Mick Abrahams Benefit – The Borderline, Soho, London, May 9th, 2016

“Just to see him get on that stage, put his guitar around his neck and play when people were saying ‘Oh, he’ll never play again!’ is everything… and seeing everyone here who’ve come to support and listen to him. Hopefully this is a new beginning and the start of many more shows to come.”– Rick Wakeman

“Benefit” is a loaded term; it can invite patronizing pity for the beneficiary’s circumstances rather than genuine empathy for struggles with health or economy that can easily become – or maybe already are – our own. Benefits which serve all participants bring us together in a celebration of the resilience of the spirit during even the hardest of times.

Mick Abrahams, 71, is a survivor of two heart attacks, a stroke, and other health issues which compromised his finances and called for improved living conditions due to lack of mobility. To say he invites neither pity nor patronization is an understatement. From the moment this original lion of British blues ascended the stage in his first live performance in five years and took the guitar, the venue was already cheering. The band ripped into the Jimmy Forrest classic “Night Train” – a befitting song, considering Mr. Abrahams was born in war-torn Bedfordshire, to “the generation that just got on with it.” There was no sitting still;

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MJ12 Featuring Bass Legend Percy Jones to Release Debut Album, 6/24

MJ12, featuring Brand X bass legend Percy Jones, will be releasing their eagerly awaited debut album on Gonzo Multimedia UK on June 24, 2016. Recorded in the summer of 2015 at Shelter Island studios in Manhattan, MJ12 is jazz/fusion/prog music at its finest. Featuring virtuosic performances by all four band members, in many ways this album is an extension of what Percy Jones created with Brand X!

Says Percy, "We took the name from Majestik 12, which was supposedly a group of 12 scientists and engineers assembled in the late 40's to investigate UFO's. There is an ongoing debate as to whether this group actually existed or not. Stephen Moses and I had been doing gigs for a while where we would invite guests to sit in. We did all improv, so this was actually M&J +1 or 2. After a while we started using David Phelps and Chris Bacas on a regular basis if they were available. At this point we started writing stuff, but keeping a lot of the improv thing going to keep it spontaneous. The end result was bits and pieces of ideas coming from everybody that were all tied together to try and make a coherent tune, but with lots of blowing inside. By last Summer we felt like it had shaped up well enough to record it, so we went in and recorded it over 2 days."

Track listing:

1) Call 911
2) Bad American Dream Pt2
3) Magic Mist
4) Talk Time
5) The Wow Signal
6) Big Daddy Road
7) The Phantom Maracas
8) Guns And Pussy
9) Magic Mist Reprise

MJ12 is:

Percy Jones
Percy Jones grew up near Llandrindod Wells, Wales. He studied electronic engineering at the University of Liverpool before joining Liverpool Scene in 1967 He was a member of jazz fusion band Brand X from 1974 to 1980, and a reformed version which lasted from 1992 to 1997. He was in NYC based band Tunnels from 1990 until 2005. Still residing in New York, he is currently a member of MJ12. Jones is best known for his unique fretless bass sound. Jones was also briefly a member of the jazz fusion group Soft Machine, and has contributed to recordings by David Sylvian, Brian Eno, Steve Hackett, Roy Harper, Paranoise, Suzanne Vega, Richard Barbieri, Nova and Fovea Hex, amongst others.

Stephen Moses
After several years playing as part of "the loft jazz scene" in NYC with the likes of James Chance, John Zorn, Phillip Johnston, Ken Simon, Dave Hofstra (and many others) drummer/trombonist Stephen Moses started getting busier with more rock and jazz/rock in the CBGB's scene with Giant Metal Insects and Quality Trio with Jim Matus & Percy Jones. Alice Donut formed after that and took Stephen on the road and the studio for several years and a dozen albums followed by a few tours with Rasputina. Then a few years ago Stephen rejoined Percy to do what we do today.

