RICK WAKEMAN: Red planet stuff

Rick Wakeman discusses new solo album The Red Planet Louder Especially to the vicar..." Rick Wakeman. (Image credit: Future). Perhaps surprisingly given the array of keyboards that surround him onstage ...

Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet review Louder Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet review. The Caped Crusader parks the wisecracks and ivory-tinkling covers on Earth and teams up with The English ...

Out Now: Go Explore the Galaxy with Rick Wakeman and His New Album 'The Red Planet'

Rock Cellar Magazine

As its title would suggest, The Red Planet finds prog-rock keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman setting his sights on space exploration — at least through ...

Loose Ends Updates

Power Line

Finally, in the prog rock department, the Financial Times has a long feature about legendary prog keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who is now 71, and ...

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire (Live in Munich - 25. Februar 2016)

  

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LEONARD COHEN'S REPUBLICAN ROW

Leonard Cohen Estate Considering Legal Action After RNC Plays "Halleujah" Slate Magazine The estate of late singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is angry that the Republican National Convention decided to use not one but two different covers ... Leonard Cohen estate rebukes Trump's "unauthorized use" of "Hallelujah" at RNC - WBTV Full Coverage

Leonard Cohen rep says estate specifically declined use of 'Hallelujah' at RNC Toronto Star Representatives for Leonard Cohen's estate say they're considering legal action after the singer's iconic song "Hallelujah" appeared during this ...

Leonard Cohen estate 'exploring legal options' against RNC and Trump campaign for using ... Yahoo! Voices The estate of Leonard Cohen, who died in 2016, is upset that the president used the singer's 1984 ballad "Hallelujah" to wind down this week's RNC ...

Leonard Cohen rep says estate specifically declined use of 'Hallelujah' at RNC Vancouver Is Awesome TORONTO — Representatives for Leonard Cohen's estate say they're considering legal action after the singer's iconic song "Hallelujah" appeared ...

Leonard Cohen's Estate Slams GOP For Using 'Hallelujah' At RNC HuffPost Canada Leonard Cohen's Estate Slams GOP For Using 'Hallelujah' At RNC. The legendary singer's estate said it had specifically denied permission to use the ...

Leonard Cohen Estate Denied RNC Demand of to Play "Hallelujah" Herald Planet The property of Leonard Cohen is "exploring" its steady ideas after his song "Hallelujah" was featured twice on the Republican National Convention ...

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: We Plough The Fields And Scatter *Tune Wir Pflugen* - All Saints Church Oystermouth Swansea

 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.

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?"

TACTICS & STRATEGIES

WE WILL NEED TO IMPROVISE

We have forgotten flu epidemics,second waves,World Wars

Only little fire wars and warring fires

Only violent police and gentle imprisoned

Who owns the law?Those with guns(we pay for them)

We only have arms for hugging each other

Time for laughter,sharing,company,goodwill

Time for conversations to unfold their Sacred Maps

and Reveal to us Inner Point,Design and Purpose.

We are always going somewhere

in Movement and Motion we take that chance

When the world seems static and stationary

We can always move in Harmony

We can always Dance.

Fairport's Cropredy Connection 2020

 

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Gonzo Weekly #405/6

Gonzo Weekly #405/6

CORINNA'S ISSUE

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in this issue we say goodbye to my wife Corinna, the long time deputy editor of this magazine. She died of cancer a few days after the last issue came out. Apart from that, this magazine continues to go off on strange tangents that I never expect, but I am very happy to see it do so. What is in this week? Ooooh lots of things. Such as Good Vibrations, Frienbly Folk Records, Hawkwind, Wormstock, animal rescue with PAART, Reminiscences from Tony Klinger, and other stuff of interest.

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, and the Real Music Club, but no sign of Strange Fruit this week, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and one from Tony Klinger, and C.J Stone, but Mr Biffo, and Neil Nixon, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and dibblers who have got the blues (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are listening to the new Bob Dylan album, 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!!!

