Ted Nugent - Kentucky State Fair

1. Journey To The Center Of The Mind
2. Free For All
3. Just What The Doctor Ordere
4. Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
5. Ted's Blues
6. Live It Up
7. Kiss My Ass
8. Fred Bear
9. Cat Scratch Fever
10. Stranglehold
11. The Great White Buffalo

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Bruce Springsteen: San Jose 5th April 2008

1. Intro
2. Out in the Streets
3. Radio Nowhere
4. Lonesome Day
5. Gypsy Biker
6. Something in the Night
7. Magic
8. Trapped
9. Reason to Believe
10. Prove it all Night
11. She's the One
12. Living in the Future
13. The Promised Land
14. Fire
15. Incident on 57th Street
16. Devil's Arcade
17. The Rising
18. Last to Die
19. Long Walk Home
20. Badlands
21. Encore
22. Detroit Medley
23. Born to Run
24. Glory Days
25. Bobby Jean
26. American Land

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Eva La Rue: CSI Miami- Hollywood 411- 150th episode interview.

Pearl Jam - The Squeeze Box (2007)

Disc 01:

1. Jools And Jim ~ Pearl Jam
2. I Can't Explain ~ Eddie Vedder
3. Leavin' Here ~ Pearl Jam
4. I'm One ~ Eddie Vedder With The Who
5. Let My Love Open The Door ~ Pearl Jam
6. My Generation ~ Eddie Vedder
7. Let's See Action ~ Eddie Vedder With The Who
8. Girls Eyes ~ Eddie Vedder With The Fastbacks
9. Getting In Tune ~ Eddie Vedder With The Who
10. The Kids Are Alright ~ Eddie Vedder
11. Young Man Blues ~ Eddie Vedder With The Fastbacks
12. Blue Red And Grey ~ Pearl Jam
    

Disc 02:

1. Squeeze Box ~ Eddie Vedder
2. Magic Bus ~ Eddie Vedder With Pete Townshend
3. The Seeker ~ Pearl Jam
4. Naked Eye ~ Eddie Vedder With The Fastbacks
5. 'Til The Rivers All Run Dry ~ Eddie Vedder
6. Better Man ~ Eddie Vedder With Pete Townshend
7. Tatoo ~ Eddie Vedder With Pete Townshend
8. Heart To Hang On To ~ Eddie Vedder With Pete Townshend
9. A Quick One ~ Eddie Vedder With My Morning Jacket
10. Love, Reign O'er Me ~ Pearl Jam
11. Baba O'riley ~ Pearl Jam
12. See Me, Fell Me / Listening To You ~ Eddie Vedder With The Who
13. 25 Sheraton Gibson [Bonus Track] ~ Eddie Vedder

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Dire Straits - Making movies (1980)

1. Tunnel of Love
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. Skateaway
4. Expresso Love
5. Hand in Hand
6. Solid Rock
7. Les Boys

Pirámide

Uspallata, marzo de 2008.

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Classic Rock Magazine- The best of 2008

1. Def Leppard - Go [03:23]
2. Black Stone Cherry - Blind Man (Album Version) [03:39]
3. Pride Tiger - The Lucky Ones [03:38]
4. The Gaslight Anthem - The'59 Sound [03:11]
5. Endeverafter - All Night [03:34
6. Graveyard - Lost In Confusion [03:24]
7. Whitesnake - Can You Hear The Wind Blow [05:06]
8. Alice Cooper - The One That Got Away [03:22]
9. Lethargy - A Lost Adoration [04:11
10. Heaven 's Basement - Tear Your Heart Out [03:58]
11. Journey - Faith In The Heartland [06:17]
12. Stonerider - Wild Child [04:13]
13. Electric Mary - No One Does It Better Than Me [02:36]
14. Uriah Heep - Light Of A Thousand Stars [03:59]
15. Viking Skull - Shot Down [04:09]

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Revista Isto é - 18 de Fevereiro 2009

Fat Daddy –Roll Daddy Roll

Fat Daddy –Roll Daddy Roll/Help Me –Bootleg BL 262 (1976 Aus)

Fat Daddy were a Melbourne Band and big favourite on the Sharpie scene. They were known to wear face masks for live performances:

“We used to wear these grotesque masks. We were anti the whole pretty boy/satin/Sherbert thing. We wanted to be the ugliest band in the world..."(Max Wella –Top Fellas).

