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Hangin’ with the Cosmic Surfer
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Welcome and Introduction
1. Lessons Learned: Publishing (updated)
2. Marketing
3 One More Red Nightmare : Writing 1st Drafts
4 Random Musings
5. Closing Out 2023
Diabetes and Me
1. Diagnosis to Remission
1 The Story So Far, and Targets
2 Diagnosis and Motivations
3 Sugar, the Gateway Drug
4 Response and Responsibility
5 General Update
6 Pre-Christmas Update
7 Close of 2021: the Story So Far
8 The Incredible Shrinking Ian
9 End of January Update
10 Interim target achieved
11 Primary Target Achieved
12 : March Targets Update
13 : April Update
14 : May Update
15. June 2022 Update
16. July 2022 Update
17. August 2022 Update
18. March 2023 Update
2. Post-Remission
1. Brave New World
1970 in Music
About This Project
January
1 January : Stone the Crows
2 January : Liege and Lief
3 January : The Madcap Laughs
4 January : Can’t Explain
5 January : Shall We Go You and I?
6 January : Abbey Road
7 January : Fiery Gems For You
8 January : That’s The Way Love Is
9 January : Suspicious Minds
10 January : Turned On By Life is the Best Kind of High
11 January : Can You Dig It?
12 January : Underneath The Green Veranda
13 January : I Want Beautiful People to Smoke Me
14 January : Progressive, yeah.
15 January : Through the Backyard We’d Go Walkin’
16 January : Basket of Light
17 January : Where are They Going? Where Have They Come From?
18 January : Forget About Emancipation, It’s Just Imagination
19 January : A New World Somewhere
20 January : Her Weapons Were Her Crystal Eyes
21 January : The Moon is High, the Mandrake Screams
22 January : Waiting For A Smile From A Sun Child
23 January : A Song For Me
24 January : You’re A Big Boy Now
25 January : She Let an Easy Rider Share Her Bed
26 January : All The Love That I Hold Inside
27 January : It Stoned Me Just Like Jelly Roll
28 January : Wilde Flowers
29 January : Song of the United Front
30 January : Round Up
31 January : Shakedown Street
February
1 February : Sweet Baby James
2 February : Drinkin’ and Thinkin’
3 February : In My Union Jack Car
4 February : Free An’ One
5 February : Suffer the Dawn Today
6 February : They Should Build A Drive-In
7 February : Zabriskie Point Is Anywhere
8 February : What is the Point?
9 February : They’ve Got Some Bungalows
10 February : The J is the Juice
11 February : There’s A Train A’Comin
12 February : In The Court of The Tissue King
13 February : Satan’s Comin’ Round the Bend
14 – 16 February : Holding Page
17 February : New York Tendaberry.
18 February : Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy
19 February : Live/Dead
20 February : Kicking Up Stones, Rolling Up Cones
21 February : Bring a Nickel, Tap Your Feet
22 February : The Poor Girl That He Left Behind
23 February : Nilsson Sings Newman
24 February : Chitlins Foo Yung
25 February : Black Gold
26 February : Stonehenge
27 February : Up Against the Wall Motherf…
28 February : Hot Rats
29 February : Bless the Baby Born Today
March
1 March : Not Phil Ochs
2 March : Fully Qualified Survivor
3 March : The Allman Brothers Band
4 March : Tom Rush
5 March : First Step
6 March : Psychedelic Shack
7 March : Mountain Climbing
8 March : Phallus Dei
9 March : Spanish Castle Magic
10 March : Bloodrock
11 March : Déjà Vu
12 March : Elastic Rock
13 March : A Beard of Stars
14 March : Egg
15 March : Willy And The Poor Boys
16 March : Tammi Terell
17 March : Ladies of the Canyon
18 March : Delaney and Bonnie with Eric Clapton
19 March : Easy Action
20 March : Zero She Flies
21 March : Alone (One-Nine-Seven-Zero)
22 March : Country Preacher
23 March : Leon Russell
24 March : Band of Gypsys
25 March : Silk Purse
26 March : Marriage on the Rocks
27 March : Sentimental Journey
28 March : I Don’t Believe in If Anymore
29 March : Watertown
30 March : Bitches Brew
31 March : Ginger Baker’s Air Force.
April
1 April : Reflections on 1st 3 Months
2 April : Candles In The Rain
3/4 April : Live Cream/McLemore Avenue
5 April : Amazing Blondel & A Few Faces
6 April : I Looked Up
7/8 April : My Kind of Jazz/Portrait
9 April : Remedies
10 April : Elton John
11 April : Getting To This
12/13 April : Apollo 13/ Diana Ross and the Supremes
