"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 WOULD WATER DO?
ESCAPE FROM THE PRISON OF CLOUDS
Share her liquidity to all hungry seeds
Gather in creeks and tributaries/become streams
that merge into rivers that flow into the deep.
Start as storm and end as peace.Change state
according to context and circumstance.FLOW!
Chill as ice and sleet and snow.Freeze when appropriate.
Water slips fast past blockages/brings down walls and dams.
Water has power to move us(emotionally)-to salt water tears
of grief or joy or laughter/and expects us to hold our waters..
Spring,well,fissure-from within our only earth comes water
Laughing when young and fresh and bright and brave
Slow as mud when detritus clogs efficacies..
We are as water is-we flow,slow,stop,change state
Freeze when afraid,heat when red conflict warms
Snowflakes and fingerprints.Unique and different.
Ask water where she will glow next.Might be in you.
Signed special items available from official
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Rick Wakeman
is pleased to announce a new partnership with Music Glue as the new home of his
online store, The Rick Wakeman Emporium.! Featuring Signed Special Items, Signed CDs, DVDs and LPs, Signed
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Born in
Perivale, Middlesex, England, Rick Wakeman's interest in music manifested itself
very early, and from the age of seven on he studied classical piano. At the age
of 14, he joined a local band, Atlantic Blues, the same year he left school to
enroll in the Royal College of Music. He had his eye on a career as a concert
pianist, but Wakeman was dismissed from the college after it became clear that
he preferred playing in clubs to studying technique.
By his late
teens, he was an established session man, playing on records by such diverse
acts as Black Sabbath, Brotherhood of Man, and Edison Lighthouse. At the end of
the '60s, his name also began appearing on the credits of albums by such artists
as Al Stewart and David Bowie, and one set of sessions with a folk-rock band
called the Strawbs led to his joining the group in 1970. After two albums with
the Strawbs, Wakeman joined Yes, a post-psychedelic hard rock band that had
attracted considerable attention with their first three albums. Wakeman played a
key role in the final shape of the group's fourth record, Fragile, creating a
fierce, swirling sound on an array of electric and acoustic pianos,
synthesizers, and Mellotrons. Fragile was a hit, driven by the chart
success of the single "Roundabout," and Wakeman was suddenly elevated to star
status.
Yes' next
album, Close to the Edge, expanded his audience and his appeal, for his
instruments were heard almost continually on the record. During the making of
Close to the Edge in 1972, Wakeman also recorded his first solo album, an
instrumental work entitled The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which consisted
of his musical interpretations of the lives and personalities of the said six
royal spouses. Released early in 1973 on A&M Records, it performed
respectably on the charts. Public reception of Yes' 1974 album, Tales From
Topographic Oceans, was mixed, and the critics were merciless in their
attacks upon the record. Wakeman exited the group before the album's supporting
tour. His new solo album, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, adapted
from the writings of Jules Verne and featuring a rock band, narrator (David
Hemmings), and full orchestral and choral accompaniment, was released to
tremendous public response in both America and England, where it topped the
charts. In 1975, his next album, The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the
Knights of the Round Table, was given a grand-scale premiere at Wembley's
Empire Pool, although it also cost Wakeman a fortune to stage the event on ice.
During this same period, Wakeman began working on film scores with the music for
Ken Russell's Lisztomania, which was a modest hit.
In 1977,
Wakeman returned to Yes, with which he has continued recording and touring. His
solo career continued on A&M into the end of the '70s, with Criminal
Record and Rhapsodies, which were modestly successful. Wakeman's
biggest media splash during this period, however, came through his alleged role
in getting the Sex Pistols dropped by A&M Records soon after being signed.
None of this bothered his fans, which rapidly expanded to encompass those he
picked up through his work with lyricist Tim Rice on a musical adaptation of
George Orwell's 1984, and his burgeoning film work, which included the
music to movies about the 1976 Winter Olympics and the 1982 soccer World Cup
competition. Additionally, he became a regular on Britain's Channel 4. Wakeman's
audience and reputation survived the 1980s better than almost any progressive
rock star of his era, as he continued releasing albums on his own label. He also
remained associated with Yes into the '90s.
