RIP Jeff Healy

Sad Sad Day, I just found out that the amazing guitar player Jeff Healy died from cancer a few weeks ago.

I wont say much here just checkout these 2 clips to see how truly spectacular he was when on form.

Be ready to spot Mr Music Jools Holland for 2 seconds at the top of this clip ... and wade through the cringe-worthy intro from the nobby who is presenting the show ....



This ones extra poinient really as both players are now no longer with us ... 2 of the most exiting blues players of recent times, and in my mind leaving unfilled shoes.........



For more details about this sad news go here

see you in the next life

What the hell is gyrotronics???

GYROTRONICS IS THE LATEST IN A LONG LINE OF SALES-DRIVEN, CELEBRITY-POWERED FADS

News flash.

MSNBC reported once again that exercise is good for you. Someone call the ancient Greeks and Romans. They will be so happy to know we finally caught on.

MSNBC reported on August 22 that the new fad in exercise is called
Gyrotonics. Gyrotonics instructor Barbara Schwarz describes Gyrotonics as follows, "It's similar to Pilates only in the respect that it teaches you to work the core," Schwarz says. Whereas Pilates is more linear, Gyrotonics is spherical, with the equipment allowing for a 360-degree range of motion.

I don't want to sound like a killjoy but Gyrotonics is just the latest fad. The machine shown in the MSNBC story looks a lot like a wooden lat pulldown machine to me. I haven't tried Gyrotonics so I should reserve comment. I'm sure the Gyrotonics folks will tell us that the equipment is specially designed and allows the body to move in a unique way. Blah-blah-blah.

As for 360-degree range-of-motion, someone get Linda Blair on the phone. We may have found a neck exerciser for her. I just love these claims.

Bottom line. If you are doing Gyrotonics or yoga or Pilates and it gets you to the gym and gets you to work out, great. Keep it up. Please don't let my cynicism stop anyone from exercising. However, if you believe that Gyrotonics is the new answer to all your fitness needs, then, Houston, we have a problem.

This is a classic case of sales-driven BS. One client indicated that she needed to rebuild her strength but weight machines "felt horrible." Sorry. The thing I saw in the picture was a resistance device, a weight machine. My guess is the woman interviewed for the article either had an incompetent trainer or used the machines improperly. We don't blame cars for car accidents do we? Why do we keep blaming machines?

stupdi stupdi stupdi.....

i just saw this video and frankly it made me laugh a lot... very clever in a dum ass way.....



enjoi

Woodstock at Jimi Hendrix ....

I've just watched the excelent 'Woodstock, 3 days of peace and music' film. Voted a full 10 merit points from the bleech household.

The footage of 1.5 million mashed flower children, as far as the eye can see are breathtaking...

On the last day Mr Hendrix played his set. Including a brilliantly lucid rendition of purple haze where Jimi's big hands make mincemeat of all the poor musicians that have graced that stage over the weekend. Mutating from the inceduary reading of the Star Spangeled banner, (in the clip) take notice of the mid part where Jimi seems to lose the plot and go pretty much random, close your eyes and suddenly you are hearing jets flying over the jungle in vietnam, dropping napalm and scattering bombs...really its uncanny.



During this clip the camera pans the the crowd (in the first 15 secs) ... HUH? there's like 10,000 poeple max. Footage from earlier in the festival shows a sea of people stretching off to the horizon, now its 100m and then back from that its just a mess of blankets, odd shoes, clothes and related fesival crap (literally). The food shortages and lack of water had caused a massive exodus the evening before and then on through the day Jimi played.

So those lucky hardcore woodstock survivers really are the cat that got the cream. It can't have done Jimi's fragile and constant self doubt any good though. While Jimi's set was inspired theres no sign of his beautiful smile or the massive physical energy he put into his more dynamic shows elsewhere.

I can't help imagining what his set would have been like, if he was on stage the day before in the sunshine with 1.5 million people in front of him ready and waiting in the palm of Jimi's big, big hands. As in my veiw there is no one else who was more 'of a time' than the unsurpassed Mr Hendrix. Now that, would have been truly legendary ....

beam me up scotty