This is the first of two singles released on Bootleg (the other being Fat Funky Rock And Roll –which I need!!). Roll Daddy Roll is a no-nonsense-straight-ahead Boogie/Glam piece in a similar world to Buster Brown or The Angels.
The band consisted of Max Vella, Mick Stillo, Tony Catz and Carl Stanley. They later merged with Ken Murdoch (Ex Taste; also on the Bootleg label) and became Texas. Texas were pretty big on the live scene from 1976-79 and released 4 singles and an album in a rockin’ bluesy ZZ Top style.

Hear a full version of Roll Daddy Roll

Poemantiguo

¿Qué es entonces el sol cuando arruga los rostros?
¿Qué el rostro arrugado sabiéndose último?
¿Qué la madeja que en mis manos descansa?
¿Y qué de los hombres, entonces?

¿Qué de Dios cuando sabemos que él no cree en nosotros?
¿Ampararemos sus océanos cuando sólo deseemos ser el agua?
No, dejaremos que su sed comience a ser eterna, como nuestros pasos.

Gracias, Cecilia, por permitirme revisitarlo.

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Best of ACDC - Gold Album

1. BACK IN BLACK
2. HARD AS A ROCK
3. JAILBREAK
4. STIFF UPPER LIP
5. THUNDERSTRUCK
6. TOUCH TOO MUCH
7. T.N.T.
8. SOUL STRIPPER
9. MONEYTALKS
10. YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG
11. IT'S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP
12. HELLS BELLS
13. HIGHWAY TO HELL
14. HIGH VOLTAGE
15. LET ME PUT MY LOVE INTO YOU
16. HAIL CAESAR

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DERIVATIVES BUBBLE

Bank of Scotland (see the AP article!)

What Subprime Crisis?

by Mystic Wizard

The whole scapegoating of sub-prime mortgages for the "lending freeze" never sat well with me. Interestingly even Chomsky said he couldn't "decode" what was really going on in the economy.

The derivative explanation makes the most sense.

***SEE BELOW (Ellen Brown) ***

But why would a bank still not lend to a company or an individual, with solid credit, which most companies and individuals still have? A 4% 90-day mortgage delinquency rate surely doesn't explain it. Also curious that we don't see a long line of bankers explaining themselves to the TV talking heads- just the usual journalists and politicians. Shouldn't the bankers be on the firing line right now? Are we just getting the usual smoke-and-mirrors now?
"You might look at this data and conclude that the problem right now is worse than the great depression. But the report points out that the delinquency rate on mortgages in the 1930's was much much higher than it is now: "Thus, at the beginning of 1934, approximately one-half of urban houses with an outstanding mortgage were in default (Bridewell, 1938, p. 172). For comparison, in the fourth quarter of 2007, 3.6 percent of all U.S. residential mortgages and 20.4 percent of adjustable-rate subprime mortgages had been delinquent for at least 90 days."

So back in the great depression nearly half the people were behind on their mortgage. Today only around 4% of people are delinquent."
Free By 50: Home foreclosure rates past and present.
http://freeby50.blogspot.com/2008/10/home-foreclosure-rates-past-and-present.html

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It's the Derivatives, Stupid! Why Fannie, Freddie and AIG Had to Be Bailed Out

by Ellen Brown

"I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men."

. Sir Isaac Newton, after losing a fortune in the South Sea bubble

Something extraordinary is going on with these government bailouts. In March 2008, the Federal Reserve extended a $55 billion loan to JPMorgan to "rescue" investment bank Bear Stearns from bankruptcy, a highly controversial move that tested the limits of the Federal Reserve Act. On September 7, 2008, the U.S. government seized private mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and imposed a conservatorship, a form of bankruptcy; but rather than let the bankruptcy court sort out the assets among the claimants, the Treasury extended an unlimited credit line to the insolvent corporations and said it would exercise its authority to buy their stock, effectively nationalizing them. Now the Federal Reserve has announced that it is giving an $85 billion loan to American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurance company, in exchange for a nearly 80% stake in the insurer . . . .

