Links By George December 16th

Greetings from a hot week in Nimbin.
High temperatures and creeks drying up are not a happy signal but the community still radiates positive feelings, open hearts and minds that reflect out of the box. I have been enjoying my radio presenting Wed. nights, but no solution for how someone in other time zones can download the internet live stream to listen to at a more convenient time.

Link to my radio show live stream on Wed. nights between 8-11 pm (Sydney time)
NIM-FM streaming

http://www.nimfm.org/index.php?page=listen




To open links below, click on subject line with the rollerball of your
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LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:

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EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS:
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Luminate Festival New Zealand, Jan28-Feb 2




Gathering of the Peacemakers, Dec 31, Asheville NC





April 15-18 MAPS Psychedelic Science Conference San Francisco




Mainstreaming Psychedelics: From FDA to Harvard to Burning Man-youtube





Psilocybin and the Experimental Mystical Experience-youtube





Ralph Metzner: Birth of a Psychedelic Culture and other
wonderful books from Synergetic Press





Al Hubbard:





PABLO CESAR AMARINGO 1943 - November 16, 2009





"Psychedelic Journey of Dr. Marlene Dobkin de Rios: 45 Years with Shamans,
Ayahuasqueros and Ethnobotanists.






The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit
by Bruce K. Alexander





1960s Media Coverage of Ayahuasca and the UDV†





Planet Seeders: an interview with Australian Ayahuasquero Darpan





ENTHEOGENESIS AUSTRALIS DVD, JOURNAL AND
T-SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE!




Did LSD Make a Baseball Pitcher's No-Hitter Possible?




LSD Experiments: Soldiers On Acid




What Drugs Are Our Astronauts On?




Prague - The Czech government today approved the list of hallucinogenic plants and mushrooms, including hemp, coca, mescaline cactus and magic mushrooms, and decided that people would be allowed to grow up to five pieces of such plants and keep 40 magic mushrooms at home, a CTK source said.





Dutch among lowest cannabis users in Europe




Cannabis College Now Enrolling Students




Nimbin news and views




The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women





10 Signs the Failed Drug War Is Finally Ending





Daybreak for Marijuana: Most Americans Support Legalization




L.A. City Council Votes to Reduce Pot Dispensaries by 90%




Medical Marijuana Apartheid





Medical marijuana public relations spots on TV




Huge Signature Gathering Success Sends Pot Legalization to Ballot




DEA Forced to Scrub Misleading Info on the American Medical
Association's Position on Marijuana




Martin Ball's books including: The Entheogenic Evolution: Psychedelics, Consciousness and Awakening the Human Spirit, - Salvia Divinorum and the Entheogenic ExperienceSage Spirit,Music for the Entheogenic EvolutionMusic for the Entheogenic Evolution






Cannabis, cognition, and Schizophrenia




Sharon Rose's latest dvd of high interest:
Infinity: The Ultimate Trip




"Drugs and Psychic States in Theophrastus' Historia Plantarum




Chronic Art: Making Amazing Mosaics From Roach Papers




Marilyn Monroe: Pot Smoker?
-youtube




1ST RAINBOW GATHERING: Granby, Colorado 1972 INTRO




Eden Village
Sonoma, California




On Dec. 8, 1980, Rock Star John Lennon Was Shot
(Video)




Hendrix death news and discussion




3 DVD Monterrey Pop Festival Criterion Collection




You-tune
Website for musicians and songwriters and people
wanting to start a band-youtube




Discover the unique artwork, music, and writings
of Martin W. Ball, Ph.D.




Angie Takats
A beautiful lady with an enchanting voice


Sweet and Shiny Eyes performed by Angie Takats




Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection, 14 Films, 15 DVDs




George Carlin's "Last Words": A Memoir (Hardcover)




The Halcyon Days




"The Christmas Hoax: Jesus is NOT the
"Reason for the Season"




Feast day of St Nicholas of Myra (Santa Claus)




Mythic Images
Morning Glory and Oberon invite you to check out
this beautiful treasures




Yuletide Lads - Icelandic trolls




Crop Circles: The Hidden Truth




Ancient Temple Architects May Have Been Chasing a Buzz




Martian landscapes




Lloyd Pye discusses intervention theory and ET's




People are beginning to Connect The Dots: Aliens/
Underground Tunnels/Denver Airport and More




Albert Einstein and Parallel Earths: Celebrity contactee links
New World Order to Manipulative Extraterrestrials




Attack On Gods ‘Heaven’ Lights Up Norwegian Sky




Spiral UFO puts Norway in a Spin




Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway-
youtube




Norway's HAARP - EISCAT and CERN's LHC Atom Smasher
Catches 1st High-Energy Collisions




Lightning Show in Venezuela




"Shangri-La" Caves Yield Treasures, Skeletons




"The Aztec Calendar and 2012 The Sixth Sun"




Starfire Tor




Wingmakers wide views of spirit and philosophy




Introduction to the Wilcock / Cayce / Ra Connection




The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce and His Soul Group?





The Thrilling Potential Of Sixthsense Technology
with Pranav Mistry




HUMANOID ROBOT ARMY TAKES TOKYO BY STORM




Neutralize & Harmonize Energy Forces and Geopathic Radiation




Strange Houses Green Building Green Homes




The Biology Behind the Milk of Human Kindness



ENVIRONMENT:
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Check out the film on Patriarch Bartholomew- an amazing man-video




Drew Dellinger is a spoken word poet, teacher and activist. Also a very nice and open hearted man. Check out his website
www.drewdillinger.org




Dean Jefferys site on supporting whales and environmental activism




Marine aquaculture can feed the world




Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told'




Corporations are Stealing Our Basic Survival Needs
In This Case Water Must Watch




ACTION ALERT: Speak Out Against Factory Farms!!!




Urban Forests Key to International Climate Responses




Copenhagen's Hidden Agenda:
The Multibillion Trade in Carbon Derivatives
Architect of Credit Default Swaps behind the
Development of "Carbon Derivatives"




BIG OIL BEHIND COPENHAGEN CLIMATE SCAM




Green Fakers-
youtube



AP Report Reveals Monsanto's Efforts to Control
Agriculture: Watch This Film!



HEALTH:
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10 Companies to Avoid This Holiday Season




River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About
Factory Farms DVD, Eye-Opener




The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods




Washington state suspends limits on mercury in vaccines




BAYER ADMITS GMO CONTAMINATION OUT OF CONTROL




Why Are We Drugging Our Kids?




FDA KIDNAPS HERBAL SUPPLEMENT SUPPLIER FROM ECUADOR




The Spice that Ignites Your Body's Astonishing Immune System




Overlooked 150 Year Old Household Cleaner a Remedy
for Swine Flu? Baking Soda




The Hippocrates Health Institute




Green Your Spirit




Dr. John Christopher's Herbal Legacy




Many Arabs distrustful of swine flu vaccine, many
go for herbal remedies




Health Canada Raids Family at GUNPOINT !
-youtube




MEDICALLY CAUSED DEATH IN AMERICA




Mounting Debilities and Deaths from H1N1 Vaccine





Denis Leary: "Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat,
Loud, Lazy and Stupid" (Paperback)



A letter to "Teabaggers": Ignorance and Selfishishness is No Excuse




Sarah Palin Coloring Book! It's Got Pictures to Rouge In!




Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP-video




Stephen Colbert Talks Aliens with Vatican Astronomers-
satire video




Charles Manson Is My Father




Shunning the Family Bed. Who Benefits Most?




Why Is Tiger Woods in Trouble? It's Not His Steamy Sex Life;
It's His Family Values Hypocrisy




Sex Workers Give Freebies in Copen




Hot, Steamy Mormons: Are the Latter Day Saints Getting Sexy?






GLOBAL:



At midnight last night, the United Kingdom ceased
to be a sovereign state



India: The Largest Democracy?
Arundhati Roy Disturbs Democratic Daydreaming, book review



Two dead, two missing after cyclone hits Fiji



The invasion of East Timor




Dubai (aka Debt-Bai) real estate wipeout




Anti-authoritarian crowds arriving in Greece
aboard 12 chartered ships




Could Greek Default Clobber The Euro?




Greece Struggles to Stay Afloat as Debts Pile On




Ellen Cantarow, The Great Wall of Israel




Martin Chulov, Is Iraq's Next Crisis Ecological?




