To Love Somebody

Bee Gees - (Live in Bern 1968) "To Love Somebody" is the second single released by the Bee Gees from their third LP, Bee Gees 1st. As stated many times by Barry Gibb, their manager Robert Stigwood wanted Barry to write a soul song for Otis Redding for him to record. Barry, along with Robin came up with "To Love Somebody", a soulful ballad in the style of Sam & Dave or The Rascals. Redding died in a plane crash before he could record the song. The Bee Gees decided to record their own version of the song with Barry taking the lead and the result was a pop standard. The sign of a great song is how many artists end up doing their own versions. This would be one.

Pronemen

Sorry Roger. Defection has it's consequences.

Soft Focus, Evil Wave

Ground Leistungsschalter

Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk (1970) Here is the first album (and best IMOP) from Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk was founded in 1970 by Florian Schneider-Esleben (flute, electro-violin) and Ralf Hütter (synthesizers), the pair setting up its Kling Klang studio in Dusseldorf. The two had met as students at the Dusseldorf Conservatory in the late 1960s, participating in the German experimental music scene of the time, which the UK music press dubbed Krautrock. Guitarist Michael Rother and drummer Klaus Dinger (and Andreas Hohmann) left Kraftwerk to form Neu!. 01 Ruckzuck 07:50 02 Stratovarius 12:10 03 Megaherz 09:33 04 Vom Himmel Hoch 10:02 Dig it HERE

The Inside Pocket

Frame grabs of RC and LV

Poloroid Spectra

Nice cutback by J.G. on a 7'6" Liddle. Click for massive enlargement.

The Sorcerer , More Sorcery and Dreams

Just to tie up some loose ends from some previous posts here is a double download post. This video is the studio version of Mizerab which is really good, yet I could not find the real live gem youtoobed .(The live LP- The Sorcerer is a great introduction to man's pure radness. High points being Mizerab, The Beat Goes On and Space) Now for you that have had enough of this continuing theme of the man, I will be moving on. (if it's more that you want just google gabor szabo blogspot, yet the pinnacle is surely "The Sorcerer") Recorded live at The Jazz Workshop in Boston on April 14 / 15, 1967 Tracks: 1. The Best Goes On (4:52) 2. Little Boat (O Barquinho) (4:23) 3. Lou-ise (4:17) 4. What Is This Thing Called Love (5:15) 5. Space (6:35) 6. Stronger Than Us (4:13) 7. Mizrab (6:58) 8. Comin' Back (1:53) 9. Los Matodoros* (12:09) 10. People* (5:18) 11. Corcovado* (3:22) DOWNLOAD Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo recorded this LP live at the Jazz Workshop in Boston and the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1967, it was released on Impulse, players are Gabor Szabo and Jimmy Stewart on guitar, Hal Gordon on percussion, Louis Kabok on bass and Bill Goodwin on drums and others. 1. Los Matadoros 2. People 3. Corcovado (Quiet Nights) 4. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 5. Comin' Back 6. Spellbinder Download and yes a bit more. Here is a nice example of how to listen to great LP's as well as a taste of yet another early Szabo LP. This is Galetea's Guitar from Dreams. a. Galatea's Guitar (Gabor Szabo) - 5:33 b. Half the Day is the Night (Gary McFarland) - 4:23 c. Song of Injured Love (DeFalla) - 4:05 d. The Fortune Teller (Gabor Szabo/Louis Kabok) - 4:28 e. Fire Dance (DeFalla) - 5:39 f. The Lady in the Moon (Gabor Szabo) - 5:13 g. Ferris Wheel (Donovan) - 5:27 MUSICIANS Los Angeles, California: August 6, 7 & 9, 1968 Gabor Szabo, Jim (Jimmy) Stewart (g); Louis Kabok (b); Jim Keltner (d); Hal Gordon (perc); Download In closing... it seems to me the best is the earliest stuff as with most atrists so....ENJOY!

Most Effective Legislator

Edward Kennedy 1932-2009 Even into his last years in the Senate, Mr. Kennedy continued pushing legislation on education, poverty and health care. continue reading on South Willard

Collision Time Revisited

(gloved) "Spring suit booty man" wields the longboard of black magic on many.(including myself)

In The Morning Of The Magicians (part 1)

JW sporting his new PG/Spencer Kellogg Simmons a la Rogelio special! part 2 of post('When the magic went black') coming later.