The Fed is buying an insurance company? Where exactly is that covered in the Federal Reserve Act? The Associated Press calls it a "government takeover," but this is not your ordinary "nationalization" like the purchase of Fannie/Freddie stock by the U.S. Treasury. The Federal Reserve has the power to print the national money supply, but it is not actually a part of the U.S. government. It is a private banking corporation owned by a consortium of private banks. The banking industry just bought the world's largest insurance company, and they used federal money to do it. Yahoo Finance reported on September 17:

"The Treasury is setting up a temporary financing program at the Fed's request. The program will auction Treasury bills to raise cash for the Fed's use. The initiative aims to help the Fed manage its balance sheet following its efforts to enhance its liquidity facilities over the previous few quarters."

Treasury bills are the I.O.U.s of the federal government. We the taxpayers are on the hook for the Fed's "enhanced liquidity facilities," meaning the loans it has been making to everyone in sight, bank or non-bank, exercising obscure provisions in the Federal Reserve Act that may or may not say they can do it. What's going on here? Why not let the free market work? Bankruptcy courts know how to sort out assets and reorganize companies so they can operate again. Why the extraordinary measures for Fannie, Freddie and AIG?

The answer may have less to do with saving the insurance business, the housing market, or the Chinese investors clamoring for a bailout than with the greatest Ponzi scheme in history, one that is holding up the entire private global banking system. What had to be saved at all costs was not housing or the dollar but the financial derivatives industry; and the precipice from which it had to be saved was an "event of default" that could have collapsed a quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble, a collapse that could take the entire global banking system down with it.

The Anatomy of a Bubble

Until recently, most people had never even heard of derivatives; but in terms of money traded, these investments represent the biggest financial market in the world. Derivatives are financial instruments that have no intrinsic value but derive their value from something else. Basically, they are just bets. You can "hedge your bet" that something you own will go up by placing a side bet that it will go down. "Hedge funds" hedge bets in the derivatives market. Bets can be placed on anything, from the price of tea in China to the movements of specific markets.

"The point everyone misses," wrote economist Robert Chapman a decade ago, "is that buying derivatives is not investing. It is gambling, insurance and high stakes bookmaking. Derivatives create nothing."1 They not only create nothing, but they serve to enrich non-producers at the expense of the people who do create real goods and services. In congressional hearings in the early 1990s, derivatives trading was challenged as being an illegal form of gambling. But the practice was legitimized by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who not only lent legal and regulatory support to the trade but actively promoted derivatives as a way to improve "risk management." Partly, this was to boost the flagging profits of the banks; and at the larger banks and dealers, it worked. But the cost was an increase in risk to the financial system as a whole.2

Since then, derivative trades have grown exponentially, until now they are larger than the entire global economy. The Bank for International Settlements recently reported that total derivatives trades exceeded one quadrillion dollars . that's 1,000 trillion dollars.3 How is that figure even possible? The gross domestic product of all the countries in the world is only about 60 trillion dollars. The answer is that gamblers can bet as much as they want. They can bet money they don't have, and that is where the huge increase in risk comes in.

Credit default swaps (CDS) are the most widely traded form of credit derivative. CDS are bets between two parties on whether or not a company will default on its bonds. In a typical default swap, the "protection buyer" gets a large payoff from the "protection seller" if the company defaults within a certain period of time, while the "protection seller" collects periodic payments from the "protection buyer" for assuming the risk of default. CDS thus resemble insurance policies, but there is no requirement to actually hold any asset or suffer any loss, so CDS are widely used just to increase profits by gambling on market changes. In one blogger's example, a hedge fund could sit back and collect $320,000 a year in premiums just for selling "protection" on a risky BBB junk bond. The premiums are "free" money . free until the bond actually goes into default, when the hedge fund could be on the hook for $100 million in claims.

