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LIFESTYLE/
ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:
"National Whale Day in Australia June 14"
"Living Together Gathering in the Wollumbin Bioregion June
21-22"
"Dreamiing" Festival, Woodford
June 10 to 13, Queensland
http://www.abc.net.au/message/blackarts/culture/s1519806.htm "Attainable Utopias" - event in Byron Bay Sun 1
June
dan@cavewaves.com for information
"The times they are a changing"! - and FAST!
environmental,
economic, social, political and personal changes are mirroring a shift in consciousness. The single most appropriate response is to be a part of a resilient and vibrant community that will flourish with these changes. "International hospitality exchange conference"
June 27-29 Amsterdam
Martina Hoffmann art display "Magic Realism" June 26 to Julky 26. Opening
reception with Alex Grey-New York
"Visionary Practice: Ritual and Reshaping Consciousness"
Jun 13-15 : Ojai CA http://ojaifoundation.org/Images/Flyers/Visionary06_08.jpg "Shamanism and Priesthood" by Gerald
Weiss
"Shamans
of the Amazon" a documentary by Dean Jefferys
"Elderly
pot bust"
"Obama
comes out pro-medical marijuana"
"DEMOCRAT
BARNEY FRANK INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO REMOVE FEDERAL PENALTIES ON
MARIJUANA"
"Could
Pot Help Kennedy?" "John Stossel: Legalize"
"New
South Wales to trial medical cannabis"
"The
Healing Power Of Pot"
Utah
Phillips passed
"Rise of the Surfer Smugglers" youtube
"Burning
Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be
Right Under Our Noses" "Frankincense
for a Merry Christmas"
"Prophecy, Spirit and the Dreamtime: The Last
Frontier"
Robert
Williams visionary art
Dreamscapes: transportive youtube clip from my friend
Mark
"Assist Mayan Women in Guatemala: Handwoven Mayan
Change Purse/Pouch"
"Remembering Sydney Pollack"
"Crop
Circles in the Netherlands"
"The Art of Living Foundation, established by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in
1981, is a unique global service project that formulates and implements lasting
solutions to conflicts and issues faced by individuals, communities and nations.
One of the largest volunteer-based organizations in the world, the foundationıs
work has touched more than 300 million people spanning over 140
countries."
"The International Institute of Integral Human
Sciences"
"HUB of humanitarian change"
"He seeks a route through time"
"Life
Falling Back To Earth"
"Sleeping
Patterns Are Governed by Light"
"Ten
Reasons to Go Veg"
"Oprah
gives uo meat eating"
"Vitamin Therapy or Micronutrient
Therapy"
"About MMS - The Miracle Mineral
Solution"
"How Mushrooms Can Save the World" youtube
"Five Principles That Can Heal Virtually Any
Illness"
"The March to Tibet or: On the Road with Snow Lions" Lex Pelger http://www.realitysandwich.com/the_march_tibet_or_on_road_with_snow_lions "Organic Farmer Stands Up For Raw Milk"
"Mainstream
Media Attempts to Bury Homeopathy"
"When Neanderthals and
Modern Humans Met"
"Did Humans Colonize the World by Boat?"
"Novel Pulsed Motor/Generator
Development"
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20080527/ sc_afp/sciencenu clearphysics_ 080527182836& printer=1 "Atom-smashing lab says experiment to start end-June"
"City residents emit less CO2,"
"A
Truck That Runs on Coffee Grounds (and How Wood-Gas Powers Cars With
Garbage)"
"Five Thousand Euro Electric Car Catches VW's
Attention"
"235 mpg eco car"
"Biofuel Comparison Chart: The "Good," the Bad and the (Really)
Ugly"
"Study Finds Meat and Dairy Create More Emissions Than
Miles"
"Why do Americans think they deserve to eat more than
Indians?"
"When to Stop Eating"
"Diets Destroy the Planet " http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/86581/
"Are You Being Controlled ... By Corn?"