In January
2016, Trevor Rabin announced he plans to perform with Wakeman and Jon Anderson
as Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman (ARW), later in the year. Anderson revealed the
three wrote "some unique songs together". Also in January, following requests
from fans, Wakeman recorded piano versions of "Life on Mars?", "Space Oddity",
and "Always Together" as a tribute to David Bowie following his death with
proceeds from the songs donated to Macmillan Cancer Support.
Title - '#9' Artist - The Raz
Band
For those not in the know, for the last thirty-five years, The Raz
Band has been recording and performing their own brand of original songs,
entertaining audiences across the US and globally.
This past December 2018 The Raz Band recorded their first live album
performing songs from the upcoming #9 album as well as their most recent albums
Madison Park (2015) and The Best of RAZ 1985-2015.
And so with that in mind, the latest Raz Band studio album #9, which
features eleven new Raz Band songs, is due for release May 17th, 2019 via Gonzo
Multimedia.
1. 'Breadline Love' 2. 'I Got This' 3. 'Curveball' 4. 'In the
Meantime' 5. 'Coming at You' 6. 'The Winds of Time' 7. 'Let Me Tell
You' 8. 'Call Me Raz' 9. 'The Times Together' 10. 'Nipple Town' 11.
'Dirt'
Featuring tremendous production by band member Joey Molland, The Raz Band
members are: Michael 'Raz' Rescigno on guitar and vocals; Jeff 'Hutch'
Hutchinson on drums and vocals; Jim Manzo on bass and vocals, and Molland on
guitar, vocals and production.
The album opens with the fun old school R&B guitar rock of 'Breadline
Love' and backs that up seamlessly with both the hipsway of 'I Got This' and the
magnificent, cultured guitar work found on 'Curveball.'
The first track notable for the fact that it's the very first time that Joey
Molland has sung lead vocals, both 'In The Meantime' and 'Coming At You' are
pure The Raz Band gold, with the Jeff 'Hutch' Hutchinson-sung 'Winds Of Time'
along next.
The other Molland-sung track is the epic 'Let Me Tell You' which they back up
with one of my own personal favorites, the rock and soul of 'Call Me Raz.' The
album then rounds out with the troubadour-esque vibe of 'The Times Together' and
then the quirky 'Nipple Town.' We had a great time creating #9," Moland has since said, "and we
hope you enjoy it. Peace, love and rock n roll."
With The Raz Band having opened for Badfinger, Missing Persons, Berlin, Marky
Ramone, Bill Ward, Iron Butterfly and others, 2019 will once again see The Raz
Band performing in the United States as well as abroad. www.TheRazBand.com The Raz Band @
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"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? WILDE BEWARE
IF YOU ARE WILDE,YOU BETTER BEWARE!
Be wary.Be Aware!Be alert.Are that the earth beneath you
may soon hold your bones(if hunters value your flesh,or horns)
It is as if there is a lottery on your life.If you are small and cute as a
koala
you may get a petting zoo-or animal sanctuary.If you are huge as a
gorilla...
you will need a Jane Goodall as protector.Most who are made of meat will be
eaten.
Served up as alligator steaks or deer stew.Even gentle kangaroos..farmed
like salmon.
Soon there will be only photographs and footprints left /for all wilde will
be bred out of us
We will forget how to fly.How to fight.How to fantasize.How to leap out of
Tsunami zones
as birds do,sniffing bushfires.That adrenal rush will leave us/sitting
ducks.
And it is always duck season.Reason has nothing to do with
this.Extermination
is ongoing to completion.Once the wild has left or been cut down to mild
companion animal cages/
the rest can rest knowing only humans as hunters/until the next Extinction
Saga repeats
Rowland, Kev - The Progressive Underground Vol. I (a book)
Artur Chachlowski ,
In the age of internet and electronic social media, the world is not as huge as it may seem. And people, especially when they share their passion and common interests, can communicate on the electronic highway in an instant.
