Jornal da EPTV 1ª Edição - Campinas/Piracicaba
Assista ao vídeo “Cura pelas mãos”, sobre o trabalho do Centro de Estudos da Consciência (CEC) em SP (9m32s), exibido em 31 de dezembro de 2021. Faz parte de uma série especial da EPTV — afiliada à TV Globo —, que também explica sobre a pratica do Reiki, que é reconhecido pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS).
Matéria completa em vídeo: https://globoplay.globo.com/v/10174217/
Site do CEC: https://centrodeestudos.org/
Este livro foi meu presente de Natal para mim mesmo ontem — sempre me fascinou essa história do Unabomber, mesmo sempre execrando seus métodos.
https://www.amazon.com.br/Capturing-Unabomber-English-Jim-Freeman-ebook/dp/B094295CDK
Capturing The Unabomber (English Edition)
by Jim Freeman, Terry D. Turchie, and Donald Max Noel
The inside story of the FBI's final two-year search for the Unabomber. After two decades, frustrating search for the individual file named Unabom, the FBI turned to a new Special Agent In Charge to run the case. He brought in an FBI agent known for his successful work in counter-intelligence. The two joined with the FBI street agent previously assigned to the case. This is the fascinating story of the three FBI agents who led the chase and succeeded in less than two years, in capturing the serial killer the newspapers called the Unabomber.
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Informações adicionais
Procurei feito doido e não encontrei online o manual em português da caixinha de som Bluetooth ORBI (Orbi Wireless Speaker - modelo BT05S), comercializada em 2014. Como eu tenho o produto, escaneei o manual e salvei num PDF, para ajudar quem doravante procurar:
Hostnet é o provedor de hospedagem de sites com o melhor atendimento, tendo conquistado o selo de qualidade RA1000, do Reclame Aqui, há vários anos consecutivos
Saiba mais:
Este eu recomendo porque conheço, uso há décadas, confio e boto a mão no fogo por ele!
O maior ferromodelo do mundo, chamado Miniatur Wunderland, fica em Hamburgo, na Alemanha. Ele abrange maquetes em escala 1:87 de vários locais pitorescos do planeta. Para não perder a tradição, eles continuam ampliando o local e agora o complexo tem também o Rio de Janeiro, incluindo a miniatura do metrô do Rio, o Corcovado, o Pão de Açúcar, o Sambódromo, a praia de Copacabana e Santa Tereza, incluindo a Escadaria Selarón. A miniatura do Rio, desenvolvida em módulos, foi construída em Buenos Aires e transportada de navio até Hamburgo. É algo impressionante, tamanho o realismo aplicado.
Este é o vídeo que dá a visão geral do projeto. Clique na engrenagem para ativar as legendas em português:
Estes dois outros vídeos são o making-of da finalização do módulo do Rio de Janeiro, sem legendas em português. Mas, independentemente de ser falado em alemão, as imagens são incríveis:
Parte 1: https://youtu.be/_QW3rPsY3hA
Parte 2: https://youtu.be/l6bP9dBEApY
A vídeo-playlist completa “How to build South America” (Como construir a América do Sul), com 11 vídeos, dos quais três são os supracitados, está em https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBXUux9I_ktrpwbI3zi4FfXJTewLXsEKi.
O portal oficial do Miniatur Wunderland é https://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/ e a tradução automática da página referente ao Rio está em: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=pt-BR&u=https://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/news/rio-de-janeiro-ist-eroeffnet/
Para saber mais detalhes, aqui vai o correspondente verbete da Wikipédia em alemão com tradução automática para nossa língua: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=pt-BR&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniatur_Wunderland
Obrigado ao amigo Mihail Lermontov por este belo presente.
Olha que “interessante” e oportuna a novidade do YouTube. A partir de 10 de novembro de 2021, o YouTube tornou privado o número dos "Não Gostei". Os criadores continuam a poder visualizar o tal número no YouTube Studio. Mas só aparece publicamente no vídeo o contador dos "Gostei".
