Vivian Stanshall was the strikingly eccentric ringleader of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, often described as the UK’s version of the Mothers of Invention. Affecting the manner of an aristocrat, Viv actually hailed from London’s East End, and his kindred spirits were Keith Moon and Paul McCartney, who produced the closest thing the Bonzos had to a hit single. Gary Lucas, former manager of Captain Beefheart and member of his Magic Band, had some memorable encounters with Vivian Stanshall, whom he compares favorably with Don Van Vliet. He tells the tale for PKM.
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The Coral: Coral Island (Modern Sky)
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Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis: She Walks In Beauty (BMG)
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Verdict: Haunting Romantic poetry
Just five months later, guitarist Green passed away in his sleep at 73, leaving a legacy now being celebrated afresh on an album taken from that gig
When Mick Fleetwood put together an all-star line-up to pay tribute to his former bandmate Peter Green, he was probably anticipating an emotional evening.
What the veteran drummer couldn’t have foreseen was just how poignant that London concert on February 25 last year would turn out to be. Within weeks of the show at the Palladium, the UK had gone into lockdown.
Feb. 02, 2021
This week’s art picks include an artist who connects his parent’s past trauma to his own L.A. childhood, a under-known surrealist artist who paints ghostly orbs and leering animals, and an exhibition of paintings made while recovering from COVID-19.
A new series of figurative paintings and drawings by LA-native Elmer Guevara is on view at Residency Art in Inglewood. Guevara’s parents fled El Salvador for Los Angeles in the 1980s, a decade before the artist was born, and the exhibition muses on what inherited traumas influenced the artist himself amid his Angeleno childhood. Across the paintings, ghostly imprints and shadows imply a resurfacing of past memories, while Lakers jerseys and McDonalds boxes plant the work in the present. In several pieces, painted imagery climbs across the figure’s arms, like tattoos that hold montages of past formative memories. “Passed onto Him” is a portrait of the artist’s parents holding young Guevara as a swaddled baby