“Keep the Oil in the Soil”: Ecuador Seeks Money to Keep
Untapped Oil Resources Underground




The Celebration Went Unnoticed - Big Leftist Win in Uruguay:




Australia introduces web filters
Australia intends to introduce filters which will ban access
to websites containing criminal content




Health Bill in South Australia





NATIONAL:



WARS
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Shift in Saddam disinfo coincided with Enron scandal



Bhopal Disaster's 25th Anniversary: Another Act of Corporate
Terrorism That Time Forgot



Some Firms Enrich Execs, Shaft Pension Plans




The Audacity of Ethnic Cleansing
Obama's plan for Afghanistan
By Mike Whitney
The Bush administration never had any intention of liberating
Afghanistan or establishing democracy. The real aim was to remove
the politically-intractable Taliban and replace them with a puppet
regime run by a former-CIA asset. The rest of Afghanistan would be
parceled-off to the warlords who assisted in the invasion and who
had agreed to do much of the United States dirty-work on the ground.




New Poll Finds Americans Favor U.S. Isolationism, Acting Alone
Majority of Americans Think Torture 'Sometimes' Justified
By Heather Maher
Fully 44 percent of Americans -- the highest percentage in more than
45 years -- say that because the United States is "the most powerful
nation in the world, we should go our own way in international matters,
not worrying about whether other countries agree with us or not."




Nuke Gaza:
Israeli officials are right to worry. Gazans too. Yet Americans
should worry even more.




Pakistan legal plea to search US embassy for Blackwater weapons




Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret C.I.A. Raids




Putin: Russia has no evidence Iran trying to build nukes:
"We have no information that Iran is working on the creation of a
nuclear weapon," Putin said when asked by a reporter if Iran was
close to making an atomic bomb.



The United Nations' Role in Peace and War.
"The UN of the arms dealers - the most disreputable and yet
profitable business on earth."




Benjamin Fulford: "THE UN, THE IMF, THE WORLD BANK AND THE
EUROPEAN UNION ARE ALL DOOMED"






Martin's Kaputt radio podcast on cults and other jokes




US ARMY SPENDS $32.8 MILLION ON PROPAGANDA
VIDEOGAME






Years Of Deceit: US Openly Accepts Bin Laden Long Dead



Going South
Militaristic, corrupt America increasingly resembles
a Third World state.
By Ximena Ortiz
Disproportionate military spending threatens economic wellbeing.
Industry has its hand so deep in the government's purse that private
enterprise is becoming public property. The currency falters, the
infrastructure crumbles. And a supine media, once a watchdog of
the powerful, happily licks the strongman's hand.



CIA Agent Captured in Cuba
An employee of a CIA front organization that also funds opposition
groups in Venezuela was detained in Cuba last week




Lieberman actually stalking horse for Rahm Emanuel?




Meet the Commanded-in-Chief




President Obama's Secret:
Only 100 al Qaeda Now in Afghanistan
One Thousand U.S. Soldiers and $300 Million for
Every One al Qaeda Fighter
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS
President Barack Obama's description Tuesday of the al Qaeda
"cancer" in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence
officials have concluded there are only about 100 al Qaeda fighters
in the entire country.




Obama's war: 1000 US soldiers and $300 million for
every al-Qaeda fighter





Obama Invokes 'Just War' as Nobel Chairman
Compares Him to MLK




Obama's 'Just War': Martin Luther King Jr. Did Not Push For a
'Just Racial Divide' in His Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech




Obama's Rejection Speech




The "Obama Doctrine": Eternal War For Imperfect Mankind




Obama's Big Sellout





Why Is the Media So Obsessed With Horrifying Images of
African-American Mothers?




What the FBI's Murder of a Black Panther Can
Teach Us 40 Years Later




How America Holds Court: The Seedy Dealings
Underpinning Our Legal System




Normalising the Crime of the Century
By John Pilger
The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalise an epic crime
by providing enough of a theatre of guilt to satisfy the media so
that the only issue that matters, that of prosecution, is never raised.
When he appears in January, Blair will play this part to odious
perfection, dutifully absorbing the hisses and boos. All "inquiries"
into state crimes are neutered in this way.





Is There any Margin for Hypocrisy and Deceit?




'Just War' Is Just Words
By Ralph Nader




Our Murderers in the Sky
By Scott Ritter




Mercenaries and Assassins:
The Real Face of Obama’s “Good War”





Afghanistan: Germany says no to sending more soldiers to help US:
Germany has cast doubt on the value of sending extra troops to
Afghanistan despite pleas from the US for its Nato allies to bolster
the fight against the Taliban.




Can Obama Face the 'Unspeakable'?




Excellent news and views




Howard Zinn's "People's History of American Empire"
Illustrated Edition



ECONOMICS:
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We're number 37 in healthcare-
song and youtube




CRIME AND DRUGS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY
Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor



The Money Behind Moon's Washington Times




Claim: Goldman bankers arming selves for fear
of ‘populist uprising’




ENRON--AL GORE'S PARTNER IN CRIME




Is the Copenhagen treaty about creating a world government?




Chuck Norris: Climate Scientists Totally Suck Ass at Climate Science!




Climate Change: What is the Hidden Agenda?




CLIMATE CHANGE BY DESIGN




Catastrophic Success-reflecting on Bush and Katrina




Cops as props? Off-duty police cash in on private 'paid duty'





22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found




Are Americans a Broken People?
Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression
By Bruce E. Levine
A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a
malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down
that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?



SURVEILANCE:
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Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to
U.S. Agencies for Small Price



U.S. Forces Plan Direct Action Against American Citizens




IS OBAMA REALLY PREPARING FOR CIVIL WAR?



Towards New Global Currency,
New Financial World Order - Part2




EU President Admits One-World Government is
Here NWO-youtube




Jesse Ventura and 9/11




Interesting "fringe" articles




DNA Test Sparks Controversy Over Hitler's Remains




Fresh doubts over Hitler's death after tests on bullet
hole skull reveal it belonged to a woman




QUOTES FOR DEC 16th:


"We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men.": Gerald W. Johnson - (1890-1980) Source: American Freedom and the Press, 1958
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A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?: Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?: Douglas Jerrold
" Whenever a people... entrust the defence of their country to a regular, standing army, composed of mercenaries, the power of that country will remain under the direction of the most wealthy citizens.": A Framer
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Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters: Noah Webster
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion: Thomas Paine
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Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect: Mark Twain
"Zealotry of either kind -- the puritan's need to regiment others or the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself -- tends to produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims: they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer, defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of betterment.": Lance Morrow (1939- ) Essayist, professor
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"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.": Lyn Nofziger [Franklyn C. Nofziger] Press Secretary for President Reagan
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.": Theodore Roosevelt - (1858-1919) 26th US President - Source: letter 01/10/1917
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war: Plato
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The convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was composed of fifty-five members. A majority were lawyers-not one farmer, mechanic or laborer. Forty owned Revolutionary Scrip. Fourteen were land speculators. Twenty-four were money-lenders. Eleven were merchants. Fifteen were slave-holders. They made a Constitution to protect the rights of property and not the rights of man,: Senator Richard Pettigrew - Triumphant Plutocracy (1922)

" The purpose of commercial [media] is to induce mass sales. For mass sales there must be a mass norm ... By suppressing the individual, the unique, the industry ... assures itself a standard product for mass consumption.":
John Whiting, writer, commenting on the homogenization of corporate media program content
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"One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change.": David Barsamian, journalist and publisher

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthralment to those in power: Leo Tolstoy - Demanding the Impossible: a History of Anarchism by Peter Marshall (fontana press 1992) p374
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"The vested interests - if we explain the situation by their influence - can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent." Sir Norman Angell 1872 - 1967
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"Iniquity, committed in this world, produces not fruit immediately, but, like the earth, in due season, and advancing by little and little, it eradicates the man who committed it. ...justice, being destroyed, will destroy; being preserved, will preserve; it must never therefore be violated." Manu 1200 bc




PUNMASTER MUSIC ARTICLES:


Lost John Lennon Tapes Allegedly Found

by Paul Cashmere

A recording claimed to be a rare and unreleased John Lennon recording session has gone on sale in the USA.

