tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133339262024-03-18T03:04:02.040+00:00The GeneralistAn alternative news and ideas channel on art, science, culture, politics and the environment, by freelance journalist, magazine editor and author John May.John Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501711032849084572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1021125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-13134784556146165742024-01-25T16:51:00.002+00:002024-01-25T16:51:55.650+00:00EASTERN ELECTRIC 1969<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4S4ztJmKB0K-SpK1-JRzvh2m1_sSsJEBTMEKD6T6X7tjrU4Mct3ux22zKoNH2S1cFp-LDbgY5MdQjiUbBwppYhuqIU8fFsMDxpNDrUUPXX1rt_jgz703ng9KvWj5q0HLMEiKucuXq0fGoKKnfJBkOZcE3PRwrskxgj6udKJATnLuGqP2JOWs/s2105/EASTERN%20ELECTRIC398.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2105" data-original-width="1261" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4S4ztJmKB0K-SpK1-JRzvh2m1_sSsJEBTMEKD6T6X7tjrU4Mct3ux22zKoNH2S1cFp-LDbgY5MdQjiUbBwppYhuqIU8fFsMDxpNDrUUPXX1rt_jgz703ng9KvWj5q0HLMEiKucuXq0fGoKKnfJBkOZcE3PRwrskxgj6udKJATnLuGqP2JOWs/w192-h320/EASTERN%20ELECTRIC398.jpg" width="192" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0H5Sw9UHtUdZmn1_R1jYEgJISHIvancoEmaPWmNqqt0bBgg3gfx5T_Y3_1wo2-vUunqh1-_4JsGsE9glhnnuep_WXhcKsn7nLzTWbG0WAtyyWQtYlTF62SyxCn8xH8j8pROdJS3eSoYAlf-ROmWCXUKnv7w0YEbtNusBcFdrnkb9qRIKK8h3X/s2093/EASTERN%20ELECTRIC3399.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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There are gurus galore of varying credibility up to the present day. This follows on from two earlier books: <i>The Spiritual Tourist [1998]</i> (an account of his own trip to India) and <i>The Dance of 17 Lives [2004] </i>( an extraordinary investigation into the world of the Dalai Lama)<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div><p>Mick Brown was a top rate journalist for the <i>Sunday Times</i> for ten years and works as a main feature writer for the <i>The Telegraph's</i> magazine and many other outlets. </p><p>His string of remarkable journalistic journeys includes his book <i>American Heartbeat [1993]</i> which documents his travels across and up and down America from Woodstock to San Jose by Song Title on the grounds that the geography and emotional landscapes of America have been mapped out like no other country's in music and song.</p><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20.7px;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Mv5BxqN5OAc7FYN9ZxFbMEq9nPY7nzXfk2bBCcG2y4EI0zQXkboR_3juDTqZMSBJiqS5CPvI8q_209dVZlDPtSYhPeMyup-6Wd_kjTfR0kfVHHubh1-xdTYPg3FaeTs5Q4kEjOXQ875x2whLe_0QQekhiV81FKJjXFK2FpnSJA0eJ1hmYrTj/s640/CC1109.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="392" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Mv5BxqN5OAc7FYN9ZxFbMEq9nPY7nzXfk2bBCcG2y4EI0zQXkboR_3juDTqZMSBJiqS5CPvI8q_209dVZlDPtSYhPeMyup-6Wd_kjTfR0kfVHHubh1-xdTYPg3FaeTs5Q4kEjOXQ875x2whLe_0QQekhiV81FKJjXFK2FpnSJA0eJ1hmYrTj/w123-h200/CC1109.jpg" width="123" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">In February1998 I received a curious and completely unexpected invitation... Would I like to interview Carlos Castaneda?</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif;">' To the uninitiated, the invitation will mean nothing. </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif;">But those who came of age in the Sixties counter-c</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">ulture will recognise that it was like being invited to </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif;">peruse the Cretan Minotaur.'</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif;">Mick allowed The Generalist to reprint this piece. It is one of our most popular posts. [See: Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan; Truth or Fiction /May 18th 2016]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif; font-size: small;"><br /></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif; font-size: small;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fefdfa;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">[Mick has also written music b</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large; text-align: left;">iographies of Richard Branson </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> and Phil Spector. The latter book called <i>'Tearing Down The Wall</i>' is reviewed on April 11th 2007]</span></div></div></div>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-22964679779666980042023-07-13T16:51:00.000+01:002023-07-13T16:51:39.572+01:00MUSIC FROM THE TEMPLE OF LIGHT<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPkFzso9tzf11XDJBB6RNlpgphP3W9L-6719N_BBnkCSr7yS4wO5bf4-mtt05tj0PWBfWTJecua1i38343nHtxIGcEvTcKLf6xll3H_aw0c2W6txPz4qoYwfjt5EhDhlY2Z9Q1U637qiQlFeSPbGm6ugWN0DPqTvvLhc-s59Wkxj_QrGTWiWgd/s1367/TEMPLE%20of%20LIGHTd352.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="1367" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPkFzso9tzf11XDJBB6RNlpgphP3W9L-6719N_BBnkCSr7yS4wO5bf4-mtt05tj0PWBfWTJecua1i38343nHtxIGcEvTcKLf6xll3H_aw0c2W6txPz4qoYwfjt5EhDhlY2Z9Q1U637qiQlFeSPbGm6ugWN0DPqTvvLhc-s59Wkxj_QrGTWiWgd/s320/TEMPLE%20of%20LIGHTd352.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp8Rc18JhpPqF8LK9B3ssUHMig0NiLjCeK5PAfn-BO-xOcBj8Fre7ufbdiktQtfCPyHwca5ejJOF2-csbWYpyxrSCvYNKyQoTYSnDTTj8jeQguAjpUZFA91du_4CBeUuqXut4rDGtVVN-GiaFBy5asuhyMgwz4s4cv-bKGaFxkeiMP8iIfLXwQ/s3509/TEMPLE%20of%20LIGHT350.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3509" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp8Rc18JhpPqF8LK9B3ssUHMig0NiLjCeK5PAfn-BO-xOcBj8Fre7ufbdiktQtfCPyHwca5ejJOF2-csbWYpyxrSCvYNKyQoTYSnDTTj8jeQguAjpUZFA91du_4CBeUuqXut4rDGtVVN-GiaFBy5asuhyMgwz4s4cv-bKGaFxkeiMP8iIfLXwQ/w400-h318/TEMPLE%20of%20LIGHT350.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj6VFpHaeIGB2yP_zbwAKwAccMS2-UHsq2aWzdzbCG4Ugtgig0vjkdY__9Mah6ybp4KZpXaHTAtBlGvEdqfasvgqbFmtetisFawJDy0cL_z0ypFitjt51_oPDkA8vScnfgbqyihtyjRtpDSZo-kzgkGdEdFiMDIqvVjVYBIQCwMsLzHkD9cCg0/s1489/TEMPLE%20of%20LIGHTc352.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="1489" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj6VFpHaeIGB2yP_zbwAKwAccMS2-UHsq2aWzdzbCG4Ugtgig0vjkdY__9Mah6ybp4KZpXaHTAtBlGvEdqfasvgqbFmtetisFawJDy0cL_z0ypFitjt51_oPDkA8vScnfgbqyihtyjRtpDSZo-kzgkGdEdFiMDIqvVjVYBIQCwMsLzHkD9cCg0/w400-h203/TEMPLE%20of%20LIGHTc352.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a truly wonderful album. Joyous. A huge range of wonderful instrumentation. Spiritual. Calming. Healing. I played it to an audience who were of one mind. Brilliant. Composed by Peter Culshaw who plays piano throughout. Peter is a really great music journalist who has travelled the world and interviewed at least 100 of the greatest musicians on the planet. He was the first to discover the Buena Vista Social Club. He has written many books perhaps most notably his biography of Manu Chao which Talking Heads David Byrne rated as the of the best music books ever. This is a great record produced in Mumbai, London and Odessa by ISKRA Music. It will be welcomed and celebrated by people in many cultures. Don't miss it. It's a work of love and beauty. Good for the soul.</div>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-52375842238976195472023-06-23T17:58:00.000+01:002023-06-23T18:02:29.908+01:00EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING; THE CATALOGUE:AN INDEX OF POSSIBILITIES<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9xR4zHW7IPjPDJChCOI4i83F2cmzrM5Rp5DzrdBYI7O5cpbrOQI5rmE83ExzeyrLWTrFE9yu1-npx2uiGR5dU0FK6Qq7fLPQekkieaPO1ZrneIgxLIMxfclOGSrjx7U4PD7IwNgou9QiXkjSuR7jDYYv2Wt0wPSw7-aUxc6hg9Bp6BOCdwZA3/s512/tCBeJl7Y.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9xR4zHW7IPjPDJChCOI4i83F2cmzrM5Rp5DzrdBYI7O5cpbrOQI5rmE83ExzeyrLWTrFE9yu1-npx2uiGR5dU0FK6Qq7fLPQekkieaPO1ZrneIgxLIMxfclOGSrjx7U4PD7IwNgou9QiXkjSuR7jDYYv2Wt0wPSw7-aUxc6hg9Bp6BOCdwZA3/s320/tCBeJl7Y.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLIFxAhlyp5NhVICRPtUb3bDp2aJsd3m0b2zW5Z5yQaVna5n9_ou-qNVz4wmm_spst-IufXpqbh--cwCtRQnQ40NIkqFQDVN4F39viloOXvOZIlDc905MIwdSGG45lDK-4Qm9Y618w7Dk6db6L2q3VrcJDuyMlP6ggmxJXPY0k4AfXoti04xz/s512/wfEm5gNg.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLIFxAhlyp5NhVICRPtUb3bDp2aJsd3m0b2zW5Z5yQaVna5n9_ou-qNVz4wmm_spst-IufXpqbh--cwCtRQnQ40NIkqFQDVN4F39viloOXvOZIlDc905MIwdSGG45lDK-4Qm9Y618w7Dk6db6L2q3VrcJDuyMlP6ggmxJXPY0k4AfXoti04xz/s320/wfEm5gNg.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MJnjIX9jBmuR4KvXu9Y_aCKJXKVrPMp8SOgQ9gNDkhEhWMczKmE8OFTPD-4ufNkFGLOLYhQxo_oShXAVJ694Ynt2n2Qfwv6YS6NYGF3QlW3wBTxhMdzBf4a0082RFRR4FsoMIwIg5b8f7rtfCOZlznvdwzEpBfPUIHvQ4Glba8Z9HoGrrrul/s512/WRhP3i44.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MJnjIX9jBmuR4KvXu9Y_aCKJXKVrPMp8SOgQ9gNDkhEhWMczKmE8OFTPD-4ufNkFGLOLYhQxo_oShXAVJ694Ynt2n2Qfwv6YS6NYGF3QlW3wBTxhMdzBf4a0082RFRR4FsoMIwIg5b8f7rtfCOZlznvdwzEpBfPUIHvQ4Glba8Z9HoGrrrul/s320/WRhP3i44.jpeg" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirv9kuVb3x76--aI4ifKt17SnCB8JZd7ll0nJwiiNmMDOC20O1NBwHZj7Cpt3KH11hig7xZqS-5jKxNNsolVDgTRAwxsG8hX7FhUKALY6YjD7goY4rbiq6jTxLym9CS329hSw2LAluEc8VVjMiqWGureFO5INiRh5iL3kCripTwIgI1_XwewUi/s512/hkYLsaCs.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirv9kuVb3x76--aI4ifKt17SnCB8JZd7ll0nJwiiNmMDOC20O1NBwHZj7Cpt3KH11hig7xZqS-5jKxNNsolVDgTRAwxsG8hX7FhUKALY6YjD7goY4rbiq6jTxLym9CS329hSw2LAluEc8VVjMiqWGureFO5INiRh5iL3kCripTwIgI1_XwewUi/s320/hkYLsaCs.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGRInT6iGHqOtvk0-09bL1ZmXUGKhfSjtoATMh6YvjVQozlvfLFKtQgoc2x-RRylkFOI9PCTNkwUk9Wo243cG0pwgWGGebVw3rGQUcOZARkKiBKlultPH4CLYU9XKi6UQ2KiH6CKFR66LNmBe3swt37LcEy6Zs8GtJ0pxDS1GEkPSlObPNCHhV/s512/NEZBmyAA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGRInT6iGHqOtvk0-09bL1ZmXUGKhfSjtoATMh6YvjVQozlvfLFKtQgoc2x-RRylkFOI9PCTNkwUk9Wo243cG0pwgWGGebVw3rGQUcOZARkKiBKlultPH4CLYU9XKi6UQ2KiH6CKFR66LNmBe3swt37LcEy6Zs8GtJ0pxDS1GEkPSlObPNCHhV/s320/NEZBmyAA.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This article
was published in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">19 Magazine </i>on May 5<sup>th</sup> 1973.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Text is by
Mick Brown and photos by Jean Kisch and John Tibera<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you're the slightest bit interested in yourself, your
body, the planet you inhabit and anything connected with it, you should be interested
in a publication scheduled to appear in October. Titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Catalogue: An Index Of Possibilities</i>, it is basically a
reference work on everything you ever wanted to know. The publishers
responsible for collating 'the whole extent of human knowledge' (their words,
not mine) into the five volumes which constitute The Catalogue were all
formerly connected with the late, lamented underground paper <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Frendz</i>. John May was editor, John Trux
business man-ager and Mike Marten and John Chesterman were occasional
contributors. </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">INSPIRATION<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Catalogue's</i>
inspiration was the American <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whole Earth
Catalogue</i> (the last volume of which is available here in Penguin), which
established itself as an indispensable aid to Americans on a back-to-the-land
kick, giving practical advice on everything from where to buy specific tools to
methods of growing food organically or building geodesic domes: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Whole Earth Catalogue</i> was fine, for America; but, because there
isn't the land here to get back to, and most of the tools listed were only
available in the States anyway, the book was of little practical use to British
readers. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Catalogue</i>, claims Mike
Marten, is more concerned with information than tools, and is part of a more
radical philosophy than frontiersmanship alone. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"It comes down to the fact that the information you
need to change anything, even your immediate environment—where you live, what
you do—is very difficult to get hold of in this country, and it's made more
difficult because, although we're only a small country, there seems to be
greater resistance by people who have in-formation to disseminate it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"If you take
societies, such as the British Astronomical Association, everything is very
tight — it's old colonels, old astronomers and the like, all sitting fuddy
duddily together in Piccadilly, watching the skies. If you ring them up or
write to them they regard you as an intruder —it's almost a closed shop. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"In the States, on the other hand, where it's a part of
their philosophy to be as outward about everything as possible, a similar
institution would probably deluge you with piles of information —the opposite
extreme." </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">INFORMATION<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"What The Catalogue will do is give as much information
on the subjects we cover as is practically possible. We'll review books on the
subject, and organisations devoted to it—ranging from governmental to the
cranky to the alternative; we'll list films and video-cassettes which can be
bought or hired, on the subject, details of further education classes readers
could take." <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Catalogue</i> will be published in five
parts over three years.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first volume
concentrates on power and energy systems, also dynamics and forces —both
physical and metaphysical. The volume progresses from the theory of relativity and
nuclear physics, through the power and energy systems of the earth and body to
those of the mind and, finally, to God and the numerous religious
interpretations. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"As The Catalogue is intended as a working book
wherever possible, practical information will be listed —the open days at
Jodrell Bank Research Station, techniques of dowsing, how to construct water
wheels, even how to cast astrological charts." </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Volume Two deals with structures. "Social structures,
business structures. We're going to examine very closely just what
organisations, such as The National Health Service, do and how people can get
the most from them . . ." Volume Three deals with communication, knowledge
and dialogue. Volume Four is Down To Earth—"farming, flowers and
beasts".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Volume Five is inventions,
discoveries, explorations and games. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As well as serving to broaden people’s interests <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Catalogue </i>will act as a sort of
information pool, firstly generating interest in subjects, making reader’s
aware of their own possibilities for further involvement and finally, listing
the facilities by which they can do so.</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ESSENCE<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“We’ll explain the essence of a subject first,” says John
May, and then examining it in a number of different ways, all the time leading
from the theoretical to the practical, so you get people involved in the ideas
of the subject, capture their imagination, then they turn over the page<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and there’s the address and phone number of
people who are actually doing it. It places the onus on the reader so if they
want to find out more they can actually do it themselves.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“The real hope,” says John Trux is that people will use <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Catalogue</i> as a tool for getting into
all types of a radical activity. A lot of good thins are happening with small
groups of people but the only media outlet for hem at the moment is the
Alternative Press and the occasional piece in other publications. A lot of
radical ideas are feasible if enough people are into them. At the moment, there
is either scattered groups of people or not enough people aware of what's
happening. We're going to say 'This is happening; if you're interested these
are the people to contact." </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The American <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whole
Earth Catalogue</i> started out with a minority, predominantly freak
readership, and finished up as one of America's best-selling paperback books in
years. John May hopes much the same thing will happen with the British <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Catalogue.</i> "We're not just aiming
at young people, or people in communes, or whatever. We hope our audience will
be as varied as our contributors who are a strange mixture —old-age pensioners,
lecturers, students, people in mundane jobs who have information on
interest-ing subjects to pass on." </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By making The Catalogue factual and accurate he aims to set a
precedent, which other 'alternative' publications will follow, and also break
down the prejudices people have against the underground Press in general. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Up until now, the whole alternative underground Press
scene has been very much 'Wow, man, that's really far out' — all rhetoric and
no facts, no careful, critical examination of things." </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">RHETORIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"The Catalogue
will have the minimum of rhetoric and will examine things such as gurus and
psychic phenomena —or any of those sort of fashionable things —carefully and
says, 'These are the facts'; not 'Wow, isn't it freaky?' </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"As long as people dismiss information and ideas as
hippy bull-shit, the longer it'll take to change things. At the moment, it's
when <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sunday Times</i> does an article
on drugs that people read it and say, 'Yes, that must be the truth'. If they read
it in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IT</i> they just say, 'Oh, that's
them hippies . . .'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We aim to establish
ourselves in such a position that when we come up with something startling
about, say, social structures, it will be credible, people will believe us.
