Let The Slave (Incorporating The Price Of Experience) Text: William Blake

Henry Cow w/ Mike Westbrook's Brass Band

Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field

Let him look up into the heavens and laugh in the bnght air
Let the inchained soul, shut up in darkness and in sighing
Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary Years
Rose and look out; his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open;
And let his wife and children return from the oppressor's scourge
They look behind at every step and believe it is a dream
Singing: The sun has left his blackness and has found a fresher morning
And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear and cloudless night

For empire is no more and now the Lion and Wolf shall cease
For everything that lives is holy
For everything that lives is holy
For everything that lives is holy
For everything that lixes is holy

What is the price of Experience? Do men buy it for a song?
Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price
Of all that a man hath, his house, his wife, his children
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy
And in the wither'd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain
It is an easy thing to triumph in the summer's sun
And in the vintage and to sing on the waggon loaded with corn
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted
To speak the laws of prudence to the homeless wanderer
To listen to the hungry raven's cry in wintry season
When the red blood is fill'd with wine and with the marrow of lambs

It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements
To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan;
To see a god on every wind and a blessing on every blast
To hear sounds of love in the thunder storm that destroys our enemies' house;
To rejoice in the blight that covers his field
And the sickness that cuts off his children

While our olive and vine sing and laugh round our door
And our children bring fruits and flowers

Then the groan and the dolor are quite forgotten
And the slave grinding at the mill
And the captive in chains and the poor in the prison

And the soldier in the field
When the shatter'd bone hath laid him groaning among the happier dead
It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity:
Thus could I sing and thus rejoice: but it is not so with me.

The Orckestra

Let The Slave

Originally from the Mike Westbrook album 'Bright As Fire'

This version recorded in Italy in 1977.

Featuring the mighty voice of Phil Minton.

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JAMES CHANCE AND LES CONTORTIONS @ Matt Groenings ATP???

(Are they digging up George Scott?)

((While you are it...Quine (as extra special guest) is over there!))

(((PS - If someone wants to fly me there and put me up to see Adele Bertei...I promise I won't eat much over the weekend!)))

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Willie Mitchell (January 3, 1928 - January 5, 2010) was a soul, R&B, rock and roll, pop and funk music producer and arranger who ran Royal Recording in Memphis, Tennessee. He is best known for his Hi Records label of the 1970s, which released albums by a large stable of popular Memphis soul artists, including Mitchell himself, Al Green, Syl Johnson nd Ann Peebles. Known at the studio as "Papa Willie," Mitchell earned his nickname by taking over the reigns of Hi Records in 1970 and guiding it through its most successful period. Mitchell's productions have been much noted for featuring a hard-hitting kick drum sound (usually played by pioneering Memphis drummer Al Jackson, Jr. of Booker T. and the MG's)

A trumpeter and bandleader in his own right, Mitchell released a number of popular singles for Hi Records as an artist in the 1960s, including "Soul Serenade."

Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Body Scanners Might Violate U.K. Child-Protection Laws

The deployment of body-scanning X-ray machines could violate child-protection laws in Britain and prevent their implementation, according to The Guardian.
British officials were forced to exempt the scanning of anyone under 18 during a yearlong test of the machines at Manchester airport until legal questions could be worked out, the newspaper said.
There are also concerns that images of nude celebrities could be posted online or sold to tabloids.
Body scanning machines have been touted as a solution for catching hidden explosives and other dangerous items after a would-be bomber attempted to blow up a Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, using explosives concealed in his underwear. Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has 15 of the scanners, but none were used to scan the would-be bomber before he boarded the flight, according to the Associated Press.
There are currently 40 full-body scanners being used at 19 U.S. airports. Some are being used for primary screening — instead of the traditional metal detectors — while others are reserved only for so-called secondary screening. The Transportation Security Administration has ordered 300 more machines in the wake of the recent bombing attempt, according to The Washington Post. Some in Congress want to limit the use to passengers designated for special screening.
TSA spokeswoman Suzanne Trevino told the Associated Press that the administration had been working with privacy advocates and the scanner makers to develop software that blurs the faces and genitalia of passengers. But this raises questions about whether a blurred image would be as effective at detecting hidden explosives, such as those concealed by the so-called underwear bomber. She said passengers also can currently opt for a full-body pat-down instead of a scan.
Although scanned images are not supposed to be stored, there are concerns that security personnel are not adequately monitored and that images of children could fall into the hands of pedophiles.
Threat Level has put in a call to the TSA about how it would address the same concern in the United States with regard to images of children. We will update the post when the TSA responds.

