Sunday 28 February 2021

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: We All Come From The Goddess

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



         

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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?"

NOTHING IS PREDICTABLE.NOTHING IS SECURED
Ice can break off the size of Belgium
Storms can lead to Spring sunshine
Rightwing conservative anarchist libertarians can steal our language
providing cliches for followers to mob rule elections
And murder is racism. War on women. Endless invasions
And when whistelblowers,journalists,poets question-who gets punished?
This is village level again-witch hunts,attack media,hate speech
And,in the midst -volunteers to clear the debris and the damage
Both Taliban and Fundamentalist Christians hate art.
They hack attack censor and destroy critical thinking
And,in the midst-artists thrive,homeless but heart based
We link to them with their best impulses
And in the midst of storms-a certain still/silence /clarity
LIVES!

YES: Billy Sherwood interview


Arc Of Life: Yes Bass Player Billy Sherwood On The New Yes Satellite Band
Billy Sherwood as been part of the Yes family for many years, fulfilling ChrisSquire's dying wish to become his permanent replacement in Yes.

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27-09-2020 – SHOW 377 – All That Jazz

 


27-09-2020 – SHOW 377 – All That Jazz



Carla Bley and Paul Haines: Holiday in Risk Theme
Ella Fitzgerald: Rhythm and Romance
John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra: Meeting of the Spirit
Jazz Sabbath: Fairies Wear Boots
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Cubano Chant
Donovan: Get Thy Bearings
Pat Metheney Group: Another LifeRothko: Burn Darkness in the Fires
Bo Mesun and Martin Archer: Einstein a No-No
Krononaut: Mob Kindu
The Average White Band: Pick up the Pieces
Frank Zappa: Night School
Vince Guaraldi Trio: O Nusso Amor
Duke Ellington: Moon Maiden
Return to Forever: Vulcan Worlds
Patrice Rushen: Let Your Heart be Free
Billie Holiday: Glad to be Unhappy
Jon Brooks: Well Then
Chick Corea: But Beautiful
Chet Baker: When I Fall in Love
Dr John: Such a Night
Roy Ayers: Coffy is the Color
Makaya McCraven: Everybody Cool
DJ Shadow: Building Steam with a Grain of Sand
Don Ellis: Uh-Huh
David Crosby: I’d Swear There was Somebody Here

Friday 26 February 2021

Gonzo Weekly #431/2 THE CELTIC LADIES ISSUE

 

Gonzo Weekly #431/2

THE CELTIC LADIES ISSUE
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 Sian Evans from Kosheen, Niamh the Prog Nerd, Gardening Club, KLF, Aldous Huxley, John Higgs, Covid Communications, Tor Rubble from Dr Splink, Cut Beetlez and more....
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, and the Real Music Club, AND Strange Fruit, and Mr Biffo, there is a column from Kev Rowland, but C.J Stone, Mr Biffo, Tony Klinger 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:
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:
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COMING THIS WEEKEND

 


Leonard Cohen sings Kevin Barry


Leonard Cohen'shaunting rendition of Irish rebel song, Kevin Barry
Leonard Cohen's haunting rendition of Irish rebel song, Kevin Barry. Iconic Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen gave a memorable rendition of ...

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: In Spite of All The Danger - The Quarrymen

  

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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?"


VIBES LEFT BEHIND
BEING A JOHN LENNON DEVOTEE
i went to the Dakota Hotel.It was dark and chill.No joy
So,around the corner to Strawberry Fields,
where young were playing John Lennon songs continuously.Light and spark!
It was Yoko One who set up this Memorial Space,
with the single word IMAGINE central to this pocket park.
In Austin,we have a pocket park for Albert Huffstickler,
poet of the people,who from his park bench,wrote and gave away poetry in Hyde Park.
Memorials remind us of our shared pasts,which is why  statue of YORK
an enslaved member of the Lewis and Clark expedition,appeared in a Portland park.
And,in Bristol,a slave-trader statue of Edward Colston was dumped in Bristol Harbor,
replaced temporarily by one dedicated to  BLM's Jen Reid.In Texas,hundreds
of Confederate statues are now in Museums.There are statues of whistleblowers in Berlin,
drawing our attention to their release from prison.And statues of Saddam were destroyed,
like the statues of Stalin. Taliban destroyed Buddhist sculptures,
which were replaced by artists with holograms.Statues of Hitler melted down.
Native American sculptures rising up.What we honor,celebrate and respect has changed,
so statuary must adapt.I remember Beatles statues outside the New Cavern in Liverpool,
but there are no Beatles anymore.
I like what Dolly Parton said,when they wanted to make a statue of her-
"I am grateful,but i am not dead yet.Just enjoy the music while i am living!"AND I AGREE...

