THIS blog WILL COMMENT ON LIVE ROCK PERFORMANCE. THE FIRST HUNDRED POSTS ; MY HONEST OPINION AS LIVE ROCK CRITIC. I have written lately of my own Live Rock journey and how it did end up wrecked on the rocks again and again. Still it is an incredible improvement to have recovered from virtual paralysis a number of times and be able to write and compose and play instruments and most of all to have been able to dance on stage and perfrorm on Harmonica with LIVE ROCK BANDS.
Friday, 24 March 2023
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson, the Wayfair Lady and Television host surprised me with what a great singer she is.
You can laugh at me if I was deceived by a spoof, but I did see her and hear her on her own Kelly Clarkson television program.
Her voice was absolutely spectacular. She sang in a warm Contralto which soared and rose into quite appropriate crescendos without screeching.
I am critical of those who wander off key or have to compensate for being off the timing of bars. Clarkson did none of this. She sang what she sang straight up. It was very impressive.
I scrolled on to her program by accident, for less than a minute as the music was ending. The band was good, they looked pleased and happy.
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Saturday Night Live March 11 2023
I WAS DISAPPOINTED BY JACK WHITE.HE WAS MUCH BETTER WHEN I CRITIQUED HIM BACK IN OCTOBER OF 2020, WHEN I SAID HIS GUITAR WAS GREAT BUT HIS VOICE WAS NOT.
ON SATURDAY NIGHT I DID NOT "GET" HIS SONGS AND I FOUND HIS GUITAR LEAD EXPANSIONS IRRELEVANT TO WHAT HE WAS PORTRAYING IN THE POORLY SUNG SONGS.
I HAVE DECLARED THAT I WOULD COMPOSE A LEAD RELEVANT TO THE SONG AND TO THE AUDIENCE. I TOLD GUITARISTS I PLAYED LIVE WITH THAT THEY WERE PERFORMING LEADS WHICH WERE IRRELEVANT
TO THE SONG.
I THINK RELEVANCE IS A NECESSITY NOT SOMETHING EXTRA. IT IS A BARE MINIMUM TO BE ATTAINED IF YOU ARE PLAYING PUBLICLY.
Monday, 13 February 2023
SUPER BOWL LVII
TIED AT 35/35 THIS FIELD GOAL WON THE GAME 38/35.
THE GAME WAS REALLY INTERESTING WITH A CLASSIC COMEBACK BY KC.
RIHANNA WAS NOT REALLY INTERESTING. THE THEME WAS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO ME.
MOST OF THE LYRICS WERE INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
THESE GUYS WERE INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
Monday, 6 February 2023
THE SOUND TRACK OF "MORTALWOUND"
THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: PERSIAN.
MORTAL WOUND IS SET IN IRAN WITH WEALTHY FAMILIES IN A PRIVILEGED ARABIC CULTURE.
THROUGHOUT, AND IN PARTICULAR AT THE END OF EPISODES, THERE IS AN IMPECCABLY PERFECT GUITAR LEAD.
HABIB KAZAEL FAR IS CREDITED WITH "MUSIC" AND AS "COMPOSER".
THE MUSIC IS VERY GOOD THROUGHOUT.
THE PLOT IS REALISTIC AND GRIPPING AND THE PORTRAYAL OF THE NATURE OF THE CULTURAL OR RACIAL CHARACTERISTICS WHICH THE SELFISH, EMOTIONAL AND CAPRICIOUS PERSONALITIES EXHIBIT CREATES SPECULATION ABOUT OTHER BAD BEHAVIOR.
Saturday, 28 January 2023
THE PLACE I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE SUCCEEDED WITH WAS BURRVILLA
INSTEAD I STAYED IN THESE CARS WHEN I WENT TO VANCOUVER TWICE A MONTH TO SPEND A WEEKEND PURSUING MY LIVE MUSIC STAGE PERFORMANCE WITH HOHNER DIATONIC HARMONICAS, TRYING HARD TO GET A JOB WITH A REAL ORIGINAL MUSIC ROCK BAND.