Above all, we aim to make <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Catalogue</i>
as interesting as possible, so that people do respond and get involved. I don't
know how many will actually use it. We hope a lot." </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Work on volume one of The Catalogue has already begun, but
John May needs information and people willing to recycle it for subsequent
volumes. Anybody with anything to offer—even if only help in the office —
should contact John May at 2 Blenheim Crescent, London W11 (01-727 4712). •</p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-78192686708602259712023-05-19T13:51:00.003+01:002023-05-19T13:54:40.213+01:00MICK FARREN <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCzj04boCPl5IXZmkkYFp49KIU6q1a-XnH-YP3kL2WRaYeVqyISiL-gKJX5hUGPhmwFBPIPbifJlmsznFkEKL2mULMUYPZb4H5O2rVtflGKWdFJV65sW6UQ0O8aIRCbr0o1OZYaYPx1pmdWWUKEX7EDBoZR96-ByGpYpaOy0DMXhuQTK-dLw/s3509/MICK%20FARREN181.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3509" data-original-width="2550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCzj04boCPl5IXZmkkYFp49KIU6q1a-XnH-YP3kL2WRaYeVqyISiL-gKJX5hUGPhmwFBPIPbifJlmsznFkEKL2mULMUYPZb4H5O2rVtflGKWdFJV65sW6UQ0O8aIRCbr0o1OZYaYPx1pmdWWUKEX7EDBoZR96-ByGpYpaOy0DMXhuQTK-dLw/s320/MICK%20FARREN181.jpg" width="233" /></a></div>Mick was one of the most prominent figures of the British counter-culture. A poet, author, musician, activist. In the late 60s Mick headed the protopunk band The Deviants and later released solo material under his own name. he is the author of more than 30 books both non-fiction and fiction. Here are some of them.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgb_iRBMur4dvSQLbroeqkVhM65nkeeJwgAOsPe01YcxtrzwWOZLoM8Hkqd8vimwlh9Afva69GD8emHMPDegVzsvo9ASEoydDBJRk67W6WOZvktOKPHjR-0Sr5I2i6wBOdM1Bd3-DCRNVcfT7MTVl9Dp8Aaujrnhr09DOxxGlhXvJlBSQI8A/s3509/MICK%20FARREN2182.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3509" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgb_iRBMur4dvSQLbroeqkVhM65nkeeJwgAOsPe01YcxtrzwWOZLoM8Hkqd8vimwlh9Afva69GD8emHMPDegVzsvo9ASEoydDBJRk67W6WOZvktOKPHjR-0Sr5I2i6wBOdM1Bd3-DCRNVcfT7MTVl9Dp8Aaujrnhr09DOxxGlhXvJlBSQI8A/s320/MICK%20FARREN2182.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />A biography and a chunky collection of his lifetime work.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhimllu6yhKiuoLF83bYzGVJLvH2OGEJ2abmVxRaFHuuyRZuGgmsemDmsHLY6Kvu4T88ctveYtMtTB9aQ1kOYEhEznU-t0WkPFyRQFjXkPtmxxtozr_J8dPzwYKWYjbrtvQNkW1XV8ibYd3MZzshhENWeT2Boffle7k6wrIOnfqIlYV0ugmrA/s2744/MICK%20FARREN3183.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2744" data-original-width="2164" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhimllu6yhKiuoLF83bYzGVJLvH2OGEJ2abmVxRaFHuuyRZuGgmsemDmsHLY6Kvu4T88ctveYtMtTB9aQ1kOYEhEznU-t0WkPFyRQFjXkPtmxxtozr_J8dPzwYKWYjbrtvQNkW1XV8ibYd3MZzshhENWeT2Boffle7k6wrIOnfqIlYV0ugmrA/w158-h200/MICK%20FARREN3183.jpg" width="158" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGM-HSglZkZqvO_v-y35BrpF3gOUyUAkMrnANDgSX8rr3fOm7V1XlrMJZjhUZ_1xOfHVOdT6JwAeGnYp4YOTktFQXOGz-lAdlwCGWYDbKKT5h4CDOacUJ0VjOtxi9hcgnMCto-oK0dWQQ06nCbDOTGP0HfWcF6EbX_uVoiHRjV8Uj7QPgjqA/s606/WATCH%20OUT%20KIDS3997B.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="606" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGM-HSglZkZqvO_v-y35BrpF3gOUyUAkMrnANDgSX8rr3fOm7V1XlrMJZjhUZ_1xOfHVOdT6JwAeGnYp4YOTktFQXOGz-lAdlwCGWYDbKKT5h4CDOacUJ0VjOtxi9hcgnMCto-oK0dWQQ06nCbDOTGP0HfWcF6EbX_uVoiHRjV8Uj7QPgjqA/w200-h150/WATCH%20OUT%20KIDS3997B.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>This highly illustrated book with design and layout by Edward Barker is a counter-culture classic. That's Ed and Mick with me just behind them. Cover by David Wills</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6eQYCF5lT3ykPJTEdvWatrQt7YFMcKWhlvH-PXArNE-qXyJ8bwg4OPXy0vOWFG9BcAFcuPlbR7GgxBqNcJsDkK_OMP1tm4tjxMAw77DNoXwZWtc1FcXy09Dgg5tjE5zf7x2ieUeTXL2ZE-6Ai21FWWJ0uIxZQtT3HjHMETQDrJAfPwN-9Dw/s3225/MICK%20FARREN4184.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2440" data-original-width="3225" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6eQYCF5lT3ykPJTEdvWatrQt7YFMcKWhlvH-PXArNE-qXyJ8bwg4OPXy0vOWFG9BcAFcuPlbR7GgxBqNcJsDkK_OMP1tm4tjxMAw77DNoXwZWtc1FcXy09Dgg5tjE5zf7x2ieUeTXL2ZE-6Ai21FWWJ0uIxZQtT3HjHMETQDrJAfPwN-9Dw/s320/MICK%20FARREN4184.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfZJY3O4bLZV-pt26rG4Uyr3jNWIZCh_ys6buJAMWUCXykdPsTv8bASCvSMJ2nwRgDeHaOwBxc1KLIieavO-T0rNn5Ls3PLP7wpjBR_6l7gaNsAt0_PSfYmevIe5CnD6P69AmW9S1yh-BzOBGD_OVOl5mq3NDuxl-rn29ZNjHhN5cjv0XNPw/s2115/MICK%20FARREN6186.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2115" data-original-width="1316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfZJY3O4bLZV-pt26rG4Uyr3jNWIZCh_ys6buJAMWUCXykdPsTv8bASCvSMJ2nwRgDeHaOwBxc1KLIieavO-T0rNn5Ls3PLP7wpjBR_6l7gaNsAt0_PSfYmevIe5CnD6P69AmW9S1yh-BzOBGD_OVOl5mq3NDuxl-rn29ZNjHhN5cjv0XNPw/s320/MICK%20FARREN6186.jpg" width="199" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitT2yEelTUWJCkrwZPsLbmbwhsJKQPP2_T2IHUzorHapfM-IcULtYPZoM47xDdtqChZkuUI_DjPgsr4XQVD-NYo9Kl7Pf_yvOX2OhKsgmgNDrOgA_CSXQNAfbw573ipAYzODxZRvR_Tx7721u5seJp5O86t_R0A9sUUctWYEzi0AmwJ9nyjQ/s3432/MICK%20FARREN9189.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3432" data-original-width="2460" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitT2yEelTUWJCkrwZPsLbmbwhsJKQPP2_T2IHUzorHapfM-IcULtYPZoM47xDdtqChZkuUI_DjPgsr4XQVD-NYo9Kl7Pf_yvOX2OhKsgmgNDrOgA_CSXQNAfbw573ipAYzODxZRvR_Tx7721u5seJp5O86t_R0A9sUUctWYEzi0AmwJ9nyjQ/w286-h400/MICK%20FARREN9189.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIWpEOt1g_NEC_-1R5H4ABUtePyg69XVCFpseuKFG3SvPna_BGz5qS5Dl7PXYFMVamNuzN7h01CjQQXtKDWBLIyA4QFPDltBxOEkgqPnvYkPDzl_4WNfqhGhNgkNJTfEIvtD5OsqnxNFe0JHZsrksNxet0tK5GwKI0hak2aTiU-WafSxnO8A/s2501/MICK%20FARREN7187.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2501" data-original-width="1586" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIWpEOt1g_NEC_-1R5H4ABUtePyg69XVCFpseuKFG3SvPna_BGz5qS5Dl7PXYFMVamNuzN7h01CjQQXtKDWBLIyA4QFPDltBxOEkgqPnvYkPDzl_4WNfqhGhNgkNJTfEIvtD5OsqnxNFe0JHZsrksNxet0tK5GwKI0hak2aTiU-WafSxnO8A/s320/MICK%20FARREN7187.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iJtpl2yTVmv684LOes0lRY7Nfuewjtvd8w7CZh2KfF37nlM63j2hPTgFPgyvLVLnEEEt7GdNgifwDneWFfH7HDZGf3UXttR4f_l-wN1YO4BcnTez_-66E3A_EvH4D3yxCDl1EDBl7FIMGMwYnomL6qEpbOOcrSUbIRTgDtwJnvmNRhj6SA/s2280/MICK%20FARREN5185.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2280" data-original-width="1488" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iJtpl2yTVmv684LOes0lRY7Nfuewjtvd8w7CZh2KfF37nlM63j2hPTgFPgyvLVLnEEEt7GdNgifwDneWFfH7HDZGf3UXttR4f_l-wN1YO4BcnTez_-66E3A_EvH4D3yxCDl1EDBl7FIMGMwYnomL6qEpbOOcrSUbIRTgDtwJnvmNRhj6SA/s320/MICK%20FARREN5185.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-81476882381528047852023-05-18T19:24:00.000+01:002023-05-18T19:24:14.077+01:00ALLEN GINSBERG DAY<p> Monday 15th May: Spotted a hardback copy of 'The Letters of Allen Ginsberg' in the window of the Bow Windows bookshop in Lewes. Edited by Bill Morgan who was Ginsberg's literary archivist for many years. The letters are lengthy and full of thoughtful topics which make great reading. He is described as one of the most prolific letter writers of the 20th century. letters to Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady and Carolyn Cassady, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, e.e. cummings, Peter Orlovsky, Herbert Hunke, Bob Dylan, Timothy Leary, Jimmy Carter, Paul Bowles, Bill Clinton and many more. He travels extensively and the reader is carried into a wide variety of adventures and countries. When searching for a possible extract I settled on his letter to President Jimmy Carter on October 26th 1979.</p><p>'It has recently been brought to my attention that no writer currently sits on the National Council on the Arts. Although the performing and visual arts have their own lobbying groups, there's not a commercial market for poetry large enough to support a heavy pressure group. Some assistance is open to writers within the National Endowment for the Arts, but Literature has the smallest budget in the N.E.A.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHLPiqqfpbGuPRDBriAjkgyfGfHOwPNbHbarv3ZHJYl0ZXXajc9vRvdCe2eLrTVYCcx_y4wN97ImoabMzH60oTq2v1Nx1S0epr3H8GFZ0IViG-G97oEiAlp2z1MVCEFRX6Q3e66I_D6LdN-2qvLIo_c1aab6cuUrez2N3Z-a_2dTKMRDKAA/s2541/ALLEN%20GINSBERG1178.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2541" data-original-width="1872" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHLPiqqfpbGuPRDBriAjkgyfGfHOwPNbHbarv3ZHJYl0ZXXajc9vRvdCe2eLrTVYCcx_y4wN97ImoabMzH60oTq2v1Nx1S0epr3H8GFZ0IViG-G97oEiAlp2z1MVCEFRX6Q3e66I_D6LdN-2qvLIo_c1aab6cuUrez2N3Z-a_2dTKMRDKAA/s320/ALLEN%20GINSBERG1178.jpg" width="236" /></a></div>'Poetry practices control awareness and purification of the language, it makes up penetratingly communicative word pictures. Because poetry is like the central nervous system of the body politic, poetic projection of image has a compelling role in the history of human actions. That's why Shelly said, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World". That's why someone representing poetry and prose word arts should sit on the National Council on the Arts and have some say in national arts monies. Maybe it would be better to give no money to art at all, see what happens, if arts have been brought up by national patronage, and made lethargic to the pain of America's present history, politics etc. Painters have an industry with vast slush funds flowing up and down Madison Avenue. Because poetry comes out in little magazines, non commercial, it would be best to beef up the least fat-cat art. If we are going to have subsidiz- ation at all, put a poet to buffer it from commerce, censorship, and government interference. You need somebody with brains on top to figure out how to do it right - namely some writers on the National Council on the Arts.' Sincerely Allen Ginsberg.<p></p><p>I asked Jonathan if he had any other Ginsberg work and, within minutes I held in my hand a rare and wonderful book 'The Riverside Interviews 1: Allen Ginsberg' published by the Binnacle Press in 1980. First Edition 1/600 copies.:https//en.everybodywiki.com/Gavin_Selerie</p><p>This was the first of a series conducted by Gavin Selerie - a prolific poet and teacher in his own right. see https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gavin_Selerie</p><p>The other Riverside Interviews 2: Lawrence Ferlinghetti; 3: Gregory Corso; 4: Jerome Rothenberg [with Eric Mottram]; 6: Tom McGrath [Binnacle Press, produced between 1980 and 1984]</p><p>The text is produced on a typewriter. This interview was conducted at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London, before Ginsberg's reading on 4th November 1979, and at Miles' flat in the West End after Ginsberg's reading at Battersea Arts Centre. Some additional material was supplied in a conversation which took place after the reading at the Round House on 17th November 1979.</p><p>There is a 5 -page intro: Selerie writes on page iv: 'In conversation with Ginsberg, I found that I was dealing with a mind continually alert to new situations and ready to absorb new information.....</p><p>'On meeting Ginsberg, I was struck first of all by the authority of his bearings; here was a man who knew things from experience and who could muster facts and examples to support his argument. Then, gradually, the confident assertion of beliefs or opinions seemed to be counterbalances by a certain humility....Ginsberg's knowledge of literature commands respect. The ease with which he quoted from other people's writing underlined his sensitivity to language.'</p><p>The follows 42 pages of interview. Ginsberg talks in great depth about making poems, the rhythm of poems and his own experiences in life. I like this extract:</p><p>'Ezra Pound was the one who pointed out long ago that poetry, music and dance were one. His proposition was that at one time word, movement and melody were one art or parts of one performance...</p><p>'The person who comes nearest to that in pronouncing language aloud is Mick Jagger; or some other rock or popular musicians and ballet people. OK, so just to be classical about it: let us be reminded that in the immemorial mists of history poetry and music and even dance were allied and that this combination is nothing new.'</p><p>The book comes complete with photographs by Chris Schwarz. The cover is Ginsberg outside the front of William Blake's cottage at Felpham. November 1979.</p><p>One other is the Ginsberg and three others in front of the Public House Bookshop in Brighton - Richard Cupidi who owned and ran the bookshop, Lee Harwood and Peter Orlovsky.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwJzzN3W6UladSbqZOhGtIMx8-QRI_KVtdf-nGIE1mFxrAagt80-o4F0LvCK3KY62Ha5qQgMthn2nTIH-x6QdCkqE8OZV7py778yB3yXlJza74tMGh2iqIR3x-L9buW1h93HuEPa2RCoa7r5k2Tyo82G-GGwgr4FPNqk99hEV-lVEhsmpTPw/s2775/ALLEN%20GINSBERG2a180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="1810" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwJzzN3W6UladSbqZOhGtIMx8-QRI_KVtdf-nGIE1mFxrAagt80-o4F0LvCK3KY62Ha5qQgMthn2nTIH-x6QdCkqE8OZV7py778yB3yXlJza74tMGh2iqIR3x-L9buW1h93HuEPa2RCoa7r5k2Tyo82G-GGwgr4FPNqk99hEV-lVEhsmpTPw/s320/ALLEN%20GINSBERG2a180.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifJergb-_hzYCFjtmSLOxIjmFfGXKViMUskRutr34QAAoMvHFfrGW5Z9Vt5B6NSJxVVK5EO_NGgLqaJz46VvpISNK8JAbtZBKTtF5m-IwR79lyna7pn5Sl5LyBWXKxbF1xQ_YaS3WCG5QHXVTCHI6teHmQyeNMFTlTUjUrxjWlAtq9vKcl0g/s3509/ALLEN%20GINSBERG2179.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3509" data-original-width="2550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifJergb-_hzYCFjtmSLOxIjmFfGXKViMUskRutr34QAAoMvHFfrGW5Z9Vt5B6NSJxVVK5EO_NGgLqaJz46VvpISNK8JAbtZBKTtF5m-IwR79lyna7pn5Sl5LyBWXKxbF1xQ_YaS3WCG5QHXVTCHI6teHmQyeNMFTlTUjUrxjWlAtq9vKcl0g/s320/ALLEN%20GINSBERG2179.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-20320110630867659582023-04-12T18:33:00.002+01:002023-04-12T18:37:17.449+01:00CHINA DOMINATES ELECTRIC VEHICLES & RARE EARTH METALS<p> <i>Back in January/February 2020 I wrote an extensive groups of Climate Crisis posts on the Greening of Transport: Aviation/Shipping/Railways and three posts on cars -Global Overview, Hydrogen Fuel cars and the Fall and rise of SUVs. </i></p><p><i>This new post concentrates on Electric Vehicles, battery development Rare Earth Metals and China's domination of all three.</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b>CHINA/RARE EARTH METALS</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> This is a vital and important book. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> China has a global hold on most of the world's Rare Earth metals.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> These have to be mined and this will create a new level of pollution. Pitron reveals that by breaking free of fossil fuels we are in fact setting ourselves up for a new dependence on rare earths.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> These are essential to electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels as well as smartphones, computers, tablets and other technologies.<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIE-fe5jynYX2VKHCgZqG3koswW8edl4Y1rbjxXpA0Ffr3FFyaOsnhnpGNmTgmg0UEzvRBjsJNHpK-rOKjiVuz3wBAUoPBZIpgxNYKkWfMFHRgda7jS7ycqCk451Et-qUg7rZYW-pIvD70L-xS1uKxMLdM5D_Im8IkpguHEcOgzGiLvktfg/s2737/RARE%20EARTH%20CHINA157.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2737" data-original-width="1756" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIE-fe5jynYX2VKHCgZqG3koswW8edl4Y1rbjxXpA0Ffr3FFyaOsnhnpGNmTgmg0UEzvRBjsJNHpK-rOKjiVuz3wBAUoPBZIpgxNYKkWfMFHRgda7jS7ycqCk451Et-qUg7rZYW-pIvD70L-xS1uKxMLdM5D_Im8IkpguHEcOgzGiLvktfg/s320/RARE%20EARTH%20CHINA157.jpg" width="205" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiYltfjlEFN840FOapASJ9iKAVRvGZgEkDAeRZyoRsxenrtqk_71-m6_DO5wBo3qGTAS8SGm3wpHYC6uvschnUbisFqM3fNvryqdiEDkMn15StH3d8YqdvetzXu_33kwrOoG4xU78Hp4a8Z6dQYz_YX8mXh-mtJmqfBPVrw5x31pF6L5w7ow/s400/51609dc5eab8ea451900000a.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiYltfjlEFN840FOapASJ9iKAVRvGZgEkDAeRZyoRsxenrtqk_71-m6_DO5wBo3qGTAS8SGm3wpHYC6uvschnUbisFqM3fNvryqdiEDkMn15StH3d8YqdvetzXu_33kwrOoG4xU78Hp4a8Z6dQYz_YX8mXh-mtJmqfBPVrw5x31pF6L5w7ow/s320/51609dc5eab8ea451900000a.