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an intimate jam!

June 20, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Ah! I loved jamming in the early morning in a hip club in Paris live and having people around the world see and hear us… And we did not even have to leave our house in Berkeley Ca.! We were asked to be a part of a worldwide online live streaming musical Marathon, THE NON STOP MUSIC PLANET. This Marathon was a 24 hour journey around the world, streaming musical performances back to Paris. It turns out we were one of just four acts from the United States. The other performances were in Europe, South America, etc. So our piece was an hour jam, The Global Erotic Warming. In Paris, they were fast cutting back and forth among various acts… Until we came on. Then they stayed with us for 45 minutes! They even got a better player for projecting us on the big screens. We also streamed the jam on LUVER. Funny, in the room here, it was intimate and cozy. Most of us have played together for years. And the new player, Ava, melted right in and played within the trance. But it was then injected into what I imagine was a very hip scene. Funny where we pop up!

DA BOYZ;
We were checking out the Non Stop Music Planet website, which was really neat, watching them flip between different musical acts in progress in different areas of the world … Mumbai, India, to Italy, to Poland …

Soon the jam was starting … NSMP was trying to tune us in … really neat to watch the whole process unfolding. The jam was really neat, and seemed to just get more and more trance/dreamlike … we imagined that it was just the perfect thing to listen to/watch in Paris at 5 in the morning after almost 20 hours of nonstop music … Beautiful camshots of everyone!

Meanwhile we ate, and the sauce cooked away … NSMP kept the jam tuned in for 45 minutes straight … and the jam went on … it felt like it didn’t want to stop after Linda named the band members!

Alexi continued on the sauce, and Corey sent camshots, handed back the stream … soon we were coming down to break down the set … a fun conversation going on in the mac room … histories and long friendships and Ava Bird’s first jam! What a fun night!

JEN:
I got dressed real quick and came down. Lob and Yvette were there, along with Tomek. Soon Ava showed up too, the poet from the People’s Park Anniversary. I got the toy instruments out and showed them to her, and then we were off on our musical journey.

Frank was working the piano and chimes, Tomek was playing rhythms on the electronic keyboard, and also the roto-toms, accordion and clarinet. Lob was on bass, and Ava and I had the toy instruments and did vocals with Frank as well. It was amazing!! It felt like we were all loose and exploring, and then something would take hold and we would be in the groove together, so much at times we were really trancing out. The rhythms and the intricate sounds all flowing in and out of each other. It was a lot of fun and sounded really great. Mikee mixed and Linda was exploring everything with the video camera. Yvette took pictures and watched and listened. We all had such a great time playing!

The music surged through all different stages, slow and floating to grinding and pumping, creating landscapes in that cozy space. When we got to the end there was a final ta-da! Really neat that this was being put on the internet live to a gallery in Paris! Tomek and Ava asked to see the video, so Mikee set it up in the Mac room. Really fun to watch and hear because it is so different than experiencing it from within. We heard that the gallery in Paris showed it for 45 minutes straight once they got a good feed. Really cool! We could now also hear Mikee’s awesome mixing, playing with the layers of sound and effects. Everyone wanted a copy.

Then Lob and Frank talked about how they met during the earliest years of the internet. Even before that on Bulleting Board Systems! Really amazing to hear how far the web has come in such a short time. Also fun to hear how Lob met Frank doing the same things, emailing everyone they knew about every event that was happening. Then Lob and Yvette left to drive back to Sacramento. We talked with Tomek and Ava about the last Temescal performance and how the performances affect people. How they take people out of their boxes and show them what’s possible, and how this makes some people really uncomfortable. But some people, like Kene-J and Tomek, like this uncertainty, the unexpected. It is where they feel most comfortable. Ava has just moved up here and said that she was in a band like this back in L.A., so she was really glad to have met us and be a part of this too. Frank invited her to the next Temescal performance, and also just to come and talk with him.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

great!

June 20, 2009 / / 0 Comments

can’t wait to get those cds!

