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Fw: Fw: ABOUT TIME TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT STAGE! (Jesse Beagle)

November 30, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Absolutely,

In days of performing (I’m not counting poetry now though it’s a great performance field, and like all performances, is whatever you make it with what you’ve got – for instance, best teachers in classical piano didn’t do me any harm (since fortunately they had GOOD TECHNIQUE) and some of my later great jazz pianist/friends as Ed Kelly who kept his life as important (his family, his church) as his performance and kept TEACHING AT LANEY. If these jazz musicians didn’t have some classical training, they sought study, but perhaps that was primmarily in piano. I don’t how much ‘study’ the great player at Woodstock – oh, Jimi Hendrix had, yah he had some study, like if now you wanted a bird in the picture, you go study a bird (not necessarily a note) – so people good in jazz some times later could go for ‘adding a little technique’ but it’s like love=making, FUCK THE TECHNIQUE!!!!

jESSE

PS – YOURS IS A RARE HISTORY IN FORMING BANDS, fRANK, WITH GOOD MUSICIANS WITH YOU. i REMEMBER ONE PERSON WHO SAID ‘YOU CAN’T BE A PIANIST BECAUSE IT’S NOT POSSIBLE’ (OR SUCH WORDS) AND THEN ONE IS STUCK WITH THE FACT BUT YOU ARE A PIANIST!!!!!!!!! WITH THE FACTORS SOME ‘JUST DON’T GOT IT’ – HHYTHM, IT’S IN THE beat man!!!!!!! it’s in the pause it’s in the
hesitation it’s knowing how to ‘get off the beat’ and how to just suggest and have surprises etc etc etc

jesse, pianist at large

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yes, Jesse. What most people don’t get is almost everything in life is making love, playing. I am a professional lover and Player. So everything I have tried in life has come easy for me… Just playing. But a lot of people want to think my life must have been hard!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Magic Hands

November 30, 2009 / / 0 Comments

(Stavros wrote:)

I went to the pagoda for a memorial ritual for teacher, Son. We do this every 7 days for 49 days. The first time we were the only family. The following week there was another family. This week there were 4 families. During the ritual the monk will call out the names of the beloved. He really slaughters my last name. It doesn’t bother me. Most Americans cannot pronounce my last name correctly.

I had developed a very bad back ache that I attributed to tension, since the last time I had such a back ache was when my son died in Vietnam. At that time my friend, Co Mai, took me to a doctor who gave me massage and acupuncture. It was so bad that I went for massages twice a day at a nearby hotel, but only received minimal relief.

At this memorial ritual I sat in back of the pagoda where they have chairs for us older people. It was still difficult, but I managed. After the service, as I sat on a bench in the courtyard, an old man sat next to me. Imagine me calling someone else an old Vietnamese man. He told me that he could see that I was I pain. He reached behind me and touched my lower back pressing at certain spots. I have been called magic hands but I have never experienced magic hands on me until this time. I could feel the spiritual energy flowing from him as he massaged my back. Most of the pain left me and by the following morning my back was totally healed. As he massaged my back he apologized that he did not have much energy (Spiritual), because he had just had a liver transplant. He was so happy saying that Medicare paid for the whole operation.

Later he joined us at a meal in the pagoda that was prepared by the 4 families for the memorial. He told me that he was in Son’s medication group and that he just found out about his death so he came to the memorial ritual.

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we all need magic hands, Stavros!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: POW! POW! documentation

November 30, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Hi Frankie,

These were especially evocative photos for me.

My observation is that the earlier part of the performance was growing intimate, then the ‘stethoscopes arrived’ and it changed. Then later it went very deep.

That’s just my distant impression.

Beautiful captures!!!

Paul

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ah, it was that loud, eh? Yes, those two were the promoters of the festival. Afraid of intimacy and realness! But other than them, it was amazing how fast it got deep!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: collaboration?

November 30, 2009 / / 0 Comments

(Guillermo wrote:)

I’d like to collaborate with you some time:
You- Doing Frank Moore shamanistic ritual + special solo singing piece somewhere (at your TV program you said that you like to sing, right?). Me accompanying your song.

Me: -In my ritual performance persona and making music and sound throughout (composer/performer)_ electronic ambiance, sound, noise with my toys.
What do you think?
g

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definitely! Tell me more about your ideas!

Are you coming to the next Temescal performance Friday November twenty?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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Hi Frank:

First I have to say that I have a very large history of collaborations and that I am very adaptable so I can just blend easily into whatever you want to do.

In any case here are some of my ideas. I envision me being a hybrid cyborg tribal persona maybe including face and/or body paint. I have a lot of invented instruments but for the sake of practicality, my musical Instrument can be my collection of hacked toys , some of them allow me to move, some others not. For the last several years I see my performances and music as cures and my instruments as talismans of cure. THe whole performance can include a closing healing song which you will sing to the the audience. I can improvise the proper accompaniment, I see this in the native Americantradition of songs that exist only for that moment and that are revealed to us by the divine forces of nature. By this I do not mean a song in the musical style of native americans but more a conceptual native song.

My late music blends noise and music. It is necessarily not loud but it uses the “noisy” inherit characteristics of broken or altered electronics. Of course your voice and guidance of the show will be only enhanced (not covered) by the music.
What do you think?
g

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that works for me. if you want me to do a cameo in your performance with me doing the last “healing song,” I can do that. If you want more of a jam where we improv everything, I can do that also. We could play around at Temescal if you bring your instruments/toys.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: TRACKING on 2 CDs – (Luver Radio)

November 30, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Hi Frank,

How are you doing?

September 29th, 2009, we sent you by mail, 2 CDs.

Doctor G & Funkfusion – “Second Life” – (R&B, Soul, Funk Format)

Stephen Pfister – “Man Cave” – (Jazz, Funk Format)

We would like to know if you received them and if the music will be available for a possible airplay.

Thanks to answer me back.

Sincerely,

Gi Dussault
CREATIVITY IN MUSIC
www.creativityinmusic.com
www.myspace.com/creativityinmusic

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got both and are playing them!

still crazy busy! The next two nights we are having bands here for my show. Then Friday I am performing at a performance art festival in San Francisco! Then will die!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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Thanks to let me know Frank.

yes, you are pretty busy. It s better like that don t you think? 🙂

peace,
Gi

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mmmmmm… I enjoy both expansions and contractions … But in different ways!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Frank Moore’s Votes — Official General Election Results for United States President

November 30, 2009 / / 0 Comments
Federal Elections 2008
Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives

(put out by the Federal Election Commission, Washington, D.C.)

Official General Election Results for United States President
November 4, 2008

Frank Moore’s recorded votes*:

California 36
Georgia 6
Illinois 3
Kansas 2
Maryland 2
Utah 3
West Virginia 1

TOTAL = 53

*New York did not list any write-in votes specifically for Frank Moore. However, we are aware of a number of votes cast for Frank in New York City, because people told us personally that they had voted for him there. New York lists 3,613 write-in votes as “scattered” votes. So we know that some of these were cast for Frank Moore, but will never know the actual number.

“New York city habitually fails to count any write-in votes for the declared write-in presidential candidates. The Board says it is too much work to take down the heavy rolls of paper from the mechanical voting machines and look at them.” — Richard Winger, Ballot Access News

“The Hazards of Getting a Write-in Vote for President Counted”, October 31st, 2008
http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/10/31/the-hazards-of-getting-a-write-in-vote-for-president-counted/

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The following states either did not count write-in votes for president, listed “scattered” write-in votes for President instead of counting them for specific candidates, or listed “scattered” write-in votes in addition to votes for specific write-in candidates. Frank Moore was eligible to receive write-in votes in these states, so some of these votes may have been for Frank:

Alabama 3,705
Alaska 1,730
Iowa 6,737
Nebraska 2,837
New Jersey
Oregon 13,613
Pennsylvania 8,180
Rhode Island 667
Vermont 1,398
Washington
Wisconsin 6,521
Wyoming 1,521