THE FAMILY BOORS WERE VOCAL IN THEIR DEFIANCE OF MY ART WRITING AND MUSIC. THEY WERE MILITANT AND OBNOXIOUS AND OMNIPRESENT TO INTERFERE WITH ANY BENEFIT WHICH I MIGHT BE RECEIVING. THEY WERE FALSE AND MANIPULATIVE AND DEFAMATORY IN THAT THEY CLAIMED TO KNOW I WHAT I WAS THINKING AND DOING IN MY ART, WRITING , MUSIC AND BUSINESS WHICH THEY WOULD CLAIM WAS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT I SAID AND WROTE. THEY SAID I WAS CRAZY WHILE I WORKED AND ACQUIRED SKILLS AND CREATED MY ART AND MY INFRASTRUCTURE.
THERE WERE OTHER GOALS WHICH WERE UTTERED OVERTLY
I WAS TO INHERIT ENOUGH MONEY AS EARLY AS 1964, TO BE ABLE TO GET STARTED ON MORE ELABORATE PROJECTS BUT THE
Friday, 6 January 2023
THERE SHOULD BE A SUPPORT AND SUSTENANCE SYSTEM FOR ARTISTS, WRITERS AND MUSICIANS WHO HAVE TO WORK FOR MANY YEARS WITHOUT EARNING ANY MONEY FROM THAT WORK
I AM WATCHING THE DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THEY ARE REFERRED TO AS "WANTING TO BURN DOWN THE HOUSE".
THAT HAS BEEN A BIG PROBLEM FOR LINDON COLLARD. HE HAD A HOUSE TAKEN FROM HIM,
AND HE HAD THE HOUSE HE FINISHED HIMSELF ACTUALLY BURNT ALONG WITH EVERYTHING HE OWNED
AND RIGHT AFTER THAT LINDON'S WIFE BETTY WORKED ONE DIVORCE THREAT EXTORTION AFTER ANOTHER, LINDON AND BETTY OR TRIXIE WERE MARRIED FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS WHEN THE WIFE STARTED. SHE ACTUALLY REPEATEDLY THREATENED "I DO NOT CARE IF WE END UP ON THE STREET" WHICH MEANT NO HOUSE FOR YOU, LINDON.
This third permanent home was borrowed on by Lindon's wife until it was actually financially gone and had to be paid for again with inherited money. The money had to be paid to the Collard Family Women's Criminal gang despite the fact that Lindon had never received a red cent of the borrowed money. His wife got all of it and wasted it on her ill conceived business ventures. She also bought herself a house (or two) and got extortion money and welfare as well.
IT ALSO WOULD HAVE MEANT NO HOUSE FOR LINDON'S CHILDREN EITHER. THAT ANGUISHED WORRIED HIM SEVERELY.
LINDON'S WIFE BETTY ACTED IN A DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE DIRECTION TO THAT THAT WHICH LINDON HAD PLANNED TO ADHERE TO BY HAVING ALL HIS MONEY SPENT ON HER BUSINESS AND DRIVING 2 CARS ON AN HOUR LONG COMMUTE SIX DAYS PER WEEK WITH THE KIDS IN DAYCARE (MORE EXPENSE) AND THEN ACTUAL DIVORCE BY COP AND SHE STEADFASTLY DECLARED SHE DID NOT CARE, SHE WANTED LINDON TO BE HOMELESS OR IN JAIL AFTER HE HAD PUT THREE PERMANENT HOMES TOGETHER TO HOUSE THE FAMILY HE HAD AGREED TO FEED CLOTHE AND SHELTER. LINDON NEVER AGREED TO DO ANYTHING ELSE.
