MORE DOLLS....from SPACE ?

Found more Starz…., with bass-guitars, heart-shaped and star-shaped.
(Tip: Small guitars allows easy-action when youre band jumping around on stage like a swarm of locusts)

Who are they? Where do they come from? Unmistakeably they have shoes of good quality on their…, suitable for normal weather, …..and big cat-like eyes….Aliens? With those eyes they may see the big human world very well.

But…. I´m wondering about the lips,….in most of the cases they don´t look natural, not really…. Hopefully they are not of the exploding kind. I think these girls,... they enjoy restaurants, but don´t enjoy eating alone.

Positive; They don´t have lazer-guns. I think they are more friendly than unkind. That´s always a good start in any society.

(Bratz,,,send me a couple of dollars for ice-cream)

Explosives:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/halsa/story/0,2789,848813,00.html

DOLLS ENGAGE

Today
The examination committee for radio and television in Sweden sentenced; at daytime sent (reprised) programme,(the cultureoriented magazine; “Kobra”), where Barbiedolls had sexactivties. ---------------------------------------------------
One of my personal questions, since earlier;... I wonder how many young swedish women, ...up to the age of 55, ...have played with Barbiedolls,… these hard, long-legged, symmetrical plastic creatures, always ready for job, in almost every branch.

But, newcomers are coming to take the position of modern dolly fashion?,… like Bratz Rock Angels? Because of the guitars….I want to….hmm, interesting model. Only four strings (Bass) but six tuning-knobs. ...But they are a little bit nice I must say,....what are they performing?,.......the song goes….:

Beep Beep Mm Beep Beep, Yeh! ....Baby, you can drive my car. .....Yes, I´m gonna be star. .......Baby, you can drive my car, .....and maybe I love you, .....


(Lennon&McCartney 1965)

Europeans: Learn to behave !

Sensationally I found the Swedish Childrens Christmas song; Tre pepparkaksgubbar, among other things on

http://www.thepancakes.com/

the pancakes在國際綜藝合家歡 [我個名叫麥兜兜 古典音樂小計劃]在這個演出裡, 麥兜和他的朋友, 香港小交響樂團和班戟會教你在古典音樂會裡應該注意甚麼和怎樣享受整個過程. 這不是一堂嚴肅的課, 反而很有趣.我不會在這演出玩奏音樂. 我會跟你們說話, 我也希望到時你們會回答我啦!門票現已有售. 詳情

Do it right now you polar zoombies - learn the ligthness of the far east.

New Facts in the Terry Dene case

In a stagnant case like this, I had to contact Newlanders Detective Bureau, their marshalls nearly solved the Lars Danielsson case (the swedish citizen who was invisible during christmas, he could have been Santa Claus?)
I got the hot tip from the bureau;.... "check Internet".

My theory, which I had been waiting for to be confirmed by specialists from US, was that Terry Dene was lately been seen in Roswell - as a hamburgersaleman! But, the most wildest theory which came up in my mind, that he was the tiny guitar salesman in the amazing story of Little Red Riding Hood; http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_drivemyguitar_archive.html

bio
Terry Dene (born Terence Williams) was one of the most promising rock & rollers of pre-Beatles England. With a recording contract with Decca UK and a regular spot on BBC TV's first pop television show, Six 5 Special, Dene seemed to be on the verge of stardom. His first three singles reached the British Top 20.

Dene's potential for success was severely damaged, however, by a series of self-imposed mishaps. Arrested for public drunkenness and vandalism in 1958, Dene was cited by the British media as an example of the "evil" of rock & roll. His mental health was considered to have plummeted after being drafted into the British national service. Discharged on psychological grounds after two months, he found his career in ruins.

Although he appeared in a film, The Golden Disc, and joined Larry Parnes' stable of stars, he was unable to recapture the momentum and faded from the pop scene. Turning to religion, Dene became a street-singing Evangelist, recording three albums of gospel music. He spent the early '70s residing in Sweden. Dene has unsuccessfully attempted several comebacks.

