Black Cab - Hearts On Fire

Black Cab - New Speedway Boogie

For all you St. Kilda supporters

Jennifer Aniston on the cover of the new GQ.
She will be 40 in February (gulp!)

Good Duck Bush!

Shoes thrown at Bush in Iraq

Story from 'The Huffington Post' here.

Bush claims success in 'War-On-Drugs'

Story from 'The Huffington Post' here.

(?)

Bush farewells Iraq today.
Story from the 'BBC' here.

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.)