LINKS BY GEORGE MARCH 3RD

The newsletter format allows for easier skimming of headlines
as well as for dial up in general. The blog is formatted such that the
articles appear in the middle part. On the right side are a column of
images and videos. The Music Videos section when on the blog is on
the far bottom below Punmasters music news. Once you scroll down
the right side column to the end, the section of art starts with the most
recent featured art first. The quotes of the week and music articles of
the week appear on the bottom of this section as well.



Stephanie does the uploading the "links by george" articles
into the blog as well as the photos and art work which take
her many hours as well and for which I am very grateful.
As many of you know, I have been sending out this newsletter
for over 7 years.
I am commited to networking these articles and stay many hours a day researching. Our financial situation is very challenging as it is and the cost to keep the internet services also is a problem each month.
I would like to thank the friends that have sent in donations to the service I provide. I am not asking for anyone to feel that they have
to donate. My service is from the heart and it is a pleasure for me to outreach to as many people as possible. Many people write me back that they have benefited from the articles and thus the information provides a service. However, if anyone can send even a small donation to me through paypal or otherwise, my family and I would be very very appreciative.
In any case, the 'links by george" will go on.
We have a paypal contact at gsrain@yahoo.com
Stephanie and I just enjoyed our 33rd wedding anniversary party which was a wonderful event here on the Big Island.
Our friend Scott Huckabay came and played an amazing set including his Jimi and Led Zep tribute.
Here is a link to one of his newer songs ''Secret Portal''
that was inspired by a visit to the pyramids in Egypt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvw9dHAHsjA



Aloha I invite you to check out my updated blog images in the new art images on the "top part of the bottom" picture icons. .
There is new art again from various artists.
The blog this week (as does the newsletter) has many articles on Wikileaks as well as stories on psychedelics, spirituality,
environmental, economy,health, political, conspiracies,
quotes and updated music news. As ever, I search through
a variety of websites and news sources to provide a wide panorama and multiple reference points of interest.
Also lots of extra music videos that I think you will enjoy on the arts section.
Of course not every article or detail is interesting to everyone, so I suggest one way to approach this digest is to skim the headlines and then go back to open the ones most personally interesting.
My aim is to arrange them in a way that has a thematic
flow (similar to how I would arrange the songs I would play in my radio show.
Also somewhat confusing might be the difference between the newsletter
and the blog. The newsletter has all the articles and does not require fast speed internet to look at. The blog has the same stories but also the art images and thus takes faster internet service to open. The same article headlines appear as on the newsletter and open when you click on them.
Besides the hundreds of new stories that I review daily, more and more music videos are being forwarded to me by friends and groups.
It's a tough choice which ones to edit down to the newsletter format, and as many of these take up too much time to download, I have added a new section after ARTS which I am calling MUSIC VIDEOS.



"LINKS BY GEORGE" DIRECTORY:

LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:
EVENTS
HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS
ARTS
MUSIC VIDEOS
ENVIRONMENT
SCIENCE
HEALTH
GLOBAL NEWS
NATIONAL NEWS:
GENERAL INFO
WAR
POLITICAL
ECONOMIC
SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:
QUOTES FOR THE WEEK
PUNMASTER MUSIC NEWS-SELECTED ARTICLES
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LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:

EVENTS

Byron Bay Bluesfest April 9-13 Australia
-featuring Dylan,BB and many other great musicians



Bioethics Forum
- Manifesting The Mind
Madison, WI - April 28th-29th



April 17-22
Conference on consciousness dimensions
Cyprus



Psychedelics in the culture and healing of the 21th century
Budapest Hungaryon the 11th and 12th of March, 2011
BLACK SWAN ALTERNATIVE ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL
- May 19-22, 2011 Indiana



HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS:

THAI GOVERNMENT IN MASSIVE CAMPAIGN
TO ROUND UP DRUG USERS



Ohio Man Kills Himself After Son Rats
Him Out For Marijuana



NEW YORK CITY STILL AMERICA'S MARIJUANA ARREST CAPITAL



Zero Tolerance Policies:
Are the Schools Becoming Police States?




Medical Marijuana Changes and Insult to Voters



Meet Roger Christie and the Green 14:
"The Last Marijuana Trial"



If the Feds Get Their Way, Big Pharma Could Sell Pot
-- But Your Dime Bag Would Still Send You to Jail



Science:

Cannabidiol improves symptoms of generalized social
anxiety disorder in a controlled clinical study



Cured A Cannabis Story
(A film by David Triplett).wmv
-youtube



Cannabis Science Extracts Kill Cancer Cells In
Cancer Patients Being Treated Through Its
Licensed Distributor Rockbrook




NIMBIN HEMP EMBASSY RESPONSE TO PSYCHOSIS “STATISTICS”




"New study finds no cognitive impairment among ecstasy users."




