John Lennon is said to have selected it as one of his favourite songs by The Beatles. In 1987, Lennon's original handwritten lyrics of the song, containing 14 lines and some "doodles" in the margin, sold at auction for $19,500.
TerenceTrent D'Arby adopted the name Sananda Maitreya, following a series of dreams and he legally changed his name on October 4, 2001. He proclaimed in an interview that "Terence Trent D'Arby was dead... he watched his suffering as he died a noble death", in what was perceived as an attempt to reinvent himself artistically and free himself from what he believed to be the oppressive nature of the record business.
Paramahansa Yogananda - Listen to My Soul Song [Songs of the Soul] William Elliott Whitmore - Who Stole the Soul [Animals in the Dark] Blind Faith - Presence of the Lord [Blind Faith] Bob Dylan - Slow Train [Slow Train Coming] The Byrds - Jesus is Just Alright (Live) [Boston Tea Party] Manic Street Preachers - The Girl Who Wanted to Be God [Everything Must Go] King Crimson - Moonchild [Buffalo 66 OST] Prince - The Cross [Sign "O" The Times] Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours [Some Great Reward] Blue Mink - Spirit in the Sky
To facilitate equilibrium between man and nature, Technocracy proposed that citizens would receive Energy Certificates in order to operate the economy:
Energy Certificates are issued individually to every adult of the entire population& The record of one s income and its rate of expenditure is kept by the Distribution Sequence, so that it is a simple matter at any time for the Distribution Sequence to ascertain the state of a given customer s balance& When making purchases of either goods or services an individual surrenders the Energy Certificates properly identified and signed.
The significance of this, from the point of view of knowledge of what is going on in the social system, and of social control, can best be appreciated when one surveys the whole system in perspective. First, one single organization is manning and operating the whole social mechanism. The same organization not only produces but also distributes all goods and services. [Technocracy Study Course, Hubbert & Scott, p. 238-239]
If you study the card above, you will note that contains a microchip as it serves as a universal identity card. This reflects Technocracy’s philosophy that each person in society must be meticulously monitored and accounted for in order to track what they consume in terms of energy, and also what they contribute to the manufacturing process.
Personal carbon rationing would be a UK-wide allowance system covering the carbon emissions generated from the fossil fuel energy used by individuals within the home and for personal transport, including carbon equivalent emissions from air travel. It would account for around half of current UK carbon emissions from energy. The primary aim of the scheme would be to deliver guaranteed levels of carbon savings in successive years in an equitable way. The government’s current target of a 60% reduction by 2050, or more stringent targets, would assuredly be met in this way.
Les Beat Girls have been pretty quiescent on Zen Running Order, but we were inspired by Doowad & Johnny Luddite's wonderful "Just the Facts, Man." We're the type of gals who've always believed that having answers is no more important than raising questions (though neither is as important as raising hell). So we decided to take our own swing at the technique. Here is the result.
Any questions?
The Doors Who Do You Love? [DJ Karen]
De La Soul - Me Myself and I [Zoé Jarvis]
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind ? [Jenergy]
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You [DJ Karen]
The Sadies - Why Be So Curious?(Part 3) Zoé Jarvis]
The Fugs - I Want to Know (live) [Jenergy]
The Beatles - Why Dont We Do It in the Road? [DJ Karen]
Conway Twitty - Slow Hand [Zoé Jarvis]
Petty Booka & the Meat Purveyors How Can I Be So Thirsty Today? [Jenergy]
Pestilence Dehydrated [DJ Karen]
The Velvet Underground Who Loves the Sun? [Zoé Jarvis]
The Groove Farm Crazy Day Sunshine Girl [Jenergy]
Rise Against - Wholl Stop the Rain? [DJ Karen]
DMX - Only I Can Stop the Rain [Zoé Jarvis]
War - Why Cant We Be Friends? [Jenergy]
Suicidal Tendencies I Want More [DJ Karen]
The Clash Should I Stay or Should I Go? [Zoé Jarvis]
Dont Go Back to New Orleans T-Bone Walker [Jenergy]
TuPac How Do You Want It? [DJ Karen]
Peaches Hit it Hard [Zoé Jarvis]
The Pink Mountaintops Can You Do That Dance? [Jenergy]
MC Kaos I Can Dance [DJ Karen]
Sidney Joe Quails How Can You Say Goodbye? [Zoé Jarvis]
Willie Dixon So Long [Jenergy]
The Beatles Do You Want to Know a Secret? [DJ Karen]
Husker D Dont Want to Know if You Are Lonely [Zoé Jarvis]
Benji Hughes Why Do These Parties Always End the Same Way? [Jenergy]
Singer Al Green with Producer Willie Mitchell during recording session.