FROM THE BULLRUSH FROG "WASTE NOT WASTE NOT" POINT OF VIEW, WHAT A TERRIBLE WASTE OF RESOURCES AND WHAT TERRIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE AND WHAT A WASTE OF POOR LINDON'S TALENTS AND EFFORTS AND MONEY WHICH MEANS LINDON NEVER FINISHED ANY OF HIS PROJECTS, MAKING EVERYTHING A WASTE OF HIS TALENT AND HIS EFFORT AND HIS MONEY.
LINDON FINALLY GOT RID OF BETTY OR TRIXIE'S POWER OVER HIM BY PAYING AGAIN, HE WAS UNDERWATER IN DEBT ON HIS PROPERTY TO THE COLLARD FAMILY WOMEN'S CRIMINAL GANG AND DRAINED DRY EACH MONTH OF ALL EARNINGS BY HIS WIFE'S EXTORTION.
STILL, WHEN LINDON GOT TO ACHIEVE SOME RECOGNITION IN ENGLAND IN 1992 BETTY OR TRIXIE HAD POLICE AND BYLAW AND SHERIFFS TO TRY YET AGAIN TO SEIZR LINDON'S HOUSE AND MAKE HIM HOMELESS WHEN HE WAS ALREADY DESTITUTE AND HAD THE AUTHORITIES AFTER HIM, CAUSED BY HIS WIFE'S LIES.
Saturday, 31 December 2022
THE MANY COLORS AND TONES OF JEALOUSY
"DID YOU EVER THINK THAT IT WAS YOU, NOT A BUNCH OF BAD WOMEN THAT YOU KNEW?" I CAN NOT FIND THE COMMENT. I HAVE ATTEMPTED TO BE ACCURATE.
I THINK THAT THERE IS ONE AND THE SAME PROBLEM IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MYSELF AND THEM.
IT IS A MATTER OF MY MANY COLORS AND TONES. I AS I DRESSED TO PLAY HARMONICA WAS NOT AWARE THAT THIS MANY COLORED SILK AND VELOUR COSTUMING WOULD OFFEND JEALOUS PEOPLE.
THE MANY TONES OF MUSICAL PERFORMING MAY ALSO HAVE BEEN A CATALYST IN THE GENERATION OF JEALOUS HATRED.
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
I CANNOT SEE ANY PATH THAT A WRITER OR A MUSICIAN COULD FOLLOW WHICH WOULD NOT REQUIRE STABLE, ADEQUATE AND PERMANENT FINANCIAL SUPPORT
IT WOULD BE HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT A WRITER OR A MUSICIAN WOULD RECEIVE A SALARY IMMEDIATELY UNLESS THEY WORKED FOR A NEWSPAPER OR THEY PLAYED IN A BAR BAND AND EVEN THOSE LOW PAYING JOBS REQUIRED EDUCATION.
I BELIEVED WHAT I WAS TOLD ABOUT THE REQUIREMENT OF A DAY JOB TO SUPPORT MYSELF WHILE I DEVELOPED MY ABILITY TO WRITE AND LATER TO COMPOSE ORIGINAL MUSIC AND PERFORM IT LIVE.
THERE WERE AN UNBELIEVABLE NUMBER OF INSTANCES WHERE MY PLANS WERE DERAILED. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT MY BEST CHANCE TO BECOME A WRITER AND WHICH WOULD HAVE DEFINITELY ENTERED ME INTO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WAS IN 1964 WHEN I WAS GOING TO USE MY TRUST FUND TO BUY A LITTLE HOTEL WHICH HAD A DANCE HALL WITHIN IT.
IT WAS LONG AGO THAT I HAD MY LAST CHANCE TO WORK AT MY ART WRITING AND MUSIC. IN 1992 I WAS IN LONDON ENGLAND WHERE I MADE A FAVORABLE IMPRESSION AND I JUST COULD NOT LEAVE TO GO BACK THERE TO ADVANCE MY MUSICAL CAREER MY PAID OFF EX-WIFE WOULD NOT STOP POLICING ME.