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>30th January 2021:</b> China controls 95%of the rare earth metals market, making between 80% and 90% of the batteries for electric vehicles and more than half the magnets in wind turbines and electric motors. The production of rare metals will double every 15 years in order to satisfy demand from non-ferrous magnets and lithium-ion batteries. [<i>The Rare Metals War'</i> by Guillaume Pitron (<i>New Scientist</i>)</p><p><b>20th February 2021: </b>Copper demand from renewables and electric vehicles is expected to grow more than seven times by the 2050s. [<i>Financial Times]</i></p><p><b>3rd March 2021:</b> Three North American companies are setting up a rare earths supply chain to cut dependence on China for the vital metals used in weapons, electric vehicles and other advanced technologies. New Performance Materials of Canada and Energy Fuels of US have found an efficient way to produce rare metals from radioactive monazite sands, a by-product produced from mining sircon, titanium and other, supplied by US based chemicals group Chermours. Energy Fuels has developed a method of extracting the radioactive element to use in nuclear fuel. Monzanite contains about 50% rare earths and 0.3% natural uranium. It also contains 15 of the 17 of the rare earths. Fighter jets rely heavily on rare earths. A Lockheed Martin aircraft contains 417kg of rare-earth materials and a nuclear submarine more than 4 tonnes. [FT]</p><p><b>24th December 2021: </b>Three of the leading rare-earth companies in China have merged to form the China Rare Earth Group. It will control 70% of China's rare earth output of 17 minerals. [FT]</p><p><i><b>JAPAN</b></i>]</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5VaMT5HgCgsIceXebyt0FsPcwpW81qKrfALag0E25WP71w2JcdKk1rS7DI2F-_NJl4WrvZwz8iyf6FDStpQPN91jAXcxQCuZATit0jGTWZM8MnZVTWIN1QRKT-NYwht7K6Suue4HWtDFC3U6ecrIV-gqM4U8hDgmMXSb6nc4tik3aEiK1xw/s800/byd-spring-launch-800x450.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5VaMT5HgCgsIceXebyt0FsPcwpW81qKrfALag0E25WP71w2JcdKk1rS7DI2F-_NJl4WrvZwz8iyf6FDStpQPN91jAXcxQCuZATit0jGTWZM8MnZVTWIN1QRKT-NYwht7K6Suue4HWtDFC3U6ecrIV-gqM4U8hDgmMXSb6nc4tik3aEiK1xw/s320/byd-spring-launch-800x450.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><b>7th July 2022:</b> China's BYD ("build your dreams") overtakes the world's most popular battery car maker outpacing Tesla - a goal that Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors were aiming to do. BYD delivered 641,000 cars in six months, 300% higher than in 2021 and ahead of Tesla's 564,000. </p><p>BYD began as manufacturer of rechargeable batteries and expanded into the car business in 2000. The fact that they make the batteries means they own the crucial supply chain. The company now has around 10 % of global capacity for EV battery production. They also have energy storage divisions and a computer chip unit. Sales are mainly in the domestic market but they have international ambitions. Half the cars they sell are plug-in hybrids which count as "new energy vehicles" [NEVs] as well as pure battery and hydrogen powered models [FT]</p><p><b>1 November 2022: </b>BYD is backed by Warren Buffett and is one of a dozen Chinese brands preparing to storm Europe's markets. One in 20 electric vehicles sold in the region in the first six months of 2002 was a Chinese-owned brand. BYD will begin selling its three models before the end of the year. It is expected that the Chinese share of this market will be one in six cars by the middle of the decade. Nio, a premium brand was launched in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands with Norway to follow. It claims to have orders for 10,000 vehicles. [FT]</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiCEoJ4fwP0fkVWw9DqrQyuEUiDbU3GTJVnPAsJl_DE3YL0jsJmurD47xYV2HvLff_KnWUSqoFZ3fVuoDfQe_jZwWOb4qbGsu6rhcGrm1X_SSZAOhDXWpS6wDkOolLVBRSpcKZEDgzBwFQ8Twc-BFHa3lNip4oH2gePTZfwBNo1NzTiPuJXA/s1920/BYD-Tang-EV-0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1920" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiCEoJ4fwP0fkVWw9DqrQyuEUiDbU3GTJVnPAsJl_DE3YL0jsJmurD47xYV2HvLff_KnWUSqoFZ3fVuoDfQe_jZwWOb4qbGsu6rhcGrm1X_SSZAOhDXWpS6wDkOolLVBRSpcKZEDgzBwFQ8Twc-BFHa3lNip4oH2gePTZfwBNo1NzTiPuJXA/s320/BYD-Tang-EV-0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><b>7 December 2022: China battery makers' clout raises fears in European motor industry.</b></p><p>China is turning itself into the battery workshop of the world. Europe is the second biggest market for EVs and it is predicted that China will have 322 gigawatt hours of production capacity there by 2031 than any other country. Some 40 % of the value of the electric vehicle is in its battery. In the new world, says Volkswagen's tech head, the electric vehicle world will be defined clearly by battery costs. South Korea will be second largest with 192GWh followed by France and Sweden. the US is 5th thanks to a Tesla plant in Berlin, 6th is Germany, 7th is Norway and the UK is eighth with 20GWh,</p><p>VW is leading European manufacturers with plans for five factories in Europe and one in North America. Meanwhile it has a supply deal with China's CATL, the largest battery maker. Europe is planning to end the sale of combustion engines by 2035. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Rising metal prices hinder car affordability</b></p><p>The price of lithium ion batteries rose for the first time in more than a decade. The car industry has long believed that a $100 per kWH battery pack was the point at which electric cars would be competitive price wise with combustion engine vehicles. However lithium prices have increased 10-fold since the start of 2021, nickel has gone up 75 % and cobalt prices have doubled their 2020 average. Battery prices would have been higher if the Chinese industry had not switched to cheaper lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries These don't use cobalt or nickel but have a shorter range.</p><p>Un 2022 there were 603 gigawatt hours of demand for lithium iron batteries, double that of the previous year. Supply chains are struggling to keep up. The world's largest lithium producers have warned about the difficulties of increasing production to cope with rocketing demand. Europe, US and other countries are making efforts to reduce their dependence on China.[FT]</p><p><b>2023 BYD and peers make their marque as Chinese car sector comes of age.</b></p><p>Chinese consumers will buy 8mn to10mn EVs in 2023 up from 6.5mn in 2022 and 3.5mn in 2021. Sales in Europe are projected to be3mn and 2mn in US. China had the largest sales with a 35% year-on-year rise of rapid growth. So 7 out of every10 electric vehicles are now sold in China. The pace of growth means China is on the cusp of hitting 50 % of car sales being EVs by the end of 2025 - the first major economy to do so.</p><p>This would be far ahead of Europe, The market share of battery cars is rising slowly. A third of sales in the final months of 2022 were fully electric or plug-in hybrid.</p><p>BYD is spearheading a wave of overseas expansion. Exports are forecast to grow six fold to 300,000 units this year. Further plans to build factories in Asia, Europe and |South America. </p><p>The US unveiled restrictions to stop US companies selling technology to China. It followed with state support in the US and Europe to counter China's rise. [FT]</p><p><b>30.3.2023: Tesla loses ground in China after price war.</b></p><p> In the first two months BYD sold more than five times the number of units that Tesla did in China.</p><p>In 2022 Chinese car makers accounted for 47 % of total passenger sales volume. BYD's vertically integrated structure - from mines to batteries and chips has given it an advantage as the world transitions away from the combustion engine. BYD chair said he expected first quarter sales to jump 80 % year on year. The company reported a 400% surge in net profit for 2022. However sales are generally down as the country emerges from the pandemic. [FT]</p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-71914762231918979222023-04-05T11:49:00.002+01:002023-04-05T11:50:55.843+01:00GENERALIST ARCHIVE: NEW ADDITIONS<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three valuable new additions to the Generalist Archive: </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp5EU21C2FpicIhKwf5L6CVWwmRG8T_ZPec-I2skcRL8_a2v7N2ejroovL4WfOXhGmn1UH9xKaw8g35o3t3PZ6CJhW37veBtoXtmzxUxOH55r2X1rd1ZrSPW8K6J85blInPzyVE4POqeg6NqVulywtlbd456882gYf7lv2h2VXMl3uRobxEQ/s2906/COMMUNITY%20PHOTOS155.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2906" data-original-width="2295" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp5EU21C2FpicIhKwf5L6CVWwmRG8T_ZPec-I2skcRL8_a2v7N2ejroovL4WfOXhGmn1UH9xKaw8g35o3t3PZ6CJhW37veBtoXtmzxUxOH55r2X1rd1ZrSPW8K6J85blInPzyVE4POqeg6NqVulywtlbd456882gYf7lv2h2VXMl3uRobxEQ/s320/COMMUNITY%20PHOTOS155.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>'Photography of Protest and Community' by Noni Stacey [2020]</b></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Noni Stacey's valuable highly detailed academic source documenting street photography of radical collective photo groups in the 1970s, like the Hackney Flashers, pioneering Half Moon Gallery and The Photographer's Gallery and mag Camerawork.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; 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color: #050505; float: left; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2267" data-original-width="1526" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGUHSOq7XEx88wFfNy16lLPk9-iXT10QCS10OT6bCHckbSIe58Kkw5ahc53Fv9i1XN8XrkfKZH9K8hjs7fWxVWS0K9NULKzlPrSUnVev1pwYqjx8IDbSSAt_2jhvANzF8BRcCEfiKCdVMnxlHrrmNBSMZ3r2lpZqQVYStugkPD_78KSBfTw/w182-h305/MUSIC%20FBI154.jpg" width="182" /></a><b style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whole World In An Uproar: Music Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972 by Aaron J. Leonard [2023] </b><b style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;">Xcellent book . Deeply researched. Musicians' FBI files revealed. Sets the music into the background of Black Power, anti-Vietnam events, festivals, riots, Lots of busts. Valuable source.</b></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1s2bzr4" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 12px 0px 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVFRbb-1zXjtyGHie1fpYuhK8pjigHdsz0UZi67BKk4xcaxjo50uLGU7nmZdEVRI9jL6KZZ4cpcUUz6c6A0YQgGbko4zFTdaGOw312z66oeo6GOshq8lZ-mAkq6OnFMBbs5KjJYCSvqQ7IgXy3AK0wWxLEQNXbIDJobZ5hzo_YP195K5062w/s2469/GRAFFITI156%20-%20Copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2469" data-original-width="1513" height="377" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVFRbb-1zXjtyGHie1fpYuhK8pjigHdsz0UZi67BKk4xcaxjo50uLGU7nmZdEVRI9jL6KZZ4cpcUUz6c6A0YQgGbko4zFTdaGOw312z66oeo6GOshq8lZ-mAkq6OnFMBbs5KjJYCSvqQ7IgXy3AK0wWxLEQNXbIDJobZ5hzo_YP195K5062w/w196-h377/GRAFFITI156%20-%20Copy.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>GRAFFITI: 'Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing' [1971]</b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by the late jazz writer Robert Reisner. 'They express the beliefs, hopes, aspirations, hang-ups, angers and obsessions of the common folk through the ages.' A great pub read.</span></div></div></div><span style="align-items: stretch; border-color: black; border-image: initial; font-size: 15px;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: normal; z-index: 0;"></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: normal; z-index: 0;"></div></span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1r5su4o" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; 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clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2641" data-original-width="2062" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yq0z1PoPvo-5a1Dh0FYOnenreMcG6tegPQGzUlMuVfC2cxKFbHUwhakROqHEeBJq00JxzVBq6vfCXbzCE10IWkRg9ozTSaNorzJNscfKNu7RRfeEp7ZEeDMBLY0-GHrs-bc1vr2UTC4xWrCUF8UgnoM62QRoKtCUgfCljN0KPKZuL1DihQ/s320/STEPNEY%20SISTERS.jpg" width="250" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It seems totally appropriate that a copy of 'Hail Sisters of the Revolution' by my dear friend writer/poet/musician Caroline Gilfillan with photographer Andrew Scott should arrive in the post on International Women's Day. They met in the 1970s when squatting was a big thing In London and shared a squat in Stepney. </span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">During this period Caroline joined one of the very early women-only band The Stepney Sisters and subsequently went on to play with Sisterhood of Spit, Hi Jinx, The </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ponytails and Crikey Aphrodite. </span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">She writes the story of the squats and the band in poetic form and the excellent black and white shots by Andrew bring that world to life. This wonderful book is published by Cowslip Press at 9 Casson Street, Ulverston LA12 7JQ. The Poetry Society recommended it as one of the Books of the Year.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2001 The Stepney Sisters reassembled and made their first ever recorded album. Excellent article on all this here: w</span><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ww.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/08/feminist-musical-trailblazers-the-stepney-sisters-we-changed-what-happened-next</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0000ee;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-26150373863062443362023-03-01T10:31:00.000+00:002023-03-01T10:31:38.757+00:00Nebra Sky Disc<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqrtM-cOD_DJ-6mOyPy9VNDYXASX9pE7IYu6QiLYiJNkjOGuCFg01ynogVAmoy566DmAoOmSwtz42b9sooX21qVwvj3yv6pDozr_ogNMjgeoA8Vz9Co1p_4p77RTezGsJuBJlSRCt-YY6dWsq0dRsTCOhlGG22uIBkX21deh6sGHBwnviv7g" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqrtM-cOD_DJ-6mOyPy9VNDYXASX9pE7IYu6QiLYiJNkjOGuCFg01ynogVAmoy566DmAoOmSwtz42b9sooX21qVwvj3yv6pDozr_ogNMjgeoA8Vz9Co1p_4p77RTezGsJuBJlSRCt-YY6dWsq0dRsTCOhlGG22uIBkX21deh6sGHBwnviv7g" width="244" /></a></div>This is the Nebra Sky disc, believed to be the oldest surviving representation of the cosmos. It was buried 3,600 years ago and was illegally excavated by two metal detectorists in Germany and is now in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle. It is crafted in bronze and gold which originated in Cornwall.<p></p><p>It is the most valuable artefact yet discovered from the <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Únětice</span> civilization, a large group of early Bronze Age communities in central Europe - especially Bohemia, Bavaria, south-eastern Germany and western Poland - which is believed to have survived from 2,300BC to around1600 BC. </p><p>The dots are thought to represent stars with the cluster being the Pleiades with the circle and crescent being the Sun and Moon.</p><p>There are various theories as the purpose of the disc - an astronomical clock, a religious symbol or a work of art.</p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-79362184078573547052023-02-24T18:54:00.001+00:002023-02-24T19:04:56.353+00:00LONDON ARTS LAB<p> </p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPPHVQh1dV5MAQddRkQSphd27HQQzRKThZvN13rnHrwJ3qvmCGR4s6oiMXa9W28Gn4nnT96igNmh-qxuiYcylq5BHI0pa7Q7e-qxNxuSoTN4LXQGvw926iw0qUWKJy7yvXvk3HXo3tlQdPv4MDy_h3KLnsAEZnrynD-btH0Sd8iL6Xpwz4g/s2838/ARTS%20LAB%202145.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2838" data-original-width="2363" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPPHVQh1dV5MAQddRkQSphd27HQQzRKThZvN13rnHrwJ3qvmCGR4s6oiMXa9W28Gn4nnT96igNmh-qxuiYcylq5BHI0pa7Q7e-qxNxuSoTN4LXQGvw926iw0qUWKJy7yvXvk3HXo3tlQdPv4MDy_h3KLnsAEZnrynD-btH0Sd8iL6Xpwz4g/s320/ARTS%20LAB%202145.jpg" width="266" /></a><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVGBpkCmOLpDevxuCgaX4OOmhH7EZombmquC-2MK84NBk1gV24VfDTgCRGtJ6t92ADaRToSs1aEoYNsnkcBlhdpk716xU6q3J-9z_wT9bLDt9P5Unk2imXg7ySNZlrXG1NNLy0bf9ln2y6V_8QkxcCImFYX8YgRfV7pGZrP_aohWGbbmT_TA/s2874/ARTS%20LAB%201143.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2874" data-original-width="2399" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVGBpkCmOLpDevxuCgaX4OOmhH7EZombmquC-2MK84NBk1gV24VfDTgCRGtJ6t92ADaRToSs1aEoYNsnkcBlhdpk716xU6q3J-9z_wT9bLDt9P5Unk2imXg7ySNZlrXG1NNLy0bf9ln2y6V_8QkxcCImFYX8YgRfV7pGZrP_aohWGbbmT_TA/s320/ARTS%20LAB%201143.jpg" width="267" /></a></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">'London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde' by David Curtis.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Worthing Workshop is mentioned in the list of Arts Labs across the regions. This an excellent book, fully illustrated, and deeply researched. It gives valuable picture of a time and a space when all the arts were able to intermingle. Reading it one feels that a new network of Arts Labs would be very valuable in the times we live in.