March 1, 1928 – January 5, 2010
R.I.P.
There are many reasons to note the passing of Memphis-based trumpeter and producer Willie Mitchell (1928-2010), including his solid career as a Rhythm & Blues performer in the 1960s and his ownership of Royal Studios in Memphis. Mitchell, though, will forever be remembered as the architect of the sound of Hi Records. In its heyday in the mid-1970s, Hi-Records was home to musicians like Ann Peebles (“I Can’t Stand the Rain”), Syl Johnson, O.V. Wright, Otis Clay and most famously Al Green.
Willie Mitchell was born in Ashland, Mississippi in 1928 and began playing music during high school . In his formative years in the 1950s, when he settled in Memphis after a stint in the Armed Services, Mitchell played with or behind a who’s who of Memphis based musicians including Al Jackson, Jr. (future drummer for the groundbreaking Booker T. and the MGs) and young jazz giants like Phineas Newborn, Jr. and Charles Lloyd. By the end of the 1950s, Mitchell was a well respected session musician, though he harbored a desire to be a leader in his own right.
In the early 1960s, Mitchell released a few instrumental singles on the fledgling Hi Records, but also began to produce artists for the label. At the time Mitchell, whose musical sensibilities were geared to Jazz, began, like most of the nation, to become enthralled with the burgeoning Soul sound that was exploding in places like Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and of course Memphis, where the Stax label was a singular force.
Mitchell was touring in support his highest charting single, “Soul Serenade," a cover of the King Curtis track, when he first heard Al Green in Midland, TX. Green was the opening act and still living off his one hit single at the time “Back Up Train.” As Mitchell recalls upon hearing Green that first time, “This guy has got the style, he’s got the sound to really be something.” Mitchell brought Green into the fold and though it was an initial struggle to get the singer on board with the style that Mitchell envisioned, they eventually hit with Green’s idiosyncratic cover of the Temptation’s “I Can’t” Get Next to You” (1970). With the follow-up “Tired of Being Alone” and then the classic “Let’s Stay Together” the Hi Soul sound was fully developed.
Mitchell did, what few contemporary producers continue to do; he took a novice singer and produced a fully-developed artist—arguably one of the greatest of the late 20th Century. Mitchell deserves every accolade for what was a significant career in his own right, but in the end it will be those sides he cut with Al Green that will make him immortal.
Willie Mitchell - 20-75
O.V. Wright - The Ace Of Spades
Bobby Bland - Ain't Nothing You Can Do
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Syl Johnson - Take Me To The River
Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand The Rain
O.V. Wright - Eight Men, Four Women (Found Me Guilty Of Lovin' You)
Disc 1 1. Hank Williams I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 2. Charlie Rich Behind Closed Doors 3. George Strait I Cross My Heart 4. Glen Campbell Gentle on My Mind 5. Ronnie Milsap It Was Almost Like a Song 6. Buck Owens Together Again 7. Waylon Jennings Amanda 8. Ray Price For the Good Times 9. Freddy Fender Before the Next Teardrop Falls 10. Patsy Cline Sweet Dreams (Of You) 11. Ray Charles I Can't Stop Loving You 12. Merle Haggard Today I Started Loving You Again 13. Alabama Feels So Right 14. B.W. Stephenson My Maria Disc 2 1. Willie Nelson Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground 2. George Jones & Tammy Wynette Golden Ring 3. Conway Twitty Hello Darlin' 4. Marie Osmond Paper Roses 5. Jim Reeves He'll Have to Go 6. Buck Owens I've Got a Tiger by the Tail 7. Tanya Tucker Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone) 8. Eddy Arnold Make the World Go Away 9. Tom T. Hall I Love 10. Gene Autry Have I Told You Lately That I Love You 11. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man 12. Charley Pride Kiss an Angel Good Morning 13. Dolly Parton I Will Always Love You 14. Hank Williams
