Music

Walking roads of awareness
Half your footsteps inscribed by mine
Together we can reach our dreams
Even those comprising sky

Lover friend, i promise a state
To share our minds and space
I swear on our hearts to protect
Cosmic peace hope and respect

I pledge to strive for my absolute best to keep my sense of humor
Handle our difference with reflection and paitience
Nurturing forgivness
I promise to trust and respect you
I promise to be
With you
I am confident that i am me
Whatever that means

Cherish your uniqueness
Shelter our comfort
Handle my instinct insight of you
What we're yet to be
Become what we're yet to be

My stance is the stance of one who stands the test of fire.
My drum the raging force of burning, over-come desire.
I sway to the beat of my own raging beating drum.
I dance my fire-dance like only few can yet inspire.

People dance with fire, yet I dance to my own flame.
My fire is my turban, and my flame is my own name.
In this crazy world, I choose to play yet I refrain,
from playing any game but the one I find INSANE!

The game I choose to play is the game Allmighty ONE,
has made for us to learn with every daughter every son.
The game of learning more; of seeking out our truth galore.
The game of finding who we are, whatever makes us run.

This - , my crazy world is seeking not in sanity.
Living mass delusion, preaching MASS insanity.
Thus insane, the game pulls my burning heart to play.
To seek out my own answers, to make out my own way.

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Check out here to see how wide the damage is...
Coast Guard's response criticized as the 58,000-gallon slick creeps up the Marin County coastline and the toll on wildlife climbs.
By Eric Bailey, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 10, 2007
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Friday for the San Francisco Bay Area as an oil spill continued to coat some of the state's most storied coastline and imperil marine wildlife.
The declaration commits state money and resources for what he vowed would be an exhaustive battle to clean up the 58,000-gallon spill from the container vessel Cosco Busan.
The 810-foot ship smacked the base of a San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge tower in dense fog Wednesday morning, breaching the vessel's hull and pouring bunker fuel into the bay.
U.S. Coast Guard officials said Friday that a full investigation of the accident was underway and apologized for delays in warning Bay Area officials and the public about the escalating scale of the spill.
The Coast Guard initially said that just 140 gallons of fuel had oozed out, and then failed to update local officials or the public for more than 12 hours as the extent of the spill grew.
Outraged by the delay, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom threatened legal action, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) sent a testy letter to the Coast Guard commandant. On Friday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) also demanded accountability.
Rear Adm. Craig Bone, the Coast Guard's top officer in California and other Western states, said the delay was "not acceptable" but defended the emergency response as appropriately aggressive.
The initial cleanup crew -- a quick-strike response team operating a skimmer boat that vacuums oil residue off the water -- arrived at the site within 90 minutes, authorities said. By Thursdaymorning, authorities had gotten aircraft to survey the scene and 11 skimmer boats had been dispatched.
"You always put out everything you can because you can always fall back," Bone said.
After the governor met with officials in San Francisco, he said he was satisfied with the pace and scope of the cleanup efforts.
His proclamation directed a state office that responds to spills to tap an industry-financed trust fund to help pay for the cleanup.
The owner of the Cosco Busan, Regal Stone Ltd. of Hong Kong, is already picking up the cost of the waterborne cleanup effort, which is being handled by a private firm. Coast Guard officials have vowed to hold the "responsible parties" accountable.
Although the oil slick remains largely inside the bay, tidal action and winds have spread the spill up the Marin County coastline as far as Stinson Beach, 15 miles north. A dozen beaches have been closed. Berkeley officials shut down their busy marina and stretched a boom across its mouth to keep out more oil.
State park officials shut down Angel Island, and the swim portions of two triathlons scheduled for this weekend were canceled.
Wildlife authorities said the number of birds caught in the spill continues to climb, with 94 taken in for treatment and 28 found dead. Scores of wildlife experts and volunteers are combing the shorelines for oil-blackened birds.
Meanwhile, the investigation into the cause of the accident continued as details emerged about the harbor captain who was piloting the vessel.
Capt. John Cota, 59, has been a master mariner for more than a quarter century. But since the early 1990s he has been investigated in four separate incidents and last year was issued a letter of reprimand for running a ship aground on a sandbar while navigating up the San Joaquin River, according to the Board of Pilot Commissioners.
In the Bay Area, where strong tides and shifting channel beds make piloting giant vessels a testy chore, grounding is "generally not a big thing" because the vessels typically can push free of the mud without damage, said Capt. Patrick Moloney, the board's executive director.
Moloney said Cota had piloted more than 3,000 vessels in or out of Bay Area waters over a 27-year career.
His 99.95% safe transit record was only slightly below average for the 61 master mariners who ply Bay Area waters, Moloney said.
The incidents were relatively minor aside from running the ship aground, Moloney said.
Coast Guard investigators said Cota and the crew of the Cosco Busan tested negative for alcohol. Drug test results were not yet available.
Investigators were focusing Friday on potential miscommunications between the officer on watch and the helmsman, as well as shipping traffic authoritiesin the minutes before the accident.
Cota was interviewed Thursday morning by Coast Guard investigators and answered every question put to him, said G. Ross Wheatley, the chief investigator.
Various factors, including the fog, played into the delays in assessing how much fuel spilled, Coast Guard officials said.
eric.bailey@latimes.com

