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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling 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 Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth 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 with in 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? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)

YOU CAN NOT EAT OIL
Waters that they extract for"natural"gas
forget drought ,bare bone desert/become emotions
Alone in cells of less and loss/bribed only when the market forces
value resources over one's truly human needs-to be,to express
to link with Light and love and laughter with trusted friends
Your footprints walk away from older games
There is no reason to stay.Unless the seed of truly human beings can play
All is work and slave.Price tags dictate.Cost over true value
Scarcity means high prices.Work till the field dies.
You only know when you try.To be your authentic self


before you die..

Song to Soul: Interview on Early King Crimson with Peter Sinfield and Ian McDonald 2011

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Zappa Plays Zappa introduces Frank's music to a new generation

Don't think of Zappa Plays Zappa as another classic-rock tribute show, or the gathered musicians as just another cover band.

"This is a repertory ensemble," says Dweezil Zappa, son of the late Frank Zappa and leader of the six-piece group playing Saturday night at the Tower Theatre.

Think of the band — which authentically recreates the music of Frank Zappa — as a rock orchestra. Zappa was a self-taught composer and performer and a fiercely independent outsider artist throughout the late '70s and into the '80s. His music was often inspired and complex, more than even his son knew.

"I was always a fan, but the more I learn about it, the more I'm impressed with what he was able to accomplish," Dweezil says.

In fact, Dweezil had to unlearn 30 years of guitar training and create new picking techniques in order to accurately re-create what his father did naturally.

"Most people would find it a challenge not worth doing," he says.

The preparation for the show was intensive for all the musicians involved. Every song they play is taken from the original hand-written transcriptions and checked against the master tapes. Each note is played exactly as it was written by Zappa.

In that way, the concert is a tribute. It will no doubt draw longtime Zappa fans who are eager to see this music performed on stage again.

The show is also meant to introduce Zappa's music to a new audience, Dweezil says. There is an entire generation — maybe two— who missed the chance to experience Zappa before he died of prostate cancer in 1993.

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Steve Smith: Yes at the Greek Theatre, The Zombies on the Santa Monica Pier rock fans

Have you ever been to a concert where the attendees gave every single song a standing ovation?

It happened Aug. 24 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles as English progressive rock legends Yes concluded a five-month tour. For the band that formed in London in 1968 it was a triumphant evening before approximately 5,000 rapturous fans. (Heck, even the two songs showcased from the just-released “Heaven and Earth” album got ‘em up and cheering.)

This tour saw the band perform two of its iconic early 70’s LPs in their entirety, “Fragile” and “Close to the Edge.” The group’s fourth album, 1971’s “Fragile,” went double-platinum, reaching No. 7 here and containing the No. 13 single, “Roundabout” and the FM radio hit, “Long Distance Runaround”; while their fifth LP, the platinum-selling “Close to the Edge” was a concept album that reached No. 4 and included the lengthy “And You and I” and “Siberian Khatru” as well as the 18-minute title work.

Over the decades, members have come and gone... and come and gone again and again. This current Yes includes founding bassist Chris Squire, who is part of every Yes contingent as he owns the rights to the band’s name, guitarist Steve Howe (first joined 1970), drummer Alan White (first joined 1972), and keyboardist Geoff Downes (first joined 1980). The years have done nothing to diminish their formidable skills as musicians.

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Full Show Friday | Frank Zappa In Munich 1978

We'd like to think we've seen it all when it comes to circulating Frank Zappa video, but we were unaware of an hour of pro-shot FZ live and off-stage footage from 1978 that was aired on German TV under the title "We Don't Mess Around." The concert film/documentary was filmed during Zappa's rehearsals at Circus Krone on September 8, 1978.

In this special Frank's band finds him joined by the impressive lineup of Ike Willis, Denny Walley, Arthur Barrow, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Ed Mann and Vinnie Colaiuta. BR (Bayerischer Rundfunk) filmed the band in action and interviewed Zappa for a piece that was shown on German TV in 1980 and rebroadcast in 1996.

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Fairport Convention - Summer Before the War

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling 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 Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth 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 with in 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? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)

ALL DAY LONG MUGGY HUMID HOT

UNTIL RELEASED/RAIN WASHED US

sounds of night insects hunting feasts

within,we keep the doors and windows open

RELIEF!All day long-complaints from those

who did not expect to be blackmailed by weather patterns

Emotions rise with heat.Streets waver in waves.

Pressure builds until clouds congregate

and give back the rain they stored for too long

We,too,loosened ,released.relaxed

Night is now a song outside

while,within,we enter in early morning awakenings

Hours sleep deep.Half moon blinks.

Morning will bring us into a new dream

Until Zen-we shed our skin-and sing!

‘It was all fair in love and war’: Inside Yes’ decision to complete Heaven and Earth without Roy Thomas Baker

Steve Howe is delving into Yes’ shift from initial producer Roy Thomas Baker to Billy Sherwood during the final mixing process for Heaven and Earth — describing Baker’s approach on the new album as too technocratic. At some point, the guitarist says, Yes simply decided to take the project back under its own aegis.