The recording available at www.lennontapes.com claims to have been recorded on August 19, 1980 at the Hit Factory in New York.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were recording the ‘Double Fantasy’ album as well as ‘Milk and Honey’ at the Hit Factory.

These recordings if for real sound like vocal warm-ups for John and feature covers of ‘Mystery Train’, ‘Stay’ and ‘Dream Lover’.

Info at the lennontapes site states, “This 13 minute selection of John’s vocals, singing from the vocal booth on August 19th 1980 was recorded on high quality tape. From that master recording, listen to some great moments of John speaking to the band, kidding around with his recording engineer and as he performs three songs, “Dream Lover” with a medley into “Stay A Little Bit Longer”. He then jokes around with everyone and then performs Mystery Train (the song Elvis Presley had made famous).”

If the recording is real, then surely Yoko Ono would own the rights. How it came to be released via a third party still remains unknown.

It is claimed that video director Jay Dubin filmed John and Yoko on that day at the studio with the intention of producing music videos for the ‘Double Fantasy’ album. None of that footage has ever surfaced but this audio recording is claimed to be outtakes.

We await a comment from Yoko Ono to see if this is real.

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John Lennon Tapes Claimed To Be Legit

by Paul Cashmere

A recording of previously unreleased songs sung by John Lennon is for real, says Brian Koppelman.

Koppelman tells Undercover that Lennon gave him the tape in 1980 while he was in at the Hit Factory in New York watching him record.

A few days ago, I asked the question of ownership of the tapes. “First off, Yoko does not own this recording,” Koppelman tells undercover.com.au. “This tape came from John. I had lent John $100 in the Hit Factory and he handed me the tape to hold onto. He could not find his wallet while he was there. He never paid me back and I am now sell the collateral that he used”.

However, Beatle fans contacting Undercover say the songs have been available as bootlegs for years. Steve Rosetta from OffTheBeatleTrack.com says the original source of the tapes was Elliott Mintz's program 'The Lost Lennon Tapes' 15 years ago. In fact, he says he says the same bootlegs have been available on eBay for the past 4 years.

That isn't stopping Koppelman who 29 years later says it is he who is making the tape public. “We want the fans of the Beatles and John Lennon to enjoy the quality of this recording and the historic value. This was not put out for critics to bash, it is made available for everyone to enjoy. It is the anniversary of John's death tomorrow, let say a prayer for him and what he believed in. I only wish his dreams could have come true”.

He also says that he is the rightful owner of the recordings, not John’s wife Yoko. “This is absolutely a legal and legit offering. Everyone that purchases from LennonTapes.com will be delivered for Christmas between the 23rd - 24th this great Christmas present,” he says.

Money raised from the sales will go to charity he says. “This is to help raise funds for the Emmanuel Orphanage of Tijuana, which has 27 girls and over 40 boys that are in need of support,” he tells Undercover. The reason that we are doing pre-orders is due to the fact that it would be put up on YouTube and elsewhere for free and would defeat the purpose the Orphanage fund raise”.
Beatle and Lennon fans remain unconvinced of the authenticity of the ownership of the tapes. Koppelman claims they are his.

Lennon’s version of Dream Lover and Stay has been around on YouTube for more than a year.

CLICK HERE:

John Lennon - DreamLover/Stay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfBkSkpTrBA

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ERIC WOOLFSON, ALAN PARSONS PROJECT FOUNDER, DIES
Eric Woolfson, one of the founding members of the Alan Parsons Project, has died at the age of 64. Woolfson co-founded the band with Alan Parsons and along with being the group’s principle songwriter, he also sang on some of their biggest hits including “Time,” “Don’t Answer Me” and “Eye in the Sky.” A post put on Woolfson’s Facebook page Wednesday announced his passing saying, “We are very sad to have to tell you that Eric Woolfson passed away in the early hours of this morning after a long and brave battle with cancer. He very much enjoyed seeing all your kind comments and posts on this Facebook page and his family wanted to thank you for your appreciation of his work.” At the time of his death, Eric was reportedly working on at least two projects. Read more at Facebook.com/EricWoolfson

Bob Dylan is upset over some critic's reactions to his Christmas in the Heart holiday album. Some have speculated that the set and the Must Be Santa video were some elaborate joke. Dylan said in a statement:

"Critics like that are on the outside looking in. They are definitely not fans or the audience that I play to. They would have no gut level understanding of me and my work, what I can and can't do -- the scope of it all. Even at this point in time they don't know what to make of me. These songs are part of my life, just like folk songs. You have to play them straight, too... The songs don't require much acting. They kind of play themselves."

Twisted Sister guitarist Eddie Ojeda underwent emergency back surgery Thursday after experiencing pain that stopped him from sitting or standing. He had a ruptured disc repaired and is recuperating, hoping to play at the group's Sunday night show in New York.

The band is currently out on it's Twisted Christmas tour and had to enlist Dan McCafferty, who plays in Dee Snider's solo band, to fill in.
There will be a tribute to Neil Young at the upcoming Vancouver Winter Olympics. The show will February 18 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and will include Broken Social Scene, Ron Sexsmith, Iron & Wine and others.

Les Paul, Frankie Valli and Count Basie are among the 15 people selected for induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. They will go in alongside Jack Nicholson, Woodrow Wilson, Danny DeVito, Phillip Roth, Judy Blume, Carl Lewis, Michael Graves, William Brennan, Susan Sarandon, Wally Schirra, Larry Doby and Alice Paul. Induction is in May.

There are plans for another Jimi Hendrix movie. Legendary Pictures is in development on Slide, a fictional take on the 1969 "lost weekend." Ray "R.H." Greene is writing and directing.
Paul Anka and his wife Anna have gone at it again. According to TMZ, the police were called to their Thousand Oaks, California home on Thursday morning after receiving two 911 calls. Officials said that there were no injuries but there was "one hell of a stand-off." TMZ spoke with Anka who said he has been living in a hotel due to problems in the relationship and he had just stopped to take their children to school when the altercation started.

The second volume in the Costello Show series of archive live releases by Elvis Costello will be released on January 12 with the July 4, 1978 show at Hollywood High School.
Pearl, the daughter of Meat Loaf, will release her debut album, Little Immaculate White Fox, on January 19 via Megaforce. She has worked with Motley Crue and the solo Nikki Sixx over the last decade.
Rolling Stone magazine is about to jump into the restaurant and bar business with the opening of a venue at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Los Angeles. The 10,000 square foot space will be "an exciting blend of equal parts restaurant, bar, lounge and upscale private-event space." The location is near landmarks like Grauman's Chinese Theater, the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Kodak Theatre.
RARE PINK FLOYD FOOTAGE DISCOVERED
Here’s a story that will make any Pink Floyd fan wish they lived in England. The BBC has uncovered rare Syd Barrett-era footage of the band that was thought to have been lost, and the network will air it next month. The 42-year-old video is of the band performing “See Emily Play” on the famous British music show Top of the Pops. The tapes were thought to be destroyed or thrown out, as the BBC often does with boxes when they need storage space, but two tapes of the show were discovered. Although they were badly damaged, the British Film Institute was able to restore them and the BBC is set to air them on January 9th. Hopefully clips will leak to the Internet soon too.
A MOVIE ABOUT THE KINKS
There is a feature film in the works about The Kinks and famed documentarian Julien Temple is set to direct the flick. The movie is tentatively titled You Really Got Me and Kinks singer Ray Davies told us about it.
(Cut #1) “They want to make a movie, a Kinks movie, which will be a fun project. I think it’s like a cradle to the grave movie. It’s a very ambitious project, very ambitious.”
Julien Temple, who directed docs on the Sex Pistols and the Glastonbury festival, further described the movie to ScreenDaily.com saying, “At the heart of it is the extraordinary love-hate relationship between these two brothers,” adding, “I think it’s a very rich social, cultural nexus around The Kinks. Their story is the untold story of all those big bands of the 1960s.” No release date or cast has been announced yet.
RONNIE WOOD ARRESTED
Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend. According to the BBC, a police spokesperson would only say, “We can confirm that a 62-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault in connection with a domestic incident.” However, the guitarist’s rep told the network that Ronnie was arrested after an “incident” but declined to comment further. Ronnie has been released on bail until a later date in January, pending “further enquiries.” Wood divorced his wife of 24 years last month after leaving her for his current girlfriend, 20-year-old model Ekaterina Ivanova.
• In 2008, Ronnie was admitted to rehab to help with his alcohol addiction.
• In the past, Ronnie hasn’t been violent, in fact, he told us that there have been many times he’s had to act as a mediator between his Rolling Stones bandmates, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
• (Cut #1) “On quite a few occasions, I’ve had to be kind of diplomatically getting them speaking, on the phone or they misread things or something in the press that one of them said about the other and it got exaggerated and there was a bad vibe going on between them. So I just said, ‘Look, I’ve just spoken to him and he’s not really mad at you,’ and he said, ‘Well I’m not really mad at him either, blah, blah, blah,’ sort of get them talking and they’d iron out the rough spots, you know.”
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/latestnews/view/111089/Ronnie-Wood-in-street-assault-probe/

