Wednesday, 23 August 2017
BRUFORD'S BOX SET
Bruford 1977-1980 box set detailed
Bill Bruford says: “I wanted to play drums in a
certain way and if you want to hear them played in that way you've got to write
the song. You've got to ...
IAIN MATTHEWS NEWS
On stage with Iain Matthews
On stage with Iain Matthews Iain Matthews first
gained attention in the late 1960s as a founding member and vocalist for the
influential British folk band ...
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YES IN THE NEWS
YES drummer Alan White makes
donation to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Alan
White of the progressive rock band YES dropped in at the Rock Hall this
morning to donate some ...
Yes drummer Alan White talks rock
hall, Yestival and that time he hung up on John Lennon
Scottsdale's Nils Lofgren performs after being inducted
into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame on Thursday, Aug. 17,
2017 at Celebrity
Yes, “Our Song” from 90125 (1983):
YESterdays
It's also hard to fault Trevor Rabin's
irresistible stadium-rock guitar intro, which leads in to a tight and not overly
flashy lead guitar riff. Jon Anderson ...
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Steve Howe: Bands I Was a Member of
That Weren't Yes
Yes guitar master Steve Howe discussed all the
bands he was a member of with UG interviewer Steven Rosen. You can check out the
chat below.
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Dylan Howe, jazz bandleader and Yes
drummer: Something Else! Interview
Now appearing as the second drummer in Yes, Dylan joined
Preston Frazier to discuss his musical past, working with Steve Howe both
as a solo ...
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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?
YOUR LIFE AS A FABLE
YOU CAN SHARE YOUR STORIES
with spices and embellishments
and if it is nutritious for another
they will embrace your cover
Hyperbole helps..Bigger.Brighter.Name Dropper.
Gild the lily.Paint the town Red.Names in bed.
But when the swallow returns to nest
what story will she believe best?
Doctor of Science or healer/astrologer?
Prescriptions of Pills or Affirmations/Mantras?
WHAT WE WANT TO BELIEVE is a projection
upon the blank wall of our Imagination.
"Never Believe Your Own Myth' warns the Oracle
How easy ,in a world of Dragons and Bullets
To get in a van and drive endless highways
To make a myth of LIFE ON THE ROAD
To be in a Band and to be with everyone
who says they are SCENE and ONE
Yet you are alone,and a solitary bird
sings differently to a pack.You can not go back.
You can not come back.
Monday, 21 August 2017
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART ARTICLE
The night Captain Beefheart drove me into
the hills in a red Corvette
Frank Zappa and Ry Cooder had both been supporters
but he'd fallen out with them, and he could be a tyrant to the musicians in his
Magic Band.
Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, artist and poet known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work..
Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, artist and poet known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work..
FRANK ZAPPA ARTICLES
Frank Zappa: How photographer Robert
Davidson recovered the negatives of his famous pictures ...
50 years ago today, 19-year-old Robert Davidson was at
the Royal Garden Hotel with band manager Tony Secunda, where he was doing a
press call ...
Today in Entertainment History
In 1969, Frank Zappa disbanded the Mothers of
Invention. He said he was tired of performing for people who clapped for the
“wrong reasons.” In 1989 ...
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..
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..
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..
YES IN THE NEWS
Superstars of '70s music rock Elgin's
Festival Park
Front man Davison was joined by long-time band members
Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes and Billy Sherwood, and
Howe's son, Dylan, who ...
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Review: Prog rock rules at Yestival DTE
stop
Review: Prog rock rules at Yestival DTE stop. Yes
guitarist Steve Howe performs Thursday, Aug. 17, at the DTE Energy Music
Theatre (Photo by Ken ...
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'Yestival' preview: Jacobs Pavilion hosting
Yes, Todd Rundgren, Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy
The current incarnation of Yes — White, Steve Howe
(guitar), Geoff Downes (keyboards), Jon Davison (vocals) and Billy Sherwood
(bass) — will be ...
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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?
USES OF POETRY IN 2017
1.To express freedoms and undress tyranny
2.To bless Beauty in her many disguises
3.To encourage wisdom and justice for humanity
4.To listen to the lost,so they may be found
5.To reach out to others,in their needs
6.To supply meaning where none is otherwise found
7.To hear all birds,and translate their songs truthfully
8.To be book and tongue,PAµphone and venue
9.To walk with all who seek to run
10.To join the journey-in wonder and in love.
Merely a decade ago, Nouk could not speak a word of English. Now, he's an
award-winning slam poet.
Born in a Sudanese prison to an
inmate mother, he later fled his native lands and eventually found his way to
Australia.
Sunday, 20 August 2017
YES IN THE NEWS
Yes drummer Alan White takes a
'Roundabout' way of dealing with rival incarnations
Alan White, pictured in a guest performance with
Jonathan Cain and Friends in New York City earlier this year, will be with his
Yes band mates at ...
Yestival set for Saturday at Elgin's
Festival Park
Yes drummer Alan White said the current
incarnation of the progressive rock band has been getting along well on the
Yestival tour, which hits Elgin's ...
'Yestival' preview: Jacobs Pavilion hosting
Yes, Todd Rundgren, Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy
The current incarnation of Yes — White, Steve Howe
(guitar), Geoff Downes (keyboards), Jon Davison (vocals) and Billy
Sherwood (bass) — will be ...
Yes continues its positive sounds
... drummer Alan White, keyboardist Geoff Downes,
bassist Billy Sherwood and singer Jon Davison have undertaken the Yestival tour,
with Howe's son ...
YESTIVAL at Nautica
YES, featuring (from left) Billy Sherwood, Jon
Davison, Steve Howe, Alan White and Geoff Downes, will come to Jacobs Pavilion
at Nautica in ...