A novidade foi apresentada neste comunicado oficial: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9072033
Um vídeo oficial do YouTube explica a novidade: https://youtu.be/kxOuG8jMIgI. Ele é falado em inglês, mas tem legendas em português, basta clicar na engrenagem e selecionar o idioma.
Eu confesso. Até que curtia ver o número dos "Não Gostei"...
Encontrei não me lembro onde um vídeo mostrando um dos maiores depósitos de lixo do mundo. A montanha de detritos é imensa, o vídeo é impressionante:
O vídeo é filmado a partir de um automóvel trafegando na estradinha que contorna o morro de resíduos sólidos. Aos 16 segundos da filmagem, em uma curva, aparece uma guarita branca, num dos acessos à área interna.
O desafio de hoje é descobrir em que local exato se situa esta guarita que aparece no vídeo, fornecendo:
(a) As coordenadas geográficas da guarita
(b) O link para o Google Street View mostrando a dita guarita
E, se topar esclarecer para os outros que não conseguirem responder, descreva os passos que deu até chegar à resposta. Responda aqui nos comentários ou então envie sua resposta para carlosalbertoteixeira@pobox.com.
Em suas investigações vale tudo — usar Google (e seu valioso tradutor), Wikipédia, YouTube, Reddit, LiveLeak, Google News, Barsa, Britannica... o que quiser.
Abraços e boa sorte.
Deliciosa caminhada pela Praia de Copacabana em 4K em plena pandemia, em 2020-09-06. Bem na beirinha. Ponha os fones e aumente o áudio.
Bom dia, pessoal. Por favor, ajudem na divulgação desse projeto que acaba de nascer em Campinas (SP) mas que tem como meta atrair estudantes de todo o país, oferecendo condições para que se dediquem de forma integral.
ILUM, Escola de Ciência. Um curso de nível superior integral e gratuito que está com inscrições abertas (também gratuitas).
O curso é de Bacharelado em Ciência e Tecnologia e obteve nota máxima do Inep nas avaliações de projeto pedagógico, infraestrutura e qualificação do corpo docente. A meta é que, pelo menos, metade das vagas sejam destinadas a alunos do ensino público de todas as regiões do Brasil. O desafio é fazer com que meninos e meninas que gostam de Ciência acreditem que seja possível passar pelo processo seletivo, que inclui nota do ENEM e entrevista individual.
Os aprovados recebem moradia, alimentação e transporte gratuitos, além de um computador para uso pessoal durante o curso, que tem duração de 3 anos.
O projeto pedagógico é bem inovador, com forte base prática e teórica em Química, Física, Biologia, Matemática, Ciência de Dados e Humanidades. E ainda imersão em projetos de pesquisa nos laboratórios de ponta do Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM), onde está o acelerador de partículas Sirius, a maior e mais complexa infraestrutura científica projetada no Brasil.
As inscrições para a primeira turma já estão abertas. Professores, filhos, sobrinhos, netos e interessados por Ciência, não percam essa oportunidade!
A página oficial é:
Visite também as redes sociais do projeto:
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O Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais, Organização Social vinculada ao Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (MCTI), traz à luz sua mais nova iniciativa: A Ilum Escola de Ciência. Sem fins lucrativos e com financiamento do Ministério da Educação (MEC), a Ilum é uma escola de graduação criada para formar profissionais aptos a atuar em áreas que exigem sólida base científica e tecnológica.
O plano pedagógico da Ilum baseia-se em um ensino de ciência aprofundado e inovador, fundamentado em metodologias ativas de ensino, aliadas a professores experientes e dedicados e a uma infraestrutura diferenciada. O seu objetivo é que os alunos se tornem profissionais engajados em problemas interdisciplinares, com formação sólida em linguagens matemáticas e computação e conhecimento em ciências da vida e da matéria, humanidades e empreendedorismo, que possam ser aplicados a diversos temas da atualidade.