CLASSIC ROCKERS GET GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
Some really big names in classic rock are up for some really big awards. Nominees for the 52nd annual GRAMMY Awards were announced Wednesday night and Metallica, AC/DC, Judas Priest and U2 were among them. AC/DC, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, U2, the Dave Matthews Band and Green Day are in the running for Best Rock Album while AC/DC, Alice in Chains, Metallica, Linkin Park and Nickelback are up for Best Hard Rock Performance. Meanwhile, the nominees for Best Metal Performance are Judas Priest, Megadeth, Slayer, Ministry and Lamb of God. Jeff Beck and Steve Vai are also nominated for a GRAMMY in the category of Best Rock Instrumental Performance. See who leaves with a trophy when the GRAMMY Awards air on CBS on January 31st.

CANADA TO PAY TRIBUTE TO NEIL YOUNG
As part of the festivities surrounding the upcoming Vancouver Winter Olympics, the city will hold a concert honoring their native son, Neil Young. The tribute show will include performances from Iron & Wine, Broken Social Scene, Ron Sexsmith and Joan As Police Woman. It will take place on February 18th and according to a press release, promises to dig “deep into Young’s massive catalog to illuminate hits and obscurities alike with magical pairings of song and singer.” Learn more at Vancouver2010.

RINGO STARR REMEMBERS HIS FIRST GRAMMY
On Wednesday night, Ringo Starr was on hand to help announce some of the GRAMMY nominations. So does the former Beatle remember his first GRAMMY nod?
(Cut #2) “I was five I think (laughs). Yeah, it was a long time ago. It was really weird I think at the time, but I have no like, ‘Wow, there’s the memory.’ You know what I mean?”
While Ringo isn’t up for any awards this year, he’s releasing a new album next month which he no doubt hopes will score some GRAMMY gold in 2011. That record is called Y Not and comes out on January 12th. Learn more at RingoStarr.com.

BUY DAVE STEWART’S VINTAGE GUITAR
Wondering what to get the Dave Stewart fan in your life for the holidays? Well how about the rocker’s rare vintage Gretsch guitar. Dave used the instrument during his days with Annie Lennox and The Eurythmmics and you can now bid on it and its case. Best of all, proceeds will benefit Stand Up To Cancer. The auction is being handled by Page Six Magazine and you can learn more about the guitar at NYPost.com/PageSixMag
JULIAN LENNON RELEASES SONG IN TRIBUTE TO LUCY
Julian Lennon hasn’t made music for over ten years but John Lennon’s son is back with a new album and a four-song EP that features the charity song, “Lucy,” which pays tribute to his childhood friend, Lucy Vodden, who inspired The Beatles’ hit “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” Vodden died in September of complications from lupus and proceeds from Julian’s track go towards the Lupus Foundation, which works to fight the autoimmune disease. The Lucy EP hits shelves on the 15th and Julian’s new album, Everything Changes, is due out in the spring. Learn more at TheRevolution.com and hear “Lucy” at Billboard.com.

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/song-debut-julian-lennon-s-lucy-1004050354.story

• John Lennon wrote “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” after seeing a watercolor that Julian did of Vodden.
BACHMAN AND TURNER GO INTO OVERDRIVE AGAIN
Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Randy Bachman and Fred Turner have reunited to work on the title track of Randy’s next album, Rock N Roll is the Only Way Out. The guitarist spoke to Billboard.com about the song, describing it as “really rootsy, really AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, really fun, eager, hungry rock n’ roll.” If that weren’t enough Bachman and Turner plan to tour behind the effort, though dates haven’t been announced yet. When they do hit the road, they won’t be joined by the rest of their BTO bandmates and will have to consider what name they tour under since drummer Rob Bachman and guitarist Blair Thornton have sued to prevent the duo from promoting themselves as anything similar to Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Album and tour details will be announced at a press conference on Tuesday but the record is due out next fall.

AC/DC’S ARGENTIAN SHOWS FILMED FOR DVD
AC/DC played in Buenos Aires last night and they’ll perform there again tonight and Sunday night. According to 10Musica.com, all three shows at the River Plate Stadium will be filmed for a future DVD release. No further details on the disc have been released yet.

RINGO STARR REVEALS DETAILS ABOUT NEW ALBUM
On his Web site, Ringo Starr revealed details about his upcoming album, Y Not. In a video posted to the page, the former Beatle shows off what the record will look like, discusses the origins of the effort and includes clips of himself singing some new music. Check it all out at RingoStarr.com. Y Not hits shelves on January 12th.
• Paul McCartney collaborates with Ringo on the track “Peace Dream.”
• Y Not marks the first Ringo album that the singer also produced.
BECK & CLAPTON TO PLAY TOGETHER IN NYC, CANADA
Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton plan to perform three shows together in North America. The rockers, who took the stage together in Japan last February, will again collaborate this February when they play in New York on the 18th, Toronto on the 21st and Montreal on the 23rd. The pair is already scheduled to perform two sold-out gigs in London that month. At the shows, the former Yardbirds members will perform both together and apart. Tickets for the New York concert go on sale on December 12th while the Canadian gigs will be for sale this week. Learn more at EricClapton.com.
• Of the upcoming shows, Clapton said in a statement, “I’ve always considered Jeff Beck to be one of the finest guitar players around. He’s a friend, a great guy, and a truly gifted musician. We had such a fun time in Japan that it seemed natural to play again.
• Beck has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, while Clapton is the only three-time inductee.
• RELATED AUDIO: Jeff Beck describes why he does concerts like this (See Related Cut #1).
SEE DAVID LEE ROTH’S ART
David Lee Roth is not only a singer, he’s an artist too. The Van Halen frontman has uploaded a bunch of pictures of his artwork. Roth calls his pieces “authentic originals and incompetent imitations” and you can take a look at them at DavidLeeRoth.com.
• Roth has designed stage clothes, choreographed, orchestrated photo shoots and designed t-shirts for Van Halen.
NO MORE YES?
Rick Wakeman is no longer in Yes and he is pretty upset about the current state of the band. The group is touring overseas without singer Jon Anderson, who originally bowed out due to illness but now that he is better, hasn’t been allowed back in the band due to contractual issues with his substitute, Benoit David. Rick filled us in on what’s going on with Yes.
(Cut #1) “My personal opinion is you can’t have Yes without Jon singing. It’s like having Led Zeppelin without Robert Plant, The Who without [Roger] Daltrey, it just doesn’t happen. But what I think is very sneaky and what really annoys me is not, in the advertising, saying who is in the band. I mean, I’m just getting hundreds and hundreds of emails from people who’ve gone on to say, ‘Hey, we arrived there to see the Yes show. You’re not there, Jon’s not there, what’s going on?’”
So will there ever be a chance of the classic line-up hitting the road together? Probably not, as Rick explained.
(Cut #2) “It is upsetting and I think the tragic part of it is, I mean I think that Yes deserves, because we’re all getting on a bit, Jon’s in his mid-60s, everybody’s in their 60’s, and so things have to wind down and I think Yes deserved a really special and dignified wind-down and it’s not getting it. And now the classic line-up, I can’t see it ever working again.”
Fans can still get their fix of Rick Wakeman by picking up his new DVD. It’s the Hampton Court Palace performance from earlier this year of his 1973 solo concept album The Six Wives of Henry VIII. The disc is currently on shelves.