"Take 4 Red Capsules, then 2 more..."

THX 1138 is a 1971 science fiction film directed by George Lucas, from a screenplay by Lucas and Walter Murch. It depicts a dystopian future in which a high level of control is exerted upon the populace through omnipresent, faceless, android police officers and mandatory, regulated use of special drugs to suppress emotion, including sexual desire. It was the first feature-length film directed by Lucas, and a more developed, feature-length version of his student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which he made in 1967 while attending the University of Southern California, based on a one and a quarter page treatment of an idea by Matthew Robbins. The film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Brothers and Francis Ford Coppola's then-new production company, American Zoetrope.

Foam and Air

Slipping into Darkness (re-mix)

Bush, Obama split sharply on interrogations Release of '04 probe results highlights tension between security, openness By R. Jeffrey Smith Aug 24, 2009 WASHINGTON - When an internal CIA report concluded in May 2004 that "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane, and undocumented" interrogation methods had been used on suspected al-Qaeda members, the predominant reaction within the Bush administration was not revulsion but frustration that the agency's efforts inside a network of secret prisons had not been more effective, former senior intelligence and White House officials recall. Top officials in the Obama administration on Monday made clear that they read the report differently. Despite CIA resistance, they released unflattering portions of it on the same day the attorney general authorized a prosecutor to decide whether CIA employees broke the law while undertaking or overseeing those interrogations. They also wrested control of future interrogations of suspected senior al-Qaeda members away from the CIA and handed it to an interagency group that will be housed at the FBI -- whose agents had not only objected to the CIA's techniques but also refused to stay in the rooms where they were practiced. In supporting harsh interrogation methods, officials in the Bush administration have said they were strongly influenced by pervasive fear and anxiety that another attack on the United States was imminent, and that virtually any measure the Justice Department approved was seen as justified. Obama and his aides, in contrast, have concluded that the benefits of the harsh interrogation program were unproven or slight, and that the costs to America's standing in the world exceed any potential gains from allowing it to persist. A new approach Many of the Obama administration's top national security appointees are addressing the issues for the first time: They were not part of the CIA, the Justice Department or the White House staff during that frenetic period of 2002 to 2004, when the CIA report said the interrogations were conducted with inadequate staffing or support and under incomplete guidelines that left "substantial room for misinterpretation." Obama and his director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, have also emphasized the need to conduct counterterrorism initiatives more openly. They have embraced the CIA report's conclusion that harsh interrogation techniques were a historic aberration that might bring "long-term political and legal challenges." The CIA's interrogation program "diverges sharply," the report stated, "from previous Agency policy and practice, rules that govern interrogations by U.S. military and law enforcement officers, statements of U.S. policy by the Department of State, and public statements by very senior U.S. officials, including the President, as well as the policies expressed by members of Congress, other Western governments, international organizations, and human rights groups." Having trouble keeping up with the lines of justification for the US torture regime? Digby brings you a handy chart: click for enlarge. related; Does Torture Work? Torture devices allegedly used by Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein, on members of Iraq's Olympic team as tools of punishment for bad performance. (did'nt seem to work)

Singing Volumes

Early activists Buffy Sainte-Marie & Pete Seeger

Future Primitive

Sir Fabrow demonstrates proper stall techniQue on an(almost) finless craft. Board has a deep bonzer bottom and 2 thumbnail-sized side nublets.

Ghost Rider

suicide- ghost rider (live 1977-1978) I would have loved a Vega/ Spector Lp!

Sub Lows and High Temps

HAT'S OFF! To the LA Fire Dept. and the shit they deal with, in particular July 4! But these small episodes of nomad part people in the hills where I reside can be just as frustrating. I understand coming to the hilly area for the view and such, yet setting up 5 car stereos in a sub woofer challenge, an abundance of King Cobras and the tossing of lit smokes is just disrespectful...too all. There are consiQuences. Not to mention the 'garbage' left behind and the fact that these ARE neighborhoods, not just inspiration points. (i won't go into detail about the certain disregarded and used latex items that greet me with the AM paper) There is also the criminal element of loitering and planning suspect activity. I love my neighborhood. I just hope it holds together and thanks to the Yellow hats... it will! Tip o' the hat! Sad to say I missed the helo activity of the mass water dousing unit that must have passed no more than 100ft above me on it's pin-point execution drop.