It was not always like this. At the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century, just a few months after the defeat of the Berlin Wall (which in itself was a caesura separating two political ages), and a few years after leaving the Marillion group by its charismatic frontman, Fish (what a progressive rock fan was a caesura more important), a shipment from Great Britain came to my hands. Its broadcaster was Kev Rowland, who sent me one of the first issues of his own fanzine called Feedback devoted to widely understood progressive music. The feedback was based on the RockSIG (Rock Special Interest Group) newsletter of the Mensa organization. His first edition appeared in October 1988 and had 28 pages. The sixth number that landed in its mailbox already had 60 pages, in the middle there were a lot of interesting reviews of the latest prog rock albums. Today it is hard to imagine: fanzines, independent magazines, printing with a multiplier, postal mailing, gluing stamps on an envelope ... These were times. And I dare say that thanks to people like Kev and thanks to publications such as progressive feedback, and especially the propagation of knowledge about it, it could develop in the best.
And there was something to write about. Contrary to popular belief, progressive rock has not disappeared from the world map with the emergence of punk rock, and despite the lack of interest in commercial media, the wave of creating new bands and the emergence of new music has not stopped. Although the genre fell out of the mainstream media, luckily, the demand for this type of music has never ended.
Cordland's Feedback fanzine quickly became one of the most well-known, popular and influential industry magazines. In total, more than 80 issues appeared and it survived practically until 2006, when Kev moved from his native England to New Zealand, where he lives to this day and does not think about musical retirement - to this day, among others to the group of permanent reviewers of the MLWZ.PL portal
The time in which Feedback functioned was unique in many respects, and when it seemed that it was gone forever, the renowned publishing house Gonzo Multimedia has published a book called "The Progressive Underground Vol. I", which contains all the Kev album reviews that have been published in its fanzine in 1991-2006. The subtitle "Volume 1" indicates that there will be more parts of this release (Volumeny II and III will be released later this year), and this thick, 300-page book alphabetically includes artists from letter A to H (specifically from the ACT group to Husband, Gary Husband).
The first volume of The Progressive Underground includes a foreword by Stuart Nicholson from the Galahad group and, on the back cover, comments by Greg Spawton (Big Big Train) and Clive Nolan (Arena, Pendragon). Inside a few hundred album reviews, some of which have survived into the history of the genre, others have been forgotten, and the vast majority of them have contributed to the fact that they are raising a second and even third generation of listeners. This book is best treated as a kind of guide to the neoprogressive species. Thanks to this release, you can rediscover the wonderful albums of great bands and see that progressive rock has never really died, it just went from the mainstream to the underground.