Thurs. Nov. 8, $5, SF's lovely eagle taverness. 2 bands from seattle and dugs new shtick:

Before I went I called and got Dug  on the horn and he said the first band would come on at 9:45  and sure nuff they did, he said his band would come on at 10:30 and sure nufff, 10:40, yet another reason (besides the great sound and the cool patio, etc) to love the lovely SF Eagle Tavern.  Free ear plugs condoms and matches.

Dug's pal videotaped this and I got a lot on minidisk, a great clean recording, due as much to the band's great sound as to the eagle room's great acoustics, let alone my own cavalier mic placement…..thank goddess I taped this cause at first I didn't appreciate it, but hearing it the next night, clean, in the living room, I'm convinced once again that this is the shit.

First impression: this was good but not great. But I taped it and man do I reverse this assessment. Dug has been playin' w/waycross or in cover bands all this time, and while he's been uncorking the bomb instrumentally, and w/arrangements, it's been a while since I heard him play his own compositions. (Like 10 years since hedonist?)

What a fuckin' joy then to hear these all dug songs, tho' it threw me at first, luckily I taped it and, like all great things, it took repeated reckonin's till appreciated, but it sunk in.

Gift horse esque (I only say that cause that's my fave hilsinger tone-era) and totally on the Hamer guitar, so this came from his heart, not his strat.

The vocals still sound like Hedonist. I'd love to know what the fuck he was singing about, tho' he intro'd each song diligently:

First song (this band's first song ever): "this one is about hope"
Next: "This song is about Perseverence!"
3rd song: (and I'm taping every note) "This song is about [sneer] worship."
4th song: (a ploddin' "love song") "This one's a lumbering ox…..but she's a pretty bird once she get's flying." And plod tho' she did, it was on the wings of some extreme Dug/Fiddle/Other guitarist jamming that she indeed eventually took flight.

Great guitar, both dug and the krumenacher look alike on the whammy, not to mention the fiddle, whoever that little fiddle guy was.  That 4th song was indeed a high doe doe bird, once she got off, with fx – laden solo and violin-underneath interlude. 

After this dug says: "slumpadelical !" (or sumpthin' like dat.) "Thanks for coming out for our maiden voyage."  

 

5^th song: “This one’s about good Karma.”
6th Song: "This one is about vengeance (mighta sed: "begging"?) and jealousy"

My initial response was that this was Dug as songwriter and singer not playin enuf solos for my taste.

Actually there were hella tite solos abounding and they were classic dug, blowing the blue off the roof  of course, but lotsa concentration on the (pretty tight and actually brilliant) arrangements, too.

Bassie was drinking a bud.

Dug is one of my fave guitarists, and he was loud and in my face tonite. Audience was completely into this.  Certainly dug has the ability to attract and choose only the best talent with whom to play and tonite they were on these complicated songs like two coats of paint. Obviously he's a really nice guy and the environment of his performances reflects this too…..But let's not forget his ability as an arranger.

