Guerilla Traveler - Have pen, will travel..

Mike Tyson visits Warsaw and talks about Black Energy. the new drink he is promoting, at a press conference at The Westin hotel in April 2012.

Three classes are merging into two: the haves and the have nots. And this is changing the nature of US society in the most insidious ways. Anyone who has lost their job or had a sick relative to care for knows the score. It's not longer a rat race: it's a rat on a wheel race. You go faster and faster but stay in the same place. The following lecture is well worth a few minutes of your time if you are interested in why the great American middle class is being squeezed out of existence and has been since the early 1970s. Fascinating and surprising.

Draw a line through it from Led Zeppelin to The Screaming Trees to the Queens of the Stone Age to Them Crooked Vultures. It's a long road, 30 years, but well worth revisiting any time. The trip is always worth it. Power R&B is still the most formidable rock music there is. Blues infused with heavy guitars and brilliant bursts into surprising harmony. This is the basis. As long as this goes on then rock is living. Take Elephant, the second track in his live concert and I hope it makes clear what I mean. So I ran into Mark Laneghan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age) the other night as he makes his way through Europe on a whirlwind tour. I'm a big fan of Mark's voice and his songwriting so it was very cool to have a word with him. Most memorable quote: Man I'd like to talk more but I'm too tired to talk to Jesus right now." Touring will do that to the best of us. Meanwhile VOA (what does that really stand for? I dont know) my band was in the studio yesterday doing our thing with the best producer in Poland, Adam Toczko. He has the gold records to prove it. We're putting together our own heavy melodies together somewhere between power rock and straight up blues . . . It's kind of fun . . . Meanwhile enjoy this great concert. Turn it up. And thanks for reading this. WRR

So Mark Lanegan told me after the show, Hey man I'm too tired to talk to Jesus right now and I said, Well, I didn't think it was that obvious. And he laughed and so did I. That encounter reminded me of a song I like that Mark used to sing called Winter Song and the lyric starts like this: Jesus knockin at my door Late last night and early this mornin . . . Here's the song

 

Here's a recent interview with Mr Lanegan:

Here's an interview from several years ago with Mr Lanegan: