One Thing Leads to Another

Chet Atkins - Oslo 1964 beautiful solo live recording. Guitar influence theme cont.

Tapping the History Well

Simmons Project Visits The LA Circus. and below whitey makes a showing too.

South Swell Rings The Dinner Bell

MALIBU - Lifeguards were on the watch today for any sign of a shark that was seen off the coast of Malibu, but a lifeguard said the sighting was not that unusual. "It's their home," said county lifeguard Capt. Terry Harvey. Harvey said he did not know what type of shark was seen yesterday off the coast, only that it was "fairly sizeable." Bay Watch vessels were patrolling the waters, but the shark was not seen today, Harvey said. Some believe the shark, which was sighted yesterday about a quarter-mile off the coast, could have been a Great White, but it also could have been a Mako, which is similar in appearance, KTLA5 reported. disgruntled surfers chumming to thin things out. didn't work....yet.

Influnece and Natural Progression

Django Reinhardt doing a little run of great guitar work, influences and similarities.

She Hullz

Dream Weapon

Loren Connors & Alan Licht - Live In NYC Guitarist Loren Connors was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1949. Best known as a composer and improviser, Connors has issued over 50 guitar records on his own imprints (Daggett, St. Joan, Black Label) since the late 1970s and over two dozen on other labels across the globe. He has recorded under the names Guitar Roberts, Loren Mattei, Loren MazzaCane Connors and other variations. Connors' singular adpation of the blues is a distinct personal vision combining the Delta bottleneck sound and the ancestral blues voice (appearing as distortion, baying hounds or multi-tracked guitar), with hauntingly unexpected sounds. Outside of Connors' three decades of solo work, he has collaborated with Suzanne Langille, Jim O'Rourke, Darin Gray, Alan Licht, Christina Carter, Keiji Haino, San Agustin, Jandek and many others, as well as leading the group Haunted House. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. See Discography My Space

SHOUTING FIRE

Trailer for a documentary from HBO on Freedom of Speech in a post 9/11 World. Sundance award winner. SHOUTING FIRE: STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF FREE SPEECH examines the case of Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, who was fired after writing that U.S. foreign policy abuses were a partial cause of the 9/11 attacks. Dismissed for research misconduct, Churchill later won a lawsuit against the university for unlawful termination of employment. Liz Garbus also examines the story of Yemani-American Debbie Almontaser, a veteran of the New York City public school system and founding principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy, the city's first dual-language Arabic-English public school. Almontaser claims she was forced to resign from her job in 2007 after she set off a firestorm by citing the literal definition of the word "Intifada" in an interview with the New York Post. After she left, the Academy opened with a temporary principal who did not speak Arabic. Alleging a witch hunt, Almontaser has filed a lawsuit claiming her First Amendment rights were violated. The documentary also considers the case of Chase Harper, who was suspended from Poway High School in San Diego for wearing a T-shirt that read "Homosexuality Is Shameful" during a gay and lesbian awareness event. Advocates for Poway High argue that they have the right to censor speech that would disrupt the educational experience of other students. continued... BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE...Ousted NYC Arabic School Principal Debbie Almontaser Speaks Out on the New McCarthyism & Rightwing Media Attacks Debbie Almontaser was forced to step down in August 2007 as the founding principal of the Khalil Gibran School, New York City's first public school dedicated to the study of Arabic language and culture. Her resignation followed a rightwing campaign that painted her as an educator with a militant Islamic agenda. In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Debbie Almontaser joins us in her first national broadcast interview since stepping down and suing the city. note; To me, it seems more understanding of other cultures could only benefit us as a country....period! There is an organization in this film called 'Stop the Madrassa' that was in part responsible for the paranoia that had this teacher ousted. By the way...Madrassa in Arabic means school. (sounds like someone needs to go to class)

