Saxworx / Collabs with Bruce Conover

Music and world domination : agent "JJ"   https://soundcloud.com/bits-sounds
Vocals, production and those pesky details : conover
Guitars and 6 string flamethrower : Andrew Fitzsimmons at https://soundcloud.com/afitzsimmons
Bach trumpet and ballistics : https://soundcloud.com/styrmonix
Saxophone : and Aerial gymnastic : https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
Strings,Orchestration and those wonderful secret agent toys : https://soundcloud.com/cermat
Linguistics and big picture : Ian Greaves @  https://soundcloud.com/ipg1
Mastered at Abbey Road Studio's Alex Wharton
https://www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-wharton

Keep it safe out there......

To keep this under control
You've got to hide your identity
To keep this under control
You've got to keep yourself looking real fine

Gun to my head  I'll keep my secrets
And there will be no more.

Under Control: Conover/BITs

Guitar : https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Sax : https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
Music composed and produced : conover

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the thing that causes the greatest fear
is the source of the greatest wisdom.
~C.G. Jung~

This flavorful recipe for Kung Pao Noodles can be made with chicken, shrimp, tofu or my very favorite….roasted cauliflower! A few years back, while visiting China, Brian and I took a couple wok cooking classes and got a feel for authentic Kung Pao which is the perfect balance between spicy, tangy, sweet and umami flavors. This is my own simplified version that I like to serve with noodles instead of traditional rice. Keep it vegetarian or add meat — it’s up to you.


 Kung Pao Cauliflower over noodles. Fast and delicious! | www.feastingathome.com

Kung Pao: Conover/ joerxworx & Welin

Guitars by: Andrew Fitzsimmons  https://soundcloud.com/afitzsimmons
Texas Swamp Guitars by Jon Lock at https://soundcloud.com/jon-lock-5
Bad to the bone Drums, Bass and guitars by  https://soundcloud.com/keitonie
Ultra Sax by : @joerxworx
Shredding the Hammond C3 organ and Piano by https://soundcloud.com/tobbenv
Vocals and Mix by conover
Loose salute cover of the Electric Flag song Texas.


This documentary blog link below joins hand-in-hand perfectly with the music that we attempted to cover above. BC

 Leonard Cohen took years  to craft a song. Rufus, can cover one in an afternoon. Hallelujah. God only needed 3 days for Texas. This tune plows the terra firma of such great bluesmen afore with a great Leon Russell dust bowl homage  sewn in..... David Conover

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/07-hallelujah

photo art info:
The Electric Flag onstage at the Fillmore Auditorium, August 29, 1967. From left, Barry Goldberg (hidden), Nick Gravenites, Michael Bloomfield, Buddy Miles (behind drums), Harvey Brooks, unknown and Peter Strazza. Photo courtesy of Richard Lewis
AT THE END OF February 1967, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band returned to Boston for the second time in just over a month. The band had been on the road constantly since returning from its first trip abroad, a 30-day whirlwind tour of 28 different venues in England and Scotland in November. Since their arrival back in the States, the Butterfield Band had played New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and numerous places in between. Now they were back in Boston.
They were scheduled to play three colleges in one day – a chilly Saturday, February 25. The shows were to begin at noon with an appearance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and the guys had to unload the van and set up the equipment first. Butterfield’s star guitarist, Michael Bloomfield, lost it.
In a state of agitation, the exhausted Bloomfield had been suffering from insomnia for weeks. His was a hyperactive personality under the best of circumstances, and now the band’s non-stop gigging had thrown his system into disarray. He could no longer stand the demands of performing night after night.
He decided he had to quit the band that day.

And Michael Bloomfield was suddenly without a gig.
Bloomfield retreated to his Christopher Street apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village to rest up and think things over.
It wasn’t long before he began to think he should have his own band.
 
Forgotten Flag

Few today recall that there was another rock/horn band – a band that started it all. Or, if they do recall, they don’t recall much about it.
The Electric Flag deserves a better fate.
The creation of Mike Bloomfield, America’s first electric guitar hero, the Electric Flag was a ground-breaker in a numerous ways. In addition to being pop music’s first rock band to include a horn section, it pioneered the use of electronic instruments, blended a variety of musical genres, experimented with sound sampling and was one of the early racially-mixed pop bands. It also had the dubious distinction of being rock’s first “supergroup.”
Because the Flag has been largely ignored by critics since its dissolution in 1968, its story has never really been told in detail. A rock ’n roll rags-to-riches-to-rags tale, the history of Michael Bloomfield’s experiment in American music makes for interesting reading. But it also foreshadows the growth of American pop music away from the narrow confines of its segregated genres and toward an open confluence of styles and cultures. For that reason alone, music lovers – especially American music lovers – should know about the Electric Flag.

On The 8th Day God Created Texas

Composed and Performed by Jussi Welin https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Orchestration by Roman Czerny    https://soundcloud.com/gotchi
Flute performed by Jörg Stohwasser  https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
vocals, production and mix by conover
mastered at Abbey Road by Alex Gordon
www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon
© 2017 Conover/Welin

Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion\\

Spoken word penned by Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues
Voiced by conover
Artwork by https://soundcloud.com/dominiquefrench and conover
Photograph c) 2014 Nicolas McComber
https://mccomberphoto.wordpress.com

B r e a t h e D e e p.   (The Conover/ Welin Adventure)

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"Jörg S. born in Cologne, from youth on, is fascinated by all kinds of art, so he taught himself the saxophone very early. Nowadays flutes of all kind are also part of the equipment, as are jaw harps, percussion, bass, guitars and keyboards.
He was and is always involved in many band projects and session events.
In the 80s he was a saxophonist in the Adam Noidlt Intermission Orchestra with gigs in Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Basel. Very early on he also worked as a writer with live readings in the Cologne area and was a painter with large formats for many years, all in addition to his job as a graphic designer. Now, retired, he is devoted solely to music: home recording with the platform of choice, Soundcloud and global collaborations."

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