Moptops in the Treetops

When you feel bad, because everyone calls you a moptop & you cannot avoid the evil eye, search out Shekinah's 'Masstashadhu' - it is the best thing you have heard since the last great thing.....you wont be disappointed.

Woodend Bowling & Lawn Tennis Club

Not a bowling ball or tennis ball in sight in a dreicht, wet October night, but Alan Henry had brought Jackie Leven to play again this year & I was going to pull out all the stops to attend.

It is a small venue & it was full to bursting, Jackie did not disappoint & his set was over way to soon. Although he played & chatted for ages, time stood still.

Without a doubt he is the premier Scottish artist.

Finnish Afro Funk

If like me, you are pining for another Jimi Tenor tour, try & content yourself with this blend of Finnish Afro Funk (was it 12" album??) .

It is something that brought together the great talents of Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen.......oh yeah......

The Hanging Thief

After you have feasted on the handy bitesized, mango fingers & all is right with the world, treat yourself to the glorious long, drone sounds of the Hanging Thief - you wont regret it.

If you can imagine being hard-wired to your favourite hoover or fridge, while doing the Wahl thing to your hair & while someone is sawing a boiling kettle in half with a Faust chainsaw - you are not even close or in the same ballpark!

Steppin Out

I had a brainwave a trip to the sauna/jaccuzzi would ease my backpain & get me back to the 5-a-sides toutes suite.

I had not factored in all the old guys in the sauna who saw me as one of them, someone the same age as them, a fellow oldie.

They really treated me as someone just like them. It is a small wonder I keep away from all truthful mirrors.

HeeBeeGeeBees in the Jacuzzi

I have had to gives my 5-a-side the bodyswerve, recently as the backpain I am suffering is too much.

I have taking a days holiday so that I can attend the public baths & hit the Jacuzzi to see if it relieves the pain.

Do you think it is safe to take my HeeBeeGeeBee in as well, to give myself an Indian head massage at the same time?

Some Album Titles Currently Scratching at my Freakfolk Beard

Sproatly Smith – Yew & Hare

Hare & Moon – S/T

Trysting Tree – Midnight House

Natural Snow Buildings – Shadow Kingdom

Chora – Baptist Grip

Kukomo- Lauluju Surun Karestra

Part Wild Horses Mane – Poisson

Master Musicians of Bukakke – Totem 1

Harappin Night Recordings – Glorious Gongs

Iditarod – Ghost, elf…

Deep Mind – Balance

Jean Cohen Solal – Flutes Libres

Goatfooted/Hunting Rituals – split

Album titles that make you laugh out loud

1. Friday Group – Who wants to look at a bunch of broken pottery when you can haul ass down the freeway

2. Grey Park – Words are little creatures that work for the black sun

Greasy Truckers

Listening to Man recently and I flash back to the whole period when Man & Gong were setting the world on fire.

I have seen both bands & I regard Man as the Welsh equivalent to the Quicksilver Messenger Service. The track titles are coming back to me ‘Many are called, but few get up’ & others offered some sound advice for those ‘Interesting Times’ e.g. ‘Never say nups to Nepalese’ I am sure I do not know what that is about.

Observations of a Flower Child, part 23

• No matter how far you travel in the world, it is the inner distance that really counts
• Lose the ego
• Whether you are on Colva beach, Goa 1973 listening to a personal mantra played non-stop by whom? ‘All Things Must Pass’- how appropriate
• Or if you are in an Afghan border town or a Pakistani gunshop or opiumshop: Buddhism teaches you not to grasp anything, let it go, it is all an illusion, Maya, smoke & mirrors……..as GuruBrian would say, ‘I just wasn’t made for these times’
• Consumerism is running rampant & panders to the ego- I want, I need – we are all sold a lie- possessions = clutter, we don’t need the latest this & that
• Satan has found new, subtle methods of operation & it is difficult not to get sucked in…..to conclude with the wise words of GuruBob…..’he eats but is not satisfied…’