Extremely (!) loud, such that ear plugs and fingers on top of that still left me ringing as I sit here now (that was right after the show). I had a plug in one ear and extravagant paper over that and people kept telling me: "Hey there are free ear plugs at the end of the bar."

Some good ol' great gift-horse-esque diminished runs, no slide, but like I say a couple solos left smoking craters of my mind.

Krumenacherlook a like is no Patrick Godwin and the non-Bruce drummer is no Bruce, but I've seen this crew before, i believe they did one of his enorchestra shows, and i love them

 

a far flung correspondent writes:

 

Fri, Nove 9 Speakeasy brewry free: you guys missed a hella kewl gig,last brewski i'm a little 2 smashed kewl covers of link wray, zep ("4  sticks"), and zappa ("peaches en regaiia") reverbed out surf stylee

pollo del marbassie onna 5-string, tele, strat, anna drummie with a lotta tomaction and mundo cymbals"double daddy" imperial ipa kicks ass + big daddy ipa is still the  best + together = smasheroonieyer corespondent, lost in the ozone,  Wayne

Thurs. Nov. 8, $5, SF's lovely eagle taverness. 2 bands from seattle and dugs new shtick:

Dug's pal videotaped this and I got a lot on minidisk, a great clean recording, due as much to the band's great sound as to the eagle room's great acoustics, let alone my own cavalier mic placement…..thank goddess I taped this cause at first I didn't appreciate it, but hearing it the next night, clean, in the living room, I'm convinced once again that this is the shit.

First impression: this was good but not great. But I taped it and man do I reverse this assessment. Dug has been playin' w/waycross or in cover bands all this time, and while he's been uncorking the bomb instrumentally, and w/arrangements, it's been a while since I heard him play his own compositions. (Like 10 years since hedonist?)

What a fuckin' joy then to hear these all dug songs, tho' it threw me at first, luckily I taped it and, like all great things, it took repeated reckonin's till appreciated, but it sunk in.

Gift horse esque (I only say that cause that's my fave hilsinger tone-era) and totally on the Hamer guitar, so this came from his heart, not his strat.

The vocals still sound like Hedonist. I'd love to know what the fuck he was singing about, tho' he intro'd each song diligently:

First song (this band's first song ever): "this one is about hope"
Next: "This song is about Perseverence!"
3rd song: (and I'm taping every note) "This song is about [sneer] worship."
4th song: (a ploddin' "love song") "This one's a lumbering ox…..but she's a pretty bird once she get's flying." And plod tho' she did, it was on the wings of some extreme Dug/Fiddle/Other guitarist jamming that she indeed eventually took flight.

Great guitar, both dug and the krumenacher look alike on the whammy, not to mention the fiddle, whoever that little fiddle guy was. This, the 4th song was a high flying bird, once she got off, with fx – laden solo and violin-underneath interlude. 

After this dug says: "slumpadelical !" (or sumpthin' like dat.) "Thanks for coming out for our maiden voyage."

5^th song: “This one’s about good Karma.”
6th Song: "This one is about vengeance (mighta sed: "begging"?) and jealousy"

My initial response was that this was Dug as songwriter and singer not playin enuf solos for my taste.

Actually there were hella tite solos abounding and they were classic dug, blowing the blue off the roof  of course, but lotsa concentration on the (pretty tight and actually brilliant) arrangements, too.

Bassie was drinking a bud.

Dug is one of my fave guitarists, and he was loud and in my face tonite. Audience was completely into this.  Certainly dug has the ability to attract and choose only the best talent with whom to play and tonite they were on these complicated songs like two coats of paint. Obviously he's a really nice guy and the environment of his performances reflects this too…..But let's not forget his ability as an arranger.

Extremely (!) loud, such that ear plugs and fingers on top of that still left me ringing as I sit here now (that was right after the show). I had a plug in one ear and extravagant paper over that and people kept telling me: "Hey there are free ear plugs at the end of the bar."

Some good ol' great gift-horse-esque diminished runs, no slide, but like I say a couple solos left smoking craters of my mind.