Before Your Burrito, Here's Some Polly

Polly- from the LP Through The Morning, Through The Night (1969) http://rapidshare.com/files/206984037/throughthemorning.rar (password;stuckinthepast) Dillard & Clark was a country rock duo which featured folk rock legend Gene Clark and Bluegrass banjo virtuoso Doug Dillard, plus fellow musicians Bernie Leadon, Chris Hillman, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Byron Berline, and Michael Clarke. The group was formed in 1968, shortly after Clark departed The Byrds, and Dillard left The Dillards. Their music is hailed by critics and musicians as some of the best of the country rock genre.

One Cylinder...and more

Lou Donaldson -- Alligator Bogaloo ... LP Blue Note, 1967. Excellent funky work from Lou -- and a groundbreaking record that was the first to feature him playing on Blue Note with badass drummer Idris Muhammad -- who is listed on the session under his birth name, Leo Morris! Muhammad gives the album that crackling funky bottom sound that instantly defined Lou's later years at Blue Note -- a hard and heavy approach to soul jazz that's had incredible repercussions in the world of hip hop, as well as soul and funk. The rest of the group features soul jazz burners Lonnie Liston Smith on organ, Melvin Lastie on trumpet, and George Benson on guitar -- and the album includes the highly successful "Alligator Boogaloo" and my favorite "One Cylinder"(available on podcast to right>>>>). Gratis note; The cover features Peggy Moffitt, who was not only a top model and fashion designer in the sixties, but was married to popular jazz album photographer William Claxton.(also known for his book on Steve McQueen)

Piggle Shrine

Soon the Wiglet's physical dust will join her friends underneath the 'spirit tree' that holds bits of Migo and Maisie.

Circle Jerk

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Two Tribes

WHAT? KP Bonzering @ Oxnard Shores circa'79 on a borrowed Cliff Collinge Bonzer vehicle! Fact is, no matter how different these two board designs turned out, they were both rooted in the Aussie 'stubbie' scene as well as Greenough etc.... photo; Craig Fineman

El chico

Absolutely classic- young Gabor Szabo on his probably first big festival. Name of the song is "El moors" and few years later it was recorded on Chico Hamilton's album "El chico",(free download) an amazing version as well. It's no wonder Szabo was such a cult figure with an amazing touch and use of air. line up;Chico Hamilton on drums, Al Stinson on bass, Eric Dolphy flute, Gabor Szabo on guitar. the rest i'm not sure.(Willy Bobo on LP) Gabor Szabo post con download coming...