In 1974, he released a book and album, I Thought Terry Dene Was Dead, and began to perform with a rock band, the Dene Aces, featuring Brian Gregg, composer of classic rock tune "Shakin' All Over," in the 1980s. He released an album, Real Terry Dene, in 1997. A native of London, Dene was heavily influenced by the early recordings of Elvis Presley and Gene Vincent. Performing at 2 T's Coffee Bar, the London club that helped to launch the careers of Tommy Steele, Cliff Richard, and Adam Faith, he caught the attention of British record producer Jack Good, who helped him to obtain a contract with Decca UK.

Although he wrote very few songs, Dene was a master interpreter, scoring with covers of Marty Robbins' "A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)" and "The Stairway of Love" and Sal Mineo's "Start Movin'." Dene was briefly married to British songstress Edna Savage.

~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide

X:files WHAT HAPPENED TO TERRY DENE ?

Nearly fifty years ago something happened. . . .

His first record “A White Sports Coat and a Pink Carnation” sold 50 000 copies in two weeks. He got contract with Decca - paid with 2 500 swedish crowns every week. His movie debut, “The Golden Disc”, was ready for distribution outside UK. Yes, he was the englisman who was said to compete Elvis Presley and Tommy Steele.


If you know something – even the wildest theory – give me a comment or the mail with information ; bonnajazz@spray.se

WHAT´s SO WRONG WITH THE CASSETTE-PLAYERS?

During my lifetime I´ve seen them come and go. I think there is more than 600 cassettes in my collection, once carefully collected, most of them own recordings from different sources. Nowdays, the new machines, mostly have the cassette player, but the line in/line out function is rare, and the cheap built-in microphones…., you don´t find any.

All this was still common in the 1980:ies. The cheap microphonefunction was useful for me in everyday life and I don´t know how many times I did copies between different machines, with the fully normal line in/line out function. It was almost standard on tape recorders since the beginning. New techniques, new fashions…. It´s about money too, absolutely.

In ancient times humanity liked to use things that worked well in daily life, it was often wisdom from the generation before….

MIDSUMMER IN SWEDEN

Recitation;

Midsummer ! The engaged time of the frogs! Ring.Ring. Bell Ring.


Single String Guitar Solo.

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(Pfft! Pfft! Opening of the LOKA)

If you still, after midnight, are able to spell”SHE SELLS SEA-SHELLS ON THE SEA SHORE. AND THE SHELLS SHE SELLS ARE SEA-SHELLS I AM SURE.” right in the face of the host - properly, you may drive your Bike from the Camp.

Waiting for the midsummer-Party...., with giant Loka Pet-Bottle in your hands.,,,,,looking over the blue lake in the afternoon sun,......you listen to this......:
http://www.lokasbubblare.se/?song=688

JUNE´s SHORT-CUT TICKET

Today about How To Keep Your Phans Away. Yeeeaazh (my scottish accent), I use professional No-Key-Aaa rubber for the soft defense. Picture from last summer.


"Wearing bizarre costumes and pretending to be serious about their clothes and musical performance instead of honestly admitting that the costumes are part of the show . This admission would be the honest thing to do , and then the performers could be viewed and heard from the proper frame of reference - as entertainment, not music" Barney Kessel in Guitar Player august 1978

CHINA CALLING

http://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/

http://www.sister.co.jp/hang_on_the_box/index_e.html

WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE






meanwhile : Check Up This Link-Site

http://www.burkar.nu/mu/mu-lankar.html

MAY´s Short-Cut Ticket

Yeah, today it´s short time, but it can be long time if you look at following link site to guitar tablatures,....good luck,... , remember it´s internet. Monsters eat you up.


http://www.gitarrforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=89

Show me if you found something interesting, like an cat in the backyard, I´ll give you my doom.

SONG CONTEST ?

I would rather say; ”ACT CONTEST”, about the Eurovision Song Contest last night.