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAvIujZeH3uWk2RLA4-Q3W-IHHEP5hDgsP0tFqWw5uKMkR5O-78WVMBM99PzbXfjVDFlhO83I90TgDCC-6QLUCiF3xevOXbrTomSnkUQH5NckXcR1rnJ39OZeGlHhKhXlc04IiMo4HmWabZf2VnwdMnQIQ0WCnQT-BfzV5wj2LRcdSSBX9mA/s756/ARTS%20LAB%203146.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="629" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAvIujZeH3uWk2RLA4-Q3W-IHHEP5hDgsP0tFqWw5uKMkR5O-78WVMBM99PzbXfjVDFlhO83I90TgDCC-6QLUCiF3xevOXbrTomSnkUQH5NckXcR1rnJ39OZeGlHhKhXlc04IiMo4HmWabZf2VnwdMnQIQ0WCnQT-BfzV5wj2LRcdSSBX9mA/s320/ARTS%20LAB%203146.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><p> </p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPPHVQh1dV5MAQddRkQSphd27HQQzRKThZvN13rnHrwJ3qvmCGR4s6oiMXa9W28Gn4nnT96igNmh-qxuiYcylq5BHI0pa7Q7e-qxNxuSoTN4LXQGvw926iw0qUWKJy7yvXvk3HXo3tlQdPv4MDy_h3KLnsAEZnrynD-btH0Sd8iL6Xpwz4g/s2838/ARTS%20LAB%202145.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /><br /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-63240046557189239792023-01-30T12:27:00.000+00:002023-01-30T12:27:09.306+00:00THE MARQUEE CLUB<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiScAt1v5D3sNuDDoTqWft_KMH1J_bMeSQVl-voW0IwsFs2J5T_2lQuyfPommNTZ0GTyK6wMCA-GAfnmNuoPBgs4JSUBbjEjyKMfJxyX8lMn-gLWYLInMdFy90Ki0ITY2AgAeG9n8wwub9TajmDTDiIK9j02Yiq6L--eQErMs1U6IP9IyKQ6w/s2871/MARQUEE2129.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2871" data-original-width="1875" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiScAt1v5D3sNuDDoTqWft_KMH1J_bMeSQVl-voW0IwsFs2J5T_2lQuyfPommNTZ0GTyK6wMCA-GAfnmNuoPBgs4JSUBbjEjyKMfJxyX8lMn-gLWYLInMdFy90Ki0ITY2AgAeG9n8wwub9TajmDTDiIK9j02Yiq6L--eQErMs1U6IP9IyKQ6w/s320/MARQUEE2129.jpg" width="209" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUJVU_iGH6HKEwfGjHDKRoDFT0UQUbpUqmoKahGBG3xkcHUCGDoPnQREJAsTWS2t7X7z9YcDlG4gS73Ux2tJ8Id2pvoA2-7C13gHzuR1FoFsl32n5mIdUq51WxAZVe53AAGqgzsntpCD5Oz1UFWqrLWk4qqgm-wppGSyEHLjG2rK_OYZEKQ/s2814/MARQUEE1127.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2814" data-original-width="2213" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUJVU_iGH6HKEwfGjHDKRoDFT0UQUbpUqmoKahGBG3xkcHUCGDoPnQREJAsTWS2t7X7z9YcDlG4gS73Ux2tJ8Id2pvoA2-7C13gHzuR1FoFsl32n5mIdUq51WxAZVe53AAGqgzsntpCD5Oz1UFWqrLWk4qqgm-wppGSyEHLjG2rK_OYZEKQ/s320/MARQUEE1127.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> Harold Pendleton who died at the age of 93 in 2017 is perhaps a name not known to the general public but as this book shows he was a key figure in the development of music in the UK. A huge jazz fan he got the bug for promoting and staging bands in various venues leading to his establishment of the Marquee in 1958 which he ran for 30 years. The venue itself may have been pretty scuzzy but it became the place that every band wanted to play. In the prologue to the book his son explains why.</p><p><i>'A gig at the Marquee announced that a band has left the orbit of the suburban pub circuit and was on its way up. It was the place where agents managers and journalists went to check out new talent: contracts could be signed before the stage was cleared and a memorable performance could land a band their first notices in the music weeklies. It was the gateway to the big time.'</i></p><p>This classy book written by Robert Sellers is highly detailed and manages to give the reader a fantastic picture of this remarkable club that played host to literally thousands of bands of all types and styles. A Timeline at the end of the book highlights the standout nights and the most frequent performers. There is also a list of live recordings. The main text is peppered throughout with quotes from fresh interviews with leading figures in all the streams of music. </p><p>To give some idea of the intensity of the task of compiling this history take the year 1977. Sellers writes: 'It saw first gigs for the Jam, Ultravox!, the Only Ones, the Motors, Generation X, the Vibrators, X-Ray Spex, The Police, Squeeze, the Boomtown Rats, John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett, the Damned, the Buzzcocks, Wire, Tom Robinson, Japan, Sham 69, Adam and the Ants, and XTC.</p><p>The catholic booking policy meant that the in the same year there were appearances from 'the influential folkster Bert Jansch, the reformed Pink Fairies, Medieval progsters Gryphon, the old school rock of Edgar Broughton and Wishbone Ash and a nostalgic two-nighter in the company of Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames. Not to mention what was supposed to be a farewell concert by Motorhead.'</p><p>Lemmy is quoted at the front of the book: 'The reason I liked the Marquee was because it was scruffy and a hellhole, and your feet stuck to the floor, and that's exactly what a rock and roll club should be like'</p><p>The book as a whole is beautifully put together with some great photos starting with a fab shot of Guns and Roses on their first gig in the UK. A valuable addition to the history of British music.</p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-41241906876538191192022-10-29T11:37:00.000+01:002022-10-29T11:37:29.700+01:00MUSIC PRESS HISTORY<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwZD036GU4k_uMOO704dYnrGxml8fLR9WneYKvPSblTyilBHcMkQ3VB6m29ZyCvJg8S8FPyA5Scnu8rGoNoPPCgw3BCcKv_DmXeYuHyyNjbQKMZ25Yno__8S6kmy4VxFNEKlhSeWpv-neZvOUUT3IQ8zSCcLe-IXyBriMVcqIxjzr31JFTGA/s2715/MUSIC%20PRESS1105.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2715" data-original-width="1852" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwZD036GU4k_uMOO704dYnrGxml8fLR9WneYKvPSblTyilBHcMkQ3VB6m29ZyCvJg8S8FPyA5Scnu8rGoNoPPCgw3BCcKv_DmXeYuHyyNjbQKMZ25Yno__8S6kmy4VxFNEKlhSeWpv-neZvOUUT3IQ8zSCcLe-IXyBriMVcqIxjzr31JFTGA/w136-h200/MUSIC%20PRESS1105.jpg" width="136" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgc01nlyjLDNMpJarsZ2q4BC49eNjHazC3jO0pzwJrujv9zaXMnvhrNQYeJ94ZHQQkwhmBTlLpXFKilQt-uRyqsvWnx4D_EV1VzomjFHQomGZtAYnZ6Y7V6tU2UKmmv36UIU1x9RMEK4atPyM6b0XT8g8VvMhrkoqEtPKD2Qedvvbeeagew/s2912/MUSIC%20PRESS3107.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="2912" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgc01nlyjLDNMpJarsZ2q4BC49eNjHazC3jO0pzwJrujv9zaXMnvhrNQYeJ94ZHQQkwhmBTlLpXFKilQt-uRyqsvWnx4D_EV1VzomjFHQomGZtAYnZ6Y7V6tU2UKmmv36UIU1x9RMEK4atPyM6b0XT8g8VvMhrkoqEtPKD2Qedvvbeeagew/s320/MUSIC%20PRESS3107.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbaEqjXuYFz3th-Jkw9j3UptLHen6AbDzdG-MzaMCmJvX2p9TIWb6DWhUNm7zOfB3qlbNLuuHVcQanY3OsMp3nThDy2zVbtFE8NA4tSN2djrFdUPyMbvH0O4aXjzhM4Mzjh6xs9GFZqnH-V6RhZLEU9_RrIQdsKI6KC1BG8K_rm-8A_PURDw/s2336/MUSIC%20PRESS3107%20-%20Copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1148" data-original-width="2336" height="98" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbaEqjXuYFz3th-Jkw9j3UptLHen6AbDzdG-MzaMCmJvX2p9TIWb6DWhUNm7zOfB3qlbNLuuHVcQanY3OsMp3nThDy2zVbtFE8NA4tSN2djrFdUPyMbvH0O4aXjzhM4Mzjh6xs9GFZqnH-V6RhZLEU9_RrIQdsKI6KC1BG8K_rm-8A_PURDw/w200-h98/MUSIC%20PRESS3107%20-%20Copy.jpg" width="200" /></a> This was the launch party on November 1st 2001 for Rock's Back Pages and Paul Gorman's oral history 'In Their Own Write'. Pictured are three of the very best music writers namely Charles Shaar Murray [with Anna Chen], Vivien Goldman and Chris Salewicz. I wasn't interviewed for the book but I was mentioned twice. There was Jonathon Green talking about <i>Frendz</i> :'Dick Lawson was the rock 'n' roll editor... and there was people like John May, who later worked for NME and was a real journalist, writing lots of very informed and radical stuff.' Chris said; 'John was very good as Dick Tracy. He started the film section with what was called Silver Screen and he was quite instrumental in changing the paper'.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZjk55banejZ-I7H6Zc82yqcAS3fNY08cE0_QKX6Lv9cQaUVjHZx3VtSU_ePe603T5RsKQ3aZqz_AfV3BmMOJ-EEGOyfpW8EmcDesBHpgb3F7_hZJLQnGfHAzzeysTzMoi1GRIlPbmAvzMo78JK5eLlXTDTgyxLwsBzEdbG7Et6dx7fBAFg/s2870/MUSIC%20PRESS2106.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2870" data-original-width="1952" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZjk55banejZ-I7H6Zc82yqcAS3fNY08cE0_QKX6Lv9cQaUVjHZx3VtSU_ePe603T5RsKQ3aZqz_AfV3BmMOJ-EEGOyfpW8EmcDesBHpgb3F7_hZJLQnGfHAzzeysTzMoi1GRIlPbmAvzMo78JK5eLlXTDTgyxLwsBzEdbG7Et6dx7fBAFg/s320/MUSIC%20PRESS2106.jpg" width="218" /></a></div>Paul Gorman has returned to the subject with a 360 page whopper of a book that traces the whole history of music papers, magazines and fanzines starting with <i>Melody Maker</i> which was first launched in 1926. <i>New Musical Express </i> came in 1952 and within a couple of years it had a circulation of 100,000 while MM was selling 97,000. They were soon joined by two other weeklies <i>Record Mirror and Disc.</i> All had a different take on the pop scene. MM was jazz, blues and folk and they were not interested in the new rock 'n' roll.<div><br /></div><div>In the States there were two trade papers -<i>Billboard </i>and <i>Cashbox </i>and the jazz journal <i>Downbeat </i>which had been founded in 1934. In the 40s and 50s these were joined with a string of teen mags - <i>Seventeen, Dig, </i><i>16 </i>and <i>Hit Parade, </i>which switched from pop to rock 'n' roll.</div><div><br /></div><div>By the 1960s there was a dozen weeklies aimed at the 5 million teenagers in Britain that made up 15% of the population who were using their spending power to buy records and record players.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the States apart from the teen mags a new kind of music mag was emerging which was more concerned with the aesthetics of rock. Paul Williams' <i>Crawdaddy </i> lit the touch paper, says Gorman, 'for a cerebral strand of music criticism that was to play out for decades in the American press'. This led to <i>Rolling Stone </i> which marked a real sea change with writers like Greil Marcus, Lenny Kaye, Lester Bangs, Ben Fong-Torres alongside the new journalism of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson.</div><div><br /></div><div>The underground press that emerged in the '60s in the US and the UK provided another platform for music journalism and record company advertising kept many of them in business. For a brief time there was a British edition of <i>Rolling Stone </i>which morphed into<i> Friends </i>then <i>Frendz.</i> Gorman judges it to be the best when it comes to music coverage. In the early '70s when most of these papers closed down Nick Kent and photographer Pennie Smith left <i>Frendz,</i> Charles Shaar Murray left <i>OZ, </i>and all joined the NME to be followed by Mick Farren from <i>International Times</i> and myself. Those were great times to be around. </div><div><div><br /></div><div>The great late Ian MacDonald said NME had most of the best writers and photographers, the best layouts, a sense of style and human and the feeling of real adventure. Mick Farren (now also no longer with us) said 'NME had an incredible pass-on rate. We could claim 900,000 readers at the peak'. </div><div><br /></div><div>NME ignored punk for a while but fanzines flourished and <i>Sounds </i>was on it with the great Jon Savage alongside Vivien Goldman on dub. Gorman is good on the subject of the women journalists who had to fight to hold their own in a very male driven atmosphere, Penny Valentine being one of the pathfinders.</div><div><br /></div><div>The inky papers were always in competition with each other as sales fluctuated and music styles evolved. But in 1978 when Nick Logan left the editorship of the NME he created the first of new kind of music mag which was a bigger threat to their survival. <i> Smash Hits </i> was a colourful magazine which combined glossy star shots with the actual lyrics of the new releases. Within a short time it was selling 100,000 copies, just 35,000 less than the NME and 10,000 more than the MM.</div><div><br /></div><div>Post-punk had arrived and with that came Neil Spencer as the new editor of the NME and what Peter York called the'pale boys' a new generation of writers like Paul Morley and Ian Penman who used a style of literary criticism to write about experimental bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Human League, Joy Division and others. Readership figures fell by some 40,000.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meantime Nick Logan used family money to launch <i>The Face </i> a completely new styled mag combining music and fashion for the New Romantics. It's huge success marked a decisive shift away the previous music papers.</div><div><br /></div><div> In 1984 <i>Smash Hits</i> was selling 500,000, <i>NME</i> 120,000. <i>Sounds</i> 80,000, <i>Record Mirror</i> 70,000 and <i>Melody Maker</i> 68,000. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Smash Hits</i> was edited by David Hepworth who hired Mark Ellen as his Features Editor. This duo went on to create a string of successful titles including <i>Q, </i>(which lasted for 34 years<i>) Mojo, Heat </i>and <i>The Word. </i>They felt the post-punk bands had an inflated sense of their own importance and that pop stars were absurd.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hard on their heels came a string of others: <i>Blitz </i> was a challenge to <i>The Face; Kerrang </i>was the bible<i> </i>for metal heads<i>, Collusion </i>was for world music lovers. From the US came <i>Details, Wet </i>and Andy Warhol's <i>Interview </i>amongst many others.</div><div><br /></div><div>The golden days of music papers has passed although my local newsagent still carries <i>Mojo</i>, <i>Uncut, Record Collector</i> and expensive definitive magazines on major bands like Led Zep as well as punk and heavy metal titles. In his Epilogue Gorman writes: 'Despite the substantial odds stacked against them over the course of the 2000s and 2010s, music magazines continued to emerge, albeit on a micro level'.</div><div><br /></div><div>This review can only skim the surface of this very large and detailed history which is a definitive work that will stand the test of time.</div><div><br /></div><div>Visit the Generalist Archive and click on the Dick Tracy banner to see many of the stories I wrote for the NME http://www.generalistarchive.co.uk/dick-tracy</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p></div></div>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-37922758616773802062022-10-08T18:20:00.000+01:002022-10-08T18:20:46.499+01:00Rock's Diamond Year<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="298" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzR3mukAuAyCIUgIATXU_v_wb_xdgibRxbVWMc-TUMF0Wh9lmNmF1pVxUPAOaa8fqw3gI-FVhbsCpARDy80tkUvUZO9vC4cLr09O9J9-goVnJYi6zX3eWSjM-FoyxNTeme7sXSNy1s_YOD4C2atoqsXurLfCKhNGZT2JsRbfGNbhc1nJoU9Q=w213-h320" width="213" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This the fourth new book I have reviewed recently which documents the history of the pioneering musical venues, largely clustered around the Thames and South West London and Soho, which were to introduce electrified fock and blues music into Britain. This includes Eel Pie Island and other venues in Richmond, the string of Ricky-Tick clubs on London's outskirts and, most importantly, The Ealing Club where 60 years ago Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies began the British R & B scene with a band called Blues Incorporated on the 17th March 1962.The make-up of the band was fluid and many of its members went on to create other influential bands. Ronnie Wood is quoted as saying: 'The Ealing Club and Blues Incorporated were heavy influences of just about everybody, but especially of Fleetwood Mac, Cream, the Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, John Mayall and the Pretty Things.'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'Rock's Diamond Year' is a condensed and valuable collection of profiles and personal reminiscences about the venues and bands. This is the territory and the time when the Rolling Stones not only came into being but also played a huge number of gigs. The Crawdaddy Club in Richmond was particularly important in these early days as was Giorgio Gomelsky who had worked in the music industry in the UK Europe and the US and helped the band find their feet and build an audience. There's a really good profile of him here which adds fresh information to the story of the Stones rise to fame.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Bull's Head in Barnes was another significate venue which was I was unaware of. It is described as 'a magnet to the cream of the British folk movcment' as well as R&B bands. The book ends with essays on the Ricky-Tick Clubs, The Marquee and the 100 Club. Illustrated throughout with some good black and white photos from the period, this is readable and valuable addition to the ongoing investigation into Britain's musical history.