And there's the catch: what if the hedge fund doesn't have the $100 million? The fund's corporate shell or limited partnership is put into bankruptcy; but both parties are claiming the derivative as an asset on their books, which they now have to write down. Players who have "hedged their bets" by betting both ways cannot collect on their winning bets; and that means they cannot afford to pay their losing bets, causing other players to also default on their bets.

The dominos go down in a cascade of cross-defaults that infects the whole banking industry and jeopardizes the global pyramid scheme. The potential for this sort of nuclear reaction was what prompted billionaire investor Warren Buffett to call derivatives "weapons of financial mass destruction." It is also why the banking system cannot let a major derivatives player go down, and it is the banking system that calls the shots. The Federal Reserve is literally owned by a conglomerate of banks; and Hank Paulson, who heads the U.S. Treasury, entered that position through the revolving door of investment bank Goldman Sachs, where he was formerly CEO.

The Best Game in Town

In an article on FinancialSense.com on September 9, Daniel Amerman maintains that the government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was not actually a bailout of the mortgage giants. It was a bailout of the financial derivatives industry, which was faced with a $1.4 trillion "event of default" that could have bankrupted Wall Street and much of the rest of the financial world. To explain the enormous risk involved, Amerman posits a scenario in which the mortgage giants are not bailed out by the government. When they default on the $5 trillion in bonds and mortgage-backed securities they own or guarantee, settlements are immediately triggered on $1.4 trillion in credit default swaps entered into by major financial firms, which have promised to make good on Fannie/Freddie defaulted bonds in return for very lucrative fee income and multi-million dollar bonuses. The value of the vulnerable bonds plummets by 70%, causing $1 trillion (70% of $1.4 trillion) to be due to the "protection buyers." This is more money, however, than the already-strapped financial institutions have to spare. The CDS sellers are highly leveraged themselves, which means they depend on huge day-to-day lines of credit just to stay afloat. When their creditors see the trillion dollar hit coming, they pull their financing, leaving the strapped institutions with massive portfolios of illiquid assets. The dreaded cascade of cross-defaults begins, until nearly every major investment bank and commercial bank is unable to meet its obligations. This triggers another massive round of CDS events, going to $10 trillion, then $20 trillion. The financial centers become insolvent, the markets have to be shut down, and when they open months later, the stock market has been crushed. The federal government and the financiers pulling its strings naturally feel compelled to step in to prevent such a disaster, even though this rewards the profligate speculators at the expense of the Fannie/Freddie shareholders who will get wiped out. Amerman concludes:

"[I]t's the best game in town. Take a huge amount of risk, be paid exceedingly well for it and if you screw up -- you have absolute proof that the government will come in and bail you out at the expense of the rest of the population (who did not share in your profits in the first place)."4

Desperate Measures for Desperate Times

It was the best game in town until September 14, when Treasury Secretary Paulson, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and New York Fed Head Tim Geithner closed the bailout window to Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old Wall Street investment firm and major derivatives player. Why? "There is no political will for a federal bailout," said Geithner. Bailing out Fannie and Freddie had created a furor of protest, and the taxpayers could not afford to underwrite the whole quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble. The line had to be drawn somewhere, and this was apparently it.

Or was the Fed just saving its ammunition for AIG? Recent downgrades in AIG's ratings meant that the counterparties to its massive derivatives contracts could force it to come up with $10.5 billion in additional capital reserves immediately or file for bankruptcy. Treasury Secretary Paulson resisted advancing taxpayer money; but on Monday, September 15, stock trading was ugly, with the S & P 500 registering the largest one-day percent drop since September 11, 2001. Alan Kohler wrote in the Australian Business Spectator:

"[I]t's unlikely to be a slow-motion train wreck this time. With Lehman in liquidation, and Washington Mutual and AIG on the brink, the credit market would likely shut down entirely and interbank lending would cease."5

Kohler quoted the September 14 newsletter of Professor Nouriel Roubini, who has a popular website called Global EconoMonitor. Roubini warned:

"What we are facing now is the beginning of the unravelling and collapse of the entire shadow financial system, a system of institutions (broker dealers, hedge funds, private equity funds, SIVs, conduits, etc.) that look like banks (as they borrow short, are highly leveraged and lend and invest long and in illiquid ways) and thus are highly vulnerable to bank-like runs; but unlike banks they are not properly regulated and supervised, they don't have access to deposit insurance and don't have access to the lender of last resort support of the central bank."