Winners were, (almost all Europeans know something about it) , the monster- zoombie- group, .... Lordi, .... from Finland.

Counting points there were no question about it. But,.... I wonder (just a little bit, for maximum two minutes), if they had been the winners in “normal” costumes.
No, I don’t think so. Maybe in swim-suits? That tune, “Hard Rock Hallelujah”, could been kinky in tiny sportswear with a leadsinger (white) who truly love beer more than gymnastics?
I don’t know, of course.



http://www.musicbay.se/jukebox/bmg/lordi_fi

THEY ARE COMING

http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1999/vh1women.htm

http://www.womanrock.com/

http://www.thecoverzone.com

http://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/2228.asp

http://www.sv.se/nyheter/index.asp?iArticleID=281

http://www.quins.se/start.html

http://rebell.nu/rnrniggers.html

http://www.impuls.nu/tema/tema_artikel.asp?iArticleID=351

http://metalriffs.com

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0965104206/103-3008287-3597432?v=glance&n=283155

APRIL´s SHORT-CUT TICKET

I am a little bit bored, by the TROPHY COLLECTORS.

I think it really came in my sight 1999, noticed that young cool´s in black rubber collected riffs and tricks without learning the whole tune, BUT, that was not their “official” standpoint. To comrades; “Hii, this week I´ve done the (l i f e time)work of Metallica, you are a idiot because you don´t know anything”.

In many cases these quotators also didn´t enjoy the thought of improvisation, what´s on record was the one and only law,… “at least those two bars I want to learn” (and those two bars are ALL you are able two play before shouting for fresh air, ...and a new bottle of sodacokepopcoolheavystarshine, and feet popping around off-beat like pop-corn,... and mindly thinking of that as it was surely the way, ..."like the historical Bill Haley and the Comets, ..they did it, ...may just need a manager, ..no,... not a lawyer!,... this is already showbiz history,... because of my two bars of artistery...!")

It´s like the most conservative superficial view on classical music. It´s delicious, sweet life, all the time.

This happens in minds, ... in 99%, during the age, ... when young rubberspiderfrogman dressed guitarowners (with no visible hair on their body because of all the tattoos) still don´t wash their own underpants,...(up to the age of 45 in some cases). Maybe it´s economical thinking, “others do the job, others take the time. As a consumer of music I do as I like. I`ll take the candy.”

That´s like karaoke. Taste of the real woooould…

Whatever, learn the pieces. A couple of quotations won´t make it.

DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE -... there are melody makers

There are reasons to be worried all the time. On the other hand, it is necessary to be calm and not get paralyzed by all the troubles. Music is for joy and communication, it´s not the only way, but one big road, back in time too.

How much is playable on a guitar? Very much, enough for a lifetime, for anyone. Not only the originals for the instrument. Guitar has several octaves, you can play in voices, you can bend the strings…, and so on. Different tunings are possible. As mentioned, the numbers om “melodies” are cosmical. New are created all the time. In different rhythmical and harmonic surroundings melody live differentely. Different shadings, dynamics.

The arrangement as a playground is of highest importance. Like making food with ingredients. If your bag is full of frozen Pan Pizzas, well..., it may be practical, but how interesting is it? One of my favourite trips is to go around in my surely compact living apartment, looking in the boxes for musical food. Ingredients. Yes, I´m also talking about different categories of music (fishing waters of the guitar player).

There are different categories, it´s not one big pot. Many categories are closely related, but some far,... other include black sheeps and some jokers.

Coming up more about this trip...., on this Blog!

Weather report: Is it true? Is it spring? Maybe summer coming? Once again? I want rattle snakes on the streets after this unusual-several months-dull-winter in these parts. Come Africa and California! Let the crocodile hunters invade the marketplace. Summer safari with bicycle Now! Let the icecream flow out of the windows! I don´t care if some look like idiots in their shorts and hawaiian t-shirts when we have +10 celsius..., I forgive them because of their happiness!

