Greg Diablo, Musician/Activist

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May 2012

32 posts

What A Wonderful World The eSKPees, featuring Rich Paddock

What a Wonderful World (Thiele/Weiss)

This is from a 2003 “Rise and Fight” CD EP that a band I was in at the time, the eSKPees, produced with the help of our rhythm guitarist Michael Rains’ home recording studio. Rich Paddock plays bass and vocals, Lydia-Beth Leimbach played piano, Robin Toye played drums, and Micheal sat this one out and engineered the recording.

About the band name: When the Street Karaoke Project (or SKP) broke up in 1999, we eventually reformed with a new drummer because our previous drummer didn’t want to do political content. Lydia-Beth was Rich’s girlfriend at the time, and Michael had previously played with me in the original version of Street Karaoke (when it really was on the street) in 1993-5. So we called ourselves “the eSKPees” because we still did the live karaoke as part of our ongoing “project” to bring art to the people, but we added our own content which was reflected on this CD.

Of course, this is still a cover, but we wanted to record “Wonderful World” since it had always been a feature tune for Rich in the SKP band and was quite popular locally here in Olympia. After all the first five rocking songs on the rather raucous Rise and Fight EP, this one glides in to soothe your ears, and I had a lot of fun inserting the ballad-style guitar licks against Lydia-Beth’s meditative piano.

Apr 30, 2012
#Rich Paddock #The eSKPees #Louie Armstrong covers #Satchmo #Greg Diablo #Lydia Beth Leimbach #Robin Toye #Michael Rains

April 2012

31 posts

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Apr 27, 2012
#insider Drake #World Liberation Day #transcendental meditation
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Apr 27, 2012
9/11 Debate on C-SPAN to air this Saturday 5 PM PST → booktv.org

This looks like fun TV.  Webster Tarpley, author of “9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA,”  Jonathan Kay, author of “Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground,” and David Frum, Bush-era neo-con, had a debate earlier this month about 9/11 on C-SPAN’s Book TV. 

Tarpley is razor-sharp on history and geopolitics (although I don’t esteem FDR as highly as he does), and his weekly “World Crisis Radio” podcast is one of two or three I rarely miss.  I’m sure that even though he is outnumbered in this debate (as usual when it comes to a touchy subject like 9/11), he probably buried these two stuffed shirts in the dust. 

Apr 27, 2012
#Webster Tarpley #David Frum #Jonathan Kay #C-SPAN
Drones over Seattle soon; thanks, Obomber! → today.seattletimes.com

From the Seattle Times. 

For all you so-called “progressives” circling the wagons around Obomber to avoid Romney, you might want to consider that if you don’t have the right to say “no” to this unprecedented surveillance, then you are a SLAVE. 

What’s the solution, you ask?  STOP VOTING.

                                     

UPDATE: If you live in the D.C. area, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is having an International Drone Summit this Saturday that you might wish to attend.

Apr 25, 2012
#Obomber drone #Seattle Police Department #Homeland Security fascism #total information awareness #Mitt Romney
Honeycomb (B. Merrill) featuring Jim Eagan Greg Diablo

Honeycomb (B. Merrill) My buddy Jim Eagan of Dream Kitchen was jamming with me on his bongoes in June of 1997, and we did this little recording on a lark. A lot of the recordings I did from 1996-8 were basically singing exercises as I was consciously trying to expand the range of my voice into other genres and styles.

This was a ton of fun to do because of the modulations and the back up vocals, musical elements I hadn’t experimented with too much in the fashion I employed here. I tend to view music in general as a big box of Lego blocks that I get to play with in a variety of ways that is ever-expanding and limitless, and “Honeycomb” was a great vehicle for this type of “just for the hell of it” arranging. Jim’s little solo fill near the end says it all.

Apr 23, 2012
#Jim Eagan #Greg Diablo #Jimmie Rodgers covers #Dream Kitchen
If the trad media calls you "fascist" or "far right," you're probably anti-bankster → france24.com

I pulled this article from “France 24” off of Drudge in my vain attempt to see the results of the French election yesterday (the top story had to do with Mitt and Marco Rubio; the way Drudge pushes election sideshow bullshit has to do with who his sources are — Rethuglican D.C. denizens or Secret Service goons).  It’s a fascinating look, for you, my dear readers who are skilled in reading between the lines, at how freaked out the traditional media sources are that Marine Le Pen received 18% of the vote.