Thursday 25 February 2021

Frank vs Steve

 Steve Vai Recalls Frank Zappa's Brutal Review Of His Guitar Sound

Frank Zappa was not one to mince words or hand out praise to people who didn't earn it. As genuinely funny as Frank was, he took his craft about as ...

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby (1972)

      

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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?"

BIRTH OF THE BEATS
And we all need a place in this world
And sanctuary is required
not just for refugees &writers
for every pilgrim seeking natural Cathedrals
Every genius needing chicken soup and a parking space
every lost and homeless soul wanting a temporary bed
So to open one's eyes and heart
Open one's home and bookstore
Open oneself to the possibilities of cultural evolution
One line at a time-song,chant,rhythm,cadence,chorus
Here are the seeds of a true folk culture
They live in this moment...RESPOND to THIS moment
2021 is not 2020.Now is not Zen...But it is a beginning-
And i can still hear Lawrence Ferlinghetti sing!


Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101

An unapologetic proponent of “poetry as insurgent art,” he was also a publisher and the owner of the celebrated San Francisco bookstore City Lights.

“The scene shows fewer tumbrils, but more spaced-out citizens in painted cars. And they have strange license plates and engines that devour America.” Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a poet, a painter, a publisher and a ceaseless political provocateur. “And I am waiting for Voznesensky to turn on with us and speak love tonight. And I am waiting for Aphrodite to grow live arms at a final disarmament conference.” He penned one of the single most popular books of poetry in print, served as San Francisco’s first poet laureate and won the National Book Award. Perhaps most famously, Ferlinghetti became the spiritual godfather of the Beat movement when he opened City Lights Books on a gritty hillside of San Francisco in 1953. “I had no idea of any poetry scene here or anything like that. But then when you have a bookstore, that’s a place where poets naturally fall into and hang out.” City Lights became a proving ground for bohemian and Beat writers and artists. Ferlinghetti soon expanded his reach by starting City Lights Press, which published the Pocket Poets Series. The first book was his own, “Pictures of the Gone World.” “The dog trots freely in the street and sees reality, and the things he sees are bigger than himself.” The fourth was Allen Ginsberg’s explosive poem “Howl,” which would shock the civilized world. “Allen Ginsberg laid his manuscript of ‘Howl’ on me one day. I told him I’d like to publish it, but we didn’t have any money. Once I heard it aloud, I realized this was going to cause a revolution in American poetry.” “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.” “It was a little like with the rock revolution that happened in the ’60s. When Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ came along, you didn’t hear any more about the old academic poetry for a long time.” ‘Howl’ swept Ferlinghetti into a landmark First Amendment fight. “We were selling it at City Lights Bookstore, and two officers from the juvenile department bought a copy from Shigeyoshi Murao, who was my manager at that time. Shig was arrested, and I was indicted as the publisher and bookstore owner.” The charges? “Willfully and lewdly” publishing obscene writings. “The trial went to court. We had a marvelous lineup of witnesses on our side, the most impressive literary figures in the West. When the judge brought in his decision, he said that a book cannot be judged obscene if it had the slightest redeeming social importance or social significance. And that precedent, even though this was just in the municipal court, it held up all these years. It’s still very hard to convict someone of obscene literature these days.” When The Times spoke with Mr. Ferlinghetti in 2007, he was 88 years old and still actively provoking. “I’m waiting for the next revolution. As a publisher, I always say, you can’t publish a revolution when there isn’t any.” Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in 1919 in Yonkers, just north of New York City. His mother was ill, and his father died before he was born. He was raised by an aunt who worked as a servant in the home of Presley Bisland, a Southern gentleman who sparked a literary interest in the troubled boy. “He was very much like Mark Twain. He was very witty and very literate. He would get me to recite poems at the dinner table, and I would get a silver dollar if I could recite the poem perfectly. And I would start out, ‘The Syrian came down like’ — ‘No, no, young man, not like that.’ And then he would thunder forth dramatically. As I say, I had an unhappy childhood, quote, unquote, so I escaped by lyricism. When present-day life gets too awful, there’s the lyric escape. You can write a lyric poem, or you can go out and look at the moon. Or you can shack up with your best girlfriend or whatever. That’s the lyric escape.” Ferlinghetti studied journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduating in 1941, he joined the Navy. [explosions] On D-Day, Ferlinghetti was commanding a ship that provided protection for the invasion fleet at Normandy. “We were an antisubmarine screen around the beaches. We didn’t have to land. And we could look through our binoculars and see these poor G.I.’s getting shot up on the beaches.” After the carnage in France, Ferlinghetti was transferred to Japan, arriving soon after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. “In the towering mushroom, Japan could read its doom. This was more than a routine bombing.” “As soon as I saw the devastated landscape, this burned, scorched landscape, where human flesh and teacups were melded together, and bones and fingers and faces sticking out of mud and not an erect building in sight.” “Before the blast, these were modern buildings, constructed like our own American factories.” “That made me an instant pacifist.” Ferlinghetti decided to forge one of his lyric escapes from the Navy and use the G.I. Bill to earn advanced degrees from Columbia University and the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1951, he went west to San Francisco. “I see San Francisco from my window through some old Navy beer bottles. The glass is dark. What’s it all about? Right after the Second World War, there’s so many people who had been uprooted, it was as if the whole continent had tilted up, and the population slid westward. It’s still the last frontier. I had an old second-hand car, and I was driving up Columbus Avenue. And I looked across the street at Columbus and Broadway, and there was this guy putting up a sign ‘Pocket Book Shop.’ I said, are you opening a bookstore?” Ferlinghetti decided to join forces with that man, Peter Martin, to open up a shop specializing in a new type of cheap softcover book, the paperback. “Up till then, the only paperbacks you could get were murder mysteries and some science fiction. So Peter Martin had this brilliant idea to start a paperback bookstore where you could find these books, which you couldn’t find anywhere. Right from the beginning, we had poets and writers dropping in because there was nothing else like this. If you walked into any other bookstore in town, you couldn’t just sit down and read. They wanted — the clerk would be on top of you asking you what you wanted or could I help you. We actually ignored the readers. We ignored the customers. You practically had to hit the clerk over the head to buy the book.” Ferlinghetti went solo when Martin left town after a couple of years, and the shop became the literary meeting place for Beat writers like Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and the hero of his classic “On the Road,” Neal Cassady. “Neal Cassady would dash in. He left his jalopy out front with the motor running and the door open. He would rush in and get a copy of — and rush out. Of course, these are all free books we gave the poets.” “It’s already too late. Pentagon is taking care of it all, and we’re doing this deliberately, as far as that goes.” “The Pentagon? Tell me what —” “Well, I don’t know who’s running the country. Do you?” “The bookstore from the beginning had this anarchist position, which wasn’t a bomb-throwing position. It was a pacifist position.” “Oh.” [chanting] “I mean, I remember I was at the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in 1967.” [chanting] “Peace in San Francisco. Peace in Hanoi.” “And I was sitting next to Allen Ginsberg on stage, and at one moment he turns to me and he says, ‘What if we’re all wrong?’” [chanting] “I wrote a poem called ‘Tentative Description of a Dinner to Impeach President Eisenhower,’ and now I realize that Eisenhower, compared to today’s leaders in federal government — Eisenhower was an angel.” “You know, one shouldn’t put down all the things that the Beats and the hippies stood for. The expansion of consciousness, this is something completely new in poetry. Religious consciousness — they’re turning toward the Far East, for instance. The first articulation of an ecological consciousness. So many things in our culture now, which we take for granted, came out of that rebellion, that youth rebellion.” In 2001, City Lights was placed on the list of San Francisco’s historic landmarks. “Does poetry still matter today?” “What did you put the word ‘still’ in there for? Yeah, does poetry still matter today? It’s still — it’s a ‘still.’ All the disparate elements of the new civilization, the new culture of the 21st century is in this ‘still.’ And one of these days, the brew is going to coalesce into a marvelous, new, intoxicating liquor.”

