Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans (Thanks John)

Yes, i know is not a good headline, but this day it´s not been a good day either. we have lost a friend. A real one, a good one. You know what i mean?

Anyway....i was thinking about what to write here in my blog. But today i prefer just to put one song to share feelings with the world.

Best persons are leaving us..... too soon, too much. Oh my Fucking God¡¡¡¡¡¡

Txema, wherever you are now (we all know you are here with us) this song is for your children Aitor and Olatz




And this is for you Susana, what a great woman. We love you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUQ3x_zrnqM

 

Goodnight and Goodluck my friends all over the world.

And ksss for everybody, of course cause "Every day in every way is getting better and better."

-Don´t you miss the big time boy you´re not longer on the ball?
-I´m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round. I really love to watch them roll. (John Lennon)

It´s a new dawn (Morning maniac music) Got to Democracy

VOLUNTEERS (Of the Basque Country)

Look what's happening out in the streets
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Hey I'm dancing down the streets
Got a revolution Got to revolution

Ain't it amazing all the people I meet
Got a revolution Got to revolution
One generation got old
One generation got soul
This generation got no destination to hold
Pick up the cry
Hey now it's time for you and me
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Come on now we're marching to the sea
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Who will take it from you
We will and who are we
We are volunteers of America.

Where are you?

Of course it´s a new dawn, my friends. Not only for me (yes, for me too. Today is been my first day in my new job for the Basque Government), but for the democracy inside the parties (where are you mr White), for the Human Rights in Ecuador (Long live president Correa) or in Brasil (Lula is happy, He is really happy because his candidate, Dilma Rousseff, (an ex marxist and lenninist fighter) won in the first round and we hope she will win in the end).

It´s been a lot of talk about this pic. Do you remember this photo?

From left to right, Lehendakari, me and Begoña, his wife.
Author, Emilio Alfaro.

Yeahhhhh. It was taken in San Francisco, during the official journey of the lehendakari along the USA.

"Well friends, you have seen the heavy groups, now you´ll see morning maniac music" (Thanks Grace). This is my new boat and i love Grace Slick´s eyes. Think about it, just for a second.

PS. Grace Slick and Tricia Nixon, former President Richard Nixon's daughter, are alumnae of Finch College. Grace was invited to a tea party for the alumnae at the White House in 1969. She invited the political activist Abbie Hoffman to be her escort and planned to spike President Richard Nixon's tea with 600 micrograms of LSD. The plan was thwarted when they were prevented from entering after being recognized by White House security personnel, as Slick had been placed on an FBI blacklist. (Source, Wikipedia)

We can talk further about this. And i will do it; FOR SURE, CAUSE IT´S A NEW DAWN.

And if i have to put a soundtrack for this "au revoir" i will put a nice tune of Mikel Laboa. His voice and Lekeitio and this idea of fighting.



See you soon¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
 

Where is Dorita? (Castelrio´s party) Hello we love you

The almirant and me.

Just God knows where is Dorita right now. Yesterday we had fun, we cried, we drank, we loved, we danced, we talked, we played cards (Che Guevara not dead, well at least we hope jajajajajjaja) WE ARE THE BEST. Cause, Zurbarango Eskola, Mola, noski baietz.

It´s really late now and i´m too much tired to continue writing, i know you can understand it. But here is only another pic.

Yes, Dorita is there, and Lisardo and Nati too and more and more people (The Berritzigune people too, inspectors...) that yesterday came just to say Hello Dorita we love you (Thanks Jim Morrison and The Doors)
Anyway, tomorrow i´ll continue the post...........

This is my tribe again. For months later. gorgeous, aren´t they?

These are the girls (part of them, i mean)

....An the boys toooooooooo.

 We went to the schoolyard to continue the party. And we danced there. But the best thing was Mr. Harry Potter. Yes don´t get surprised, and don´t get fool either. Mr. Potter was in our School yesterday. There was black magic goin´on in Zurbaran and Mr Julen, the wicthcraft maker, the chaman, the jerk (sorry, it´s better to say the clown). We all know that is completely illegal, but who cares? or Who knows? or Who are you?

 And we wen to Panera because the show must go on. And you know Panera is like a blackhole: everything is possible there. So it was. But that´s another story, pals.