The risk posed to the system was evidently too great. On September 16, while Barclay's Bank was offering to buy the banking divisions of Lehman Brothers, the Federal Reserve agreed to bail out AIG in return for 80% of its stock. Why the Federal Reserve instead of the U.S. Treasury? Perhaps because the Treasury would take too much heat for putting yet more taxpayer money on the line. The Federal Reserve could do it quietly through its "Open Market Operations," the ruse by which it "monetizes" government debt, turning Treasury bills (government I.O.U.s) into dollars. The taxpayers would still have to pick up the tab, but the Federal Reserve would not have to get approval from Congress first.

Time for a 21st Century New Deal?

Another hole has been plugged in a very leaky boat, keeping it afloat another day; but how long can these stopgap measures be sustained? Professor Roubini maintains:

"The step by step, ad hoc and non-holistic approach of Fed and Treasury to crisis management has been a failure. . . . [P]lugging and filling one hole at [a] time is useless when the entire system of levies is collapsing in the perfect financial storm of the century. A much more radical, holistic and systemic approach to crisis management is now necessary."6

We may soon hear that "the credit market is frozen" . that there is no money to keep homeowners in their homes, workers gainfully employed, or infrastructure maintained. But this is not true. The underlying source of all money is government credit . our own public credit. We don't need to borrow it from the Chinese or the Saudis or private banks. The government can issue its own credit . the "full faith and credit of the United States." That was the model followed by the Pennsylvania colonists in the eighteenth century, and it worked brilliantly well. Before the provincial government came up with this plan, the Pennsylvania economy was languishing. There was little gold to conduct trade, and the British bankers were charging 8% interest to borrow what was available. The government solved the credit problem by issuing and lending its own paper scrip. A publicly-owned bank lent the money to farmers at 5% interest. The money was returned to the government, preventing inflation; and the interest paid the government's expenses, replacing taxes. During the period the system was in place, the economy flourished, prices remained stable, and the Pennsylvania colonists paid no taxes at all. (For more on this, see E. Brown, "Sustainable Energy Development: How Costs Can Be Cut in Half," webofdebt.com/articles, November 5, 2007.)

Today's credit crisis is very similar to that facing Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s. In 1932, President Hoover set up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) as a federally-owned bank that would bail out commercial banks by extending loans to them, much as the privately-owned Federal Reserve is doing today. But like today, Hoover's ploy failed. The banks did not need more loans; they were already drowning in debt. They needed customers with money to spend and invest. President Roosevelt used Hoover's new government-owned lending facility to extend loans where they were needed most . for housing, agriculture and industry. Many new federal agencies were set up and funded by the RFC, including the HOLC (Home Owners Loan Corporation) and Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association, which was then a government-owned agency). In the 1940s, the RFC went into overdrive funding the infrastructure necessary for the U.S. to participate in World War II, setting the country up with the infrastructure it needed to become the world's industrial leader after the war.

The RFC was a government-owned bank that sidestepped the privately-owned Federal Reserve; but unlike the Pennsylvania provincial government, which originated the money it lent, the RFC had to borrow the money first. The RFC was funded by issuing government bonds and relending the proceeds. Then as now, new money entered the money supply chiefly in the form of private bank loans. In a "fractional reserve" banking system, banks are allowed to lend their "reserves" many times over, effectively multiplying the amount of money in circulation. Today a system of public banks might be set up on the model of the RFC to fund productive endeavors . industry, agriculture, housing, energy -- but we could go a step further than the RFC and give the new public banks the power to create credit themselves, just as the Pennsylvania government did and as private banks do now. At the rate banks are going into FDIC receivership, the federal government will soon own a string of banks, which it might as well put to productive use. Establishing a new RFC might be an easier move politically than trying to nationalize the Federal Reserve, but that is what should properly, logically be done. If we the taxpayers are putting up the money for the Fed to own the world's largest insurance company, we should own the Fed.

