OK - I am outta here for a while...out'n'about w/ Spaceboy tomorrow followed by Dronestock just up the hill. Maybe I will see you there or across the road at The Wesley Anne between bands?
Managed to have a really great cold instead...*sigh*
An edit of a live recording of Seaworthy performing at the Northcote Uniting Church, Victoria, in October 2010 as posted on live music blog The Occasional Archivist
When the stranger unbolted the cell door and whispered for them to
hurry, Rahim assumed that somewhere in the prison a fight must have
broken out. It was the middle of the night, and normally the heavy metal
door remained locked until the morning call to prayer. For the past
five months, Rahim had shared this cell, in Kandahar's Sarposa Prison,
with five other captured insurgents, two of whom he'd fought alongside
in the fiercely contested district of Panjwai. Now, from where they lay
on old blankets and cushions on the floor, all five gazed uncertainly at
the man standing in their doorway. "We are your friends," the man said.
"There is a tunnel over here. Come quickly and get inside it."
Rahim and his cellmates stepped into the prison's dimly lit lime
green corridor. At the passageway's far end, a metal gate sealed the
cell-block entrance. Every ten feet or so, solid black doors led to more
communal cells. Nearly 500 Taliban occupied this part of Sarposa,
called the political block. Some were military commanders and
shadow-government officials, others hardened foot soldiers and young
recruits. Their arrests represented years of effort by coalition forces
to quell a resuscitated insurgency and impose some semblance of law in
one of the least stable regions in Afghanistan. Following the stranger
down the long hall, Rahim noticed that most of the cells were now empty... MORE
Guitar fans have had a rough couple of days. Yesterday brilliant folk and country guitarist Doc Watson
died at age 89. This morning, according to the private Facebook page of
fellow guitarist and collaborator Vernon Reid, Chicago's own Pete Cosey
died at 68. Obituaries
and remembrances for Watson have already appeared all over, and
deservedly so—few instrumentalists so completely absorbed America's folk
and country traditions, and fewer still brought such quiet virtuosity
to them. Watson was a key catalyst in the folk revival after his
discovery by producer Ralph Rinzler in 1960.
Pete Cosey, on the other hand, was a classic musician's musician;
he's not especially well-known, though he played on tons of classic
records. As such, word of his passing is traveling rather more slowly.
Cosey was a key session musician at Chess Records in the 60s, appearing
on sides by Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, the Rotary Connection, and Etta
James, and he worked with the great Phil Cohran
in the latter's Artistic Heritage Ensemble. He's probably most famous,
though (to the extent that he's famous at all), for his mind-melting
work with Miles Davis in the early 70s: he played on the trumpeter's
heaviest, most electric albums, including Agharta, Pangaea, and Get Up With It.
After Davis broke up the band in 1975 and went into semi-retirement,
Cosey was never able to build the solo career he so richly deserved. He
used his guitar like an abstract expressionist painter, creating thick,
richly textured solos with fierce rhythmic power, dazzling colors, and
nonchalant violence. He continued to appear on records here and there,
including Herbie Hancock's Future Shock and an album with
Japanese saxophonist Akira Sakata, but he always seemed to be planning
his own next project, which never quite materialized.
( Chicago Reader)
via Ed Kuepper and Mark Stewart on FB
November 3, 1973
Stadthalle, Vienna (Austria)
Miles Davis (tpt,
org); Dave Liebman (ss, ts, fl); Pete Cosey (g, perc); Reggie Lucas (g);
Michael Henderson (el-b); Al Foster (d); James Mtume Forman (cga, perc)
