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Bernie is, was and always will be the real, one of a kind, rock god. An Irish Rock God. See ya later Bernie “I think it’s about the song, the rawness and the playing and the band, and just have the instruments as they sound... It’s organic. At the end of the day, music is about people playing it. So to hear it sound pristine as if its machines, I don’t think it has any lasting charm at all.”

—Bernie Torme 18.3.1952 — 17.3.2019 FULL INTERVIEW

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“Bernie Torme asked for the following statement to be released: “PledgeMusic owes Bernie Torme almost £16,000 which was due last December on completion of his recent ‘Shadowland’ Pledgemusic campaign.

Bernie has paid for all recordings, merchandise, CDs and all postage costs to honour his fans’ pledges out of his own pocket. He has as yet been unable to pay his musicians, drummer Mik Gaffney and bass player Simon Morton for their work on the album. This has been a very stressful situation for Bernie, exacerbated by the lack of communication coming from Pledge and, despite their promises, no sign of coming through with any solution to clear up the mess they have created.”

February 17, 2019: “Bernie remains in intensive care for virulent double pneumonia.”

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PledgeMusic is Having Trouble Paying Artists Problems at PledgeMusic

By Chris Robley February 4, 2019 | DIY MUSICIAN PledgeMusic, the popular crowdfunding platform for musicians, has drawn a lot of criticism in recent weeks.

Numerous reports emerged that the service was not paying money it owed to some artists. This included notable acts like Jesus Jones and Fastball (who were owed $20k, yet couldn’t get a response from anyone at the company). PledgeMusic has since responded with a public apology, stating that it expects to bring all payments current within 90 days.

For more on this story, check out Wade Sutton’s in-depth podcast interview with Iain Baker, keyboardist for Jesus Jones — on iTunes or Spotify.

Crowdfunding your next project? Proceed with caution.

CD Baby’s relationship with PledgeMusic concluded years ago, but of course we’re sad to see a former partner struggling in a way that affects so many artists. I’ve used and recommended PledgeMusic in the past, and it’s just a bummer to watch the company’s financial troubles hurt the musicians and fans it once served so well.

Founder Benji Rogers — who stepped down as PledgeMusic’s CEO in 2016 — has offered to return to the company in an attempt to

right the ship, restore the broken trust, and get artists paid. We’ll see.

Artists deserve to get paid what they’re owed, and promptly. Through this period of uncertainty, you MAY want to explore alternative crowdfunding options to PledgeMusic.

Why hasn’t PledgeMusic been able to pay everything it owes to musicians?

An article in Billboard provides more details about the company’s woes: According to an anonymous former employee who wished to remain anonymous, the root of these problems is improper money management where PledgeMusic failed to hold artists’ campaign funds separately and securely and instead invested it back into the company. If true, this would directly conflict with PledgeMusic’s terms and conditions, which state “monies collected by PledgeMusic for a Campaign will be held on account for the Artist.” The idiom “robbing Peter to pay Paul” came up in many conversations describing PledgeMusic’s actions and as the company’s growth slowed the situation worsened.

That doesn’t sound promising. The company has done great things in the past though, so hopefully it’s possible to get everyone paid, fix these issues, and move forward.

Musician Danny Vaughn warns fans against PledgeMusic due to payment woes

By Scott Munro | January 25, 2018 CLASSIC ROCK Fellow musicians back up Vaughn’s appeal as PledgeMusic admits to payment delays American vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Danny Vaughn has pleaded with music fans to stop giving money to PledgeMusic.

Vaughn, who’s played with bands including Waysted and Tyketto, started his first PledgeMusic campaign in 2018 to help fund the production of his new solo album Myths, Legends & Lies.

The campaign was a success, with Vaughn exceeding his initial goal of £17,000, with fans pledging a final total of £26,702.

But in a new video, he’s asked music fans to refrain from handing over their hard-earned cash, as he claims he’s only received a frac-

tion of the total amount he’s due from the company.

Vaughn says that upon hitting 100% of the goal, PledgeMusic have a two week window in which to send the artist 60% of the cash raised. He says his campaign reached its target on October 26, but that he didn’t receive any money until December 13 “after a lot of begging and pleading.”

Even when the cash did arrive, it was only £3000, which was followed by two individual payments of £1000 – far short of the £10,200 he’s owed.

He says: “Do not send PledgeMusic one more penny. They are not taking your money and paying the artists with it.

“I can’t speak for every artist, but I know there are hundreds of us that are either receiving next to nothing or nothing at all – and that includes no emails of explanation, no contact from the company. There’s been a total shutdown.”

PledgeMusic Admits Late Payments but Promises, ‘We’re Working Through It.’

By JEM ASWAD | JUNE 6, 2018 6:05AM PT | VARIETY MAGAZINE

PledgeMusic is based on a lovely idea: a marketplace where serious music fans can buy everything from vinyl to personal visits directly from artists and help them to fund their recordings and other projects. It aims to be a cross between a traditional crowdfunding site and a label-services company, and also a “community” that now claims more than 3.4 million fans and 50,000 artists.

The model, which evolved out of cofounders Benji Rogers and Jayce Varden’s former band a decade ago, is to involve the audience formally in a project’s creation: Fans can contribute to recording costs (“crowdfunding”) as well as “pre-order” recorded product, merchandise (T-shirts, caps, etc.) and experiences (ranging from personalized phone calls to performances at fans’ homes), and are then updated on the artist’s progress via photos, videos, blog posts and ultimately the finished products, ideally building a community of superfan/small-business investor hybrids in the process. For this, Pledge takes a flat 15% fee of the money raised for crowdfunding campaigns (but only if the artist reaches their financial goal) and for pre-orders, and promises a fair revenue split and quick payment. While the company claims many success stories — Melissa Etheridge, the Flaming Lips, Lindsey Stirling and Bring Me the Horizon are featured on its website — several major artists tell Variety that in recent months Pledge has fallen far behind in its payments, including two who said they were owned sums in the “middle five figures” (both of those artists since have been paid in part or in full). One major artist, based on the feedback it received from colleagues in the industry, was on the verge of pulling out of a crowdfunding campaign but was ultimately convinced to stay.

In a statement to Variety, CEO Dominic Pandiscia acknowledged those claims and said in an email: “It’s understood that certain customers may have been unhappy over the last six months. The company has had some difficulty dealing with a larger volume of campaigns. The intention is to add value in every situation, and there is some work ahead to achieve that. With respect to payments, there have certainly been payment delays, but the company has always paid artists and should be completely caught up in the near future. The team has been strengthened and is addressing any concerns as the company grows.” (He, Varden and Rogers, the latter of whom is now a board advisor, declined further comment.) In a separate conversation, a Pledge executive who chose to remain anonymous pointed to too-rapid growth and a change in the company’s payment structure as primary sources of the problems; PayPal, which was built into the company’s system, ceased working with some crowdfunding companies late last year. “The company has grown radically,” the source said. “Last January and February 183 campaigns were launched; in August and September it was 313. The company finished the year up nearly 30% in billing and has been growing the business and bringing in more staff. But the business-management infrastructure could not keep pace with the growth — and then, at the busiest time of the year, a change had to be made in payment processing. This happened after a record year, seven consecutive quarters of growth, more campaigns than ever — and suddenly the company had to totally reconfigure how it was getting people paid.”

While the executive stressed that the situation is improving, Variety spoke with a dozen Pledge artists and found a vast range of experiences: from all good to all bad; from being satisfied with the crowdfunding option but not the pre-order to the opposite; from too much attention from company reps to nonexistent attention (many spoke of challenges arising from Pledge’s high staff turnover). While Pledge is upfront about which functions it does and does not fulfill, it can be difficult even for seasoned artists not to perceive it as a traditional record company. It’s not: Artists are responsible for their own product manufacture and fulfillment (although several spoke of being forcefully steered by Pledge reps toward certain more-expensive vendors); Pledge handles the payments.

While many artists face challenges taking so much control of their own business, others have taken to the model like fish to water.

“PledgeMusic has been nothing short of amazing for me,” says former Jellyfish frontman and current Beck keyboardist Roger Manning. “I can establish regular, mass communication directly with my fan base and have them literally guide and inspire me as to what they would enjoy hearing from me next.”

Fair enough, but Manning also could teach a master’s course on how to be a PledgeMusic high roller: In addition to an exhaustive range of offerings around his latest releases, he’s selling signed posters and handwritten lyric sheets, personal voicemails, Skype interviews, made-toorder songs, studio sessions, and “so much more!” And according to his “memorabilia” section, he’s made at least $20,000 selling old stage costumes and keyboards. (A rep for Manning did not immediately respond to Variety’s question about whether Pledge receives 15% of memorabilia sales.)

Another satisfied customer is former “American Idol” season-seven winner David Cook, who initially used the pre-order service for his 2015 EP “Digital Vein,” but ramped up significantly for his recent EP “Chromance,” focusing on fan events and VIP access at his concerts. “If I were a fan these are the kinds of unique experiences I would want,” he says, adding that the business experience was “overwhelmingly positive” and that the Pledge team was “super helpful and came to the table with ideas.”

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE You don’t need to be signed to a record company to be relevant. You just need good, original songs. They sell themselves and you can live comfortably enough selling them yourself. After all, you are the protagonist; the leading character of your story, at the center of your story. You make the key decisions, and experience the consequences of those decisions. You, as protagonist are the primary agent propelling your story forward, and are the character who faces the most significant obstacles. —Rock Legend News

Our Latest Podcast: Fraud In the Music Industry — How Big of a Problem Is This?

Paul Resnikoff | February 7, 2019 | DIGITAL MUSIC NEWS

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Streaming music has created an avalanche of royalty data, with billions of line items across millions of statements.

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That includes a team in Austria, who are steadily figuring out a way to detect fraud and irregularities in statements issued to artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels.

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Pulling The Strings From Behind The Curtain Londa R. Marks | February 19, 2019 | ROCK LEGEND NEWS

The problems happening with PledgeMusic, whether they ‘fix’ their issue or not is going to continue in one form or another under whatever name they operate under. Any business that you trust with your money can find ways to keep it once they have it - through errors intentional or not. The music industry is a very high risk path and worth taking responsibility to pull your own strings.

On Facebook someone commented on my PledgeMusic problem post, “I guess some money is better than no money. Are we sure Gene Simmons isn’t pulling the strings from behind the curtain?”