..And the last few issues are:

Issue 405-6 (Corinna)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-405-6.html

Issue 403-4 (Covid Conspiracies)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-403-4.html

Issue 401-2 (The Westway)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-401-2.html

Issue 399-40 (Kosmik Ken)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-399-40.html

Issue 397-8 (Liz Lenten)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-397-8.html

Issue 395-6 (Diane Warren/Sharon Farber)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-395-6.html

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-395-6.html

Issue 393-4 (Daria Kulesh)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-393-4.html

Issue 391-2 (Little Richard)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-391-2.html

Issue 389-90 (Ian Anderson)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-389-90.html

Issue 387-8 (A Guy called Gerald)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-387-8.html

Issue 385-6 (Tony Henderson)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-385-6.html

Issue 383-4 (London Remixed)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-383-4.html

">Issue 381-2 (Greta)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-381-2.html

Issue 379-80 (Andrew Weatherall)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-379-80.html

Issue 377-8 (The Future)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-377-8.html

Issue 375-6 (Big Sean)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-375-6.html

Issue 373-4 (End of the World)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-373-4.html

Issue 371-2 (New Year)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-371-2.html

Issue 369-70 (Christmas)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-369-70.html

Issue 367-8 (Register to Vote)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-367-8.html

Issue 365-6 (Rick Wakeman)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-365-6.html

Issue 363-4 (Focus)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-363-4.html

Issue 361-2 (Martin Springett)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-361-2.html

Issue 359-60 (Robert Hunter)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-359-60.html

All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!

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The Day I Met Paul McCartney

 

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FAIRPORT CHARITY SINGLE

Fairport Convention release charity version of classic Meet On The Ledge Louder Folk rock legends Fairport Convention have released a new ensemble version of their 1969 classic Meet On The Ledge as a charity single. Proceeds ...

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Dirty Mac (Lennon, Clapton, Richards, Mitchell) - "Yer Blues" (1968).

   

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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?"

POLITICS=PROPAGANDA,PERSECUTION,PATRONAGE

Where power is force over rather than service for,with and to

When military spending overwhelms culture and education

When media is consolidated and a mouthpiece for government

When patrons and sycophants are given portfolios

When police violence is used against agents of change

And the people come out on the streets,petitioning

And social media is either shut down or brimming with alternatives

And the same question presents itself-how can change happen?

When bribery,corruption,lies and frauds attempt to bully and frame dissidents?

Unanswered this-in our Age (as in all others).Revolution means bloodshed.

Stagnation .Corruption.1905 to 1917(Russia) .French Revolution ./Digital Revolution..

Hackers ,phishers,whistleblowers.Pussy Riot against the Reign of Putin.

YES: More drama

How Yes Finally Saved 'Drama' From Unjust Obscurity Something Else! Reviews “When we got together to do Fly From Here,” the late Yes co-founder Chris Squire told Something Else! back then, “one of the first conversations ...

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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?"

CREATING @BOULDER CREEK@THE BROOKDALE LODGE

RIGHT NOW,FIRE ENGINES ARE ASSEMBLED

to Save the Lodge and Boulder Creek

Fires are intense and growing.Heat is everywhere

Cast your minds back to the 1990s

when BLISSNINNIES and OLD DEAD BUG played

in the Grateful Dread tradition of improvised jams

which always allowed space for poetry to wing in among them..

Brookdale Lodge a famed spot where JFK trysted with Marilyn

Before that, when Mafia stored cadavers in teh freezer vaults

And,even now,with a trickle creek running through the Restaurant

One New Years eve,coming in with drama,dance,poetry and music

Mudslides had blocked the slim thin vein tracks that claimed road status

So we played acoustic all night long,cuddled up in songs

Freed with fine musical memories of Brookdale Lodge,Boulder Creek

and every member of Blissninnies worthy of their fame!

RICK WAKEMAN: On Mars

 Rick Wakeman Wants To Perform On Mars

Noise11

Rick Wakeman's latest LP, 'The Red Planet', is a concept record about the planet and though he's looking forward to performing it at Starmus, Brian ...

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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: Redux

The Best Batch Yet? Captain Beefheart's Doc At The Radar Station Revisited The Quietus Troutmask Replica, Lick My Decals Off Baby and Clear Spot all have compelling reasons to be considered Captain Beefheart's best record, but for ...

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Beatles - I'm Looking Through You (Remastered 2009)

  

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WHEN LEONARD LIED TO BOB

The hilarious reason why Leonard Cohen lied to Bob Dylan's face Far Out Magazine Leonard Cohen's son Adam on finishing up a new album of his father's songs. The Afternoon Show, Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout, Marnie Dickson on ...

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RICK WAKEMAN: A preposterously productive career

Rick Wakeman on his 'preposterously productive' career and new album 'The Red Planet' Financial Times “Bingo!” he said to himself. Rick Wakeman performing with English prog rock group, Yes, at Madison Square Garden, New York City in 1978 © Michael ...

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ANOTHER SLICE OF YESterdays

Yes, “Believe Again” from 'Heaven and Earth' (2014): YESterdays Something Else! Reviews ... and are perfectly integrated and backing-vocal producer/mixer Billy Sherwood. Despite the auto-tuning employed by producer Roy Thomas Baker, ...

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