Thursday, 28 February 2019
On The Track (of Unknown Animals) Ep. 100 (Mystery owls, short faced bear, , WWN etc)
BLOODY HELL WE'VE MADE IT TO #100 Here we have the nineteenth episode of the relaunched webTV show by the Centre for Fortean Zoology, written and presented by Jon Downes and Charlotte Phillipson, their families and other animals. This episode contains: • A brief note of explanation • Wally in the snow • Mystery owls • Galapagos giant tortoises • Short faced bears • Paddington at large • Is the CFZ a cult? • Songbird slaughter • Tadpole experiment • Dr Max (hey) in Moscow • Charlotte and Corinna make sexist generalisations • PRODUCT PLACEMENT - Weird Weekend North • Watcher of the skies...with comedy results • New and rediscovered: - New and rediscovered: New cichlid - New and rediscovered: New softshell turtle - New and rediscovered: New snakeheads - New and rediscovered: Rediscovered giant tortoise • Fair use • Coming next month • The Patreon campaign • The team says goodbye until next month
Was The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown the first ever concept album?
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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?
BUTTERFLIES ARE NOT FREE
THEY ARE NO LONGER MONARCHS
They exist @the whim of our industrial world
that sees forests as timber and water as fracking materials
Butterflies speak only with their winged beauty
They migrate like refugees ,needing your milkweed
They will rest in your garden,if you welcome them
with butterfly friendly plants and flowers.Watch!
As their flipping wings close,then open,hypnotically
Beauty is its own Authority.There are no arguments against wings
Welcome Monarchs from Mexico!Be fed and fly on
The world is hungry for your majestic presences..
YES WE HAVE SOME STORIES FOR YOU
Yes, “New State of Mind” from 'Open Your Eyes' (1997): YESterdays
There are many differing stories from Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and then-newcomer Billy Sherwood about the origins of the material.
Yes Interviews: 7/27/09 - Philadelphia - Geoff Downes on Video Killed the Radio Star on MTV
Yes Interviews Date: 7/27/09 Location: Philadelphia Item: Geoff Downes on Video Killed the Radio Star on MTV For all my Yes posts see here: ...
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Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Michael Moorcock on Hawkwind
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LEONARD COHEN EN PASSANT
A dazzling Ai Weiwei exhibit, a Leonard
Cohen ballet and five other things to see, hear and do in ...
A dazzling Ai Weiwei exhibit 1The Chinese dissident
artist Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most creative activists. He works in a
multitude of different ...
Hallelujah: in the church of Leonard
Cohen
The Go-Betweens, who sound more like Leonard Cohen
fanciers each time they slouch into the New Zealand capital, sometimes play here
as well.
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JON ANDERSON NEWS
Jon Anderson Of Yes Joins Ocean City
Summer Concert Series
Are you an Owner of a Lonely Heart? Then check out who
joined Ocean City's 2019 Summer Concert Series. Jon Anderson, the
original voice behind ...
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?
WHEN THE BUTTERFLY INSIDE US
FEELS CRUSHED BY THE WEIGHT OF WALLS&CAGES
&the weight of our winged wheels flips exhausted
into ever declining circles/then every winged creature
is as threatened as plastic seas and global warnings.
The fate of frogs is seen as a litmus test on the environment
Butterflies are a more delicate balance
Without sustaining milkweed,they flip out of existence
When threatened by compassion fatigues,they become refugees
Pay the butterflies ,not Border Patrols!Make Sanctuaries,not cages and walls..
We need invest in Beauty,before all that is left is
a world of walls and cages,emptied by neglect
with guards at the doors,to make sure no human butterfly escapes.
themindunleashed.com
Monday, 25 February 2019
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?
"MUSIC CAN MOVE PEOPLE TO DO THINGS" (Joan Baez)
MILITARY MUSIC(Bagpipes,fifes and drums)
can lead all youth to slaughter
Rebel music can help the sharing of ganja
Muzak can sedate and tranquillize
while "pop "can have you bopping in the aisles
Every rhythm has a different effect
Radio knows this,and opts for"easy"listening
Movies know this,using dramatic soundtracks
to awaken us with tension when the action demands
and lull us into false security in emotional patches
Your life song has meditative sessions/as well as high drama spots
you ride the soundtrack of your many lives/lots
of changes in tempo and in tone/help you find your emotional home.
