Syd, Ringo, Jimmy, and Me

i the snail.

everybody here is perfect

This is precious

Robert Plant photographed by Barrie Wentzell, 1970.

Don’t mind me, I’m only dancing over here.

“Things that happened in the past only happened in your mind. Only in your mind. Oh, forget your mind, and you’ll be free.” - Fill Your Heart, David Bowie

this song, one of my favorite bowie tunes, was NOT written by David. It was a cover of a Biff Rose song. The original is very charming :)

but who doesn’t love the little ‘FAH-REE-HEEEEE YEAH" at the end of Bowie’s version?

David Bowie. Catherine Deneuve. 1982.

Yes - Time And A Word (July 1970): Yes’ second album didn’t break a whole lot of new ground for the band, but it did confirm what most already knew: they were a force to be reckoned with. In the studio, Eddie Offord sat fortuitously at the engineer’s desk for the first time with the band. But Time and a Word wouldn’t be the quantum leap Yes needed to propel them into the big league. In fact, the only leap here was Tony Cox’s orchestral arrangements, a rather de rigueur post-psychedelic ornamentation of the day. To their credit, the strings work better here than on other albums from the era, thanks in part Tony Colton’s up-front production. The album has a huge sound, propelled relentlessly by the Squire and Bruford rhythm team. Yes still aren’t 100% on original tunes as capable covers of Ritchie Havens and Stephen Stills songs comprise half of the first side. The Jon Anderson penned “Then” is particular satisfying, while his “Clear Days” benefits from Cox’s “Eleanor Rigby” style arrangement. Anderson’s lyrics tackle some cosmic themes for the first time on “Astral Traveler”, something he’d more than return to. His old Warrior’s mate David Foster co-wrote both “Time And A Word” and “Sweet Dreams”, two great pop songs that would crop up in Yes’ live set over the next decade. But wait, this was supposed to be prog rock, wasn’t it? The album managed to crack the UK charts, rising to No. 45. Peter Banks left the band just after the album was released; so soon after, in fact, that it was Steve Howe who appears on the album’s US cover! http://bit.ly/1XpantQ #progrock #progressiverock #albumoftheday

aaaa here’s the jon anderson drawing I did yesterday while listening to sweet dreams on repeat for like a hundred times…………..I’m rly proud of it so I wanted to post it…….

Some really early Pink Floyd picture from 1965 featuring the original band members. From left to right: Roger Waters, Syd Barret, Nick Mason, Richard Wright

Mood

Indigo Shaman (via indigoshaman88)

Jon “The Prog Fairy” Anderson

Made a second altar! Someone should not let me loose in Salem this time of year.

Backwards masking

“Oh, here’s to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan. He’ll give those with him 666. There was a little tool shed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.”

So here we go, this one’s an oldie but a goodie: backwards masking, and the reversed audio file of “Stairway to heaven” .

You can listen to the file here on YT. << click click

At the time, the record label (Swan Song Records) dismissed the claims, with audio engineer, Eddie Kramer, calling the allegations “totally and utterly ridiculous.”

Adding “why would they want to spend so much studio time doing something so dumb?”

Plant himself denied any deliberate intention of backward masking the track, saying “To me it’s very sad, because ‘Stairway to Heaven’ was written with every best intention, and as far as reversing tapes and putting messages on the end, that’s not my idea of making music.”

He was quoted in a rolling stone interview as commenting “Who on Earth would have ever thought of doing that?”

For a band that was rumored to have made a deal with the devil, lived in British philosopher and occultist Aleister Crowley’s Loch Ness mansion, and allegedly inserted a mud shark into a fans, ehem, nether regions, it doesn’t seem completely ridiculous that they’d attempt to cleverly insert something spooky into a song.

Team that with the fact that Plant, apparently, wrote the lyrics faster than any other song he’s written, almost with an automatic writing process.

Page claimed that ”a huge percentage of the lyrics were written there and then“

Plant was also quoted as saying: “My hand was writing out the words, 'There’s a lady is sure, all that glitters is gold, and she’s buying a stairway to heaven’. I just sat there and looked at them and almost leapt out of my seat.”

Zeppelin weren’t the only bands and artists to be accused of, or deliberately sneaking reversed messages into their tracks.For your convenience,

HERE is a link to a Wikipedia list of many known examples.

So what do you think about hidden messages in music?

Is Rock and Roll really the Devils work? Is Plant a puppet for the dude down stairs? Or do we all have too much time on our idle hands?

Regardless of our conclusions on this one, maybe it isn’t such a good idea to go searching for hidden messages in records, after all, it never did Charles Manson any favors.

That’s all for this one!

Peter Banks, by Barrie Wentzell, 1971