Mott the Hoople, All the way from Memphis...
Saturday, November 28, 2009
C'mon baby....
Seasons don't fear the Reaper, nor do the wind or the summer rain...
This is NOT about you Woman, aiight?
Kick it up Ian Hunter.
Mott The Hoople Roll Away Stone, Back Years
Posted Fri Oct 9, 2009 3:25pm PDT by Kris Needs in The MOJO Blog
Since Mott The Hoople announced their reunion back in January, websites have buzzed about the setlist, plane tickets have been purchased as far away as New Zealand and California while fans who've waited 35 years for the original People's Band to return worked themselves into a lather of anticipation.
More cynical elements feared it could go spectacularly wrong. It would not, after all, be out of character for the band who once sang "you can never grow old" to make a rusty pig's ear of their eternal teenage anthems. But, as Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, howling in the front rows at his own expense for three of the five nights at London's Hammersmith Apollo, said, "It doesn't matter how old they are; nobody today plays rock 'n' roll like these guys. Maybe the Stones but..."
Over the course of what came to be known as Mott Week, one word repeatedly reverberated across the jungle telegraph: emotional. Speaking as someone who followed the band religiously during its five-year lifespan, that barely describes the waves of unbridled joy which greeted every lurch in Mott's schizophrenic two-hour rocker-ballad rollercoaster ride.
As the slow-building "Hymn For The Dudes" crashed into "Rock And Roll Queen," the band were obviously having a blast. Sprightly septuagenarian singer Ian Hunter strutted around the stage, tempering the old macho stance with humble deprecation and humour, while Overend Watts, a mere 62, scampered around with his Gibson Thunderbird bass like it was 1971, teasing the front rows and striking the bass titan poses which inspired the New York Dolls' Arthur Kane.
Last Thursday's first night nerves and gremlins were obliterated by the sheer disbelieving joy of seeing Mott's original line-up back on a London stage for the first time since 1972 (with The Pretenders' Martin Chambers depping for ailing drummer Dale "Buffin" Griffin). But fluffed endings were small beer in the face of such a triumphant reunion, the brainchild--it transpires--of Hammond organ maestro Verden "Phally" Allen, "the first a**h**e that left Mott The Hoople" according to Hunter.
"That was good, wasn't it?" beamed Phally afterwards. "It just feels great to be doing it again with the guys after so long. I mean, we had to..."
Shows 2 and 3, on Friday and Saturday, saw rock ‘n' roll's longest-slumbering kraken wide awake and going hell-for-leather through rockers like "Walkin' With A Mountain" (Hunter brandishing replica Maltese Cross guitar) and "One Of The Boys." Yet it was the ballads that carried the greatest emotional resonance, including "The Ballad Of Mott The Hoople" and an "unplugged"-style stools-out drift through "The Original Mixed Up Kid." The cataclysmic life-reflection of "The Journey" followed a burst of "Like A Rolling Stone" ("My audition song for Mott," revealed Hunter), signalling the singer's switch to electric piano for the final sweep through the glam-era hits.
Most poignantly, Buffin joined Chambers on second drum-kit for the encores, gamely participating in his old mates' reunion. On the first show he was hesitant, but closing Tuesday night's fifth and final show he hammered the tom-toms with a gleeful relish.
"A tad knackered" was a pink-shirted Hunter's verdict on his own performance on Tuesday, although it didn't show as he cackled around the stage gripping his champagne-Red Bull cocktail. Bowie rumours proved unfounded but a choir of band offspring and legendary original Mott singer-turned-road manager Stan Tippins coped manfully with All The Young Dudes and Def Leppard's Joe Elliott grandstanded his way through the second verse. There was an air of "mission accomplished" about the whole night. "It's been a long week; it's been pretty hard, but we've had a great time," declared Hunter during the final bow.
There's no doubt the gigs went better than anyone could have dreamed. While Hunter seemed emphatic when he inserted a curt "There won't be a next time" into "Keep A Knockin'," Phally Allen's been wondering about Glastonbury. Stranger things have happened--as has just been proved--but for now the "goodbye" coda from the closing "Saturday Gigs" still rings around the old Hammersmith Odeon, and the oddly-elevated memories of those lucky enough to witness this most beautiful of reunions.