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto_movie080307
"New movie damns Monsanto's deadly sins" "Xeriscape, water conserving landscaping"
"Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought
It"
"Melbourne: A Pedestrian's Paradise"
U.K. Green events
"How Safe Are Green Cleaning Products?" "EPA easing way for coal plants near national
parks"
"Protect Yellowstone and the Greater
Rockies"
"Irish countryside hammered by development:
government"
""TAKE ACTION: FDA APPROVES FOOD FROM
CLONES"
"Protect Endangered Sea Turtles From Longline
Fishing"
"Whaling Don't But It"
"Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate
change disaster"
"Climate Destruction Will Produce Millions of
'Envirogees''
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/ANURGENTSIGNALFORTHECOMINGICEAGE.pdf
"AN URGENT SIGNAL FOR THE COMING ICE
AGE"
"The
Darkness of 1780"
"The
Asteroid Vision of Jimi Hendrix: Remote View Mutation"- a film by Michael
Fairchild.
More
Rock Prophecy news including asteroid updates
"Vice-Premier Paul Hellyer,
Canada - Alien Contact"
"Strangeness on
Mars"
"Part Two; Are you Drunk, Stupid or Asleep?" by Les Visible
A deeper look at the "doomsday seedbank"
"28
Canada Mass Grave
Genocide Sites Identified - Where Is The Media?"
"Animal
Killing Fields"
"Esoteric Agenda" video
"Mind control in Ritalin Nation - Tehran Times take on drugged
USA"
"RAPID UNRAVELING AND THE DEMISE OF ADOLESCENT AMERICA", By Carolyn
Baker
"Media's Sex Pot Virgins"
"Evolve or die: Can we shed our
moral primitivism before it's too late?" by Dr..
Steve Best
"Sacrament
of Fear"- a Wes Fraklin story
"Dealing
with the School Bully Epidemic"
"Short and Brutal Life for Child
Soldiers"
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/21/9099/ Howard Zinn: "Anarchism
Shouldn't Be a Dirty Word"
By Ziga Vodovnik
"No doubt that anarchist ideas are
frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They
can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that
there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them
to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as
violent and chaotic"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19970.htm
GLOBAL:
"China makes global tent appeal, as quake death toll passes
50,000"
"China Condemned for
Blocking UN Action on Burma"
"Israel
PM calls for naval blockade of Iran"
"Italy
turns to nuclear power"
"Iraq's Babylon bears scars of US-led invasion"http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080523/lf_afp/iraqculturearchaeology_080523091832;_ylt=AmuKJ63rnjwdyInKSHUtXopFeQoB "McCain: I will prevent
Bolivia and Venezuela from taking the Cuban road:
Republican Senator John McCain, speaking before a noisy crowd in Miami on Cuban Independence Day, on Tuesday pledged to keep the embargo against the Caribbean island, prevent Bolivia and Venezuela from taking the same road taken by Cuba, and strengthen ties with Brazil, Chile and Peru, if he is elected as US president." http://tinyurl.com/4by62w === "U.S. Military Bases in South America: Despite his record unpopularity, it would appear that President Bush wants to go out of office with a bang. Having failed to overthrow Hugo Ch?vez through an attempted coup, the White House now hopes to escalate pressure on Venezuela's President by other means." http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff05212008.html "China Surpasses US in Technological
Prowess"
Dalai Lama: "Behind the Saffron Robes, a Savvy
Politician"
NATIONAL:
Senator Kennedy Diagnosed with
Cancer
The new edition of "Issues & Alibis!"
http://www.issuesandalibis..org "CIA death squads killing with "impunity" in
Afghanistan"
Ann Wright | "Rape Hobbles Bush Administration
Policies"
http://www.truthout.org/article/rape-hobbles-bush-administration-policies "Iraq Vets Testify to War Atrocities, Vow to Fight and Resist
Bush Policy"
"War Abroad and Poverty at
Home"
By Paul Craig Roberts
The "world's
only superpower" is so broke it can't even finance its own wars.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19977.htm $130 Oil: Is That a Tipping
Point?