Proposals for reforming the banking system are not even on the radar screen of Prime Time politics today; but the current system is collapsing at train-wreck speed, and the "change" called for in Washington may soon be taking a direction undreamt of a few years ago. We need to stop funding the culprits who brought us this debacle at our expense. We need a public banking system that makes a cost-effective credit mechanism available for homeowners, manufacturing, renewable energy, and infrastructure; and the first step to making it cost-effective is to strip out the swarms of gamblers, fraudsters and profiteers now gaming the system.

1. Quoted in James Wesley, "Derivatives . The Mystery Man Who'll Break the Global Bank at Monte Carlo," SurvivalBlog.com (September 2006).

2. "Killer Derivatives, Zombie CDOs and Basel Too?", Institutional Risk Analytics (August 14, 2007).

3. Kevin DeMeritt, "$1.14 Quadrillion in Derivatives . What Goes Up . . . ," Gold-Eagle.com (June 16, 2008).

4. Daniel Amerman, "The Hidden Bailout of $1.4 Trillion in Fannie/Freddie Credit-Default Swaps," FinancialSense.com (September 10, 2008).

5. Alan Kohler, "Lehman End-game," Business Spectator (Australia) (September 15, 2008).

Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her earlier books focused on the pharmaceutical cartel that gets its power from "the money trust." Her eleven books include Forbidden Medicine, Nature's Pharmacy (co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker), and The Key to Ultimate Health (co-authored with Dr. Richard Hansen). Her websites are www.webofdebt.com and www.ellenbrown.com.

www.webofdebt.com

www.opednews.com/articles/3/IT-S-THE-DERIVATIVES-STUP-by-Ellen-Brown-080918-354.html

Jeff Aug: An Attempt On A Record

Jeff Aug: Een Recordpoging (Nederlands) Jeff Aug: An Attempt On A Record. (English)

Wounded Fingers "World Record" Tour 2009

Living Room Sessions
JEFF AUG: AN ATTEMPT ON A RECORD
Most concerts performed in different countries within 24 hours.
Hans Koert

Within a few weeks, on the 13th of March 2009, Jeff Aug will release his fourth solo guitar album, titled Living Room Sessions. Jeff Aug is an acoustic instrumental fingerstyle guitar player with a tremendous technique. On the album you can find 15 tracks and the first one is titled Boots on Fire. I love to share with you a film fragment of that tune.

All tunes on the album are composed by Jeff Aug; from a funny, almost hill billy tune like Louisiana Voodoo Boogie and Hoedown on the Chicken Farm (including noisy cows), Spanish and Irish influenced tunes like Lightness and Highlife, up to funky notes in Chemical Funk. Some tracks are limited to half minutes (the Intermezzo's). The last track will surprise you like the hidden tracks on some Verve-albums in the 1990s. It contains some licks and false starts of Boots on Fire. (Take your times !!). The two video fragments posted in this blog are inserted on the CD too. The second fragment is titled One Twenty to be seen at the end of this contribution.

When you believe that the acoustic guitar in jazz, played in the fingerstyles, is music for pre-Charlie Christian musicians or musical styles (Charlie Christian introduced the amplified guitar in modern jazz) forgets that a lot of jazz musicians still play their music on a few strings stretched across a wooden box, as I found the acoustic guitar described somewhere. Musicians like Al Di Meola and Earl Klugh have won their spurs. Jeff Aug plays in that tradition, although he has his own style with elements of Funk, Jazz and Dance music. His guitar playing is not limited to the acoustical guitar alone; he also plays the electric amplified guitar in groups like the Floating Stone or as an accompanist for Anne Clark and the jazz fusion guitar legend Allan Holdsworth. With the latter Jeff Aug will perform solo, at the start of the concert, during Allan Holdsworth European tour next month along a dozen of European venues in The Netherlands ( De Boerderij in Zoetermeer and de Gigant in Apeldoorn), in Belgium (Spirit of 66 in Verviers) and in several German and Austrian clubs.
To promote a new album artist organise tours along venues, to show their fans the music of their latest album. So does Jeff Aug. But, as he writes in the press release, for this album he didn't chose for an old stand-by-run-of-the-mill number. No, you won't find Jeff in a weary fortnight tour along a dozen venues, but in a full European tour, labeled as the Wounded Fingers Tour 2009, in one day (!), which means 6 concerts in six countries within 24 hours. These are the countries scheduled for this attempt on a record for the famous Guinness Book of World Records in the category: Most concerts Performed in Different Countries in 24 hours: On the 13th of March (Jeff's birthday) he’ll perform at 7.00 am in Liechtenstein, at 9.00 am in Switzerland, two hours later in Austria and at 1.00 p.m. in Germany. In the afternoon Jeff Aug will perform in Verviers in Belgium (at 2.00 am) and this short, but intensive tour, will be concluded in De Nieuwe Nor in Heerlen (The Netherlands). You can find all details with venues and times below this contribution.