Krumenacherlook a like is no Patrick Godwin and the non-Bruce drummer is no Bruce, but I've seen this crew before, i believe they did one of his enorchestra shows, and i love them

Sunday, Oct. 28 Free Amoeba instore: Thurston Moore “We have no name” and Steve the drummer from Snobic Youth, a violin and another guitar and bass. Chris something or other got up for one last song. She’s his housemate along with his wife, kid and a cat I think named licorice. But of course, you only care about the gear. Left to right, Other guitarist played a Martin looked like a d-18 mighta been a cheapo martin, another guitar a cut away acoustic. These went into a blackface twin. He played some slide (big brass third finger w/pick.) His floor toys were a Maxon (?) Flanger, a Over Drive of indeterminate pedigree, one of those round distortion (?) Zen (?) stomper and a boss tuner. Bass had a blue P but it had some weird pickups or just pickguards and it was a SVT w/ a 4/10 half stack cab. Drummie is quite good and he played w/mallets at one point. Moore on his own Martin D-18 style and a “Blue Ridge” the roadie called it a “cheapo” into another black face twin, mighta been a floor toy in their, and a huge strobe tuner. Fiddle was acoustic but w/a pick up into a huge bassman black face. This was okay but by no means great. I’m a huge fan of sonic youth (live anyway) but I prefer renaldo (their other guitzy). Anyway they came out (20 minutes late) and had some funny banter ( moore ’s a cool guy wearing a hand painted tshirt over a collar shirt) he asked who the best “true black metal” band is. They started out w/a trademark feedback distorto noise blast and that went right into a song. The songs all sounded alike and were kinda puerile. One was about two women. “They’re in love.” The tones tho, were, of course, excellent. Sometimes the slide and the fiddle would mesh, you couldn’t tell which was which and they would hit a high and lonesome thing. The guest singer had great harmonies with Moore , you don’t really think of them as a singing band, but he’s got a good vox. She’s in some band w/the (female) fiddle player. They played about half an hour and that was fine, I was getting bored, but it was cool reading the liner notes on old blues albums while half of sonic youth blasted new mostly acoustic shit behind me for free in the middle of the afternoon. They’re SF show is tomorrow nite, so I guess they like hanging out here. Moore broke a string. He said, hey, that’s the first time I broke a string this tour. Someone corrected him (the second time.) the way he plays (and I think I remember this from previous shows) he tends to break strings. I saw sonic youth here for free last year. His set list was written on a paper plate. The band was very tight, but the songs pretty pedestrian. Not a lot of leads. The slide was mostly atmosphere. Moore takes no leads at all, it was the ringer who sometimes played some very pedestrian lead lines, sometimes doubled w/the fiddle. The fiddle basically was atmosphere too, no Arnold Steinhardt, at least not playing like him this show.

Beijing Special Report:2008 Olympic Games Shanghai, Oct. 21 (Xinhua)   Oscar-winning Chinese musician Tan Dun said at an ongoing arts festival that he is going to employ "organic music" - produced by basic natural elements such as water and paper - in his rock-and-roll production for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.  The music, which is still in the middle of production, will make use of sounds in the movements of Chinese athletes, such as "sounds of water splashes by diver Guo Jingjing, ball hits by basketball player Yao Ming and race-starting of hurdler Liu Xiang", Tan said at the 9th China Shanghai International Arts Festival that opened last Thursday.

Tan, winner of the Grammy and Oscar awards for his soundtracks of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", had participated in music production for Beijing's 2008 Olympic Bid Film. The native of central China's Hunan Province is one of the musical planners for the opening ceremony, award granting ceremonies and a theme song for the Beijing Olympics.

    "I am just one of the Olympic Volunteers who take part in the Olympic music planning," said Tan.

    Tan earlier said his favorite athletes are diver Guo Jingjing, basketball player Yao Ming and hurdler Liu Xiang, who is world and Olympic champion in the men's 110m hurdles. Tan said he could "sense musical tempos in their movements".

    "They are natural sounds embodying sports passion, which are quite touching," said Tan, adding that in his eyes the three are all musicians because he could "see colors and hear music in their movement rhythm".

    Tan is currently testing his idea of bending these sounds of movement in rock music. It was said he had put microphones under the water of Shanghai Swimming Pool to record the sounds created by divers.

    "I often think of the scene around the Liuyang river in my hometown, people washing clothes in the river and the musicality of the sounds of water never cease," Tan said, calling water "the tears of nature".