</div><p></p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-26771336119413857032022-10-07T10:27:00.001+01:002022-10-07T19:33:22.563+01:002001/Rob Godwin/Space and Music<p> Here at The Generalist Archive we love things like this email which arrived out of the blue from Rob Godwin in Toronto.</p><p><b>Hello John</b>,<br /><br />'Just watched your talk at the Printing conference on Youtube. Really interesting. It made me decide to reach out to you.[<i>I didn't know at that time that a talk I'd given at the University of Westminster about mimeograph printers and the Underground Press had been filmed.</i>]</p><p>'We have a few things in common. I briefly worked with Lucasfilm, ran Hawkwind's record label in the USA for five years, I have a pretty good collection of <i>Friends/Frendz</i> going way back to my misspent youth. I write and edit for a living, including books on science, spaceflight, science fiction and music. I'm also a historian on various aerospace history committees.<br /><br />'About two years ago I decided to start writing a paper (not a newspaper, but a "paper" to submit at a conference) about the crossover between the Space Race and rock music in the 60s and 70s. The limit for such a paper was only 15 pages, and by the time I got to 50 pages I knew it would likely never see the light of day. However, I can't give it up because it has become too much fun. It roams around between primitive astronomy, pirate radio, underground press, alternative clubs, Kubrick, Ginsberg, Stockhausen and of course Hawkwind.<br /><br />'I've drilled down to the point where I realised that Space Ritual was the nexus for all of this stuff and it has become the focal point of my essay. I believe you were on the road (and the stage) for some of the early shows. I read about you in a copy of <i>The Snail </i>(I think) from the start of the tour. I missed the Space Ritual tour by a few weeks (I was at a show in Southampton the previous August). I wondered if you might share any anecdotes about those nights?'<br />All the best<br />Rob Godwin<br />(Toronto/Canada) </p><p style="text-align: center;">***</p><p> A day or so later we had at least a two-hour phone conversation which was followed by an exchange of further messages over the following weeks.</p><p>First stop was Rob Godwin's Wikipedia entry which is impressive and extensive and complete with References and numerous External Links. Rob set up his own music business and publishing operation and produced a large number of books and publications on space and music.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Between 1987 and 1998 Collector's Guide Publishing released books on many different rock artists including </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pink Floyd">Pink Floyd</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Alice Cooper">Alice Cooper</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishbone_Ash" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wishbone Ash">Wishbone Ash</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">and</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(band)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kiss (band)">Kiss</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;">In 1998, at the invitation of astronaut <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Buzz Aldrin">Buzz Aldrin</a>, Godwin would begin his imprint <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apogee_Books" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Apogee Books">Apogee Books</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;">Between 1998 and 2018 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apogee_Books" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Apogee Books">Apogee Books</a> published over 150 book titles about space flight with contributions from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Buzz Aldrin">Buzz Aldrin</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_C._Clarke" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sir Arthur C. Clarke">Sir Arthur C. Clarke</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hanks" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tom Hanks">Tom Hanks</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Howard" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ron Howard">Ron Howard</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Scott" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="David R. Scott">David R. Scott</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Schmitt" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Harrison Schmitt">Harrison Schmitt</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; outline-color: rgb(51, 102, 204);" title="Wernher von Braun">Wernher von Braun</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;">In addition vintage science fiction and 40 NASA Mission reports</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;">Action on TV/Video and web</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;">***</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;">Rob promised to send me two books both entitled '2001: The Lost Science'. Some while later a large package arrived from C.G. Publishing, 2045 Niagara Falls Blvd containing the two oversized books.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCyDEa46SC1tztDUiEOUcqidukY9tkprzDNq7u6yOyVBvVmTMtqpg2yJeIhgKB25lhlb_YCfU7NqMCDCB1YqaDEKUjC6UaKLElIj1S0UHFyMCGzZ8EJCCiA3hsz9TIK00xZftYQY2ixbk292KhJGu5lKsesYmHzOPMDwez9dZ4c6_Cf_rtIA/s2736/DSC08421.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="2736" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCyDEa46SC1tztDUiEOUcqidukY9tkprzDNq7u6yOyVBvVmTMtqpg2yJeIhgKB25lhlb_YCfU7NqMCDCB1YqaDEKUjC6UaKLElIj1S0UHFyMCGzZ8EJCCiA3hsz9TIK00xZftYQY2ixbk292KhJGu5lKsesYmHzOPMDwez9dZ4c6_Cf_rtIA/s320/DSC08421.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">You can purchase copies here:</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">https://www.cgpublishing.com/prime/bookpages/9781926837352.html</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-47143359622048620512022-10-07T10:08:00.000+01:002022-10-07T16:37:33.468+01:002001:The Lost Science/Introduction<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJXqzWCfBlbwWQsjkyBNqGvHWggZsZxoP-2hMMqHgLffJZdcWJSBD3UI4d6cSEhbvBsCJfGwZmJQHZ0mN0r-2odvTpApLJIj4tJRnHzAGzoymlVYR6qyDgeIRRg79nF5VD0z_yq-aGh7vAyYcmEwWGJouIMomkKQtmfwGNM3H6ni5wi4wkfw/s2736/DSC08421.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="2736" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJXqzWCfBlbwWQsjkyBNqGvHWggZsZxoP-2hMMqHgLffJZdcWJSBD3UI4d6cSEhbvBsCJfGwZmJQHZ0mN0r-2odvTpApLJIj4tJRnHzAGzoymlVYR6qyDgeIRRg79nF5VD0z_yq-aGh7vAyYcmEwWGJouIMomkKQtmfwGNM3H6ni5wi4wkfw/s320/DSC08421.JPG" width="320" /></a></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>INTRODUCTION </p><p>Adam K. Johnson</p><p>In January 1965, while staying at the Harvard Club in Manhattan. Frederick I. Ordway Ill arranged a social meeting with his 'old friend' Arthur C. Clarke. The next day, at Clarke's insistence. Ordway. and his associate Harry Lange, met with famed film director Stanley Kubrick who quickly invited Ordway to be the Senior Science advisor on his proposed new science fiction epic provisionally entitled <i>'Journey to the Stars'</i>. Within two days. the project that would eventually evolve into the film<i> '2001: A Space Odyssey'</i> emerged from the meeting between the four men.</p><p> In the following 2<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">I/2 </span>years spent working on the film, Stanley and Frederick worked painstakingly on a daily basis to ensure scientific realism. Working at the zenith of the 'space race' their efforts drew upon the most current space travel 'hard science' available. </p><p>Between January and August 1965, working from Stanley's New York Office "Hawk Films" (also known to the contractors as Polaris Industries). Fred contacted a multitude of companies known to be on the forefront of aerospace technology and asked for their assistance on the film. By Early 1966, over one hundred companies had submitted engineering and design proposals to aid the vision of Kubrick and Clarke. </p><p>This book is intended as a companion to viewing the film <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>, as well as a resource for modern day aerospace engineers interested in how the proposed 21st century technologies might have worked if so implemented. </p><p>Creating the designs for the film involved over 2400 detailed schematics that were drawn 4 x 6 feet or 3 x 5 feet. These drawings were saved as blue-line prints using ammonia based blue ink that replaced the original pencil or ink lines. Over time. this blue ink fades, and if exposed to light, completely vanishes. The U.S. SPACE & ROCKET CENTER archives still possess about 100 of the known existing 200 blue-line prints (in various states of condition) created for 2001. </p><p><br /></p><p> </p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-22183737704159801222022-10-07T10:05:00.000+01:002022-10-07T16:37:28.636+01:002001: THE LOST SCIENCE/Scientists, Influences and Designs from the Ordway Estate<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0imfKqfC0FyERjn0qRPDTGFhKB8dRS4y_Tonu5hh3mhqh-N2ZPJJcKH5AhAVP_hBGGrw0rfgunrvhmlDqfOsj9zF9I7L0QkaPIjSAZQUf3nsI93GjsZWJP0kLKK41um9WSRYc2oEJLmtgyEDzv-7mPjmsMQmUctnzzb4lY-GlFUyBey8cw/s1295/2001d097.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1109" data-original-width="1295" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0imfKqfC0FyERjn0qRPDTGFhKB8dRS4y_Tonu5hh3mhqh-N2ZPJJcKH5AhAVP_hBGGrw0rfgunrvhmlDqfOsj9zF9I7L0QkaPIjSAZQUf3nsI93GjsZWJP0kLKK41um9WSRYc2oEJLmtgyEDzv-7mPjmsMQmUctnzzb4lY-GlFUyBey8cw/s320/2001d097.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMI-E-Ih8nCd5Sk4yL3YYey3c4HyH-XpHh9Hp01yVMdYUFT_TFMK1aM5fb7W376wI3BMdx1-RaC85kbQ3GfaqfiHYAcWrxDTzJF8nHb_MByf5nDcCVILXvyV3p7DLG0bwIxbiPAT24mXwY1L4q_4gKKsK5Y4roZNnDOgDLKj7v1AoC5JTcA/s1022/2001e098.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1022" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMI-E-Ih8nCd5Sk4yL3YYey3c4HyH-XpHh9Hp01yVMdYUFT_TFMK1aM5fb7W376wI3BMdx1-RaC85kbQ3GfaqfiHYAcWrxDTzJF8nHb_MByf5nDcCVILXvyV3p7DLG0bwIxbiPAT24mXwY1L4q_4gKKsK5Y4roZNnDOgDLKj7v1AoC5JTcA/s320/2001e098.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">(From Left)Harry Lange: Spacecraft designer and Set designer</div><div style="text-align: center;">Arthur C. Clarke: Writer and researcher</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fredrick I Ordway III: Scientific consultant</div><p></p><p>Volume 2 of material from The Ordway archives profiles the space flight pioneers and the long history of space craft imagined if not built over many years. This book is packed with blueprints, backstage photos. Kubrick spent two years researching everything he could on the subjects of space flight and alien intelligence decided to have the top scientific minds interviewed for his film. He examined all past science fiction movies.</p><p>In this book's Introduction Adam K. Johnson writes:</p><p>Ordway and Lange bought a massive collection of rocket and space science data from the Future Projects office (Marshall Space Flight Center) in Huntsville, Alabama to Borehamwood studios. This was later referred to as 'NASA East' by the Kubrick team. Even after arriving in England, during the preproduction stages, the team continued to collect aerospace data from all of the British contractors. Much of the concept information is here in this second volume of <i>2001: The Last Science</i>. It is important to know that the best scientific minds on earth contributed to these designs.</p><p>Fred Ordway created and sustained relationships and correspondence with all all the individuals described in this book. Through these connections he was able to document the history of rocketry and space travel accurately in his writings.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJKy0F-3-oY1ODn7S1zrZqJtKvIp8yQY9HJowmsrlDc0rKda9jETgD-WWd-s6ctXERmmc1Fq35DchU0rwLkpPfPjXidWDq0GHrRXmb-D0T9mWRFE1hSmryO3jaU08xfB-TAnWcALadqUYvrgKiq_4ppnIsKR8BtcQ4cNS-s6ulLhwPu0mG2A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2000" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJKy0F-3-oY1ODn7S1zrZqJtKvIp8yQY9HJowmsrlDc0rKda9jETgD-WWd-s6ctXERmmc1Fq35DchU0rwLkpPfPjXidWDq0GHrRXmb-D0T9mWRFE1hSmryO3jaU08xfB-TAnWcALadqUYvrgKiq_4ppnIsKR8BtcQ4cNS-s6ulLhwPu0mG2A" width="320" /></a></div><br />Fred Ordway's collection is extensive and has taken many years to collate, identify and catalog. For example, his 'pulp' science fiction and fantasy stories collection (over 900 editions) were donated to Harvard University. His <i>2001</i> collection went to the USSEC and the remainder...stayed hidden in his private residence until his passing in July of 2014. This book represents a glimpse into his private work, research and studies into the history of space travel. It has been a joy and honour to 'discover' all these well-hidden artefacts waiting for their stories to be told. Most importantly, it was an honor to spend time with Fred. Our similar backgrounds in aerospace and out interest in science fiction made our relationship wonderful.'john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-49661538781133206642022-10-07T09:56:00.000+01:002022-10-07T16:37:23.306+01:002001: A Space Odyssey/Frederick I. Ordway III/Stanley Kubrick/Adam Johnson<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjAXJadwY6qby9XdT-x2M81-DT42By0PBywyQFI-R_qA5BSkMZH10GWXDQnDE1NFeK9U2iy2GDK4pBxUhPDOnx7RuzX-CHYnUR7zR5IMP6H3uF8VN0YdxkqxTe8xdz28H2J-v_cSalOWJqMB4ar_A1ZdLpyHHATVxZ7rfbuxcxYO4jS_fetQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="2736" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjAXJadwY6qby9XdT-x2M81-DT42By0PBywyQFI-R_qA5BSkMZH10GWXDQnDE1NFeK9U2iy2GDK4pBxUhPDOnx7RuzX-CHYnUR7zR5IMP6H3uF8VN0YdxkqxTe8xdz28H2J-v_cSalOWJqMB4ar_A1ZdLpyHHATVxZ7rfbuxcxYO4jS_fetQ" width="320" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><div><b style="font-size: 18.6667px;">THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL FILM EVER MADE. </b></div><div><b style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></b></div><div>In 1964 master film-maker Stanley Kubrick began his epic campaign to make the best science-fiction movie ever made. Already well-known for his remarkable ability to absorb and understand massive amounts of complex information, </div><div><br /></div><div>Kubrick set himself the goal of reading every book, and watching every movie available, on the subjects of space flight and alien intelligence. Having convinced himself that it would be possible to accomplish his unique vision he promptly surrounded himself with the best experts in the world. </div><div><br /></div><div>His main collaborator, scientist and fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, had already sold Kubrick the rights to several of his short stories; one of which was named <i>The Sentinel</i>. Clarke's short story concerned mankind's first encounter with proof of extra-terrestrial life. Kubrick would use this as the template for his screenplay. </div><div><br /></div><div>In January 1965 good fortune would smile on Kubrick and Clarke when a chance meeting at the Harvard Club in Manhattan would lead to the recruiting of Fredrick Ordway III and Harry Lange. </div><div><br /></div><div>These two experts had been working in the office of NASA's future projects in Huntsville, Alabama and had coincidentally just completed a book called <i>Intelligence in the Universe</i>. Within two days Kubrick had persuaded Ordway and Lange to join his production team. </div><div><br /></div><div>Stanley Kubrick's meticulous attention to detail would be well-served by Ordway and Lange who were both connected at the most intimate levels with virtually every major aerospace company in the world. </div><div><br /></div><div>Drawing on an unprecedented well of talent and resources Ordway and Lange would bring the science to Kubrick's set. Whatever detail Kubrick needed, the contractors provided; from giant centrifuges, to robotics, to spacesuits. </div><div style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><b style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">*</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">I asked Rob for more information as to who Ordway and Johnson were. He wrote:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">I was very close friends with Fred for the last 15
years of his life. I met him at the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission.