Take care and good music fo today too. Hello Dorita we love you¡¡¡ (A strange version)

Neil Young is back (It´s better to burn out than to fade away) LE NOISE AND LANOIS

Thanks Molly for the pics. I have just stolen from your facebook jajajajaj.

 
This summer I had the opportunity to see Neil Young in the Fox Theater in Oakland (You know the Bay Area-San Francisco-Cali). Of course it was awesome. New songs, really really good. At least i recognised seven new tunes: Peaceful Valley, Love and War, Sign of Love, You never call, Leia, Gang of four and Entertaimenand the unreleased song Hitchhiker. And there they are. You can listen to part of that list in his new work "Le Noise"

That was on July, the twelve.
Then, i bought the Uncut magazine. There was a review by Bert Jansch about Neil´s USA tour (Twisted Road-They say accoustic. I say solo) And he suggested the possibility of a new album produced by Daniel Lanois. I like that guy and i said to myself: that idea could work. And it works my friends, it works.

Here you have the complete record live. The great Young, the canadian indian, the free soul. OMFG

39.09 minutes of pure Young. Enjoy it¡¡¡¡¡¡

http://www.youtube.com/user/neilyoungchannel 

We can tall about this album later on. Now it´s time to enjoy it. Let´s do it. 

Something good coming (For you and me)

It´s just a clue. It´s just a hint. It´s just a dream. It´s just me.


(Here is the same song but a stunning version with the Heartbreakers doin´their best)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSvlJe1mwlw

As they say, THIS IS REAL MUSIC. THIS IS AN ORGANIC RECORD, BRO´.

And take a look too at this movie (documentary, better to say) about the making off. By Sam Jones, by the way.
Remember: "... cos i can´t do all by myself"

Hey you, don´t be a sloth (Mojo-Petty)

I love that animal. Well, it is not true; i´m just lying again.

In fact, i´m preparing everything for coming back to work. And it´s fine. We have no stress post-traumatic or something like that, my friends. Last thursday i went to the Basque Parliament to see everybody. It was my first step. And i saw lots of people there. It was nice: politicians, journalists, friends, prima donnas (jajajajaja) and anything you can imagine. Is the Basque Country Parliament, my friends. It´s unique. Sometimes really boring, but others amazing (not too much)

Anyway. I can stand it. For sure. I can stand it. And it sounds great if you play one song. Rock and blues, of course. Tom Petty, could be the answer. He is not a sloth, that is clear, enve though Mojo is his first album in eight years. And you have his new cd...... Mojo to play wherever you are, bro´. It sounds like the best Led Zeppelin, don´t  you think so? Take a look

I should have known it. It´s Jimmy Page hidden out there??????



Hey, that band know how to do it¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

And here is and old tune. Sarkozy, listen to this. Who wants to live as a Refugee?????

Who Knows? Mavis and Jeff (Soul and Rock) do

The future is unwriten and we know it.

That is the reason why we salute new things like this. Take a look at this recent review in the New York Times about the collaboration between Jeff Tweedy (Wilko) and Mavis Staples (the soul singer)
We love them

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/arts/music/19staples.html?_r=1&ref=music

and enjoy the music too



Soul and rock, past and future. We love that way, yeaaaahhhhhhhh¡¡¡¡¡

Good morning everybody.

Breakfast in Bilbao (Supertramp not dead)

 I have just arrived from Barakaldo, a city close to Bilbao. Now is 2.10 am in the Basque Country. And again it´s really funny because i have just arrived from San Francisco (California) and here i´m having breakfast with Supertramp. Do you remember that group?
Well. we have grown up with them and they are remembering right now the release of one of their best albums: Breakfast in America.
They are touring now and the concert in Barakaldo is been really good. The virtuosity (Amaia, the Almirant and i were thinking about that double Lp in Paris) on the stage has been incredible. Every song they played is been responded with applauses, cheers, shouts, dancings, claps and whatever you can imagine. Outstanding. People is been perfect today. And it´s funny too because Chris McCandless called himself Alexander Supertramp in his adventure in Alaska. What a coincidence, guys¡¡¡¡¡¡

OF COURSE i know Roger Hogdson is not playing in Supertramp since ?????? two decades of even more (i don´t know exactly), but it doesn´t matter. The music is there, my friend. And the tunes they have played tonight are fantastic, terrific, awesome.