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so in reality we probably got from one hundred to two hundred votes. This is amazing considering we spent just two thousand dollars in two years, all the blocks against write in candidates , not having “machines ” in each state, and my not traveling outside of California!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

The boatclub

November 30, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Last night on the Shaman’s Den was the Boatclub, a band made up of four aging guys who play rock music, have a deadpan humor, and say that they aren’t that hip. While listening to their music Frank said that the word Groovy came to mind. When Frank would make comments about their songs the guys were really touched that Frank was listening to the words in their songs. Frank said that he is always listening, not like most hosts. They reminded Frank of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, half of the Traveling Willberries. Frank said he always thought that when you get old things slow down, but that is not his experience. That is not the Boatclub’s experience either who are just coming out with an album and playing more gigs this year than ever here in the bay area as well as in Seattle and Portland.

During the interview Frank asked them how they came up with the name Boatclub and they said that they couldn’t think of anything worse! Frank told them about his band The Cherotic All-Stars and how he had come up with the word Cherotic and that 70% of a band is the name. They said that they are far from hip. When Frank asked them why they keep playing music they said because they love it! They never thought of not doing it! When they talked about they met and how long they have been together they said that they are like the Beatles only not as good. They thought of coming out with a double album like the Beetles White Album, and Frank said, “The Grey Album”. They all met through mutual friends and a couple of the guys have known each other since they were teenagers. We later learned that they had another band member who recently left. Frank wanted to know if he left or they kicked him out. They said that it was mutual but it was not quite a full answer. Frank is always good at getting to the dirt in his interviews.

The Boatclub really enjoyed hearing about The Outrageous Beauty Review and how Zappa and Robert Fripp came to the show. Linda talked about how Frank tried to do a bad band. All these really good musicians wanted to be in it because the OBR was getting press all over the world. They auditioned all these musicians and Frank wanted them to play badly. Most of them couldn’t do it so eventually they just did it themselves. People started playing instruments that they had never played before and learned on the stage. Then when a song started getting too good/polished they stopped playing it. That was the time period that Zappa came to The Outrageous Beauty Review and really loved it! Frank said that there are thousands of technically good bands but they are boring. The people who were in the band didn’t get what Frank was going after and when the band started to get good everyone wanted to have a real band and ended up quitting to try to join a “real” band. Frank and Linda talked about when they were in LA doing Sony and Cher in a punk club. They went to Sony’s restaurant and met him and told him they were doing Sony and Cher. He loved it! They invited him to come be in the show with them but he said that he did not do that anymore. Linda said that the punk’s didn’t know what to do with us, they were really uncomfortable!

The Boatclub is not that band from Sweden. They say their boat is a blow-up dingy with a yellow submarine compartment underneath it. They may change the name of their band by tomorrow and they may restart or replay one of their songs in a set and they say they aren’t that hip!

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mmmmmmmmm… If they are aging guys, I am an extremely aged guy!. We are all aging! They are seasoned, but still crazy dangerous and making great music! and they kept saying they are “boatclub”….. One word with a small “b”!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

POW! POW! documentation

November 30, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone,

The web galleries are finally up! I hope you’ll
forgive the delay it took in getting these to you.
I really wanted to be sure that everything was
structured correctly before passing them on.

For a sense of ease in finding your images, I have
organized the photos by the night of the performance.

Thursday Night Performers:
http://typefoto.com/powthursday/

Friday Night Performers:
http://typefoto.com/powfriday/

Saturday Night Performers:
http://typefoto.com/powsaturday/

Sunday Night Performers:
http://typefoto.com/powsunday/

Anyone seeking Hi-Resolution print quality versions of the photographs:
There are instructions on the web-sites, but just for the sake of clarity,
all you have to do is jot down the image numbers you would like
(contained beneath the thumbnails ex: IMG_2260) and send them to me
in an email and I’ll make you get them as quickly as possible.

Thank you – it has really been a pleasure. If you have any
further questions/comments I would enjoy to hearing from you.

All the best,
Daniel

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Daniel, many, many beautiful photos! They captured powerfully the intimacy, joy and participation
especially in my piece Friday. Thanks!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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