O Arch-Drude και άλλοι 8 σπουδαίοι αυτοσχεδιαστές μεταξύ των οποίων ο Thighpaulsandra, o Donald Ross Skinner, ο Doggen και ο Kevlar.
Δεκάδες μουσικά όργανα: Yggdrasil bass, wa-guitar, luud guitar, Mellotron 400, Hammond, Korg organ, Roland 77, ARP 2600, Faerial 5, και ότι άλλο βρέθηκε μπροστά στον Julian.
74 λεπτά ενός freak out psychedelic rock’n’roll live studio session
4 θέματα ή όπως τα αποκαλεί ο παραγωγός και «σκηνοθέτης» τους, o Julian, 4 Meditational Funkathons!
1. Twilight of the Motherfuckers
2. Give The Poet Some
3. Supernatural Agencies
4. Ephaedra
Αποτέλεσμα; It’s Shamanic Rock’n’roll, baby!!!
ODIN IN ROCK’N’ROLL
Of Elvis Prisley, W.A. Harbinson wrote:
“He falls to his knees, thrusts his groin in their faves,
Crawls over the stage like a snake on its belly,
Convulses, jerks upright,
Twists back to his feet,
Leans into the mike,
Works in spasms, releasing it all…
Sings 16 choruses and thrashes himself mercilessly
And when he’s finished,
He doesn’t bow,
Never comes back for an encore,
It just rushed away shivering,
Sometimes crumbling from exhaustion.
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
Rock writers blaming the brickles-in-lippy
Saying the brickies-in-lippy spoil their theories of
Glamrock as Dionysian.
But Glamrock ain’t just Dionysian
What about castrated Attis
and his seidr-practising mother Cybele?
What about Glamrock as a Creation of the Odin?
Parallel Times – the Odin takes the Female wisdom
from the well of Urd
In return for one of his eyes,
The Odin hangs on Yggdrassil for nine days and nights
And sacrifices himself to himself in order
to receive the wisdom of Urd.
It is said that Keith Richards hung out for
nine days and nights without sleep
And sacrificed himself to himself?
Hanging out and Hung Up on the line
Keith is the hanging God
He just LOVES to hang
John Lennon accepted the female wisdom
from Yoko Ono
They became Freyja and Frey – the sacred twins
HE records John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
SHE records Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Both got the same musicians
Both got almost the same sleeves, too.
Except on Apple 3372 she’s cradling his head
at the roots of Yggdrasil
Except on Apple 3372 he’s cradling her head
at the roots of Yggdrasil
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
Hung up & Hanging out to dry
Falsely sacrificing the Beatles to Allen Klein
at the behest of Jagger as Loki the Trickster
Lennon made shamanic world-changing music in bed
By beating sticks and chanting the end of
McCartney’s Hey Jude
Until it became Give Peace a Chance in July 69B
Give Peace a Chance begat Instant
Karma in February 70
Instant Karma begat Power to the
People in March 71
Power to the People begat Glamrock.
Following with Sometime in N.Y.C.
Lennon/Odin became a blueprint –
For Wodenists such as Slade with
their inbuilt Midland Man Wodenism –
even denying the natural lovesong
quality of Coz I Luv You by spelling it
like Vikings vandalising a
Neolithic tomb.
Odinists such as the Angel Face
Glitter Band,
Whose “face-of-angel!” response is a
flat shark-eyed bark
By teetering ancient hairies chest-
bared in stark effect
Wadenishly vamping in
stack-heeled lippy.
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
When James Brown grooves
Sometimes, only as the song
takes form,
Does its name appear in front of him.
Miles Davis’ wa-wa funkathon
period ‘75
Back to the audience
Ain’t even playing
Two wa-guitarists
Three wa-guitarists even
“Don’t Blow Your Mind”
(Toronto 1970)
Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunnaway, Neil
Smith, Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton
With a heady mix of wine
and ephaedra
Worshipping the Marshall stax
as Arthur C. Clarke’s monolith
Alzo Zarathustra’s Peak of Ar-ar
AKA Zoroaster’s Mountain
of Mountains
Black to Comm (Channel 28) on
live Detroit TV
Tyner, Kramer, “Sonic”, Davis
& Thomson
On black & white network television
with John Sinclair
See the bald presenter’s head is
in his hands
As they’re working out their
thang thing
As they’re invoking Gods AND Devils,
Goddesses and Devas,
The’re MC5 with Black to Comm
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
And this is the Shaman in Rock’n’roll
JULIAN H. COPE
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