MARCH´s SHORT-CUT TICKET

The old educational book in the english language (which I always study) tells me this story; Somebody asked an Irishman which he thought was more useful, the sun or the moon. “The moon, of course, he replied. “Why?”

“Because the moon shines at night when it is dark. The sun shines in the daytime when it is not necessary, because then it is light all the same”

Hey, that´s not nice, what a light on the Irish! Those melody lovers, who have so many tunes in their head. The most heavymetalmusichistorians know about the tune “Whiskey in the jar”, because of the versions of the groups Thin Lizzy and Metallica. Several times younger people asked me if I can give them the keys of playing it. (It suits their image in the front of a mirror). Several times I´ve told them, if I, the great musicteacher, if I had gave them that tune, before the mentioned wellknown versions were in the air, they had just yawn-yawn-yawn, “what, a stupid old english folksong, how heavy is that”.

As matter of fact there are thousands of stupid old folksongs, tunes, melodies….

Roll the globe... and put your finger on the little, bit, tiny...…. Europe,... for example.
They l o v e d good tunes in Europe even b e f o r e your grandparents were born. If we are talking about the whole world, the numbers of melodies are cosmical. Use "power" chords, ... go into the jungle of guitar effects, droptuning....you are making hits all the time,..., I forgot,... learn to play some normal melodies.

When I was young(er) myself I immediately wanted to know how to read music. There were no Tabs (internet is today full of them, often by poor quality, made by young men, I think almost never women,........but it´s getting better - I think almost one sunny day a year)

The idea of Tabs is older than written music as we know it from classical education. Different kinds of lutes, in Europe, how to play on them, was explained otherwise before the european pianodominated culture entered the scene. Maybe these explanations couldn´t compete as an system for information then, but today it will do, for guitar of different types. In combination with recordings it´s a "new" way of learning.
I use much of tabs nowdays, ...do my own for others, in my, well, we can call it education (maybe for me) I don´t like the word “pupils”, I prefer “sharetakers”. I also take share of what the they have to give me, I would say many times; much, it´s about energy I think.

O.K. Do you like melodies? That stuff they use on hit records. All the good singers use melodies, with ease. Not so much way back in time, in the sixties, nearly pure guitarbands made it.

Todays instructions are:
Pick up your pearly guitar full of stars. Play at least one melody by ear. Do you know how many melodies hide in one scale of any kind? No. we don’t know. For the moment you need one. I said only one. Not the whole show at once. Let the strings sing for you.

If you smile only once a year; take a look at Tommy Seebach´s APACHE-video, saw it on danish tv. If you roll around the carpet in hysterical laugh attacks, only once in lifetime, this was the fullmoon. Live injuns! Live Injuns! Dancing for your entertainment.
Apache Tommy Seebach - Google Video

BRICKS in my PILLOW

- it´s about money, the most.

Once upon time, in the sixties-seventies, there was job for everyone, in this country. I wonder, did they really know THE BLUES. The R e a l blues. The BIG blues. Of course, ...dimensions of trouble appeared, it always does... for living beings…, but I´m talking about the general feeling, the often money related shady picture.

Did any western whiteboy understand what the original bluessingers where howlin about?

Money is food related. Crime is often about money. Slavery is often about money. Material freedom is about money. Everything is about money? Your body, where you stand, is related to money?

Today´s choosen poem is by J.Stone. The old Elvis version will do, with echo in plates.

MONEY HONEY

You know, the landlord rang my front door bell. I let it ring for a long, long spell. I went to the window, I peeped through the blind, And asked him to tell me what’s on his mind. He said, Money, honey. Money, honey.Money, honey, if you want to get along with me.

Well, I screamed and I hollered, I was so hard-pressed. I called the woman that I loved the best.I finally got my baby about half past three, She said I’d like to know what you want with me.I said, Money, honey.Money, honey.Money, honey, If you want to get along with me.