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My reply was: “Right. You cannot be sure. And, unfortunately, your scenario is exactly what the record companies and others who have their hands connected to the artists figure the artist will think like; “some money is better than no money” - and they could take advantage of it. PledgeMusic is a good idea, but the better idea is to sell your own music/art, keep control over your intellectual ideas, your own inventions and your income from it.

If you’re already doing all the work to sell your projects on Facebook (social media), which most are even if they are ‘signed’ and paying to be signed, then you should consider plugging in a store that goes to your bank account instead of whomever you are signed to — or better yet accept Bitcoin and forget banks and all 3rd parties.”

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The Saviors Of Rock?

Some call Greta Van Fleet the saviors of rock. But not them.

By MARK KENNEDY | JANUARY 24, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — When the members of the rock band Greta Van Fleet put their last touches on their first full-length album, they didn’t celebrate with a round of beers or a fancy dinner.

They immediately started working on new songs.

“Once we finished ‘Anthem of the Peaceful Army’ — the very day that we’d OK’d all the mixing — we started writing the next album,” said Jake Kiszka, the band’s guitarist. “If we’re stagnant, it becomes boring.”

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The young Michigan rockers whose sound and classic rock look is reminiscent of Led Zeppelin have done the opposite of stagnate in the last 18 months. It’s been more like an explosion, capped by four Grammy Award nominations, including best new artist and best rock album.

Since their April 2017 breakthrough with the song “Highway Tune,” they’ve put out two EPs and their “Anthem of the Peaceful Army” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s rock chart and No. 3 on the all-genre albums chart last year. It has also reached the Top 10 in Canada, Italy and Germany.

Some call Greta Van Fleet the saviors of rock. But not them.

By MARK KENNEDY | JANUARY 24, 2019 NEW YORK (AP) — When the members of the rock band Greta Van Fleet put their last touches on their first full-length album, they didn’t celebrate with a round of beers or a fancy dinner. They immediately started working on new songs.

“Once we finished ‘Anthem of the Peaceful Army’ — the very day that we’d OK’d all the mixing — we started writing the next album,” said Jake Kiszka, the band’s guitarist. “If we’re stagnant, it becomes boring.”

The young Michigan rockers whose sound and classic rock look is reminiscent of Led Zeppelin have done the opposite of stagnate in the last 18 months. It’s been more like an explosion, capped by four Grammy Award nominations, including best new artist and best rock album.

Since their April 2017 breakthrough with the song “Highway Tune,” they’ve put out two EPs and their “Anthem of the Peaceful Army” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s rock chart and No. 3 on the all-genre albums chart last year. It has also reached the Top 10 in Canada, Italy and Germany.

They’ve played “Saturday Night Live” and “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” count Elton John as a fan and have been embraced as the four guys who can save rock ‘n’ roll, a tag they politely decline.

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the years many people have made the proclamation that UFO’s “Strangers In The Night” is one of the greatest live albums ever. Would you agree with this and if so what do you think makes it such a great live album.

LONDA: Agree 100%! There is a reason so many have said those exact words, “One of the greatest live albums ever!” Not only because of the amazing songs on it, not only because of the amazing artists on it, but it is the same reason mythological gods exist - paramount execution. Timeless. Pure heart and soul embedded into music that is felt, deeply! It is real. This was a UFO natural thing as a group filled with ideal chemistry expressing emotions that everyone else feels but cannot articulate musically. Pete Way, Michael Schenker, Phil Mogg & Andy Parker UFO chemistry articulated emotions peerlessly with this album.

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In 2017, after these negatives sat in boxes aka the dark, ”in The Vault,” where all the images I had photographed remained for over 37 years. Today I reveal some not seen in 40 years.

Never before seen in public or by even me. I was 17 or 18 in September. On July 4th 1979 we went to see another Day On The Green with Journey, J Geils, UFO, Thin Lizzy, Nazareth and The Rockets. I was there to photograph UFO and J. Geils of whom we would listen to while up on Cobb Mountain during that summer. When Thin Lizzy came out I was intrigued of their music, their styles and their moves so I started to shoot and became a huge fan.

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PHIL LYNOTT, GARY MOORE & Scott Gorham Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist and lead vocalist Phil Lynott, met while still in school. Lynott led the group throughout their recording career of twelve studio albums, writing most of the material.

The singles “Whiskey in the Jar” (a traditional Irish ballad), “Jailbreak”, and “The Boys Are Back in Town” were major international hits. After Lynott’s death in 1986, various incarnations of the band emerged over the years based initially around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes, though Sykes left the band in 2009. Gorham later continued with a new line-up including Downey.

William Scott Gorham (born March 17, 1951) is an American guitarist and songwriter who was one of the “twin lead guitarists” for the Irish rock band, Thin Lizzy. Although not a founding member of Thin Lizzy, he served a continuous membership after passing an audition in 1974, joining the band at a time when the band’s future was in doubt after the departures of original guitarist Eric Bell and his brief replacement Gary Moore.

Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011) was a Northern Irish rock guitarist and singer-songwriter.

Beginning in the 1960s, Moore played with Phil Lynott and Brian Downey during his teenage years, leading him to memberships of the Irish bands Skid Row and Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy in early 1974. Left to right: Brian Downey, Phil Lynott, Gary Moore.

ABOVE PHOTO: Thin Lizzy in AVRO’s TopPop (Dutch television show) in 1974.

Brian Michael Downey (born 27 January 1951) is an Irish drummer, best known as the drummer and a founding member of the rock band Thin Lizzy. Along with Phil Lynott, Downey was the only constant member of the hard rock group until their break-up in 1983. Downey also co-wrote several Thin Lizzy songs.

FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES CROWLEY Scott Gorham remained with Thin Lizzy until the band’s breakup in 1984. He and guitarist Brian Robertson, both hired at the same time, marked the beginning of the band’s most critically successful period, and together developed Thin Lizzy’s twin lead guitar style while contributing dual backing vocals as well. Gorham is the band member with the longest membership after founders Brian Downey (drummer) and frontman and bass guitarist, Phil Lynott.

Since 1996, Gorham has continued to perform with Thin Lizzy on guitar and backing vocals, having assembled various lineups after the death of band leader Lynott in 1986.

In 2012, Gorham co-founded the Thin Lizzy spin-off band, Black Star Riders to showcase new material.

Scott Gorham was born in Glendale, California and began his musical career at 13, learning to play the bass guitar, and joining several local teenage bands including The Jesters, Mudd and The Ilford Subway, the latter recording a single, “The 3rd Prophecy” in October 1967. He switched instruments when a close friend of his, a guitarist in his then-current band, 18-year-old Steve Schrage, died in a motorcycle crash in Glendale in 1968. Gorham’s friend (and bandmate in a number of bands) Bob Siebenberg later recalled,

PHIL LYNOTT & Scott Gorham “That incident devastated Scott. He decided the very day that he heard about the accident to take this kid’s place, to try to get to where this kid would have eventually gotten to. Scott stunned everybody by dropping the bass, which he was very proficient at, and switching to guitar.”Gorham subsequently joined Redeye in 1969 with Siebenberg, and the two joined Benbecula in 1970 before Siebenberg moved to England in 1971.

Upon joining Thin Lizzy, Gorham took on a songwriting role as well as that of a guitarist. “She Knows”, the open-

ing track of his first album with the band, Nightlife, began a long songwriting partnership with Lynott. They co-wrote two songs for Gorham’s next album with the band, Fighting, and Gorham contributed one of his own, “Ballad of a Hard Man”. This was to be the only Thin Lizzy song that was credited solely to Gorham. He also co-wrote “Warriors” and “Emerald” on Jailbreak, Lizzy’s breakthrough album. Gorham’s role in the band remained consistent until the recording of 1977’s Bad Reputation album, for which Brian Robertson was largely absent.

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Unit Delta Plus In 1966, Delia and Brian Hodgson joined Peter Zinovieff to form Unit Delta Plus, an electronic music studio in Zinovieff ’s “garden shed by the river in Putney.”

Unit Delta Plus also delivered lectures about electronic music. After one at Morley College in London, David Vorhaus introduced himself to Derbyshire and Hodgson after the lecture. Delia can be seen on video starting the computer to perform Peter Zinovieff ’s Partita for Unattended Computer at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 15th January 1968.

The first piece of the same concert was her own composition Pot Pourri. In 1967, after a troubled performance at the Royal College of Art, the unit disbanded. Brian Hodgson says of this event:“Unit Delta Plus had another lecture at the Royal College of Art, however “Peter had arranged a ‘happening’ [not a lecture] but didn’t tell Delia or I. I walked off the platform and sat in the audience at one point. And the next day, we went over [to Peter’s house] and said we wanted to break up the partnership and he said he wanted to do it as well, so that was it.”

Q: What’s the correct string of numbers in “Unit Delta Plus”? I don’t like numbers, I like words, but I’m very curious :-) There is one number I can’t figure out: 21851541 (7?/12?) 482835423939831 6685894142569859 /A Fairchildren backer Ott responded on 10/24/2015 A: 2185154174828354239398316685894142569859 Q: Good evening, my good man. I’m at the point where I have amassed a decent amount of music I have been writing for some time now. Ableton on my mac, an APC40, an Elektron Machinedrum, and an Elektron Analog Four will be on the stage with me when I venture to perform it. I have been having some trouble gridding it all within Ableton to still be able to “play” it live, instead of just recording the full tracks and doing it as a DJ set. Is it truly just another instance of me meandering through the process as I do everything else, or is there some sort of more simplified process I could use?

I really like the blend of hardware and a DAW, but I know eventually I will have to consolidate for ease of travel and such. I realized that as I saw you leave that Cleveland venue with nothing but a small laptop bag with your Mac and controllers.

Anyway, good on ya, Ott. Keep on keepin on.

Yours truly, Chris (wielder of a mean handshake) Ott responded on 10/20/2015 A: One way to do it is to split your songs into eight or sixteen bar sections and use ‘Follow Actions’ to knit them back together again. This means your arrangements will play back as normal but you can break in at any time and rearrange them on the fly. Always remember, the vast majority of people in the audience don’t give a shit how you achieve your music as long as it sounds great and is fun to perform and listen to. There are no prizes for extra complex setups and what might be a technically clever use of equipment may well not be that much fun to dance to.