I HAD ABOUT $2 MILLION OF INHERITED MONEY STOLEN FROM ME BY MY SIBLING FAMILY AND MY WIFE. THAT WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED ME TO DO MY MUSICAL PROJECTS VERY NICELY.
THERE WAS THIS HAMPERING AND HARASSMENT AS WELL.
I WAS CRUSHED.
FROM "LINDON COLLARD TOTAL RECALL"
PERIODICALLY I REALIZE HOW ABSURD THE CONTROLLING FREAKS ARE.
MY MUSICAL ENTERPRISE HAD
LITTLE TO DO WITH ANYONE
ON VANCOUVER ISLAND AS
IT HAPPENED IN MY STUDIOS
HERE OR IN VANCOUVER.
ONCE I GOT FARTHER AFIELD,
BUT I WAS A CITY OF VANCOUVER
MUSICIAN.
WHY WOULD THE COLLARD FAMILY
WOMEN BE INVOLVED WITH THAT
AT ALL?
THEY WANTED TO STAMP IT OUT.
THE POLICE HERE AT OTTER POINT,
THE SOOKE RCMP, WERE VERY
INTERESTED IN DISCREDITING
ME AND IN ( FROM FOI ) INTERFERING
WITH MY MUSIC CAREER. WHY?
THE VANCOUVER POLICE, IN THE
CITY WHERE I SOUGHT MY CAREER
DID NOT INTERFERE WITH ME EXCEPT
FOR FRITZ VERHOOVEN'S POLICE
FRIEND FROM THE DOG SQUAD. ( I FORGOT. )
WHY WOULD POLICE BE INVOLVED
WITH NOT A PARTYING BUT AN
ORIGINAL COMPOSING AND
LYRICIZING MUSICIAN?
Monday, 28 November 2022
FROM "LINDON COLLARD TOTAL RECALL"
PERIODICALLY I REALIZE HOW ABSURD THE CONTROLLING FREAKS ARE.
MY MUSICAL ENTERPRISE HAD
LITTLE TO DO WITH ANYONE
ON VANCOUVER ISLAND AS
IT HAPPENED IN MY STUDIOS
HERE OR IN VANCOUVER.
ONCE I GOT FARTHER AFIELD,
BUT I WAS A CITY OF VANCOUVER
MUSICIAN.
WHY WOULD THE COLLARD FAMILY
WOMEN BE INVOLVED WITH THAT
AT ALL?
THEY WANTED TO STAMP IT OUT.
THE POLICE HERE AT OTTER POINT,
THE SOOKE RCMP, WERE VERY
INTERESTED IN DISCREDITING
ME AND IN ( FROM FOI ) INTERFERING
WITH MY MUSIC CAREER. WHY?
THE VANCOUVER POLICE, IN THE
CITY WHERE I SOUGHT MY CAREER
DID NOT INTERFERE WITH ME EXCEPT
FOR FRITZ VERHOOVEN'S POLICE
FRIEND FROM THE DOG SQUAD. ( I FORGOT. )
WHY WOULD POLICE BE INVOLVED
WITH NOT A PARTYING BUT AN
ORIGINAL COMPOSING AND
LYRICIZING MUSICIAN?
Monday, 21 November 2022
CRINGE ME CRINGE ME: DIM MY LIGHTS
I JUST RECALLED WHAT SHUTS DOWN THE EXUBERANCE ENERGY AND CONFIDENCE OF THE LIVE ROCK PERFORMER.
THE CREATION OF WORRY, AND THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED AND PROBED TO EXPOSE SOME DEFECT AND HAVING ONE'S MOTIVATION AND ONE'S DEDICATION AND PROFICIENCY AND EVEN ONE'S VERACITY AND SANITY QUESTIONED SAPS THE ENERGY AND BRAVADO OF THE LIVE ROCK PERFORMER.