I had been reading his stuff for years before that. When Fred found out I was
writing and publishing Space books he asked me if I would republish his NY
Times bestseller "The Rocket Team", which I jumped at.</span></p>
<p>Fred used to be Wernher von Braun's speechwriter in the 1950s and 60s. </p>
<p>He was the absolute epitome of the American gentleman. Polite and dignified
to a fault. I never heard him raise his voice or say a bad word about anyone. </p>
<p>Incredibly knowledgeable. He had one of the largest collections of space and
science fiction books in America before he ever met von Braun. When America
began its space program Fred got a job at Reaction Motors. At the time von
Braun was still a prisoner in the US desert. </p>
<p>As progress began on rocketry Fred was writing journals and news sheets and
magazine articles.</p>
<p><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually when von Braun was
"rehabilitated" and given work to do for the US Army he met Fred and
asked him to come and work for him. For a young engineer it was the opportunity
of a lifetime to be brought into the heart of the rocket and missile
program. </p>
<p>Von Braun quickly realised that Fred knew everybody, including the Soviets,
because Fred was the only American in attendance at the first international
astronautical congress in Paris in 1950. </p>
<p>He was one of the main people who brought the world's peoples together to
explore space peacefully because he was an officer in US Air Force intelligence
and he used to meet with Soviet colonels in Greenwich Village where they would
feed him information about what they were doing. This allowed him to have
almost unique perspective on every missile and rocket system in the world. </p>
<p>Eventually when von Braun was allowed to travel, and make appearances, he
got Fred to prepare and write his speeches because Fred had both the knowledge
and the clearance. </p>
<p>Later in his life Fred was condemned by some people for working with the
"Nazi", which was very sad. Fred was a liberal democrat. Kubrick
initially considered approaching von Braun for <i>2001</i>, but for obvious reasons
chose not to. When Arthur suggested to Kubrick that he call Fred, that's what
he did. The rest is history. </p>
<p>I introduced Adam to Fred. Adam was a keen <i>2001</i> enthusiast and had spent
some time digging through Fred's enormous archive, which Fred had donated to
the US Space & Rocket Center. He asked me to help him, so I did. </p>
<p> I am
currently writing Fred's biography which he asked me to do before he died. </p>
<p>Cheers<br />
Rob</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> ****</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 36pt;">When <i>2001 </i>opened in 1968 the critical reviews were mixed. Kubrick had deliberately understated every single message in his story, often leaving his viewers and the critics baffled. But as time has passed the critics have honed their observational skills and gradually come to realize that </span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 36pt;">2001: A Space Odyssey</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 36pt;"> is truly one of the greatest accomplishments in cinematic history. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;">In the last four decades Kubrick's triumph has been dissected in books and theses from every conceivable perspective and until humanity actually encounters extraterrestrial intelligence, his movie will continue to draw attention to this most tantalizing subject. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;">However, what is often overlooked in all of these critical studies is the almost flawless scientific facade constructed by Kubrick, Clarke, Ordway, Lange and the hundreds of other engineers and scientists who contributed to the production. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;">Author and engineer Adam Johnson has spent years accumulating information, believed to have been long since destroyed, to create a detailed and unprecedented analysis of the technology envisioned in Kubrick's masterpiece. From British designers and model-makers to Soviet astronomers; from Canadian special effects wizards to German artists; from American spacecraft engineers and artificial intelligence scholars to French stylists; this is the <i>Lost Science</i></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 36pt;"> <i>of 2001</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 36pt;"><i>Sleeve notes and email from Robert Godwin</i></span></p><div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 48px;"><br /></div>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-51408489220679635892022-09-30T16:38:00.007+01:002022-10-02T18:43:52.434+01:00BARNEY BUBBLES & PAUL GORMAN<p> </p><h2 class="date-header" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-top: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); bottom: 100%; color: #908d6a; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px -15px 1px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; right: 15px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2qO1n6dTHCxee2bHmcyuNcVjk7IJDueEmHC227tuEgkgKvGhqnr_SEgjk7w9I9SXgy0RXRF-pAUhfdR37cKURVGQvzJ-t29njnRYlZTgeyfCwuVcCCPV3MEbH4UG9R0HYH7mQGMrTHUhgwHUUw1H4qvw1NfEHNn-MBXQtt2BVHr9bsb6MfQ/s1929/DSC08418a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1153" data-original-width="1929" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2qO1n6dTHCxee2bHmcyuNcVjk7IJDueEmHC227tuEgkgKvGhqnr_SEgjk7w9I9SXgy0RXRF-pAUhfdR37cKURVGQvzJ-t29njnRYlZTgeyfCwuVcCCPV3MEbH4UG9R0HYH7mQGMrTHUhgwHUUw1H4qvw1NfEHNn-MBXQtt2BVHr9bsb6MfQ/w400-h239/DSC08418a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="border-left: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); border-right: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; padding: 0.5em 15px;"><br /></span><span style="border-left: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); border-right: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; padding: 0.5em 15px;">Previous Posts</span></h2><p>Friday, November 21, 2008</p><p><span style="color: red;">BARNEY BUBBLES BOOK LAUNCH EXCLUSIVE</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://hqinfo.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post_21.html</span></p><p>This post was written the day after the London launch of Paul Gorman's first book on Barney Bubbles 'Reasons To be Cheerful'. Born and named <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Colin Fulcher on </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">30th July 1942, he took is own life on the</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">14th on November 1983. For more than a decade his work was neglected. He is now revered as a marvellously imaginative graphic designer and artist in his own right who pioneered and opened up new worlds of vinyl art which inspired others.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">'The Generalist was in London last night, attending the book launch of </span><a href="http://www.adelita.co.uk/reasons/index.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">'Reasons to be Cheerful: The life and Works of Barney Bubbles'</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"> by Paul Gorman, held at Paul Smith's shop on Park Road, just off Borough Market. </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">For those of us who knew him, the book will bring back memories of the impish delight Barney took in his friends and colleagues, his electric enthusiasm for his work, his constant innovations and unending search for the new and above all his inspiring and fun-filled presence. For those coming fresh to his work, particularly young artists, illustrators and graphic designers, they will find a huge source of inspiration and marvel at the effort and industry involved in achieving many of his finest artworks in that pre-digital, hands-on age of yore.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">This book was designed by Paul's partner Caz Facey and was published by Adelita, a limited company with Paul and Jenny Ross as directors. The company folded in 2019. When I looked o</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">nly two copies are currently available on Amazon priced at £470.19.</span></p><h2 class="date-header" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-top: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); bottom: 100%; color: #908d6a; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px -15px 1px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; right: 15px;"><span style="border-left: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); border-right: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; padding: 0.5em 15px;"><a href="https://hqinfo.blogspot.com/2009/02/barney-bubbles-revival.html" style="color: #d52a33; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> BARNEY BUBBLES REVIVAL</span></a></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-top: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); bottom: 100%; color: #908d6a; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px -15px 1px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; right: 15px;"><span style="border-left: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); border-right: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; padding: 0.5em 15px;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #908d6a;">Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 </span></span><span style="border-left: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); border-right: 0px solid rgb(170, 177, 35); display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; padding: 0.5em 15px;"><span style="font-size: small;">https://hqinfo.blogspot.com/2009/02/barney-bubbles-revival.html</span></span></h2><p>This second post sketches in the stages of rediscovery of his work by others in Ladbroke Grove before Paul Gorman. Much of Barney's work was unsigned or credited using pseudonyms, so much of his huge creative achievement was obscured.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Fourteen years later, there is now a revised and updated version retitled: </span><b style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #333333;">THE WILD WORLD OF BARNEY BUBBLES</span></b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"> published by Thames & Hudson in a large format paperback version. I was keen to see what's new.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-size: 13px;">The opening essays feature: Paul's rewritten Author's note, Peter Saville's 4pp 'Towards the canonisation of Barney Bubbles' as before, 'What would Barney Bubbles do? by Clarita Hinojosa who runs a Design Freaks podcast in Seattle [replacing Malcolm Garret's 'I see a vision of a modern world'], Billy Bragg's 'Making misfits magnificent' as before and finally Paul's chat with US designer Art Chantry.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-size: 13px;"><b>Section A1 Good Guy 1942-1968 </b>covers Barney's time in art school, his early years in commercial design and his musical activities with his band The Mule Skinners'. I'm sorry that the beautiful full-page portrait on p17 of the original has been replaced by Barney standing on a roof bare-chested with a cap. A good change is the two tickets from Eel Pie Island. Also two colour portraits for a 'Rockers & Mod' art project which seem to be very much inspired by Keith Richards and Brian Jones, and graphics for a Summer OZ supplement. The final page has a powerful pen and ink self-portrait</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-size: 13px;"><b>In Search of Space 1969-1972 </b>This section is where Barney settles himself in various spaces in Portobello Road, starts doing album covers and other material for bands like Brinsley Schwarz, Chilli Willi, Quintessence and most especially for Hawkwind. He also worked on many issues of <i>Friends </i>and <i>Frendz</i> magazine which is when I met him as I was working on the paper. We were the younger ones on the crew but Barney was always a kind presence towards us. A magic figure. He also worked on the Glastonbury Festival triple album. Few changes from the original.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">So It Goes 1973-1976 </b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">Again Hawkwind dominated this time period with also Barney working for Chilli Willi, Kokomo, Dr Feelgood, Edgar Broughton band. The opening picture has been replaced from a black and white photo of Barney in Phil Franks's kitchen flashing the peace sign. to a lovely colour family photo Giana Cioffi and their son Aten in Devon 1973. I am pleased to get a name check this time round as being one of the dancers on part of Hawkwind's Silver Machine tour.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoDtD8WLwALbD8ihZnPvuknWxiGI6a8vl_2RGEAE0AudiN1oZ_qTjpHdS5TEr3bLww0bysHjy3MDJ6KdhysQyfd7wT5X05d0L4ieXkGBC_8bTOWSGvPNgqnkMNsReM07BeJvc2C8tlZggHSF-lc0V16YQiZTysNcPQYpeUELB71NZ9ImGkpA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="366" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoDtD8WLwALbD8ihZnPvuknWxiGI6a8vl_2RGEAE0AudiN1oZ_qTjpHdS5TEr3bLww0bysHjy3MDJ6KdhysQyfd7wT5X05d0L4ieXkGBC_8bTOWSGvPNgqnkMNsReM07BeJvc2C8tlZggHSF-lc0V16YQiZTysNcPQYpeUELB71NZ9ImGkpA" width="220" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">Phil Franks was kind enough to send me this great pic of Barney as above, together with a quote.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long</div>plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die<br />like dogs. There's also a negative side." <br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Hunter S. Thompson</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">https://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/index2.html </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">My Aim Is True 1977- 1978 </b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">This was flat out time for Barney who was at the centre of the Stiff Records operation. He did the The Damned's first record and most of the work from Elvis Costello, Ian Drury, Nick Lowe and many more. This book's cover was taken from the cover of Nick Lowe's album 'I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass'. It's good to see the new look logo for the NME in 1978 and his design for 'The NME Book of Modern Music' which I remember when I was working there as Dick Tracy.</span></div></div><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-size: 13px;"><b>Labour of Lust 1979- 1981 </b>This chapter is a further cornucopia of the above named bands for which Barney created iconic graphics and other post-punk activities.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-size: 13px;"><b>Punch The Clock 1982-1983 </b>Barney further expands his repertoire including paintings and work for Billy Bragg.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-size: 13px;">An additional section <b>The M!ss!ing Links </b>is a fresh collection of 15 pages of unseen material to add further to Barney's oeuvre.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-size: 13px;">The book's Postcript has a interesting summary of the further work Paul and others have done to further expand Barney's reputation. Congrats all round.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-28280782477091021282022-09-12T22:56:00.004+01:002022-09-13T10:52:25.180+01:00BRAINSPOTTING Adventures in Neurology by A.J. Lees [Notting Hill Editions]<p> </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjC_9-bxqv-qt8AtsT85aB46769hVyCAGRY23qmFFp3iIZMYH2YFXE_EUBKxckDLSAMz7h8OePeYUU9_Q3Csic_Pfc6G8cCYnrs-Li12eRC55xqZ-0d1EckN1qFapjN9nkgtgm01IOtUJA_hrY2ybZdveWnuee37FmPYLkVFsKEhiG4cozQw" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="250" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjC_9-bxqv-qt8AtsT85aB46769hVyCAGRY23qmFFp3iIZMYH2YFXE_EUBKxckDLSAMz7h8OePeYUU9_Q3Csic_Pfc6G8cCYnrs-Li12eRC55xqZ-0d1EckN1qFapjN9nkgtgm01IOtUJA_hrY2ybZdveWnuee37FmPYLkVFsKEhiG4cozQw" width="150" /></a></p><p><br />Back in May 8th 2016 I posted one of the first reviews of 'Mentored By A Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by A.J. Lees - a striking and important book by one of the world's leading experts in the treatment of Parkinson's. Burrough's writings drew on his experiences with a wide variety of mind-altering substances and his search for an addiction cure helped Lees find a new treatment for his patients.</p><p>'Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology' his newly published work. is a valuable follow-on providing a detailed picture of his career in neurology and the techniques that he used to diagnose a wide variety of neurological problems. He says it was ten years of apprenticeship before he felt confident enough distinguish a healthy person from an ill one.</p><p>He estimates that he has treated about 30,000 patients in NHS clinics and several thousand more in consulting rooms at the University College Hospital and the National Hospital in Queen Square, London. He has also taught undergraduate and post-grad students and lectured to colleagues all over the world.</p><p>He provides valuable profiles of the historic greats in the world of neurology who had influence on him and helped him treat and understand neurological problems. Interestingly another mentor was Sherlock Holmes whose intense attention to details and unusual thought processes influenced Lees approach to the complex problems. Lees includes a opening quote in which Holmes says to Watson; 'life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.'</p><p><i>Conan Doyle repeatedly said that Holmes was inspired by the real-life figure of Joseph Bell, a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, whom Conan Doyle met in 1877 and had worked for as a clerk. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing broad conclusions from minute observations. However, he later wrote to Conan Doyle: "You are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know it". [Wikipedia]</i></p><p>In 1972 Lees expanded his medical training by enrolling for a year with a hospital in Paris which, in the 19th century, was led by the skills and ideas of Jean-Martin Charcot. Lees says Charcot's 'second sight had allowed him to see patterns of disease that no one before him has ever noticed.' When Lees arrived the chief man was Francois Lhermitte. 'His approach was often just to listen, observing the body language and analysing every move the patient made with endless fascination...His insatiable curiosity and innovative ways of thinking about neurology would leave a lasting impression on me,'</p><p>Back in Britain Lees followed a scheme taught and perfected by The Dublin-born British neurologist Dr Gordon Holmes in the year between the two World Wars. He punctiliously examined each of his patients from top to toe and then double checked their clinical history. Lees says 'His infallible method hinged on practiced, organised common sense.'</p><p>Lees underlines his belief that detailed physical examination 'is neither outdated or obsolete and it is far more efficient in localising the site of the neurological problem than any single machine. </p><p>'The laying on of hands - the intimate bond of touch he says, changes the dynamic between patient and doctor forever'.</p><p>'It also serves as a transcendent comforting force that promotes trust and reduces loneliness, anxiety and despair. Touch comes before words and is the first and last language. It is an essential constituent of healing and another way of listening that never dies.' Beautifully expressed.</p><p>William Gooddy one of his first teachers at University College Hospital, said to him 'Lees, neurology is deadly serious but it must also be full of soul'</p><p>The book is filled with interesting real-life cases and characters. I love Robin Osler Barnard who every day arrived wearing a bowler hat, smart navy-blue overcoat..in summer a boater, blue blazer with an umbrella to hand. His tutorials always began with his secretary offering them Earl Grey Tea and a slice of Dundee cake. Lees says; 'He was a quaint traveller from an antique land determined to preserve falling standards but what he taught me about pathology was of immense contemporary value.'</p><p>'With a wry grin he told me that the number of neurones in the brain was the same as the number of stars in the Milky Way.' A few pages later Barnard is in the mortuary conducting a post-mortem investigation, a process that is described in some grim detail.</p><p>Another chapter is based on Sherlock. He says 'The unreal universe of Sherlock Holmes was my primer in neurology and it became a bridge to Dr William Gowers, arguably the great neurologist that ever lived.' He was interested in the commonalities between neurologists and criminal detectives. 'They both seek hidden truths and meanings in complicated and often contradictory data'.</p><p>In a final and fascinating end chapter, Lees examines the recent history of machine learning, brain scans and other new technological developments. He concludes: ' The less time I spend trying to decipher the latest medical science, the better listener - and better neurologist - I become.'