And here is Roger (in 1989, along) with a scream againts the american society in USA

"What would you say if they are calling you a radical, a liberal, fanatical a criminal??????"




They have been puting all that typical images about LA(you know girls, Hollywood, the star system.......) And it´s been funny. Yesterday i was in San Francisco and today having breakfast with Supertramp.
That is life, my friends, that is LIFE.

See you soon. My jet lag is not really bad so i´m goin´to sleep now. Before the concert, we´ve been in Panera having drinks with my people. Nice to meet everybody again here. That is my tribe and i enjoy with them a lot. I´m really lucky having all that incredible people with me (and me with them. of course). I´m really lucky, i can assure it.

Last day-night in San Francisco, in Sakana (Yoko´s recommendation)

A great day and night in San Francisco. The last one.

We went again to Mission, the mexican-alternative place in the city. We love that place. Not only because of the graffitis -Josu, i think you have to go there. For you is gonna be heaven, my friend-, but for its people, restaurants, music shops (ohhhhhhh my goodness, we are really and completly broke by now) and anything you can imagine.
So far, so good.
Javi and me were thinking (dreamin better to say´) about taking a job in The San Francisco Chronicle and sharing a house in Mission (in Valencia street, for example, a lovely place to live in)
In fact, we left our CV in the newspaper yesterday. Just in case, you know?

The Staff in the Chronicle said that they are thinking about us (just kidding)

In any case, Mission and the surrondings are really impressive. Josu, i think is a good place for you. I wil talk with your mother (Karmele, think too about this idea and don´t get fool)

I was trying yesterday to contact with Steve, my teacher in LSI, Do you remember that guy? I guess you do.

But it was impossible. The cell phone number i wrote before leaving LSI was wrong and i sent him two emails but probably he didn´t check his email. So we decided to go to Mission and later on to have some txikitos (wine) with Yoko, our best photographer and a good  new friend from...... Japan of course.

A friend of Yoko recommended her a japanese restaurant called Sakana (It´s funny because Sakana is a part of the Basque Country, in fact it´s in Navarra), and we had a relly good time there, after some txikitos in a nice bar close to Chinatown.

Yoko choose almost all the dishes and the dinner was great. I MEAN GREAT GREAT GREAT

Yoko and John (sorry, Aitor jajajajajaja) And all the food too.

 Well Molly is suppose to come to the SFO airport right now. Javi is in Terminal 3, i´m in Terminal 1 and we don´t know were Molly is. Molly is my afternoon class´ teacher in LSI. She is flyin today to Rome´. But yesterday she went to the beach, just to play with the animals. Look at this

Poor animal. What have you done, Molly. What a killer jajajajajaja.

How is life. Molly has just called me while i was writing this. Magic, miracles, who knows.

Mission is not the End of the road (Josu y 2)

We are in San Francisco again. And everything is here again: The Fog, the Meztgers (my home stay family in Berkeley) sometimes a little bit of sun, our friends (Molly, Yoko, Steve, Palm, Yong, Roy....), the homeless too, the tourists (horreur) and Mission. We went to Mission the other day and i was thinking again in Josu, Karmele. What a graffities¡¡¡¡¡¡

This is one of the artists.

Enjoy just a touch of them. I think is better than Beck and Palin (of course it is)

And this is my home stay family. They are flying to Turkey in a few days.

Dean and Ann, with a friend of mine from Turkey, Arzu.

This part is incredible, don´t you think so?

Here are the last two ones.We have more so i can show you in Bilbao, Josu

                                                                    Under the Sea

Well as i told you before, this is not the end. just another step.

Sun is shinnig in SF, so lest go. The luggage can wait (of course it can) And is gonna be a heavy one, i think all of you know what i mean, jajajajajajajajajajja.

This is Dolores Park (Mission), where you can find a rastafari smoking ganja and a family playing with their kids. Amazing.
I think Mission (Valencia Street and Dolores Park) is the new and real Haight Ashbury of the XXI century.


THIS IS THE LAST ONE, JOSU