Well, I said tell me baby, what’s wrong with you? From this day on our romance is throughI said, tell me baby, face to face How could another man take my place? She said,Money, honey. Money, honey.Money, honey, If you want to get a long with me.

Well, I’ve learned my lesson and now I know The sun may shine and the winds may blow.The women may come and the women may go But before I say I love you so, I want Money, honey.Money, honey.Money, honey, If you want to get along with me.

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Some romancing there? Bluesy lyrics has always been nearby some of the social facts of life. I remember another…; "Money (that´s what I want)"…., both the Beatles and Rolling Stones recorded it …when I was young(er) and heard Mick Jagger yell with his big mouth from the live recording,..Mooooney..... I thought; ….

How Dramatic! How Dramatic!,…..

Act of Improvising

Robert Plant: ”Hey, it´s me! I was there!”

Led Zeppelin on TV. Enjoyed the short documentary with interviews (by the most well dressed man in Sweden; Per Sinding-Larsen, according to Elle magazine). When Led Zeppelin was relatively new and hot, a couple of years ago…, I noticed it, but didn´t care to much.

In these times there were plenty of pregnant musical creativity, more or less independent. Not everyone reached the glue in the history books… It´s interesting for musicians to involve improvisation, otherwise the act is like a photocopy from the rehearsal room. It demands good musicians, who understand the possibilities to dynamics in almost every second.

Today I feel, something of that, because of newer technology, is left behind. For example; much of the “drumwork” in lighter popmusic can be performed by machines. I think this also influenced the more “pure and authentic” rockmusic. Together with the rockvideo, perfectly designed in every frame….., it´s sometimes interesting as looking into a washingmachine and listening to the flashing sound of the centrifuge process.

Im not so impressed by the instant thunder. Originally rockmusic was a stage act, depending for example of the accoustic conditions of the room, just like classical. Not how it look on TV. It was musicians playing, in that particular moment. Now and then... younger people ask me if I can “show them some Led Zeppelin?” “Yheaaaazhh(my scottish accent), …I shall look in my chamber of archives, but …(I always say;) these men,... as a mother of fact,... by the way.. older than me,..were not beginners,... they had practised on their instruments…and were able to enter another phase of creativity; improvisation. What you hear on records, was merely that particular moment…, on stage could happen something else in those details. It was a band that could deal with their own flexibility”

CONNECTIONS are better than ISOLATION

Just the day after my last post, about duo-playing, a documentary portrait of two touring muscians was sent on one of the Swedish tv-channels. Jonas Knutsson (saxophones) and Johan Norberg (guitars) were around in northern parts of the country (Norrland = North Land), with a programme focused on domestic folkmusical influences.

No big gestures, it´s imaginary, for fantasy and picturing, in the calmness of the northern landscape. Good relaxed players, experienced but not tired. Who wants big city sound among lakes and forests. The guitar, it´s role was perfect. (Steel string acoustic is by tradition the countrymans tool in the industrial times) I like it when it goes a bit towards the John Renbourn thing, maybe, to the norwegian Terje Rypdal.

It´s about the searching attitude. Open minded and experimentators, but with knowledge of the roots they are circling around. Sound connection between folk/ethnic, jazz, classical, but taking care of sources, anyway sailing outside the most strictly academical side of it. Simplicity can be the greatest. In Sweden, probably the most well known contributor of involving jazz to folk/ethnic…or otherwise, is the pianist Jan Johansson. Many natural contacts with other established jazzmusicians gave his ideas room. This was in the sixties.

Another keyboard (&electric organ) player was Merit Hemmingsson, (still active!) She gave the field between different styles and idioms a new push on the early seventies records. I like them also because of the sound engineering. No digital orgy here…., this was the Swedish popmusic high-tech of it´s time, some time before the Abba expolosion.

