Thursday, 19 August 2010

Jimmy & Bill

Jet black leather machine: the wild wild world of Vince Taylor


Last Palestinian linked to 1972 Munich massacre dies

Amin al-Hindi listens to an Israeli soldier at the Netzarim crossing with Gaza (11 January 2001) 
Amin al-Hindi disappeared from public life for 22 years following the Munich massacre
A funeral has been held for a Palestinian said to have been involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre in which 11 Israeli athletes died.
The ceremony for Amin al-Hindi was held in Ramallah, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and senior Palestinian leaders present. He was buried in Gaza.
Mr Hindi, who died aged 70 in Jordan on Tuesday, led the General Intelligence Service under the late Yasser Arafat.
In the 1970s, he was a security officer in the PLO's ruling Fatah movement.
He is alleged to have then also been a member of Black September, a militant offshoot of Fatah behind the Munich attacks.
Two Israelis were killed by the group at the athletes' village, and nine more died in a botched rescue attempt by the German police. A German policeman and five Palestinian gunmen were also killed.
Peace talks
The Palestinian envoy to Jordan, Ata Khairy, said Mr Hindi died of cancer of the liver and pancreas at the King Hussein Medical Centre in Amman.
Mahmoud Abbas attends the funeral of Amin al-Hindi in Ramallah (18 August 2010)  
Mahmoud Abbas was among the Palestinian leaders who attended the funeral
He had slipped into a coma after undergoing surgery last week, Mr Khairy added.
With the death of Mr Hindi, there are not thought to be any more Palestinians linked to the Munich massacre still alive.
He disappeared for 22 years following the attacks, before emerging as the commander of the General Intelligence. He also served as an adviser to the Palestinian delegation during peace talks with Israel in the 1990s.
Last month, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Munich massacre, Mohammed Oudeh - who led Black September under his guerrilla name, Abu Daoud - died in Damascus at the age of 73.
Following the attack, Israel assassinated a number of Palestinians whom it believed were involved. Oudeh survived one attempt to kill him.

David Toop & Max Eastley - New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments

LP released on Eno's Obscure label 1975

Max Eastley: Hydrophone, Metallophone, Centriphone, Aerophone
David Toop: voice, Prepared Electric Guitar, Bowed Chordophone, flute, water
Frank Perry: percussion
Paul Burwell: Bass Drums, Lorry Hub, String Fiddle
Brian Eno: Prepared Bass Guitar, vocals
Hugh Davies: grill harp
Chris Munro: vocals
Phil Jones: vocals
In 1974, David Toop published a book titled 'New/Rediscovered Instruments', a survey of self-build instruments in the UK, including articles on the likes of Hugh Davies, Paul Burwell, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, David Toop and Max Eastley. From 1972, he ran a BBC radio show co-hosted with Eastley, mixing ethnic music with home made field recordings, a novelty at the time (information above from Toop's book Ocean Of Sound, 1995). 'The Divination Of The Bowhead Whale' is structured by Frank Perry's sparse gong reverberations, the ensemble resuming playing only after the end of a specific gong strike. Perry played percussion on the legendary 1973 Ovary Lodge LP with Keith Tippet. The track also embarks Hugh Davies' grill harp and a bowed guitar. The music sounds like a field recording from a zen garden ceremony. Toop's opening and closing tracks explore the fragility of his hushed falsetto, be it backed by sparse instruments on 'The Chairs Story', or acappela with a few chorus interjections from Eno, Munro and Jones on the finale. Using nature and natural elements as musical source and/or instruments is one of Max Eastley's most striking skills. His self-build hydrophone, for instance, produces a striking banshee-like whining sound, complete with the river stream and wind recording. The comparison with Henry Cowell's 'The Banshee' (1925) and 'The Aeolian Harp' (1923) is interesting (listen here). Besides, there's something gothic and unsettling in the sounds here, not unlike some Walter Scott ghost story. The Elastic Aerophone is a wind-propelled instrument similar to the one featured in the gorgeous video below. The whole LP is quite unique and hard to categorize.
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Finger on the pulse department!


Sure doesn't. Must be overdose only. RT @exilestreet: @Dirk57 alcohol figure in this story makes NO sense http://tinyurl.com/2bk6qru
@Dirk57 @exilestreet @Dirk57 all the figures reflect the main drug contributing to death, most if not all are poly-drug use. 
@Dirk57 @exilestreet @Dirk57 usually a mix of 2 or more of heroin, benzo, alcohol & methadone. 
The fatal mix-hard to pick the culprit. RT @SHM5: @Dirk57 @exilestreet usually a mix of 2 or more of heroin, benzo, alcohol & methadone.  
Stephen HellerMurphy SHM5 @Dirk57 @exilestreet the cause of death in the Scottish DRD reports are from the coroner's toxicology etc but still hard to tell.  

Wyclef Jean in hiding after Haiti death threat

Bloody hell!!!

Jeeeesus!!


Churchgoers are outraged over a crucifix in a Catholic church they say shows Jesus with exposed genitalia.
Janet Jaime is the artist who designed the crucifix hanging in St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. She was unavailable for comment, but her husband said critics are misinterpreting a common religious icon.
“This isn't just a subjective drawing. This is a historical icon of the church,” said Reggie Jaime, husband of Janet Jaime, an Oklahoma City iconographer commissioned by the church to design the crucifix. “I can't help what you see in things, or she sees in things, or anyone.”
(tulsaworld 4/14/2010)

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

REpost: The Grateful Dead with David Murray live at Madison Square Garden 22nd September 1993



Following on from David Murray's version of 'Dark Star' yesterday.
David Murray live with the Grateful Dead in 1993
HERE
Tracks are: 'Estimated Prophet - Dark Star - Drums & Space'
What can I say about this?
Well by this time Jerry Garcia was just mostly noodling (and nodding) and that had an obvious adverse effect on the rest of the band.
Murray's Ayler like sax obviously works better on these more free-form Dead workouts but I would have loved to have heard him play with them 20 years earlier.

Grinderman - Super Heathen Child (with Robert Fripp)

   

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