A New Test for Business and Biofuel

Algae produced at the Solix Biofuels plant, a start-up with unusual business partners. By KIRK JOHNSON NY Times Published: August 16, 2009 IGNACIO, Colo. — An unusual experiment featuring equal parts science, environmental optimism and Native American capitalist ambition is unfolding here on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwest Colorado. With the twin goals of making fuel from algae and reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases, a start-up company co-founded by a Colorado State University professor recently introduced a strain of algae that loves carbon dioxide into a water tank next to a natural gas processing plant. The water is already green-tinged with life. The Southern Utes, one of the nation’s wealthiest American Indian communities thanks to its energy and real-estate investments, is a major investor in the professor’s company. It hopes to gain a toehold in what tribal leaders believe could be the next billion-dollar energy boom. But from the tribe’s perspective, the business model here is about more than business. “It’s a marriage of an older way of thinking into a modern time,” said the tribe’s chairman, Matthew J. Box, referring to the interplay of environmental consciousness and investment opportunity around algae. The tribe, whose reservation sits atop one of the world’s richest fields of natural gas from coal-bed methane, had to surmount many hurdles to find an alternative energy idea it considered suitable. For example, any project that would displace land used for growing food was tossed out for philosophical reasons: the Southern Utes’ belief that energy and food should not compete in a world where people still starve. That eliminated discussion of corn-based ethanol. And whatever was chosen had to be at least technically feasible, if not immediately profitable. The 1,400-member tribe also has a long history of herbal medicine use that made growing algae for fuel appealing, Mr. Box said. “It reminded people of herbs that are helpful here, like bear root, which is harvested in the mountains,” he said. The Colorado State professor, Bryan Willson, who teaches mechanical engineering and is a co-founder of the three-year-old company Solix Biofuels, said working with the Southern Utes on their land afforded his company advantages that would have been impossible in mainstream corporate America. The tribe contributed almost one-third of the $20 million in capital raised by Solix, free use of land and more than $1 million in equipment. “If you’re going with strict venture capital, they’re looking for a blistering return on capital in three to five years,” Dr. Willson said. “The Utes have a very long economic view. They’re making decisions now for future generations as opposed to the next quarter, and that is just fundamentally different.” But the tale of any start-up is written between the margins of inspiration and hard-edged reality. More than 200 other companies are also trying to find a cost-effective, scalable way to achieve the same end — turning algae into vegetable oil fuel, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a federal research center in Golden, Colo. Just last month, Exxon said it planned to throw $600 million into its own algae project, dwarfing Solix’s financial base about fiftyfold. Like most oil-to-fuel efforts, the Solix project focuses on making biodiesel, which can be used in a regular diesel engine. “This is still a very young industry, with a lot of claims out there that are sometimes difficult to believe,” said Al Darzins, a group manager at the lab’s National Bioenergy Center. Mr. Darzins said Solix’s model was different from most: the algae is grown in closed bags, lined up vertically in the water tanks, with the intent of increasing yield. But for every hopeful, he said, the crux will be controlling costs. “Solix has an interesting idea; whether it will work, I don’t know,” Mr. Darzins said. “It’s all going to come down to the economics.” Solix’s facility project is next to the natural gas processing plant for access to the carbon dioxide waste stream, which will be used to nourish the algae — a kind of biological recycling of carbon dioxide before its discharge into the atmosphere as the vegetable fuel is burned. The plant also produces waste heat, which could be used to warm the algae beds in winter. In addition, the high desert plateau of southwest Colorado is one of the sunniest spots in the nation, providing solar radiation that accelerates algae growth. Central to Solix’s business model, Dr. Willson said, is the hope that power plants and other factories now venting carbon dioxide will allow the company to build an algae farm next to their carbon dioxide vent pipes. A plant could sell the oil or biodiesel, and Solix would earn its return by being a part owner-operator, or by licensing the technology. If Solix can expand its operations to a commercial scale, the Southern Utes will have certain first ownership and operating rights in Solix plants throughout much of the Western United States. Karl Jacob, the director of public finance in state and local government ratings at the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s, tracks Native American economics and has assigned the Southern Utes’ debt a AAA rating, the agency’s highest. Mr. Jacob said the tribe had proved a canny investor by doing its homework and not moving too fast. It operates businesses in 14 states, owns office towers and land from Denver to Oceanside, Calif., and controls a company that processes about 1 percent of the nation’s natural gas. But it has only about $69 million in debt according to S.&P. Compared with most companies, that is a tiny debt-to-asset ratio. “They have always been very prudent,” Mr. Jacob said, “looking out into the next generation. by way of.... RELATED; CONVERTING SUNLIGHT INTO FUEL BY ALGAE (movie)

Nina, Nina ,Nina!

Listen here to..Nina Simone; Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair and if you happen to be a fan of hers you can find her almost full catalog for free download(as well as many other greats on this new blog find, Eu Ovo)

A Good Wank

Michael Shrieve at age 19 with Santana @ Woodstock provides the concert and film's most intense musical moments. (or so says most) Part of the power of Shrieve's performance was undoubtedly his youth. He grew up on the east side of the Bay, playing in the house band of a local club that backed up R&B greats like B.B. King and Etta James. San Francisco was the center of a burgeoning rock music scene that included Santana, Jefferson Airplane and Sly and the Family Stone, among others. The music was daring, fresh and different. When Shrieve was 16, he met Santana's manager, Stan Marcum, and bass player, David Brown, at a jam session at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium. Impressed, Marcum took Shrieve's phone number. A few years later, Shrieve ran into the other members of the band at a recording studio and was invited to jam. At the end of the night, they asked him to join, and a boy's youth ended. Shortly after his 20th birthday, he played Woodstock. "Soul Sacrifice," an instrumental, was the seventh of eight songs the band played. It was pure Santana, a mix of hard rock, African, Latin and funk music. "We played like that all the time," Shrieve said. "The only difference was that performance was filmed. No doubt, there was a lot of luck involved." Shrieve's memory of Woodstock is both powerful and indistinct. He remembers sensations more than specific scenes. He remembered being summoned to play earlier than expected. He and his band mates rode a helicopter to the concert stage and looked out the window in awe at the mass of people covering the grass below them as far as they could see. "You knew that something incredible was happening," Shrieve said. "It represented an ideal of the consciousness of the time." Once on the stage, Shrieve said, he felt like he was "standing at edge of the ocean. When you're at the beach as far as you can see is water and then you see sky. As far as I could see is people and then I saw the sky." The members of the band played to one another as much as the audience. Shrieve said he was in "the zone." The band had killed, yet no one talked about it. After Woodstock, the band recorded its first album and toured the country.