The Puzzling Uproar Over One County's Attempt to Educate People
About Reducing Harm Risks from MDMA



Aya - Awakenings:
"AYA: Awakenings is an audiovisual journey into the world
and visions of ayahuasca shamanism produced by the Undergrowth collective.
Adapted from the book 'Aya: a Shamanic Odyssey' by Rak Razam (Icarothis experimental documentary has evolved from a live audiovisual performance created as part of a book tour in California in late 2009 which blended spoken word, atmospheric sound design by Buttons Touching and hypnotic psychedelic visuals mixed with documentary footage and photography
by video artist Tim Parish (Verb Studios). 
After two popular performances, it was also invited to perform at
the Evolutionary Temple at Burning Man Festival 2009 in Nevada.
In 2010 an early version of the documentary was performed at the
Cairns Winter Solstice festival in Australia." Publishing),



EGA SUGGESTION ON TAKING ACTION ON THE
PROPOSAL PLANT SCHEDULING AUSTRALIA




Nimbin under attack for cannabis:
choppers and blitz




Mathematician Ralph Abraham Compares DMT
Experience with LSD Experience



Ethnobotanist Kat Harrison Discusses Her First DMT Experience



Terence McKenna on DMT



Alex Grey rare interview on DMT Dimethyltryptamine
by Roger Essig



Jim Carrey Spiritual Awakening
- DMT Experience He is In The Know



Joe Rogan talks about DMT on the Alex Jones Show



Joe Rogan elaborates on psychedelics



Plants Of The Gods
-youtube



A Prehistoric Mural in Spain Depicting
Neurotropic Psilocybe Mushrooms?



Tom Roberts on teaching about psychedelics
-video




Psychedelic Healing by Neal M. Goldsmith




Raising $1Billion for Psychedelic Research and Development



The Quiet Resurgence of Psychedelic Compounds as Instruments of Both Spiritual and Scientific Exploration by John Horgan



Fate, Fortune, and Mysticism in the Peruvian Amazon
by Marlene de Rios



ACID DREAMS: The Complete Social History of LSD:
The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond



Drugtext Books Section;
Hallucinogens and Culture by Peter Furst, 1976



Drugtext Books Section;
The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience
by Robert Masters 1966



Drugtext Books Section;
The Forbidden Game by Brian Ingliss, 1975



Radiant Minds edited by Jean Millay.
A wonderful collection of consciousness expanding artricles and very recommended



"Consciousness and the Source of Reality:
The PEAR Odyssey."




The Mysterious Power of "Threes": "Millions of people recognize the Holy Trinity, but few understand that the concept behind it is not limited to a single religion or belief system. What if the Trinity were an ancient code, a formula, a secret so simple yet so powerful, it could change the way we look at our relationship with the Creator and with creation?"



Sacred Geometry 101E:
Metatron's Cube
-youtube



Dreams Awake-the movie about Mt Shasta




The (ex-para)psychologist Dr Susan Blackmore no longer looks for ghosts - least of all in the 'meme machine'.




Czech prehistoric engraved "Venus" has "twin sister" in USA




The Economics of Happiness
-film



BBC Human Planet preview
-youtube



How Michael Jackson's Heal The World
really could help heal the world




Zeitgeist:
Moving Forward


The Success Of Alternative Markets Depends On You



ARTS:

Baraka-one of the most beautiful movies ever made



NYTimes.com:
2011 Oscar-Nominated Shorts



Iasos is a friend and a multi dimensional musician and artist.
Check out his European date schedule



Message to the Universe-Merrell Fankhauser
Merrell is a friend and his new cd is well recommended:
The Alien Rock Suite. Merrell Jams in the rainforest with his band of Aliens on this reisue of the 1986 lp. Alien rock song and blistering guitar work and laid back vocals. This cd is truly a lost gem




Jimi Hendrix plectrum mosaic artwork on show



ENVIRONMENT:


Schwarzenegger calls for Tunisian-style green revolution



Copenhagen:
Europe's coolest green city



Underwater nuclear power stations destined for the English Channel?




Tell your Representative to Vote No on the Polluters' Budget



Chevron Runs from Judgment in Ecuador



Indigenous Ecuadoran woman humbles US oil giant



SENECA HAWK ELDER EDNA GORDON SPEAKS OUT
-video



Bayou Tribes Want Payback From BP for Lost Way of Life




EPA knowingly allowed bee-killing pesticide onto the market
-film




Are Girl Scout cookies killing orangutans?
Palm oil is destroying habitats in the process.




