Monday, 12 June 2017

RICK WAKEMAN IN THE NEWS

Rick Wakeman - Buxton Opera House, Buxton Traveller Reviews
Very lovely venue in order to see/hear Rick Wakeman, who was on good form both musically and raconteurially (is that even a word). Right at the top, ...

Rock star Rick Wakeman recalls memories of David Bowie on Desert Island Discs. ROCK star Rick Wakeman has described the day David Bowie ...

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Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for hi..
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Starmus is a festival of music and astronomy on the beautiful island of Tenerife. It is the brain child of Garik Israelian (the astrophysicist who led the team which found the first observational..
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On this extraordinary album, legendary keyboard player teams up with an Italian singer named Mario Fasciano. Stavros Moschopoulos  writes: 'Recorded on the Isle of Man, the CD contains 8 new..
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With special guests  Various artists including: Ian Paice, Rick Parfitt, Steve Hackett, Andy Fairweather Low, John Entwistle etc..
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Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known f..
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Musician, producer and former Yes member Billy Sherwood has put together what he’s dubbed “the biggest super group of progressive rock players ever assembled,” to form ..
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26 tracks in all, of which 10 are previously unreleased (these including an epic version of Matthew the Man - live in Tokyo 2001 and Beijing - widescreen remix from Iona, and other unreleased tra..
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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?

 AND DID THOSE FEET IN ANCIENT TIMES
WISER FISHERPERSONS SOUGHT DEEPER FISH
than the blue sea shallows that lap dance on beaches
We know some by their names-but many are Anonymous
Their claim to fame our continuing continuance
Sometimes,the point is not to catch a fish
more to meditate upon lines seeking the Deep.
Happily,there are still Depths beyond our Mariana Trench
Explorers still encode and enrapture
What we know is a hand in the snow
Water encloses us .Blue planet Gaia.
We are still.Moving like currents
around as pilgrims and as refugees

seeking a home where we can be free.
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Sunday, 11 June 2017

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Beautiful Song - Krishna Das - Sri Argala Stotram

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 sam
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FAIRPORT CONVENTION INTHE NEWS


Fairport Convention are a mainstay of the UK folk scene and have taken an increasingly acoustic slant as they've continued their evolution. As the ...

Top: Fairport Convention and Ralph McTell. ... I Am Kloot frontman John Bramwell, Fairport Convention, Hunter, fabulous stand-up Shappi Khorsandi ...

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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?

 WHAT IS TRUE?
SOCRATES UPDATED
Is global warming true?Is our world only 5000 years old?
Is there a Heaven?Will only 144,000 get in?Are there angels?
Science was born via philosophy.We begin with metaphor
"In the Beginning"starts many a Creation Saga.On the level of Story,
every version can be true.Only the facts are in dispute.
And here is where forensics and science come in
to examine the body of evidence,and sift for remains of truth.
Sometimes there are none..
 Neil deGrasse Tyson's video.

-2:16

35,658,538 View Neil deGrasse Tyson 19 April Dear Facebook UniverseI offer this four-minute video on "Science in America" containing what may be the most important words I have ever spoken.As always, but especially these days, keep looking up.—Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Friday, 9 June 2017

Gonzo Magazine #238

Gonzo Magazine #238
THE JUSTIFIED AND ANCIENT ISSUE
 
We talk to Krautrock legend Lutz Graf-Ulbrich about his work with Nico and Agitation Free, Jon goes off on a weird trip with the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Alan critiques Forest Swords, there is fun at the Real Music Club with Roy Weard, Sendelica and C P Lee, and all sorts of democracy-related japes..
 
And listen up Kiddies: It’s all free!
 
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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!!!
 
This issue features:
 
VE, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, KLF, Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Tir Na Nog,  Prince, Elton John, Marillion, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Noel Gallagher, Pete Townshend, Gogol Bordello, Roger Waters, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Aamir Zaki, Peter Sallis, OBE, Educated Rapper (Jeffrey Campbell), Andrew "Andy" Cunningham, Barbara Alexandra "Sandra" Reemer, Vincent Paul Garbutt, Ya Kwanza, Mary Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Lütz Ulbrich, Alan Dearling, Forest Swords (Matthew Barnes), Bjork, Jeremy Smith, Brinsley Schwarz, Real Music Club, Roy Weard, Sendelica, Kev Rowland, Silver Hunter, Spoil Engine, Starsick System, That Rock Guy, Thoughts of Ionesco, Thus Defiled, Tony Klinger, Hawkwind, Gerald Durrell, Gorillaz, Albert Collins, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Joy Division, New Order, Oasis, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Deep Purple
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)
Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)
Issue 224 (Hibernal)
Issue 223 (Beatles)
Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)
Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)
Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 219 (Martin Stone)
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
 
 
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.
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PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #215

Strange Fruit is a unique two-hour radio show exploring the world of underground, strange and generally neglected music. All shows are themed and all shows set out to give the most hardened of sound-hounds some new delight to sample.