                                   

The reason for this is simple.  Le Pen is anti-globalist and anti-bankster; hence, anti-NWO.   Conversely, Sarkozy was a media darling because he learned how to suck up to Obama, engage in false flag nonsense like the recent Mohammed Merah “terrorist” attack and engineer the cowardly act of taking out Mr. Strauss-Kahn with a phony rape charge, who was beating Sarko in the polls last year.

Once you learn how to disengage from the rhetoric and labels that our corporatized media likes to hypnotize you with, and insert a modicum of THINKING between the stimulus and the response, you will have achieved that rarest of qualities: discernment.

Apr 23, 2012
#Marine Le Pen #French politics #Dominique Strauss-Kahn #Sarkozy #Media whores #NWO disinfo
Gordon Duff's weekly blast of intel to singe your eyeballs → veteranstoday.com

Gordon Duff of Veteran’s Today is seriously going rogue these past few weeks.  He goes into topics and subjects that most editors will not touch, and he does not shrink from calling out Israel for their usurpation of our House of Representatives (among other power centers).  As things get crazier and crazier with the election sideshow cranking out the usual freaks and geeks, I look forward to his Sunday columns even more.

This week’s offering is especially juicy, and covers everything from N. Korea UFOs, suppressed energy technologies, and a covert Israeli assassination attempt on Obomber in Columbia.  And that’s just the tip of a very monstrous iceberg.

If you’re not hip to Mr. Duff, bookmark Veteran’s Today and keep your eyes peeled for his Sunday intel wrap-ups.  A very fun read…. guaranteed.

Apr 23, 2012
#Gordon Duff #Veteran's Today
SCOTUS rules that USG can strip search its citizenry → guardian.co.uk

Room 101 is calling you….   and it’s plaintive, yearning cry is getting louder…

From the Guardian article by Naomi Wolf: “With that Big Brother eye in place, working alongside these strip-search laws, – between the all-seeing data-mining technology and the terrifying police powers to sexually abuse and humiliate you at will – no one will need a formal coup to have a cowed and compliant citizenry. If you say anything controversial online or on the phone, will you face arrest and sexual humiliation?”

                              

                   

Apr 20, 2012
#Naomi Wolf #USSA #Gulag America #Police state tyranny #psy-war conditioning
“If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.” —Levon Helm    

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#Levon Helm
Levon Helm, drummer/singer of The Band, dead at 71 → rollingstone.com

Well, I’m glad for one thing.  Now Dick Clark’s death won’t get much attention. 

                                

Apr 20, 20121 note
#Levon Helm #The Band
Watermelon Man (H. Hancock) featuring Mark Doubleday Greg Diablo

Watermelon Man (H. Hancock)  This is a cool, laid back recording of the perennial Herbie Hancock soul jazz classic recorded with trumpeter Mark Doubleday in January of 2001. I arranged the drum/bass track on a Zoom Rhythmtrak 234, and apparently Mark dug the groove as he took four choruses for his solo.

Apr 16, 2012
#Herbie Hancock covers Mark Doubleday Greg Diablo home recordings
$16 mil to get W and Obama? Bounty hunters, take note! → tribune.com.pk

I love this idea. But why just focus on Bush and Obomber?

Here’s how to take it to the next level.  Let’s have bounties on all the NWO types (Bernanke, Paulson, Dimon, Clintons, Kissinger, Rockerfeller, Warburg, Rothschild, et. al.) and hold a “Hunger Games” of our own.  They love soft killing us with chemtrails, radiation, fluoride, and GMO food, so let’s let them do what they do best and kill each other off. 

The sole survivor will get to live in exile rather than be executed on the guillotine.  Sell the show on Pay-Per-View, and use the money for cleaning up the mess they left with their unhampered greed and psychopathy.

Apr 16, 2012
#George W. Bush #Obomber #NWO #soft kill eugenics
The Secret Service "spurned whore in Columbia" fable is nonsense → veteranstoday.com

Gordon Duff of Veteran’s Today nails it again.  With unerring logic, he illustrates how the “spurned whore” who wasn’t paid by the Secret Service story just doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.  Even more eyebrow-raising is that Duff thinks that the president may have dodged a bullet or two.