The only thing that matters is what comes out of the speakers. How you get there is unimportant, but if it is fun to perform that is a bonus. REFERENCE

From the Beginning There might have been things I missed But don’t be unkind It don’t mean I’m blind Perhaps there’s a thing or two I think of lying in bed I shouldn’t have said But there it is

You see it’s all clear You were meant to be here From the beginning Maybe I might have changed And not been so cruel Not been such a fool Whatever was done is done I just can’t recall It doesn’t matter at all You see it’s all clear You were meant to be here

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O/B/o Leadchoice Ltd. As a member of ELP, Lake wrote and recorded several popular songs including “Lucky Man” and “From the Beginning”. Both songs entered the UK and US singles charts.

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970. The band consisted of keyboardist Keith Emerson; singer, bassist, guitarist and producer Greg Lake; and drummer and percussionist Carl Palmer. With nine RIAA-certified gold record albums in the US,[3] and an estimated 48 million records sold worldwide,[4] they were one of the most popular and commercially successful progressive rock bands in the 1970s, with a musical sound including adaptations of classical music with jazz and symphonic rock elements, dominat-

ed by Emerson’s flamboyant use of the Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, and piano (although Lake wrote several acoustic songs for the group).

The band came to prominence following their performance at the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1970. In their first year, the group signed with E.G. Records (who distributed the band’s records through Island Records in the United Kingdom, and Atlantic Records in North America), and released Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970) and Tarkus (1971), both of which reached the UK top

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five. The band’s success continued with Pictures at an Exhibition (1971), Trilogy (1972), and Brain Salad Surgery (1973, released on ELP’s own Manticore Records label). After a three-year break, Emerson, Lake & Palmer released Works Volume 1 (1977) and Works Volume 2 (1977). After Love Beach (1978), the group disbanded in 1979.

The band reformed partially in the 1980s as Emerson, Lake & Powell featuring Cozy Powell in place of Palmer. Robert Berry then replaced Lake while Palmer returned, forming 3. In 1991, the original trio reformed and released two more albums,

Black Moon (1992) and In the Hot Seat (1994), and toured at various times between 1992 and 1998.

Their final performance took place in 2010 at the High Voltage Festival in London to commemorate the band’s 40th anniversary. Both Emerson and Lake died in 2016, leaving Palmer as the only surviving member of the band.

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The Final Version of the EU’s Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet

BY CORY DOCTOROW | FEBRUARY 13, 2019

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Goodbye, protections for artists and scientists.

The Copyright Directive was always a grab bag of updates to EU copyright rules—which are long overdue for an overhaul, given that it’s been 18 years since the last set of rules were ratified. Some of its clauses gave artists and scientists much-needed protections: artists were to be protected from the worst ripoffs by entertainment companies, and scientists could use copyrighted works as raw material for various kinds of data analysis and scholarship.

Both of these clauses have now been gutted to the point of uselessness, leaving the giant entertainment companies with unchecked power to exploit creators and arbitrarily hold back scientific research. Having dispensed with some of the most positive ver-

sions of the Directive, the trilogues have also managed to make the (unbelievably dreadful) bad components of the Directive even worse.

A dim future for every made-in-the-EU platform, service and online community. Under the final text, any online community, platform or service that has existed for three or more years, or is making â‚Ź10,000,001/year or more, is responsible for ensuring that no user ever posts anything that infringes copyright, even momentarily. This is impossible, and the closest any service can come to it is spending hundreds of millions of euros to develop automated copyright filters. Those filters will subject all communications of every European to interception and arbitrary censorship if a black-box algorithm decides their text, pictures, sounds or videos are a match for a known copyrighted work.

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Criticism Summarised [The Copyright Directive is] on the verge of causing irreparable damage to our fundamental rights and freedoms, our economy and competitiveness, our education and research, our innovation and competition, our creativity and our culture.

The proposals would limit our ability to actively participate online to benefit the business models of media conglomerates: Upload filters on internet platforms, a “link tax” for news content and a narrow exception for text and data mining would curtail how we can share links, upload media and work with data.

– Over 80 signatories representing human and digital rights organisations, media freedom organisations, publishers, journalists, libraries, scientific and research institutions, educational institutions including universities, creator representatives, consumers, software developers, start-ups, technology businesses and Internet service providers. The [law] is failing its stated goals … The legislative drafts […] respond in effect to the agenda of powerful corporate interests … It will not serve the public interest – Independent legal, economic and social scientists from leading research centres across Europe. It does not happen often that there is wide scientific consensus on a contested policy issue. This is such a case, and policy makers need to take note.

– Independent scientists from leading research centres across Europe. We are concerned that these provisions will create burdensome and harmful restrictions on access to scientific research and data, as well as on the fundamental rights of freedom of information. […] a significant threat to an informed and literate society – Large group of European academic, library, education, research and digital rights communities, including the European University Association and the International Federation of Library Associations. This [law] will lead to excessive filtering and deletion of content and limit the freedom to impart information on the one hand, and the freedom to receive information on the other.

– 57 signatories representing fundamental rights organisations, including Human

Rights Watch and Reporters without Borders The reform may thwart development of modern solutions in education, creativity, commerce, media or healthcare – A Future Not Made in the EU – Centrum Cyfrowe think tank

Joint Statement on the Directive of the European Parliament and Council on Copyright in the Digital Single Market The end-result on copyright is a step back for the digital single market. It fails to strike a balance between protecting right holders and the interests of individual citizens. This is why the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Italy and Finland don’t support the final package. READ FULL ARTICLE Article 11: Extra copyright for news sites Will all use of journalistic content online, even when just describing a link, require a license from the publisher?

Article 11: The “link tax” The final version of this extra copyright for news sites closely resembles the version that already failed in Germany – only this time not limited to search engines and news aggregators, meaning it will do damage to a lot more websites. Reproducing more than “single words or very short extracts” of news stories will require a licence. That will likely cover many of the snippets commonly shown alongside links today in order to give you an idea of what they lead to. We will have to wait and see how courts interpret what “very short” means in practice – until then, hyperlinking (with snippets) will be mired in legal uncertainty. No exceptions are made even for services run by individuals, small companies or non-profits, which probably includes any monetised blogs or websites. Read more Article 13: Upload filters Will internet platforms where users can upload content be forced to monitor user behavior to identify and prevent copyright infringement? Read more Article 3: Text and Data Mining exception limited in scope Will a new EU-wide permission to conduct research using text and data mining be limited to research institutions only? Read more This law will effectively force all but the smallest website operators to adopt “upload filters” similar to those used by YouTube, and apply them to all types of content, to stop users from uploading copyrighted works. That could pose problems, given how expensive such filters could be to develop, and the high likelihood of false positives. https://www.wired.com/story/europes-copyright-law-could-change-the-web/

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Edward McKenna (10 March 1950 – 19 January 2019), was a Scottish drummer, who played with bands The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Rory Gallagher, The Michael Schenker Group. He toured with Ian Gillan for a short period in 1990, alongside ROCK LEGEND NEWS APRIL 2019

fellow former SAHB member, bassist Chris Glen. He lectured in Applied Arts at North Glasgow College from 1996– 2011.

McKenna was born in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was educated at St Patrick’s High School, Coatbridge. His studies included dou-

ble bass lessons at school, several piano lessons, and a year under Glasgow big band veteran, Lester Penman. He worked as a band member for several artists, including Rory Gallagher from 1978–1981. He worked as a session musician with Greg Lake & Gary Moore in The Greg Lake Band 1980–81; the Michael Schenker Group in 1981–84;

Bugatti & Musker, 1982; Ian Gillan; and a solo album for Nazareth singer Dan McCafferty, in 1975.

He had his own band after his time in MSG called McKenna’s Gold. Formed at the end of 1986, this band played together for just over two years and featured Charles Bowyer/vocals, Julian ROCK LEGEND NEWS APRIL 2019

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Hutson-Saxby/guitar, Alex Bowler/ bass and Steve Franklin/keyboards.

Hutson-Saxby later played guitar with the reformed Sensational Alex Harvey Band after Zal’s departure in 2008.

In 1992, McKenna and Zal Cleminson formed The Party Boys, an idea McKenna had in Australia whilst working with Womack and Womack. They recruited keyboardist Ronnie Leahy from Stone The Crows, and invited well-known rock singers such as Stevie Doherty, Fish, and Dan McCafferty.

Soon after, the band reunited with SAHB keyboardist Hugh McKenna, Ted’s cousin, and reformed SAHB. This line-up included Stevie Doherty from Zero Zero and Peter Goes To Partick on vocals. They released the album ROCK LEGEND NEWS APRIL 2019

Live In Glasgow ‘93. They disbanded in 1995 after a final gig with Maggie Bell at The Kings Theatre in Glasgow.

In 2004, McKenna reformed SAHB with remaining members Zal Cleminson, Hugh McKenna, and Chris Glen, but this time introduced vocalist Max Maxwell, formerly of The Shamen.

Their farewell tour was so successful they continued to tour between 2004–2009 including The Wickerman Festival and The Sweden Rock Festival in 2006. The tours were: 2004 - Brick

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Christmas shows in 2006 and 2007 at the ABC in their hometown of Glasgow. In 2008, Cleminson left the band and retired from performing, and was replaced by guitarist Julian Hutson Saxby before disbanding permanently in 2008.

Although primarily known as a rock musician, McKenna worked with jazz guitarist John Etheridge, Juno Award-winning American/Canadian blues guitarist Amos Garrett, American soul duo Womack & Womack, Paul Rose, Gwyn Ashton, The Rhumboogie Orchestra, Frank O’Hagan, and Fish. He toured with Rory Gallagher bassist Gerry McAvoy and Dutch guitar virtuoso Marcel Scherpenzeel in “Band of Friends”, a celebration of the music of Rory Gallagher. This band won ‘Best Blues Band of 2013’

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at the European Blues Awards, and released the CD/DVD Too Much Is Not Enough. He won the ‘Best Musician (performance)’ award at the European Blues Awards 2015. Band of Friends released the live album Live & Kickin’ and the studio album Repeat After Me. McKenna and SAHB bass player Chris Glenn reunited with Michael Schenker for Michael Schenker Fest, an anniversary line-up of all three original MSG vocalists (Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet and Robin McAuley). In 2016, the band recorded a concert in Tokyo and released a live DVD and double CD package. In 2018, the studio album Resurrection was released.