We are picking up the new luver computer tomorrow! Then mikee baby, our tech guy, has to load everything into it. When he does that, we will schedule MAXIMUM ROCK ‘N’ ROLL!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Renaissance Community/Brotherhood of the Spirit

June 20, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Mr. Moore,

Thanks for your cooperation. If I may ask you a few more questions.

1) Do you remember a time when Doug Edson ran for selectman in Warwick?

2) When you came back to the commune, what shocked you? What changes did you see in the community and it Michael?

3) Who is this Debbie you speak of? What’s her last name?

4) Was the policy of no drugs no alcohol, no promiscuity taken seriously while you were there?

5) Do you know how Michael managed to avoid the draft?

6) When you came back to the commune in 1974, what kind of car was Michael driving?

7) What were some of your past lives? Do you remember anyone else’s?

8) Do you remember any Vietnam veterans in the commune?

9) Do you remember a guy named Timm from Alabama who was a Vietnam vet and recovering heroin addict?

10) Do you remember a violent Vietnam veteran named Johnny who had spent some time in jail and arrived with a girl named Crickett?

11) Did people talk a lot about erath changes? Do you remember any talk about space aliens?

12) Do you remember an incident in which someone threw a Molitov cocktail at the Warwick house?

13) Is Leah Garland the same person as Leah Odess?

14) Were you there when they stormed a talk show? Do you remember if it was more than one talk show?

15) I read in one article that commune members believed that they were reincrnated from “an Indian tribe, Atlantean rebels, or a band of 18th century pirates”. Is that true?

16) Did Michael know who the next Christ was, and when he was going to come?

Thanks a lot.

BEN

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hi, ben. No, I was not there when someone ran for selectman, for the storming Of a talk show, etc. I was there when a commune member was murdered when he was hitching.

It was Debbie Havermale. She was from a wealthy Jewish Baltimore family, who didn’t take kindly to me… To put it mildly! She went to Princeton as one of the first female students. But she dropped out and went to the community with her boyfriend.

it was less than two years later when I went back. I had a “feeling ” that Michael had gone off the track. So when we went to New York city from Santa Fe to look for a place to live, we went to the community as a side trip to see if there was anything I could do. At that time the community owned a block of Turners Falls. The big news was they just bought a fleet of Japanese minivans! Extremely materialistic! Michael was chain smoking and acting like a junkie. Wouldn’t listen to me. So it was a short “meeting. “

Dale, who had just disassociated himself from Michael and the community [now a church] met with me that night at my motel room to fill me in on what happened, Michael’s addiction, etc. Dale told me how one of the girls who had taken
care of me had come into an inheritance, signed it over to the church… And then Michael kicked her out. I saw the seeds of this when I lived there. But it was not starting to decay.

I would bet some snuck a cigarette or a joint somewhere in secret… And i don’t know what the “core group ” did or didn’t do. But I did not see drugs or booze there. I did pot and experimented tripping before I went to the community. But I followed the rule about drugs. And I never was a drinker or a smoker. The rule about no casual sex was more vague and was often stretched. but on the commune’s list serve they now say that Warwick was a hot bed of orgies! Where was I?!

There were a lot of Vietnam vets back then!

Ah, the soap opera of past lives. It kept changing every few months! Soap operas are glamorous
fogs covering real life! Past lives are useful as personal myth to project relationship dynamics upon to objectify them. But back then everybody had been either a famous character or the handmaiden of a famous character! Me? I was a Jewish Scribe, a Greek librarian, and a Chinese “holy bandit ” [con man].

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

MRR

June 20, 2009 / / 0 Comments
(from “The Beer City Boyz”:)
Hello Frank,

Congratulations on your site. I stumbled on it looking for information on MRR. In fact I’m listening right now. One problem though. I was able to find the playlists on your site for the MRR shows , but were do I go to listen to them? It appears as though they are only broadcast from time to time is this true or is there a page were I can listen to them. I know MRR has their own archive but , some of these shows are not included.

Please help!

Take care,
Mike

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mmmmm, your wish is our command! Just for you, we are bringing MAXIMUM ROCK ‘N’ ROLL back as a weekly luver series some time in the next few months [after we upgrade the computer.] keep checking back! The shows have special introductions by Dirk Dirksen [of the Mabuhay ] and me. Tim had them in his closet. When he was dying, tim gave Dirksen the box, making him promise that nobody would make money off of them. Dirksen in turn gave them to me for luver.