“We got into it, and it was OK,” Howe tells WMGK‘s Ray Koob. “You know, every producer’s got a certain style. Roy’s method was pretty much about the sound. It wasn’t so much about the construction of the songs, like Trevor [Horn, producer of 2011's Fly From Here], who worked very hard on that. So, Roy kind of let us do most of the music, and twiddled with a lot of knobs. But, I tell you, in the end we really did have to bring it back to Yes Central — because, in a way, I don’t think he was as familiar with our mixing style as say Billy Sherwood, who ended up doing that for us. Well, we did it with him; it was a collaboration. So, we had to kind of pull it back to Yes Central. It was all fair in love and war.”

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Leonard Cohen to Release New Album For 80th Birthday Next Month

By Andy Greene | August 11, 2014

Leonard Cohen will commemorate his 80th birthday next month by releasing a new LP entitled Popular Problems. While Cohen's representative could not confirm the album, word of the release dropped last week at Leonard Cohen Event 2014, an officially sanctioned fan convention held in Dublin. There's also a September 22nd release date for Popular Problems listed on Amazon France.

"Leonard has worked hard on his next studio album of entirely new songs," read a foreword to the event booklet written by Jarkko Arjatsalo, a finnish accountant that runs Cohen's authorized fan site The Leonard Cohen Files and serves as a liaison between the singer and his fan community. "He asked me to let you know that Popular Problems will be out at the end of September, shortly after his 80th birthday."

In an e-mail to Rolling Stone, Arjatsalo confirmed the statement and said he received the information "directly from Leonard." When news hit Cohen's fan community, Arjatsalo posted to clarify Cohen's upcoming plans. "There are no tour plans!" he wrote. "We are now looking forward to a great new studio album."

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Makeup show planned after rain cuts short Deauville Island Music Festival with Jefferson Starship

The rainbow that appeared after the drenching of the Deauville Island Music Festival had organizers hopeful the show would go on.

It didn't.

An evening downpour, at times angled due to high winds, soaked sound and lighting equipment at the inaugural concert Saturday, Aug. 2, at Emerson Park in Owasco. As a result, the festival was called off before the reuniting Mark Doyle and Joe Whiting band and headliners Jefferson Starship could take the stage.

Festival co-producer Bernie Simmons said the storm hit at about 6:45 p.m., shortly after blues rockers The Funky Blu Roots finished their set; Power Glide (featuring former members of Duke Silver) and The Fabulous Ripcords opened the festival.

"It blew in and it was like a monsoon," Simmons said. "I wouldn't be surprised if we had an inch of rain."

After the storm subsided, technicians and organizers spent an hour evaluating the soaked equipment before calling the concert off, Simmons said. The crew told him the speaker cones and electrical outlets were wet to the point of being a safety risk.

Simmons and festival staff suggested solutions like trucking in other equipment or using fewer speakers, he said, but nothing was feasible enough to save the show. 

Doyle and Whiting, scheduled to play at 7 p.m., stayed until 9 p.m. hoping they'd be able to perform, Simmons said.

"They had worked on a set of 40 years of music, so they were excited to play it in front of everybody," he said.

Most patrons reacted to the news well, Simmons said, and Jefferson Starship held a meet-and-greet to soften the blow.

Instead of refunds, the festival plans to honor all tickets at a makeup show with the longtime rockers and the Doyle-Whiting band — but the availability of Starship will be an obstacle, Simmons said. Currently, no date is set.

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Yes performing at Hard Rock Hotel

Is this one of those “be careful what you wish for” stories?

On one hand, “Probably every kid fantasizes about being in their favorite band,” says Jon Davison. And he became not just the lead singer, but the driving force behind his favorite band’s new album.

On the other hand, the band is Yes.

“It’s so hard because there’s always this high and strict standard for absolute progressive perfection,” Davison says with a laugh.

The pioneering progressive-rock band has been making albums since 1969, including two certified prog classics — “Fragile” and “Close to the Edge” — which get played in full on the tour that visits the Hard Rock Hotel on Friday.

“You’re never going to measure up to that and we don’t necessarily want to, because it would be forced if we tried,” says Davison, who was born in 1971, the year before “Fragile” was released.

The new album, “Heaven &Earth” must not only compete with that legacy, but with lingering resentment in the group’s fan base for the band replacing its original singer, Jon Anderson, when he was sidelined by illness five years ago. (Anderson is starting a new band with jazz-rock violinist Jean Luc Ponty.)

“Heaven &Earth” came out of the gate last month with impressive sales for a classic-rock group, debuting at No. 26 on Billboard’s album charts.

But fan and critical reaction has been mixed to negative, with the general drift being that it’s too languid and tepid. “Where did the rocking part of Yes go?” asks a typical fan comment on a review site.