A Ilum oferecerá um único curso de bacharelado em ciência, tecnologia e inovação em período integral, com duração de três anos, com imersão gradativa no ambiente de pesquisa e de inovação
Se você também gosta de imagens antigas — Guanabara, Niterói e Estado do Rio —, então vai adorar esses três tesouros. Muita foto linda!
1. Álbum da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro - Centenário da Independência do Brasil (1922): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BElpALhUSweSuXzPu4Apjr8ph85-gojF/view?usp=sharing
2. Festas Nacionaes (1894): https://drive.google.com/file/d/17---dwY1-ehriQ7bAG3xccSkzAG19Fl_/view?usp=sharing
3. Centenário da Independência do Brasil - Álbum do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1922): http://docvirt.com/docreader.net/DocReader.aspx?bib=bib_redarte&pagfis=4871
Obrigado ao amigo Eliezer Magliano.
Na imagem, a inauguração da estátua do General Osório na Praça XV, Centro do Rio.
Ele passa na Apple TV+. Veja o trailer: https://youtu.be/lwb7tdvQP0o
Site oficial: https://www.apple.com/br/tv-pr/originals/ted-lasso/
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10986410/
Wikipédia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Lasso
PS: A indicação foi feita no ótimo vídeo “Dr. Jordan B Peterson Talks State Of Modern Men & Women, Motivation For Life, Leaving A Legacy”, aos 58m18s: https://youtu.be/W6yvJCRC7R8?t=58m18s
Explore entrevistas com o ator britânico Michael Enright, seus apoiadores e seus detratores com o próprio vídeo da câmera GoPro do capacete do ator de batalhas mortais ao lado de combatentes curdos e interrogatórios de combatentes do ISIS.
Quando um ator britânico abandona sua carreira em Hollywood para se voluntariar para lutar contra o ISIS (Estado Islâmico) na Síria, muitos o veem como um herói altruísta lutando contra o inimigo mais insidioso da América. Mas outros pensam que ele é um narcisista de temperamento explosivo, encenando um golpe publicitário para promover sua carreira - e quando seu serviço termina, nem o Reino Unido nem os EUA o recebem de volta. Por meio de entrevistas incisivas com o ator, seus apoiadores, seus detratores e especialistas de alto nível - e apresentando o próprio vídeo da câmera do capacete de cair o queixo do próprio ator de batalhas mortais e interrogatórios de combatentes do ISIS - «Heval» dá aos telespectadores acesso sem precedentes a uma guerra contra o mal e o papel controverso de um homem nele.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13533406/
É na Curiosity Stream, que custa US$ 2,99 por mês. Se quiser apenas assistir ao filme, pague o primeiro mês, assista e depois cancele a assinatura. Ou, se gostar do acervo do site, que me pareceu ótimo, assine pela oferta anual com desconto, US$ 14,99. Foi o que fiz. E estou maravilhado.
#curiositystream
Esta é bobinha, mas só descobri agora, por pura sorte. Então resolvi repassar pra você.
Abra um arquivo com o Bloco de Notas do Windows. Escreva na primeira linha, simplesmente:
.LOG
Salve e feche o Bloco de Notas.
Nas próximas vezes em que você abrir o arquivo, ele automaticamente adicionará na última linha a hora e a data correntes. Bastante prático para manter um diário.
Você usa iOS (Apple) e precisa de um app para fazer anotações que tenham uma marcação de tempo a cada tópico?
Pois achei um bem bonzinho:
“Timestamp - logbook notes” — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timestamp-logbook-notes/id1449992940
É projetado para iPad, mas estou usando no iPhone sem problemas. Pareado com um tecladinho Bluetooth da Logitech fica ainda melhor. É perfeito para acompanhar eventos ou transmissões.
Ah, é gratuito.
Obrigado ao autor, Szymon Nowicki!
