Well, from what I can see, it was a spectacular day in the bloggosphere and PEACE REIGNED EVERYWHERE!
Work was a total PITA yesterday and I barely made it around to your blogs - hell I never even got to eat lunch!
When I got home I put on a song that helps me to push the world away and allows my brain to settle...
My dear friend LeeLee had written me yesterday telling me she had heard it on XM Radio and it just snapped into my brain. She said they had done a mix of MOUNTAIN JAM into SCARLETT BEGONIAS and I just was so overjoyed.
I am totally exhausted and hope to visit some more blogs when I complete this, but be assured, if I have not been to visit, I will soon...
Work was a total PITA yesterday and I barely made it around to your blogs - hell I never even got to eat lunch!
When I got home I put on a song that helps me to push the world away and allows my brain to settle...
My dear friend LeeLee had written me yesterday telling me she had heard it on XM Radio and it just snapped into my brain. She said they had done a mix of MOUNTAIN JAM into SCARLETT BEGONIAS and I just was so overjoyed.
I am totally exhausted and hope to visit some more blogs when I complete this, but be assured, if I have not been to visit, I will soon...
June 17, 1940 — June 1, 2008Sadly, we also lost another huge contributor to the 60's music scene the other morning. Once again, the news came to us from Starrlight, who had to tell us she had his posters in her bedroom when she was two years old! Someday I plan on meeting her AND her mom and dad...I think it would be cool!
Many probably have no clue who he is, but along with his partner they created artwork that will last forever.
Kelley died Sunday of complications from osteoporosis in his Petaluma home, according to his publicist, Jennifer Gross.
The artwork that Kelley and his lifelong collaborator, Stanley Mouse, churned out from their studio, a converted firehouse where Janis Joplin first rehearsed with Big Brother and the Holding Company, was iconic. It included dozens of classic rock posters, including the famous Grateful Dead “skull and roses” poster designed for a show at the Avalon Ballroom, as well as posters and album covers for Journey, Steve Miller, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles.
For inspiration, the pair scrutinized old etchings and photos, took in the youth culture of the time and dug through public libraries, often breaking into laughter until they were asked to leave by the librarian, Mouse recalled.
“We were just having fun making posters,” Mouse told the San Francisco Chronicle. “There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in a furious moment.”
Born on June 17, 1940, Kelley met Mouse in 1965, at the epicenter of the hippie movement — San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district — and soon recognized their ability to work together, in their words “riffing off each other’s giggle.”
In recent years, Kelley’s artwork focused on paintings of hot rods and custom cars, which were sold as fine art and printed on T-shirts.
He is survived by his wife Marguerite Trousdale Kelley; their children Patty, Yosarian and China; his mother, his sister and two grandchildren.
Memorial plans are pending.
Let's just look at some of the work he and his partner did and listen to some of the music that inspired them....(click on all to enlarge)
Many probably have no clue who he is, but along with his partner they created artwork that will last forever.
This is from the Associated Press:(I am breaking the law posting it...but they say it so well)
Artist Alton Kelley, who created the psychedelic style of posters and other art associated with the 1960s San Francisco rock scene, has died. He was 67.
Kelley died Sunday of complications from osteoporosis in his Petaluma home, according to his publicist, Jennifer Gross.
The artwork that Kelley and his lifelong collaborator, Stanley Mouse, churned out from their studio, a converted firehouse where Janis Joplin first rehearsed with Big Brother and the Holding Company, was iconic. It included dozens of classic rock posters, including the famous Grateful Dead “skull and roses” poster designed for a show at the Avalon Ballroom, as well as posters and album covers for Journey, Steve Miller, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles.
For inspiration, the pair scrutinized old etchings and photos, took in the youth culture of the time and dug through public libraries, often breaking into laughter until they were asked to leave by the librarian, Mouse recalled.
“We were just having fun making posters,” Mouse told the San Francisco Chronicle. “There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in a furious moment.”
Born on June 17, 1940, Kelley met Mouse in 1965, at the epicenter of the hippie movement — San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district — and soon recognized their ability to work together, in their words “riffing off each other’s giggle.”
In recent years, Kelley’s artwork focused on paintings of hot rods and custom cars, which were sold as fine art and printed on T-shirts.
He is survived by his wife Marguerite Trousdale Kelley; their children Patty, Yosarian and China; his mother, his sister and two grandchildren.
Memorial plans are pending.
