah
Irmas. Their work has helped bring Mortensen back to popular attention, an
effort that seems to culminate this fall with gallery exhibits in New
York, Los Angeles and Seattle, as well as the release of a major
book on Mortensen. American
Grotesque: The Life and Art of
William Mortensen (Feral House) features previously unpublished images
alongside essays by Lytle, the writer and musician Michael Moynihan, and A.D.
Colemen. Feral House has also republished Mortensen’s instructional book The Command to Look, in which he
analyzes his process and technique, offering tips about how to arrange
compositions and create maximum impact.
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American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen
American Grotesque is a lavish
retrospective of grotesque, occult, and erotic images by the forgotten Hollywood
photographer William Mortensen (1897–1965).
Captain Beefheart on Dr Demento 12/3/78 (full interview)
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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..
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Captain Beefheart - Paul Moyer KABC-TV Eyewitness Interview (HQ)
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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..
Frank Zappa - Interview - 12/8/1984 - unknown (Official)
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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:
BIRD OF A WILDE BOY
Born Edwardian,post Marlon
Brando
Reincarnated as Johnny Depp(now even he
is divorced
from Reality(he has his own
Island)
And he likes Native Americans (even
plays Tonto-
a Hollywood fantasy that "never grows
up"
Cultural continuity begins as a play(of
consciousness
Every Childe's Fable is a Cautionary
Tale
which is why young love Lemony Snicket
and vampires and zombies and Dark
Legends
Grimm's Fairy Tales have literary
antecedents.
Now TV tales over where Hammer Horror
left off-
Vincent Price as Hook,any young boy as
Peter Pan.
Even Disney could not wash the
loneliness
from red blood sword duels and fear of
dreams of death.
"For most of us,there is no second
chance.."
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:
THE GREAT TRANCE FORMATION
Everywhere-change is in the
air
Right Wing/Left Wing(you need both
wings to fly with)
and Karl Polanyi morphs into Bernie
Sanders
If college was once free-why not
again?
If living wages can be legalized like
marijuana(so be it!
If Native Americans and Blacks and
homeless
can be treated as equals with positive
affirmations-GREAT!
Thoughts like this presage a New New
Deal
To be open to change is to welcome
change agents
Policies dusted off post-Depression
days are revived again
Young come alive again-freed from
endless student debt
Even Possibility becomes a
Theory.Polanyi would be proud
Crowds gather,one by one,when they hear
Pied Piper sounds..
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