Below is the list of artists you will find in Volume 1: ACT, Abarax, Abbfinoosta, Abel Ganz, Abiogenesi, Acid Mother Gong, Adachi Kyodai, Addison Project, AD Infinitum, Advent, Aelian, Aesculus Hipp, After, After Crying, After The Fall , After @ All, Afterglow, Agarta, Ageness, Agent Cooper, Ajalon, Jan Akkerman, Alaska, Albion, Al-Bird, Alias Eye, Alien On My Mind, Alientar, Alkemys, Daevid Allen, Daevid Allen & Russell Hibbs, Amarok, The Amber Light, Ambervoid, Amorphis, Anabis, Anathema, Andeavour, Robert Andrews, Anekdoten, Animator, Annalist, Anyone's Daughter, Arachnes, Aragon, Archetype, Ardency, Areknames, Arena, Ark, Arkus, Artension, ARZ, Asgard, Ashada, Asia, Astralasia, Ataraxia, Aton's, A Triggering Myth, Atria, Attica, At War With Self, Ausia, Axiom, Kevin Ayres, Ayreon, Marvin Ayres,Marvin Ayres + Peter Gomes, Azazello, Max Bacon, Vladimir Badirov, Frank Balestracci, Band of Rain, Peter Banks, Barclay James Harvest Featuring Les Holroyd, Barrock, Colin Bass, Adrian Belew, Believe, Robert Berry, Beyond The Labyrnith, Big Big Train, Black Bonzo, Black Bonzo, Blackfield, Black Jester, The Black Noodle Project, Tim Blake, Blow Up Hollywood, Blurt, Blyndsyde, Tomas Bodin, Jean Pascal Boffo, Bolt, The Bond, Andrew Booker, Christian Boule, Tim Bowness, Brassé, Brighteye Brison, Broadcast, Brother Ape, Budderfly, Tim Burness, Maryen Cairns, Cairo, California Guitar Trio, Laurent Calomne, Robert Calvert, Carpathia Project, The Carpet Knights, Carptree, Cashmere, Casino, Cast, Castarnac, Casual Affair, Marc Catley & Geoff Mann, Catweazle, Centrozoon, Cerebus Effect, Chain, Dennis Chambers, Jeff Berlin, David Fiuczynski, T. Lavitz,Chandelier, Chaos Code, Cherno, Chroma Kay, Circus, Cirkus, Citizen Cain, Citriniti, Cleopatra's Needle, Cliffhanger, Climate of Earth, Cloudscape, The Coenobite, Collage, Colorstar, Colosseum, Colt, Coltsfoot, Concerto Moon, Conqueror, Conspiracy, Court, The Covenant, Craft, Credo, Cross, David Cross, Cross 'n' Crazy, Cryptic Vision, Crystal Maze, Crystal Phoenix, Vedres Csaba, Curious Works, Curved Air, Cyan, Istvan Cziglan, D Sound, Daimonji, Damien Steele , Martin Darvill and Friends, Darwin's Radio, Darxtar, Alan Davey, Simon Davies, Dawnlights, Day Shift, Dead Soul Tribe, Death Organ, Degree Absolute, Deimos, Delta Cyphei Project, Deluc, Der Spyra, Deyss, DFA, DGM, Dialogue , Different Trains, Difficil Equilibrio, Digital Ruin, Dilemma, Discipline, Djamra, Julius Dobos, Rudi Dobson, Tim Donahoe, Troy Donockley &Dave Bainbridge, Geoffrey Downes, Drahk Von Trip, Drama, Dreadnaught, Dream Aria, Dream Machine, The Dreaming, Drifting Sun, Sergey Dudin, Dulcimer, Dynamic Lights, Dyonisos, Earthling Society, Earthstone, East Wind Pot, Eat Static, Eccentric Orbit , Echolyn, Eden Burning, Eder, Edhels, Egdon Heath, Eldritch, Electric Outlet, Elegant Simplicity, Emerald, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Keith Emerson & The Nice, E Motive, Empty Tremor, Alan Emslie, Enchant, The Enid, Roger Eno, Ensemble Nimbus, Epidermis, Epilogue, Roberto Erdesz, Er Malak, Michael Ernst, Eskaton, Evenfall, Event, Evergrey, Everon, Evolution, Exhibit A, Existence, Eyestrings, Ezra, FHC, Faith, Fancyfluid, Fantasmagoria, Fantasyy Factoryy, Farmakon, The Fellowship, Mike Figgis, Final Conflict, Finisterre, Finnegan's Wake, Finneus Gauge, First Band From Outer Space, Fish,Fitzpatrick, David Fiuczynski, Flamborough Head, Flat 122, Flight 09, The Flower Kings, Fluxury, Focus, Fonya, For Absent Friends, Forest Stream, Forgotten Suns, Jack Foster III, Frágil, Framauro, Frameshift, Framework, Free Love, Freewill Sally French Frog Frogflavor Frogg Café Peter Frohmader Frost * Fruitcake Fugato Orchestra , Jerry Gaskill, The Gathering, Gecko's Tear, Peter Gee, Gentle Giant, George Velvet, Gerard, Jim Gilmour, Ghosts Of Dawn, Gordon Giltrap, Glass, Glass Hammer, Gong, Good Authority, Tadachi Goto, Grace, Grand Stand, Grass, Gratto, Greenslade, Grendel, Gray Lady Down, The Guardian's Office, Yngve Guddal And Roger Matte, The Guitar Orchestra, Trey Gunn, Steve Hackett, Hamadryad,Happy The Man, Gordon Haskell, Annie Haslam, Hatfield And The North, Hauteville, Hawkwind, Haze, Head Pop Up, Hecenia, Henry Fool, Heon, Steve Hillage, Steve Hillman, Tracy Hitchings, Roger Hodgson, Holy Lamb, House Of Spirits , House / Goodway, Steve Howe, Höyry-Kone, Gary Husband