IS A KINKS REUNION IN THE CARDS?
The Kinks last played together in 1996 but recently, there have been rumors of a reunion. One hurdle the group will have to overcome first though is Dave Davies’ recovery. In 2004, the guitarist suffered a stroke and his brother and former bandmate, Kinks singer Ray Davies, filled us in on how Dave is doing.
(Cut #3) “I heard that Dave is doing some dates early next year which is great because there is always talk of The Kinks reforming to do some stuff. I said to him, because he got sick four or five years ago, and I said do some small dates first and he’s taken that advice. He’s doing some try-out dates, which is good.”
So if Dave’s dates go well, is a Kinks reunion in the cards? Ray told us his thoughts.
(Cut #4) “We’ll see about that. I think he just wants to see how this goes. He’s taking it a day at a time, which is a smart move. But the rest of us, I’ve played with the original drummer, I’ve done a few demos with him and I’ve done some recording with [keyboardist] Ian [Gibbons] and [drummer] Mick [Avory] and [bassist] Jim [Rodford], so we’re on top of it. I’d only do it if we had a direction to go in, a new musical… a new outlet as well as doing the old stuff.”
While fans hope for and wait for a Kinks reunion, they can go out and buy Ray’s latest album. It’s called The Kinks Choral Collection and includes new studio recordings and compositions of the band’s songs
GOSSIP: STONES TO TOUR NEXT YEAR
If you believe hearsay printed in British tabloids then listen up. A source claiming they’re quoting Ronnie Wood’s girlfriend told England’s The Sun that The Rolling Stones are planning a world tour in 2010. The insider told the paper’s gossip column that Wood’s ladyfriend is not supposed to talk about the trek since it hasn’t been finalized but she couldn’t resist telling a few of her closest pals. Not surprisingly, there has been nothing official released from the Stones’ camp.
HENDRIX’S “VOODOO CHILD” IS THE GREATEST RIFF
In a new poll, Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child” has been named the Greatest Riff of All Time. MusicRadar.com conducted a survey of five-thousand music lovers and Jimi’s 1968 classic got the most votes. Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” was second followed by “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water,” “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos and AC/DC’s “Back in Black.” Tunes by Metallica, The Beatles, Nirvana and The Rolling Stones filled out the top ten. See the entire list at MusicRadar.com.
Paul McCartney Admits To Mills Mistake

Sir Paul McCartney admits that his follow-up wife Heather Mills was a big mistake.

McCartney’s marriage to Heather Mills is his biggest regret of the last ten years, he says.

The Beatles star - who has a six-year-old daughter Beatrice with the former model-and-charity-campaigner – admits if he could go back and change anything since 2000 it would be his union to Heather.

He said in an interview with Q magazine: 'I suppose the marriage has to be a prime contender for mistake of the decade. But I don’t want to down anyone.

'These things happen you know? But I tend to look at the positive side, which is that I have another beautiful daughter out of it.'

Despite the acrimonious divorce, Paul insists he has had a good time for most of the last ten years.

He said: 'I’ve managed to feel quite fulfilled this decade. If I hadn’t done my side project The Fireman I think I would wish I’d done that because it freshened ideas up for me.'

Paul, 67, also quashed rumours he would be retiring soon.

He revealed: 'I have too much fun. Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.'

Paul and Heather married in 2002 and divorced in 2008. The 'Yesterday’ singer had to pay his former spouse a £16.8 million settlement.

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Eric Clapton tour announces U.S. concerts with Roger Daltrey

By Allison Reitz

North American audiences will get an extra dose of guitar master Eric Clapton in the New Year. Slowhand will be hitting the national tour circuit on an 11-date run that launches February 25 at Mellon arena in Pittsburgh, PA. The two-week itinerary is booked primarily for the East Coast and Midwest, ending with a March 13 show at Amway Arena in Orlando, FL. The Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey will also be along for the ride as a special guest, opening each night's performance.
EXPERIENCE HENDRIX TOUR LAUNCHES IN MARCH
JIMI'S MUSIC PERFORMED IN CONCERT BY ALL-STAR LINE-UP

Experience Hendrix, the fourth edition of the biennial concert tour that features an all-star line up of music greats paying homage to the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix gets underway in early March of next year with special performances across the country.

Featured artists who will be performing music written and inspired by Jimi Hendrix include some of the best known and most respected artists in contemporary rock and blues including Joe Satriani, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad Whitford (of Aerosmith), Doyle Bramhall II, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Double Trouble’s Chris Layton, along with bassist Billy Cox. Cox, who first befriended Hendrix when the two were in the 101st Airborne Division of U.S. Army, played in both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys and performed with Hendrix at such landmark festivals as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. Cox commented, "It's a thrill for me to play Jimi's music for audiences now as it was in the 1960s. The Experience Hendrix tours have shown how timeless this music really is." Joe Satriani remarked, "I finally get to pay tribute to my hero the right way, on stage with an amazing, once in a lifetime, line up of musicians!" Sacred Steel featuring Robert Randolph, Susan Tedeschi and David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos are also performing on selected Experience Tour dates.

Various combinations of these music greats will be performing Jimi’s signature songs including “Purple Haze,” “Voodoo Child (Slight Return), “The Wind Cries Mary,” “Little Wing” and “Red House.” As has been the case with previous Experience Hendrix tour incarnations, special guests are expected to sit in at many of the dates making the concerts all that much more memorable for both new and veteran Hendrix fans. Past special guests have included Paul Rodgers, Buddy Guy and Carlos Santana.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd, a veteran of several Experience Hendrix tours remarked, “Jimi Hendrix’s music has really inspired to push the limits of my own music. He didn’t observe any boundaries musically. He was an amazing player and a tremendous showman so I incorporated some of his showmanship in what I do.” As far as having been part of the Experience Hendrix touring phenomenon, Shepherd noted, “It touches you on the inside and gets you fired up.”

The Experience Hendrix Tour is presented by Experience Hendrix, LLC, the Hendrix family-owned company founded by James A. “Al” Hendrix, Jimi’s father, entrusted with preserving and protecting the legacy of Jimi Hendrix. Earlier this year, Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Division and Experience Hendrix entered into a worldwide catalog licensing venture to make all of Jimi’s extraordinary music, including classic albums, never before heard archive recordings, and filmed concerts available through all forms of media.

Launching on the west coast, the month-long tour will bring the troupe of players, each a headliner in his or her own right, to concert venues in major U.S. markets including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and Atlanta.

Notes Experience Hendrix Tour producer John McDermott, “The line-up for this tour reflects the breadth of Jimi’s ongoing influence that reaches down through the generations. The guests that have been attracted to participate are enthusiastic about the proposition of performing with their counterparts. That mindset underscores the fact that the Experience Hendrix tour is all about musical camaraderie and the recognition that Jimi Hendrix, undeniably, casts the longest shadow in the realm of great music and great musicians.“

Janie Hendrix, CEO of Experience Hendrix noted, "Everyday, we see how Jimi's musical legacy continues to transcend generational and cultural boundaries. This tour is our way to give a live concert experience that reflects the genius of his unifying spirit. Part of our mission is to share Jimi’s music with audiences of all ages and these tours continue to play a key role in fulfilling that vision. As my brother said, “We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds.. ’cause there are so many sleeping people…”

Experience Hendrix Tour 2010 dates follow
(Tickets now on sale)

March 4 - Santa Barbara, CA - Arlington Theater (1)
5 - Los Angeles, CA - Gibson Amphitheater (1)
6 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint @ Hard Rock (1)
7 - Mesa, AZ - Ikeda Theater (1)
9 - Fresno, CA - Table Mountain (1)
10 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theater (1, 2)
12 - Reno, NV - Silver Legacy (1, 2)
14 - Denver, CO - Paramount Theatre (1, 2, 3)
16 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater (1, 2, 3)
17 - Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theater (1, 2, 3)
18 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theater (1, 2, 3)
20 - St. Louis, MO - Fox Theatre (2, 3)
21 - Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater (2, 3)
23 - Akron, OH - Civic Theatre(2)
24 - Montclair, NJ - Wellmont Theatre (2)
25 - Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theater (2)
27- Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre (2)

1 = David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas appearing
2 = Sacred Steel featuring Robert Randolph appearing
3 = Susan Tedeschi appearing

For more information, visit www.jimihendrix.com

BBC - Spencer Davis in song and story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/southwestwales/hi/people_and_places/music/newsid_8391000/8391102.stm
'The Last Waltz- (DVD) Re-Viewed' - a mini-Randt by Rand Crook
Dear Dad

