(Yesterday would have been his 70th birthday. Via Lew Rockwell.)

(I always thought they said “I Get High” not “I Can’t Hide”…)

This Fab Faux recording of most of side two of ‘Abbey Road’ is a live, in-the-studio performance for a two-camera video shoot. It was originally recorded for The Howard Stern Show and only the audio has been broadcast – until now. Howard and company were kind enough to let us video tape the session.

In the end, there were only three minor guitar fixes and each section was recorded in no more than three takes (most were two).
There are NO added overdubs within this performance.
The audio is pure – and mixed by Joe Chinnici.

Thanks to video director/editor Robert Noonan and assistant videographer, Luke Noonan.

Special thanks to Carl, Frank, Jeremy and Barre – our incredible crew.

Thanks to all at Sirius Radio and especially Howard Stern.

“One thing that bothered me the most when I joined the Black Caucus a few years ago was that they kept harping on yesterday. Me, the youngest at the time, just wanted to do something productive and recruit.”

(HINT: To watch the video at a larger size or a full screen, click “Google Video”->”Go to Google Video”)

“And by the way, where’s your fancy stuff?”

Project MK-ULTRA, or MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. The program began in the early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, and it used United States citizens as its test subjects. The published evidence indicates that Project MK-ULTRA involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methods, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function.

An outgrowth of that project is unofficially referred to as “Project Monarch”. It is a mind control technique which exposes the subject to a trauma so violent that his/her mind creates a dissociation. The victim’s brain becomes compartmentalized and a new personality, which is then molded and educated by the manipulators, emerges.

During their reeducation, subjects are said to be exposed to numerous symbols such as trees, spider webs, masks, mazes, butterflies, etc. They are also shown movies which contain specific symbols (or “triggers”) such as The Wizard of Oz and many Disney Movies. The same way those subjects are brainwashed and reeducated, mass media conducts a large scale mind control project, which starts at birth with Disney movies and continues with Hollywood flicks and music videos.

“Lady Gaga, The Illuminati Puppet” is from last August but still gets lots of comments, many of which are interesting. I like this comment by Charles Deckert:

Ah, I see now! They’re putting out “role models” for us all, aren’t they? I see now why the music sucks; the point lies in body language and neurolinguistics, which for today’s youth and even their immediate predecessors is easy to hide under a bunch of mindless noise (wrapped up with its own programming of course). The downgrading and desecration of art on all levels can be seen as a means of turning the clarity of the collective consciousness into mere noise and blur. Cinema has gone to shit, music has gone to shit, even literature has made the contents of Dom DeLuise’s septic tank much more interesting and educational. For this, I propose that those of us who’re artists in any field make it a point to put out what we do from the deepest levels of our brains and our hearts and to avoid getting sucked into the machine from which artists like Lady Gaga and Rihanna (and many others!) have been produced and payrolled to pollute our understanding and our tastes.

In the past I have pointed out my theory for the consistent, obvious mocking of moral absolutism found in the media – that a lack of spirituality leads to a hole which can be “filled” by unquenchable purchases of advertised consumer products, rather than dedicating your life to a higher power of some kind, spread through acts of selfless charity.
The commenter raises a good point – this may be part of a longer-term effort to instill moral relativism permanently to make way for consistent profits. (I always blamed crappy music on the RIAA’s legal-payola-by-proxy and anti-piracy settlements being more profitable than sales.)

They say I got brains, but they ain’t doing me no good,
I wish they could
Each time things start to happen again I think
I got something good goin’ for myself
But what goes wrong?
Sometimes I feel very sad
Sometimes I feel very sad
Can’t find nothin’ I can put my heart and soul into
Sometimes I feel very sad
Can’t find nothin’ I can put my heart and soul into
I guess I just wasn’t made for these times

Every time I get the inspiration to go change things around,
No one wants to help me look for places where new things might be found,
Where can I turn when my fair weather friends cop out?
What’s it all about?
Each time things start to happen again
I think I got something good goin’ for myself
But what goes wrong?
Sometimes I feel very sad
Sometimes I feel very sad
Can’t find nothin’ I can put my heart and soul into
Sometimes I feel very sad
Can’t find nothin’ I can put my heart and soul into
I guess I just wasn’t made for these times
(I guess I just wasn’t made for these times)
I guess I just wasn’t made for these times
(I guess I just wasn’t made for these times)
I guess I just wasn’t made for these times
(I guess I just wasn’t made for these times)

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Jerry Springer had a country album in 1995 – it’s where the song “There’s Oprah, Phil, and Sally…” played on the show (it’s called “Dr. Talk“) came from:

Also on the record is “Mr. Tambourine Man“, where he unsuccessfully tries to make his voice sound like the singer from The Byrds:

“Embedding disabled by request”, so click here to watch. It’s amazing!

Here’s an awesome techno video made just before his death.

From YouTube:

Also from Lew Rockwell:

Some, like the Baby Cage and the Dog Restrainer, were just tasteless. Others, like the Goodyear Illuminated Tires and the Flying Platform, I thought were pretty cool. The Finnish Portable Sauna looks like a predecessor to the modern Snuggie. A predecessor to Kanye West’s Sunglasses is also included. The Scientology E-meter and various tools for cigarettes are also on the list.

Click here for the full photo gallery.