Weather Report: It´s still like just going into a refrigerator outdoors, been so steadily for months. But, after a few weeks it can be different. Often, in march…april, when I look out of the window (happens), I see idiots walking at a brisk pace in shorts and colourful hawaiishirts when it´s only + 5 celsius. I know, they are longing for the season on East Beach (which in Halmstad strangely is in the south) and all the playing of flipper pinballgames just like the young pushy Tom Berenger in his little nasty role in “Looking for Mr Goodbar”).

Yeah, it´s old. By the way, in this town you may need the compass (wallet is also good) for clearly right directions. Are these indications of a big city? No.

http://www.fuzz.se/index.shtml
(guitarist Johan Norberg, also collaborator in FUZZ magazine)

TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE

Have you ever heard a belch move from one corner of the room to the other, then retrace it´s tracks? That´s possible, ..on the spooktacular long-playing record;

“Spike Jones in Stereo” (1959), which also presents tv-broadcasting from the famous scientist´s experiment, creating new lifeforms .... in the show This Is Your Death.
Speaker: ...“Two perfect feet……Two perfect hands……Two perfect HEADS!!... WHAT A MONSTER!!” The two headed beatnik monster then harmonize, ...one head in each loudspeaker, a song by Stephen Foster.

If I mentioned THE BELCH (in astonishing Stereo)...well, it´s also possible to hear it on the bus from this town (Halmstad) to the even smaller places, Laholm and Hyltebruk. Young promising men back in the bus can do the belch suddenly, if you are lucky, almost at the same time. One in each corner of the backseat. But they are small punks in black, on the record it´s the adult Dracula with his strong after-dinner-drink.

From here it´s natural for me to talk about two guitars, duets. What´s the point? Two guitars offers possibilities to almost all music, in minature, of course. Still the individuality of one guitar is very present. It is not possible to hide somewhere in a small ensembleform, it´s intimate. Already early European pioneers of guitar composition noticed the charms of guitarduo, about or more than two hundred years ago. (Carulli, Giuliani, Diabelli, Sor and others).

Later on, while pianists/composers created larger harmony, two guitars had been the natural way to follow, but it didn´t happen. Guitarists tried to do everything on one fretboard, it was of course impossible. The compromising attitude (in harmony) on the fretboard was a coming fact. The guitar historys most important renewer, in art of arranging and composing for sologuitar about hundred years ago, many agree with that, was the spaniard Fransisco Tarrega.

But, meanwhile and already before that, the guitar established it´s role, more and more in popular music, almost all over the world. Often it was involved, not only in polyphonic structures (many voices), but also in polyrhythmic (many rhythms). Guitars expansion into popular music was remarkable in the Americas, especially the southern regions.

Nowdays it´s possible to hear pure guitarduo now and then, live or on record, but I have a strong feeling that much more could be done. Try it! In the traditional Spanish flamenco music the guitar in musical practise have a close relationship with a dancer or a singer. In South Americas guitar often feels comfort, with other guitars, or a whole rhythmsection. When it comes to electric, Yeahjeezh (Scottish accent)…, well, the guitar was soon in all groups...

So, my , twenty years old , scientific investigation show; For a guitarist; Two heads are better than one, when it comes to popularity outside your private chamber.

Gimme, gimme, gimme a noble price after midnight!

For Betty Blue; drivemyguitars little airport is ready, the red carpet is rolled out. I´m waiting in the control tower to get contact with the heiress of the latin planet! The question is; what, which, two or more latin influenced records shall I buy when I get paid? You have the answers---please!

I saw you had crazily much comments, one of them... by the famous actor Ed Harris? Is it true? He writes nice words to you in Spanish?....wow In that case this blog is Pluto, the small cold planet, far away, not seen in all weather conditions. This is not the same league....is it true. ...Anyway, if you get Harris to visit my blog…it´s sensational. Maybe he´s a guitarplayer and wants to know something about G major 9 in strange positions?

As a mother of fact – I lately found out that there are two Betty Blue´s in the blogplanetsystem,…. as I said two heads are better than one.
Who´s gonna submerge my record-buying budget first?

bonnajazz@spray.se