Love to finish with the second track of Jeff Aug's album Living Room Sessions: One Twenty.

Living Room Sessiopns - Jeff Aug ( nMZ 0401482 )
I learned that this album is like a good bottle of wine - the more you play it, the better it tastes ............
Hans Koert

keepswining@live.nl

THE WOUNDED FINGERS World Record TOUR 2009

13.03.2009 - 19 Hours - Vaduz (FL) - Camaleon

13.03.2009 - 21 Hours - St. Gallen (CH) - Grabenhalle

13.03.2009 - 23 Hours - Dornbirn (A) - Spielboden

14.03.2009 - 01 Hours - Immenstadt (D) - Rainbow

14.03.2009 - 14 Hours - Verviers (B) - Spirit of 66

14.03.2009 - 17 Hours - Heerlen (NL) - Nieuwe Nor


Some interesting links:
Ton Van Bergeyk Five Guitars - a Tribute to Charlie Byrd René Didi Duprat Masters of Jazz Guitar Oscar Aleman Choro Music Flexible Records Hit of the Week-Durium Keep Swinging News letter Keep Swinging Contributions

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Albo, Walsh, & Hassell, Oh My!The Continuing Battle Over Judicial Reviews

Remember, back in December, when I commented how "The New Private Judicial Review Process Starting to Come Off the Rails." Well, the conflict is still ongoing.

So far, the reviews of Virginian judges have not been used by the General Assembly.

Neither chairman has opened the sealed packets, Del. David B. Albo, R-Fairfax, because the order creates the possibility that he could be held in contempt of court and Sen. Henry L. Marsh III because he thinks the process is unfair to judges.

Frustrated with the gag order from the Chief Justice, the legislators have made noises about making Chief Justice Hassell appear and explain the need for his order and the legality of his order. They also made an attempt to take the control of the judicial review away from the Supreme Court; the Delegates voted to do so, but the Senate killed it by committee vote.

[AMENDMENT] Just got a ping in my news searches and it appears the Supreme Court is backing down after Delegate Albo (Chairman of the House Courts of Justice Committee) led a contingent of Delegates over to speak to a contingent of Justices. Now, legislators will be able to ask sitting judges about their evaluations during their reappointment proceedings, in public hearings.

Jeff Aug: Een Recordpoging

Jeff Aug: Een Recordpoging (Nederlands) Jeff Aug: An Attempt On A Record. (English)

Wounded Fingers "World Record" Tour 2009

Living Room Sessions
JEFF AUG: EEN RECORDPOGING
De meeste concerten binnen één etmaal in zoveel mogelijk landen.
Hans Koert

Over een paar weken, op 13 maart 2009, komt de vierde soloplaat van Jeff Aug, getiteld Living Room Sessions, uit. Jeff Aug is een akoestisch fingerstyled gitarist, met een adembenemende techniek. Op zijn nieuwe plaat vind je 15 nummers. Het eerste heet Boots on Fire en in het volgende filmfragment kun je horen hoe dat klinkt.