Simon Davies, founder of the British-based group Privacy International, said that scans of celebrities or even of people with unusual body features could have an “irresistible pull” for some employees who want to share them with friends or others.
A Manchester airport spokesman told the Guardian that 500 people had participated in its 12-month test so far on a voluntary basis. Nearly all of them had responded with positive feedback, according to the spokesman. The image is reportedly only seen by one security officer, who is stationed in a remote location to prevent the officer from matching the image to an identity.
Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff argued in a recent Washington Post editorial for nationwide deployment of full-body scanners in the United States. Chertoff has also been making the rounds of media outlets to tout the technology.
But according to The Washington Post, Chertoff failed to disclose during many of his appearances that his consultancy, the Chertoff Group, represents a company that makes body-scanning machines, Rapiscan Systems.
The Post reports that this year the TSA bought 150 machines from Rapiscan for $25 million in stimulus funds. Rapiscan was the only company at the time that qualified for the government contract because its machines produced a less-graphic image of bodies. Another company has since become eligible for future contracts.

Photo: Susan Hallowell, the director of the Transportation Security Administration’s security laboratory, allows her body to be X-rayed by the “backscatter” machine.

Brian Branch-Price/AP

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(Thanx Fifi!)

Do check out the snow car vid at her blog too!

Sen. McCain Calls on Justice Dept. to Appeal Blackwater Massacre Case

During a visit to Iraq, Republican Senator John McCain called on the US Justice Department to appeal the dismissal of all charges against the five Blackwater operatives accused of being the shooters at the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad in 2007.

“We hope and believe that the ruling will be appealed,” McCain said while seated next to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki in Baghdad. “Our sympathy goes out to the families of those who were killed and injured in this very unfortunate and unnecessary incident.”

The Justice Department has not commented on what it plans to do. The case was dismissed on New Year’s Eve by US District Judge Ricardo Urbina, but not for lack of evidence or because the men were found not guilty. Urbina alleged that prosecutors had “recklessly violated the constitutional rights” of the Blackwater operatives by using statements the men had given after the shooting with the promise of immunity.

The five men were set to stand trial in February in Washington DC on 14 counts of manslaughter and weapons violations. A total of 17 Iraqi civilians were killed at Nisour Square and more than 20 others wounded. Some people were shot as they fled Blackwater’s forces, others while they had their hands raised in the air, according to the Justice Department.

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Cocaine cargo hidden in bananas reaches shops in Spain

Drug smugglers appear to have made a major slip-up, after huge quantities of cocaine were delivered to supermarkets in Spain hidden in boxes of bananas.Police were alerted after a shelf-stacker at a Lidl supermarket in Madrid found a brick of neatly wrapped cocaine under a bunch of the fruit on Saturday.
Searching other Lidl shops, police sniffer dogs reportedly found 25 such packets, worth several million euros.
The fruit had been shipped in from Ecuador and Ivory Coast.
Reports suggest an error by drug smugglers had led to their failing to retrieve almost 80kg (175lb) of cocaine from the boxes before they were distributed. Police said the drug packets had not made it onto supermarket shelves.
Meanwhile, Dutch police arrested five men and seized more than a tonne of cocaine hidden in a shipment of whisky from Jamaica.
With a street value of some 30m euros, the 1,100kg of cocaine was the largest Dutch seizure of drugs from the Caribbean island, Reuters reported.
Nappies and seafood
The plantain bananas had arrived at a Madrid wholesale fruit and vegetable market from the south-east port of Sagunto last week, destined for supermarkets in the Madrid area.

Lidl destroyed thousands of bananas after the discovery

Bananas were removed from shelves of the Lidl supermarkets in the capital, and a tonne of the fruit had been destroyed, said a spokesman for the German company.
"It's the first time that this has happened to Lidl in Spain - and we hope it's also the last," he told the BBC.
A police investigation into the find has spread from the capital to the eastern Caceres region.
The discovery comes weeks after police discovered 228kg of cocaine hidden in banana boxes shipped into Sagunto.
Last year Spanish police seized more than 14 tonnes of cocaine, which had been smuggled into the country in stuffed animals, nappies, seafood and, in one instance, a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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RePost: One of the greatest 7" ever

One time member of The Subterraneans Chrissie Hynde with then partner Nick Kent.

Various members of The Damned played gigs with Kent as The Subterraneans but from memory I am pretty certain that Henry Padovani played guitar on this single. The line "like a deaf mute in a phone booth" came from an interview Kent did with Lou Reed I also seem to recall.

See what sort of things I keep in my brain...

My thanx to Malcolm as this was one of my holy grails...

My Flamingo/Veiled Women

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Hermine Demoriane

 'Veiled Women' / 'Dub'

Written with Nick Kent.