Mick Jagger ............................................................................................................................................................................................... Photo John "Hoppy" Hopkins



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Baking Bad: A Potted History of ‘High Times’

The editors of the nation’s most popular pot magazine on its four decades-long fight to end cannabis prohibition.

High Times was conceived in classic outlaw fashion. Founded by a successful pot smuggler and radical ’60s activist named Thomas King Forçade, it was intended as a one-time parody of Playboy, complete with centerfolds of exotic, voluptuous cannabis plants. But that first issue was a runaway hit, selling more than half a million copies and paving the way for what has become a stoner-American institution. In addition to the requisite grow-scene surveys, pot-price appraisals and joint-rolling tips, High Times has published writers like Hunter Thompson, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg and Truman Capote. It also advocated an end to pot prohibiton at a time when marijuana users were being sentenced to years, even decades, in jail.

Forty years later, the magazine has much to celebrate. It has survived the untimely death of its founder, the graying of the counterculture and the dawn of the Internet age, and even some of the laws that created the need for a pro-pot magazine in the first place. It has weathered various government investigations and attacks; founded its annual Cannabis Cup competition in Amsterdam and, more recently, additional Cups in a number of US states, which rank among the biggest marijuana festivals in the world; and published a series of books on everything from cooking with weed to cannabis spirituality. Most importantly, its vision of a day when pot is accepted, even legal, is now proving to be much more than a pipe dream.

We caught up with some of the current and former editors of the self-styled “most dangerous magazine in America” to talk about their role in the long, hard fight for legalization—and their hopes for a cannabis-infused future.

Danny Danko (senior cultivation editor): Tons of companies are coming in to dish_hightimescover1 advertise. A lot of the vapor-pen companies, a lot of the hydroponics companies that sort of shied away from us years ago because they didn’t want that connection to marijuana, have come around because they’re just not afraid of the stigma anymore. That’s one of the things I think High Times has done a good job of—just removing the stigma of the “lazy stoner.” Instead, we try to show that whether it’s in the entertainment business or sports or wherever, we are everywhere. We are doctors and lawyers; we are throughout society and in every part of it. …

Bobby Black (senior editor): It used to be, back in the day, it was always rock—psychedelic rock in the ’60s and ’70s—that was the music associated with pot. Then hip-hop came out—well, and reggae, of course, because of the Rasta culture—and they embraced pot in a big way. The thing that’s changed now is that I’m noticing pop stars like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber really embracing pot. And it’s not that pop stars never smoked weed before; it’s just that now they’re out about it and don’t really care. It’s become so accepted that the new generation is just like, “So what?”

Dan Skye (executive editor): Jennifer Aniston!

I think she would sell, because we know that she smokes pot—we’ve heard about it for years. We tried; we got no response. And Miley Cyrus is great. We did a poll a few months back: “What celebrity would you most like to smoke with?” And she scored higher than Bill Maher, which we thought was really kind of funny.

Bobby Black: When the magazine started, all throughout the ’70s, sex was an integral part of it. We had beautiful women on the cover. We walk a fine line with it, because we don’t want to be exploiting women. On the other hand, those covers were sexy—and there is nothing wrong with sex. I’ve always stressed this: High Times is about hedonism. But it isn’t about irresponsible, over-the-top hedonism—it’s about enjoying everything life has to offer, and sex is part of that.

But the reason we don’t put [former porn star] Jenna Jameson in her bathing suit on the cover anymore is because the sales just weren’t there. Our readers would rather stare at centerfolds of plants—and that’s just the facts we have learned over the years.

[Selective quotes and Jagger pic courtesy of The Dish]

Full article link:

[www.thenation.com]

Way Cool 4CD set of rare obscure surf instrumentals ... Bass-Drums-Guitar and drippin' with truck loads of REVERB ....