Beachie

Pruned

The Electric Prunes - You Never Had It Better & I Had Too Much To Dream

Latitude: 34.03 N, Longitude: 118.78 W

Moonhead

Pink Floyd jamming in BBC studio during Apollo 11 lunar landing coverage, 1969 We [Pink Floyd] were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23. The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night program felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I've never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube. They were broadcasting the moon landing and they thought that to provide a bit of a break they would show us jamming. It was only about five minutes long. The song was called Moonhead - it's a nice, atmospheric, spacey, 12-bar blues. I also remember at the time being in my flat in London, gazing up at the moon, and thinking, "There are actually people standing up there right now." It brought it home to me powerfully, that you could be looking up at the moon and there would be people standing on it. At the time, Pink Floyd had been doing rather well. For a while, the band had been somewhat erratic and its reputation was sinking. I joined in 1968, 18 months before the moon landing. By then we were beginning to climb back up again. It was fantastic to be thinking that we were in there making up a piece of music, while the astronauts were standing on the moon. It doesn't seem conceivable that that would happen on the BBC nowadays. It didn't have a significant impact on our later work. I think at the time Roger [Waters], our lyricist, was looking more into going inwards, going into the inner space of the human mind and condition. And I think that was sort of the end of our exploration into outer space. We didn't make any songs out of the jam session. We did, on occasions, do music live that would be a jam session of some sort; that would have some structure which we would organise ourselves. And I've heard documentaries where I recognise my music. It's very odd to be watching a documentary and to hear something that you know is yourself, but you have no recognition of when you did it or how. I've never forgotten Moonhead, though. After all, it's not hard to remember exactly where I was. Moonhead was broadcast at 10pm on 20 July 1969. via; The Guardian Thanks to Sam Sweet

Zero-Gravity Country Music

In 1983, Brian Eno released an album inspired by Apollo 11. It has now been reworked for its first live performance. Here he talks to Roger Highfield, the editor of New Scientist, about the project. You were 21 when the moon landings took place. What do you recall? I remember it very, very well. I watched it in the house of my painting tutor at art school, and I remember the very eerie sensation of watching on his little black and white television and then looking up at the moon and being absolutely shocked at the idea of what was happening there at that moment in time. It was one of those strange moments when time closes up on you and something that seems fictional and fantastic suddenly becomes real. You are credited with inventing ambient music. How do the Apollo moon missions fit in with its development? Around the time of Apollo I was listening to a lot of film soundtracks. What I liked was that they represented a form of incomplete music, where the missing element was the visual element. I liked making music that somehow allowed the listener to imagine a visual element themselves. How did you feel when London's Science Museum approached you about the concert? It was their suggestion to make a performance. Apollo was only ever made in a recording studio, and I said it would be difficult to perform. It does not exist outside of the studio and would have to be rewritten. We hit on the idea of getting a young composer [Korean Jun Lee] who would take Apollo as a starting point for a new composition. It is a remake, not a half-hearted facsimile, performed by amplified ensemble Icebreaker with BJ Cole on pedal steel guitar. Why is there pedal steel guitar in the Apollo composition? When director Al Reinert approached me about doing the Apollo music – which ended up in the 1989 film For All Mankind – he told me there was music on the moon shot. Every astronaut was allowed to take one cassette of their favorite music. All but one took country and western. They were cowboys exploring a new frontier, this one just happened to be in space. We worked the piece around the idea of zero-gravity country music. Would you like to go into space? I would love to. But not yet. I would prefer others to do the exploratory journeys [laughs]. My friend Jeff Bezos of Amazon has set up a spaceflight company, Blue Origin. I am sure that if it comes up I can get a seat for an appropriate sum. via; the guardian Eno Megauploads con Apollo. Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day

In a Killing Cove, Siding With Dolphins

Dolphins and diver in “The Cove,” a documentary directed by Louie Psihoyos, below, about the clandestine slaughter of dolphins in a Japanese seaside town. Full article on South Willard Please link to others or cut and paste. MAKE AWARE!

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Nilsson Rock Block Y Doc. con Download

Did Somebody Drop His Mouse? (Documentary of the Making of Son of Schmilsson, 1972) (Part 2/5) here/ the rest is toobed as well. (you can find part one on Bedazzled as a Quicktime download. For some reason it would not upload for me here unless it shows up miraculously) The unreleased documentary of the making of Son of Schmilsson, narrated by Nilsson and producer Richard Perry. You can watch it here in three parts, about 40 minutes in total. While the cut is really rough (it gets a bit better later on), it's a fascinating look at Harry and his pals in 1972 London. In its present form, it's barely more than home movie footage of unseen studio moments: Harry debuting new material live in the studio, the band (including Ringo Starr, Nicky Hopkins, Klaus Voormann, Peter Frampton, Bobby Keys & others) working on the arrangements and plenty of weirdness and clowning around. The unfinished film is choppy and the syncing is non-existent, but it's filled with tons of rare footage and musical outtakes that have never surfaced anywhere else, anchored by the Magical Mystery Tour-like busing of the aged Stepney & Pinner Choir Club No. 6 to the recording studio for "I'd Rather Be Dead." The surprisingly intimate, voice-over recollections by Harry & Perry are the best part, but seeing Harry and Nicky Hopkins sitting at the piano working on "Remember (Christmas)" (beginning of Pt.2) is just one of many priceless moments. Maybe one day a clean print will surface but, for now, this is what has circulated around the underground for years. Another stellar inside look at a seminal LP by an outstanding artist. Harry Nilsson - Coconut video (1971) Coconut; Demo mp3 Gratis! Harry Nilsson BBC 1941 video here... Harry Nilsson- Without You- RARE Piano Demo All video kiped from Bedazzled.....shamelessly

Fa Loves Pa....

