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Thursday, 27 June 2013
A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Keith Emerson's house
A 600-year-old country pile described as England's 'perfect timber framed house' has gone on the market for £2.25million.
Set in five acres of rolling countryside, Stonehill House has been home Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie and rock star Keith Emerson.
The plush five-bedroom property in East Sussex, which boasts an adjoining cottage and barn, was lauded by architecture expert Nikolaus Pevsner's 1965 architecture bible Buildings of England.
Welcome to paradise: Stonehill House was described by architecture guru Nikolaus Pevsner as 'the perfect house' and has gone on the market for £2.25million
Idyll: Set in five acres of rolling countryside, Stonehill House has been owned by musicians and writers including Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie and rock star Keith Emerson
Within the 4,344 sq ft house's lavish grounds are a lake, a swimming pool, a tennis court, an orangery, a paddock and extensive landscaped gardens.
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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)
HOW TRANSLATE?
Age of Anxiety.Who casts shapes as runes
?Catullus?Caesar?Cicero?
Translations
fail politics.Power and exile,property ,patrons.
VIVO
CARUS AMICUS!-Maecenas
,Virgil,Varius,Plotius,Epicurus!
Petrach,Voltaire,Pope,Johnson,Goerthe,Nietzsche
Odes
and Epistles survive posthumously in translation
Like
twinned loves
Dante/Beatrix,Verlaine/Rimbaud,Catullus/Clodia,Plath/Hughes
When
what is said transcends time limits/like politicians filibuster
speeches
Truth
is not rhetoric,now power politics.NON DULCE ET DECORUM EST
PRO
PATRIA MORI....
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Patrick Moraz - metamorphoses
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Gordon Giltrap at Live Lounge, Portsmouth Guildhall
Fingers a blur, Gordon Giltrap makes strings sing as chords chime and harmonics ring out in a blissful whirl of melody and rhythm.
The acoustic guitar legend was perfectly suited to the Live Lounge format at the Guildhall, with cabaret-style seating and waiter service. His genial charm quickly endeared him to the appreciative audience as he began with the delightful Shining Morn, quickly followed by Here Comes The Sun played in his own, inimitably embellished style.
That style is classicially centred but with a rock twist and Renaissance, even baroque, influences that had the room entranced.
Since his Top of the Pops heyday with Heartsong in the mid-1970s, he has ploughed his own musical furrow, constantly playing live, writing his own compositions and recording.
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‘Special meaning, now and forever’: New Prog Collective features more final recordings from Yes’ Peter Banks
Billy Sherwood, fresh off a stint in the reconstituted Alan Parsons Project, has completed work on Epilogue — the second Prog Collective effort. Parsons will be featured on this new album, as well as several current and former members of Yes. In fact, it was Prog Collective sessions, Sherwood says, that brought him into the Parsons tour. After Parsons added vocals to the Epilogue track “Shining Diamonds,” he asked if Sherwood could play bass on a trio of Project shows this summer.
Elsewhere, King Crimson’s John Wetton and Mel Collins are featured, as is Deep Purple’s Steve Morse, Nektar’s Roye Albrighton, XTC’s Colin Moulding, Hawkwind’s Nik Turner and Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudress and Derek Sherinian, as well as Steve Hillage, Larry Fast, Steve Stevens and Sonja Kristina. An example of how this all-star crew mixes and matches can be found on “Are We To Believe,” which Sherwood has said is slotted as the album’s opening cut: Moulding sings lead, Wakeman plays the lead solo, Hillage handles lead guitar and Collins is on sax. The do-anything Sherwood again produced, while also providing bass, guitars, drums, keyboards and backing vocals as needed throughout.
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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)
SPIED UPON (AND SPYING)
14 US bases in Australia.Tracking stations for satellites and
submarines
Eyes
on the skies ,ear to the Asian neighbors/listening Indonesian,
where
US military aid enabled invasions of Timor and New Guinea.
"Welcome
to North West Cape-Australia's Number#1 Nuclear Target!"
(The
beer mats in Western Australia have a black sense of humor.)
Australia
settled by Europeans within the geography of Asia/
besieged
by refugees now parked on Christmas Island
Timorese
assisted Aussies in World War 2
we did not return
the favor when they were invaded
Now
we know that the US spies on Aussies
No
Australian allowed on their "secret"bases.
Pine
Gap to Nurrungar,we are aware
of
their spying and being spied upon.Better
the
devil you know,than the neighbors..
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Rick Wakeman Tells the Story of the Mellotron, the Oddball Proto-Synthesizer Pioneered by the Beatles
Did you know that the Spanish guitar intro to the Beatles’ “Bungalow Bill” was not played by George Harrison, but rather by an odd electronic instrument called a Mellotron, the same strange proto-synthesizer responsible for the flute intro to “Strawberry Fields Forever”? You’ll learn quite a bit more about the “rash breaking out all over pop music” that was the Mellotron in the audio story above, narrated by Rick Wakeman.
From the aforementioned Beatles’ songs to The Band’s “This Wheel’s on Fire” to pretty much every song in 60s pop and 70s progressive rock, as well as in 60s revivalists like Oasis, the Mellotron makes an appearance. It even shows up on Skynard’s “Freebird” of all things. Wakeman sketches the history of the oddball instrument, from its humble beginnings in the garage of California inventor Harry Chamberlin, to its popularization by salesman Bill Fransen, who took Chamberlin’s design and made it his own.
Read on...
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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)
VIRTUAL IMMORTALITY
Your presence on FACEBOOK is forever
or
at least until MYSPACE displaces that phenomena
Despite
myths to contrary,your hair and nails
do
not continue to grow after your demise
but
your Facebook photos remain in all their verite glory
un-PHOTOSHOPPED
,digital,stored in memory
Your
email address will continue until evidence of your passing
is
found and presented to YAHOO-who may or may not delete you
You
will be forgotten-first by friends,last by family.