Let's just look at some of the work he and his partner did and listen to some of the music that inspired them....(click on all to enlarge)
10/28/85
Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA
Matt-Man read the copy under the Indian"May The Baby Jesus Shut Your Mouth & Open Your Mind"
BRILLIANT!
Check out the license plate...Wavy Gravy...hehehe a cool dude if ever there was one!
A little less than two years ago I was introduced to a woman who has become a most excellent friend. How did this introduction come to pass? Well, I saw something about a thing called PEACE GLOBES out in the bloggosphere and followed the trail of breadcrumbs until I came upon a site called MIMI WRITES.
I read the first post ..her inspiration post, which you can find HERE.
Today, I went back to her first BLOG BLAST FOR PEACE post, her story of Papa and the blue marble and went through the comments. Back then, I was just anonymous...but I am almost 90% positive this was my comment:
"OH MY Mimi.... brilliant...You spun the heartwarming tale of Papa into this Special Day
I am thrilled I found Bestest, which allowed me to find Cathy...which brought me to you!
Thank you Papa for the inspiration to your grand-daughter....And thank you Mimi for your inspiration to all of us."
See...breadcrumbs....
A small idea...and Mimi was helped as some left breadcrumbs around the bloggosphere and others followed...
Now, here we are celebrating the fifth DONA NOBIS PACEM and it is incredible how this tiny little thing, begun by one woman has grown in the Bloggosphere. Last November we were even able to get a small mention in Wikipedia, but they did not think it was important enough and discarded the entry.
I think it is time to do so once more and if many people go in and enter it, maybe the small minded people there will see that this is an IMPORTANT EVENT!
We also did a poem for Mimi which you can read on my First Anniversary of DONA NOBIS PACEM post...
As is the case here on The Couch, I have skewed my posts toward music that has a peaceful message.
Below are the links to our past contributions...and then this Celebration's musical message.
DONA NOBIS PACEM - NOVEMBER 7, 2006
DONA NOBIS PACEM DECEMBER 24-25, 2006
DONA NOBIS PACEM -JUNE 6, 2007
DONA NOBIS PACEM - NOVEMBER 7, 2007 - 1st ANNIVERSARY!
Thank you Papa...for the blue marble...for the inspiration...Thank You Mimi for your continued selflessness in spreading a most incredibly important message. Over the last month Mimi has given us multiple reasons from around the globe on why PEACE IS IMPORTANT. You can find those posts along her sidebar if you have not read them yet. All inspiring in their sadness...in their tragedy...
All the world over, so easy to see
People everywhere just wanna be free
Listen, please listen, that's the way it should be
Peace in the valley, people got to be free
You should see what a lovely, lovely world this'd be
Everyone learns to live together
Seems to me such an easy, easy thing should be
Why can't you and me learn to love one another
All the world over, so easy to see
People everywhere just wanna be free (wanna be free)
I can't understand it, so simple to me (it is)
People everywhere just got to be free
If there's a man who is down and needs a helping hand
All it takes is you to understand and to pull him through
Seems to me we got to solve it individually
And I'll do unto you what you do to me
There'll be shoutin' from the mountains on out to sea (out to sea)
No two ways about it, people have to be free (they got to be free)
Ask me my opinion, my opinion will be (ah-ha)
It's a natural situation for a man to be free
Oh, what a feelin's just come over me
It's enough to move a mountain, make a blind man see
Everybody's dancin' c'mon let's go see
Peace in the valley, now they want to be free
See that train over there
Now that's the train of freedom
It's about to arrive any minute, now
You know, it's been long, long overdue
Look out 'cause it's comin' right on through
LET'S ALL GET ON BOARD!
Yesterday, I saw the news and then Starrlight wrote and Travis wrote. My friends understand my love of music...
December 30, 1928 - June 2, 2008If you had not heard, yesterday morning the great Bo Diddley passed away. He was 79 years young and left us due to heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
Mr. Diddley was known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Rhythm and Blues Foundation Pioneer Awards in Los Angeles in 1996, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards.
Mr. Diddley was known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Rhythm and Blues Foundation Pioneer Awards in Los Angeles in 1996, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards.
In 1989 Mr. Diddley was introduced to a new generation when he appeared in a Nike commercial, telling baseball and football star Bo Jackson, "Bo, You Don't Know Diddley."The man who would become Bo Diddley was born Ellas Otha Bates on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Mississippi. His mother, who was about 15, asked her first cousin, Gussie McDaniel, to raise the child. Diddley never knew his father.