Dave Phelps
Guitarist David Phelps is currently a member of Peter Apfelbaum's 11-piece band The New York Hieroglyphics, which includes many of today's best creative musicians, including drummer Dafnis Prieto, bassist Patrice Blanchard, trombonist Josh Roseman and vocalist Abdoulaye Diabate. Their newest album "It Is Written" was released in August 2005 on the ACT label. He also leads his own band the Eclectic Troubadours. David grew up in Denton, Texas, the home of the University of North Texas, formerly known as North Texas State. As a youngster, he started playing the bass clarinet and later played in bands with many of the children of North Texas faculty members. David, along with his twin brother, bassist Drew Phelps, attended North Texas, studying with Rich Matheson and guitar guru Jack Peterson, among others. David then traveled to Alberta, Canada where he studied at the Banff Centre with jazz greats Dave Liebmanand Dave Holland (both Miles Davis alumni). He also studied with John Abercrombie, Steve Coleman and Kenny Wheeler.

Chris Bacas
Saxophonist Chris Bacas began his career at age fifteen as a sideman with a club band in York, PA, and after attending North Texas State, he began his jazz performance career in earnest. Beginning in 1983, Chris played in the Glen Miller Band, The Tommy Dorsey Band, the Artie Shaw Band, and Buddy Rich's legendary Big Band until Rich's passing in 1987. Over the past twenty years, Chris has appeared at festivals all over the world, including the Nice, North Sea, Cork, Santiago, Montreal, Moers Texaco, Annapolis, JVC New York, and Central PA Jazz Festivals. He has performed in Copenhagen at the Tivoli Gardens; in Los Angeles at TheHollywood Bowl and LA's Comedy Store; in New York's Blue Note and Birdland; at Chicago's Jazz Showcase; and in Washington D.C. at Blues Alley and One Step Down.

In conclusion Percy has this to impart, "Well, I hope people like this record. I have a lot of appreciation for everyone who supported Brand X back in the day, or any of the other projects I was involved in. The band follows on from stuff I've done in the past, trying to keep the music unpredictable, interesting and moving in a new direction."
For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/percyJonesnyc?fref=ts
http://www.percyjones.net/

To purchase MJ12 CD:
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http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/product_details/15925 (Europe)

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/MJ12-Featuring-Bass-Legend-Percy-Jones-to-Release-Debut-Album-624-20160523#

Festivalized on Louder than War

Festivalized

Ian Abrahams and Bridget Wishart

Out now via Gonzo Media Group

Louder than War have a read of this fascinating insight into the counter culture movement of the free festivals during the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Subtitled ‘Music, Politics and Alternative Culture’, Festivalized is a fantastic introduction to the British Free Festival movement of the 70s and 80s, through to the raves of the early 90s. Written and compiled by writer Ian Abrahams and ex Hawkwind, Hippy Slags, member Bridget Wishart, they have managed to craft a ‘beginners guide’ slash starting point for anyone interested in reading about this fascinating time in Britain’s cultural past.

Drawn together from interviews from around 50 key contributors, including Nik Turner, Mick Moss, Chris Hewitt, Michael Dog, Keith Bailey, Penny Rimbaud, as well as seasoned attendees and people integral to the ‘movement’, this book reads like not only a who’s who of the instigators of the festivals, but also the tales of the ones who helped set up the festivals, sourced the sites, dodged the police, sweet talked the farmers, dodged the police, supplied and fixed the (rudimentary PA system), paid the farmers, erected the stages, bought the grass, oh and dodged the police. And it is also an eye witness account of the performers and the attendees that helped make the ‘events’ what they were and were witness to what the ‘free festival movement’ would become.

Right from the start, the writers acknowledge that this is no way a chronological history of the movement, and certainly not a place to come to see who played at 7.30pm on Saturday at the Windsor Free Festival in 1973. There are other places to get that info. Instead, what you get are stories and anecdotes direct from the people who were there at every stage of the way and the story is built up by these fascinating, often hilarious tales from the beginning, right to the (inventively) bitter end. And to some degree, there was a bitter end. The book may not intend to be a chronological overview of the free festival scene, but if you have any prior knowledge of the movement, then you will know that the continued patronage of these festivals, combined with a growing counter culture growing within the so called ‘new age travellers’ community, at some point brought it to the attention to the government and ‘the establishment’. And they subsequently felt the need to intervene, which ultimately culminated in the devastating and brutal events of the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’ which is well documented elsewhere and angrily retold in the eponymous Levellers song off their 1991 Levelling the Land album.