Could gorillas go extinct?




Improving Our Ability to Protect Animals On Set



Warming, Polluted Oceans Imperil 75 Percent of All Coral Reefs



Pittsburgh’s drinking water is radioactive, thanks to fracking




Untreated Radioactive Wastewater from Hydrofracking
Dumped in Rivers, Stream




Here Comes the Sun: Solar Flares Make Way to Earth




China to blow the doors off Obama’s namby-pamby
electric car program




Chicago to build electric car charging network



SCIENCE


If You Don't Like This Universe…



Progress in Artificial Intelligence Brings Wonders and Fears



HEALTH:


Parents:
You Can Say No to Vaccinations, Right?
Maybe Not for Much Longer...



60 Lab Studies Now Confirm Cancer Link to a Vaccine
You Probably Had as a Child



This Popular Drink Can SLOW Down Your Brain...Fluoride




Startling NEW Evidence:
This Drink Causes Your Neurons
to Stagnate for 20 Minutes...Fluoride




What the Europeans Know About Toilet Hygiene
That You Don't




Flies and cockroaches carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria
from factory farms, study finds



Feds Approve Monsanto Herbicide-Resistant Crops



Why Monsanto Always Wins




Mexico stands up to Monsanto
– says no to GMO corn




Doctor Warns:
Eat This and You’ll Look 5 Years Older
-soy dangers and fermented benefits



Despite its Horizon brand, dairy giant Dean Foods
really doesn’t get organic




What's Wrong With Local Foods?
Local and Organic Food and Farming:
The Gold Standard



Turmeric: the Spice that Helps Prevent Cancer -
Now Being Used to Repair Stroke Damage



Iridology
-How Your Eyes Can Predict Disease



Jack LaLanne,
Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96




GLOBAL NEWS:


Christchurch Quake Death Toll Now 102,
More Buildings May Fall in
Aftershocks



The NATO Plan is to Occupy Libya
By Fidel Castro
For me, what is absolutely clear is that the government of the United States is not in the least worried about peace in Libya and it will not hesitate in giving NATO the order to invade that rich country, perhaps in a matter of hours or a few short days.



Libya and Imperialism



Libya:
Is Washington Pushing for Civil War to Justify a
US-NATO Military Intervention?




THE U.S. IS BEHIND THE FALL OF MUBARAK



How Gaddafi's Words Get Lost In Translation
By Oliver Miles Former British ambassador to Libya
Oratory is out of fashion with us - no longer do our statesmen
hold the House of Commons in thrall for eight hours at a go.
But Mr Gaddafi is also a bad joke throughout the Arab world
outside Libya. How can that be?



Africa:
Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Military Partners




Julian Assange to be Extradited to Sweden




NATIONAL NEWS:


GENERAL INFO:


Defiant Protesters Occupy WI Capitol



Proud Oscar Winners Support Unions,
Slam Wall Street in Righteous Speeches



Shocking:
South Dakota Wants to Legalize
Murdering Abortion Providers
''We knew the abortion debate was moving to scary extremes,
but WHAT? New legislation in South Dakota is being introduced that
would make killing abortion doctors a 'justifiable homicide.'
Legal. Murder.
It's too shocking to comprehend.'' Mother Jones:



Wisconsin National Guard Preps For Worker Unrest
After Gov. Unveils Budget




One Love:
The Nation Should Watch the Kentucky Rising
Sit-in on Valentine's Day



Wisconsin Crowds Swell to 30,000;
Key GOP Legislators Waver




Use live ammunition' against Wisconsin protesters,
Indiana official says:



Prank call proves billionaire David Koch owns
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP



Koch Brothers "Prank" No Laughing Matter;
Walker could be in violation of state and federal laws.




Rupert Murdoch and David Koch Collude
Against Wisconsin Workers




Main Street Movement Erupts as Thousands
Protest War on the Middle Class



From Montgomery to Los Angeles and Beyond:
Formerly Incarcerated People Building a Movement



The Year in Hate & Extremism, 2010



Anti-Empire Report



Issues and Alibis news service



The Liberal Media Strikes Again



An Empire of Lies
Why Our Media Betrays Us
By Jonathan Cook
For the western media, our leaders make mistakes, they are naïve or
even stupid, but they are never bad or evil.
Our media do not call for Bush or Blair to be tried at the Hague as war criminals.



Fox News' Lies Keep Them Out of Canada



Republican governors just love saying no to rail
Turning down federal money for rail projects looks like it's turning
into a badge of honor for Republican governors. Does the president's
grand vision for high-speed rail stand a chance?




