BEAT SCENE Magazine (England) has published an interview with Jason Eisenberg (the hip gyro behind the Lord Buckley Reincarnation Project) on the subject of Lord Buckley in its current issue (#37). It's a large-format publication with feature articles, reviews, news, photographs of the original beat culture in the U.S., Europe and worldwide, their antecedents and inheritors. Articles cover literature, music, film, performing arts, the legendary, the unknown, and the up-and-coming. It's considered by some to be "the world's best beat publication". To spread the word about the magazine and The Lord Buckley Reincarnation Project, copies of forthcoming BEAT SCENE #37 are available for purchase. If you would like one, send a check for $10. plus $2 postage per issue (multiple copies, $3 postage) payable to:

Jason Eisenberg,
P.O. Box 142
Groton, MA 01450 U.S.A.
You'll receive your copy in two weeks.

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Dig this crazy, sweet, swingin' sample [not an active link]

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You cats and kitties with finely tuned lobes are in for a treat. today. The very gone wordsmith and Buckley inspired performer Mikhail Horowitz has flipped a new disc on the sphere. The CD is titled The Blues of the Birth. The first cut, Swingin' Cicadas, features a beautiful tribute to His Lordship's verbal style and sensibilities. Other compositions are, The Blues of the Birth, Litany of the Dead, Art, Bird Lives, Death, Subway, CIA and Apocalypse Wow.

You can find The Blues of the Birth at Sundazed Records

Toll Free Order Line 1 - 800 - 295 - 8079

For more information call 518 - 731 - 6262

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Check out Mikhail in action at the 90th Buckley Birthday Bash [not an active link]

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Your Grace will be pleased, flipped and grooved by one of the latest edition to The Royal Gallery at LBC. Prince Richard Cottrell took his pen, scratched his wig a little bit and came up with a sweet and hip image of His Lordship. Give your peepers a treat and swing by The Royal Gallery section.

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A new addition awaits Thy peepers in The Royal Gallery section of LBC. Actor, Buckley interpretor and sly computer image transfliperator Richard Corey has come up with a magnificent torch and allusionary album cover to His Lordship's numerous expeditions to Crocodile City. Please tune your attenae to the large charge.

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Jason Eisenberg's LORD BUCKLEY REINCARNATION ENSEMBLE (or parts thereof) jumps the pond to swingin' Londontown for the LONDON INTERNATIONAL POETRY & SONG FESTIVAL - A BEAT WEEKEND, Oct 26-28, 2001. Spoken Word, music, comedy, poetry, philosophy, impeccable morals and debauchery of the highest order. Including a cast of freewheeling subversives from the U.S., England, Iceland and Europe who will attempt to leviatate the planet closer to Cloud 9. Featuring David Amram, Carolyn Cassady, and a small army of pretenders to the Throne of Glory. Produced by Richard Deakin.

Schedule of events:

Friday 26 October @ 7 pm LIPS' CABARET PARTY and PRESS LAUNCH, TRAFALGAR HOTEL, Trafalgar Sq, London W1

Saturday 27 October @ 7pm LIPS' REBEL NIGHT
Hackney Empire's BULLION ROOM Theatre 117 Wilton Way London E8 Box Office: 020 8985 2424

Sunday 28 Oct @ 2pm LIPS' BEAT AFTERNOON
Hackney Empire's BULLION ROOM Theatre 117 Wilton Way, London E8

Sunday 28 Oct @ 7pm LIPS' BEAT NIGHT
OCEAN, 270 Mare St, Hackney E8 Box Office: 020 7314 2800

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Lost in the swirling madness of the recent assaults on humanity and architecture in Gotham was the quintuple sad drag news of the death on August 17th of Dr. Oscar Janiger. Dr. Janiger, the Great Oz or the Head Head, as his Lordship titled him, was a long time friend of Lord Buckley's and the man who pioneered the American research of a very new (at that time) drug called LSD. Dr. Janiger piped His Lordship on board the good ship Lovely Soul Detonator and has been quoted as saying, "Well, Buckley plus acid was some form of special configuration, I can tell you right now."

Oz, as his friends called him, had been in rather delicate condition indeed the last few years and recently lost his beloved wife Kathy, but was still full of ideas and had been planning a lively memorial service for Lord Buckley along the same lines as the one he produced for his first cousin Allen Ginsberg. Tap the link below for journalist Doug Cruickshank's interview with Dr. Janiger. And may the Great Oz Head be at peace, for his name still swings lovingly on many earth bound lips.

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Cats and Kitties, let me hip you to a recent action movement. His Lordship's Hip Records 45 rpm single "The Gettysburg Address", a very sweet, swirled bit of crimsom vinyl patriotism, went shooting skyward in a recently concluded ebay auction. The winner of the ebay auction laid out $269.68 clams for something that originally cost fifty cents. Man, that's some kind of inflation elation!

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My beloved Cats and Kitties the Main Day Swingin' Prankster, the Cat In The Hat Who Knew Where It's At, The Stud Who Wrestled Words Into Way-On-Out-There Surrender has swooped the scene. Ken Kesey, masterful author, theatre provocateur, Avatar of True Hipness, Navigator and Keeper of the Keys of the bus that went Further, died November 10, 2001 following surgery for liver cancer. He was 66.

Ken Kesey was a keen fan of Lord Buckley reportedly once saying "Lord Buckley is a secret thing passed under the table."

As an undergraduate at Stanford University, Kesey knew Buckley material well enough to recite pieces by heart. He also produced a wild version of Buckley Nero, calling it "Status Quo Vatus". It included a sports car as the chariot. It was ejected for a school theatre competition based on complaints that Kesey's approach was sacriligious.

His dear friend and fellow prankster Ken Babbs wrote:

Kesey and His Lordship sprinkled love on all they encountered. Blessed be the hipsters where ever they wander !

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M’Lords and M’Ladies, we lay a sad riff, in a very minor key, on the music stand in front of Thee. George Harrison, the cat who shinied brightly even in the huge shadow of the monster chart gasser Lennon-McCartney, has swooped the sphere.

Lord Buckley was Harrison’s favorite comic. He based his song “Crackerbox Palace” on a conversation he had with Buckley’s manager George Grief about one of His Lordship’s threadbare, but regal, pads.

Harrison stomped through the ‘60s flipping us upside down more than once with his guitar and voice (and who ever would have dug HRH Ravi Shankar if not for swingin’ George Harrison?) He wailed through the ‘70s, recording a mountain of original songs, bringing the plight of the poor cats and kitties in Bangladesh to the spotlight section of our ignorant wigs and producing the films Time Bandits and Life of Brian. In 1989 he was part of the Traveling Wilbury's, a group which included Bob Dylan, Roy Orbision, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynn. And through the swirl of his life, and the yoke of fame, the shy musician found solice and peace in the great rosy rockin' chair panorama of Krishna. He survived throat cancer in 1998, a wig freak attack in 1999 and looked set to swing into the key of rockin' granddaddy until fate took it's cut at 1:30 PM Pacific time on Thursday, November 29, 2001.

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You cats and kitties don't need to tune in to the X-Files to dig a little saucer action. A recently concluded ebay auction found the pine top high flip bidding make it above two Jumpin' Benny Franklin's and one Swingin' Al Hamilton. The auction item was the rare 1956 Buckley single "Flight of the Saucer" (Hip Records, # HI-270-1/270-2) This collaboration with composer and orchestra director Lyle Griffith featured Griffith as a news reporter, His Lordship doing his best Martian dialect, and a wild space age jazz band blowing the roof off the top of the sphere. The final price: $220.16.

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