tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680781505960561597.post4573854956858718436..comments2024-02-26T01:10:11.332+01:00Comments on GHETTORAGA The Third Ear Band's Official Archive : "Alchemy": an esoteric record for initiates.Luca Chino Ferrarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12158997249765211455noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680781505960561597.post-47511530985196607032012-02-21T17:13:36.743+01:002012-02-21T17:13:36.743+01:00Thanks Sedayne for your very stimulating contribut...Thanks Sedayne for your very stimulating contribution to my hazard. I think Glen was a Shaman trickster, yes, sometimes he used to joke with magic, tarots, insights... Very impressive for some people, but finally he was a smart, sensitive & intuitive person with a very good level of esoteric culture... I think he was an extraordinary manipulator & assembler of suggestions that produced works of art, intellectually beyond their time. Anyway, as you say, TEB hadn't an intellectual profile, it was a very instintive project... at least it was born in that way. I'm agreed with your statements about the last New Age slant of TEB, in some ways so controversial... at least for five or six of us, of course!Luca Chino Ferrarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12158997249765211455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680781505960561597.post-65092454667962494612012-02-20T21:40:11.742+01:002012-02-20T21:40:11.742+01:00A couple of things as they occur to me...
Stone C...A couple of things as they occur to me...<br /><br />Stone Circles predate Druidism, belonging to a much earlier prehistoric culture about which very little is known. The prehistoric landscapes of Britain were shaped by these people, from more famous places like the Avebury complex and Stonehenge to the awesome henges at Thornborough which (like the Pyramids at Giza) mirror the stars of Orion's Belt. The association with Druidism is as romantic as Druidism itself and certainly figures in the Third Ear mythos and Glen's world-view we catch glimpses of in his lyrics & elsewhere. <br /><br />I still maintain Glen was an intuitive Shaman, like Sun Ra; both are essentially visionary tricksters. As Sun Ra said: "You have to the trust the people with intuition now - you see, they don't know what they're doing. The ones who do know what they're doing haven't proved anything!" I think that's as true of Glen as it is of Sun Ra.<br /><br />The other thing is about Dragon Lines. The remarkable thing here is that such lines are marked by hills topped off with churches dedicated (generally) to Saint Michael, a dragon killing saint. I've heard of others, but the principle line is John Michel's Saint Michael's Line that courses southern England from Saint Michael's Mount through Glastonbury Tor.<br /><br />Sadly, the 'reality' of such things becomes rather urgent dogma in the context of the 'New Age', making it difficult to get a more balanced overview of their cultural & socio-political significance, much less the emergent 'folklore'. Like many other aspects of 'New Age' thought they don't really hold up to close an analysis - fair enough the Saint Michaels line, but next we're off with geometrical links to the Great Pyramid. Perhaps Michel is a similar trickster, but here again Glen is referencing something which is largely intuitive, especially with the increasingly New Age slant of the later albums with their references to Pyramids, Dolphins and (yes!) even Sun Ra himself.<br /><br />Third Ear Band - music for the Druidic Trickster Shaman in us all - or at least five or six of us anyway.Sedaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05983357814875879194noreply@blogger.com