The Shame Of Being An American.
..by Paul Craig Roberts



Tom Engelhardt:
All-American Decline in a New World




The American Empire Is Collapsing Before
Our Eyes in the Mideast




Chomsky:
"Democracy Uprising" in the USA?



Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny



Bradley Manning Faces Death Penalty


WAR:


Media Demonizes Gaddafi as Pentagon Prepares Attack



Another Runaway General:
Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators




CIA And Media Ventriloquism
The War Party's Atrocity Porn
By William Norman Grigg
Anderson Cooper spent two summers as an intern at Langley
in a CIA program designed to cultivate future intelligence operatives.



$1.2 Trillion:
The Real U.S. National Security Budget No One
Wants You to Know About




Gates Agrees, Bush's Wars Were Nuts



For Money, For Oil? Why Wars Really Happen
By David Swanson



Coming Soon to a War Near You:
Robo-Hummingbird Drones?




They kill 4 troops,
WE kill 65 women and children, We win!



Gates, Rumsfeld Sued Over US Military's Rape Epidemic



POLITICAL:

Radical States:
GOP Forcing Their Nightmarish Right-Wing
Vision on People Who Elected Them



Indiana Dems follow Wisconsin Dems to Illinois,
fleeing anti-union vote



Dear Mr. Beck:
I Shook Hands with the Antichrist



Private Emails Reveal an Obsessive Sarah Palin



Anti-WikiLeaks Bill Introduced




Chomsky:
Only a Massive Uprising Will Change Our Politics




Republican union-busting advances in Ohio



Congressman Dennis Kucinich:
Trillions for War and Now ZERO for Peace!


ECONOMIC:


‘Global Economic Crisis’ exposes plans for
a global military dictatorship



The Fed's Policy of Creating Inflation:
A Massive Wealth Transfer



Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?



Wisconsin: Health Care, Democracy and
the Middle Class Are At Stake



Wisconsin Is a Battleground Against the Billionaire Kochs'
Plan to Break Labor's Back



Koch Brothers Try to Quash Labor Rights




The Kochs Vs. Mainstreet:
the Right-Wing Billionaires'
Open War on Everyday Americans




How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Government



Republicans Are Using the Budget to Wage a Massive Assault
on the Environment and Roll Back Crucial Protections



How the Rich Soaked the Rest of Us



Separate but unequal:
Charts show growing rich-poor gap




Michael Moore | Global War on the Middle Class




TAKE ACTION!!
Using Your Debit Card Is About to Become
More Expensive--Tell Congress No!!



The Betrayal of Public Workers




Gas Prices Set to Rise Nearly 40 Cents in Coming Days




Crude: the real price of oil movie




SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:


US Earthquake Weapon Test Fails Again,
Destroys New Zealand City



Dr. confesses Cancer & other Viruses is found
in Vaccines
-youtube



FOOD IS BECOMING POISON -
P. 2 of 5 - CODEX DEATH - NWO



The United States of America Violates
International Bioweapons Treaty



Ray McGovern Discusses Brutal Arrest at
Secretary Clinton's Internet Freedom Speech



The Obama Administration's War on Civil Liberties and Free Speech
As Clinton Hawks 'Freedom to Connect,' Justice Department
Shields 'War on Terror' Fraudsters, Targets WikiLeaks



Former Reagan Official:
'If law fails, CIA will assassinate Assange'




THE MYONIST CONSPIRACY-FKN NEWZ
-video



Kaputtradio's Podcast -KR # 188 More Secrets
Wiki Leaks, J.Assange, B Manning, Daniel Elsberg, Julian Burnside,
"The Establishment", bbc news quiz excerpt, and more -
collaged together with music from Paris Acid Reflux,
John Lennon - Beatles - electronica - world music - samples



German prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation
into whether two Russian dissidents living in Berlin were
poisoned by agents of the Kremlin.



Charlie Sheen Unleashes On TSA



'Anonymous' Hacker Group Teaches Shady Cyber-
Security Companies a Lesson They'll Never Forget



Horrific Video of Cop Brutality in Houston Beating
of 15-Year Old Released



Power of Nightmares



Jacques Vallee's The Invisible College





QUOTES FOR THE WEEK:

"This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths." -- Simon Heffer Source: Daily Mail, 7 June 2000
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"One of the shrewdest ways for human predators to conquer their stronger victims is to steadily convince them with propaganda that they're still free." - N.A. Scott American author, intellectual, anti-totalitarian figure.
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"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it." --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786.
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."-Thomas Paine
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"Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell." New York Times Co. v. United States - US Supreme Court - June 30, 1971
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"The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty" - Adlai E. Stevenson (American Politician. Governor of Illinois (1949-53) and Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-65). 1900 -1965)
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"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed." - John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
"There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself." - Daniel K. Inouye
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"In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public." - Frank Church
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"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." - William Colby
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), French economist
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"If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President
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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President
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[Corruption in high places would follow as] "all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), American 16th US President (1861-65)