Ah, e se quiser converter a saída exportada JSON para o Google Planilha, visite: https://bit.ly/json-to-sheet
INSTRUÇÃO E ACONSELHAMENTO PARA A JOVEM NOIVA
Sobre a Conduta e Procedimento das Relações Íntimas e Pessoais do Estado Matrimonial para a Grande Santidade Espiritual deste Santíssimo Sacramento e a Glória de Deus por Ruth Smythers amada esposa do Reverendo L.D. Smythers, Pastor da Igreja Metodista Arcadiana da Conferência Regional Oriental, Publicado no ano do nosso Senhor 1894
Imprensa de Orientação Espiritual - Cidade de Nova York
INSTRUÇÃO E ACONSELHAMENTO PARA A JOVEM NOIVA
Para a jovem sensível que teve os benefícios de uma educação adequada, o dia do casamento é, ironicamente, tanto o dia mais feliz como o mais aterrador da sua vida. No lado positivo, há o próprio casamento, no qual a noiva é a atração central numa cerimônia bela e inspiradora, simbolizando o seu triunfo em assegurar um macho para prover a todas as suas necessidades para o resto da sua vida. Do lado negativo, há a noite de núpcias, durante a qual a noiva deve pagar ao flautista, por assim dizer, enfrentando pela primeira vez a terrível experiência do sexo.
Neste ponto, cara leitora, deixe-me admitir uma verdade chocante. Algumas jovens mulheres antecipam a noite de núpcias com curiosidade e prazer! Cuidado com tal atitude! Um marido egoísta e sensual pode facilmente tirar partido de tal noiva. Uma regra cardinal do casamento nunca deve ser esquecida: DAR POUCO, DAR RARAMENTE, E ACIMA DE TUDO, DAR COM RANCOR. Caso contrário, o que poderia ter sido um casamento adequado poderia tornar-se uma orgia de luxúria sexual.
Por outro lado, o terror da noiva não precisa de ser extremo. Embora o sexo seja, na melhor das hipóteses, revoltante e, na pior das hipóteses, bastante doloroso, tem de ser suportado, e tem sido suportado pelas mulheres desde o início dos tempos, e é compensado pelo lar monogâmico e pelos filhos produzidos por meio dele.
É inútil, na maioria dos casos, que a noiva prevaleça sobre o noivo para renunciar à iniciação sexual. Enquanto o marido ideal seria aquele que se aproximaria da sua noiva apenas a seu pedido e apenas com o propósito de gerar descendência, tal nobreza e altruísmo não podem ser esperadom do homem médio.
A maioria dos homens, se não fosse negada, exigiria sexo quase todos os dias. A noiva sábia permitirá um máximo de duas breves experiências sexuais semanais durante os primeiros meses de casamento. Com o passar do tempo, ela deverá fazer todos os esforços para reduzir esta frequência.
Doença fingida, sonolência e dores de cabeça estão entre os melhores amigos da esposa nesta matéria. Discussões, incômodos, repreensões e quezílias também se revelam muito eficazes, se usados no final da noite cerca de uma hora antes de o marido começar normalmente a sua sedução.
Esposas inteligentes estão sempre em alerta para novos e melhores métodos de negar e desencorajar as aberturas amorosas do marido. Uma boa esposa deve esperar ter reduzido os contactos sexuais a uma vez por semana até ao final do primeiro ano de casamento e a uma vez por mês até ao final do quinto ano de casamento.
No seu décimo aniversário, muitas esposas conseguiram completar a gravidez e alcançar o objetivo final de terminar todos os contactos sexuais com o marido. Por esta altura, ela pode depender do seu amor pelos filhos e das pressões sociais para manter o marido em casa.