Folk
will assume you have moved-to a new address in hyperspace
You
will be displaced in attention by some new birth or visitor
non-virtual
(Citizens
of SECOND LIFE still rely upon these FIRST LIFE folk for
projection-
you
may morph into a new avatar when your computer company sends a bill for
services
and
your credit card balance is its first mortality!Virtually,you are already one of
7 billion bytes
Whether
you ever reach tetra-has as much to do with others responses
as
now,so Zen.You will be forgotten.(unless re-programed!
Monday, 24 June 2013
PORTUGUESE REVIEW OF THE DUTCH WOODSTOCK
http://vianocturna2000.blogspot.pt/2013/06/review-dutch-woodstock-va.html
Yet not long ago that a whole generation thought that music could change
the world. And apotheosis of the whole rock culture was achieved in August 1969
with the completion, in New York, the famous Woodstock festival. Even taking
into account that only a few months later, the Rolling Stones at Altamont
Festival has been a failure, what is certain is that the movement never stopped
and was followed by numerous attempts to imitate what had happened in Woodstock
. One of the most successful of this first generation of European rock festivals
was the Holland Pop Festival, held in August 1970 in Kralingse Bos, Rotterdam
and would eventually become known as The Dutch Woodstock. Alignment were part of
a set of names indeed important British rock and American, as T. Rex, The Byrds,
Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and especially Pink Floyd.
The festival was recorded for the movie Stamping Ground where he depicted a still young Al Stewart with his Zero She Flies, the Jefferson Airplane with sensational medley White Rabbit / The Ballad of You and Me and Pooniel and of course Pink Floyd to make a monumental Saucerful Of Secrets. However, at the most a set of benefits was filmed without his having appeared in the film. In continuation of the work developed by Gonzo Multimedia offer authentic museum pieces, now appears in this edition double CD and a DVD that also permit access to another theme of Pink Floyd (Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun) and as some rarities T. Rex (Pavillions Of Sun), Dr. John (Mardi Gras Day), Family (Drowned In Wine) and The Byrds (Old Blue). Then there is the presence of lesser-known artists as The Flock or East Of Eden. The Dutch Woodstock recovers this whole essence of '60s rock and represents more than a carefully chosen set of rarities. This disc is an important part of music history and a significant socio-cultural importance.
The festival was recorded for the movie Stamping Ground where he depicted a still young Al Stewart with his Zero She Flies, the Jefferson Airplane with sensational medley White Rabbit / The Ballad of You and Me and Pooniel and of course Pink Floyd to make a monumental Saucerful Of Secrets. However, at the most a set of benefits was filmed without his having appeared in the film. In continuation of the work developed by Gonzo Multimedia offer authentic museum pieces, now appears in this edition double CD and a DVD that also permit access to another theme of Pink Floyd (Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun) and as some rarities T. Rex (Pavillions Of Sun), Dr. John (Mardi Gras Day), Family (Drowned In Wine) and The Byrds (Old Blue). Then there is the presence of lesser-known artists as The Flock or East Of Eden. The Dutch Woodstock recovers this whole essence of '60s rock and represents more than a carefully chosen set of rarities. This disc is an important part of music history and a significant socio-cultural importance.
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JUDY DYBLE REVIEW
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Judy Dyble
Talking with Strangers
Review by G. W. Hill
At first I wasn’t going to put this into the progressive rock heading. The first track is more of a folk tune. The thing is, once it moves past that, the prog is obvious. The closest comparison is Renaissance and a lot of this sounds like that. Still, there are sections that make me think of other things. Wherever the influence lands, though, this is a potent album with a lot going for it.
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| Never
Knowing Starting very much in a folk manner, this whole song is more or less like that. There are some little bits of sound over the top that hint at something more. This tune connects directly into the next one. Once it switches, it delivers on that promise. | ||||
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| Jazzbirds This comes straight out of the previous tune. There are bits that make me think of early King Crimson. Psychedelic elements emerge and Renaissance is another valid comparison. There are some great flourishes of sound that re-enforce both the King Crimson and the Renaissance links. | ||||
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| C'est
La Vie Here Dyble covers one of my favorite Emerson Lake and Palmer songs. This is so pretty and so powerful. It’s quite symphonic and quite true to the original. But, Dyble’s voice, along with some changes in the arrangement make it quite stunning and different in some ways. I love the bits of vocals that sort of float angelically over the top at times. | ||||
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| Talking
With Strangers Piano based, this is a pretty tune. It’s a powerful balladic number. | ||||
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| Dreamtime Gentle and very old world in nature, this is a pretty and powerful piece of music. | ||||
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| Grey
October Day There’s some pretty and powerful jazz meets King Crimson music here. This is another great tune on an album that’s full of great tunes. There are male vocals on this and really it does make me think of early King Crimson quite a bit. | ||||
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| Harpsong Playful, this is very much of a folk meets prog kind of thing. This continues the same kind of killer old school folk prog sound. There is some great saxophone soloing here. We’re taken into some great space music beyond that point, too. World music also shows up in the mix as this evolves. Then, at around the ten-minute mark, this thing fires out into some seriously hard rocking music that fits close to fusion. After it seemingly ends, we get a section where folk and prog meet nicely on a movement that has a lot in common with Renaissance. At over nineteen minutes in length, this one is definitely an epic. | ||||
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| Sparkling The first of two bonus tracks, this is dreamy and gentle and also very lush. Again, Renaissance would be a great comparison. | ||||
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| Waiting World music merges with folky prog on this tasty number. This is pretty, delicate and quite a powerful piece of music.
http://www.musicstreetjournal.com/index_cdreviews_display.cfm?id=103986
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