I am compelled to write in response to my latest viewing of the DVD of Martin Scorsese's 'The Last Waltz,' certainly one of rock-n-roll's finest documents of perhaps its most mysteriously brilliant and uniquely American band's final concert. (however Canadian) Thank you Dad for reviving my interest in doing so.
I love DVD's because of their added value. You have the narrative experience of the film itself and then the extra bonus goodies like audio tracks and "making of" films and retrospectives. This DVD is chock full of these and what a pleasure. Robbie Robertson's and the director's comments were so full of contextual shading and backstory. Great for filmmakers like myself who are always looking for clues and insight into the creative process.
Scorsese comes across like a groupie/nerd who desperately wanted to be a rock star but became a director with heavy musical sensibilities insteaad. I empathize. He is a history buff with great technical and considerable human communication skills and affability. I too refer to myself as a frustrated musician come filmmaker. Cinema production employs all the arts.
It is befitting that The Band gave to Scorsese a Fender Stratocaster for his very own at the conclusion of the film. Making this film he was able to "jam" with the musicians with his extensive and elaborate set-ups, fancy lighting schematics, Hollywood designers and various top-shelf cinematographers. The names of the cameramen were like a who's-who of the industry; Kovac, Narita, Zigmond and Chapman, to name a few. Oh and it helped greatly to have such a luminous array of musicians as subjects to photograph. They were all colorful and dynamic performers all chosen very specifically for the occasion. Dylan, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Neil Diamond, The Staple Singers and all of them brought something special to the one-time event. Other
oddities like poets Michael McClure and Lawrence Ferlinghetti rounded the show out. It was a smorgasbord of rock and roll culture for sure.
And Thanksgiving dinner for 4,000 hippies prior to the show, complete with orchestra for dining and dancing? Chandeliers hanging elegantly in the ceiling of the Winterland arena casting glowing lights on the fortunate below. That's not how I remember the old skating rink where as a sixteen year old a year later I rocked out to the Grateful Dead. It was pretty funky, but intimate. Enchanting.
What struck me the most was the profundity of the performances of Rick Danko, the second guitar player next to Robertson, and Levon Helm, of The Band. Richard Manuel's awesomely nuanced vocals were often not filmed according to complaints about the film from Helms, who insisted later that Roberton's production tended to favor himself and present the rest of the Band members as simply his back-up musicians. But such raw tenderness was best exhibited when Danko sang in that whiny falsetto "the gambler says read em and weep..And the sun..don't shine ...any more... and the rain falls down ..on my door!" Or when Helms sang his ass off while smacking the drums on the opening song of the film (and the last song of the show) "My biggest mistake was loving you TOO Much! I Tried to do my best...Please don't do it, don't ya break my heart!" You can feel an authenticity of emotion, a vulnerability, that cuts right through. Even Eric Clapton confessed that when
he first heard The Band play he instantly wanted no more of his music in his band Cream, feeling suddenly that Cream's music "just wasn't him."
All those guys in the band were great singers with great songs. But when it was time for classics such as 'The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down' something greater happened. It is a narative beyond the normal scope of emotion, beyond your basic themes of lost love and betrayal: it is a song of wrenching historical pain from wounds still not completely scabbed and fallen away, not yet sompletely healed maybe. You can feel that railroad track being tore up again by the Union Army or the worthlessness of the confederate money, the dispeair of a culture turned upside-down and inside out by WAR. You can almost smell the dried blood below the feet of Virgil Cain. Defeat is not glamorous or spandex rock-n-roll. Damned great band, The Band was.
'The Weight' and 'I Shall Be Released' ooze with grief from some other time and place, some forgotten battlefield where a mother cried for a week for her lost teenage son. You can hear it. How do they sing sad songs without welling up and gushing with tears? Its a special gift to sing the songs of pain, to recite the words of loss.
The darkly lit interviews were shot at George Lucas' place at night because he was shooting 'Star Wars' during the day. Levon Helms sheds interesting light on the genesis of modern rock music from traveling shows. His timeless, tobacco chewing, backwoods image is set against his keen elloquence to an almost eery effect.
The 35mm film resolution is solid and phat, in a word or two.
The director explored his subject affectionately, curiously. He asked questions like a child almost. For all his cleverness he cannot crack the code of the rock-n-roll musician, so he compromises- with cameras.
The subtle light changes were all cued in advance, but one would never have known without the extra audio track of the dvd to explain. On this line of that song a certain lighting look occurred. The low lighting angle was like the old Hollywood films of the thirties. The constant movement of the camera into Emmy Lou Harris' face on 'Evangeline' as if she were the subject of the song itself. And such an angelic voice has she. The push into the antique abalone inlaid accordian squeezed so beautifully by Garth Hudson, who made the rest of the band pay him for lessons in order to agree to join them. The wooden instruments were shrouded in foggy timelessness.
Neil Young fit right in with 'Helpless' while Joni Mitchell's 'Coyote' 'You just picked up a hitcher..prisoner of the white lines of the freeway.." was nothing short of absolute musical genious. Dylan almost fades into the background of my memory with the newness with which the others astonished me. Dylan too saw The Band as something mighty special but didn't want to be filmed too much in order not to compete with his own movie 'Renaldo and Clara' coming out at the time.
It has taken years for me to grasp the immensity of the music of The Band, and surely the attempt is not over. Griel Marcus wrote an entire book, which I loved, about the making of their 'The Basement Tapes' lp. They were an enigmatic force of culture beyond trend and fashion.
"See that man with the stage fright ..just standing up there giving it all his might. He got caught in a spotlight..and when he gets to the end.."
Rick Danko sang from the depths of his own huge soul. Prophetic, deeply touching sound. How old are these guys, anyhow? It seems, very old indeed. Wise.
The hours of the show went on and on. The long jam with Ringo's clunky beat went on and on. Clapton broke a string but recovered before it was over.
Muddy Waters brought weight to the show that no other could. His inflections on 'Mannish Boy' 'I'm a Maaaaaaan' just brought down the house. "Full grown lovers man." On the other hand, I didn't care so much for Ronnie Hawkins, who belted out 'Who Do You Love?' But with Muddy Waters there, what was he thinkin? Clapton played Bobby Bland's 'Further on up the Road' and Dr. John tinkled the keys with his New Orleans honky-tonk sound dressed in a pink ruffled shirt, mojo necklaces and a great hat.
I recall Ferlinghetti doing his twisted version of The Lord's Prayer called 'The Loud Prayer' for our camera in 1989 for a German TV show special, just like at The Last Waltz. Radical, in your face stuff, in the San Francisco tradition. He was proud of that. He is a UNC Tarheel alumn too, for what its worth. Michael McClure freaked everyone out with his old english verses from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Gibberish basically.
He was also the subject of another German TV piece I shot at his house in Oakland in which he performed his poem with the line 'Oh Lord Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz' made famous in song by Janis Joplin. The audience at the Winterland must've been dumbfounded with the poetry and wordplay.
The message was clear though. The road is no way to live, for them anyway. So, why not go out with style? Look at Janis and Jimi and Hank Williams and on and on. Robbie Robertson said very adroitly regarding the ultimate value of The Band's Last Waltz...to paraphrase..
"To close one thing in order to open another!"
I like that.
Thanks again, Dad. Please pardon the formality.
love,
THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY - DECEMBER 7

In 1964…Brian Wilson had a nervous breakdown while he was on a flight from L-A to Houston. He decided soon after to stop touring with The Beach Boys.

In 1968…The Beatles self-titled double album, often referred to as The White Album because of its cover, topped the British album charts.

In 1973…Fleetwood Mac manager Clifford Davis declared that he owned the rights to the band’s name and assembled a second Fleetwood Mac to tour around the country. After a lengthy legal fight, the second Fleetwood Mac changed its name to Stretch.

In 1973…Paul McCartney & Wings released the album Band on the Run.

In 1984…Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil crashed his ‘72 Ford Pintero in Redondo Beach, California. His passenger, Nick “Razzle” Dingley of the band Hanoi Rocks, was killed. Neil was later found guilty of vehicular manslaughter.

In 1993…Despite protests, Guns N’ Roses said that their cover of Charles Manson’s “Look at Your Game, Girl” would stay on the album The Spaghetti Incident? Royalties from their recording would go to the son of a Manson family victim.

In 1997…Bob Dylan received the Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award from President Bill Clinton.