Tal como ela deve estar sempre alerta para manter a quantidade de sexo tão baixa quanto possível, a sábia noiva prestará igual atenção à limitação do tipo e grau de contactos sexuais. A maioria dos homens é por natureza bastante pervertida, e se lhe fosse dada meia oportunidade, envolver-se-ia numa grande variedade das práticas mais revoltantes. Estas práticas incluem, entre outras, a realização do ato normal em posições anormais; a boca no corpo feminino; e a oferta do seu próprio corpo vil para ser abocanhado por sua vez.
Nudez, falar sobre sexo, ler histórias sobre sexo, ver fotografias e desenhos que descrevem ou sugerem sexo são os hábitos desagradáveis que o macho é suscetível de adquirir, se permitido.
Uma noiva sábia tornará o objetivo nunca permitir que o seu marido veja o seu corpo despido, e nunca permitir que ele lhe exiba o seu corpo despido. O sexo, quando não pode ser evitado, deve ser praticado apenas na escuridão total. Muitas mulheres acharam útil ter camisolas grossas de algodão para si próprias e pijamas para os seus maridos. Estes devem ser vestidos em quartos separados. Não precisam de ser retirados durante o ato sexual. Assim, um mínimo de carne é exposto.
Uma vez que a noiva tenha vestido a bata e desligado todas as luzes, ela deve deitar-se calmamente sobre a cama e esperar pelo seu noivo Quando ele entra no quarto, ela não deve fazer barulho para o guiar na sua direção, para que ele não tome isto como um sinal de encorajamento. Ela deve deixá-lo apalpar no escuro. Há sempre a esperança de que ele tropece e sofra algum ferimento ligeiro que ela possa usar como desculpa para lhe negar o acesso sexual.
Quando ele a encontrar, a esposa deve ficar o mais quieta possível. O movimento corporal da sua parte poderia ser interpretado como excitação sexual pelo marido otimista.
Se ele tentar beijá-la nos lábios, ela deve virar ligeiramente a cabeça para que o beijo caia inofensivamente na sua bochecha. Se ele tentar beijá-la na mão, ela deve dar-lhe um punho. Se ele levantar a bata dela e tentar beijá-la em qualquer outro lugar, ela deve rapidamente puxar a bata de volta para o seu lugar, saltar da cama, e anunciar que a natureza a chama para o banheiro. Isto irá geralmente amortecer o seu desejo de beijar no território proibido.
Se o marido tentar seduzi-la com conversa lasciva, a esposa sábia lembrar-se-á subitamente de alguma pergunta trivial não sexual para lhe fazer. Uma vez que ele responda, ela deve manter a conversa, por mais frívola que possa parecer na altura.
Por fim, o marido aprenderá que se ele insistir em ter contato sexual, deve prosseguir sem embelezamento amoroso. A sábia esposa não lhe permitirá puxar a bata para cima mais longe do que a cintura, e só lhe permitirá abrir a frente do seu pijama para assim fazer a ligação.
Ela ficará absolutamente silenciosa ou balbuciará sobre as suas tarefas domésticas enquanto ele estiver a bufar ofegante. Acima de tudo, ela ficará perfeitamente quieta e nunca, em circunstância alguma, grunhirá ou gemerá enquanto o ato estiver em curso. Assim que o marido tiver completado o ato, a sábia esposa começará a chateá-lo sobre várias tarefas menores que ela deseja que ele realize no dia seguinte. Muitos homens obtêm uma porção maior da sua satisfação sexual a partir do esgotamento pacífico imediatamente após o ato ter terminado. Assim, a esposa deve assegurar-se de que não haja paz neste período para que ele possa desfrutar. Caso contrário, ele poderá ser encorajado a tentar em breve obter mais.
Um fator encorajador pelo qual a esposa pode estar grata é o fato de a casa, a escola, a igreja e o ambiente social do marido terem trabalhado juntos durante toda a sua vida para lhe incutir um profundo sentimento de culpa em relação aos seus sentimentos sexuais, de modo a que ele venha ao leito matrimonial apologético e cheio de vergonha, já meio acovardado e subjugado. A sábia esposa aproveita esta vantagem e persegue incansavelmente o seu objetivo primeiro de limitar, e mais tarde aniquilar completamente o desejo de expressão sexual do seu marido.
