Now I’ll have to go and investigate Can.

He can stop over and do courses/lectures along the way, like in Japan. (I am happy to offer my service to organise/tour manage/interepret the Japan leg.) Or he can do an FH King( “farmers of 40 centuries”) kind of tour.

It may take months before he can get home, but that’s how o/s travel was done in the past and will be in future.

Jennifer Gentle did a record with Japan’s psychedelic Acid Mother Temple, who, when performing in the All Tommorow’s Parties in England early this year, was apparently joined on stage by none other than Damo! Sorry about this absolutely pointless peakless trivia, but I had to say it.

Actually the EDAP concept has got me enthused about the idea of ‘going on holiday’ within my own suburb — I mean just meeting more people really, at an interesting intersection. Got to be at least 50 countries represented in my burb. Talking with people about peak oil and its implications, what they value, what thoughts they have etc, that’s a pretty unique opportunity.

Rita, thanks, and that Yoo Doo Right story is crazy. I listened to it last night… I never expected to learn more about Can on a peaker site either Right now I can’t stop listening to Jennifer Gentle… kind of Syd Barret inspired italian boys, so there’s some pointless trivia. they capture the absurdity of the age that’s for sure.

Melbourne must be a happening place indeed. Yep, Tony Buck’s a great drummer (though I have not seen him performing live since the days of Peril).

Shall we organise a Rob “cult rev” Hopkins tour down under seriously? Who should we have for support? Damo?

I totally agree that they are the two most insightful peak oil speakers around. A Hx3 tour would be an even better bill though! Can we get you out here one day Rob?

“Yoo Doo Right” is an astonishing piece, which goes on for 20 mins, but I reckon the whole Monster Movie is a monster desert island album (remember to take a solar panel or two).

Malcolm Moony, the singer, said something like, having played the piece for more than an hour, he went out for dinner with the guitarist Michael Karoli, came back to the studio to find that the others were still playing the same piece, so they joined back in.
I wonder if the entire unedited recording is still kept somewhere.

The jam-now-edit-later technique was used by other people, I know of two examples. Nick Cave and the Sad Bees did it when they recorded “Tower of Songs” for the Cohen tribute album ” I’m your fan”. An unedited 33 min version appear on a bootleg called “more pricks than kicks”. It is okay, but, er, needs editing.
Also Einsturzende Neubauten did “Headcleaner” in the similar manner, I think. The longer version was used for a performance in Vienna, while the 15 min version appeared in “Tabula Rasa”.

Did Hendrix use the similar method? What about D3 (Dirty Three)?

And in a desperate attempt to put this back on track, so to speak, would Heinberg play his stuff in Sydney?

I should have been doing a blog about music really, rather than all this peak oil carry on! My all time desert island disc by Can is ‘Yoo Doo Right’, an astonishing piece of music however many times I hear it. Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time. We have gone a long way off the Holmgren/Heinberg thread but I am rather enjoying myself….

all the best,