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| Welcome to Boffomundo Music Greetings and salutations from Ron Curtiss, owner and operator of Boffomundo Music. We feature a unique inventory of 50s jazz, Beatles, 60s and 70s rock, European progressive rock, 80s UK post-punk, US New Wave, classical, soundtracks and more. Links are here to Boffomundo Amazon Store for US sales and Boffomundo GEMM Store for US/International sales. Note that the GEMM site has many more items than Amazon, most of them rare vinyl, so pay them a visit! We also produced a series of cable music shows between 1979-92, seen here on YouTube. These shows featured interviews with King Crimson members: Robert Fripp (see below), John Wetton, Adrian Belew and Bill Bruford, plus Phil Collins & John Goodsall from Brand X, guitarists extraordinaire Al Di Meola, and Larry Carlton, PFM vocalist Bernardo Lanzetti, the late keyboard wizard, Fumio Miyashta and Genesis biographer and photojournalist Armando Gallo. Check out my Boffoblog below -for news, updates and perspectives on the world of progressive rock. Please click on the music link below to hear the title track from Infinity Machine from the brilliant German fusion band Passport. "Eternal Spiral" is a great example of the unique music available from Boffomundo. |
| The Revealing Conflicts of the Yes Fan Tuesday, February 14, 2012 I must admit that I wasn't overly shocked when singer Benoit David quit Yes. He fell ill (eerily similar to original singer Jon Anderson's respiratory collapse) and ultimately decided to leave. Happens all the time with Yes. New singer Jon Davison (Glass Hammer) is the 18th member of this revolving door of great musicians, who are riding high on the heels of the impressive, Fly From Here collection. What bothers me, however, is that I am now privy to internal Yes info and rumors that, in the past, would have private. The advent of social media has created millions of observers, who react (mostly in a knee-jerk way) to any and all rumors about anything and spread their "opinions" about the rumor and in the vastness of the Internet, where it takes on a life of it's own and is perceived by some, as truth. When I was kid first getting into Yes, I got my best info from England's Melody Maker magazine. While there was certainly some innuendo about internal activities (mostly from the Wakeman in-Wakeman out reporting) there was mostly a positive spin regarding the personell changes with little chance for readers to comment. If Facebook, et.al were around then, can you imagine the vitriol regarding Patrick Moraz, The Buggles and Trevor Rabin? With the early deaths of Jimi, Janis, and sad ending of the Beatles in 1970, the salacious aspects of rock bands and musicians began to rival the drivel on "movie stars" that had been a cottage magazine industry for decades. With the Internet, "opinions" that insult, debase and sometime physically challenge others viewpoints are the norm and seemingly unstoppable..and these are the fans! Instead, let's celebrate Yes, who, since 1969, has created a wholly positive musical output that has fascinated and entertained people like me for decades, and allow these men to do what needs to be done in order to maintain and promote a huge collection of brilliant, progressive music. So shut the hell up and enjoy the music. |