http://www.truthout.org/article/130-oil-is-that-a-tipping-point
"US Secretary of State Rice defends torture at Google
event"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/rice-m24.shtml "U.S. government exposed funneling funds for anti-Cuba
terrorists"
Frida Berrigan, "The Pentagon Takes Over"
"Challenging Ignorance on Islam: a Ten-Point Primer for
Americans"
"'Rainy Day' U.S. Food Supply Vanishes"
"Why Some Hospitals Are Allowing Unnecessary
Suffering"
"More Americans Fear Losing Their Health Insurance Than Being in
a Terrorist Attack"
"(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents: Just Being Middle Class Is
Becoming out of Reach"
Dean Baker | "Low-Income Renters to Pay for Housing
Bailout"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051908A.......shtml "Four Thousand Billion In The
Hole"
"John Cusack: Outsourced Warfare Represents a "Radical,
Dangerous, Disgusting Ideology"
"Evidence of White
House Meddling at EPA"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052008A.shtml Siegelman: "Justice Scandal Dwarfs Watergate"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051908R.shtml "McCain Defends 'Enron Loophole'"
"The Real McCain"
"The Real McCain That the Corporate Media Won't Show
You"
"Is Bob Barr the Ralph Nader of 2008?"
"Obama Stands up to Bush, FCC, and Big
Media"
"Huckabee Jokes About Someone Shooting
Obama"
"Mike
Huckabee Touches the Emotional Core of the NRA with Assassination
Joke"
"FOX
News Violated the Law In Advocating Assassination of Obama.
Arrest?"
FOCUS
| Clinton Invokes RFK Assassination
http://www.truthout.org/article/clinton-invokes-rfk-assassination "Clinton Violates the Most
Basic Moral Code, Hinging Her Campaign on a Bullet"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9056
"George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Says Government Insider" "Don't let the Bush administration take away the
National Mall!
http://www.alternet.org/story/85728/?page=entire
"Inverted Totalitarianism: A New Way of Understanding How the U.S............ Is Controlled" By Chalmers Johnson, Truthdig. "US Holding 27,000 in Secret Overseas Prisons:
How to Build a Human Bomb:Guantanamo Bay is killing people thousands of miles away". By George Monbiot "Enforcement on Steroids: Homeland Security's Emerging
Immigration Police State"
Right Wing Kathleen Parker Now Has Blood Test for
Patriotism:Paging Dr. Mengele
"Bush's 'War Crimes' and Misdemeanors"
"Bush Power Grab Since 911. Scholar Urges Candidates Debate Role
of President's Usurpation of Power"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19949.htm
"All the President's Nazis (Real and Imagined): An Open Letter to Bush" By Larisa Alexandrovna "Rumsfeld Conspiracy: Criminal Negligence &
Fraud"
"Rumsfeld: "Why Not another 911"
"Glaxo Wins Approval to Sell Pre-Pandemic Flu
Vaccine"
"Inverted Totalitarianism: A New Way of Understanding How the
U.S. Is Controlled"
" LIEBERMAN CALLS ON GOOGLE TO TAKE DOWN TERRORIST
CONTENT"
"The Bushes and Hitler's
Appeasement"
"Bush Revealed as Liar by Former Press Secretary. Uh, We Knew That Already." http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.html http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/3503
"If you
support AT&T - you support Bush"
"Right-Wing Shock Jocks"
"Right Is Wrong -- How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked
America"
"Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to
9/11"
"ENERGY FEARS LOOMING, NEW SURVIVALISTS
PREPARE"
"Just How Stupid are We?": Facing the Truth About the American
Voter (Hardcover)
Where Is the Outrage?