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Another version! Our first trip to Europe, Baden Baden in Germany for a TV show with Johnny Martin (Ex Poets) on keyboards. We were on the same flight as The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra. I’m now trying to remember if there were any problems at the airport with the metal detectors.... — Gerry McAvoy

GERRY MCAVOY & TED MCKENNA INTERVIEW 1980 Radio 1: How many records did you record with Rory?

Ted: Two: “Photo-Finish” and “Top Priority.”

Radio 1: How did you join the band Gerry?

Gerry: I played in Belfast with a band

called Deep Joy and we played as opening act for Taste during an Ireland and England tour. Deep Joy split up at the same time as Taste did. Rory called me, we made an appointment and we’ve played together since then.

Radio 1: Does Rory like to release singles?

Ted: He is not really interested in promoting singles, although recently “Philby” was released as a single.

Unfortunately it wasn’t

successful.

Radio 1: How did you became involved in the band, Ted? Ted: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band had split up and it was Alex Harvey himself who told me that Rory was looking for a drummer. I thought “that sounds interesting”, so I phoned. And since then Ive been a member of the band.

Radio 1: Tonight you surprisingly played “A Million Miles Away.” How does it feel when you never know what comes next?

Ted: We never know what comes next. Rory starts a song and we have to follow him. That’s it. We learn a lot from that.

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Following the release of their successful first album “Resurrection”, MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST is currently recording their second album, co-produced by Michael Schenker & Michael Voss, which is tentatively scheduled to be released in August.

Michael Schenker Fest will be welcoming back both Simon Philipps and Bodo Schopf, who both previously played drums in MSG, to the line-up. Ted McKenna tragically passed away last month and Michael has explained the reasons for the double appointment:

“​ Simon, who played on the MSG debut album, will return as the main drummer on the upcoming second album. Due to his schedule, he is unable to be the live drummer for the upcoming US tour however, so this role will be completed by Bodo Schopf, who played on ‘Perfect Timing’ and ‘Save Yourself’.

“With the sudden passing of Ted, Bodo will be featured on the upcoming record but in a smaller role, as he had the important job of preparing for the US tour.

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Drummer Simon Philipps has enjoyed an illustrious career. He was the drummer for The Who during their American reunion tour in 1989 and was the drummer for Toto from 1992 to 2014, as well as having played with Jeff Beck, Judas Priest, Gary Moore, Bernie Marsden and absolutely loads more huge names.

THE UFO CLUB The UFO Club (pronounced “you-foe”) was a famous but short-lived UK underground club in London during the 1960s. It was established by Joe Boyd and John “Hoppy” Hopkins and featured light shows, poetry readings, well-known rock acts such as Jimi Hendrix, avant-garde art by Yoko Ono, as well as local house bands such as Pink Floyd and Soft Machine.

The UFO Club was founded by John Hopkins (usually known as “Hoppy”) and Joe Boyd in an Irish dancehall called the “Blarney Club” in the basement of 31 Tottenham Court Road, under the Gala Berkeley Cinema. It opened on 23 December 1966. Initially the club was advertised as “UFO Presents Nite Tripper”. This had been because Boyd and Hopkins could not decide on “UFO” or “Nite Tripper” as a name for their club.

Eventually they settled on “UFO”.

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Poster for Pink Floyd at the UFO club, 28 July 1967, by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat

Soft Machine and Pink Floyd were booked for the first two Fridays, and then re-engaged as the club carried on into 1967 after its initial success. Initial events combined live music with light shows, avant garde films and slide shows, and dance troupes.

Pink Floyd’s tenure at UFO was a short run. As their fame grew they were able to play bigger venues for higher fees. Boyd protested that their increasing fame was largely due to the success of UFO, but the band’s management wanted to move on and an agreement was made for just three more Floyd performances at UFO, at an increased fee.

Hopkins and Boyd had to cast around for a new “house band” for UFO. They settled on Soft Machine but also started booking other acts who were attracted by the club’s reputation. Amongst them were The Incredible String Band, Arthur Brown, Tomorrow, and Procol Harum, who played there when “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was No 1 in the charts.

Trivia The hard rock band UFO is named after this club.

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JOHN HOPKINS INVENTED THE 1960’s Posted on Sep 5, 2016 by Kenny Wilson | kennywilson.org John “Hoppy” Hopkins (15 August 1937 – 30 January 2015) was a British photographer, journalist, researcher and political activist, and “one of the best-known underground figures of ‘Swinging London’ “ in the late 1960s. Hopkins also set up the UFO Club with Joe Boyd, with Pink Floyd as the resident band.

Hoppy, who has died, aged 77, was co-founder of International Times, the UFO Club and the London Free School. During the intense two-year heyday of London’s fertile and diverse counterculture, he was the only true leader the movement ever had.

British photographer and political activist John “Hoppy” Hopkins spent the 1960s documenting jazz, poetry, The Rolling Stones, Nelson Mandela, the sexual revolution – basically everything that defined the decade. When he wasn’t working, he was launching the legendary UFO club at The Roundhouse in London, with Pink Floyd as its resident band. Also, in 1966 Hoppy and friends founded the anarchist newspaper IT (International Times). Today he’s an activist for peace and for the circulation of information, and at 73 he’s still the best dressed guy in London.

In 1967, you organised The 14-Hour Technicolor Dream, with acts like Pink Floyd, John Lennon and The Soft Machine playing. Pretty much every kid born from then on wishes they were at that gig. What did you love about promoting events?

It’s interesting when people come together for social purposes, because it creates interaction and ideas get exchanged. I particularly enjoyed putting on the sort of event which is called a “happening”, where some things are planned, but some aren’t, so you never know quite what’s going to happen. The 14-Hour Technicolor Dream was supposed to be a benefit to pay for the legal costs of IT, after it got busted for obscenity. It turned out to be unexpectedly rich festival – a happening. Yoko Ono did a lot of happenings in the 60s. On the whole though, hers were really boring.

Dissed. Is it true that at the launch of IT at UFO there was a tower of acid sugar cubes?

I remember at the entrance there was someone with a big bowl of sugar cubes wrapped in tin foil. Whether there was anything in them, I just don’t know. Although the first acid trip I ever had was from a sugar cube wrapped up in silver foil.

Was it good?

Yeah, it was spectacular. The world was never the same after that. It altered the whole course of my life. You can’t go back after you’ve taken acid, you can only go forward.

What did you get out of it?

The ability to reconstruct my world view. Ha, that sounds a bit pompous. But when you trip, your frame of reference crumbles, and you become free of the constraints of your constructed identity for a few hours. And if you’re ready for it, when you come back down you can integrate any new realisations you’ve had back into your old life, which then changes it.

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4/6/1968 - No surprise whatsoever to the family and friends of Pink Floyd, weary of the energy required to continue pretending he is still a viable performer with the band, the group officially announces that songwriter and guitarist Roger Keith “Syd�

Barrett, is no longer a member as the musician becomes yet another cautionary tale of the hazards of rock-and-roll fame.

The Blarney club,Tottenham court road, this was where UFO club happened, 31 Tottenham Court, in Film Gala Berkeley.

The entrance to UFO was through the door below the ‘Blarney’ sign.

Original PINK FLOYD Members: (L to R) Waters, Mason, Barrett, and Wright Playing cover versions of American R&B songs mixed with original material, the band, pushed by Barrett (at the time he is reading Grimm’s “Fairy Tales,” Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and “Lord of the Rings,” and Carlos Castaneda’s “The Teachings of Don Juan”) begins improvising riffs during concerts on guitar and keyboards like jazz musicians. Quickly gaining a following, the band has it’s first successes in 1966 and 1967 as they acquire a competent management team, record their first

album (“The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ... a title copped from the name of the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahame’s classic childhood tale, “The Wind in the Willows.”

Of the eleven songs on the album, six are written by Barrett, two are co-written by Barrett, and his guitar playing and vocals are featured on two others ... the first single released is “Arnold Layne,” which reaches #20 on the British music charts, the second, “See Emily Play,” does even better, getting to #6 ... both are Barrett compositions), have their music appear in the film, “Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London” (a 16-minute version of “Interstellar Overdrive” and “Nick’s Boogie”), and become the house band of the London haven for psychedelic movie

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Hot ‘N’ Live The Chrysalis Live Anthology 1974-1983 ‘Hot ‘N Live - Chrysalis Live Anthology’ 2-CD is a collection of eleven live concert segments by UFO. UFO - “Lights Out” Kerrang! magazine listed the album at No. 28 among the, “100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time.”

“Lights Out” is the sixth studio album by the British rock band UFO, released in May and also on 11 October 1977 (see 1977 in music). All songs are band originals except for “Alone Again Or” which is a cover of a song by the band Love.

“Lights Out” speeds up too supersonic afterwards and closes side A.

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UFO “Lights Out” Obscene (?) Hollywood, CA Billboard circa 1977

Schenker’s main guitar for much of his career was a Gibson Flying V, which he typically played through a “cocked” wah-wah pedal (switched on but left in a single spot, around halfway through the travel of the foot pedal, and used as an equaliser to strengthen the midrange “sweet spot” and Marshall amplifiers. His “unmistakable midrange tone” emphasised by the partially engaged wah, as exemplified on the song “Rock Bottom” from the live UFO album Strangers in the Night, was listed among the 50 greatest tones of all time by Guitar Player magazine Since 2004, Michael Schenker has switched to using a signature model Dean V. In 2007 Dean Guitars, after producing a signature Schenker Dean V, also made two acoustic models with the familiar black and white “V” design.

In video games • The Michael Schenker Group’s song, “Armed and Ready”, featured in Guitar Hero: Metallica.

• The song “Assault Attack” was featured in Brütal Legend.

Awards and recognition • Placed on Guitar World magazine’s 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists.

• In 2010 Schenker was given the Marshall “11” award • Michael Schenker accepts his “Rock Guitar Legend” award at the Vegas Rocks!

Magazine Music Awards 2012 • On 16 June 2014. Michael Schenker was honored the Golden God Icon Award at the Metal Hammer Golden God Awards at the IndiO2 in London which was presented to him by Joe Perry of Aerosmith REFERENCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(UFO_album)

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FEATURES AMAZING WORK OF MICHAEL SCHENKER & PETE WAY “Lights Out” album is the sixth studio album by the British rock band UFO, released in May and also on 11 October 1977. “If more people outside of England had actually heard “Lights Out,” UFO would be on the same household name recognition level as fellow badass Phil Lynott. This isn’t to say that UFO was as awesome as Thin Lizzy, but there is a strong correlation between their styles.”