Copyright 1894 The Madison Institute.
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INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE
On the Conduct and Procedure of the Intimate and Personal Relationships Of the Marriage State for the Greater Spiritual Sanctity of this Blessed Sacrament and the Glory of God by Ruth Smythers beloved wife of The Reverend L.D. Smythers, Pastor of the Arcadian Methodist Church of the Eastern Regional Conference, Published in the year of our Lord 1894
Spiritual Guidance Press — New York City
INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE
To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life. On the positive side, there is the wedding itself, in which the bride is the central attraction in a beautiful and inspiring ceremony, symbolizing her triumph in securing a male to provide for all her needs for the rest of her life. On the negative side, there is the wedding night, during which the bride must pay the piper, so to speak, by facing for the first time the terrible experience of sex.
At this point, dear reader, let me concede one shocking truth. Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware such an attitude! A selfish and sensual husband can easily take advantage of such a bride. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.
On the other hand, the bride's terror need not be extreme. While sex is at best revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured, and has been by women since the beginning of time, and is compensated for by the monogamous home and by the children produced through it.
It is useless, in most cases, for the bride to prevail upon the groom to forego the sexual initiation. While the ideal husband would be one who would approach his bride only at her request and only for the purpose of begetting offspring, such nobility and unselfishness cannot be expected from the average man.
Most men, if not denied, would demand sex almost every day. The wise bride will permit a maximum of two brief sexual experiences weekly during the first months of marriage. As time goes by she should make every effort to reduce this frequency.
Feigned illness, sleepiness, and headaches are among the wife's best friends in this matter. Arguments, nagging, scolding, and bickering also prove very effective, if used in the late evening about an hour before the husband would normally commence his seduction.
Clever wives are ever on the alert for new and better methods of denying and discouraging the amorous overtures of the husband. A good wife should expect to have reduced sexual contact to once a week by the end of the first year of marriage and to once a month by the end of the fifth year of marriage.
By their tenth anniversary, many wives have managed to complete their childbearing and have achieved the ultimate goal of terminating all sexual contact with the husband. By this time she can depend upon his love for the children and social pressures to hold the husband in the home.
Just as she should be ever alert to keep the quantity of sex as low as possible, the wise bride will pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of sexual contact. Most men are by nature rather perverted, and if given half a chance, would engage in quite a variety of the most revolting practices. These practices include among others performing the normal act in abnormal positions; mouthing the female body, and offering their own vile bodies to be mouthed in turn.
Nudity, talking about sex, reading stories about sex, viewing photographs and drawings depicting or suggesting sex are the obnoxious habits the male is likely to acquire if permitted.
A wise bride will make it the goal never to allow her husband to see her unclothed body, and never allow him to display his unclothed body to her. Sex, when it cannot be prevented, should be practiced only in total darkness. Many women have found it useful to have thick cotton nightgowns for themselves and pajamas for their husbands. These should be donned in separate rooms. They need not be removed during the sex act. Thus, a minimum of flesh is exposed.
Once the bride has donned her gown and turned off all the lights, she should lie quietly upon the bed and await her groom. When he comes groping into the room she should make no sound to guide him in her direction, lest he takes this as a sign of encouragement. She should let him grope in the dark. There is always the hope that he will stumble and incur some slight injury which she can use as an excuse to deny him sexual access.
When he finds her, the wife should lie as still as possible. Bodily motion on her part could be interpreted as sexual excitement by the optimistic husband.
If he attempts to kiss her on the lips she should turn her head slightly so that the kiss falls harmlessly on her cheek instead. If he attempts to kiss her hand, she should make a fist. If he lifts her gown and attempts to kiss her anyplace else she should quickly pull the gown back in place, spring from the bed, and announce that nature calls her to the toilet. This will generally dampen his desire to kiss in the forbidden territory.