After Gussie McDaniel moved her family to Chicago during the Great Depression in 1935, she changed the child's last name to Bates McDaniel. Ellas McDaniel attended public school, where he learned how to box. At one point, he dreamed of becoming a prizefighter.
Like other great blues and rhythm-and-blues artists, Mr. Diddley first exposure to music came from church, in this case the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side. He learned to play the violin and the trombone. At age 12, Mr. Diddley took up the guitar after hearing John Lee Hooker's 1949 rhythm-and-blues hit, "Boogie Chillen."
"Diddley claimed that playing the violin influenced his muted-string, choke-neck style of rhythm -- an early forerunner of funk that can be heard on songs like 'Pretty Thing,'" the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says in its official Bo Diddley biography.
Mr. Diddley's influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Buddy Holly borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song "Not Fade Away."
The Rolling Stones' bluesy remake of that Holly song gave them their first chart single in the United States, in 1964.
Mr. Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects. He even rigged some of his guitars himself.
"He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic," E. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., said in 2006.
Growing up, Mr. Diddley said he had no musical idols, and he wasn't entirely pleased that others drew on his innovations.
"I don't like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it," he said. "I don't have any idols I copied after."
"They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there," he said.
Despite his success, Mr. Diddley claimed he only received a small portion of the money he made during his career. Partly as a result, he continued to tour and record music until his stroke. Between tours, he made his home near Gainesville in north Florida.
"Seventy ain't nothing but a damn number," he told The Associated Press in 1999. "I'm writing and creating new stuff and putting together new different things. Trying to stay out there and roll with the punches. I ain't quit yet."
Mr. Diddley, like other artists of his generations, was paid a flat fee for his recordings and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.
"I am owed. I've never got paid," he said. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."
One of the great sins perpetrated by the record labels was this type of injustice.
As our good friend Travis said in one of his emails "There are no replacements for legends like these. There are new blues musicians, but when the originals go they go forever." So very true.
I got to see Mr. Diddley back when I was in Rochester. It was the early 70's and Mr. Diddley could rock a joint like very few I have seen live.
Rest In Peace Mr. Diddley. You may have left us, but the brilliant music you created will live with us forever.
Enjoy Mr. Diddley along with some of the artists who adapted his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits."
"Diddley claimed that playing the violin influenced his muted-string, choke-neck style of rhythm -- an early forerunner of funk that can be heard on songs like 'Pretty Thing,'" the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says in its official Bo Diddley biography.
Mr. Diddley's influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Buddy Holly borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song "Not Fade Away."
The Rolling Stones' bluesy remake of that Holly song gave them their first chart single in the United States, in 1964.
Mr. Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects. He even rigged some of his guitars himself.
"He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic," E. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., said in 2006.
Growing up, Mr. Diddley said he had no musical idols, and he wasn't entirely pleased that others drew on his innovations.
"I don't like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it," he said. "I don't have any idols I copied after."
"They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there," he said.
Despite his success, Mr. Diddley claimed he only received a small portion of the money he made during his career. Partly as a result, he continued to tour and record music until his stroke. Between tours, he made his home near Gainesville in north Florida.
"Seventy ain't nothing but a damn number," he told The Associated Press in 1999. "I'm writing and creating new stuff and putting together new different things. Trying to stay out there and roll with the punches. I ain't quit yet."
Mr. Diddley, like other artists of his generations, was paid a flat fee for his recordings and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.
"I am owed. I've never got paid," he said. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."
One of the great sins perpetrated by the record labels was this type of injustice.
As our good friend Travis said in one of his emails "There are no replacements for legends like these. There are new blues musicians, but when the originals go they go forever." So very true.
I got to see Mr. Diddley back when I was in Rochester. It was the early 70's and Mr. Diddley could rock a joint like very few I have seen live.
Rest In Peace Mr. Diddley. You may have left us, but the brilliant music you created will live with us forever.
Enjoy Mr. Diddley along with some of the artists who adapted his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits."
Resources used: The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, Bloomberg News and the Associated Press.
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Had a real fine weekend and hope you did also. Was a scorcher on Saturday. Hit about 94 and the sun was huge in the sky.
John Mayer and Columbia Records have announced the release of Where The Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles on July 1st. This 2CD, DVD & Blu-Ray package was filmed last December at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles and directed by Danny Clinch. The release includes three distinct sets: an acoustic performance, a rare set with John Mayer Trio (John Mayer, Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino), as well as a Continuum set featuring Mayer’s full-band.