—Sputnik Music (same caliber) The title track and “Love to Love” were featured in the 1999 movie Detroit Rock City. “Love to Love” was also covered by Djali Zwan for the 2002 movie Spun.

Kerrang! magazine listed the album at No. 28 among the “100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time.”

Steve Harris - primary songwriter, founder, leader and bassist of British heavy metal band Iron Maiden - calls “Love to Love” his favourite song.

A good example of the right chemistry is a song/album created by some of rock ’n roll’s best musicians that was released in 1977, UFO - “Lights Out,” is still getting excited comments (3 days ago, a few months ago…) on YouTube as if it was just released yesterday. Yesterday when I watched it the video had 1,482,933 views. Today it has 184 more views!

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Michael Schenker/Andy Parker/Pete Way/Danny Peyronel/Phil Mogg

Pete Way with U.F.O. “Strangers in the Night” Tour live in Tampa, Fla. 1979.

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“Michael Schenker the lead guitarist of U.F.O. at Lakeland 1977. I was front row at this one! They had really big hit singles like “Lights Out” ,” Too Hot to Handle” , “Only You Can Rock Me” ,”Doctor Doctor” , “Rock Bottom” , “Ain’t No Baby”, “Shoot Shoot” ,”Let it Rain” & many others.

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Michael Schenker Is Now Celebrating The 3rd Stage Of His Life & The Era of Handmade Rock FROM MICHAEL SCHENKER FACEBOOK

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Awards • 2017 Michael Schenker HRH “Axeman” Award (Hard Rock Hell Awards) • 2017 On a Mission: Live in Madrid’ the ‘Best High Quality Award (Digital Entertainment Group Awards) • 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award 2016 (VIDEO Magazine Awards) • 2014 ‘Icon’ award (Metal Hammer Magazine Awards) • 2012 Lifetime Achievement In Rock And Roll Award (Vegas Rocks! Awards) • 2010 ‘Marshall 11’ Aw rd ( Classic Rock Magazine Awards)

MICHAEL SCHENKER

Michael Schenker was born the 10th of January 1955 in Sarstedt near Hannover, north Germany. He is the 6.5 years, younger brother of Rudolf, who is still with the Scorpions and 2.5 years older than his Sister Barbara.

Michael started playing guitar in 1964 at the age of 9. He joined his first band aged 11. When he was 14, in 1969, Michael got together with singer Klaus Meine and started a band named Copernicus.

In 1970 when Michael was 15 and Klaus 21 they joined the Scorpions achieving instant international recognition with Michael’s unusual talent as a 15 year old lead guitarist and Klaus’s distinctive vocals. This created the platform for International success for the Scorpions with their first album,

“Lonesome Crow”. Michael wrote most of the music and “In Search of Peace of Mind” was the very first piece of music that he ever wrote. The solo on this song is still one of Michael’s favourite solos. Michael recorded all his solos and rhythm guitars on this album with a Gibson Les Paul and changed to a Gibson Flying V shortly after the release of “Lonesome Crow”. He has played a Flying V guitar ever since, making the V his trademark throughout his carrier with UFO and later became an Icon as a solo artist with his black and white V design under Michael Schenker Group/MSG and Michael Schenker’s Temple of Rock.

In 1972, aged 17, Michael left the Scorpions after first finding Klaus and Rudolf (both 23 years old at the time) a replacement. Michael remembered a guitar player he saw when he was 14 who was playing very well. That person was Uli Roth and he took the offer to join the Scorpions. Michael joined the British psychedelic band UFO and turned them into a rock band. At the same time Michael was approached to audition for the Rolling Stones. That made him nervous and he never returned the call.

Michael’s departure from the Scorpions turned out to be very beneficial for the Scorpions due to Michael’s enormous International success with UFO that was yet to come.

The age of 17 marked the beginning for Michael to stop copying and listening to music in order to focus on the art of lead guitar with pure self-expression. Michael stayed with UFO for 6 Albums. The first 3 albums were produced by Leo Lyons, the bass player of Ten Years After.

“Phenomenon” was recorded in 1973 when Michael was 18, ”Force It” in ’74, ”No Heavy Petting” in ’75, ”Lights Out”, produced by Ron Nevison (known for work with Led Zeppelin), was recorded in ’76 when Michael was 21. It was their first Hit Album, “Obsession” in ’77 and the Live Album “Strangers in The Night” (also produced by Ron Nevison) in ’78 when Michael was 23 years old and became one of the best live albums of all time.

“Lights Out” and “Too Hot to Handle”, off the “Lights Out” Album, and “Only You Can Rock Me” from “Obsession” became hits and many songs became classics over the years such as “Doctor Doctor”, “Rock Bottom” Shoot Shoot”, “Natural Thing”, “Let it Roll” and many more.

In the ‘80’s Michael’s guitar style was copied by almost every 80’s guitarist and he continues to influence the metal scene till today. Bands such as Metallica, Iron Maiden and Guns and Roses to name a few.

Michael left UFO in ’78 aged 23. In the same year, while Michael was still living in Los Angeles, he went to Germany to help out Rudolf and Klaus (both were 30 years old at the time) with their ‘Lovedrive’ album. Michael played throughout the whole album and opened the doors to the United States for the Scorpions. Michael also co-wrote “Holiday” and the instrumental “Coast to Coast”. Interesting to note is that Rudolf and Klaus never made it to the States till 1981 when they were already 33 years old.

It took Michael 8 years from 15 years of age till the age of 23 to make it all the way to the top.

By ’78, aged 23, Michael had developed into a top guitarist, it was also the beginning of his black and white Gibson Flying V design (changed to Dean in 2004). Experiencing fame and success in its fullest which gave him the opportunity to decide between continuing success in the fast lane or to step back and be free to experiment with music and life. Michael decided to step back but it was not that easy. Michael moved back to London where AC/DC Manager Peter Mensch (now manager of Metallica) was living at the time. Peter found out that Michael was free and sent him straight to New York to jam with Aerosmith to check out the chemistry as a replacement for Joe Perry.

Peter became Michael’s Manager and had big business in mind for Michael which made it even more difficult for Michael to step back. At least he had made a step in the right di-

rection by forming his own Band – Michael Schenker Group MSG - to musically do what he wanted, when he wanted.

Michael went through a lot of musicians before ending up with his first Solo Album. It started off in ’79 with Denny Carmassi (ex Montrose) on drums and Billy Sheen (later Mr. Big) on bass and Gary Barden on vocals. After 4 weeks of rehearsals Michael became sick and the Band broke up. Next was the formation with Joey Kramer on drums and Tom Hamilton on bass - both from Aerosmith. They booked a studio in Boston and started to rehearse. Steven Tyler who was sick at the time became well again and Joey and Tom continued with Aerosmith. Getty Lee and Neal Part from Rush also offered to help out Michael but finally he ended up recording with Simon Phillips on drums and Mo Foster on bass (both were with Jeff Beck at the time), Gary Barden on vocals, Don Airy on keyboards and produced by Roger Clover from Deep Purple (Rainbow at the time).

“Michael Schenker Group” was Michael’s first solo album and made it to the top 5 in the UK Charts. The album contains many Classics such as “Armed and Ready”, “Into the Arena”, “Cry for The Nations”, “Victim of Illusion” and “Lost Horizons”.

In ’81 Michael recorded the “MSG” album (produced by Ron Nevison) and “Live at the Budokan” produced by Michael and his engineer with Cozy Powell (ex Jeff Beck and Rainbow) on Drums, Paul Raymond (ex UFO at the time) on guitar and keyboards, Chris Glen (ex Alex Harvey Band) on bass and Gary Barden on vocals. “Live at The Budokan” became a favourite.

The “MSG” album, which had Steven Stills on backing vocals, is known for classics like “Attack of the Mad Axeman”, “On and On” and ”Let Sleeping Dogs Lie”. Both albums reached the top

5 in the UK album charts. By now Michael, aged 26, was voted Nr.1 Guitarist in the UK, Japan and several other countries and was regarded top 5 within the States.

The “Assault Attack” album which became a musician’s favourite was next with Graham Bonnet on vocals, Chris Glen on bass, Ted McKenna (ex Alex Harvey Band and Rory Gallagher) on drums and Tommy Eyre (session player with Joe Cocker and many more) on keyboards and produced by Iron Maiden’s producer Martin Birch. Classic Tracks include “Assault Attack”, “Dessert Song”, “Dancer” and “Broken Promises” In the midst of this Michael was ask by Ozzy Osbourne to join his band. Randy Rhoads had just died in a Plane crash.

This was also the time that Peter Mensch and Michael separated.

Michael recorded the self-produced album “Built to Destroy”.

This album was especially known for songs such as “Captain Nemo”, “Rock My Nights Away”, ”Rock will never Die”. It was re-mixed by Jack Dougles (Aerosmith/John Lennon producer). David Krebs (manager of Aerosmith) became Michael’s new manager but it fell apart quickly and Michael’s band came to an end in ‘84.

In ’86 Michael was ready for his next experiment. He wanted to try a 50/50 partnership with a singer to share responsibilities equally. Michael found Robin McAuley. They recorded 3 albums together: “Perfect Timing”, produced by Andy Jones (known for his work with the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin) and “Save Yourself” produced by Frank Filipetti (known for his work with Elton John and Foreigner ) They released a bunch of hits such as “Anytime”, “Love is not a Game”, “This is My Heart”, “Gimmie Your Love” and recorded classics such as “Save Yourself “,”No Time For Losers”, “Bad Boys” and “Nev-

er Ending Nightmare”. The band’s name for the first 2 albums was now the “McAuley/Schenker Group” which Michael had decided in order to keep the MSG Logo. The band was –Mitch Perry (on Perfect Timing but was replaced by Steve Mann guitar/keyboard for the Save Yourself album), Rocky Newton on bass, Bodo Schopf on drums.

“Schenker /McAuley - MSG” produced by Kevin Beamish was Michael’s and Robin’s 3rd album with James Kottak on drums (ex - Kingdom Come and later Scorpions), Jeff Pilson (ex-Dokken and later Foreigner) on bass.

In his off-time Michael helped out Warren De Matini (friend and Michael Schenker fan at the time) with Ratt and did the All-Star project – Contraband.