Alle nummers op de plaat zijn eigen composities van Jeff Aug, van een paar grappige, hillbilly-achtig nummers als Louisiana Voodoo Boogie en Hoedown on the Chicken Farm ( inclusief loeiende koeien), Spaans en Ierse-getinte nummers als Lightness en Highlife tot aan een funky Chemical Funk. Sommige nummers duren nog geen halve minuut ( m.n. de Intermezzo's) en het laatste nummer, Sunday Morning, zal je verrassen, zoals sommige verborgen tracks, hidden tracks, op enkele Verve CDs uit de jaren negentig, waarover ik eerder berichtte, met wat loopjes en valse starts van Boots on Fire (al moet je wel even geduld hebben). De twee videofragmenten die je op deze blog vindt, staan ook op de CD. De visualisering van One Twenty heb je nog te goed - die komt aan het eind van deze bijdrage.

Wie mocht geloven dat het spelen op de akoestische gitaar in de jazz na Charlie Christian ( de eerste gitarist, die de electrische gitaar in de jazz introduceerde) heeft afgedaan, komt bedrogen uit. Nog steeds zijn er muzikanten die on a few strings stretched across a wooden box,( = op een paar snaren gespannen over een houten doos), zoals ik de gitaar ergens plastisch zag beschreven, bespelen. Gitaristen als Al Di Meola en Earl Klugh hebben hun sporen op de akoestische gitaar ruimschoots verdiend en Jeff Aug borduurt voort in die traditie. Toch is hij geen puur akoestisch gitarist, want hij is ook bedreven op de electrisch versterkte gitaar in zijn groep Floating Stone en als begeleider van o.a. Anne Clark en de jazz fusion gitaar legende Allan Holdsworth, waarmee Jeff Aug volgende maand, als sologitarist in het voorprogramma, mee op tournee gaat. Ze zullen te horen zijn in zo'n 15 clubs, waaronder in Nederland De Boerderij in Zoetermeer en de Gigant in Apeldoorn en in België in de Spirit of 66 in Verviers. Verder spelen ze op diverse Duitse en Oostenrijkse podia.
Als je een nieuwe plaat hebt gemaakt, wordt die meestal gepromoot met een tournee langs de fans. Zo ook deze plaat, al wil Jeff daar deze keer geen old stand-by-run-of-the-mill tournee ( hoe-vertaal-je-dat? Geen Twaalf-in-een-dozijn tournee?) van maken. Nee, deze keer geen afmattende tournee van veertien dagen, langs een dozijn clubs, maar een volledige (!) Europese tour, getiteld The Wounded Fingers Tour 2009, met zes concerten in zes landen binnen één etmaal ..... 24 uur dus. Dit zijn de landen waar Jeff Aug op 13 en 14 maart 2009 te horen is met de aanvangstijd van het concert: Op 13 maart ( zijn verjaardag) begint hij om 19.00 u in Liechtenstein, om 21.00 u in Zwitserland, om 23.00 u in Oostenrijk en 's nachts om 1.00 u in Duitsland. De volgende dag zijn België ( om 14. uur) en Nederland aan de beurt. Deze korte-maar-krachtige serie concerten zal worden afgesloten in De Nieuwe Nor in Heerlen om 17 uur en de hele tour zal, als alles goed is afgerond, een gooi doen naar een vermelding in het Guinness Book of World Records in de categorie "Most concerts performed in different countries in 24 hours"(= De meeste concerten in de meeste landen binnen één etmaal). Je vindt de volledige tour met plaatsen en tijden onder aan deze bijdrage.

Jeff Aug - One Twenty.
Jeff Aug - Living Room Sessions ( nMZ 0401482 ): Deze CD laat zich goed vergelijken met een dure fles wijn - hoe vaker je hem hoort, hoe beter hij smaakt........

Hans Koert - keepswinging@live.nl

THE WOUNDED FINGERS World Record TOUR 2009
13.03.2009 - 19 uur - Vaduz (FL) - Camaleon

13.03.2009 - 21 uur - St. Gallen (CH) - Grabenhalle

13.03.2009 - 23 uur - Dornbirn (A) - Spielboden

14.03.2009 - 01 uur - Immenstadt (D) - Rainbow

14.03.2009 - 14 uur - Verviers (B) - Spirit of 66

14.03.2009 - 17 uur - Heerlen (NL) - Nieuwe Nor


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