The Greatest Problem is the Hungry Heart

The Greatest Problem is the Hungry Heart

Dickey Betts Guitar Riff on Bougainvillea

The new ABB line up with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks on guitars is a great addition to the band. I have grown to love this line up but once in a while, I miss Dickey Betts guitar solos with ABB. I am sure when you hear this piece Bougainvillea from his 70's solo LP with The Great Southern you will agree that not only Dickey Betts is a soulful melodic guitar player, that can add power and speed if it will make the song better, but he also helped with his songwriting, and singing. Dickey Betts sound is Allman Brothers Band.

On Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Album Cover

Photo: Karl Ferris

Just like any passion, be Theology, Art, Technology or cooking, one's love and dedication to his (or her) personal interests is a lifelong journey. Let's look at the passion for Rock Art, add the internet..then you get to piece all these information in a way that makes sense to you (or research). You share these pieces and maybe another rock art fan finds that piece of information useful.

This is about the "blue or white type" in the Jimi Hendrix's Album cover at it's production stage for Electric Ladyland from Recordmecca's Blog.

Sean Lennon's Music

Sean Lennon (38) has new music. Son of John and Yoko,  with his band The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger here is the interview from The Globe and Mail.

1975 Interview with Jimi Page by William Burroughs

Jimmy Page and William Burroughs

Having William Burroughs as a rock interviewer is a mind altering experience. 

Adding Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page to this scenario makes it even more powerful. 

A stairway to the netherworld. Mr. Burroughs takes you to a soccer riot in Peru, 

introduces you to a faith healing Major, sonic experiments and Moroccan trance music.
One of the best rock

The Interview

Jethro Tull Concert Raw Video

When the elderly get together on a rainy weekend at a winery nearby, it must be for our benefit to see Mr. Anderson. Jetro-Tull is onstage and must be worth taking a 2 minute taxi ride to the winery. Just too old to Rock and Roll but not for the wine and Tull EXP. Excuse the poor audio at the beginning, gets better at the end.

To Age with Grace

Roger may have found the Waters of Life = Progressive & Creativity

As the new "Year of the Horse" begins, we  may look back and contemplate on what we have done the year past. If we find ourselves stuck and unable to progress, "To Age with Grace: The Narcissist as an Old Person" by Dr. Sam Vaknin,  help view aging in a constructive perspective. It may help guard against cynicism at the new world as we climb up our ladder to the afterlife.

The narcissist ages without mercy and without grace. His withered body and his overwrought mind betray him all at once. He stares with incredulity and rage at cruel mirrors. He refuses to accept his growing fallibility. He rebels against his decrepitude and mediocrity. Accustomed to being awe-inspiring and the recipient of adulation - the narcissist cannot countenance his social isolation and the pathetic figure that he cuts.

The narcissist suffers from mental progeria. Subject to childhood abuse, he ages prematurely and finds himself in a time warp, constantly in the throes of a midlife crisis. As a child prodigy, a sex symbol, a stud, a public intellectual, an actor, an idol - the narcissist was at the centre of attention, the eye of his personal twister, a black hole which sucked people's energy and resources dry and spat out with indifference their mutilated carcasses. No longer. With old age comes disillusionment. Old charms wear thin.

Having been exposed for what he is - a deceitful, treacherous, malignant egotist - the narcissist's old tricks now fail him. People are on their guard, their gullibility reduced. The narcissist - being the rigid, precariously balanced structure that he is - can't change. He reverts to old forms, re-adopts hoary habits, succumbs to erstwhile temptations. He is made a mockery by his accentuated denial of reality, by his obdurate refusal to grow up, an eternal, malformed child in the sagging body of a decaying man.

It is the fable of the grasshopper and the ant revisited.

The narcissist - the grasshopper - having relied on supercilious stratagems throughout his life - is singularly ill-adapted to life's rigors and tribulations. He feels entitled - but fails to elicit Narcissistic Supply. Wrinkled time makes child prodigies lose their magic, lovers exhaust their potency, philanderers waste their allure, and geniuses miss their touch. The longer the narcissist lives - the more average he becomes. The wider the gulf between his pretensions and his accomplishments - the more he is the object of derision and contempt.

Yet, few narcissists save for rainy days. Few bother to study a trade, or get a degree, pursue a career, maintain a business, keep their jobs, or raise functioning families, nurture their friendships, or broaden their horizons. Narcissists are perennially ill-prepared. Those who succeed in their vocation, end up bitterly alone having squandered the love of spouse, off-spring, and mates. The more gregarious and family-orientated - often flunk at work, leap from one job to another, relocate erratically, forever itinerant and peripatetic.

The contrast between his youth and prime and his dilapidated present constitutes a permanent narcissistic injury. The narcissist retreats deeper into himself to find solace. He withdraws into the penumbral universe of his grandiose fantasies. There - almost psychotic - he salves his wounds and comforts himself with trophies of his past.

A rare minority of narcissists accept their fate with fatalism or good humour. These precious few are healed mysteriously by the deepest offense to their megalomania - old age. They lose their narcissism and confront the outer world with the poise and composure that they lacked when they were captives of their own, distorted, narrative.

Such changed narcissists develop new, more realistic, expectations and hopes - commensurate with their talents, skills, accomplishments and education. Ironically, it is invariably too late. They are avoided and ignored, rendered transparent by their checkered past. They are passed over for promotion, never invited to professional or social gatherings, cold-shouldered by the media. They are snubbed and disregarded. They are never the recipients of perks, benefits, or awards. They are blamed when not blameworthy and rarely praised when deserving. They are being constantly and consistently punished for who they were. It is poetic justice in more than one way. They are being treated narcissistically by their erstwhile victims. They finally are tasting their own medicine, the bitter harvest of their wrath and arrogance.

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Free Your Mind 2014

Free Your Mind. (2014 rockofmanila.com)

I hope someday you will join us in this "State of Mind" and honor what it was like, to tell those incredible stories to your friends and family about what it was like in Manila when for 2 or 3 summers, the air was sweet, the sky turned gold and purple. Our brotherhood was One...in Rock and in Peace. You got to free your mind.