In ’92 Michael and Robin went their separate ways and Michael was finally completely free. He became his own manager and an even more experimental musical life started. He recorded several acoustic instrumental albums -Thank You 1,2,3 and 4.

Playing Solos –ONLY- on 2 of Mike Varney’s cover Songs projects – Summit “The Endless Jam and “The Endless Jam continues….” with a great rhythm section - Aynsley Dunbar (ex David Bowie/ex Journey) on drums and Tim Bogert (ex Beck, Bogert and Appice) on bass and David Pattison (Robin Trower) on vocals and later Michael recorded another cover song project playing solos –ONLY- on the MSG album titled “Heavy Hitters” with great musicians and singers of the 80’s.

MSG-Heavy Hitters

1. “All Shook Up” (Otis Blackwell; Elvis Presley) - 4:21 (Elvis Presley cover) Joe Lynn Turner – vocals Michael Schenker – lead guitars Bob Kulick – rhythm guitars Jeff Pilson – bass Aynsley Dunbar - drums 2. “Blood of the Sun” (Felix Pappalardi; Gail Collins Pappalardi; Leslie West) - 3:52 (Leslie West/Mountaincover) Leslie West – vocals Michael Schenker – lead guitars

Bob Kulick – rhythm guitars Rudy Sarzo – bass Simon Wright - drums 3. “Doctor Doctor” (Michael Schenker; Phil Mogg) - 6:07 (UFO cover) Jeff Scott Soto – vocals Michael Schenker – lead guitars Bob Kulick – rhythm guitars Jeremy Rubolino - keyboards, strings arrangements Marco Mendoza – bass Brent Chassen - drums 4. “War Pigs” (Bill Ward; Geezer Butler; Ozzy Osbourne; Tony Iommi) - 7:24 (Black Sabbath cover) Tim “Ripper” Owens – vocals Michael Schenker – lead guitars Bob Kulick – rhythm guitars Mike Inez – bass Aynsley Dunbar - drums 5. “I’m Not Talking” (Mose Allison) - 4:10 (Mose Allison cover) Mark Slaughter – vocals Michael Schenker – lead guitars Bob Kulick – rhythm guitars Jeff Pilson – bass Aynsley Dunbar - drums 6. “Money” (Roger Waters) - 6:04 (Pink Floyd cover) Tommy Shaw – vocals Michael Schenker – lead guitars Edgar Winter – sax Tony Levin – bass Mike Baird - drums 7. “Out in the Fields” (Gary Moore) - 4:25 (Gary Moore cover) Gary Barden – vocals Michael Schenker – lead guitars Bob Kulick – rhythm guitars

Chuck Wright – bass 8. “Hair of the Dog” (Dan McCafferty; Darrell Sweet; Manny Charlton; Pete Agnew) - 4:11 (Nazareth cover) Paul Di’Anno – vocals Michael Schenker – lead guitars Bob Kulick – rhythm guitars Phil Soussan – bass Vinny Appice - drums 9. “I Don’t Live Today” (Jimi Hendrix) - 3:54 (The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover) Sebastian Bach – vocals Michael Schenker – lead guitars Bob Kulick – rhythm guitars Tony Franklin – bass Eric Singer - drums 10. “Politician” (Jack Bruce; Pete Brown) - 5:10 (Cream cover) Jeff Pilson - vocals, bass Michael Schenker – lead guitars Brent Chassen - drums Michael also carried on with two very experimental electric instrumental albums: “Adventure of the Imagination” and “Dreams and Expressions”. Throughout the ‘90’s Michael ended up doing a lot of stuff. On and off with UFO recording and touring, helping out the Scorpions in Japan, and an east block tour with their acoustic part of the show and carried on with MSG as well.

In 2007 Michael started to have this incredible urge to be on stage and took this as a sign that it was time to continue where he had left off in 1978 at age 23 and to be back in the loop of Rock’n’Roll. He has since consistently developed step by step back to the top of the scene with albums like the Schenker/Barden reunion album - “In the Midst of Beauty” produced by Michael and Siggi Schwartz released on inakustik and “Gipsy Lady”, an acoustic album (one of Michael Schenker’s favourite Albums) produced by Michael Voss and

Michael Schenker, also released on inakustik.

Next was Michael Schenker’s “Temple of Rock” with Michael Voss as the main singer, Herman Rarebell (ex Scorpions) on drums, Pete Way (ex UFO) on bass and many great Guest Musicians William Shatner - spoken word on track 1 Robin McAuley - track 12 Doogie White - track 8 Guitars Rudolf Schenker - tracks 4, 7 Michael Amott - track 14 Leslie West - track 14 Keyboards Don Airey - track 5 Paul Raymond - tracks 4, 7 Bass Chris Glen - tracks 9, 13 Neil Murray - tracks 2, 14 Elliott ‘’Dean’’ Rubinson tracks 4, 8, 15 Drums Carmine Appice - tracks 5, 15 Simon Phillips - tracks 2, 14 Chris Slade - tracks 9, 13

Brian Tichy - track 8 This album was produced by Michael Schenker and Michael Voss, released on inakustik. In the same year Michael was invited by William Shatner to play on his Album “Seeking Major Tom.” Seeking Major Tom is the fourth studio album by William Shatner. It was released October 11, 2011 in the US by Cleopatra Records. The album features many noted musicians, including Sheryl Crow, John Wetton, Patrick Moraz, Ritchie Blackmore, Alan Parsons, Peter Frampton, Warren Haynes, Nick Valensi, Zakk Wylde, Mike Inez, Chris Adler, Steve Hillage, Steve Howe, Michael Schenker, Dave Davies, Johnny Winter, Brad Paisley, Bootsy Collins, Carmine Appice, Ian Paice, and Toots.

It was followed by two Michael Schenker’s Temple of Rock albums.

1. “Bridge the Gap” 2. “Spirit on A Mission” Doogie White (ex Rainbow on vocals), Herman Rarebell on drums, Francis Buchholz (ex Scorpions) on bass and Wayne Findlay (MSG member since 1999) on 7 String guitar/keyboard.

Produced by Michael Schenker and Michael Voss. Released on inakustik. This Formation produced classics such as “Vigilante Man”, “Lord of The Lost and Lonely”, “Horizon”, “Where the Wild Wind Blows”, “Live and let Live” and “Saviour Machine”.

They also made 2 Live CD/DVD’s 1. “Live in Europe” mixed by Michael Schenker and Michael Voss released on inakustik.

2. “On A Mission: Live in Madrid” mixed by Michael Schenker and Michael Voss and released on inakustik. Video editing for Live in Madrid was directed by Doogie White. This Live DVD/CD received awards in Germany and Japan. The Band was in great form after 4 years of constant recording and touring and is currently taking a break.

“Michael Schenker Fest,” with 3 original MSG singers –Gary

Barden, Graham Bonnet and Robin McAuley, along with band members Chris Glen (bass), Ted McKenna (drums) and Steve Man (guitar/keyboard) is the latest and a very successful undertaking. A Live CD/DVD was released Worldwide March 24th –Michael Schenker Fest - Live - Tokyo International Forum Hall A. It entered the charts in several countries.

Overall the current status of Michael is back to the peak. He received several Awards, has recently been voted Nr.1 Guitarist in Japan and currently has a very successful Live CD/DVD out worldwide. Michael continued with success in Japan all throughout his career, even during his experimental stage in his middle years (Michael’s most important years). His hardcore fans from all around the world stayed with him mainly consisting of musicians, experts and serious music consumers.

Throughout Michael’s career he has been asked by many famous, established, successful bands and musicians to join them. It went from a request to audition for the Rolling Stones in ’72 when Michael was 17, to re-join Scorpions in ‘78. He was invited to a Jam with Aerosmith at age 24, he was asked

by Ozzy to join Ozzy Osbourne at age 26, Phil Lynott and Ian Hunter in ‘84, he was asked by Lemmy to join Motorhead, he was asked to join Whitesnake, Deep Purple approached Michael in ‘93 and the list goes on…but because of Michael’s own Vision he declined all of them.

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A 3-D digital model of the “first bird,” Archaeopteryx, (the first Crow), appears to pop out of its stony tomb thanks to x-ray scanning and photo­grammetry led by National Geographic Emerging Explorer and biologist Ryan Carney.

The plumage on its wings is based on actual fossil feathers (like the one at left above) from the 150-million-year-old animal.

RYAN CARNEY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

PHILL STOKES

Phill Stokes was a founding member of RCA Recording Artist “Pure Prairie League.”

The band had the 1972 hit song, Amie.

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Phill Stokes was a Founding Member of RCA Recording Artists “Pure Prairie League.” The Band Had The 1972 Hit Song, Amie Pro musician Phill Stokes toured worldwide in major acts. He was an original member of PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE (RCA Records), SHAKEDOWN (QFM Records), JD BLACKFOOT (Mercury Records) who now plays for GHOSTRIDERS (Speedway Records U.S/Phoenix Records Europe) & SOUTHERN ROCK’S FINEST. Phill played with and was a founding member of RCA Recording Artist “Pure Prairie League”with the Hit Song Amie.” He toured and/or recorded worldwide with many other groups such as: • Shakedown (QFM Records), Missisippi Pearl, Marty Martel and Tennessee • JD Blackfoot (Mercury Records) • Founding member of the Pure Prairie League -RCA Records • Played with Eric Moore of the “Godz” of Casa Blanca Records • Played with Dennis Yost and the Classics Four • Played with Rockabilly legend Sleepy Labeef • Session work with many well known Artists such as: • Jeff Fenholt of Black Sabbath • Bob Burns of Lynyrd Skynyrd • Randall Hall of Lynyrd Skynyrd • George McCorkle of Marshall Tucker • Johnny Neel of Allman Brothers • Ted Patton & The Classic Southern Rockers • Gretchen Wilson • Currently a member of “Southern Rocks Finest” • Which is an all star band consisting of former members of Lynyrd Synyrd, Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker Band, Molly Hatchet, Outlaws, Backfoot, Pure Prairie League & Firefall • Myspace.com/southernrocksfinest Currently a founding member of Recording Artists: The Ghost Riders (Phoenix Records-Europe, and Speedway Records USA and Canada and has been touring with the Ghost Riders worldwide for the last several years.

Currently Phill plays for the Artemus pyle band and plays bass, lead guitar, acoustic

guitar, harmonica and vocals. He does solo, duo & full band acts in Florida.He plays Classic Rock, Oldies (50’s & 60’s), Country, Blues, & Southern Rock.