</p><p><br /></p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-89880310187808520312022-08-12T12:42:00.001+01:002022-08-12T12:42:47.754+01:00STRANGE ATTRACTOR PRESS: OBSOLETE SPELLS and CITY OF THE BEAST/ THE LIVES OF VICTOR NEUBURG AND ALEISTER CROWLEY<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzXCW8Z8B5uUH2IxWKR_XEEmQ_FwKm08mmExlYi3b3c7Aj1OkdDb9ux-M_Y_HtTEq9stPkAn4rtJobyOoGoxzFONywwfJQSNxsfR9v_ni2wLL40J007Csc5JHhB9EkNC4_75yi6MkUcSjuj0se5zRWHVfRyvMkglevYdMtA3MafErLY-7STw/s3415/BOOKS082.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2504" data-original-width="3415" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzXCW8Z8B5uUH2IxWKR_XEEmQ_FwKm08mmExlYi3b3c7Aj1OkdDb9ux-M_Y_HtTEq9stPkAn4rtJobyOoGoxzFONywwfJQSNxsfR9v_ni2wLL40J007Csc5JHhB9EkNC4_75yi6MkUcSjuj0se5zRWHVfRyvMkglevYdMtA3MafErLY-7STw/s320/BOOKS082.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The Strange Attractor Press is an independent publishing house founded in 2003, based in London and run by Mark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe. The Generalist has reviewed a number of their books over the years which are a celebration of unpopular culture as they call it. The books are of high quality and their back catalogue is worth examining. See: http://strangeattractor.co.uk/ </p><p><i>Obsolete Spells</i> is for me a book of great importance. I first discovered the poet Victor Neuburg in the 1980s when I returned to live in Steyning in West Sussex where I had been a boarder at Steyning Grammar in the 1960s. I learnt that the poet Victor Neuburg had lived just opposite where I went to school. Using a hand cranked printing press The Vine Press published many books of poems and prose 'that reflect his love of local lore and landscapes' writes Richard Mcneff in the Foreword.</p><p>Section Two of the book is a fascinating 35-page turner by Justin Hopper, an American writer who has also published a book on his personal journey through the Sussex downland and its history. He writes:</p><p style="text-align: center;">' Neuburg's adult life can be split into three parts, which (almost) neatly divide by decades into the 10s, 20s and 30s. From his start at Cambridge in 1906 until his recovery from the First World War in 1919, it was Aleister Crowley and his tantalising occult circle that dominated Neuburg's life. It was with Crowley and friends that he began his career as an editor and publisher, working to create <i>The Equinox</i>, modest house organ of Crowley's magical movement. In the 1930s, until his decline and eventual death in 1940, the London poetry world was Neuburg's domain, as he edited first <i>Poet's Corner</i> in the <i>Sunday Referee</i>, and. afterwards his own arts, politics and poetry newsweekly<i> Comment</i>. But in between the two, as London experienced the roaring twenties and the dawn of the modern world, Neuburg hunkered down in the sleepy town of Steyning with his own creation The Vine Press.'</p><p>A talented poet himself, Victor has always been in the shadow of Crowley and Dylan Thomas (who he discovered). Hopper writes that both men loved him but also held him in utmost contempt. Victor was physically damaged and often beaten by Crowley whilst enacting ancient magical practices,</p><p> The bulk of the book is a excellent compilation of sections from Vine Press books he published between 1920 and 1930 with an additional text published after his death. SWIFT WINGS; Songs in Sussex and SONGS OF A SUSSEX TRAMP and THE WAY OF THE SOUTH WIND & TEAMS OF TOMORROW are pure gold for us Sussex folk but there are also many other riches, including, in particular THE STORY OF THE SANCTUARY by Vera Gwendolen Pragnell. </p><p>In 1923, she established, on a plot of land at the foot of the South Downs near Storrington in West Sussex, a ' makeshift community of icons and hoboes; communists, proto-fascists and aging anarchists; free thinkers and free lovers'. Arthur Calder-Marshall said: ' was an asylum for almost every kind of refugee, not a workshop for those who found life in the city too distracting'. [Illustration: Eric and Perrcy West, woodcut illustration]</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3bFi92ioZvAmf0seVdk-N8lXfVIkotIZ2nsUcTrdnL5zXOclsZAAdP6R_8IQm-x5-kYk1arEvcfstfUrVgRKZwSSbSJqhtB71VlvS2WZG4Ps2UgmjaaCGdCIy_HuYLFlqQmpZP-p8NHHbeZB93Zz2oUcXgsK-I3HToA4i-7bo24fUXM_-KQ/s1269/BOOKS2083.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1269" data-original-width="1027" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3bFi92ioZvAmf0seVdk-N8lXfVIkotIZ2nsUcTrdnL5zXOclsZAAdP6R_8IQm-x5-kYk1arEvcfstfUrVgRKZwSSbSJqhtB71VlvS2WZG4Ps2UgmjaaCGdCIy_HuYLFlqQmpZP-p8NHHbeZB93Zz2oUcXgsK-I3HToA4i-7bo24fUXM_-KQ/s320/BOOKS2083.jpg" width="259" /></a><span style="text-align: right;">The book's back cover notes are interesting, beginning with 'Victor Neuburg had two claims to fame; he discovered Dylan Thomas and Aleister Crowley once turned him into a camel.'</span></p><p style="text-align: right;">'As a printer and publisher, Neuburg acted as a conduit for bohemian writers and art luminaries and those dedicated to experimental living.... He was a fixture at his local utopian free-love community, the Sanctuary. Through it all he turned the handle on the Vine Press, publishing books of nature writing and folksong, neo pagan poems and utopian philosophy hymns to Old Gods and paeans to love and wonder.'</p><div style="text-align: center;">*</div><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBlAig_AswllGikFQAd5tdgSXV2jLksren5EFfZWhCjGBrC3X0u9r0qnLy28YjA-6fTfjZ9rnQeBzG8GOXGivbTiiaFsti_Zxv2QlBbDlsnej4-EWyHWlA2p8xjDpmhfeADsZ0pyv5MrTfDvHM6HowjxD1D3YuLKV4euyqxynGMWlAWkSVw/s2322/BOOKS082%20-%20Copy.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2322" data-original-width="1563" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBlAig_AswllGikFQAd5tdgSXV2jLksren5EFfZWhCjGBrC3X0u9r0qnLy28YjA-6fTfjZ9rnQeBzG8GOXGivbTiiaFsti_Zxv2QlBbDlsnej4-EWyHWlA2p8xjDpmhfeADsZ0pyv5MrTfDvHM6HowjxD1D3YuLKV4euyqxynGMWlAWkSVw/s320/BOOKS082%20-%20Copy.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">This is not a walking guide which is a relief from the overflow of psychogeographical journeys of that kind. It presents itself as 'a biography of sites (93 locations), revealing a man, an era and a city.</p><p>Phil Baker writes; 'I have drawn extensively on Crowley's unpublished diaries, dense with London detail, which give an exceptionally intimate and human pictures of his day-to-day life'</p><p>It was here that Crowley joined the Golden Dawn considered 'probably the most influential magical order that has ever been'. W.B. Yeats considered it his church and university.</p><p>Crowley was largely short of money but nevertheless managed to live in the better parts of the city, to dress well and to maintain his drug habits. He writes about his favourite chemist where, before the passing of the Dangerous Drugs Act in 1820, he was able to score heroin, cocaine and cannabis in his search for the Holy Grail of drugs.</p><p>He and another were expelled from the Golden Dawn by Yeats. Crowley later wrote 'In 1900, the Order in its existing form came to grief and nobody has ever been able to picked up the pieces.' Baker comments. 'The Glory days of the Golden Dawn were over' Some years later Crowley and two others formed a new occult group known as A.A [Argentaum Astram]. His ceremonial outfit was a cloak embellished with a Rosicrucian cross and the eye of Osiris together with a red hood. </p><p>Before that he left London and bought a house by Loch Ness. In Scotland he married Rose Kelly with bad outcomes and they divorced in 1909. </p><p>In the intervening period he largely lived abroad, travelling around the world, visiting Mexico via New York, Ceylon, Burma, India, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Tangier. Mountaineering was one of his other hobbies.</p><p>This restlessness permeated Crowley's life and the book is a dizzy and fast-moving account of his constant perambulations and his extraordinary appetites - for food, for women and for the dark occult world which he wrote about extensively. For those who you who read Dennis Wheatley's <i>The Devil Rides Out</i> - which was the greatest popular occult novel of the 20th century - it's not surprising that Crowley was the model for the main character.</p><p>In reference to the diaries Baker writes: 'In a world of trigger warnings I should add they have something to offend everyone, even to appal, and that I don't intend to labour this aspect.' He remained defiantly transgressive and deliberately provocative throughout his life.</p><p>He also consulted the I Ching every day.</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p>Two stories I particularly like</p><p>One of his favourite hangouts was the Café Royal which he attended from 1897 to 1940 rubbing shoulders with the likes of Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde, Walter Sickert, Augustus John, Max Beerbohm and others. </p><p style="text-align: right;">When Wilde died and was buried in Père Lachaise in Paris his tomb was covered with a monumental naked winged angel figure by the American sculptor Jacob Epstein which featured unusually large testicles. The Parisian authorities considered it indecent and covered the genitals with plaster. Epstein was told he must either castrate it or fig leaf the genitals. Epstein's response was to hack off the plaster. On his return to Paris to complete his work he found the statue was covered with tarpaulin and guarded by gendarmes. Regular protests were made by groups of artists until finally it was agreed that a bronze plaque made in the shape of a butterfly should be affixed to cover the offending portion of the statue.</p><p style="text-align: right;">In early August 1914 the statue was finally unveiled in a ceremony led by Crowley which Epstein refused to attend. Crowley in front of a crowd of twenty people recruited from the Left Bank, uncovered the statue with their help and hacked off the plaque. </p><p style="text-align: right;">A few weeks later the sculptor was the sitting in the Café Royal when Crowley walked up to him and told him his work was now as he conceived it. Around his neck was the bronze butterfly plaque on a very long cord.</p><p style="text-align: right;">[More detail is provided in 'An Angel For A Martyr' By Michael Pennington (1987). This statue means a lot to me as I went to see it in Père Lachaise one Sunday afternoon on my birthday in April 1995 and sat there alone drawing the statue's headdress. </p><p style="text-align: right;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCuf1V-h5-m75VWc29Utbu9B9gGkxkEGc_SddbYeS4XpDQZf-HEI0b2MtdtLNfsKsrtIo3N08JugD86uHTgUo3DP53vSnjeZLq6VhSW48yLcKuZPPF8kTmhz-b8BJDz6_210kSvZFDrt2rgAQgtaYc-l4FA9QULzJN-2QecZdMgjdhMNH65Q/s2938/WILDE'S%20TOMB084.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkEinW0ohdcwj-oJLW9lmvrBjCKdDqZ0UpK-2mb7cE1ChHwWkQkSU2-Cca3TXOZHHPVLqUktvjWg3BOTFoj-h_JeCNXvXUYSQNu5lOCrpk-xTHGqXNCPPZ0iju6TKdZfMo6cZogtyCzPCvmrwgMyJ2tpt3IEw7IRJ4lgMfjPSg39Dgmvm8w/s2938/WILDE'S%20TOMB084.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2938" data-original-width="1890" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkEinW0ohdcwj-oJLW9lmvrBjCKdDqZ0UpK-2mb7cE1ChHwWkQkSU2-Cca3TXOZHHPVLqUktvjWg3BOTFoj-h_JeCNXvXUYSQNu5lOCrpk-xTHGqXNCPPZ0iju6TKdZfMo6cZogtyCzPCvmrwgMyJ2tpt3IEw7IRJ4lgMfjPSg39Dgmvm8w/s320/WILDE'S%20TOMB084.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Afterword to the book raises a very interesting comparison story. Phil Baker writes:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">'Crowley's affinity with the culture of the 1890s was more obvious in his lifetime... Remembered as the time of Aubrey Beardsley, absinthe, <i>The Yellow Book</i> and the Café Royal, the Nineties were as significant in their way as the 1960s, a decade they prefigure with their sense of 'liberation', more open sexuality, critical social thinking drug use and an occult revival. London was central to both decades.'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A fascinating book packed with much more than I have highlighted here. There are extensive notes and source material which makes it a valuable book to enable further exploration,</div><br /><p><br /></p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-68144522196716574392022-06-28T15:45:00.001+01:002022-06-28T15:48:50.919+01:00Thích Nhất Hạnh: THE FATHER OF MINDFULNESS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFSKc1S6oGJ90DrUZ806sFhsi_WTKUOKasujl9NoCKxBiT7btfROfdhmOxtziCzDjulKzNBRqkh2zcYCeukGqbD8edo9aY7A4exZkW-TJihLKqyJbuXL4lLGL6fanQRrD2eX5eqeBpcrw2NURCRGws1xEJJ_iqHfOvEjCXrsrrIwwAidqUw/s1068/thich-nhat-hanh-a-arte-de-deixar-ir-1068x562.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="1068" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFSKc1S6oGJ90DrUZ806sFhsi_WTKUOKasujl9NoCKxBiT7btfROfdhmOxtziCzDjulKzNBRqkh2zcYCeukGqbD8edo9aY7A4exZkW-TJihLKqyJbuXL4lLGL6fanQRrD2eX5eqeBpcrw2NURCRGws1xEJJ_iqHfOvEjCXrsrrIwwAidqUw/w400-h210/thich-nhat-hanh-a-arte-de-deixar-ir-1068x562.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rather late in the day, The Generalist has become aware of Thích Nhất Hạnh, considered the Father of Mindfulness who died on January 22nd this year aged 95. He founded a new form of Buddhism and founded monastic communities in the West and in Hong Kong, Thailand and many other countries including Vietnam where he was born and suffered the effects of the war before escaping to create a retreat in France. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He visited America three times and persuaded Martin Luther King to come out against the war which he knew would change the tide of public opinion. MLK's speech began: "Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now, Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the heart of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He nominated Nhất Hạnh for a Nobel Peace Prize which he won: 'His ideas for peace if applied would build a monument to ecumenism [a movement within Christianity toward the recovery of unity among all Christians], to world brotherhood, to humanity'.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The following material is from the soundtrack of a wonderful documentary 'A Cloud Never Dies' which is available on YouTube.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"I am not inclined to be a politician. My vocation is as a monk. But as a monk you have to have the courage to speak out against social injustice and the violation of human rights."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He developed walking meditation. "You should do it as if you are the most happiest person in the world.. Do not set yourself a goal for a particular destination. So we don't have to hurry because there's nothing up there to get. Therefore walking is not a means but an end by itself."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are some of his messages: 'we need to overcome violence and fanaticism by coming together as brothers and sisters in the human family and learn the art of cultivating peace to help transform the alienation and the loneliness of the modern world'.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">'The way out is in, to go back to oneself and take care of oneself, learning how to generate a feeling of joy, learning how to generate happiness, learning how to handle a painful emotion. Listening to suffering allows understanding and compassion to be born and we suffer less.'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">'It's my conviction that we cannot change the world if we are not capable of changing our way of thinking, our consciousness. That is why awakening, collective awakening, collective change in our way of thinking, our way of seeing things, is very crucial. All of us can help promote that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">'Our task is to come together and produce that kind of collective awakening. There are many ways in order to bring about the kind of collective awakening. There are many ways in order to bring about that kind of collective awakening and change. That is the way to change our way of daily life so that there is more mindfulness, more peace, more love which is a very urgent thing. And we can do that beginning now, today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">'When you wake up you see that the earth is not just the environment. The earth is in you and you are the Earth. You touch the nature of interbeing. At that moment you can have real communication with the earth.'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">'We know that many civilisations in the past have vanished and this civilisation of ours can vanish also. We need a real awakening. A real enlightenment. We have to change our way of thinking and seeing things and this is possible. Our century should be a century of spirituality. Whether we can survive or not depends on it'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">See 10 best books: https://nerdycreator.com/bookclub/thich-nhat-hanh-books/</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-83006002472214115232022-06-21T14:08:00.001+01:002022-06-21T14:09:56.101+01:00ART MAGAZINES: STATE/f22 and ROSA<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfm1A5DV3LGe9dBGzeTbKq849ZAZ6kG3MqPmYJYC0MXxQXFAxK8rT_hzYDUql4oo9kFkKA7wLDmbJ81s3IAiSLFT-Lj5JAk1BvKlo97_vkI5a6pk8QBUgwDmax03WF4LMMaddfeYS_AYIAXGmgPoaft3Qbqcni7_k59eXOL6gJc80SREnihw/s1885/DSC08085.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1885" data-original-width="1346" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfm1A5DV3LGe9dBGzeTbKq849ZAZ6kG3MqPmYJYC0MXxQXFAxK8rT_hzYDUql4oo9kFkKA7wLDmbJ81s3IAiSLFT-Lj5JAk1BvKlo97_vkI5a6pk8QBUgwDmax03WF4LMMaddfeYS_AYIAXGmgPoaft3Qbqcni7_k59eXOL6gJc80SREnihw/s320/DSC08085.JPG" width="228" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUtrstNOhKCGUv2dSEKlVAcZty0xH0WOg5fzy9CgzzNJP_mygmrV4fJHm9uK0fKk3Cw0RMc1WVWTTRoNRaWzwTY8HnDdNN6fCFzg1TaCCicdsC-JJnrbGRhTH1F8MF-wNoAv6wEfCNx1cnnDQytruHHVXnxRd_yD-nlcfR80cPXnb5WolLnw/s1762/DSC08086.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1762" data-original-width="1258" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUtrstNOhKCGUv2dSEKlVAcZty0xH0WOg5fzy9CgzzNJP_mygmrV4fJHm9uK0fKk3Cw0RMc1WVWTTRoNRaWzwTY8HnDdNN6fCFzg1TaCCicdsC-JJnrbGRhTH1F8MF-wNoAv6wEfCNx1cnnDQytruHHVXnxRd_yD-nlcfR80cPXnb5WolLnw/s320/DSC08086.JPG" width="228" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>To come across two new art magazines in the same week is a rare and delightful event. To complicate matters somewhat STATE and f22 are two different magazines in one. To quote <i>'Totally free, STATE is about new manoeuvres in painting and the visual arts - combined with f22, a supplement on developments in the fusion of art & photography. It is not a review magazine. It's about PEOPLE worth serious consideration; PLACES that are hot and happening; and PROJECTS developing in the art world'. </i>STATE is 83pp and f22 is 4Opp. Yes its free. First published in January 2011, this bi-monthly is distributed to art schools, galleries, libraries and museums across the UK. You can get copies posted to you free if you pay for the postage. See state-media.com</div><div><br /></div><div>Its the brain child of Mike von Joel who has been working in publishing for 40 years and has a long track record of producing magazines. His first was The New Style (1976-1980) <span face="Inter, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span face="Inter, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">which promised readers ''the disgusting inside stories'' about fashion and the news media. A string of art magazines followed - </span>Art Line (1982-1997) Artissues and artBooknews (both founded in 1990), State of Art (a free newspaper 2005-2007). He also edited Photoicon, a Norwegian-based magazine focused on international photography. Von Joel is the Creative Director of 'Art Bermondsey Project Space', a not for profit contemporary art gallery founded in 2015. Their blurb reads:</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: left;"><i>'Project Space presents art, photography and moving image from across the UK, offering a flagship venue for both emerging and established artists. This, combined with our visionary educational and early learning programs, promotes freedom of creative expression through the visual arts. The converted Victorian Paper Factory (hence name The Vellum Building) provides three exhibition rooms and our proximity to the world-famous White Cube gallery establishes interest from all levels of the contemporary art world'.</i></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The magazine is stuffed with interesting material leading with a lengthy interview with Frank Stella, now aged 85 and still working hard at his studio complex at Rock Tavern, New York. Another long piece is about Lynn Barber the journalist and the interviews she conducted with Tracy Emin (who became a good friend), Damien Hirst, Mark Quinn and the Chapman brothers, one of whom threatened to kill her. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">There's News and Money sections, Art books reviewed by von Joel and a DOCUMENTS section with nine essays by different authors on 'Art in Theory and Practice'. These include a leading piece on Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable and an interesting essay on food and art featuring Joseph Beuys and a shop in Scotland called Narture - Baking Bread to fund arts projects'.