This revelation leads to a confession: I’m ashamed to admit I’d bought this line of bull, and even chuckled about it with a friend.  But suffice to say I was so blinded by my antipathy towards Obama, that I wanted to believe this ridiculous cover story because I had an emotional investment in seeing the “president” look ridiculous.

But it’s a good lesson for all of us not to buy into anything we hear on on Drudge.  If anyone is emotionally invested in impugning Obama, it’s him.  As I’ve said before, Obama works for the banksters just like all of us, the only difference being he gets a lot more taxpayer-funded perks out of his subservience, while we get to pay those taxes.

Apr 16, 2012
#Gordon Duff #Veteran's Today #Columbia whores/Secret Service scandal
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Apr 15, 2012
#EFT #Gary Craig #EFTwizard
Apr 15, 2012
Guerrilla Concert a HUGE success!!

Hi, Greg Diablo here everyone, and I just wanted to tell you what a fantastic night I had playing in downtown Olympia yesterday (Saturday, April 14).  After performing my usual 2 PM concert on Friday down at the Kissing Statue on Percival Landing, I was itching to try a nighttime gig. 

Well, the following Saturday it was finally warm enough after the sun went down to give it a go, so I packed up the gear at about 6 PM, and drove around looking for a place to jam.  I found an empty enclosure by the Oly Bikes store off of State Street, and since it and adjoining Mail Box place were both closed for the day, it looked perfect.  Not only did I have a parking spot on site, but there was an instant audience hanging out at the Intercity Transit Bus Station across the street, and the enclosure protected me from the weather and had some nice reverb, too.

I couldn’t possibly relate to you all the good vibes that went down (so much so that I didn’t quit playing until about 10:30 PM), but suffice to say that (a) for the first time, I actually got some singers to come up to the mic and jam with me, (b) a drummer named Tony set up and I got to play a couple of my original tunes “Out in Style,” and “More Perfect World,” and (c) I may now have a regular base of operations for Saturday night, as the Oly Police didn’t seem bothered by my rocking out in the slightest.

I’m calling this my first “guerrilla concert” as this is the first time I actually had a fairly steady audience for the entire time I was playing.  Rocking out and interacting with the singers brought back a lot of good memories from my Street Karaoke Project days, and I realized that these younger folks don’t even know what that band was about.

So I can’t say for sure about any other Saturdays, but I am definitely planning to be there on the 28th for ArtsWalk.  I hope to see Michelle, Tony, Gary, and all the rest up there at the mic, and I may even have a special guest or two to join me.

Apr 15, 2012
#GregDiablo #Street Karaoke Project #guerrilla concert series #ArtsWalk #original music
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Earthquakes in the Pacific Rim's "Ring of Fire" → washingtonsblog.com

Wondering if WA state is due for one of these babies.  Portland, OR had a 5.9 recently.

I’m not particularly into astrology, but it’s worth noting that Pluto is in retrograde for the first time since the American Revolution.  Perhaps the District of Corruption is due for an earthquake of a more metaphorical kind.

Speaking of which, this website fully supports Sean Stone’s and infowars.com’s Impeach Obama 2012 campaign.  

Apr 12, 2012
#Earthquakes 2012 #Pacific Rim #Ring of Fire #Impeach Obama 2012 #Sean Stone #infowars.com
Afro Blue (M. Santamaria) Greg Diablo

Afro Blue (M. Santamaria) This is an original arrangement of the Mongo classic I did when I was first discovering jazz and doing a lot of woodshedding in 2001, and jamming with Mark Doubleday, former trumpeter for The Electric Flag. The solo section with two guitars was done pretty intuitively, and it tends to sound to most people like two people playing live simultaneously. However, I can assure you, this is all me.

I was experimenting a bit with quartal harmony so this version has a tonally ambiguous quality about it which I like. The drum/bass track was created with a Zoom Rhythmtrak 234, and the guitar is an Aria ES-335 copy, the same one I used on a video on my youtube channel called “The Evergreen State College Administrative Leave Blues” (although I didn’t have the same pickups at that time as the Aria does in that video.)

Apr 12, 20122 notes
#Mongo Santamaria #Greg Diablo #original arrangments #The Electric Flag #Mark Doubleday #music
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