In 1970 the first solid Pure Prairie League lineup was Fuller, McGrail, George Ed Powell (a popular Cincinnati folk singer), Phill Stokes (bassist in Columbus bands Sanhedrin Move and J.D Blackfoot) and Robin Suskind (a popular guitar teacher in the University of Cincinnati neighborhood) on guitar and mandola, with John David Call joining the band later that year. Call’s steel guitar added country credibility to the band’s playlist and sparked guitar duels with Fuller that created the signature sound of the band. They rose to popularity in the fall of 1970 as the house band at New Dilly’s Pub in the Mt. Adams section of Cincinnati.

RCA signed Pure Prairie League after seeing them play in Cleveland, Ohio in 1970.

It was Craig, George, Billy Hinds on drums, and Phill Stokes on bass that played that night. Phil Stokes reminisces, “the Cleveland concert (booked by our manager Roger Abramson) that got us signed to RCA included John Call playing steel guitar on that date. The first album – eponymously titled “Pure Prairie League” – was released the following year. ” In the summer of 1971 McGrail and Stokes left the band to rehearse with Bill Bartlett (of Beechwood Farm, Ram Jam and The Lemon Pipers fame). Jim Caughlan, who’d played guitar and drums with Fuller, Call and McGrail in earlier bands, took over on drums and Jim Lanham from California replaced Stokes on bass.

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BY VIC TRUJILLO | KNAC ROCKS! Vic worked at KNAC when it was live, and is a former writer at Rock’N’Roll and music news. KNAC played Hawk album during 80’s.

Hawk formed in 1982 and was a glam Metal band that really made some noise here in the Sunset Strip. A well known guitarist by the name of Doug Marks was part of this great band and the only member to be part of in every lineup of the band after few changes. Hawk originally featured Charles Morrill on vocals, Doug Marks on guitar, Lonnie Vencent Miller on bass and drummer Scott Travis (now in Judas Priest).

This particular lineup toured everywhere around southern California. Lonnie Vencen Miller later went on to play with bands like Bullet Boys & King Kobra. We all know Scott Travis played in bands like Racer X, Saints Or Sinners later on known as The Scream and of course Judas Priest. Later on Hawk would have personel changes that included David Fefolt on vocals guitarrist and bassist Doug Marks, Dave Tolley on keyboards and Matt Sorum whom we all know went to join Guns ‘N Roses also played with The Cult and Velvet Revolver. As you can see our music really discovered many talented musicians who are now part of some great bands. That’s why I say to fans be open-minded you just never know who might be the next iconic band. When I first heard this guys playing on radio the song “Tell The Truth” I honestly thought it was Dio. The vocals drums and guitar riffs made Hawk a Sunset Strip favorite.

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LONDA R. MARKS 1986 HOLLYWOOD, CA HAWK FOUNDER, SPONSOR & IMAGE DESIGNER

HAWK was a glam metal band which formed in 1984. Doug Marks is the only member to be have been in every line-up of the band. Hawk originally featured lead vocalist Charles Morrill, guitarist Doug Marks, bassist Lonnie Miller (a.k.a Lonnie Vencent), and drummer Scott Travis. This line-up performed the Anywhere There’s Electricity Tour around Southern California.

Doug Marks is now a somewhat famous guitar instructor and has a series of guitar instructional videos titled Metal Method.

Lonnie Miller Vencent, later played in the bands King Kobra and BulletBoys. Scott Travis is now famous for playing drums for Judas Priest, with which he has played since 1989. Scott Travis played in the bands Racer X and Saints Or Sinners, later known as The Scream, between the time of playing in Hawk and Judas Priest. A later line-up of Hawk featured lead vocalist David Fenfolt, guitarist and bassist Doug Marks, keyboardists Dave Tolley and Steve Ayola, and drummer Matt Sorum. Matt Sorum is now famous for playing in Guns’N’Roses and Velvet Revolver. This line-up released a self-titled album in 1986.

Londa R. Marks is a founder of Hawk and all members of the band. Londa’s jobs included finding musicians for the band, image designer, graphic artist, photographer, booking, general manager and choreographer consultant. She was also a co-founder/sponsor of Metal Method Productions, Inc., (MetalMethod.com) now owned by Doug Marks, founded in Van Nuys, CA. Jobs included general manager, graphic designer for all products, advertising/marketing manager and writer of company publication Metal Message: Visions.

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HAWK Written By Londa R. Marks, a founder of HAWK | July 2016 In the mid 1980’s Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder and president of Atlantic Records was considering signing popular Hollywood, California glam rock band HAWK to Atlantic Records. Just at that time turmoil within the band began and ultimately everything disintegrated due to money issues and personal differences.

HAWK was founded by and sponsored by Londa R. Marks and Doug Marks. HAWK band lineup was Doug Marks (Metal Method guitar instructor, guitarist), Scott Travis (drums, Judas Priest), Lonnie Vencent (bass, BulletBoys & King Kobra), Charles Morrill (vocals).

HAWK album included David Fefolt (vocals), Matt Sorum (drums, Guns ‘N Roses, Velvet Revolver, Hollywood Vampires, Motorhead), Dave Tolly & Steve Ayola

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The Hawk album was recorded in 1986 as a Doug Marks solo project after the original band dissolved earlier that year.

Being signed to Atlantic Records may have been a good thing, but maybe

not; 30 years later, a HAWK album is at least still being sold by one of the original HAWK artists, Doug Marks, as digital download or compact disk. If Atlantic Records had signed the band, possibly a lot of money/fame/artistic validation would have happened with HAWK but also possibly no money would have been made for the artists. In some cases however, selling your own albums can give you control over what you earn..

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All Area Access: Personal Management for Unsigned Musicians Paperback – October 1, 1997 3.5 Stars Amazon Print Length: 384 pages Publisher: Hal Leonard (October 1, 1997) Publication Date: October 1, 1997 (Book). Take charge of your musical destiny! All Area Access is your map for the road to musical success. Author Marc Davison puts his many years of experience as a musician and artist manager into this book.

Topics include: starting a band, booking gigs, press and the media, recording, copyrights, merchandising, touring, finances, managers, agents, record deals, and much more everything you need to know and do to market your act and your music.

Includes info about Yellow Pages Of Rock! Album Network, Burbank CA Amazon Comment: yarden 4.0 out of 5 starsLots of info June 13, 2000 ALL AREAS ACCESS was a useful tool because it covers the music industry from the ground up. From starting the band to booking shows to getting signed, this book basically covers it all.

I found many useful features in this book, including the layout (spacedout paragraphs with Bold headlines), the samples (press releases, logos, you name it), and the scope of information (basic to more advanced). The tone is conversational, as if you have a pal who’s letting you in on the inside scoop of the music business. The typos did bug me, though -- didn’t someone copy-edit this book before it went to press?

I’d recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about the music business. It’s a great place to start, and provides a lot of useful information.

A lifetime goes too fast! ...Aaand it’s gone.

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BY VIC TRUJILLO | KNAC ROCKS!

Visual Storyteller · February 8 at 6:39 AM

Vic Trujillo worked at KNAC when it was live, and is a former writer at Rock’N’Roll and music news. KNAC played Hawk album during 80’s.

People have said so many things about our beloved music Heavy Metal and most of them were very negative.Heavy Metal wasn’t a phase it was a way of life.

went to the clubs we walked the strip wearing our long hair leather jackets high top Nike shoes. The reason for this post is to keep our legacy of music alive.

For many of us who were fortunate enough to live in or nearby the Sunset Strip in Hollywood California it was quite an experience. Why? Because this was considered the place to be if you were a fan or a musician it didn’t matter if you played Rock N Roll, Hard Rock -Heavy Metal music.

Blackie said it best on his debut album “The Gods you worship are steel at the altar of Rock N Roll you kneel”.

Where else were you able to see guys in bands walking up and down the strip or just hanging out.On a weekday you would see guys from Van Halen, Ratt, The Crüe, Dokken, Great White, WASP, GNR hanging out in these clubs passing out stickers flyers or even free tickets. On some occasions you would see those flyer wars between bands. One cool thing I experienced was seeing the hottest bands at a very reasonable price $20 or even $10 way before they became Mega rockstars. Hollywood attracted numerous bands from all over the world, Germany, Sweden, England, Brazil, etc... They all wanted to play here.

The Whisky a Go Go, The Roxy, The Troubadour, Gazzari’s offered that opportunity which was awesome.

This was the place that saw the birth of many iconic bands in the 60’s like The Doors, The Turtles, Jefferson Airplane being the biggest. The 80’s was a wild decade; a decade that will forever hold a special place in my heart.

Like many of us we lived the style we

It’s very sad that not all of you experienced this in your lives. It was the best. Let me tell you, I lived to witnessed the birth of Hard Rock with the original Van Halen to the massive storm that metal brought through WASP, Dokken, RATT, Great White, Steeler, Malice, Armored Saint and many many more. Even if you try to make your way here nowadays you won’t be able to see much. Most of these clubs are no longer around. All that remains are just memories that will forever live in us.

GOD BLESS HEAVY METAL. It wasn’t a phase but a way of life. \m/

Rainbow Bar & Grill - Heaven & Hell Londa R. Mark | January

29, 2013 - Review and Dedication to the Rainbow Bar & Grill’s 42nd Anniversary (Opened April 16, 1972) Heaven and Hell has been interpreted by writers, musicians and artists for thousands of years. How anyone reacts to those words, sounds or pictures is a choice that can guide how one lives. Serious rockers align their lives with those who master music, master the muse, which can resonate as Heaven or Hell or both. Many times that muse is found at a rock star secret sanctuary where anyone who knows about it can eat and drink while surrounded by their favorite rock stars looking for their muse. It’s the legendary Rainbow Bar and Grill located at 9015 Sunset Blvd., in Hollywood, California.

As one enters a quaint English Tudor style building practically hidden from plain sight - except for the vertical rainbow colored sign - next to the world famous Roxy (now called On the Rox) and just up the street from the Viper Room - partly owned

by Johnny Depp at one time, and near the world famous Whiskey A-Go-Go where Motley Crue among many others started their successful journey, one wonders if they have entered the golden gates of Heaven or the seductive temples of Hell. Either way, it feels like you’ve won as you scan the rooms including the upstairs room called Over the Rainbow on any given night and see the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Robert Plant, Blackie Lawless, Lemmy from Motorhead, Poison, Guns N’ Roses, Tony Iommi, David Lee Roth, Marilyn Manson, Sebastian Bach, Billy Idol, Motley Crue and myriad other rock stars all sitting at tables that you can walk up to and ask for their autograph. You know who is there because when a rock star arrives the Rainbow Bar and Grill plays their music.