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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Abide With Me Hymn - Gods Country
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.
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?
BARCELONA
RAMBLING ON LA RAMBLA
Eating some paella
Soft in the Gaudi sunshine
Gentle as life and fun
This is the deep world we live within-
with harm to no living human being
Being in places of harmony
where art and people merge happily
You do not grow happier by stealing others joy
You do not gain life by taking others lives
We still live in our dream of peace
walking La Rambla,eating paella
laughing,joking,living,loving LIFE!
PLAYLIST: SF 224 – 3 SEPT 2017 – LATE NIGHT DAVE
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.
SF 224 – 3 SEPT 2017 – LATE NIGHT DAVE
Hypatia Lake: Farmers can be Jedi Too
Happy Mondays: Bob’s yer Uncle
Hannah Richards: Blank Canvas
John Salmon: Recuerdo
Pink Floyd: Embryo
Billy Taylor: I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free
Danielle Dax: Bed Caves
Bernie Sizzey: Haunted (Crystal Meth Mix)
Robyn Hitchcock: Autumn Sunglasses
John Salmon: Koto Song
Justin Walter: Unseen Forces
Mad: Somebody Else’s Dandruff
Viking Moses/Sam Goodwill: Clown School
Kraftwerk: The Sex Object
Vieux Farka Toure: Reconnaissance
Roy Buchanan: The Messiah Will Come Again
The Plastic Cloud: You Don’t Care
Purson: Tragic Catastrophe
John Salmon: Chorale
John Salmon: Bluette
Dorothy Ashby: Lamentation
Rose Kemp: Sing our Last Goodbye
a
Friday, 18 August 2017
Gonzo Weekly #248
Gonzo Weekly #248
THE BY THE TIME WE GOT TO WICKHAM ISSUE
In which Alan goes to the Wickham Festie and raves about The Levellers, The
Selecter, Edward II, The Dhol Foundation and more. We remember Oz Magazine, look
forward to next week’s revisitation by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, look at
what might well have happened if Syd Barrett had been completely cured, and
spend a weekend with Lennon and McCartney.
Yup, and 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, C J Stone, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is
also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses in
primordial ooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have become time
travellers and got stuck in a prehistoric swamp, 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:
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Keith Christmas,
YES, ARW, Tears for Fears, Prince, Roger Waters, Sinead O'Connor, Neil Young,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jo
Walker-Meador, Kasatka, Benard Ighner, Segun Bucknor, Rick Wakeman, Ashton,
Gardner and Dyke, Third Ear Band, Atomic Rooster, Oz, Richard Neville, Alan
Dearling, Wickham festival, Andy Fairweather-Low, Lowriders Band, Levellers,
Spooky Men’s Chorale, The Selector, Seth Lakeman, Phillip Henry and Hannah
Martin, The Dhol Foundation, Pronghorn, Edward II, Maia, Alan Finlan, Kev
Rowland, Karibow, Left Lane Cruiser, Lost World Band, The Midnight Ghost Train,
Noothgrush/Corrupted, Pageninetynine, Riverdogs, Seven Spires, Lutz Ulbrich, Mr
Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis, Beatles, Tupac,
Michael Jackson, Lemmy, Edward S Dumit
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
Issue 243 (Galahad)
Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
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)
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!
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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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Album review: EXTREMES – CD/DVD (Supertramp, Arc)
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Multimedia [Release date 30.06.17]
Ah,
those heady early 1970s. Flower power, the permissive society, long hair and …
dangly bits. There are a lot of them on show in this fascinating social
snapshot.
Heady
times indeed. “Extremes” was a film produced by two guys Tony Klinger and
Michael Lytton who worked on ITC productions in the 1960s (Klinger was Assistant
Director on The Avengers) and seemingly used that connection to “borrow” some of
the firm’s film equipment. They documented the counter culture in 1970 with
segments on Hell’s Angels, drug use and nudity including the Isle of Wight
Festival.
The
musical backdrop was an excellent soundtrack provided by bands such as “Arc” and
“Crucible”, but more interestingly a formative Supertramp. The interesting
liner note underlines that – due to lack of finance – the two entrepreneurs
missed out on gaining half the rights to what would become “Crime Of The
Century”.
This
leaves three tracks from Supertramp (all available on their debut album) but
perhaps more impressive is Arc, it made me want to go and investigate their one
and only album which similarly includes the four tracks featured here.
In
Arc’s ranks were Micky Gallagher and John Turnbull who would emerge a few years
later in Ian Dury’s band. There is a link because Arc’s music was both rocky in
a prog sort of way, and gutsy.
The
soundtrack also features singer songwriter Mark McCann and Crucible, a pseudonym
for the band “The White Plains” who had several Top 20 hits including their most
successful ‘My Baby Loves Lovin’ in 1969.
The
DVD is expanded with Tony Klinger underlining the anarchic times documented in
the film in both a lengthy interview and via director commentary. He went on to
produce films for Deep Purple and The Who. His comments about the film
highlight the organic and unscripted nature of the filming and also the
difficulty in financing such a venture.
In
1971 it had won the London Film Festival “outstanding film of the year” award.
‘Extremes’ has previously been available on VHS and the soundtrack was
originally released in 1972 on the Deram label. This is the first release on CD
and DVD.
At
times – notably the drug sequences – it makes for uncomfortable viewing and was
controversial when released. It tells the story of a generation seeking new
forms of expression and freedom, and in their own words.
As
a social document the film provides fascinating insight and whilst some of the
visuals may seem from another planet, some of the themes – such as drug use and
youthful rebellion – are still relevant. ****
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