Friday 30 September 2022

Top 10 Albums of the 1960s ! Beatles & Beyond ...


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Those notorious Beefheart sessions

 Captain Beefheart Guitarist Describes Notorious 'Trout Mask Replica' Sessions - Ultimate Guitar

The band lived in a commune for eight months where Captain Beefheartpushed them beyond their limits, often resorting to verbal and physical ...

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Little Frank

 Exploring the unusual childhood of Frank Zappa - Far Out Magazine

The late Frank Zappa was one of the most uncompromising artists the world has ever seen. His colourful oeuvre is not only incredibly eclectic but ...


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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

  

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FOUND A MAN DIGGING IN AN IRISH FIELD
Q:"WHAT ARE YOU DIGGING FOR?"
A:Seamus Heaney.@the Blarney Stone,
Guide shared they piss on it before the tourists kiss.
Dublin so English,drives one Westward Ho!
Seas surround us.Invaders within us.Gaelic Resurgence.
More out of Ireland than Inn.Starved to America,England,Australia.
Abbey Theater.Like Latin,frozen.Feelings so deep we have no new words.
Who writes in the Book of Kells?Irish Monasteries.Marginalia.
Cursed by Catholicism.Unresolved Border dilemmas.
Yearning,crying,sorrow,song-waves licking at coastlines.
Emotions are true for moments.We forget.Remember pain.
Sometimes,thin soup sorrow turns bright sun green mornings.
Sometimes,even shadows,transform into Light.

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Fairport Convention ~ Meet On The Ledge

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Thursday 29 September 2022

Frank Zappa and the parental advisory sticker

 Frank Zappa and his link to the 'Parental Advisory' sticker - Far Out Magazine

Frank Zappa famously rallied against the Parents Music Resource Center and their campaign to get music censored in the United States

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Tribute to Alan White

 Music Legends Gather to Honor the Life & Career of YES Drummer, Alan White - Patch

Musicians who will join the musical tribute include: • Current and former members of YES: Geoff Downes, Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood, Jay Schellen, and ...

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: George Harrison Extra Texture Revisited

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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?"

FLORILEGIUM TO AMAZON.COM..CREDO UT INTELLIGAM.
.(Every wordspell is enchantment-but belief is not enough.
Trust in topographical truth as a Bridge between Worlds.
As Tolkein created worlds based upon his childhood play fields
Sarehole Mill near Birmingham becomes the Shire,
Hobbit Houses inspired by Cave Houses  from Kinveredge to East Riding.
This cartographic connection inspired by William Morris-'The Sundering Flood"
As Thomas Hardy made Dorset into his Wessex settings,such historicity
provides an illusion of authenticity.Like George R R Martin's "A Song Of Fire and Ice"
inspiring both GAME OF THRONES and its recent Prequel..Our world as myth and Legend..
I personally love William Horwood's  DUNCTION WOOD Trilogy,where moles near Oxford
live under standing stones and preserve the bucolic against stoats and rats ...EVANGELIUM PERSONIFIED..
These are the USES OF ENCHANTMENT....AKALLABETH within Wilderland and Rivendell..
Just like Jonathon Swift in Gulliver's Travels.Just like Robert Louis Stevenson in TREASURE ISLAND.
Mythical maps of Imagined Spaces-to take us on a REAL adventure,with hobbits and moles and pirates and treasure.
Characters with magical humanity we can identify with..Heroes and Pilgrims..Just like us..On a Journey..Perilous..


LEONARD COHEN IN MUMBAI

Malavika's Mumbaistan: Leonard Cohen In Mumbai - Hindustan Times
"Leonard Cohen is in the pool at the XX Club," the person said, mentioning one that I happen to be a member of "and knowing you're a big fan of ...

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Wednesday 28 September 2022

Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation - Porcupine Tree Interview


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Larry King Live with the John Lennon murderer

 

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A STORY FROM LEN

 A lyrical short story by Leonard Cohen: A Montreal poet goes looking for love in a raincoat

In The Jukebox Heart, this posthumously released work, the great singer-songwriter imagines a young romantic courting a mysterious, ...

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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?"

ARTIFICE AS ART
I DO NOT
I DO NOT CARE
I DO NOT CARE IF I AM REPLACED
I DO NOT CARE IF I AM REPLACED BY A.I
I DO NOT CARE IF I AM REPLACED BY A.I POETRY &ART
If it begins with humans,then we can start(again)
To find forms of expression which are intrinsically human
So all clones and apps and A.I might follow in our tracks
Send the robots to Moon and Mars.Keep Earth's habitat intact
So MATRIX and SINGULARITY become just brand names
And we can enjoy each other's company(and not be programmed
AGAIN..

