Ornette Coleman live with the Grateful Dead on the 9th December 1993 (Los Angeles Sports Arena)

I was unaware that Ornette had also played with the Dead on this occasion until my friend Tim (the jazz errorist) brought this to my attention after yesterday's post here.
(Tracks are ' Drums - Space - The Other One - Wharf Rat & Turn On Your Lovelight)
Also augmenting the Dead on ' Drums & Space' are Flora Purim & Airto Moreira . Brazil's first couple of fusion.
You can get it here.
(The next night it would be Branford Marsalis' turn to sit in with the Dead again.)

Little Axe - Killing Floor Blues (Live 2005)

Little Axe - Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, Keith Leblanc, guest Pierre (sax) with
Adrian Sherwood (at the mixing desk) playing the Second Annual Wimbash at Sully's Pub in Hartford, Connecticut August 2005.

(David Parker runs skysaw.org for EVERYTHING On-U Sound related
and here is his little Axe complete discography.)

Tangled up in blues & times out of mind

For a complete A to Zee of Zimmerman go here and here.

Rain on my parade - 'Clean Feed' rally a washout in Melbourne today

Photos by TimN

Cold, wet and wintry conditions meant that there were probably no more than 150-200 people (and one furry alien) at today's 'clean feed' rally in Melbourne.

This is one of the biggest attacks on our civil liberties that we are facing here in Australia.

(Non Australian readers of this blog may be unaware that our Prime Minister, Chairman Rudd speaks fluent Mandarin and that maybe this little idea was whispered into his ear by China's President Hu Jintao the last time that they were cozying up together as the similarities with
'the great firewall of China' are uncanny.)

Please go here to see what Obama's views are on this subject.

Mugabe's government claims UK caused cholera outbreak!!!

Story from the 'BBC' here.

Daft Punk - Electroma (ONE NIGHT ONLY)

PitchforkTV will be showing this film today until 8pm (US East Coast Time) here.
A word of warning: my eldest son and I actually paid hard earned dollars to see this film when it was shown in Melbourne.
It is CRAP.
You will be amazed how bad it is.

Just read that it is 74 minutes long.
It will feel like eternity (and then some).
The film does not even contain any Daft Punk music!

Obama on 'net neutrality'

SAVE THE INTERNET

As I am about to head off to the 'Clean Feed' Rally here in Melbourne in the torrential rain, I ask all American readers to click on the image above for further information regarding the preservation of 'net neutrality'.
Interesting that while it is Chairman Rudd and the Labor government who are trying to introduce this legislation here in Australia, over there in the US Obama has promised to fight to keep the internet free from censorship.
You can read about that here.

I may not agree with what a lot of people say on the internet but I defend their right to say so.
(it's called democracy!)

Ornette Coleman & the Grateful Dead live 23rd February 1993 (Oakland Colisseum)

Photo above by Susana Millman
(Taken from the wonderful new book 'GratefulDead365')

Here you can get Ornette Coleman sitting in with the Grateful Dead at the 'Mardi-Gras' gig from the 23rd of February 1993 at the Oakland Colisseum.
Tracks are 'Space - The Other One - Stella Blue - Turn On Your Lovelight & Brokedown Palace'.
Again it would have been interesting to have heard them playing with each other in the seventies when both Ornette and the Dead were exploring new sonic boundaries.
Ornette's son Denardo is also sitting in on percussion in this set.

(Another gig of Ornette and the Dead playing together from later in the year can be found here.
David Murray live with the Grateful Dead at Madison Square Garden on September 22nd 1993 can be found here. Use search engine at top for much more Grateful Dead live material on this blog.)

$20 Blackberry loaded with McCain campaign info sold to reporter

Story from 'Fox News' here.

The Walled City of Kowloon

An amazing walk around and through the 'Walled City of Kowloon'.

More on the walled city here.

Scott Walker - Rosary

(As performed on Jools Holland's show in the 90's -
especially for Ryan 'for services rendered'.))

1997 interview with Bettie Page

Bettie Page - RIP

Bettie in 2003 (age 80!!!)

April 22 1923 - December 11 2008
Go here.

Most amazing service ever

Back in the days in London, I was a big fan of Throbbing Gristle and then Psychic TV.
(Genesis P-Orridge is pictured above).
Lots of people I knew were closely aligned with the Temple and a friend of mine made the 'psychic cross' badges from his studio in Camden Lock.
To cut a long story short my badge had been proudly worn in London, Amsterdam and then here in Melbourne and then the back broke and I gave it to a 'friend' (it's OK Adam - I won't mention your name) to fix.
He says he gave it back to me, I know that he didn't.
Then I noticed that that they were available at Gen's site and I went to buy one but it wouldn't allow me to pay with paypal from here in Australia.
I sent off an email and pretty quickly heard back from Ryan who was handling the webshop orders.
I was expecting some money so I said that I would send it through to him last Monday, however the money didn't come in until yesterday and so I sent it off then.
In my postbox today was the package which had winged its way from New York.
So Ryan for the trust of posting that package before the money had actually been paid all I can say is a very BIG thank you.