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EPISODE SIX REVISITED

Deep Purple fans likely did a double take when Light My Fire: A Classic Rock Salute to the Doors arrived with Ian Gillan singing the title track. But there’s a back story to Gillan’s involvement in this Billy Sherwood-produced project that goes beyond the chance to work with Yes standouts Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe, who also appear on Gillan’s fleet update of “Light My Fire.”

“I never do these things, normally, because I don’t see what the point is,” Gillan tells Lone Star 92.5. “But it was kind of nostalgic, really, because I used to sing Doors stuff — and “Light My Fire,” in particular — with a band called Episode Six before I joined Purple with Roger Glover. That was just a nostalgic trip for me.”

Initially formed in 1964, the decidedly pop-leaning Episode Six was co-founded by Glover before Gillan joined the following year. Their first single, released on Pye in 1966, was also a cover — of the Hollies’ “Put Yourself In My Place.” It would be June 1969, after a series of subsequent chart failures, before Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord caught an Episode Six performance in London. By July, Gillan and Glover were the newest members of Deep Purple.

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling 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 Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth 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 with in 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? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)

WHAT WATER TOLD ME

"FLOW!"(she said-"BE FREE!

She chuckled/she gurgled/ she licked/she laughed

She is one wherever she emerges/gift to all/unconditional

Spring/pool/creek/river/fresh and pure

(of course we  sip,siphon off,bottle,sell

add fluoride/chlorine-drop in plastic bottles

Put price tags  in supermarkets

That is us!Take your price tags off!

Dive back into your welcoming waters!

Barton Springs!Jacobs Well!Hamilton Pool!

Take all price tags!Stay open/living/free!

Just Say Yes

It doesn’t happen that often any more, but I love calling an artist at their hotel when they’re staying under an alias. And while I can’t tell you the name founding Yes bassist Chris Squire was using at a recent tour stop in Tucson, I can tell you that the man has a sense of humor.

He also had plenty to talk about. Not only did the Grammy-winning progressive rock band just release their 21st studio album, "Heaven & Earth," the platinum-selling vets are in the midst of a 35-date summer tour where new lead vocalist Jon Davison is getting a chance to showcase his strength as a songwriter.

Yes (including longtime members Steve Howe, Alan White, and Geoff Downes) will play at Humphrey’s Concerts By The Bay on Monday, Aug. 18, but Squire helped us preview the show by speaking with SoundDiego about the English band that is quickly approaching its 50th year.

Scott McDonald: How are you?
Chris Squire: Very well, thank you. Things couldn’t be better.

SM: Seems like you guys are always on tour. How does it feel to be playing new songs this time around?
CS: Well, it feels great. Tour started at the beginning of July and we are doing new songs, but we’re really doing a mixture of things - a reprise of the "Close to the Edge" album that we did last year on tour, tunes from the new album, the "Fragile" album in its entirety, and a couple of encores with hits and the like.

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling 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 Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth 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 with in 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? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)

I EMBARRASS MYSELF WILLINGLY
whoever i meet those who sailed me through
storms,tempests,traumas into stillness /harmonies
Take Robert Bly-his gift of Rumi in translation
opened gates of wild horses into a stampede
I plied him with poetry books .I still see
that question mark over his head.And Pete Townsend
whose WON'T GET FOOLED AGIN gave me courage
to deal with MY GENERATION.@SXSW Music Awards
plied him with poetry books in gratitude.Last night
i met Elliott Landy,who photographed my 60s heroes-
Hendrix,Dylan,Joplin,Jim Morrison.He gave me HIS book!
And that has confused me all day long!We trade songs like birds do
Tree to tree call out where the seeds of future harvests hide


I wonder who i might meet tonight?

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Soheil Nasseri in St. Petersburg Russia: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1

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Peter Noone hams it up with Herman's Hermits at Chevy Court at the NYS Fair (review)

Peter Noone knows exactly what he's doing.

The 66-year-old Brit hammed it up for 75 minutes to a Senior Day crowd at the State Fair's Chevy Court Monday afternoon. Fronting his British Invasion band Herman's Hermits, Noone played a goofball, a comedian and rock star onstage in equal parts for an act that was all nostalgia yet still timeless.

He kicked things off with "I'm Into Something Good," followed by popular oldies from The Clovers and Sam Cooke. He touched on his own hits like "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter" and "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat." And he proved a seasoned veteran on the microphone, keeping the packed crowd at Chevy Court thrilled throughout.

His voice and his looks remain boyish and he performs with the exuberance of a man half his age. But then again, this is a guy bred on the British Invasion. If you weren't at the top of your game, you were just another wannabe rocker.

And Noone was at the top of his game Monday afternoon. He's a man who owns his role as a nostalgia act and knows his crowd to a tee. He didn't repeat his gimmicks and he took a genuine interest in his audience. He was sincere and aloof at the same time. He poked gentle fun at today's youthful culture and technology, much to the delight of the Senior Day crowd.

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