However, coming back to the crux of the book. What you have are the people and stories merging to create a well documented and absolutely fascinating time of the music, culture, sexual freedom, political and capitalist changes affecting the British people between the 70s and early 90s. There are tales of broken down vehicles, near misses, arrests, successes, failures, quagmires, violence, peace and babies being born at sunrise. Part of the beauty of this book is the documenting of a time when people were free (to a certain extent) to do whatever they wanted to do as long as finances and circumstances allowed. Part of the depressing side of this book is way that the establishment, the government, life (?) can get in the way of said freedom and liberty. However, even among the counter culture people involved in this time, there was capitalism at work. Drugs don’t come for free. If you wanted to get high, there was someone who profited from it. And I’m guessing this fact was just one of the reasons that that the ‘free festival movement’ had to be shut down. There is always money to be made by a person wanting to ‘drop out’ of society for a weekend. And thus came the festivals that we have today that are heavily policed, heavily priced and are heavily burdened by health and safety laws. And to a certain degree, this isn’t a bad thing and some fringe festivals are still bucking this trend and trying to keep the organic and ‘free’ elements as much as they economically can. But I fear things will never be the same way as presented in ‘Festivalized’. The world has changed too much.

This is a great book and essential reading for a time that may never be seen again. It is historically important (and accurate) and should be used as an aid to inform future generations of both the possibilities and dangers of embracing counter culture. The contributors are engaging and tell such brilliant stories and anecdotes. On top of this you get some great photos and some festival layout diagrams that are both fascinating and again, historically important. The content is at time hilarious and at times very emotive. At times it is sad and it is also infuriating. But, it is never boring. A great must read.

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By Ioan Humphreys. More writing by Ioan Louder Than War can be found at his author’s archive.

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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 Tom'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?"

OTHER LANGUAGES(OTHER CULTURES)

WHERE YOU CAME FROM/WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO

World in motion/crossing borders(like convection currents

Swirls of migrants(economic),refugees(war torn)

even temporary transient visitors&tourists

add to the piquant human soup we drink our DNA from

Consider restaurants-how our diet changes

with Ethiopian/Moroccan/Manchurian additions.

How soups and stews and salads are enlivened via Thai and Vietnam

How our walled world has plates delivered-and all culture is takeaway

Those we love speak other languages/come from other cultures

They understand context,history,resonance.They absorb and respond.

How lucky we are to travel so far/to learn where we are

through the eyes of perfect strangers..

Joey Molland Interview & Acoustic Performance

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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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 Tom'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?"

YOU SEE(WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN

on the surface of the moon

and in orbit round that orb

and this changes everything!

Once,this bone cold ivory rock

spun in space from a poetic distance

Now we have photos and moon rocks

under our immediate gaze.Movies made

incorporating actual space footage.

No longer dare we stare from a poetic distance

Science takes over,presents video evidence

No "man "on the moon.No "green cheese"

Wallace &Grommit replaced by NASA space tapes

Romance always enhanced by an element of distance

O well-perhaps now we can fall in love

with a Mission to Mars...

System 7 Glade 2012 Interview feat. Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy

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PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit 164

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). The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight. Every other week the show is now presented by Jeremy Smith and as the two promotional pictures that he sent consisted as one of him covered in mud and the other of him covered in guinea pigs he is obviously mad as a bagful of cheese, which means he will fit in here just fine!

He writes: I’ve been a huge music fan ever since my parents bought me a transistor radio and I would listen to the sixties pirate music stations at nights under the covers. This love of live music has stayed with me to this day and I still love standing in a small club like the Borderline in London with some mates and watching a band with a pint in my hand. With the Strange Fruit radio show, I want to continue the trend of doing themed shows and playing the music I love.

