Manafonistas

„I associate Sgt. Pepper with a specific moment in my life. We never had a TV until I was about 16, so we would only hear about stuff like The Simpsons and Neighbours from friends. They seemed exotic and distant. But this one time I did see an episode of Neighbours in which one of the main characters got hit by a car, and it really fucked me up! I’d never seen anything like it before. And so, as I was driving home, my mum had Sgt. Pepper’s on in the car and I was listening to ‚A Day In The Life‘, and I was looking at a certain spot in the road, and I heard the line, which goes „he blew his mind out in a car“, and it all suddenly came together. I imagined a car crash and I imagined this spot on the road and I imagined what I’d just seen with this song. And I think that is the first time that I genuinely understood the concept of death. I was probably only about five.

That’s the thing about The Beatles, you can get it into you from zero up. I never forgot that feeling of being petrified and understanding death for the first time. And the music did that to me. It wasn’t Neighbours or the road, it was the fact that somehow that song had transported me and helped me to understand a real emotion. He [Lennon] had been dead about five years at that point. Children love The Beatles, and they love Queen, because there is something about those bands that is so colourful and fun and they create such a world. And the Sgt. Pepper’s world is so easy to visualise, you can literally hear the crowd and the characters and the colours, the carnival air. It’s all just magical. I’ve always enjoyed the fact that my band doesn’t sound the same from song to song, and I think we get that from The Beatles. The Beatles were every type of band for ten years, and then they were nothing, which is probably why they are the most famous band in the world.“ (Jonathan Higgs)

“Escapade for Sonny”

a 25-minute jam

dedicated to Sonny Rollins

performed by bass player William Parker, saxophonist Charles Gayle, and drummer Mike Reed.

and much more …

AUM FIDELITY, 2015

Da gibt es ein neues Buch von Stephen King, „Finders Keepers“, und das Buch habe ich mir gerade gekauft. Leider momentan nur in der amerikanischen Originalausgabe zu haben … – fuer mehr als ein zwei Kapitel bei einem espresso macchiato hat die Mittagspause natuerlich nicht gereicht; aber es faengt schon sehr spannend und vielversprechend an! – Wage einmal die Prophezeiung, dass ich vermutlich auch dieses Mal den Impuls unterdruecken muss, das Buch in einem Rutsch durchzulesen. Wobei: ich koennte ja haeppchenweise in den diaries von Christopher Isherwood weiter lesen, die habe ich auch noch nicht „durch“. Schoen auch, dass einige Personen, die der Leser bereits aus „Mr. Mercedes“ von Stephen King kennt, auch hier wieder auftauchen. Die Abende sind also vorerst mit Lektuere „gesichert“!