Setlist:
"Rock And Roll Queen"
"Sucker"
"Moon Upstairs"
"Knockin' On Heaven's Door"/"Original Mixed Up Kid"
"Ready For Love"
"Angeline"
Kris Needs was the founder of UK Mott The Hoople fanclub The Seadivers. He is an author and regular contributor to MOJO magazine and MOJO4music.com.
This info was shared from [here]
Hunter and Ronson, Bastard live.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Charge people for crimes they have not committed because they might???????
I might fuck a goat but never have. Gonna lock my sorry ass up on a "might get drunk and do it" Hitler???????
Order the DVD at: http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net...
Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency.
President Obama has brazenly violated Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution by seating himself at the head of United Nations' Security Council, thus becoming the first US president to chair the world body.
A scientific dictatorship is in its final stages of completion, and laws protecting basic human rights are being abolished worldwide; an iron curtain of high-tech tyranny is now descending over the planet.
A worldwide regime controlled by an unelected corporate elite is implementing a planetary carbon tax system that will dominate all human activity and establish a system of neo-feudal slavery.
The image makers have carefully packaged Obama as the world's savior; he is the Trojan Horse manufactured to pacify the people just long enough for the globalists to complete their master plan.
This film reveals the architecture of the New World Order and what the power elite have in store for humanity. More importantly it communicates how We The People can retake control of our government, turn the criminal tide and bring the tyrants to justice.
A film by Alex jones
Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency.
President Obama has brazenly violated Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution by seating himself at the head of United Nations' Security Council, thus becoming the first US president to chair the world body.
A scientific dictatorship is in its final stages of completion, and laws protecting basic human rights are being abolished worldwide; an iron curtain of high-tech tyranny is now descending over the planet.
A worldwide regime controlled by an unelected corporate elite is implementing a planetary carbon tax system that will dominate all human activity and establish a system of neo-feudal slavery.
The image makers have carefully packaged Obama as the world's savior; he is the Trojan Horse manufactured to pacify the people just long enough for the globalists to complete their master plan.
This film reveals the architecture of the New World Order and what the power elite have in store for humanity. More importantly it communicates how We The People can retake control of our government, turn the criminal tide and bring the tyrants to justice.
A film by Alex jones
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Next is Detriot, New York, L.A., Baltimore, Miami and Boston.
Abandoned city....
Another Trip to Kadikchan
Second trip to Kadikchan town - lost city of Russia. On the first photo is how it looked like when it was not abandoned yet.
via nnm.ru
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Carissa
Release Year: 2008
Duration: 23 min
Availability: Worldwide
Related: History, Life & Culture, Women's Issues
Last year, Carissa Phelps graduated with both a law degree and an MBA from UCLA. But when she was 12, she was homeless and forced into prostitution in Fresno. This documentary short takes us on Carissa’s inspirational journey.
“Carissa” has won jury prizes at several film festivals and was featured in USA Today and on Good Morning America. The film is also Executive Produced by Davis Guggenheim, the Academy Award-winning director of “An Inconvenient Truth” and Jamie McCourt, Owner and President of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and sponsored by Virgin Mobile and the Los Angeles Dodgers Dream Foundation.
This film is about a young woman who more or less ended up living in the streets when she was twelve years old. She endured many aspects of the street life, was arrested after a couple years and put into a program. There a few wonderful people offered her help and she accepted that help. From there on she gained confidence in herself and continued to expand on it. She now tries to help others that need help and she's a fantastically honest person that as far as I can see made her way off the streets and a role model for others to follow.
What touched me most is the fact that I also did my time on the streets and know personally how hard it is to escape from that life. Not many do, the few that did it can at least try to help a little. There is no worse feeling than losing your self to nothingness.
Thank You Carissa (((((((((((((((((Hugs))))))))))))))))
Dave...
The end of America.
Release Year: 2008
Duration: 75 min
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Related: History, Life & Culture, Politics, IndiePix
In a stunning indictment of sweeping policy changes during the Bush years, best-selling author Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth) makes a chilling case that American democracy is under threat. Investigating parallels between our current situation and the rise of dictators and fascism in once-free societies, Wolf uncovers a number of deeply unsettling similarities-from the use of paramilitary groups and secret prisons to the targeted suspension of the rule of law. With this galvanizing call to arms based on her recent book, she urges regular citizens to take back our legacy of freedom and justice.
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