    Tan acknowledged his idea of using water as an instrument originated from childhood memories. "This is sound from the nature, which could create different pictures in different hearts," he said.

    At the ongoing arts festival, said to be the largest in China, Tan staged his "organic concerto of water and paper" created respectively on commission of the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic for the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

    At the Water Concerto, percussionists drummed the surface of the water by hand or with glasses in a number of large, clear, transparent water basins on stage. They also used a range of instruments such as bowls, tubes, shakers, bottles and bells, which were immersed in the basins, and rhythmically rocked them to create "extraordinary sound effects".

    Three Japanese percussionists drummed, tore, blew, shook, crumpled and slapped papers, cardboards, boxes, paper bags and paper umbrellas on the stage in the Paper Concerto, to show "how ordinary paper objects from daily life can create sounds of longing and suffering as well as loving".

    Anne-Marie Slaughtee from the United States, who currently teaches in Shanghai, said after the concert that Tan Dun is able to introduce oriental culture to the west through a creative method.

    Tan's "organic music" attempt, beginning at the end of the 1980s, incorporates sounds and instruments from the natural world - water, wind, ceramics and paper - to create a new type of "experiencing music", which also echoes traditional Chinese culture of "human life being in a highly harmony with nature".

    Hosted by the Ministry of Culture and sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal Government, the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, which will run through a month, has become a major cultural gala and an artistic pageant.

Friday, Sept 28, 2007, Justin Herman Plaza, Free, Harvey Mandel, this was billed as the “Lost Legends” and in addition to Harvey “the Snake” Mandel, there was the indomitable Freddie Roulette, as well as Curtis Lawson, Eugene Huggins, Lisa Kindred, Michael Bobridge and Michael Warren. 

 This was a noon-1:30 show by the bay in SF’s financial district to kick off the 35^th annual blues festival, and despite a 15 minute rain delay, and sporadic lite drops thru the show (went to exactly 1:29) there was a decent sized, if somewhat rasty, crowd...older, and smoking pot, the President of Vallejo's 81, and one of the Invertebrates’ drummers (not to mention one of their guitarists) as well as Frank Chu with an entirely new, and incomprehensible, sign.

Now this was pretty good.   Snake on a dark sunburst fly w/whammy and roland midi pickup into several boss and other foot switches into the roland including its expression pedal, into a blond tweed fender deluxe (?) 2/12. 

We like the Snake, he has that whatever, so tho’ his ideas weren’t necessarily ground shaking, his vibe def was.   Tone varied from annoyin high end snake bite to delicious harp sample-based (?) lush. 

Blues and more blues.  Lotsa instrumentals. Only one song: the final song wasn’t blues: a funky one-chord vamp  called “Wadin’ in Water”  that ended the set, this tune a Mandel signature.  Everyone took a solo on this one.  Bassie was great on his bass: a Modulus 6 string natural dark stain finish into a couple SWR’s, He was good and the only guy not wearing all black.

Then here comes the legendary Freddie Roulette on incomparable lap steel guitar, his tone incredible, vocal, crying, harp-like, harmonica-like.  He sang “Lucille” and did a call and response w/vocal sounds from his geetar, excellent, no really, that one.

I believe their drummer was chewing gum.

Various singers jumped up: Lawson and the babe, and the harp guy: Eugene Huggins.

 Mandel intro’d Roulette: “I went to Chicago, a 16 yr old.  Found a blues bar and as I show up, I hear the most amazing guitar I’ve ever heard…..and it was Freddie.”  That must have been in the 1890’s. Eugene Huggins Mandel called Huggins his “favorite harp player.”

Mandel sat down a couple times, still playin', when not soloing.  “Wadin’ in Water” had an extremely trippy delay/modulation solo.  His psychedelic excursions, and there were quite a few despite the blues blues blues, were excellent and trippy.  Lotsa very fast runs but some long, sustained, painfullly long-held notes too.  

The bass player is “Merl Saunders’ Bass Player”.  Lisa Kindred jumped up and sang a couple.  Curtis Lawson was in an amazing red suit and said, “It’s great to be in SF on a Friday Night!” (sic)