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| NEW BOOK: RETICUCULATUS BY AL G GWYLLT!! Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:31 PM PDT  So excited! I just got the first copy of Al G. Gwyllt's new novel Reticulatus Chronicles! I have read some of his early treatments but not the full book. I will do a synopsis of it as soon as I finish it.  Al and I go way back as I met him when I was about 16. I ran into this cool guy with long jet black hair and he had the coolest clothes for a guy in like 1972... Al is also a very talented musician/songwriter/arranger etc. Here is what we looked like back then LOL So funny that Al and I are still close friends. He dated my friends and I dated his! Yet here we still are...ironic isn't it?  Al Gwyllt age 17 Al was in a few bands back then with one of my first boyfriends... He played lead guitar and vocals. Al once told me many years ago that he was a "jack of all trades and a master of none" Well that was completely wrong... Al mastered any instrument he picked up and to this day when he gets an idea he tales it all the way... Now he a published author...  Kimmer age 16  "As a young girl, Jane Sturgeons took a deep interest in breeding fancy guppies, (Lebistis reticulatus). Using her brilliant mind she turned a hobby into a small business. As she grew older she soon became recognized nationally and later internationally. Her goal was to develop a totally all black guppy, which was unheard of in the tropical fish world. She accomplished the task and soon became a multi-millionaire. Amazon With four Hispanic boys under her wing she moves to North Carolina where she purchases an immense Victorian mansion high on a hill and continues her research. But she soon finds out that the house is very unusual, and that it was once owned and built by a gifted scientist. Beneath the vast basement she discovers countless sub-levels with research facilities. Who was this scientist, and what research was he involved with? Reticulatus Chronicles has science, horror, mystery, intrigue, love and plenty of action. It will take you on a frightening journey into the fascinating world of Jane Sturgeons." Get Al's Book: Barnes & Noble Booktopia  |
| DENIZ TEK: STEEL BEACH/ MISS YOU TOO MUCH... Posted: 23 Aug 2011 05:22 AM PDT  Deniz Tek Citadel Years 2 CD Set Deniz Tek and my favorite twin brothers the Godoy Twins (Art and Steve) are gearing up to play this weekend on the east coast. So wish I could be there but hopefully they will be here in Ann Arbor soon.. I have a ton of Deniz' music that he gave me or fans have sent in to me. Yesterday I clicked on "Steel Beach". It just haunted me for almost 48 hours. I have played it over and over and each time I hear something new in Deniz' lyric and his gorgeous guitar. Here is a recent video Deniz Tek with Andy Newman , Steve and Art Godoy live @ the Patch , 3 April 2011 Wollongong , Australia ..OZ Tour 2011 Deniz Tek began his solo career in 1992 with the recording of the album Take It To The Vertical. The assembled studio band included Chris Masuak from Radio Birdman, Scott Asheton from the Stooges and Dust Peterson from Dust and the Rotorheads. The album was produced and financed by Deniz with Andy Mort Bradley engineering at the Sugar Hill studios in Houston, Texas. The album was sold to Red Eye Records, a subsidiary arm of Polydor Australia. It marked the beginning of an ill starred relationship with the major label. The band, with Bob Brown replacing Dust on bass, later toured Australia and then self destructed after experiencing artistic success on the one hand but a hideously mismanaged, near career destroying financial disaster on the other.  Madhatter Deniz and Mark Sisto From the ashes of the conflagration emerged a stable line-up that featured Celibate Rifles' Kent Steedman on guitar and Nik Rieth on drums along with ex New Christs and Barracudas' bass player Jim Dickson. The new band rehearsed, recorded and began playing shows around Australia in mid 1993. This line-up was to become known as The Deniz Tek Group. Early 1994 saw them release the hard rock album Outside on Red Eye. This release was followed by a national Australian tour, and then in 1995 a gruelling world tour encompassing Australia, Europe and the west coast of America. In early 1995, while in Australia, they recorded the EP 444 The Number Of The Beat, mislabeled by the Red Eye art department as 4-4. Perhaps ominous for looming trouble, the label didn't find it worth the effort to correct the error.  Mark Sisto at the Fleetwood in Ann Arbor One of Deniz' most beautiful songs for me is "Miss You Too Much" with my friend Mark Sisto on vocals with The Visitors. The Visitors was a self-titled album from the band The Visitors released in 1983. The album was originally recorded under the Radio Birdman label Trafalgar Music, and the tapes were left to sit for four years with no interest bar the Phantom EP release.  Mark Sisto Deniz Tek The insistence of Citadel to make the material available convinced Trafalgar into agreeing to allow Citadel to finance the remixes. Deniz was available for the remixes that were done at EMI 301's eight-track studio. However, he was not available to assist with the artwork, and the process ultimately took longer than expected. Deniz and I first met in December 2009. He came to Ann Arbor to play in Chris Taylor's Ann Arbor Rock and Roll Revival. It was such fun to see Deniz when Madhatter walked into the green room at The Blind Pig... LOL  Stanley T. Madhatter and Deniz Tek in Ann Arbor 2009  |
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