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">If you now turn the magazine over f22 has some interesting material - the collage work of Penny Slinger, the amazing photojournalism of David Taggart under the theme Republic of Humanity. His photos of people all over the world are extraordinary and deeply moving as well as being technically amazing. I also got fascinated by the piece called The Lost Faust, an art film by Philipp Humm, starring Steven Berkoff, </span></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">which took three years to make. It is </span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">set in the future but based on Goethe's famous tragedy about this medieval necromancer and alchemist. The film is part of a wider project, what Hamm calls a <i>Gesamtkunstwerk </i>which means a 'total work of art'. Humm also is producing an illustrated novella, drawings, sculptures, fine art photos and paintings.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsGRELXo-8EzEiKFnhcpQKbBpaF4GP0EFKjydrZWLaKiC-gpDNuXogA5gEBjNnXjx-Ly0NP1hrjhK_rc_IpLsuAi5hyru5P-JiGr7wB5lJVjmd8-42MEryDcA24-g5g6oLAgHVMluvI0D5_7U3_hEOIzxvLmQqJBBwkbeKuW11ci9MdvLOog/s3333/ART%20MAG1063.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3333" data-original-width="2422" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsGRELXo-8EzEiKFnhcpQKbBpaF4GP0EFKjydrZWLaKiC-gpDNuXogA5gEBjNnXjx-Ly0NP1hrjhK_rc_IpLsuAi5hyru5P-JiGr7wB5lJVjmd8-42MEryDcA24-g5g6oLAgHVMluvI0D5_7U3_hEOIzxvLmQqJBBwkbeKuW11ci9MdvLOog/s320/ART%20MAG1063.jpg" width="233" /></a></div> ROSA [The Review of Sussex Arts] is a complete newby quarterly magazine put together by Jessica Wood as publisher with Alec Leith as Editor (formerly of the local magazine <i>Viva Lewes</i>. now defunct) with Rowena Easton as Art Director. <div><br /></div><div>The opening Editorial suggests that apart from visual arts which make up the entire contents of this first issue (106 pages/£9), they will, in the future, also include musicians, live performers and writers. In contrast to STATE the design has lots of white space and big headlines. They have managed to get 14 pages of advertising which suggests there is a healthy future for the project</div><div><br /></div><div>It begins with a roundup of summer festivals, events and exhibitions followed by a seven page feature on their chosen cover artist Fergus Hare, a Portslade based painter. This set of pictures with beaches, sea, clouds and anonymous figures have been compared to Edward Hopper which perturbs him. He tells Leith that they are all connected with his mother who died when he was 18. "I am trying to contact her with what I do as if she were alive. Not in subject necessarily, but emotionally."</div><div><br /></div><div>Next we have an artistic duo of Ben Langlands & Nikki Bell who have staged three exhibitions Utopia, Absent Artists and Near Heaven at Charleston. The latter refers to Vanessa Bell's attic studio which for many years had been unused and was chock-full of an abandoned objects and dusty files. The artists cleared it out because, says Nikki, "We want you to stand in the physical space where Vanessa stood". Her daughter referred to her mother's studio as Near Heaven.</div><div><br /></div><div>There's a great presentation of the late Robert Tavener's sketchbooks whose archive is being carefully managed by Emma Mason. Tavener taught at Eastbourne art college and his beautiful work has gained an international reputation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Alex Grey's article features the pictures and story of a church mural that Grey helped save from destruction. Grey has been compiling a list of works of art in Sussex streets, parks, churches and other public places</div><div> </div><div>Alexandra Loske, a curator at the Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museums, is the author of Colour: A Visual History. Her piece focuses on the colour blue.</div><div><br /></div><div>Next is a profile of Glyn Philpot (1884-1937) to initially made his reputation for his portraiture but then switched his style to Modernism. The Pallant House Gallery is staging a retrospective of his work entitled Flesh and Spirit which will run until October.</div><div><br /></div><div>'Who Am I Today' deals with Katie Sollohub's oeuvre and her unusual daily routine which involves swimming in the sea no matter what the weather conditions are and then painting a head-and-shoulders self-portrait straight after.</div><div><br /></div><div>This summer Glyndebourne will stage an exhibition that highlights 70 years of programme covers. which includes work by Hockney and Grayson Perry. </div><div><br /></div><div>There's more on Charleston with an article on Vanessa Bell's Garden, an architectural piece on the Bayside tower in Worthing, a day out in St Leonards, works of art for sale, cartoons by Harry Venning' </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi70rYzBEVWQ4U6UMR59gYlJ15vT03G0dpu7y20vt5JkzIsnWnL--Rfs5T0kvLtccZFI6L_IC7gkfvTzwxs0uxg5XkPGJjMGQeHBh-vntJIGVjgf0xKZ-qiUHCddMfhTo55wLmvlI-JBxVKrK9ofLCZ7M3ssBbbnUmf5uMf3-CCPlSme0a90Q/s1174/ART%20MAG2064.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="940" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi70rYzBEVWQ4U6UMR59gYlJ15vT03G0dpu7y20vt5JkzIsnWnL--Rfs5T0kvLtccZFI6L_IC7gkfvTzwxs0uxg5XkPGJjMGQeHBh-vntJIGVjgf0xKZ-qiUHCddMfhTo55wLmvlI-JBxVKrK9ofLCZ7M3ssBbbnUmf5uMf3-CCPlSme0a90Q/s320/ART%20MAG2064.jpg" width="256" /></a></div> Luciana Hill's 3D recreation of Magnus Volk's strange and wonderful Daddy Long Legs which offered a 'Sea Voyage on Wheels' from 1897 to 1901 is made possible by an app made by creative technologist Alex May [my son!!]<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A rich mixture by any account. More details on subscriptions and stockists here. https://rosamagazine.co.uk/</div>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-23805125372901751162022-06-11T10:05:00.000+01:002022-06-11T10:05:23.522+01:00THE EALING CLUB: BIRTHPLACE OF BLUES IN BRITAIN<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9E1yriqoM1ON0-2ODpg34TuvTGsVK-wzal0R_1eljgDPq81zcTcs_rdOrSEPRJHLd6gd9ydzPEf4qKRF5qoIgoho_-Ke_VjXZCLjv8SYB33WqIlaHKKjXmNe5lpPrfuJTLATOg2rhmQf5LUI60jt19ox7Ifs4WEhOeFO6GEWVHh6fa23V9A/s3360/EALING%20CLUB1057.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2443" data-original-width="3360" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9E1yriqoM1ON0-2ODpg34TuvTGsVK-wzal0R_1eljgDPq81zcTcs_rdOrSEPRJHLd6gd9ydzPEf4qKRF5qoIgoho_-Ke_VjXZCLjv8SYB33WqIlaHKKjXmNe5lpPrfuJTLATOg2rhmQf5LUI60jt19ox7Ifs4WEhOeFO6GEWVHh6fa23V9A/s320/EALING%20CLUB1057.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhns6CWSaKM0rkAQ-2_kEgQ2Rww9QBZFBiPSWizYQGUtW7Dp3Tgm2Xx0ET80gdMWKshzjK5TEMk9i6dVuJGljTO1dFNM_TCL3uEEhx12RMkK2aAI0VdfaiKFIGcz0WaRUFiDrnR0dEy-J_Hh1G8Nz64U62ouqfyVLmR2BD2SDffLXlUCem8iA/s2677/DSC07951.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1784" data-original-width="2677" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhns6CWSaKM0rkAQ-2_kEgQ2Rww9QBZFBiPSWizYQGUtW7Dp3Tgm2Xx0ET80gdMWKshzjK5TEMk9i6dVuJGljTO1dFNM_TCL3uEEhx12RMkK2aAI0VdfaiKFIGcz0WaRUFiDrnR0dEy-J_Hh1G8Nz64U62ouqfyVLmR2BD2SDffLXlUCem8iA/s320/DSC07951.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can buy all these items from the Ealing Club Community Interest Company</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The DVD paints a good picture of why this venue is considered to be the epicentre of the Blues Boom through extensive interviews with key players. 'The A-Z of Ealing Rock' provides short profiles of many musicians who were attached to Ealing and the club. The tea towel is a map and chart of those people </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">https://the-ealing-club.myshopify.com/collections/all</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>This third piece about the birth of blues in Britain links to my two previous posts about Ricky-Tick clubs and Eel Pie Island which, when taken all together, give a good picture of how things developed in the the 1960s. <div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The story of this remarkable venue began when Fery Asgari, an Iranian student who had come to study English at the Ealing Technical College got involved with some bands in the art school of the college. He told a BBC interviewer: "<span style="background-color: white; color: #141414;">The art school at the college could boast various bands, many in love with the blues<span style="font-family: inherit;">. I found myself helping to promote the music nights but it was hard to find a venue because the music was so loud</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></span></div><div><div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Then I was walking near Ealing Broadway station and I heard jazz and I followed it down the steps… and I found this little basement music club. <span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Within a few weeks I was running the place. To start with we had jazz on Thursdays and Fridays and R&B on Saturday."</span></span></p></div></div></div><div>The two most important figures in R&B at the time were the pioneering Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies who had been running the acoustic London Blues and Barrelhouse Club from the Roundhouse pub at Wardour Street in Soho had recently been ejected for playing electric music. They <span style="font-family: inherit;">relocated to the Ealing Club and played their first gig there on 17th March 1962 - a night now celebrated with a blue plaque.</span></div><div>
<p style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #202122;">Korner recalled: “The club held only 200 when you packed them all in. There were only about 100 people in all of London that were into the blues and all of them showed up at the club that first night” All the musicians remember it as a sweaty moist place.</span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #202122;">In the coming months everybody met everybody. Alexis and Davies ran Blues Incorporated which had a constantly changing line-up. Amongst the players were Eric Burdon, Paul Jones, Long John Baldry, Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. It was a place where new bands were hatched and many musicians cut their teeth and learned their riffs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">On the evening of 7 April 1962 Mick Jagger and Keith
Richards visited the Ealing Club to see Blues Incorporated for the first
time. The club was the place where they later met Brian Jones for the first time. On the 12th January 1963 the classic Rolling Stones line-up played its first gig to an audience of about five people! In the Ealing Club documentary Pete Townshend says that the Stones played 400 shows in 1963, many of which were at Ealing. Ronnie Wood also played the club with his band The Birds.</p><p class="MsoNormal">When Alexis parted ways with Cyril, the latter got his All Stars band together featuring Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Graham Bond,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Just down the road from the club was a music shop run by Jim Marshall whose amps were much more powerful than others. Working there as a Saturday boy was Mitch Michell who learnt to drum there. He played at the club in a band called Soul Messengers, toured with many others, played with Georgie Fame before gaining stardom with Jimi Hendrix. Other musicians who came to the club were John Mayall, Rod Stewart and Dick Taylor.</p><p class="MsoNormal">In 1964-1965 the Mods started arriving at the Club and The Who did many gigs there and when Psychedelic culture arrived the Pink Floyd played there. Later came soul and reggae artists followed by a disco scene and house music.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Sadly the huge Crossrail project will reach Ealing and the Ealing club building is to be demolished. The end of an era.</p></div><div><p></p></div>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13333926.post-19577544066068845652022-06-09T14:04:00.001+01:002022-06-09T14:08:08.741+01:00RICKY-TICK CLUB AND THE BRITISH R&B 60s SCENE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjURQCnvBzxkjqTdSwB981Z3z539XCOCm7dQnRGmZk3GhDc_KNOOR1i8B_224M7BnC7PVNTQo6-VuAT8IsjKIpa2LX3Zx8vwSnJNI-Vx-YSUhLHfpS_Dmgg1nUDXWc8I_He97uMNhEm0P92PgCOIKkwIp4BhG3eLcyDoiOZWG_bcV0A1e7uBw/s1764/RIKKY%20TICK3055.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1764" data-original-width="1282" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjURQCnvBzxkjqTdSwB981Z3z539XCOCm7dQnRGmZk3GhDc_KNOOR1i8B_224M7BnC7PVNTQo6-VuAT8IsjKIpa2LX3Zx8vwSnJNI-Vx-YSUhLHfpS_Dmgg1nUDXWc8I_He97uMNhEm0P92PgCOIKkwIp4BhG3eLcyDoiOZWG_bcV0A1e7uBw/w146-h200/RIKKY%20TICK3055.jpg" width="146" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIdVPVIVoCaHE6NGwexJ6e5KD3-Uey_u8ORTl9uIRvcxPDA_KtBOomSfIsddko7gxZe3B8DiIWGKyqVknXpZ0mu-hX7zWUFiS_KPyGztvxotxgrsyPI-iud5i5oRB1UA3mK4TpbGbw62B04z2YrzGrt456pBc4NHT1-miuR_7peXx2OdRhLg/s2540/RIKKY%20TICK1053.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2540" data-original-width="1833" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIdVPVIVoCaHE6NGwexJ6e5KD3-Uey_u8ORTl9uIRvcxPDA_KtBOomSfIsddko7gxZe3B8DiIWGKyqVknXpZ0mu-hX7zWUFiS_KPyGztvxotxgrsyPI-iud5i5oRB1UA3mK4TpbGbw62B04z2YrzGrt456pBc4NHT1-miuR_7peXx2OdRhLg/w144-h200/RIKKY%20TICK1053.jpg" width="144" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX2c1XUcZRR9aYvToNhvGsKxiFqRCJWyPIsSCcLMdZXyuw5hSgWf7gmlSiU2KNrQZWVwRfUJ2fo2vjhratIa807KPZRZfWUyjCvXacAJzCZWYlg2GazAT9S8UMz6obcD5bU0_fysLfTaPk-xbIQI5d6_bpwEHeu364biYoz4juhSxlzuIZpQ/s1364/RIKKY%20TICK2054.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="1364" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX2c1XUcZRR9aYvToNhvGsKxiFqRCJWyPIsSCcLMdZXyuw5hSgWf7gmlSiU2KNrQZWVwRfUJ2fo2vjhratIa807KPZRZfWUyjCvXacAJzCZWYlg2GazAT9S8UMz6obcD5bU0_fysLfTaPk-xbIQI5d6_bpwEHeu364biYoz4juhSxlzuIZpQ/w200-h145/RIKKY%20TICK2054.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Following on from Andrew Humphreys' '<b>Raving Upon Thames</b>' - a Richmond/Eel Pie Island musical history my friend Chris Lewis tipped me off to <b>'As You Were'</b>:<i> The true adventures of the Ricky-Tick club</i>. The book has been written by John Mansfield (with the help of younger brother Colin). The photo above shows John (right) with Philip Hayward (left) who he met when they were both doing national service in Germany after the war. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">John's life was changed when, as a teenager, he came across a wind-up gramophone and a box full of 78's. He became hooked on jazz and studied it. In 1952 he joined the newly-formed Slough Town Military Band for a couple of years and learnt to play the saxophone. When he was called up he used this musical experience to try and sign up as a Military Bandsman for the 13th/18th Hussars. When Philip turned up as a new recruit an instant rapport was established between them and for the next ten years they were a virtually inseparable double act except for a period from 1958 when Philip was posted to Malaya whilst John was discharged and returned to Britain.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Their mutual interest in music was first piqued in Hamburg when they met and hung out with The Crane River Jazz Band, a seminal outfit who first came together in 1949 and which for two years featured the cornetist Ken Colyer who was to make a great impact on the jazz and blues scene.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 1959 John was working on a building site in Windsor opposite a pub called the Star and Garter which had a Trad Jazz club that he began to frequent and get involved in. He was very quickly offered a chance to run the club which he made a great success of. He became the manager of a band as well and bought a Lambretta scooter to scout other other possible venues in the neighbourhood. He also joined a convoy of scooters who regularly went to Eel Pie Island as this was the jazz club to go to. Further trips to London jazz clubs followed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When Philip returned to the scene the two would-be entrepeneurs were scratching around to make a living as their only source of income was their Sunday night jazz club which, in the summer of 1962, they renamed the Ricky-Tick jazz club. That September John was tipped off to the fact that Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated were playing at the Ealing Club. This was his first encounter with live electric blues which he says blew him away which is not surprising considering the line-up was AK with Graham Bond, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. This got him thinking about establishing an R&B club on a Friday at the Star and Garter. The first gig on the 7th December was a great success so John was keen to book them for the next Friday. Alexis said he was booked but suggested a band called The Rolling Stones who were playing interval spots at the Ealing Club.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Stones played the Ricky-Tick on Friday Dec 14th 1962. It was Bill Wyman's debut and their first provincial booking. Following that, Brian Jones hustled more gigs in Sutton, Richmond, Putney and Twickenham. Their second Ricky-Tick gig on 11th Jan 1963 was sold out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Star and Garter became a music venue seven nights a week, five of the gigs being run by other promoters. The R&B Friday nights featured the Blues Incorporated or the Stones which brought in ever larger crowds which set them off looking for other venues. On the 22nd Feb they put on Alexis Korner at the Wooden Bridge Club in Guildford and the Stones at Windsor. By the first week in March they were promoting these and other bands at Reading, Windsor, Poole, Southall and Guildford. The Stones played eight gigs for them in eight days by which time, says John. 'they had established a fantastic and fanatical following'. The crowds were getting so big that they had an external metal staircase fitted at the back of the club. Capacity there had reached 300.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Promoting gigs in those days relied on rather dull woodblock printed posters and handouts to spread the word. John was amazed when he saw a huge poster with a huge screaming negro face advertising a R&B gig featuring Hogsnort Rupert - a band with saxes. Hogsnort turned out to be the pseudonym of Bob McGrath, a student at the Farnham School of Art. He became the designer and stencil cutter for Ricky-Tick promotions and taught them how to be silk screen printers. That March Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were, says John, instantly adopted as the Ricky-Tick favourite as the main band ushering in a soul-jazz version of R&B.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">During 1963, the Thames Valley area became the 'Blues Delta' of Britain with Ricky-Tick promoting regularly in Windsor, Slough, Maidenhead, Reading and Guildford. They put on gigs with Cyril Davis, John Mayall and Eric Clapton for blues purists . The Animals played their first gig down south, the same week that John and Phillip put on Sonny Boy Williamson supported by the Yardbirds at Windsor. John writes that by late 1963 the entire UK were feeling the 'British Blues Boom' with over 100 groups on the R&B circuit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Early in 1964 John and Phillip were able to get a lease on Clewer Mead, a mansion by the river which John had been interested in for three years. It consisted of a large ballroom, a host of ancillary rooms and seven large flats - all for £16 a week!! Bands and artists playing here included Georgie Fame, John Lee Hooker backed by The Groundhogs, Bill Hayley, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jerry Lee Lewis and Howlin' Wolf. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They had room in the mansion to establish a substantial silk-screen operation producing not only 1,000 posters a day when required but also a wide range of t-shirts. In the following months or years further landmark gigs featured The Who, Long John Baldry, Little Stevie Wonder. Jimi Hendrix, The Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and on...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Phillip died in 1993 thus ending a partnership that had made a substantial impact on the British music scene of the day through a promotion and booking business that spread to venues across the south-east bringing the best of jazz, R&B, soul and rock to a wide audience. It's a real-life account of the music scene at that time and further evidence of the intensity of 1960s culture well illustrated with the posters and handouts of the period. The book is well designed, printed and bound and is a welcome addition to the story of British music</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There is a complete list of gigs at the various Ricky-Tick venues here </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">https://www.rickytick.com/gig-lists/</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div><p></p>john mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855376473508319863noreply@blogger.com0