Music for 2021

[Laodicean]

Most days, as I'm selling my pictures on the street, I'm standing right next to Ed Alleyne-Johnson (violinist in the video above) as he plays his heart out to earn a few quid.

My son aspires to be busking on the streets with his accordian, and my daughter is talented...

I have my moments as we all do. Mostly pencil, some graphite wash.

...like you, with her artwork.
Wouldn't that be special.
Is that a self-portrait, Harvey?

^ hot damn. some personal RI drama bleeding in to my music for 2021 thread.

It makes sense. It really does:

[Harvey]

Wouldn't that be special.

It's freedom. The portrait is of a friend who sits nearby most days. What Covid meant to him was that he had a warm bed, a shower and some privacy for the first time in a while. Our leaders discovered they could in fact solve homelessness, if it would look extremely bad for their narrative. It sold almost immediately (and yes, of course, I shared the loot 50/50 with him.)

[Harvey]

Oh, I see what you meant. Yes, it's often a drag having to struggle and I'm aware that came through in my other comment, but that was also a portrait, while another side of the same picture is that after all these years, I'm not doing anything else. Why would I? It's a difficult life and entirely my choice, about that, I have no regrets.

[conniption]

^^^ What I meant? idk...I wasn't trying to sound snarky like the church lady, really... just being funny is all. Honestly I think it's great and look forward to the day...

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Welcome back Laodicean.

Γιώργος Γεωργόπουλος- SOLO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjHd_MkV8SY


Shri gurudev Kailash musical sandal party Fiskuti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyoiCXR ... LL&index=2

[Laodicean]

[Laodicean]

[Harvey]

[Harvey]

Man With a Movie Camera, soundtrack. Cinematic Orchestra.

[Laodicean]

[conniption]

Jim Kweskin - Sophie's Back In Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kCnfwT7zlU
AMSDconcerts
May 21, 2008

I posted the above video at RI on Dec. 31, 2009 along with an open letter to Jim Kweskin...I'm sorry...did you say you wanted more drama here on the music thread? ...or less?

~
Jim Kweskin - Sophie's Back In Town"



Dear Jim,

You gave a concert at Kent State University in 1970 and I was there.

I was surprised you performed without your jug band. Little did I know what you were into at that time. ( What Ever Happened to Jim Kweskin? )

Anyway after the concert, it may have been the following day, I saw you sitting all alone on a wooden bench inside one of the buildings as students hurried about on their way to class. You were wearing a black knit cap and a pea coat, and seemed absorbed in the book you were reading, which happened to be The Godfather.

More than anything else in the world I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your performance, but my heart would not stop racing and I couldn't muster up the courage to shower you with the adoration I felt inside. One smile from you or one word of kindness would have been all it took to sweep me off my feet at that moment. So I guess it was a good thing, because being so young and vulnerable I would have followed you anywhere. (gulp)

Several years later I wrote you a letter asking about a song you sang, Simple Boy, and you wrote back to me with the words and chords to that song.

Some of my best memories of that time, were of playing and singing your songs with our makeshift family jug band. I played guitar and sang, my sister played fiddle, her husband guitar, one brother played banjo, one brother on the washtub bass and my mom played harmonica.

Good times.

Then here recently, well I guess it was back in March and April, I came across the articles posted about your relationship with Mel Lyman. You can say I was a little disappointed...no... troubled by...no wait a minute, Jim, I was shocked...yes shocked.

I continue to try to make excuses for what happened like, "It must have been that hit on the head." or "It must have been the acid."

Whatever. The music is not the same anymore. Not as free and easy and fun.

I see on youtube, you're still out and about and performing with Geoff Muldaur and that's good. I'm glad.

I'd be even more glad if perhaps someday we could hear your side of the story? or idk, maybe an apology if one is due?

Your Friend,
Terry

*******


re: "hit on the head"

"And Kweskin was dealing. Kweskin was a pretty heavy dealer - top quality 'A' reefer, strictly grass. Then Jim had a really bad experience. He went to New York to pick up some grass, and some people ripped him off. They bashed him over the head with a brick - he was almost killed. It was a very traumatic experience for him, really turned his head around about a lot of things. This was in '65. I don't think he ever dealt after that again. It seemed to be a turning point in his life and, I would say from a distance, the Jug Band's life."

re: The Godfather

Two other books, I later discovered, were especially important on the Hill and had been read by everyone: The Godfather, because, as one girl put it, "We're just like the Mafia up here." And Instant Replay, because Mel digs football, really digs it, particularly televised professional football. During the season all four communities devote their weekends to it (and now Monday nights, thanks to the ABC network), usually watching two games at once on side-by-side color TVs. It all has to do with a team of people working as one unit at the direction of one man or something.

~

[thrulookingglass]

Always loved Mike. Rather insightful.

[Iamwhomiam]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-_9cwdLug



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QofmL_UqmCY



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFf-qGxxT18

Wisdom Cries

We go way back in time (time)
Through diamond eyes
We go running
Way back in time
Through diamond eyes

We gotta go back to the start
Back 'til we are back home
We gotta go back to the start
Back 'til we are back home

Tick-tock, tick-tock
Tick-tock, tick
Where is the light?
Are we meant to go down again?
We go down

Lightening strikes
Wisdom cries
It's an emergency, emergency
Conscious all night
No one's surprised
As long as we emergency
Emergency, emergency

Wisdom cries
Wisdom cries
Wisdom cries
Wisdom cries
Wisdom cries
Wisdom cries

[Laodicean]

RIP BIZ

[Harvey]

Vesuvius







Floyd Live at Pompeii

[conniption]

PIPELINEFUNK - concert / Saxophone with a crazy natural echo from the pipeline / Armin Küpper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8GcHoSIPDg
Armin Küpper
Jun 9, 2020
"Pipelinefunk" - Armin Küpper...my music at: https://ffm.bio/mbor0qj (Deutsch unten )
When I was preparing for my recording session on the tube, I got a visitor here and gave a little spontaneous concert.