Wednesday 24 February 2021

The best of Captain Beefheart


Captain Beefheart: a guide to his best albums
Four years earlier, Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, had released his masterpiece, the avant-rock behemoth that was Trout Mask Replica. Recorded ...

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Jon Anderson news

 Jon Anderson's Animation to get remastered reissue

Jon Anderson's 1982 solo album Animation is to be reissued in April. A newly expanded, remastered version of Animation will be released through ...

JON ANDERSONTalks To NEAL MORSE About Creation Of Intro On YES Classic "Close To The ...
In the video below, guest Jon Anderson chats with Neal Morse about how a moment he captured on his tape recorder resulted in the creation of the ...

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ZAPPETTY WAPPETTY WOO


Frank Zappa once told Steve Vai his guitar tone sounded "like an electric ham sandwich"
In a new interview with Australian Musician, Vai recalls his tenure in Frank Zappa's band – which spanned 1980 to 1983 – and remembers how the ...

Frank Zappa's Son Ahmet Talks Legacy, Labels, and His Father's Inventions
Frank Zappa's Son Ahmet Talks Legacy, Labels, and His Father's Inventions. Ahmet Zappa opened the vault for Alex Winter's ZAPPA documentary, but is ...
New on DVD: 'Zappa' strikes the right chord in exploring life of iconoclast
"Zappa": This two-hour, nine-minute documentary is a sprawling look at the iconic musical multi-hyphenate and activist Frank Zappa, helmed by actor ...

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JOHN HEATON: The Beatles’ Most Momentous Days in the ‘60s


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Fashion review

 


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Monday 22 February 2021

FRANKLY SPEAKING


Frank god: inside story of a musical genius
Frank Zappa in Zappa – the documentary is a treasure trove of mid to late 20th-century culture. ZAPPA Directed by Alex Winter Certificate: 15.
Tapestry and Zappa
Frank Zappa was a force of nature and Alex Winter's documentary Zappa explores this extraordinarily creative mind, not just in music, but in film, ...

Zappa review – under the skin of the wild man of American rock
... of eccentric musician Frank Zappa into a portrait of the artist as a flawed man. Frank Zappa, the subject of a new documentary by Alex Winter.

'Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' Available Now As 3CD Deluxe Edition Via Zappa ...
The movie insists on seeing Frank Zappa not from the outside but, rather, in the way that he saw himself: as a deadly serious and obsessive aesthete- ...

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Barbara Dickson - January February

      
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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?"

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE SUN CAME OUT IN AUSTIN?
I WAS DOWN WITH THE HOMELESS @ANOTHER MEMORIAL
for a woman, frozen in our Austin cold. The crowd were young and caring.
Many of them will soon be dispossessed-from their flooded apartments.
Their landlords take no responsibility for flooded homes.
They will evict when the premises are "not fit for occupation"
Meanwhile,more homeless are hungry,cold,wet ,alone
Saved by their peer groups and neighborhood initiatives
Sharing of food ,water,shelter. So here we are underneath the HOMELESS MEMORIAL TREE
where each year they read the names of those 200 who died on Austin Streets this year.
More names will be added. More bodies uncovered. Those in charge of power will escape responsibility.
And the sharing and caring will be done by those young singular ones,
those who put their bodies on the line,this sunny Sunday afternoon
down on Vic Mathias shores by the Homeless Memorial
Where the only names we want to see -are those prosecuted for neglect of duty.
It will not bring the dead back to life-but then,neither will poetry..
Black History
...BECAUSE SOME OF US THINK THAT THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT
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.