If the husband attempts to seduce her with lascivious talk, the wise wife will suddenly remember some trivial non-sexual question to ask him. Once he answers she should keep the conversation going, no matter how frivolous it may seem at the time.
Eventually, the husband will learn that if he insists on having sexual contact, he must get on with it without amorous embellishment. The wise wife will allow him to pull the gown up no farther than the waist, and only permit him to open the front of his pajamas to thus make the connection.
She will be absolutely silent or babble about her housework while he is huffing and puffing away. Above all, she will lie perfectly still and never under any circumstances grunt or groan while the act is in progress. As soon as the husband has completed the act, the wise wife will start nagging him about various minor tasks she wishes him to perform on the morrow. Many men obtain a major portion of their sexual satisfaction from the peaceful exhaustion immediately after the act is over. Thus the wife must insure that there is no peace in this period for him to enjoy. Otherwise, he might be encouraged to soon try for more.
One heartening factor for which the wife can be grateful is the fact that the husband's home, school, church, and social environment have been working together all through his life to instilling in him a deep sense of guilt in regards to his sexual feelings, so that he comes to the marriage couch apologetically and filled with shame, already half cowed and subdued. The wise wife seizes upon this advantage and relentlessly pursues her goal first to limit, later to annihilate completely her husband's desire for sexual expression.
Copyright 1894 The Madison Institute.
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Atualização em 2021-10-26: Achei uma página com interessantes comentários acerca desse texto:
https://www.amaurysexologo.med.br/artigos/evolucao-da-postura-sexual-feminina/
A evolução da postura sexual feminina
A sexualidade feminina durante séculos esteve ligada à reprodução. No auge da repressão sexual, durante a época vitoriana (1837/1901) ondas de puritanismo e intolerância conduziram a grandes estudos sobre sexualidade, possibilitando o início de mudanças das leis que abrandavam as punições sobre comportamentos sexuais considerados inadequados.
Para que possamos compreender o modelo sexual que imperava neste período, transcrevo abaixo uma prescrição entregue as noivas quando na época do casamento no ano de 1894, na cidade de Nova York, por RUTH SMYTHERS (Amada esposa do Reverendo L. D. Smythers, Pastor da Igreja Metodista Arcadiana da Conferência Regional do Leste.).
Sobre a conduta e procedimentos nas relações pessoais e íntimas no estado de Matrimônio para a maior santidade espiritual deste abençoado Sacramento e para a Glória de Deus.
[Aqui ele reproduz o texto traduzido em português]
Este molde vigente de padrão sexual inibitório de certa forma era festejado pela família que sinalizavam a partir do nascimento de uma criança que a vida seria mais fácil para o sexo masculino induzindo na mulher uma castração inconsciente de um comportamento espontâneo de sua sexualidade frente a seu desejo, provocando o surgimento de uma série de disfunções sexuais tais como vaginismo, desejo sexual hipoativo e anorgasmia.
Mesmo com o advento da pílula anticoncepcional na década de 50, que modificou o perfil de liberdade sexual no mundo trazendo mudanças comportamentais importantes e afastando crenças negativas em relação à sexualidade, não foi suficiente o bastante para possibilitar a esta primeira geração pós-pílula um crescimento autônomo e desprovido de influencias comportamentais.
Era importante manter o papel de gênero em simetria com o que deveria ser desempenhado e exigido pela sociedade independente de como um dia pudessem se posicionar em relação a estas atitudes.
A mulher lutava ainda para encontrar na sexualidade algo além da reprodução e da maternidade
Porém esta geração sedimentou frutos, favorecendo uma postura mais segura e ousada, o que provocou crises sexuais entre os homens, pelos resquícios do machismo remanescente.
Esta mulher da década de 90, que pode optar por ficar só, ou de fazer sexo na casa dos pais, levantou a bandeira de patriarcado versus igualdade e prega o amor baseado na individualidade, amizade e liberdade.