The show is also unique in providing homework for undergraduate students on North West Kent College’s Foundation Degree in Professional Writing (who dig up many of the odd facts featured in the links between tracks).

Neil Nixon, the founder and presenter of the show has released a book about rare albums for Gonzo Multimedia.

The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight.

11 June 2017
Show 215 - Groundation

The Byrds:  Eight Miles High
The BombayRoyale:  The River
My Bloody Valentine:  When you Sleep
Groundation:  Praising
Has a Shadow:  Sorrow
Roy Orbison:  Easy Way Out
Kevin Rowland:  Reflections of my Life
Duke Ellington:  Moon Maiden
Brian John McBreaty:  Second Story Tune
Groundation:   Dem Rise
Morcheeba:  Big Calm
Naomi and the Boys:  Bad Loser
Neon Neon:  Raquel
Paul Henry:  Benny’s Song
Lawrence English:  Hammering a Screw
Echo and the Bunnymen:  Market Town
Paul Kossoff:  Tuesday Morning
Steve Hackett:  In the Skeleton Gallery
Groundation:  We Free Again
Barbara Foster:  San Clemente’s Not the Same
Second Woman:  4CC (Fluxion Version)


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WAYHAY! BRAND X NEWS


Founding guitarist John Goodsall and founding bassist Percy Jones are coming to Sellersville Theater June 10, along with keyboardist Chris Clark, ...

And saying that, Brand X has reunited (without drummer Phil Collins of Genesis), for yet another tour. For the ninitiated, Brand X may sound like a ...


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X-Communication
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Live in Stockholm 1978
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Live From Chicago 1978
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Ronnie Scotts Live 1976
CD - £9.99

Live in San Francisco
CD - £9.99

The X Files - A 20 Year Retrospective
2CD - £10.99

Is There Anything About?
CD - £9.99
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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?
"AND THE AIR(OF AUSTIN)IS SWEET WITH TACOS!" (Mayor Adler)
RECENTLY,MY ADOPTED SANCTUARY CITY
has been attacked by the (temporary) Texas Governor.
He did not like the fact we voted out UBER/LYFT
So he restored their access(despite our vote)
He does not like our banning of plastic bags
So he seeks the restore his RIGHT TO POLLUTE
He accuses compassionate Austin of being a SANCTUARY CITY
and takes away funding to punish us
He wishes to ban transgender people from specific bathrooms
to take away any support for abortions .He attacks PLANNED PARENTHOOD
and is for the travel ban on Muslims.You ask why does such hate prosper?
Just ask Gerry Mander!

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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

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FRANK ZAPPA IN THE NEWS



Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention's 1967 album Absolutely Free is being given the 50th anniversary treatment. The album – the band's second ...
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Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention's sophomore album "Absolutely Free" is being expanded for a special 50th anniversary vinyl reissue that will ...
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Frank Zappa is considered to be one of the most influential rock musicians of the late twentieth century. Between the start of his career in the late fifties and his death in 1993 he recorded and rele..
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In 1965, Ray Collins asked Zappa to take over as guitarist in local R&B band the Soul Giants, following a fight between Collins and the group's original guitarist. Zappa accepted, and soon assumed..
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On September 19, 1985, Frank Zappa testified before the United States Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music organizati..
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Thursday, 8 June 2017

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Rocket Scientists - Traveler on the Supernatural Highways



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MONTEREY POP FIFTY YEARS ON

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... will team with The Terrapin Family Band, Booker T. Jones will lead Booker T.'s Stax Revue and Eric Burdon will front Eric Burdon & The Animals.

... acts including the Jefferson Airplane (above), the Byrds and the Doors. ... “Hair” and a performance by the current incarnation of Jefferson Starship.