Hey, send me the Beer City artists’ cds for luver!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

GLOBAL EROTIC WARMING JAM

June 20, 2009 / / 0 Comments

On LUVER.COM Saturday May 30th at eight P.M. Pacific time, FRANK MOORE’S CHEROTIC ALL-STAR BAND will perform GLOBAL EROTIC WARMING, a hour long jam… Psychedelic intimate journey into a shamanistic dreamscape. it is a part of a 24 hour on line global Marathon. It will be fun! And if everything works, we’ll be on a big screen in Paris live!… “All your performances will be casted in a public venue on 3 screens, mixed by several directors at Point Ephemere in Paris- on the web: http://www.pointephemere.org/ – where a sound system also a final output will be displayed and available on the web (it can be used as a source for anyone who wants) every hour there are people streaming from another time zone.” but here we shall just be playing together!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: invite for ‘who’s yer mama’?

June 20, 2009 / / 0 Comments

hi frank,

i am doing a short poetry set tomorrow in oakland for mothers day, wanted to invite you, all female musicians, dj’s , artists, etc. dancing til 6am, bring yer mama, a mama, or just the mother in you! got some great photos of you which ill send soon. hope all is well… ava bird

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here is my mother poem:

CONNIE
by
Frank Moore
Friday, May 19, 2000

Connie completed the fading into death
this afternoon.
She has always lived in her young mind,
always was a black sheep,
raising black sheep,
always wanted to know,
always hungry for education,
NO MATTER WHAT!
WHATEVER IT TOOK!
Deaf to CAN’T,
to dumb rules!

No time for social frills,
no time for BS,
no time for limits.
Just time for deadpan joy of just everyday,
for no-nonsense love,
for pushing and demanding for
possibilities.
She bit,
or pretended not to hear,
just going for what’s right
like a tank…
running you over.

You were a fool
if you believed
her mcgoo act!
Hero? Yes!
Always growing beyond
working in a doctor’s office,
after getting a college education,
after the leaving of Jim,
threatened by his black sleep wife,
after pushing me onto THE REAL WORLD,
after raising Jerry and me,
after getting out of Utah as a free thinker!

Just taking Tums and aspirins,
Connie at 79 lived a very rich life…
always young in life…
now always
will be young!

Jerry and I are so lucky
to be in the black sheep family of
CONNIE!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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wow frank, that is a great poem, deeply touching and full of love. beautiful!

thank you so much for sharing, i really felt it…..

see you soon,

ava

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shucks!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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frank

if you are on facebook, i’ll add you as a friend.. are you there? i have one of your photos up on my photo wall, oh, by the way, i still need to send those photos to you, though i figured you had alot from that day at people’s park.

great to see all your work and witness a genius in action,

ava bird

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yep, I am on facebook, etc.

hey on Saturday 30th we are doing a live jam session at the house as a part of a worldwide online 24 hour music streaming Marathon. Our section will be a hour jam starting at eight P.M. would you jam with me? I will be on the piano and will vocalize unverbally. You could vocalize unverbally also. And we will have musical instruments you can play [I don’t care about “being good “]. If you are game, you should be here by 7:30.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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COOL! would love to be there, i love live jams! i could bring my drums and other sounds too, thank you so much for inviting me, i love this!

i have a reading with clive matson in san rafael but we should be over by 6:30 and will speed over to your place. can you tell me where you live again?

i’ve played in lots of jams though a poet and not a musician but still love clanking around.

so much looking forward,

ava bird

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great, ava! There will be a lot for you to clank on! It will be fun! And if everything works, we’ll be on a big screen in Paris live!… “All your performances will be casted in a public venue on 3 screens (mixed by several directors at Point Ephemere in Paris- on the web: http://www.pointephemere.org/- where a sound system also a final output will be displayed and available on the web (it can be used as a source for anyone who wants) every hour there are people streaming from another time zone.” but here we shall just be playing together!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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