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Secret Things…the lost sequel to Joe Viglione’s 1985 New Changes album
about to be unleashed on the planet
Title track is the theme to the new UPLIFT cable TV show<\/strong>
See the Secret Things \/ New Changes page http:\/\/joeviglione.com\/?page_id=869<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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6:34 pm Saturday April 4, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beloved TIGER in Wayback Machine Archive.org – photo fell off of MySpace
https:\/\/myspace.com\/joeviglione<\/a>
https:\/\/myspace.com\/jojolaine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hello friends…it is 5:15 pm on Monday, April 6th, 2020. Paul Norman has chosen my song “Secret Things” to be the theme of his new Uplift TV show. https:\/\/upliftshow.com\/uplift-theme-song<\/a> prompting me to create an entire page for the lost album of mine, Secret Things http:\/\/joeviglione.com\/?page_id=869<\/a> with a painting from Gustav Dore re: Paradise Lost. More like Paradise Found 2020 Edition! The original painting was up on MySpacee…anyone remember MySpace? https:\/\/myspace.com\/secret_things<\/a><\/em> ….. Working on my Hotline To The Underground for the Somerville\/Medford News Weekly As some of you may know, the late Patrick Mathe’ at New Rose\/Last Call Records utilized the Gustav Dore painting of Don Quixote for my New Changes album in 1985 https:\/\/paintingandframe.com\/prints\/gustave_dore_don_quixote_on_horseback-73047.html<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the Secret Things \/ New Changes page http:\/\/joeviglione.com\/?page_id=869<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/upliftshow.com\/uplift-theme-song<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marty Balin Live on the Esplanade https:\/\/www.allmovie.com\/movie\/marty-balin-live-at-the-boston-esplanade-june-14-2008-v497887\/cast-crew<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Working on lots of new documentary films…stay tuned for Live at Club Bohemia – the Documentary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These MySpace pages were once flourishing sites https:\/\/myspace.com\/martybalinmiracles<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Selfie photo April 4, 2020 about 6:30 pm or so…6:34 to be exact. How will serious art reflect this Twilight Zone film we are living in with COVID-19? The clouds were so aligned yesterday that I took a number of photos from different angles.<\/strong>

I’m impressed that our Moe Tucker release is being sold on eBay with the great Velvet Underground 12′ Foggy Notion, a song that I released before anyone else
https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/VELVET-UNDERGROUND-MOE-TUCKER-Foggy-Notion-Combo-2×12-Vinyl-UNPLAYED-LOOK\/173953825125?hash=item288074b965:g:DDsAAOSwPDlcWHEA<\/a>
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https:\/\/myspace.com\/lifeswork<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I still can’t figure MySpace out – Cat in the Dark unreleased album https:\/\/myspace.com\/cat_inthedark<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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https:\/\/myspace.com\/varulven<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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https:\/\/myspace.com\/intuitionelement<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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https:\/\/myspace.com\/varulvenmagazine<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First album Secret Little Tangents in Violet “E” Motions https:\/\/myspace.com\/i_mastar<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I took the photos of Jo Jo and Rod (4 Seasons Hotel) and David Peel and Jo Jo (Winthrop Beach) don’t know the third chap https:\/\/myspace.com\/jojolaine\/photo<\/a>s <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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All the content we uploaded years ago…vanished https:\/\/myspace.com\/sunnybobbyhebb\/photos<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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See my daily Supplemental Hotline To The Underground Commentaries after my Foreword. Thank you<\/strong>
“You hit 60 and you start penciling your memoirs”
Bill Pullman (Innocent, 2011 film I’m watching at 12;39 am April 4, 2020)
Interesting, Pullman is Judge Rusty Sabich – the same character (obviously this is a Made for TV remake) played by Harrison Ford in the 1990 Presumed Innocent. The wifey-do here is FBI agent from Law & Order SVU Star Morrison (Marcia Gay Harden, 50 Shades Darker) https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0100404\/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_41<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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FOREWORD: Welcome to the wonderful psychedelic mystical esoteric world of Joe Viglione…you’ve entered my realm …as my director says “An Encyclopedia Brittanica” or my thoughts, impressions and scribblings which all started in 1969, 51 years ago, in the pages of Varulven Magazine. The photo below is forty years later in 1999 interviewing either Suzanne Vega or Dennis Lehane. Video, audio, the Pop Explosion Radio Show (Gilbert Gottfried audio aired on April 3, 2020 on ActivateMedia.org …) It’s about FUN and Rock History and more…enjoy and you can write me JoeViglione{@}yahoo.com <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supplemental Hotline to the Underground below…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HOTLINE TO THE UNDERGROUND SUPPLEMENTAL…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Supplemental Hotline to the Underground 10:56 pm EST 4\/3\/2020 —RIP Bucky Pizzarelli April 1, 2020 from COVID-19. Fresh Air with Terry Gross has a special on the loss of another legend: https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/04\/03\/826643761\/fresh-air-remembers-jazz-guitar-great-bucky-pizzarelli<\/a> and – of course – we lost the great William C. “Buzzy” Linhart on February 13, 2020 …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the band on my first album circa 1978<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo improved by Ghil Scraw – Upper left John Hovorka, Tom Dickie, Fred Pineau, Paul Robinson, Joe Viglione …don’t think that’s Gary Soprano, maybe it’s Bob Benjamin? Photo in the Boston Rock & Roll Anthology Vol. 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’m The Light by Blue Cheer
One of my ALL TIME Favorite Songs
and a major influence on my songwriting
<\/a>https:\/\/youtu.be\/WggA9pb3zmU<\/a><\/em><\/strong>