"Are we Americans truly savages?" By Robert Scheer
Are we Americans
truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more
guilty of terminal indifference than venality? It's a question demanding an
answer in response to the publication of the detailed 370-page report on U.S.
complicity in torture, issued last week by the Justice Department's inspector
general.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20004.htm "Church calls zombie parade
blasphemous"
"Heartbroken man climbs into morgue
freezer" QUOTES:
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and
belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or
acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends
forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different
centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert F. Kennedy
-US Attorney General 1961-64, assassinated in Los
Angeles while campaigning
=
"Individualism, as a definition of holding to personal ideals, is classed as obstinacy and anti-social. Inevitably we run point blank into the evils of compromise. When compromise enters our moral fibre, it spreads like a cancerous growth. We think we plan adequate safeguards around areas in which we contemplate yielding our standards, but once we lower the fence and break our strong will to do right, come what may, we expose ourselves to forces that spread beyond control. Compromise always starts on some rather insignificant principle. The dangers of yielding seem negligible and we usually risk those things first where observation and detection by others is difficult. We thus seek to avoid censure and discipline. In a short time we find ourselves trading our principles for false values and doing it in the black market of human relationships..." Ralph W. Hardy =
"If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses." Louis Lecoin - French pacifist leader =
"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom": Stephen Vincent Benét: "The necessity of the times,
more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude,
and perseverance. Let us remember that `if we suffer tamely a lawless attack
upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' it is a very
serious consideration...that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of
the event." : - Samuel Adams, speech in Boston, 1771.
=
"I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride": William James "We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the
obvious is the first duty of intelligent men": George Orwell
= "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them": George Orwell =
'The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people": Frank Kent =
"Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing": Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
"We can easily forgive a
child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid
of the light." - Plato
=
"The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection! But the roots of our individualism remind us that what we are is inseparable from the source from which all others derive; that coercive practices that threaten our neighbor also threaten us".: - Butler Shaffer =
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human": Aldous Huxley =
"Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state, whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us": Butler D. Shaffer
PUNMASTER
MUSIC ARTICLES:
STEVE CROPPER (BOOKER T & THE MGs) AND FELIX CAVALIERE
(RASCALS) UNITE
ON FORTHCOMING ALBUM NUDGE IT UP A NOTCH, DUE OUT ON STAX RECORDS ON JULY 29 Joined on Nashville sessions with bassist Shake Anderson and drummer Chester Thompson, with co-producer Jon Tiven NASHVILLE, Tenn. What would happen if you combined Steve Cropper, the Memphis-weaned Stax guitar powerhouse who also wrote and co-wrote many soul classics, with Felix Cavaliere, the singer, songwriter and keyboardist whose soulful voice and songs helped form the Rascals? The world is about to find out when Stax Records releases Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliereıs Nudge It Up a Notch on July 29, 2008. This soul summit came about as a result of conversations between Cropper and producer/songwriter Jon Tiven. When Tiven moved to Nashville several years ago, he asked Cropper what he was up to. Cropper replied that he was focusing on live dates with Booker T & the MGs and the Blues Brothers, but harbored the desire to record some new music. But who would sing? The answer, it turned out, was Cavaliere, who, like Cropper and Tiven, now lived in Nashville. In fact Cropper and Cavaliere were no strangers: they had, with a few other well-known musicians, put together a band to play special events. The two hadnıt written together before, but agreed it would be fun to try. The writing process began at Tivenıs Hormone Studios, followed by the recording of two songs, ³One of Those Days² (the albumıs lead track) and ³Love Appetite.