Whether it be the ringing of a chapel bell,or Tibetan Gongs
Whether it be silence of the wind through trees/or waves upon a rock
You are the music of your many lives..YOU ROCK!
RICK WAKEMAN IN THE NEWS
Rick Wakeman: What Keeps People Coming Back to Rock N' Roll
Since the world has changed so much since your original run with Yes, I just wondered - after four decades of being one of the most well-respected ...
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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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..
BARBARA DICKSON AT WESTON
WIN: Top Scottish singer to take to Weston
stage
Acclaimed performer Barbara Dickson will delve
deep into her back catalogue at The Playhouse, in High Street, on March 9 at
7.30pm, and the ...
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WONDROUS STORIES FROM YES
Chris
Squire Story Hendrix The Syn Live at BB Kings 2006
Chords
for Chris Squire Story Hendrix The Syn Live at BB Kings 2006. Play along
with guitar, ukulele, or piano with interactive chords and diagrams.
Yes
Interviews: 5/13/19 - Steve Howe, Chris Squire, and Alan White on Jon
Anderson not being in ...
Yes
Interviews Date: 5/13/09 Item: Steve Howe, Chris Squire, and Alan White
on Jon Anderson not being in YES For all my Yes posts see here: ...
Yes
Interviews: 7/20/09 - Steve Howe, Chris Squire, and Alan White on
Capes
Yes
Interviews Date: 7/20/09 Item: Steve Howe, Chris Squire, and Alan White
on Capes For all my Yes posts see here: ...
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Sunday, 24 February 2019
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?
RESPONDING TO "SEEING THINGS"
DREAMS PART/OPENING ARTS
Scrying.Intuiting.Wounding.Opening
to ghosts who claim validity and presence.
Whether the shocked eye of the car struck deer
or a more pedestrian bicycling victim/pain is universal..
Bearable in the sharing.Worse if confined.Worst if unspeakable.
Perhaps bird and silence and house conspire/a secret shared
is a dream denied.Through ant eyes/all is huge(but bearable..
The company of ants as armies.Shared purpose.Uniforms.Duty.
Listening to what is behind words allows Silence purpose.
We are more than consumption.Old eat less.Stick figures crack.
Babies devour milk breasts.We starve between harvests.Recollecting plenitude.
The Book of Dust has Storms Between Us.Ruffled fur and feathers.Sleep
Deprivation the New Industry.Machines.Oxygen.Dependence.
Whether we CAN slip between atoms of memory/dementia Premature
Medication or Meditation?Whether we Age One Thousand Years -
or slip between these silences like a song/Dislocation becomes Re-location..
Numbers imply both sequence and certainty.Both False.You see,if we
gave credence to Bullets and Bombs,there would be no civilians left to sing to/with
So we Appeal to Generics-the Sea,Dreams,Others..Specifics get lost
and a furry wonder suffuses perfumed censers.Light diminishes with observation.
Quests call,but only for one .Lonely.No one else can hear these alarms.
I will Release these Imposters.Seek Real Remedies.Pills,Potions,Poisons fail.
When i wake up-will i be WOKE again-or in jail?
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Bob Marley - Thank You Lord (Original)
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.
BILLY SHERWOOD IN THE NEWS
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Proto: 1980 - Billy Sherwood live on drums with his Dad Bobby on
piano
Yes
Proto Date: 1980 Item: Billy Sherwood live on drums with his Dad Bobby on
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Billy
Sherwood - NAMM 2019
Just
off the heels of the Yes Cruise to the Edge that sailed Feb 4-9th, check out our
interview with Billy Sherwood at NAMM 2019 sharing his
thoughts ...
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FAIRPORT CONVENTION THINGY
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Clinton Heylin Talks Fairport Convention
Clinton Heylin introduces Fairport Convention's 'What We Did On Our Holidays' at a 50th anniversary celebration of the album hoswted by The CAT ...
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STREAMING JON ANDERSON
Stream Tuesday's Live Interview Event with
Yes Singer Jon Anderson Right Here
BackStory Events and Guitar World invite you to join us
for the live stream of our exclusive interview with Jon Anderson, one of
the most recognizable ...
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Thursday, 21 February 2019
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Mary Hopkin - Temma harbour (HQ)
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