  

Strange Fruit 164 – The Murder Mystery

 

Crime and Punishment Part 1: Songs about murder, murderers and murderees 

 

Featured Album:  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads

 

Tracks: 

1  The Adverts: Gary Gilmore's Eyes

2  John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett: Murder Man

3  The Saints: Getting Away With Murder

4  Johnny Dowd: Murder

5  The White Buffalo & The Forest Rangers: Come   Join the Murder

6  Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: The Kindness of   Strangers

7  Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Where the Wild Roses   Grow

8  Soulfly: Jeffrey Dahmer

9  The Smiths: Suffer Little Children

10  Fairport Convention: The Verdict

11  Fairport Convention: Little Did I Think

12  Fairport Convention: I Was Sixteen - Part 1

13  Fairport Convention: John My Son

14  Fairport Convention: I Was Sixteen - Part 2

15  Fairport Convention: St. Ninian's Isle, Trumpet   Hornpipe

16  Fairport Convention: John Lee

17  Fairport Convention: Newspaper Reading

18  The Pogues: Murder

19  Public Image Limited: Death Disco

20  The Byrds: He Was a Friend of Mine

21  The Dead Boys: Son of Sam

22  Lucifer: I'll Be Gone

23  Vitamin String Quartet: Ted, Just Admit It

24  Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Crow Jane

25  Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Death is Not the End

26  Counting Crows: A Murder of One

27  Dead Kennedys: I Kill Children

28  Richard Strange & TV Smith: Dance of Death

29  Penetration: Firing Squad

30  Van der Graaf Generator: Killer

31  Rick Blaze & Walter Lure: Who Killed John   Lennon?

32  Adam and the Ants: Killer in the Home

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 Tom'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?"

YEAR UPON YEAR UPON YEAR

GLAD WE ARE TO BE HERE

Others have moved on/moved along

Our memories their only heritage song

We knew them,Horatio!-their images

still flicker @retrospective film Festivals

Keaton in black and white/Kubrick in color

The living have lines they have not memorized

What lies ahead will have to be improvised

Small screen lives with IMAX special effects

Wide screen legends /with us in audience

We sit in shadows and admire their Light

Glad to still be here.Glad to be alive!

John Lennon Meeting David Peel Interview -- 1972

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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

GONZO WEEKLY #183

Gonzo Magazine #183

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Gong, Daevid Allen, Harry Williamson, Joe Walsh, Bad Company, Beatles, Paul McCartney, Beatles, Tellytubbies, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!

 

Oh wot a luvverly issue we have for you this week: Thom the World Poet introduces a selection of archive pictures of Daevid Allen and Harry Williamson and other Gongfolk in Melbourne, Allan looks at the history of alternative culture in Bognor, John celebrates the life of Paul Kantner with the pilgrimage of a lifetime, Doug talks about Joe Walsh and Bad Company, Jon reviews a book about Paul McCartney, and says goodbye to the irreplaceable Dave McMann, and Biffo looks at the nastier side of Tellytubbies fan art. Bloody hell we’re great!

 

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and 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 ouyside 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:

Dave McMann, Paul McCartney, Boris Savoldelli, Elektro Hafiz, Tony Henderson, Pink Fairies, Yes, Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Guy Charles Clark, Paul Alva Smoker, John Berry, Emilio Navaira III, The Beatles, Osibisa, Billy Cobham, Wayne Kramer at the Pink Fairies, Al Stewart, The RAZ Band, The Flying Burrito Bros, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rick Wakeman, Gong, Bad Company, Joe Walsh, Alan Dearling, Shoreline Club, Roy Weird, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Lemmy, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Neil Nixon, Kate Bush

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

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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 Tom'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?"

SONGS THROUGH A SINGER

HARMONIES EXIST/PERSIST BEFORE AFTER &DURING

To stop,wait,listen,integrate is a function we are needing

Certain self-selecting souls stand up and we hear them as they listen/

as they hear Heavens tuning artstrings-as they sing these wave motions in

We are the beach of sands where they land

We hear them in the wind and in the waves again

They are as temporary as time

They rely upon our caring to remember them

And we fail when we forget.Their bravery/our neglect

We would expect to love them more if they were living

Yet hear the ones who still sing among us this evening?

Empty seats.No Cds sales.Forgetting how sweet the air is with a song

How short the time is.How long?

Love this photo of Guy and Townes...two of the greatest songwriters .

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