Tree-sitting protest irks Berkeley – Education- msnbc.com
The News Review:
- Tree-sitting protest irks Berkeley – Education- msnbc.com
- A marvel of wit and bonnets
- Jennifer Metin-Siquijor
- Three Rivers Cowboy Ball a festive Quanah tradition
- Guitar great Kaukonen flies on without Airplane
- Has Parky ruined British music for ever wonders Rob Fitzpatrick
- PART 10: The David Rubinoff Experience
Tree-sitting protest irks Berkeley – Education- msnbc.com
MSNBC – Nov 24, 2007
?Unfortunately a lot of the people are detached? said Jerlina Love a graduate student who supports the sitters. But sitters have vowed not to descend as long as the oaks are in peril. The sound of laughter and guitar music wafted from the trees as sitters enjoyed mild temperatures on a golden afternoon this week. The group was feeling ?awesome? said a sitter who would give only her nickname of ?Dumpster Muffin. ? Still she said they are concerned for their safety. ?It?s definitely coming to a head of some sort. ? More from msnbc.
A marvel of wit and bonnets
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 24, 2007
For their part the programme-makers wanted juicy stuff about the great dramas between him and someone called Gordon Brown. The telly folk did their best. They played guitar music that made it sound like Gunfight at the K Corral. The narrator quoted Gordon saying some pretty racy things to Tony (“When are you going to eff off?”) but Blair killed it all dead refusing to discuss private conversations. This may be good politics but it was frustrating television. All credit to Charles Clarke who is probably the most boring man in the country for doing his best: “Tony certainly thought there were people at Gordon’s behest who were trying to make this opposition manifest” he said. The really depressing thing is that one day we will have to sit through Gordon’s side of this story in The Brown Years or Months.
Jennifer Metin-Siquijor
Manila Bulletin – Nov 24, 2007
Wow was all he could say when he excitedly pressed the colorful keys of the guitar. He couldn’t get enough of the 23 pre-recorded melodies and the fact that he can add the sound of percussions vibrations and accelerate the rhythm of music to compose endless new melodies. He literally jumped (for joy) while playing it like a real rock star!.
Three Rivers Cowboy Ball a festive Quanah tradition
Times Record News – Nov 24, 2007
He also sings and writes jingles. Flores has been featured on more than 300 recordings. His formal studies include classical violin jazz guitar and classical guitar. A music instructor himself he’s owner-founder of Bulverde Academy of Music in Bulverde Texas. As a producer and as a musician Flores has worked with many name musicians including Ray Price Willie Nelson Johnny Bush and Doug Sahm. Since 2005 he has fronted The Bobby Flores Band and has toured extensively in the Southwest United States. Flores and Al Michalczak own Yellow Rose Records.
Guitar great Kaukonen flies on without Airplane
The Age – Nov 24, 2007
Photo: David MariuzLatest related coverage. Kaukonen who in the 1960s was a pioneer of the San Franciscopsychedelic music scene with Jefferson Airplane and laterco-founded the still-touring Hot Tuna thinks of himself as anintermediate-level player with a great deal of experience. “Had things evolved otherwise for me I would have been happywith a little guitar store in some small town in America” saidKaukonen whose band fronted by singer Grace Slick played at rockevents including the Monterey International Pop Festival and in1969 Woodstock. “As fate would have it music has given me very long legs. Kaukonen who celebrated Thanksgiving in Adelaide on Thursdaybefore performing at the Adelaide Festival Centre’s “Wah-Bar” withAmerican mandolin virtuoso Barry Mitterhoff will give concertsworkshops and master classes over the next week… Kaukonen who in the 1960s was a pioneer of the San Franciscopsychedelic music scene with Jefferson Airplane and laterco-founded the still-touring Hot Tuna thinks of himself as anintermediate-level player with a great deal of experience. “Had things evolved otherwise for me I would have been happywith a little guitar store in some small town in America” saidKaukonen whose band fronted by singer Grace Slick played at rockevents including the Monterey International Pop Festival and in1969 Woodstock. “As fate would have it music has given me very long legs. Kaukonen who celebrated Thanksgiving in Adelaide on Thursdaybefore performing at the Adelaide Festival Centre’s “Wah-Bar” withAmerican mandolin virtuoso Barry Mitterhoff will give concertsworkshops and master classes over the next week. He is in Adelaide as artist-in-residence at the inauguralfestival brought to Australia by David Spelman who helped foundthe first International Guitar Festival in New York in 1999. Spelman who has a four-year commitment from South AustralianPremier Mike Rann to stage a series of festivals is a classicallytrained guitarist and Kaukonen fan. He was introduced to Americanblues through Hot Tuna which Kaukonen formed with another bandmember Jack Casady when Jefferson Airplane began its 1970s slideinto drugs and dysfunction.
Has Parky ruined British music for ever wonders Rob Fitzpatrick
guardian.co.uk – Nov 24, 2007
In fact so badly are we treated and such is the monumental disdain that music is dealt with by television that a huge gaping hole has appeared under popular music’s waterline and as we sit around waiting for something better to happen the lifeblood is gushing out. So whose fault is it? Well the BBC took the best known pop TV brand on the planet and messed it up so completely that it died of shame. Channel 4’s only idea for pop music TV is to get crushingly bland hair-gel models to witlessly rehash Simon Amstell’s tired ennui and MTV doesn’t even show music videos any more. So who wields the real broadcast power? Well it’s not Jools Holland (too muso) and it’s not Jonathan Ross (despite having serious clout – David Gray’s album sales leapt by over 500 per cent after his appearance)… The difference he makes to careers is massive. “So what’s wrong with that? Well for a start there’s the deadening homogeneity. Jamie Cullum Michael Bublé Katie Melua Diana Krall Annie flaming Lennox Rod Stewart James Blunt – it’s a never ending parade of top-button-undone unlit Silk Cut Extra-Extra Mild faux jazz awfulness mixed with Deputy Head Girl bra ‘n’ guitar mope-a-thons. The only thing likely to make your pulse race is being suddenly woken up by the adverts. I’m all for a spot of aural analgesia every now and again but listening to Parkinson’s musical guests is like being ever so slowly drowned in warmed-over cloyingly-perfumed yak butter and when heinous crap-meisters like Razorlight appear complete with a clunky string section because they’re real musicians like in the old days you remember when Parky was good you actually long for Hadouken! who while clearly being one of the world’s most terrible bands at least have a noticeable pulse. So now the show’s finally – finally! – coming to an end soon (it’s been on in one form or another since 1971) will that mean curtains for Parky-Approved artists (and inveterate bore-monsters) like Madeleine Peyroux and Paolo Nutini? Well no. For Parky and his son Nick have their golf slacks-scented jazz pub The Royal ak near Windsor where startlingly wonderful types such as Lemar and James Morrison have appeared in accompaniment to the dandelion salad and ox tongue.
PART 10: The David Rubinoff Experience
Canada.com – Nov 24, 2007
He’s here five mornings a week in keeping with his commitment to bring music into the lives of York Street students. It is a mission that is close to his heart. Music has been a rich part of his own life since he was introduced to piano as a nine-year-old boy at the Royal Conservatory of Music. He later picked up the guitar and played in a high school band Axis which drew its name from the Jimi Hendrix song Bold as Love which exhorts: “I’m bold as love. He knows everything… It is a mission that is close to his heart. Music has been a rich part of his own life since he was introduced to piano as a nine-year-old boy at the Royal Conservatory of Music. He later picked up the guitar and played in a high school band Axis which drew its name from the Jimi Hendrix song Bold as Love which exhorts: “I’m bold as love. He knows everything.
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