WHEN I WAS AT MY PEAK IN CONFIDENCE AND IN PROFICIENCY THE ASSOCIATED CHEER AND ENERGY WAS MIS-CHARACTERIZED AS SOME LACK OF CONTROL OR LACK OF DECORUM OR LACK OF A REALISTIC OUTLOOK.
THEN THE FAMILY FELT ENTITLED TO STEAL FROM ME TO FORCE ME TO LABOR AT THEIR ONEROUS TASKS AND THEN OUTRAGED, THE FAMILY OF NARCISSISTS PHYSICALLY ATTACKED ME AND THEY DREW THE ATTENTION OF THE POLICE TO ME AND MY EX-WIFE AND HER LAWYER TRIED TO HAVE POLICE SEIZE MY GOODS AND MY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND MY HOUSE AND STUDIO. THE DEFAMATION SPREAD AND OTHER PERSONS MADE THINGS UP ABOUT ME AND SENT DOGCATCHERS AND SHERIFFS AND BY-LAW OFFICERS OUT TO MY HOUSE AND STUDIO .......
CAN YOU BELIEVE I WAS CRINGING?
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Sunday, 20 November 2022
MY LORD DO YOU EVER SUCK COMPARED TO JIMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCrRLNeHyHY
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LOS ANGELES FORUM APRIL 26 1969
VODOO CHILD (SLIGHT RETURN)/ SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE.
Thursday, 17 November 2022
BLACK STAR WHITE STAR
BLACK STAR WAS TOUTED AS BROOKLYN'S FINEST RAP.
I FOUND THEIR TWO PERFORMANCES ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE TO BE MUCH THE SAME TRADITIONAL HAND WAVING AND WALKING ABOUT WHILE REPEATING AND REPEATING. IT WAS SO BORING.
WHITE STAR TAYLOR SWIFT'S POTENTIAL LIVE PERFORMANCE IS A CASH GRAB BY TICKET SELLERS AND RESELLERS IS WHAT HER FANS POST.
TAYLOR HAS SOME SLICK VIDEOS. IS SHE REALLY AS SLIM AS SHE IS PORTRAYED TO BE IN HER VIDEOS?
I NEVER LIKED SWIFT'S SCREECHY VOCALS. I REALLY LIKED GRACE SLICK, JANICE JOPLIN, SHERYL CROW AND AMY WINEHOUSE. I HAVE EMULATED THEIR VOCAL RIFFS. I DID A VERY LITTLE BIT OF KARAOKE: WHITE RABBIT, SUMMERTIME AND ME AND MY GIRLFRIEND LOUISE DID A DYNAMITE WHITE ROOM.
Saturday, 3 September 2022
THE PERSONAL NATURE OF ALL CREATIVE WORK
ART, MUSIC AND WRITING SHOULD NOT BE REGULATED, HAMPERED, AND CONDEMNED.
THERE IS A PERSONAL NATURE TO CREATED WORKS.
THE CONJURED VISIONS AND SOUNDS HAVE TO BE WILLINGLY VIEWED AND LISTENED TO. THE CREATIONS DO NOT AFFECT ANY OTHER UNWILLING PERSON.
THE INTERNAL PROCESS CAN BE ARDUOUS, TAXING AND INTENSE.
RACIAL DIVERSITY IN CINEMA
PRETENDING THAT ALL CULTURES WERE MULTI-RACIAL IS ABSURD.
THERE WERE MANY UNI RACIAL SOCIETIES. MIDDLE EARTH COULD READILY HAVE ONLY ONE RACE AND OTHER RACES WOULD LIVE WHERE THEY LIVED. THERE WERE NO AIRLINERS DISTRIBUTING THE DIFFERENT RACES.
MARIJUANAVILLE IN SOOKE WAS WHITE.

This is a gathering of Hippies a few miles away on the
Gulf Islands,
but it looks just like Marajuanaville in Sooke in 1979..
Gulf Islands,
but it looks just like Marajuanaville in Sooke in 1979..








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