² Drummer Chester Thompson, a veteran of John Fogerty, Frank Zappa, Genesis and Frank Black, signed on as drummer, and suggested a bass player, his friend Shake Anderson, who was Curtis Mayfieldıs protégé. The assemblage grew to include two backup singers, Mark Williams and Nınandi Bryant. And that was it. No special guest stars. As Tiven wrote in the notes, ³This isnıt one of those albums where you have to guess whoıs doing what every guitar lick is Steve, every keyboard is Felix, and all the songs are originals.² Tiven elaborates on the legacies of Cropper and Cavaliere: ³Steve Cropper is a guitar playerıs guitarist but also a songwriterıs songwriter,² he writes. ³If the only thing he did in life was to play producer/co-writer/guitarist for Otis Redding, that would be enough. But he also helmed enough albums that made their mark on American pop culture by artists like Booker T & the MGs, The Blues Brothers, Jeff Beck and John Mellencamp to qualify him as a bona fide national treasure.² ³And Cavaliere . . .,² he adds, ³If you were alive in the alive in the mid-to-late 60s, you couldnıt go anywhere without hearing his voice and songs are part of his group The Young Rascals (later The Rascals). Their blue-eyed soul dominated the airwaves . . . and gave this country the kind of soul music most folks wouldnıt think to associate with a bunch of Long Island Peppermint Lounge expatriates.² Nudge It Up a Notch, which was reverently mixed by the legendary David Z, features 12 tracks, including several instrumentals (Cropper having a bit of history in the R&B instrumental department) alongside vocal tracks. On a few tunes the team turned to friends Henry Gross and Tom Hambridge to provide their lyrical spin. One track, ³Make The Time Go Faster,² embellishes its chunky soul riff with rap passages. ³If all this combination of iconic songwriter/prformers had to offer was simply the sum of their parts it would be extraordinary,² Tiven concludes. ³But you put this much flammable material in the room and you donıt just get a little heat. You get a bonfire.² ****************************************************************** CSNY Documentary Heading To U.S. Theaters Gregg Goldstein, The Hollywood Reporter Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions are finalizing a deal for U.S. rights to the politically charged Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young documentary "CSNY -- Deja Vu." Fortissimo Films, which acquired the film from Shangri-La, has sold rights to 15 more international territories. The feature, directed by Neil Young, chronicles the rock group's 2006 Freedom of Speech tour in support of Young's "Living in War" album. The anti-Iraq War theme and songs like "Let's Impeach the President" increasingly polarized audiences as the band traveled through the U.S. Interviews with soldiers and others affected by the war are intercut with the concert footage. When the film premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, the band members expressed a desire to release it before the November elections in order to encourage debate. The proposed deal would certainly get it seen. In July, Roadside will release it theatrically in 15 cities, with Lionsgate handling a simultaneous nationwide video-on-demand release and, via potential partner Netflix, streaming video. The DVD will be released shortly before the elections through the band's label, Reprise, with HDNet in talks to air the film on the same date. Fortissimo already has sold the film to Australia, Europe, Israel, Japan and Latin America.............. Cinetic is handling North American sales. MICKEY HART GETS TO WORK AND PLAY A musician gets to
play for a living.
Yet even though their work is called play, it still work. Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart described what play and work are like for him. (Actuality #2) ³Thatıs why they call what I do play, see I donıt go to work, thatıs a boon unto itself, I wouldnıt go to work every day either if I didnıt have to......... But it is a bit of work, it isnıt all play, a lot of itıs detail, but it borders on play.² Mickey will be working and playing tonight Wavy Gravyıs Birthday Celebration in Mill Valley, California. THE TURTLES SUE OVER ICE CUBE Two members of the The Turtles, the 60s group who had a hit with ³Happy Together,² have sued Capitol Records over an Ice Cube song. According to the suit that was filed yesterday in L-A court, Flo & Eddie recorded a song in 1972 for The Turtles called ³Buzzsaw.² According to TMZ, the suit claims the tune was sampled in a rap song by Ice Cube called ³Jackinı for Beats.² Flo & Eddie allege Capital signed a deal for Cube to use the song but ended up going beyond the agreement to make even more money off their work. The songwriters are seeking a minimum of 25-thousand dollars but not more than 70-thousand dollars. SINATRA DOCUMENTARY CONSIDERED Frank Sinatraıs