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Beatles - In My Life (Music Video)

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Monday 26 September 2022

Paul Gorman, the rise and fall of the music press and why we miss it


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Len vs Rog

 The Leonard Cohen song Roger Waters couldn't live without - Far Out Magazine

Leonard cohen's songwriting style is an unusual one. Not finding his singing voice until the age of 33, Cohen's strange turn from poet to novelist ...

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SATIRICAL ZAPPA

'You Are What You Is': Frank Zappa's Savagely Satirical Pop Masterclass - uDiscover Music
The first song-based Frank Zappa album of the '80s, the 20-song double-album You Are What You Is, found the pioneering composer at his most ...

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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?"

HERE BE DRAGONS
SEAFARING MAPS WERE ILLUSTRATED WITH KRAKENS &DRAGONS
Which may have existed once,but no evidence presents itself..today
Only annotations on Illuminated Manuscripts&Heraldry.Dragons.Gryphons.
We evoke their presence when sightings are made of allegedly extinct creatures.
Anomalous in size and context,we ask-where is there habitat?How have they survived?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's garden fairies were photographic illusions.Even pre-Photoshop,
images could be cut and pasted together to "prove"Loch Ness "Monsters..(BELIEF REQUIRED)
Closer examination of Bigfoot tracks,or Tasmanian tiger remains often come via video,
which itself is subject to computer forensics-to test the existence of evidence and proof.
We so much want to believe in Yetis and Bunyips that songs and poems praise their magic,
even when there are no sightings or their habitat or hunting habits.Science scoffs at doctored pix/videos.
Who believes in tall stories?Our age is one of doubt,when all habitat is threatened,and many species are extinct.
Give us bones and blood,DNA and proof!Let us recreate Siberian mammoths and Dolly sheep.
Perhaps  pre-dinosaur,species existed both huge and tiny-that we can locate and replicate
Meanwhile ,tourists flock to Loch Ness,waiting for Nessie to arise like King Arthur.
Fill your hungry camera with Nature-she is the birthplace ,home and only habitat of anomalous creatures like us
Anthropocene Age may find aliens wondering what these plastic sacks and surgical masks meant
Or maybe,post-Us mutants may not be bothered with extinct creatures -and just move on..Evolution..

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: WE'RE ALL WATER by Yoko Ono

           

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Sunday 25 September 2022

Yes it was a Big Generator

 Why 'Big Generator' Failed to Build on Yes' Amazing '90125' Breakthrough

... shimmery guitar textures, non-existent bass (I still can't believe Chris Squire gave this album the OK), blasts from synthesized horns.

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PLAYLIST: 06-03-2022 – SHOW 452 – Fruits de Mer: Heads Together

 

06-03-2022 – SHOW 452 – Fruits de Mer: Heads Together


Abiodun Oyewole: A Poem

Ral Donner: The Girl of My Best FriendThe Faces of Sarah: I’ve Lost You
The Love Explosion: Unwel
The Aggregation: Life’s LightWeasel: Guru
Tomorrow: Strawberry Fields Forever


Nell Smith and the Flaming Lips: Into my Arms
D J Shadow: Building Steam with a Grain of Sand
Felt: The Stagnant Pool
Felt: I Can’t Make Love to you Anymore
Nick Nicely: Butterfly Mind
Vashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day
Spirit: Nature’s Way
Warren Smith: Cave In
William Wilding: Cave
Michael Bardon: What do you Want to Become
Cary Grace: Lady of the Turquoise
Strawberry Switchblade: Trees and Flowers (extended)
Computerchemist: That Which Prevails
Spirit: When I Touch You
Cartridge Blower: I am Error
Abby Bland: Fight or Flight
Soft Hearted Scientists: I’ll be Happy, I’ll be Waiting
The Flaming Lips: The Secret of Immortality
David Crosby: I’d Swear There was Somebody Here

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 THERAPY
EMOTIONAL MUSIC
Musical chairs
Swirls of waves
Come crashing shores
Internal rhythms
External chaos
Meet beneath skin
Correspondence
Blood beat remembers
Harmonic waltz.
Healing begins-
Remembrance

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Choir Concerto, Op. 25: I. Adagio - II. Allegro moderato

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. For the moment, however, each Sunday the music will be from the Ukraine.    


 

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Friday 23 September 2022

Gonzo Weekly #517/8

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THE RHINOVIRUS 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 issue? 120 pages of Wargames, Queen Elizabeth, The Scribes, Mark at the Movies, Lounge Society/Inner Terrestrials/Buff/Sunflower Ingram, Graham Coxon, The Gardening Club and oodles more...
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, Mr Biffo, Puls8 Radio (cancelled), and the Real Music Club, AND Strange Fruit, there is a column from Kev Rowland, 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:
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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