Monday 31 August 2020

RICK WAKEMAN: Red planet stuff

Rick Wakeman discusses new solo album The Red Planet
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
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'
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
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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Sunday 30 August 2020

LEONARD COHEN'S REPUBLICAN ROW

Leonard Cohen Estate Considering Legal Action After RNC Plays "Halleujah"
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 rep says estate specifically declined use of 'Hallelujah' at RNC
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 ...
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
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
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"
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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Friday 28 August 2020

Gonzo Weekly #405/6

Gonzo Weekly #405/6
CORINNA'S ISSUE
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)
Issue 403-4 (Covid Conspiracies)
Issue 401-2 (The Westway)
Issue 399-40 (Kosmik Ken)
Issue 397-8 (Liz Lenten)
Issue 395-6 (Diane Warren/Sharon Farber)
Issue 393-4 (Daria Kulesh)
Issue 391-2 (Little Richard)
Issue 389-90 (Ian Anderson)
Issue 387-8 (A Guy called Gerald)
Issue 385-6 (Tony Henderson)
Issue 383-4 (London Remixed)
">Issue 381-2 (Greta)
Issue 379-80 (Andrew Weatherall)
Issue 377-8 (The Future)
Issue 375-6 (Big Sean)
Issue 373-4 (End of the World)
Issue 371-2 (New Year)
Issue 369-70 (Christmas)
Issue 367-8 (Register to Vote)
Issue 365-6 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 363-4 (Focus)
Issue 361-2 (Martin Springett)
Issue 359-60 (Robert Hunter)
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!
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

The Day I Met Paul McCartney

 


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FAIRPORT CHARITY SINGLE

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
“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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Thursday 27 August 2020

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'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 ...

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: Redux

The Best Batch Yet? Captain Beefheart's Doc At The Radar Station Revisited
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
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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Wednesday 26 August 2020

RICK WAKEMAN: A preposterously productive career

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

ANOTHER SLICE OF YESterdays

Yes, “Believe Again” from 'Heaven and Earth' (2014): YESterdays
... 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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What happens when you mix what is - arguably - the world's most interesting record company, with an anarchist manic-depressive rock music historian polymath, and a method of dissemination which means that a daily rock-music magazine can be almost instantaneous?

Most of this blog is related in some way to the music, books and films produced by Gonzo Multimedia, but the editor has a grasshopper mind and so also writes about all sorts of cultural issues which interest him, and which he hopes will interest you as well.