Bent

Inside A Cult Part 1 The Lord Our Righteousness Church, sometimes called Strong City, is a religious community near Travesser Park, Union County, New Mexico. It originated with a group of about eighty adherents who migrated to the area from Sandpoint, Idaho in 2000. In 2008, the community consisted of approximately fifty people. The community believes in modesty of dress and the women wear long skirts and dresses, and reportedly mix well with the local people. Its leader, Wayne Bent, born May 18, 1941, is known as Michael Travesser within the church. Bent, once a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, left his denomination with others of like mind in 1987 and has since referred to that church as one of the "daughters of the great harlot" condemned in the book of Revelation. Bent claims that, during an experience in his living room in June 2000, God told him, "You are the Messiah." Bent has since stated, "I am the embodiment of God. I am divinity and humanity combined." A former church member has alleged that Bent told his congregation that "God told him that he was supposed to sleep with seven virgins," including the member's own daughters, then only 14 and 15 years old; the man, John Sayer, refused. Though he left the compound and took his wife and daughters after being a church member for sixteen years, one daughter returned and, according to Sayer, was one of three minors taken into state custody for their own protection in April 2008. Bent has said he's had sex with his followers, including a woman who was divorced from his son, but asserts that though he lay "naked with virgins" and the virgins asked him for sex, he refused. "Inside a Cult" was shown on the Four Corners program on the ABC in the United States. It covers Bent's announcement that the Day of Judgment began on October 31, 2007. Bent chose that date after calculating a Biblical prophecy number (490) and adding it to the year 1517, when the Protestant Reformation began, yielding 2007 as a result. text via.. List of cults claiming the end of the world is nigh.

Quick Draw

Kasey Curtis diggin' the shorebreak.(movie clip) Naki Film.

The Darjeeling Limited - Soundtrack

Granted Wes Anderson has done alot of slipping old pop songs into his sound moods but lately combined with actual scores with material written for the movie. edit; personally i like scores/ songs written for the movie. The Darjeeling Limited. The latest in a series of Wes Anderson movies. A strange story about three very different brothers who go on a long journey to India to meet their mother who has been gone for nearly 10 years with their father's ashes. The movie doesn't shy from Wes Anderson's style in previous films and is full of color, scenery, clever direction and a good amount of comedy. Before the movie begins a prequel is shown with Jason Schwartzman's character and his girlfriend played by Natalie Portman. The soundtrack begins there and follows the movies scenes chronologically. text via elsewhere. Download via Megaupload

Jim Dickinson RIP

Memphis producer, musician Jim Dickinson dies. JACKSON, Miss. – Jim Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in a career that spanned more than four decades, died Saturday. He was 67. His wife, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, said he died in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after three months of heart and intestinal bleeding problems. The couple lived in Hernando, Miss., but Dickinson recently had bypass surgery and was undergoing rehabilitation at Methodist University Hospital, his wife said. He recorded with and produced greats like Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Big Star, the Rolling Stones, The Replacements and Sam & Dave. His work in the 1960s and '70s is still influential as young artists rediscover the classic sound of Memphis from that era — a melting pot of rock, pop, blues, country, and rhythm and blues. "I think he was an incredibly influential individual," Big Star drummer Jody Stephens said Saturday. "I think he defined independent spirit in music, and I think that touched a lot of people." Dickinson's music was informed by his eclectic and encyclopedic record collection — sold off and rebuilt a few times over the years, usually around Christmas — and his wide array of friends. "As a producer, it really is all about taste," Jim Dickinson said in a 2008 interview with The Associated Press. "And I'm not the greatest piano player in the world, but I've got damn good taste. I'll sit down and go taste with anybody."

i really missed my chance of having a coffee table book of backstage poetry in the U.S.

Queen Bee

Taj Mahal from Senor Blues

Tiny Trails Of Rooster