Friday, 7 April 2023

Genuinely rotten albums by brilliant artists plus the band that started cancel culture


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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?"

ONCE IT WAS TAXI DRIVERS
who would be mobile confession boxes
on the wheeled streets -listening like confessors
Now UBER and LYFT allow independent money-making
as private transport for the otherwise un-mobile
Stories of truth and exile flow from the mouths of drivers
who know when deep listening gains tips
and spreads humanity seat by seat
No longer the River Styx .No longer Ferrymen of Underworlds
More refugees from world's war zones
Driving Americans towards deeper realizations-
Worlds are no longer OUT THERE
All wars come home in time'
and we must love and live with survivors-
Migrants,workers,importing cultures
Opening each of us to worlds
We would otherwise have no knowledge of..
Paying to learn,then re-learn..
While they earn.

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Beatles - A Day In The Life

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Thursday, 6 April 2023

COMING THIS WEEKEND


 

No reunion?

 Yes Refuses To Reunite With Singer Jon Anderson. He's OK With That - Rolling Stone

Yes singer Jon Anderson is about to hit the road with the Band Geeks for an evening of Seventies Yes epics like "Awaken" and "Close To The Edge"

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Joey Molland interview

 Joey Molland talks Badfinger, and working with the Beatles - New Jersey 101.5

Joey Molland will be appearing March 31-April 2 at the Fest for Beatles fans, at the Hyatt Regency in Jersey City.

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News from Liz

 Americana Ensemble AUBURN Featuring Liz LentenTo Release "FAVOURITE MISTAKE ...

songwriter Liz Lenten spent a year with the TSA (The Songwriting Academy) writing at home, in her Lincolnshire countryside studio, and after a few .

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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic (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?"

I WANT TO LIVE IN A GARDEN
To be one with the red red roses
To bloom by daylight,sleep by night
To seek deep roots beneath all soil
I want there to be no edges at all
So gardens will fill up all spaces
So we can delight in unpruned beauties
Spreading out from all human cages
I want to rise glorious each morning
To rejoice in sunlight and showers
To be that Spring we all deep need
And to rejoin Gaia when planted.

Wednesday, 5 April 2023

The Beatles: Their Story (Full Documentary) | Amplified


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Jon Anderson’s dream

 Jon Anderson Recounts Chris Squire Visiting Him in a Dream - Ultimate Classic Rock

Yes has since carried on without him and currently features Jon Davisonas their singer. But Anderson harbored no grudges and has moved on with ..

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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?"

RUINS 2023
Whether it be war,climate change or Nature
Habitat is evolving/mutating.
We displaced Indigenous flora,fauna,humans
Now we are following the bison,wolf,bear
We re-build in earthquake zones(like San Francisco)
Troy had seven cities on one site-and Rome
was not destroyed in a  day.Excavations continue
at Pompeii and Herculaneum.Reconstruction @Antakya,
Chenobyl,Fukushima.War zones like Ukraine /Syria
require Superfunds and Marshall Plans.World Bank
assists with refugee camps in Little Lebanon.Ruins have changed.
Once,we would travel and pay to see Colosseums ,Pyramids,Acropolis..
Ancient ruins,romantic,smelling of older civilizations.Now cities are war zones,
and cultures are being lost and destroyed rather than curated and saved.
Remember Taliban bombing Buddhist sculptures in Afghanistan?
Antakya was Antioch,on the old Silk Road.Earthquakes have reduced the past to rubble.
The "Old City"especially.How many copies of Stonehenge?What of Antioch?

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Mary Hopkin ~ Knock Knock Who's There 1970

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Tuesday, 4 April 2023

Wakeman’s most memorable sessions

 Rick Wakeman's Most Memorable Sessions | Long Island Weekly

Here are just a few of them. Rick Wakeman(Photo courtesy of Chipster PR). Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973); Ozzmosis

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Monday, 3 April 2023

Pink Floyd When Pigs Do Fly (The Making of Animals)


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Introducing The Beatles - The Story of the World's Most Counterfeited LP


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What the Beatles said about the Stones plus the most expensive live music in London


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There is a hunky-dory, all singing, all dancing, Gonzo Publications website is now pretty well done, although there are still nine authors who need personal pages. You can find it at www.gonzopublishers.com and then tell me what a clever fellow I am. It even has a haiku to explain why some links are not finished:
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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?"

HOW GOES CHEMICAL WARFARE?NUCLEAR TESTING?
Deep sea mining?Mining on asteroids or planets?
How power electric cars via exploiting Third World resources?
What do Indigenous say about oil pipelines and Sacred Waters?
Who empowers your robot warriors?Your war machines?
Send poetry not tanks to Ukraine!Russia-support Pussy Riot!
It is where you invest your energies brings results.
Battery factories mean farmland lost.Big Corporations displace Ma and Pa shops.
You have intelligence.Time to apply it.Invest in contemporary poetry!
BARD over GPT!

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jethro Tull – Ginnungagap (Official Video)

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Sunday, 2 April 2023

BARBARA DICKSON INTERVIEW - Her career in music, Stage Musicals and her Hit Singles


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The Beatles Early Years with Mark Lewisohn and Host Dr. Bob Hieronimus


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Jon Anderson talks

 Jon Anderson on 1000 Hands: "The only way forward is to get rid of corruption, greed and suffering"

[In 2016, producer] Michael Franklin got in touch and suggested that I finish the album," says Jon Anderson. "I said, 'Which album?

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There is a hunky-dory, all singing, all dancing, Gonzo Publications website is now pretty well done, although there are still nine authors who need personal pages. You can find it at www.gonzopublishers.com and then tell me what a clever fellow I am. It even has a haiku to explain why some links are not finished:
"These links do not work, now but they will do so soon, we apologise"

Enjoy

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?"

DISPLACEMENT OF HUMAN FUNCTIONS VIA ChatGPT
is saved by incompetence and inefficiency of their operators
who may need advice more than giving advice
who may not be adept at country and western lyrics
who may have no breadth nor depth of field in certain human tasks
which saves us from being(temporarily)displaced persons
Of course,there are advances in A.I and Deep Fake technology
and ChatGPT is best as a copiest and extender of pre-existing texts ,modes and styles
But just because Humvees exist does not make them compulsory to drive
like crack cocaine and Fundamentalist politics-these are ghetto choices
Long live a lack of literacy on the part of A.I operators
Their errors extend our lives.We become more human
when machine languages fail to connect or communicate.
Now it is up to us-to be fully human.Via free will and multiple choices.

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Stichera (Monody of the XVI Century)

 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 Ukraine.     

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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.