Final Meal Requests from Death Row Prisoners in Texas

Final Meal Requests from Death Row Prisoners in Texas
Below is an array of food like full stops as chosen by prisoners in Death Row. [...]

Billy Preston RIP

The great singer-songwriter and performer Billy Preston, the “Fifth Beatle” has died after a long illness as a result of malignant hypertension that resulted in kidney failure and other complications. He dies in Arizona where he’d been in a coma for nearly a year.
Billy was menatuared by Ray Charles early in his life and went [...]

Hank Shocklee: Louder than a Bomb – interview by Jim Welte at mp3.com

Thought I’d reprint this – cos Shocklee is the man…
it’s from mp3.com
He has a new website launching soon at www.shocklee.com/
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With a book and a sci-fi audio-visual project on the way, the creator of the Public Enemy sound is putting in work.
From the moment he sat down with MP3.com for a chat, it was clear [...]

Kostas Kostadinos (bass) Orbituary

I just got a call from Greece telling me that my very good friend Kostas Kostadinos decided to take his life in Naxos Island, Greece two days ago – they found him yesterday.
Kostas played electric bass on two tracks from Scale – ‘Money’ and ‘I Am Me and She Is She’. I especially loved his [...]

It’s about time – you know pinball kerchunk ting…

yep – wackyness in a row deserves a few strokes…
the past two weeks I have been up in Scotland plugging into the beautiful drink of water that is my folks and people……me and some OLD friends went up north for a few days- a spot on the water next the islands – where three oceans [...]