In 1999…Jennifer Lopez denied tabloid reports that she insured her body for a billion dollars. But Lopez admitted it was a good idea.

In 1999…The Eagles held a press conference to announce that their first Greatest Hits package had become America’s best-selling album. Glenn Frey said, “I hated popularity contests when I was in high school, and I hate them now.”

In 2002…Police were called to a Philadelphia Guns N’ Roses concert after the band failed to appear and the show was abruptly cancelled. Two people were hospitalized from the resulting furor and G N’ R’s tour was called off completely the following week.

In 2003…Whitney Houston summoned police to her home in Alpharetta, Georgia, alleging her husband Bobby Brown hit her in the face during an argument.

In 2003…Ozzy Osbourne told the Los Angeles Times that his stuttering and physically unstable condition was caused by a cocktail of prescription medicines. Osbourne was put on an array of tranquilizers and amphetamines to combat depression after his wife was diagnosed with cancer.

In 2003…”Godfather of Soul” James Brown and country star Loretta Lynn received lifetime achievement awards at the Kennedy Center Honors. LL Cool J said Brown, “made it possible for me, a black kid from Queens, to stand in front of a president and say, ‘I’m black and I'm proud.’”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Monday, December 7th

Tom Waits (singer) is 60
- Born in Pomona, California
VIDEOS:
Hoyt Axton & Ringo Starr - "No, No, Song"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZqp6YlCM9I
Lennon Talks About The Beatles Getting Back Together in 1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRvu02Yp75Y
Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins - Instrumental Medley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wTVLIZaxMk
Booker T & the MG's - green onions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg

Marilyn Monroe doing what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ0GMATV9sw
"Rock Band" Yoko Ono
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1923978
Angel From Montgomery Bonnie Raitt & Rickie Lee Jones Live Aid 1985
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyXZMumKQ5Y
The Beatles - The Floral Hall film investigation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTX8_-1ujc



The Beatles - Coliseum, Washington, DC - 11.02.1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Wf2YGzFRM&feature=related
Sonny Boy Williamson - Nine Below Zero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjXVTxtzI4E


Big Mama Thornton ft. Buddy Guy - Hound Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XUAg1_A7IE&feature=related


The Beatles - Some Other Guy (Live at the Cavern, 1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8PVZxGyFuc&feature=related


The Beatles- She Loves You - 1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2fDUb57_xk&feature=related


Boris Karloff sings Monster Mash on Shindig! Recreated!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXLQAGJoz3k&feature=related
Sonny Boy Williamson:Your Funeral and my trial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFRMBWgyH-M&feature=related

Links By George December 2nd

Greetings again. The blog update took awhile to update,
but I hope the new art and news paste ups will have some
interest for everyone. Some people have been asking
about my radio show presentation on Wed. nights (Sydney time)
for which I am adding the information below as well.
A fine week to you.
George

Recently, I have started being a musical presenter on our local
community radio station NIM-FM 102.3 here in Nimbin.
My show is called "Sidetracks" which is an eclectic blend of 60's
psychedelia, progressive rock, blues, shamanic/political overtones
and fun to listen to. I am on the air on Wednesday from 8-10:30 p.m
local time. The station streams on the internet, and you are invited
to check the show out. Make sure you go to the world time site to
find out the appropriate day or hour from your region. Australia
has various time zones and ours is the same as Sydney or Melbourne.
If you do tune in, I would be happy to hear your feedback. A sampling
of artists on the show includes a range from AC/DC, Stones, Zeppelin,
Tim Buckley, Dylan, Traffic, Miles Davis, Grateful Dead, Zappa
and lots of nuggets in between for a very high soundscape.
Here is the link to the stream:

NIM-FM streaming
http://www.nimfm.org/index.php?page=listen


World Clock-Time Zone to calculate the time and date
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/




LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:



Dec 3-5 Miami
Moksha / Art Basel Exhibition 2009




Recycling-Artists Eco Fair
Quebec Dec 4-6




Support for legalizing marijuana grows rapidly around U.S.




The War on Weed: Marijuana Is Basically Harmless -- The Monumentally
Stupid Drug War Is Not




Feds Addicted to Pot




NYTimes.com: Medical Marijuana: No Longer Just for Adults




PSYCHEDELIC SERMONS IN THE AMAZON





Help to find a publisher for booklet on Brazilian Ayahuasca Music





Metamorphosis- an excellent documentary on Ayahuasca-info
and screening schedule




Jaguar tastes the hallucinogenic effects of yage-youtube




How much LSD does it take to kill an elephant-or does it?





Black lemur on drugs - BBC wildlife




Psychedelics and Nutrition:
Carnivorous Cultures vs. Fungal Cultures





Gnostic Media's excellent entheogenic/psychedelic interviews podcast




Expanding Mind podcast with Dennis McKenna





"LSD: The Highway To Mental Health"By Dr. Milan Hausner with Erna Segal





Thujone





Drink Some Booze, Smoke a Joint and Relax: How to Have
a Hedonistic Thanksgiving





An interesting article on
the saga of Mick Taylor, former
Rolling Stones guitarist:





Stairway to Heaven and the Led Zep backward
masking controversy




Lee Underwood is a wonderful musician, visionary, philosopher and friend.
Whether its his essays on being a guitarist with Tim Buckely, his
inspirational solo piano songs, or views of art, music or the world in general,
I encourage you to give his site a look and listen




A video about the late mana'o radio founder Barry Shannon, featuring
his wife, Kathy Collins, dancing hula and singer-songwriter-guitarist-Luthier
Steve Grimes





We didn't start the fire-youtube





Billy Preston and friends-'that's the way god
planned it-youtube




Matt is a friend with an excellent site of wisdom and music to enjoy





Lee Underwood is a wonderful musician, visionary, philosopher and friend.
Whethar its his essays on being a guitarist with Tim Buckely, his
inspirational solo piano songs, or views of art, music or the world in general,
I encourage you to give his site a look and listen





Integral Yoga magazine





Gregory Sams podcast:
Is the Sun Conscious?





December and its folklore





Lost cave temples of Mustang
An interesting video about an amazing
part of the world. And some brave climbers:





Ancient Human Metropolis Found in Africa





Crop Circles - Crossover From Another Dimension - Part 1 of 2




Moontime Diary




Does Falling in Love Make Us More Creative?





Max Flury’s Echo Project
Why would anyone drag a PA system powered by car batteries,
loudspeakers, recording equipment and musical instruments to
a mountain in the Himalayas to produce a natural echo?




Water Drop at 2000 Frames per Second-video





"Farmed Salmon Exposed" - Intro/Excerpt-youtube





Bulgaria's Black Sea has been ravaged by development, but its
hippies and artists are fighting to save the remaining wild beaches.





Coral "Triangle" Launched, saving Southeast Asia's
coastline-youtube




State dinner for India a green affair




United States and India Embark on a Green Partnership




Thanksgiving and the Organic Revolution




The Meatrix-films




Norway opens first osmotic power plant





Eco Tech: Inflatable Solar Skin allows inefficient buildings
to generate solar energy




LED Tattoos Could Turn Skin Into Screens (VIDEO)





Scientists Believe Your Cell Phone Is a Death Trap




My friend Anita Stewart's excellent and envoronmentaly
important blog site




'How To Survive The Coming Food Shortage'





Chilling DVD Exposing Toxic Corporation:
"The World According to Monsanto"





Friends Don't Let Friends Watch FRAUDcasting on FOX:
Send the Message





WHO probing spread of drug-resistant swine flu
As one friend writes:
Everything in the world is evolving and trying to survive.
That also goes for bacteria and that which we call evil.





Superstar CBS Reporter Blows the Lid Off the
Swine Flu Media Hype and Hysteria





Swine Flu Alert -- Shocking Vaccine Miscarriage Horror Stories





When Sex Hurts, and No One Can Tell You Why:
The Mysterious Condition Called Vulvodynia




900-Pound Man Dies after Cut from Chair




Mussolini's Brain "stolen and auctioned on ebay"




The Marx Brothers Box DVD Collection --
Special BF Price. Hours of Laughs.






GLOBAL:



Is Egypt benefiting financially from the plight of the people of Gaza?
By Iqbal Tamimi
1/11/2009





Colony In The Capital, 25 Years On, Living Without Roads & Water
The dark side of prosporous secular India !
By akansha, Section Civic Problems in Delhi

Financial Crisis in Dubai: Towards a Nightmare Scenario?