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LEONARD COHEN IN THE NEWS


The street outside the house the great singer, performer and poet lived in will be named Leonard Cohen street while a stone seat dedicated to his ...

LEONARD COHEN IN THE NEWS

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JACKIE LEE REVIEW

Belgium review translated

JACKIE LEE - WHITE HORSES

 We've mentioned it earlier: 2017 seems to be the year of replay of old records. Now it's the turn of a record that first came to the market in 1968, while still in a mono-sound quality. Digitizing those old albums obviously creates a modern and fresh sound for the songs recorded for the first time almost 50 years ago.

 Plate label "Gonzo Multimedia" has committed itself to re-publishing the "White Horses" record of Irish singer Jackie Lee born in Dublin in 1936 as Jacqueline Norah Flood and thus on May 29, 2017, the blessed age of 81 will to achieve. Her soprano voice was heard in the 1950s and '60s as lead singer in groups such as' The Squadronaires',' The Raindrops' (with Les Vandyke and Vince Hill), 'Tears Of Joy' and 'The Jackie Lee Singers'. She also performed backing vocals on world hits like "The Green Green Grass Of Home" by Tom Jones and "Please Release Me" by Engelbert Humperdinck.
But it was mainly thanks to her solo career that she could gain more glory at closer inspection. Particularly her song "White Horses" (see video) from this album was a great success in Britain because it was heard every week as a theme song during the begun of the many popular British television series White Horses.

 The very first album of Jackie Lee dates back to 1955 when her single "I Was Wrong" appeared. In the following year two further singles followed "On The Outskirts Of Paree" and "Little Ship". "White Horses" was her first full solo album in 1968, and the album "Jackie's Junior Choice Pye", published in 1971, was the only album that was followed.

 The ten songs of the album "White Horses" were put in a jazzy dress, as it is heard of this reissue in songs like "Things I Do not Mean" and "I Think I Like You". Other songs that accompany us are the uptempo songs "We're Off And Running" and "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?", Next to her engaging version of the so-called classic "Scarlet Ribbons" and the love ballad "Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind ".

 This re-release of "White Horses" on CD was highlighted with eight favorite songs that Jackie Lee had ever sung in her career, and she personally liked to appear in this digitized form on CD. The most famous songs from this eight are "I Cry Alone" of Maxine Brown from 1960, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, "The You Shalles", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" of 1961, written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, who Also composed for the composing "The Locomotion" of Little Eva from 1962 and the "The End Of The World" CD, the hit of Skeeter Davis from 1962 and best known in 1973's cover version of The Carpenters.
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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?
FREEDOM RE-IMAGINED
In a wheelchair=full mobility
For those deaf-to hear everything!
Imprisoned-open door,walls,windows,life
Illiterate/sub-literate=learning exponentially,continuously
Hungry?-to be filled and fulfilled
Thirsty?As much water as you need
Sickness?To be healed
Neglected?To be cared for
Broken?To be mended
Depressed?To find joy(real,intrinsic)
To see,feel,touch,taste,experience this and all other worlds

on all levels,at all times,with no limits as to functions and to forms..

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Wednesday, 7 June 2017

RICK WAKEMAN: Phantom of the Opera review

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Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for hi..
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Starmus is a festival of music and astronomy on the beautiful island of Tenerife. It is the brain child of Garik Israelian (the astrophysicist who led the team which found the first observational..
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On this extraordinary album, legendary keyboard player teams up with an Italian singer named Mario Fasciano. Stavros Moschopoulos  writes: 'Recorded on the Isle of Man, the CD contains 8 new..
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With special guests  Various artists including: Ian Paice, Rick Parfitt, Steve Hackett, Andy Fairweather Low, John Entwistle etc..
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Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known f..
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Musician, producer and former Yes member Billy Sherwood has put together what he’s dubbed “the biggest super group of progressive rock players ever assembled,” to form ..
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26 tracks in all, of which 10 are previously unreleased (these including an epic version of Matthew the Man - live in Tokyo 2001 and Beijing - widescreen remix from Iona, and other unreleased tra..
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Robert Calvert was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1945.  When he was two years of age  his family settled in Margate, Kent.   Moving to London's bohemian Ladbroke Grove/Portobe..
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Rocket Scientists is a progressive rock band formed in the late 1980s by keyboardist Erik Norlander and vocalist / guitarist Mark McCrite. The band released their first C..
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