Anyone of legal age can enter of course. But, beware! You are being warned now. Once you begin going to the Rainbow Bar and Grill you become addicted to that spellbinding den of pleasures where rock stars, their fans and groupies from every corner of the world hang out and party together. The Rainbow Bar and Grill is habit-forming and rarely do you leave without practically owning stock in Jack Daniels, the ritual drink of the

Rainbow. Drinks of all kinds are strong and the food is high quality. It’s the place to hang out in Hollywood if you are a serious rocker and wonder what Heaven and Hell is all about.

Thanks to Owner: Mario Maglieri Website: rainbowbarandgrill .com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RAINBOW-BAR-ANDGRILL-196112625090/

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January 22, 2019, 11:00 AM GMT+1

For decades, the Sunset Strip was known for its rock clubs and celebrity hot spots. Now, the once-gritty stretch of boulevard is becoming better known for its luxury hotels. Real estate developers AECOM Capital and Combined Properties Inc. provided a fresh glimpse of the future of the section of Sunset Boulevard that runs through West Hollywood, California, by unveiling new details of a $450 million hotel-and-condo project they’re building where the House of Blues once stood. Called the Pendry West Hollywood, the project has 149 guest rooms, 40 branded residences and a small music venue that nods to the property’s history.

Viper Room There are five more projects in various stages of planning in the West Hollywood portion of Sunset Boulevard alone, including a futuristic hotel tower on the site of the former Viper Room, the nightclub where actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose in 1993. Sunset Boulevard has had high-profile hotels before, including the Hyatt Hotels Corp. property sometimes called the Riot House, where members of Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and the Who were rumored to have tossed the occasional television from a window or ridden a motorcycle down a hallway.

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Pharaoh Akhenaten is noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten, which is sometimes described as monolatristic, henotheistic, or even quasi-monotheistic, giving the solar deity a status above mere gods.

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AKHENATEN Ancient Egypt’s 18th Dynasty Sun God

Akhenaten was one of Egypt’s most controversial pharaohs, in part because of his strange appearance in images produced after he had declared Aten, the Sun-disc, his one-and-only god.

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Daughter of Akhenaten’s head shape was considered a sign of royalty. Artificial cranial deformation or modification, head flattening, or head binding is a form of body alteration in which the skull of a human being is deformed intentionally. It is done by distorting the normal growth of a child’s skull by applying force. This could have been the case with Akhenaton’s daughter. The strange shape of the skull has been attributed to bandages around the head to elongate the skull. The placement of the bandages leaves impressions in the contour of the surface.

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Egypt’s King Tutankhamun was embalmed in an unusual way, including having his penis mummified at a 90-degree angle, in an effort to combat a religious revolution unleashed by his father, a new study suggests.

The pharaoh was buried in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings without a heart (or a replacement artifact known as a heart scarab); his penis was mummified erect; and his mummy and coffins were covered in a thick layer of black liquid that appear to have resulted in the boy-king catching fire.

The mummified erect penis and other burial anomalies were not accidents during embalming, Ikram suggests, but rather deliberate attempts to make the king appear as Osiris, the god of the underworld, in as literal a way as possible. The erect penis evokes Osiris’ regenerative powers; the black liquid made Tutankhamun’s skin color resemble that of Osiris; and the lost heart recalled the story of the god being cut to pieces by his brother Seth and his heart buried.

Making the king appear as Osiris may have helped to undo a religious revolution brought about by Akhenaten, a pharaoh widely believed to be Tutankhamun’s father, Ikram said.

Akhenaten had tried to focus Egyptian religion around the worship of the Aten, the sun disc, going so far as to destroy images of other gods. Tutankhamun was trying to undo these changes and return Egypt back to its traditional religion with its mix of gods.

Ikram cautions that her idea is speculative, but, if correct, it would help explain some of the mysteries surrounding Tutankhamun’s mummification and burial.

Tutankhamun’s erect penis Tutankhamun’s mummified penis eventually broke off from his body after the mummy was discovered, at

one point leading to media speculation that it had been stolen.

Ikram has yet to encounter another Egyptian mummy buried with an erection. “As far as I know, no other mummy has been found thus far with an erect penis,” she told LiveScience in an email.

The imagery of King Tutankhamun’s erect penis has a connection to the god Osiris, Ikram said.

“The erect penis evokes Osiris at his most powerfully regenerative moment, and is a feature of ‘corn-mummies,’ the quintessential symbols of rebirth and resurrection,” she writes in her paper.

Corn-mummies were nonhuman artificial mummies created in later periods in honor of Osiris.

They were made of a mix of materials, including grain.

Tut On Fire Evidence revealed in a recent documentary suggests that literally Tutankhamun’s mummy went up in flames, something apparently brought about by the large amount of black oils and resins applied to his body.

The embalmers applied an abnormally large amount of this black goolike material to Tutankhamun’s body for the time period in which he lived and they also applied it to the pharaoh’s coffins.

In October 1925, Howard Carter, an archaeologist who led the team that discovered the tomb in 1922, wrote, “the most part of the detail is hidden by a black lustrous coating due to pouring over the coffin a libation of great quantity.”

Using large amounts of this black liquid, which turned King Tut’s skin a blackish color, may have been a deliberate attempt to depict the pharaoh, as literally as possible, as Osiris.

“The mass of oils and resins applied to Tutankhamun’s body might also allude to the black color associated with Osiris as lord of the land of Egypt, dark with the rich soil of the inundation, and the source of fertility and regeneration,” Ikram writes in the paper. REFERENCE

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Horus of the two horizons “Horakhty”

Secrets of Osiris Osiris was an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead, but more appropriately as the god of transition, resurrection, and regeneration.

Osiris was considered not only a merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the underworld agency that granted all life. His father is the sun-god Ra and the sky goddess Nut, as well as being brother and husband of Isis. Being the father of Horus, whose conception is described in the Osiris myth, is a central myth in ancient Egyptian belief. The myth described Osiris as having been killed by his brother Set, who wanted Osiris’ throne. Isis joined the fragmented pieces of Osiris, but the only body part missing was the reproductive organ.

Isis fashioned a golden reproductive organ, and briefly brought Osiris back to life by use of a spell that she learned from her father. This spell gave her time to become pregnant

by Osiris before he again died. Isis later gave birth to Horus. As such, since Horus was born after Osiris’ resurrection

Osiris was an Egyptian god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead, but more appropriately as the god of transition, resurrection, and regeneration.

Isis, in the form of a bird, copulates with the deceased Osiris. At either side are Horus, although he is as yet unborn, and Isis in human form. Death and resurrection of Osiris At the start of the story, Osiris rules Egypt, having inherited the kingship from his ancestors in a lineage stretching back to the creator of the world, Ra or Atum.

Relief of a man wearing a tall crown lying on a bier as a bird hovers over his phallus. A falcon-headed man stands at the foot of th bier and a woman with a headdress like a tall chair stands at the head.

Isis, in the form of a bird, copulates with the deceased Osiris. At either side are Horus, although he is as yet unborn, and Isis in human form.

Osiris’s death is followed either by an interregnum or by a period in which Set assumes the kingship. Meanwhile, Isis searches for her husband’s body with the aid of Nephthys. When searching fo or mourning Osiris, the two goddesses are often likened to falcons or kites, possibly because kites travel far in search of carrion because the Egyptians associated their plaintive calls with cries o grief, or because of the goddesses’ connection with Horus, who is often represented as a falcon.

The goddesses find and restore Osiris’s body, often with the help of other deities, including Thoth, a deity credited with great magical and healing powers, and Anubis, the god of embalming and funerary rites. Osiris becomes the first mummy, and the gods’ efforts to restore his body are the mythological basis for Egyptian embalming practices, which sought to prevent and reverse the decay that follows death.

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Once Osiris is made whole, Isis conceives his son and rightful heir, Horus. One ambiguous spell in the Coffin Texts may indicate that Isis is impregnated by a flash of lightning, while in other sources, Isis, still in bird form, fans breath and life into Osiris’s body with her wings and copulates with him.

Plutarch also states that Set steals and dismembers the corpse only after Isis has retrieved it. Isis then finds and buries each piece of her husband’s body, with the exception of the penis, which she has to reconstruct with magic, because the original was eaten by fish in the river. According to Plutarch, this is the reason the Egyptians had a taboo against eating fish. There are texts in which Isis travels in the wider world. She moves among ordinary humans who are unaware of her identity, and she even appeals to these people for help.

Through the work of classical writers such as Plutarch, knowledge of the Osiris myth was preserved even after the middle of the first millennium AD, when Egyptian religion ceased to exist and knowledge of the writing systems that were originally used to record the myth were lost. The myth remained a major part of Western impressions of ancient Egypt. In modern times, when understanding of Egyptian beliefs is informed by the original Egyptian sources, the story continues to influence and inspire new ideas, from works of fiction to scholarly speculation and new religious movements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_myth SPELL 125 Spell 125 is the best known of all the texts of the Book of the Dead. People who are unacquainted with the book, but who have even the slightest acquaintance with Egyptian mythology, know the spell without even realizing it. Spell 125 describes the judging of the heart of the deceased by the god Osiris in the Hall of Truth, one of the best known images from ancient Egypt, even though

the god with his scales is never actually described in the text. As it was vital that the soul pass the test of the weighing of the heart in order to gain paradise, knowing what to say and how to act before Osiris, Thoth, Anubis, and the Forty-Two Judges was considered the most important information the deceased could arrive with. The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) to around 50 BCE.

Disillusionment is illusion being made real.

The illusion; a dream as it often becomes making things

the creation of becomes real it disillusioned real.

They were better when they were dreams.

And the solution to that is

the realization that they may have been better as dreams than reality. But in reality they’re better in reality than not being in reality.

That is the true meaning of disillusionment; It’s illusions being made real.

—Rick Levine, Astrologer

I am an illusion created by resonant patterns of

particle/waves as the macrocosm meets the microcosm. —Rick Levine, Astrologer

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