Many a singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence in the 1960s has taken the label of "poet," usually applied by adoring fans, no doubt to the objection of a fair few serious poetry enthusiasts. But who among them could deny Leonard Cohen's status as a poet? Though best known as a musician, Cohen has also racked up indisputable writerly credentials, having published not just the novels Beautiful Losers and The Favorite Game but many books of poetry including Death of a Lady's Man, Let Us Compare Mythologies, and Flowers for Hitler. Some of them include not just poems written as poems but song lyrics — or perhaps works that began as songs but became poems. Surely his albums contain songs that began as poems. Those interested in figuring out Cohen's simultaneous development as a poet and songwriter would do well to listen to his early poetry readings, like that of "Prayer for Messiah" at the top of the post.
Although Bickford achieved a cult following in the 1970s
through his work for Frank Zappa, from the 1980s to his death, he worked
in relative obscurity ...
"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?
'My Leonard Cohen' presents arresting
interpretations of Leonard's most iconic music and poetry, as well as stories of
his life and the motivations ...
RAZ
BAND/#9: If you were wondering where those Badfingers, Eagles and Byrds
associates and others wound up, they congregated here and are rocking the night
away. Not caring if they fit the format or not, this is music for boomers who
want to go to the show for reasons other than hold up their camera phone to
prove they were there. With a second disc that keeps it coming tucked into the
package, this is a fine reminder of how it all was when under water mortgages
weren’t even a blip on the horizon. Check it out.
Well into his twilight years, Leonard Cohen
continued to wander when most others might have long since settled. Of his
songwriting process, he said ...
"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?
OPEN A BOOKSTORE
PUT ALL YOUR MONEY INTO IT
Watch as your money disappears.
It is not that e-books have displaced "real' books
Nor that people are reading less
Markets are polarized between big Mall bookstores
like Barnes &Noble -and little Independent Bookstores
And there are no guarantees-BORDERS closed down!
While HALF PRICE BOOKS has become one of our largest book purveyors
Austin has been blessed with RESISTENCIA(moved three times)
BOOK WOMAN(moved twice)and a plethora of tiny bookstores
bursting with readings,signings and events.BOOKS LIVE!
Outlets are struggling.Perhaps we need our BRAVE NEW BOOKS,
our RECYCLED READS/every possible book sharer,seller,buyer,giver of
books
(like the INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT)-to keep both literacy and community
ALIVE in Austin!
The Final Chapter for Another Bookstore After three
decades in the Westside neighborhood of Mar Vista, Sam: Johnson’s
Bookshop will close by the end of the month. Its rent jumped this year
to $4,000, and the owner put the building on the market. Its story is not
unfamiliar. “The shuttering of a bookstore is like a recurring couplet — Caravan
Book Store in downtown Los Angeles closed last year; Circus of Books in West
Hollywood, in February,” writes Jeffrey Fleishman in the latest Column One feature. “But each has
its own peculiarities and enchantments.”
"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?
WHEN SORROW TURNS A PAGE OF GRIEF
And skin tears a Chapter of Invisibility
i repair to the Deep.It may mean sleep
until Awakening/more often trusting
that water will carry my weight
and negate the gravity of loss..
Random understandings from strangers and close friends
...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.
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:
Title - '#9'