CONNECTION --- Rolling Stones & Satisfaction get a mention in the VOX Instrumental Radio Commercial --- Disc 2 - Track 6



Comes with 60 page booklet with track by track liner notes...
Graphics of singles & album covers...surf related concert & movie posters, memorabilia etc etc etc

SURF-AGE NUGGETS --- TRASH & TWANG INSTRUMENTALS 1959-1966
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ooooh yeayeah...

Another stunner from John Tefteller in his series of calendars/CD based
on pre-wars blues artists ...The 2014 Calendar comes with newly discovered photos of Henry Thomas & Furry Lewis...

CD with recently found Blind Blake-Miss Emma Liza 78...rare Bedside Blues by Jim Thompkin's but the real killer is the unplayed Charley Patton Mean Black Cat Blues.............NICE STUFF












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Hank Williams signs autographs - Sunset Park, Pennsylvania 13 July 1952



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THE AUSTRALIAN ------- 14 November 2013



THE AGE ---------------------- 15 November 2013



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LET IT ROCK ----- January 1975



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HELLO 1303 ---- November 2013



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"... the best tracks from that album stand comparison any-thing else they have ever done."

Yup.

"when he quit after disagreements with Keith Richards" - LOL!

Source, please!

............ Tongue & Groove Nightclub - St Kilda Melbourne .................................................................................................................. photo by Rockeeeeeeeeeeeeeee



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Elvis items featured at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame


In this Nov. 25, 2013 photo, a custom motorcycle is displayed in the Elvis exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. Over 40 new items on loan from Graceland, excluding the cycle, will be displayed when the exhibit reopens. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)


In this Nov. 25, 2013 photo, a rare Gibson double-necked guitar belonging to Elvis Presley hangs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)


CLEVELAND — Old-time Elvis Presley fans and lots of newer, younger ones flocked to a new exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Friday to see his stylish ID bracelet, custom-made motorcycle, eye-catching rings and military mementos.

The exhibit opened in conjunction with Elvis Presley Enterprises and includes more than 40 artifacts loaned by his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn.

The items include a walnut-size 41-carat ruby and diamond ring, a 25.5-carat opal ring and a sapphire pinkie ring.

The rock hall inducted Presley in 1986 and calls him “the undisputed King of Rock and Roll.”

The rock hall says he holds records for the most Top 40 hits with 104 and the most Top 10 hits with 38.

“Elvis was the creator, he was the beginning,” said fan Peter Webster, 72, of Portland, Maine, while visiting the rock hall during a family holiday gathering in Cleveland. “There were other people who sang rock ‘n roll music before he did, but he brought rock ‘n roll music onto the stage.”

Visitors lined up to watch a video montage and check out Presley’s 1975 custom made SuperTrike motorcycle and the white suit that he wore when he performed the song “If I Can Dream” in a television special.

There’s also the script for a 1968 NBC special and a 1971 souvenir menu for Presley’s shows in Lake Tahoe.

Presley’s Army service beginning in 1958 at Fort Chaffee, Ark., gets the headline treatment, including his fatigue shirt, his induction orders and his signed receipt for an M1 rifle.

His military service and smiling photo pointing to his sergeant’s stripes may surprise people more familiar with the anti-draft sentiment years later during the Vietnam war.


Link to full article:

[www.washingtonpost.com]

THE AGE ------------------- 30 November 2013



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"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Credits : Geoffrey Hales Melbourne 1966

HMN

Is that Brian? Wild photo...

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Is that Brian? Wild photo...

Yes it is Brian !

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@Deltics, that clip is great! Thanks for making my day

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@Deltics, that clip is great! Thanks for making my day

My pleasure mate!


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

So Many Sounds, but Jazz Is the Core
Herbie Hancock Is the Emissary of an Art Form


A Kennedy Center honor and a new 34-CD boxed set honor Herbie Hancock’s many triumphs.

LOS ANGELES — Herbie Hancock, a pianist of sparkling touch and brisk intuition, has often seemed like a figure rushing ever onward, and the direction in which he has increasingly hurled himself is globe-trotting cultural diplomacy. “I don’t consider myself a spokesperson for jazz,” he said recently, implying that he has bigger concerns.