Like Grand Funk Railroad’s “Closer To Home (I’m Your Captain)” this song is a brilliant anomaly from a group known for hard power trio rock-turned-blues. This is a spacey, early Pink Floyd-ish bending of exotic instruments to come up with a complex texture that should’ve been a huge hit for this venerable group. 6:27 PM 10-21-09

It’s one foot in the astral world
Other one in the breeze
“I’m the Light” (Houseman, Mayell) – 5:39

Nice to see my AMG review of this track popping up when you do a Google search on it:
But it is the sixth track on their sixth album that is the finest moment ever for Blue Cheer. The harp, exotic instrumentation, and Pink Floyd overtones make “I’m the Light” an extraordinary piece of music. “I’m the Light” is to Blue Cheer what “Stairway to Heaven” is to Led Zeppelin, what “Closer to Home” is to Mark Farner and Grand Funk — a moment of inspiration and production that stands the test of time and that is hard to match. This is a band famous for hard rock sounds creating a pop masterpiece of psychedelic cosmic consciousness. The song seems almost out of place on this collection, but it is truly one of those songs that demands attention and is worth seeking out. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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“Hiway Man,” which opens the sixth album by Blue Cheer, is a far cry from their version of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues,” which launched this group to worldwide fame. And though they were the original group to put their amps on “11,” Oh! Pleasant Hope is a musical album. This first track, resplendent in heavy vocal reverb, sounds like Waylon Jennings fronting Quicksilver Messenger Service. OPH quickly changes pace with “Believer”‘s interesting riff and the experimental production by Blue Cheer and Eric Albronda. Albronda assisted on the production of the self-titled fourth album, Blue Cheer, and co-produced BC#5 – The Original Human Being. It is the production that is a significant ingredient that makes this project by a legendary cult band so appealing. “Money Troubles” is written by Dr. Richard Peddicord, who contributes guitar and vocal. This track has that authentic laid-back West Coast sound, a feel much like “Truckin'” by the Grateful Dead — the album having been recorded by Coast Recorders at Mission Street, San Francisco. “Traveling Man” is like a pensive Creedence Clearwater, say John Fogerty in his “Long As I Can See the Light” fashion with a bit more brightness. The title track, “Oh! Pleasant Hope,” has a piano and drums opening into sudden guitar, the second title from Dr. Peddicord, a very precise ballad about drugs. The psychedelic denim pastiche of the album cover comes to life in this very Band-inspired rag. But it is the sixth track on their sixth album that is the finest moment ever for Blue Cheer. The harp, exotic instrumentation, and Pink Floyd overtones make “I’m the Light” an extraordinary piece of music. “I’m the Light” is to Blue Cheer what “Stairway to Heaven” is to Led Zeppelin, what “Closer to Home” is to Mark Farner and Grand Funk — a moment of inspiration and production that stands the test of time and that is hard to match. This is a band famous for hard rock sounds creating a pop masterpiece of psychedelic cosmic consciousness. The song seems almost out of place on this collection, but it is truly one of those songs that demands attention and is worth seeking out. “Lester the Arrester” is paranoia about cops, kinda sorta. It is a band that wasn’t known for its musical prowess having fun with sound and styles. “Heart Full of Soul” leans more toward “A Little Bit O’Soul” by the Music Explosion than the song of the same name by the Yardbirds. Oh! Pleasant Hope is a disc for people looking for musical ingenuity that hasn’t been beaten into the psyche via classic hits radio. It is a monumental and largely forgotten effort with a lot of depth. ~ Joe Viglione https:\/\/www.fishpond.com\/Music\/Oh-Pleasant-Hope-Blue-Cheer\/4988031194980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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