Former Soviet States: Battleground For Global Domination





NATIONAL:




Excellent news coverage





White House Releases Turkey Pardon Spoof Then
Does The Real Thing




All Politicians Are Alike
An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
By Michael Moore
Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to
West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you
are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan,
you are the new war president. Pure and simple.





A Dark Side of 'Made in America': Explosive Stockpiles, Defense
Contractors and Why Obama Won't Sign the Landmine Ban Treaty





Jets Bomb Afghan Refugee Camp: Foreigners among dead
Foreigners among 11 militants killed
By Abdul Sami Paracha
Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009




Civil War Spreads Across North West Pakistan
By James Cogan
The escalating violence, taking place on the dictates of Washington,
can only have the most explosive political consequences. Barely 14 months
after taking over the presidency, Zardari has plunged the country into a
worsening civil war that has devastated the north west and is costing as
much as $10 billion a year.





Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
By Jeremy Scahill
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special
Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi,
members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a
secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected
Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value
targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan,
an investigation by The Nation has found.





War Profiteers Calculate Windfall, Activists Plan Mass Protests




As Obama Sends More Troops, Giant Shadow Army
Of Contractors Set To Grow In Afghanistan





Why They Hate Us :On Military Occupation
By Stephen M. Walt
The bottom line is that you don't need to be a sociologist, political
scientist, or a student of colonialism or foreign cultures to understand
why military occupation is such a poisonous activity and why it usually
fails. If you're an American, you just need to read a bit about
Reconstruction and reflect on how its effects -- along with the
effects of slavery itself -- have persisted across generations.





Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as February 2002
to Plot Iraq Invasion





Manfacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran
Obama's Nuclear Spring
By Benny Morris
The talk in Israel, explicit and open - including in the country's
leading daily, Haaretz, last week - is about a war in the coming
spring or summer.





Fight for survival in the West Bank
By Phoebe Greenwood in Hebron, the West Bank




'Wahhabi terrorism helps West achieve goals'





"Who The F*** Does Netanyahu Think he Is?"
By Alan Hart
Netanyahu knows who he is - another Israeli prime minister who,
with the assistance of the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress,
has got another American president by the testicles. At least
for the time being.





We Are All War Criminals
By Dahlia Wasfi
If we ask the people who are living the horrors, then maybe
what happened at Ft. Hood isn't so shocking at all. What is
surprising is that we haven't seen more of the same.





Two NATO commanders wore Nazi regalia in Afghanistan




A Trial That Will Convict Us All
By Paul Craig Roberts
Republicans and American conservatives regard civil liberties
as coddling devices for criminals and terrorists. They assume
that police and prosecutors are morally pure and, in addition,
never make mistakes.





The Resistance Of The Oppressed
By Paul Balles
If I die while killing 20 of my enemies, doesn't that serve my people
in their war against oppression? Hasn't this been the justification
for all soldiers dying in all wars?





Towards Resolving Thanksgiving Contradictions
By Emily Spence
I will not discuss fatuous repugnant myths concerning Indians and
Pilgrims when I sit down to my next Thanksgiving dinner with
relatives who lives so many states away from mine. I will, instead,
remember the suffering that transpired after the "New World"
became seen as a land of opportunity.





Are hate crimes legalizing treason?
Jeff Gates
Saturday, 21 November 2009





American Casino:
By Mike Whitney
The truth behind the headlines, shining a light on the negligent
regulators, the colluding Fed, the unscrupulous ratings agencies,
the mercenary banks, the venal mortgage lenders, and the long
daisy-chain of opportunists and fraudsters who gorged themselves
on the spoils from the biggest swindle in history. This is this
generation's big story.






Our Maniacal Optimism Is Ruining the World
By Anis Shivani
If you want to have a compliant populace, what could be better
than to say that everyone has to think positively and accept that
anything that goes wrong in their lives is their own fault because
they haven't had a positive enough attitude?





Global Warming Rigged?
Here's the Email I'd Need to See
By George Monbiot
It's no use pretending this isn't a major blow. The emails extracted
by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of
East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced
that they are genuine, and I'm dismayed and deeply shaken by them.






Social Security: The Hidden Problem
By Allen W. Smith
The trust fund holds no real assets. This was made clear by David Walker,
Comptroller General of the GAO, in a speech given January 21, 2005.
Walker said, "There are no stocks or bonds or real estate in the
trust fund. It has nothing of real value to draw down."





The Vanishing of the Gold Basis





China Buys Hummer Brand-- Further Evidence of a Shock
Doctrine Assaulted America? by Rob Kall





ROTHSCHILD APPOINTED TO HELP SELL
DUBAI WORLD ASSETS





Switzerland To Turn Over Secret Bank Account Names





Economic Crisis Is Getting Bloody
Violent Deaths Are Now Following Evictions, Foreclosures
and Job Losses
By Nick Turse
Despite ever rosier economic predictions and a surging stock market, t
he body count from the economic crisis is destined only to grow in
the weeks and months ahead.




The Cost of Dying
By CBS 60 Minutes
Many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit,
subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong
their lives at enormous cost. Steve Kroft reports.





Housing Meltdown, Ground Zero
The American home-owning dream on life support.
By Andy Kroll
The turnout was staggering: close to 45,000 desperate homeowners
showed up during NACA's five-day stand at the Cow Palace for the
chance to renegotiate their disastrous subprime mortgages or
sky-high interest rates or interest-only payments.




"Only The Super Rich Can Save Us"
Cindy Sheehan Interviews Ralph Nader
Click here to listen




Are Some Democrats Getting a Spine?
Some Democrats are proposing, in the same way that we have to find
the money for social programs, that if we want to continue and or
escalate the war, we should find the money to pay for war.





Gun Lobby's Absurd New Claim: Healthcare Reform Will
Take Away Your Guns





The Madness Returns
The hoopla over Sarah Palin's memoir is the latest sign
that right-wing irrationality is making a comeback, says Robert Parry.





Palin's Book to be Reclassified and Placed in "Fiction"
Section: Palin's former aide annoyed by portrayal in 'Going Rogue'





What Sarah Palin's "Jewish people will be flocking to Israel"
prediction really means





President Sarah Palin
By Margaret Kimberley
Smug Democrats love to imagine they are a species apart from
Sarah Palin, the "pit bull with lipstick." However, U.S. political
history teaches us never to overestimate the intelligence of the
American electorate, or trust a Democrat - many of whom were
Republicans not very long ago. At root, Palin's supporters are
"white nationalists," the same people that adored Ronald Reagan
and, yes, George Bush. So why is it so hard to imagine a Palin presidency?





Addicted to Nonsense
By Chris Hedges
We are waiting for our cue to walk onstage and be admired
and envied, to become known and celebrated. Nothing else in life counts.





Hard-liners Peddle Zombie Lies About Immigrants and Crime





Prepare for the Obama-GOP Alliance





Oppose Obama's Big Agriculture Nominee





Obama Quietly Backs Renewing Patriot Act
Surveillance Provisions




Obama's Drug-War Assassinations
Jacob G. Hornberger




Alleged Murder Weapon in the
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.




The world went through a tremendous shift from the
Woodstock_Festival to the Watergate_scandal.
The US Vietnam_War ended in 1975, when it could
have ended in 1965, had JFK lived.




Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception,
Written by a Magician!





Illuminati Secret Space Part 1 A-youtube





Plans To Microchip Every Newborn American &
European Babies, page 1





One Nation, Under Surveillance





Feeling Nervous? 3,000 Behavior Detection Officers
Will Be Watching You at the Airport This Thanksgiving




15 Years For Cutting Line At Wal Mart?





TRILATERALIST REPLACES BILDERBERGER TO
CHAIR COPENHAGEN SUMMIT




9/11 tragedy pager intercepts.
http://911.wikileaks.org/
US let bin Laden escape after 9/11: Senate report





Death of an Era: 1933 Daily Mail Editorial Build Germany to
destroy Russia (behind the scenes get the oil wells back





'Stories of the War Photographers' -Was it Real?-Filming
Street Fighting in Alost September 1914





Rebecca Solnit, Writing History in the Streets





Report: Black U.S. AIDS rates rival some African nations




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