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"The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village. Provided that he can be mayor, or humiliate the rival who stole his sweetheart, or add to the savings in his strongbox, he considers the universal order good, unaware of those giants with seven-league boots who can crush him underfoot, or of the strife in the heavens between comets that go through the air asleep, gulping down worlds. What remains the village in America must rouse itself. These are not times for sleeping in a nightcap, but with weapons for a pillow, like the warriors of Juan de Castellanos: weapons of the mind, which conquer all others. Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones." - Jose Marti, "Our America
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose" - Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war." - Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia


"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy." - Fran Lebowitz

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"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force." - George Bernard Shaw



PUNMASTER MUSIC NEWS-SELECTED ARTICLES:


HEAR JIM MORRISON RECITE A POEM
We recently reported that a rare recording of Jim Morrison reciting an untitled poem will appear on a charity album called Prayer Cycle 2. Now, you can hear the Doors great reading the poem, which is about the plight of Native Americans in New Mexico. RollingStone.com has the audio. Meanwhile, the album, which features contributions from Sting, Sinead O’Connor and even actor Robert Downey, Jr., comes out on May 10th.
• The track featuring Jim is titled “Path to Zero.”
MORE BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD MUSIC COMING?
Last October, Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Rich Furay reformed Buffalo Springfield to play at the annual Bridge School Benefit in California. It went so well that it seems like the reunited group will hit the road this fall. And Stephen told us that might not be all they do.
(Cut #1) “It’s friendly and it’s semi-apolitical and there’s old songs and then the ones that are going to come out of playing together. I know that Neil will suddenly burst, ‘Hey here, I wrote a couple of songs,’ and bring out a stack of 20.”
JEFF BECK TALKS ABOUT LES PAUL
Fresh off his three-GRAMMY win this past weekend, on Tuesday, Jeff Beck releases the DVD and Blu-ray editions of Jeff Beck: Rock N’ Roll Party Honoring Les Paul. The disc features Jeff’s June tribute to the late guitar great. He told us about why he has so much respect for Les.
CROSBY AND NASH DISCUSS TOUR
Next month, David Crosby and Graham Nash are heading out on their first joint tour since 2008 and they’re talking about the upcoming trek. The guys told Rolling Stone magazine that while on the road, they’ll play hits and deep cuts, acoustic and electric, debut some newly-written songs and at one point, perform a cappella. The jaunt begins on March 25th in Long Beach, California and you can get all the dates at CrosbyNash.com.
DETAILS ON GARY MOORE’S PASSING
It’s been two weeks since legendary guitarist Gary Moore passed away and now, details of his death are coming out. According to England’s Daily Mail, at four in the morning, Gary’s girlfriend, Petra, who had tried resuscitating Moore, called for help at the hotel where they they were staying in Spain. Security went to the room and tried to pump Moore’s heart but he was already cold. When the ambulance came, they didn’t try to shock Gary’s heart because he was gone. Read more details at DailyMail.co.uk.
• Moore died of natural causes stemming from his heart on February 6th.
San Francisco—Barry 'The Fish' Melton, guitarist and cofounder of the legendary San Francisco Bay Area duo and band, “Country Joe and the Fish,” has released “Jamasutra: Revolution Down the Road” -- a bilingual French/English neo-psychedelic music album produced in collaboration with renowned Parisian guitarist Stephan Missri. Melton has been touring in France with Missri annually for the several years and they enjoy a wide popularity there. The traditional song, Shady Grove, is the album's title cut and calls for a “revolution” in environmental consciousness.
For further information: www.jamasutra.com
Barry "The Fish" Melton co-founded "Country Joe and the Fish" with Country Joe McDonald in 1965, recording five chart-topping albums and appearing in such classic movies as "Monterey Pop" and "Woodstock." In the early 70's Melton pursued a successful solo career with Columbia Records and United Artist Records, and eventually took up the self-study of law while touring throughout the USA and Europe. In 1982, Melton was admitted to law practice and formed the San Francisco Bay Area supergroup, "Dinosaurs." Dividing his time between law practice and music, Melton left his position as Public Defender of Yolo County, California in 2009 to give his undivided time to music. (Read a more complete biography here: http://www.counterculture.net/thefish/biography.html .)
Jamasutra is available to the public for digital download on the Internet on iTunes, Amazon and tradebit.com