![]() ![]() I guess we were talking loudly and proudly about Mike Ratledge, and that's how I met Ken Kubernik, who jumped right into our conversation. A guy who happened to be passing by suddenly entered into a conversation I was having with a few early Soft Machine hardcore fans. I met another person at this festival who wound up being one of the key people in starting MoonJune. LP: OK, so in September 2000 I attended ProgFest in Los Angeles, and got to catch up with several of my favorite 70s progressive rock bands: Italian legends Banco, French legends Mona Lisa, and Dutch legends Supersister, an old favorite of mine who I never thought in my whole life I would be able to see! ![]() We continued our thinking, dominated by a keyboard player to fill the fourth member role. ![]() Mike Ratledge, the legendary Soft Machine keyboardist and one of my all-time personal music heroes, had made it clear that he wasn't interested in being a part of any recording or live performance music since leaving Soft Machine in 1976. Keith's failure to make a solid commitment got Elton and I fantasizing about the fourth member. They were all available and excited, except for Keith, who said he would consider it as a possible, occasional special project but not as a steady gig. Elton asked me to talk to Keith Tippett, John Marshall, and Hugh Hopper, who I already knew from his visits to New York. Perhaps acting on the good vibes of the situation, Elton asked Jim and me if we would be willing to help him with Soft Ware in the US. Elton stayed a few extra days at my place in the East Village, and he also met Jim Eigo. So I reconnected with Elton on New Year's Day, 2000, and in June of that year he performed in New York City at a jazz festival with drummer Joe Gallivan, bassist Marcio Mattos and saxophonist Evan Parker. LP: In 2000, I had this crazy idea to help my old friend Elton Dean, to sort of reform or resurrect the legendary Soft Machine based, in large part, on information I found on the internet about a "one-off" show of the Soft Ware project featuring Elton on sax, Keith Tippett on piano, Hugh Hopper on bass guitar and John Marshall on drums. You can read the whole interview on AAJ: bit.ly/2TDkjW6 'Leonardo Pavkovic: Nothing Is Ordinary’ by Chris Slawecki Ford Museum and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.Excerpts taken from the All About Jazz article/interview Written by Amy L Charles, Editorial Director for Groups Today. Ford Presidential Museum or call 616.254.0400. It goes beyond music's influence on the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and gender equality to other significant moments and figures-such as Bob Dylan, who rallied people against social inequality, and the hip-hop music of the '80s that discussed police brutality in poverty stricken neighborhoods.Įxclusive interviews with Gregg Allman, David Byrne, Jimmy Carter, Gloria Estefan, Tom Morello and others combine with interactives, photography and never-before-exhibited artifacts, examining how music has shaped and reflected culture norms on eight political topics: censorship, civil rights, feminism, international politics, LGBT issues, political campaigns, political causes, and war and peace.įor information on exhibit hours and other details, visit Gerald R. The exhibit explores how artists exercise their First Amendment rights, challenge assumptions and beliefs, stimulate thought and effect change. Artifacts related to the Vietnam War, the Kent State shooting, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Handwritten lyrics from Chuck Berry's "School Day" and Neil Young's "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World." Village People stage costumes. ![]() FBI and Priority Records correspondence regarding N.W.A. Among the articles on display: Joe Strummer's Fender Telecaster. Using video, multimedia, photographs, periodicals and artifacts, Louder Than Voices directs viewers to the intersection of rock and politics. Ford Presidential Museum presentation marks the first Louder Than Words traveling stop outside of the originating venues. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Newseum in Washington, D.C., partnered on the one-of-kind exhibit, which premiered in May 2016 at the Rock Hall. Louder Than Words: Rock, Power and Politics runs through February 11, 2018. Ford Presidential Museum, through an exhibit that explores the power of rock music to change attitudes about patriotism, peace, equality and freedom. If you're not questioning authority, you're tacitly submitting to authority." -Tom MorelloĬatch a glimpse of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at the Gerald R. "I'd say that 100 percent of music is political, that music either supports the status quo or challenges the status quo, so every artist is political. ![]()
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