14 April : Sit Down Young Stranger
15 April : Yeti
16 April : Burrito Deluxe
17 April : McCartney
18 April : Cricklewood Green
19 April : Brinsley Schwarz
20 April : Benefit
21 April : 12 Songs
22 April : Iron Butterfly Live
23 April : Eric Burdon Declares War
24 April : Mona Bone Jakon
25/26 April : Oh Happy Day/Right On
27/28 April : Cucumber Castle/ What Love Has Joined
29/30 April : Open/ Soul On Top
May
1/2 May : Grinder’s Switch/ Ananda Shankar
3 May : Michael Gibbs
4 May : Kent State
5-10 May : Poco, ABC, Let it Be
11 May : Woodstock
15 May : In The Wake Of Poseidon
16 May : The Who Live At Leeds
22 May : The Garden of Jane Delawney
23 May : Love, Death and the Lady
24 May : The Prisoner
25 May : Thank Christ For the Bomb
26 May : Writer
27 May : Hot Tuna
31 May : End of Month Update
June
1 June : Electronic Meditation
2/3 June : Gasoline Alley/In Rock
4 June : Sing Brother Sing
5 June : Barclay James Harvest
6 June : Soft Machine Third
7/8 June : Home / Self Portrait
9 June : Hark! The Village Wait
10-13 June : Runt/Parachute/Alone Together/Very ‘eavy… Very ‘umble
14 June : Workingman’s Dead
15 June : Fotheringay
26 June : Fire and Water
27 June : Parallelograms
July
5 July : Feelin’ The Blues
13 July : Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
14 July : Supertramp
15 July : On My Way To Where
20 July : Doors Absolutely Live
24 July : Time And A Word
25 July : Exuma
26 July : Osmium
27 July : John Barleycorn Must Die
28 July : Full House
29 July : Cosmo’s Factory
30 July : Humble Pie
31 July : Funhouse
August
5 August : Child Song
6 August : The Time Is Near
7 August : Signed, Sealed & Delivered
8 August : A Question of Balance
14 August : Hawkwind
19 August : Eric Clapton/ Stage Fright/ Close to You
29 August : Freddie Hubbard
30 August : Whales and Nightingales
31 August : Color Me Country
September
4 September : If I Could Do It All Over Again
13 September : If
14 September : The Byrds (Untitled)
18 September : Paranoid : Hendrix
19 September : After The Goldrush
22 September : Abraxas
23 September : Idlewild South
24 September : Heavy Petting
25 September : Beaucoups of Blues
26 September : Peter Bellamy
27 September : Mad Shadows
28 September : Scorpio’s Dance
29 September : Leftover Wine
30 September : Johnny Winter And
October
2 October : Atom Heart Mother
3 October : The Rout of the Blues
4 October : Ride A White Swan
5 October : Led Zeppelin III
6 October : High Tide
7 October : Self Portrait (Ruth Copeland)
8 October : Ballads and Songs
9 October : Shelagh McDonald, Album
10 October : Green Is Beautiful
11 October : The Sixth Sense
12 October : UFO1
13 October : Ode To John Law
14 October : Wild Butter / Just a Poke
15 October : Afreaka
19 October : New Morning/Shades of Rock
22 October : Trespass
23 : Chunga’s Revenge
24 October : Miles Davis at Fillmore
30 October : Tumbleweed Connection
31 October : Indianola Mississppi Seeds
November
1 November : American Beauty
2 November : Bryter Layter
3 November : Kraftwerk
4 November : The Man Who Sold The World
9 November : Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
10 November : Blows Against The Empire
11 November : Nicely Out of Tune
12 November : Starsailor
13 November : The Lady and the Unicorn
14 November : Barrett
15 November : Mr Fox
16 November : Patto/ Klopfzeichen
17 November : Anyway
23 November : Tea For The Tillerman
24 November : Emerson Lake and Palmer
25 November : Stephen Stills and others
26 November : McDonald and Giles
27 November : Gentle Giant
28 November : All Things Must Pass
29 November : The Cruel Sister
December
1 December : Things We Like
2 December : Daughter Of Time
4 December : Wishbone Ash
5 December : The End of an Ear
7 December : Reflets
7 December : Pendulum
9 December : if2
10 December : Lizard
13 December : Lick My Decals Off, Baby
14 December : Lennon/ Ono/ Plastic Ono Band
16 December : Soul Rebels
17 December : H to He Who Am The Only One
18 December : T. Rex
26 December : Burnt Offering
27 December : Ry Cooder
27 December : Sea Train
28 December : Just Another Diamond Day
29 December : ‘Til The Band Comes In
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Hong Kong 2 – 6 Feb 2013
Hangzhou 6 – 14 Feb 2013
Beijing 14 – 21 Feb 2013
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