children, Nancy, Tina
and Frank Jr., are at odds over a proposal to produce a film documentary about their late fatherıs life. The World Entertainment News Network reports the film would be directed by Martin Scorsese, who has been at the helm of movies about Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Tina supports the project but Nancy is concerned the documentary would only focus on the ³negative and ugly moments.² Frank Jr. complains heıs been kept out of the loop by his sisters and wishes for more involvement regarding decisions of their fatherıs image and estate. NICK MASON CANıT BELIEVE THOSE PRICES A lot has
certainly changes since
Pink Floyd first hit the scene in the mid-1960ıs. Nick Mason told us about one of the things that he finds hard to believe now that weıve entered the 21st Century. (Actuality #1) ³If you are touring now, itıs extraordinary because, when I was a boy, it was unthinkable for a ticket price to be greater than the price of an album, now itıs a different world.² What is still about the price of an album is a DVD, and thereıs a new disc out there for Pink Floyd fans. Itıs called Welcome to the Machine, and itıs the 40th anniversary special edition of the ultimate critical guide to the work of Pink Floyd in concert on record and on film. The package is out today. MEET CARLOS SANTANA Fans of rock legend Carlos Santana donıt want to miss this opportunity. In an effort to benefit the Milagro Foundation (which promotes the welfare of underprivileged children), Carlos has donated for auction a package that includes two tickets to his sold out show May 21st in his hometown of San Francisco, a VIP meet and greet with him and the band and a rare print of the rock star from famed music photographer Jim Marshall, autographed by both. And as if that werenıt enough, also included is a copy of Santanaıs forthcoming album Multi Dimensional Warrior, which doesnıt come out until August 5th....... Check out Santana.com for details. BOB DYLAN ART EXHIBITION Bob Dylan will open his first art exhibition in about a month.. According to NME.com, The Draw Blank Series will be housed at the Halcyon Gallery in London. The series boasts drawings and sketches that the legend made while on the road from 1989 to 1992. If youıll be crossing the pond after June 14th, when the exhibit opens, visit HalcyonGallery.com for ticket info. JETHRO TULL CELEBRATES ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY
The 40th Anniversary of Jethro Tull is upon us this year--2008. The group, which is made up of frontman/flutist/guitarist Ian Anderson, guitarist Martin Barre, drummer Doane Perry, keyboardist John O'Hara, and bassist David Goodier is in the midst of a variety of tourdates that include Europe, the UK, the Middle East and North America..... Anderson says the group will choose its set list, "to a large extent from the first few albums but with a some representative songs from the '80s and the '90s, too. Songs and tunes which defined the early Jethro Tull from blues band to eclectic, pre-prog inventiveness." But he says that this year he plans "to visit a few less places than last year. I already have some time set aside for studio work and lazing about in the garden." The 90 shows between April and December, with which will include eleven in the United States, will be updated on the band's web site, www.jethrotull.com. While there are no new recordings available in 2008, there are a few historical releases scheduled over the next months, including a live DVD collection of perfomances in Germany, a newly produced DVD documentary and history of Jethro Tull, which Anderson says will feature the contributions of most past band members, friends and associates as well as live performances from a multitude of sources over the years. Contributions include reference information from many fans and liner notes from the group's original basssist Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond. The artwork features a painting by Jeffrey depicting Blackpool, the town where Anderson, Hammond, drummer Barriemore Barlow and keyboard-player John Evan, formed a band in 1964. On June 10, Capitol/EMI Records is re-releasing the group's first album, THIS WAS as a 2-CD and digital release of a remastered and expanded Collectors' Edition of the Tull's 1968 debut album, This Was. This release presents, for the first time on CD, the albumıs original mono mix as well as a new stereo mix of the album. Also featured are nine related 1968 recordings for John Peelıs BBC Radio program, Top Gear, plus four rare 1968 UK singles: Sunshine Day, Song For John Gee, Love Story and A