Seated in the living room of his casually elegant home here in West Hollywood, not far from an alcove crowded with Grammy Awards — more than a dozen of them, including one for album of the year — Mr. Hancock, 73, was in a cordial mood, quick with a disarming laugh. He was also still jet-lagged from an East Asian tour that had ended in copious meetings with government officials about International Jazz Day, his signature initiative as a good will ambassador for Unesco. Fortunately, there was a stretch of relative calm ahead before he was due in Washington, for this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, where he’ll be among a class of five honorees that includes Billy Joel and Shirley MacLaine. (The gala concert, which happens next Sunday, will be broadcast by CBS on Dec. 29.)

Mr. Hancock’s eminence in jazz goes hand in hand with his stature in the realm of pop, to a degree that nobody else has ever managed. After redefining the language of post-bop piano in the 1960s, he delved into funk, electronic music and pop-R&B, leaving his mark at nearly every turn. A handsome new boxed set, “The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-1988” (Legacy), gathers his sweep on 34 CDs; among the albums are “Head Hunters,” a jazz-funk experiment that has sold more than a million copies, and “Future Shock,” whose hit single, “Rockit,” became an early hip-hop touchstone and a surrealist fixture of the frontier era of MTV. In the same spirit, Mr. Hancock’s next album will probably be a collaboration with Flying Lotus, the head-trippy electronic producer, and Thundercat, an affiliated electric bass virtuoso and vocalist.

That Mr. Hancock has always considered jazz his core — whatever the style he happened to be playing, and however shrill the objections of his critics — can be chalked up to his elastic understanding of the art form. “The thing that keeps jazz alive, even if it’s under the radar,” he said, “is that it is so free and so open to not only lend its influence to other genres, but to borrow and be influenced by other genres. That’s the way it breathes.”

Mr. Hancock studied classical music as a child, but growing up in Chicago, he couldn’t help hearing his share of blues. At the time, his tastes ran more toward doo-wop: “I heard the Ravens, and the Five Thrills, and the Penguins, and the Midnighters.” Jazz gripped him after he heard a classmate’s piano trio at a school talent show.

He enrolled as an engineering major at Grinnell College, though it wasn’t long before he was discovered by the trumpeter Donald Byrd. After appearing on several of Byrd’s Blue Note albums, he made his own debut on the label, in 1962. And for anyone who has decried the pull of commercialism in his career, it’s worth remembering that the first track on that album was “Watermelon Man,” a soulful tune that fast became a hit.

Mr. Hancock was hired by Miles Davis the following year, becoming the harmonic linchpin in one of the most accomplished small groups in jazz history. “He is one of those rare people in the music that really created a shift,” the pianist Geri Allen said of Mr. Hancock’s work in that band. “After him, everything changed in terms of what people thought the piano was capable of. His knowledge base was so inclusive and thorough, and beside that was his absolute virtuosity and humanity.”

Like Wayne Shorter, his fellow Davis alumnus and closest musical peer, Mr. Hancock has practiced Nichiren Buddhism since the early 1970s. To get to his impressive home studio — a state-of-the-art bunker packed with keyboards, computer equipment and mixing consoles, and backed up by many terabytes of digital storage — you first pass through the room that holds a modest shrine, where he chants every day.

Mr. Hancock credits his religious practice for many things, including his artistic compass. “I think more about purpose in making a record now,” he said. “What message do I want to give? And the messages are not about music. They’re about life.” In a similar vein, he decided years ago to refrain from self-classification. “I realized that if I perceive myself as a musician, somehow there’s an invisible barrier between myself and people who aren’t musicians. But if I define myself as a human being, all the barriers disappear.”

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Just posted a little here, bet the box set is amazing.

Link to complete profile:
[www.nytimes.com]

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It's from a BBC session with Tom Jones that shows up on BBC4 from time to time -a great hour's listening. There may be more of it on YouTube.

....oh yes, indeed. Full session here:

[www.youtube.com]



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British Vogue --- December 2013



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