Only a cetacean can outrun RT on his Bonzer!

For What It'S Worth

'Porky Pink Pillows' size 8'/ 8'; acrylic on canvas and varnish. 'X-Ray Vision'; size 5/5 acrylic on canvas, painted beads w/shellac base. note; sizes are from memory. Just two older pieces of my friend, artist and band mate Richard Lee. ; i'm guessing these 2 were from the early 80's. Tragically, most of his work that did not sell to galleries ended up being lost and fought over post his passing. I hope to get more but in the meantime i did a slideshow post with a few others here.

In The Beginning There Was Rhythm

The Slits; from a Rough Trade/Y records split single w/ the Pop Group sharing drummer Bruce Smith. "In The Beginning There was Rhythm" / "Where There's A Will"(pop group). Early 80's I believe. Bruce Smith was the drummer for The Pop Group (1977-81), The Slits (1979-81), New Age Steppers (1980-81), African Head Charge (1982), Public Image Limited, Rip Rig & panic and others.

Water No Get Enemy

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Crosstown Traffic

Miles Davis at Isle of Wight Listen/watch The following quotes are from the Miles Davis' Autobiography written with Quincy Troupe. Simon and Shuster, New York 1989. "In August 1970 I played the Isle of Wight concert in England . . . people came from all over the world to that concert: they said they had over 350,000 people. I had never seen that many people out in front of me before." "Jimi Hendrix was there, too. He and I were supposed to get together in London after the concert to talk about an album we had finally decided to do together. . . . Now the roads were so crowded coming back into London after that concert that we couldn't get to the meeting on time, and so by the time we got into London, Jimi wasn't there." and back in New York with Gil Evans: "Gil Evans called and told me that he and Jimi were going to get together and he wanted me to come down and participate. We were waiting for Jimi to come when we found out he had died in London . . ."

Looking Back

The movie clip that changed the direction of surfing. Derek Hynd in Andrew Kidman's 'Litmus'.('96)

Electricity

Great BBC documentary from 1997,(part 2 of 6) narrated by John Peel, featuring Beefheart himself, Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder and More! Go to Transafixion and hear part 2. Thanks to Dr Robert. Part 3 is the making of Trout Mask Replica. THIS IS THEE BEST MUSIC DOC I'VE EVER SEEN AND EACH PART JUST GETS BETTER!

Torn Curtain

JW; craigslist beater proves worth the 80.00.

Plastic Space Flowers

Eero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and product designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism. Architect Eero Saarinen with Florence Knoll inspecting prototype of the Tulip chair Saarinen first received critical recognition, while still working for his father, for a chair designed together with Charles Eames for the "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition in 1940, for which they received first prize. The "Tulip Chair" became the basis of the seating used on the original Star Trek television series.

Morning Steam From Gold To Green

I Am the Cosmos (gratis download)

Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos Listen HERE. It should have been the debut album to launch the accolades that singer songwriter Chris Bell yearned for. The fact it is merely a compilation of unreleased work from a life tragically cut short only serves to add an even more solemn edge to a record that already revels in melancholy. For further stark proof listen to the poignancy of the songs he wrote and the excellent and touching sleevenotes written by his brother David that lovingly tells the story behind the album's posthumous making. Chris Bell's recording career was not a vast one. He spent precious little time with Big Star before falling out with Alex Chilton. What remains of his Big Star contributions are featured on the debut album No1 Record. His solo output was even more sporadic. 'I am the Cosmos' released on Rykodisc is a flawed but beautiful, sensitive masterpiece panned out to 15 tracks by the inclusion of alternate takes. The album kicks off with his crowning glory, the passionate and powerful 'I am the Cosmos'. Both dark and uplifting at the same time. The great cover picture of the singer head bowed and lost high above the snowy mountains animates the powerful imagery this song evokes. Alex Chilton included the song in his reformed Big Star set and Ken Stringfellow of the Posies sung lead. His striking rendition of this song is captured on the Big Star live album, Columbia. Well worth a listen. text cont.... DOWNLOAD; SIDE 1 SIDE 2