Mayer will also be kicking off a two month amphitheatre tour in July, as well as being featured on the cover of Rolling Stone’s guitar issue for the second year in a row.
Mayer’s run with special guests Colbie Caillat and Brett Dennen begins July 2 in Milwaukee, WI. Mayer’s tour will now close out the summer with the addition of new dates with guests Paramore and OneRepublic. Tickets for the added dates become available with an exclusive Music Today presale beginning June 2 and will be available to the public on June 7.
For the second year in a row, Rolling Stone Magazine has featured John Mayer on the cover of their now annual “Guitar” issue – both May 2008’s “Living Guitar Legends” issue and February 2007’s “Guitar Heroes” round-up have paired Mayer with peers and icons alike.
You can view a trailer for the DVD HERE
John Mayer Official Website can be found HERE
We hope to have a copy to give away as a special gift closer to the release of this project.
BlackBerry Presents John Mayer with Colbie Caillat & Brett Dennen ‘08 Summer Tour:
7/2 Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheater (Summerfest)
7/3 Maryland Heights, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
7/5 Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
7/6 Rothbury, MI - Rothbury Music Festival
7/7 Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
7/9 Wantagh, NY - Nikon @ Jones Beach Theater
7/10 Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
7/12 Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center
7/13 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
7/15 Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
7/17 Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
7/18 Tinley Park, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
7/20 Denver, CO - Soccer Fields @ Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
7/21 Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
7/23 Paso Robles, CA - Mid-State Fair
7/25 Marysville, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheater
7/26 Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheater
7/27 Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
7/29 Chula Vista, CA - Coors Amphitheatre
7/30 Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
8/1 Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
8/2 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
BlackBerry Presents Additional Dates - John Mayer with Paramore; OneRepublic:
8/19 Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Paramore)
8/20 Pittsburgh, PA - Post Gazette Pavilion (Paramore)
8/22 Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center (OneRepublic)
8/23 Hartford, CT - New England Dodge Music Center (OneRepublic)
8/25 Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center (OneRepublic)
8/27 Raleigh, NC - Warner Cable Music Pavilion (OneRepublic)
8/29 Atlanta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (OneRepublic)
8/30 Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre (OneRepublic)
8/31 West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre (OneRepublic)
Mayer will also be kicking off a two month amphitheatre tour in July, as well as being featured on the cover of Rolling Stone’s guitar issue for the second year in a row.
Mayer’s run with special guests Colbie Caillat and Brett Dennen begins July 2 in Milwaukee, WI. Mayer’s tour will now close out the summer with the addition of new dates with guests Paramore and OneRepublic. Tickets for the added dates become available with an exclusive Music Today presale beginning June 2 and will be available to the public on June 7.For the second year in a row, Rolling Stone Magazine has featured John Mayer on the cover of their now annual “Guitar” issue – both May 2008’s “Living Guitar Legends” issue and February 2007’s “Guitar Heroes” round-up have paired Mayer with peers and icons alike.
You can view a trailer for the DVD HERE
John Mayer Official Website can be found HERE
We hope to have a copy to give away as a special gift closer to the release of this project.
BlackBerry Presents John Mayer with Colbie Caillat & Brett Dennen ‘08 Summer Tour:
7/2 Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheater (Summerfest)
7/3 Maryland Heights, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
7/5 Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
7/6 Rothbury, MI - Rothbury Music Festival
7/7 Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
7/9 Wantagh, NY - Nikon @ Jones Beach Theater
7/10 Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
7/12 Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center
7/13 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
7/15 Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
7/17 Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
7/18 Tinley Park, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
7/20 Denver, CO - Soccer Fields @ Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
7/21 Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
7/23 Paso Robles, CA - Mid-State Fair
7/25 Marysville, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheater
7/26 Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheater
7/27 Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
7/29 Chula Vista, CA - Coors Amphitheatre
7/30 Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
8/1 Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
8/2 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
BlackBerry Presents Additional Dates - John Mayer with Paramore; OneRepublic:
8/19 Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Paramore)
8/20 Pittsburgh, PA - Post Gazette Pavilion (Paramore)
8/22 Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center (OneRepublic)
8/23 Hartford, CT - New England Dodge Music Center (OneRepublic)
8/25 Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center (OneRepublic)
8/27 Raleigh, NC - Warner Cable Music Pavilion (OneRepublic)
8/29 Atlanta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (OneRepublic)
8/30 Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre (OneRepublic)
8/31 West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre (OneRepublic)
John Mayer
"No Such Thing" - "Sweet Dreams"