Christmas Song. The commemorative package includes 35 tracks in all, as well as package notes and anecdotes from Jethro Tullıs members. On May 20, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Jethro Tullıs Jack In The Green: Live In Germany, an enticing DVD compendium of in-concert rarities [running time: 96 minutes] spanning the years 1970 to 1993. Jethro Tull have carved out a musical niche all their own with a career that has spanned over three decades. Selling over sixty million albums including Aqualung, Thick As a Brick and Stand Up; albums which have offered up Classic Rock radio staples Locomotive Breath and Aqualung. The band has played over 2500 concerts around the world and helped define a unique blend of acoustic and electric music that draws influences from the world's music, including Asian, Jazz, Classical and Folk. As live performers, Jethro Tull are unparalleled. Famous for instrumental virtuosity and theatrical flair, Jethro Tull live is an event that welcomes longtime fans and new converts alike.. http://www.jethrotull.com LES PAULıS 93RD BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2008 New York, NY On Monday, June 9, 2008 guitar legend Les Paul (June 9, 1915) will celebrate his 93rd birthday at his long time New York City home The Iridium Jazz Club. Les Paul is a living legend and an icon of the music world. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, received multiple Grammy Awards, pioneered the modern electric guitar and invented numerous recording techniques. Les has influenced countless musicians and guitarists and is hailed as "The Father Of The Electric Guitar". Les Paul's regular Monday night appearances at The Iridium Jazz Club since April 1995 attract devoted fans from all over the world. World-class musicians like Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Tony Bennett, Steve Miller, George Benson, Pat Metheny, Jeff Beck, Slash and countless others come to pay homage. By far, this is the music industry's most important regular music gig in NYC. Bob Weir Joins Phil & Friends for Grateful Dead
and Anthem of the Sun
Last night Phil Lesh & Friends opened a five-night run at San Franciscoıs famed Warfield Theater. To the surprise of nearly everyone in attendance, Lesh and his friends ran through a complete version of the Grateful Deadıs 1967 self-titled debut during their first set, with Bob Weir joining his estranged bandmate for ³Cream Puff War,² ²Morning Dew,² ³New Minglewood Blues² and ³Viola Lee Blues.² Weir returned at the start of Leshıs second set as the bassist jumped headfirst into the Deadıs 1968 sophomore effort Anthem of the Sun, which includes classics like ³That's It For The Other One² and early rave-ups such as ³Alligator.² At the end of the night, Lesh closed his set with the Buddy Holly sing-a-long ³Not Fade Away.² With eight sets and eleven albums to go, itıs a fair bet that Lesh will run through the Grateful Deadıs entire recorded canon over the next few days. Phil & Friends will return to the Warfield this evening. As of press time, the venue's future is uncertain. ORIGINAL JEFFERSON AIRPLANE MEMBERS LAND IN ASTORIA
OREGON
Jefferson Airplane Originator Marty Balin will perform with members from the original band, who have not played publicly together since 1965. The historic event in Astoria, Oregon will bring together vocalist Signe Anderson (now Signe Ettlin), bassist Bob Harvey, and percussionist Jerry Peloquin reuniting with the man who started it all: Marty Balin. Their set will morph into a "family band" featuring members from the Jefferson Starship and the seldom seen Great Society, the band where Grace Slick began her singing and writing career. Darby Slick, Craig Chaquico, Slick Aguilar, and keyboardist Barry Flast will all be in the"family". Other performers will be announced. The three day festival ticket that includes parking/camping, music, and access to gourmet organic food concessions, has much more than a reunion of a lifetime planned. The spacious meadow, outlined by lush woodlands, also brings Country Joe McDonald, the Great Society, the Holy Modal Rounders, the Freak Mountain Ramblers, Alice Stuart, David & Linda LaFlamme and their band (four band members have 25 to 40 years in the band) playing the music of It's a Beautiful Day, Marty Balin Band, Craig Chaquico Band, and much more. Information and ticket sales can be found at: www.concertforbigred.org When: August 22,23,24 Where: Clatsop Co. Fairgrounds, Astoria, Oregon What: Benefit for the Net Loft Arts Center and Lady of Honor Signe Anderson Ettlin Other headlining bands will be announced soon! MUSIC
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Lots of memories from the time we first arrived on Maui.
The Mu Band with Merrell Fankhauser and
friends
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