A sexualidade se distancia do significada procriação e a maternidade perde importância para a completude da mulher
Novos vínculos ampliam a possibilidade do compromisso (casamento aberto, troca de casais, união estável, casas separada, união homossexual) sem o modelo definitivo.
A noção de família, perenidade do casamento e dependência entra em cheque, o numero de divórcios pedido por mulheres aumenta 500 % (1990 a 1994).
Esta é a nova mulher que se apresenta contemporânea com o domínio publico e muitas vezes responsável pela família que faz o homem compreender que a supremacia masculina é um mito.
Se por um lado, essas conquistas, aproximaram homens e mulheres para que desfrutassem com mais naturalidade do sexo, de outra forma efeitos indesejáveis tais como gravidez-inadequada, maior exposição a DST/AIDS, álcool e tabagismo sobrepôs-se as disfunções sexuais, fazendo com que todas as especialidades voltadas para educação sexual unissem esforços com objetivos de encorajar o crescimento emocional, e a prevenção de possíveis riscos.
Conclusões
Temos consciência de que homens e mulheres nascem com a mesma capacidade orgástica e de que sociedade, família e religião podem estimular ou inibir o potencial sexual nato. As mulheres se desenvolveram progressivamente e estão alterando de fato as normas sociais retrógradas.
Os profissionais de saúde sexual precisam estar atentos às mudanças desta nova geração de mulheres para informar quanto aos ganhos e as necessárias precauções, de modo que a nova ordem sexual possa ser vivida de maneira livre e segura.
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Sete jovens talentosos bateristas suíços que se conheceram do Basler Fasnacht e cultivaram em conjunto a bateria tradicional de Basel (Basileia), fundaram o grupo Top Secret em 1991. Eles queriam tocar mais do que apenas marchas de tambores carnavalescos e começaram a misturar o estilo de bateria tradicional de Basel com outros tipos de tambores, bem como adicionar efeitos visuais. Esta ideia única e a paixão dos sete bateristas levaram rapidamente ao sucesso nacional e internacional.
Top Secret recebeu um convite para se apresentar na Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo de 2003 na Escócia. Para participar em Edimburgo, novos bateristas tiveram que ser recrutados e treinados para ampliar o grupo de forma que eles pudessem desenvolver um show marcial pela primeira vez.
Desde 2003 a bateria passou a viajar pelo mundo, da Rússia ao Canadá, da Austrália aos Estados Unidos, da África do Sul à China e por toda a Europa. Também houve outras apresentações no Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo em 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 e 2018. Suas apresentações emocionantes são bem conhecidas por sua precisão, humor e ritmo contagiante. Com mais de vinte anos de paixão, imaginação e dedicação, esses top-bateristas da Basiléia provaram ser um grupo artístico sustentável de classe mundial.
Site oficial: https://www.topsecretdrumcorps.com/
Wikipédia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secret_Drum_Corps
Vídeo: https://youtu.be/JHXNaYoguNU
Rick at Palace Hotel, Madrid.
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YES MUSEUM: "Return to The Centre of The Earth is possibly your best work in the last 20 years and a dream that has come true. When did you start to think about this project and how long it took to write and arrange the music?
RICK WAKEMAN: I have to go back eight years, and I was in Italy, and I did an interview with an Italian journalist at the hotel, and when we finished the interview -he's a very nice man, I can't remember his name, but he's a very nice man- and we were just talking about music and things. And he just said to me: "You know? I bet you wish you could do "Journey to The Centre of The Earth" again now. I said: "Why?". He said: "Well, technology has come on, you know there is now CD whereas before there were only records, also keyboards, etc. And for the next few days, I was on tour with YES with Union Tour, and I thought: "You know? That's a good idea!". And I came up with the idea, I thought: "In 1994 it will be 20 years, so what I could do, I could re-record "Journey to The Centre of The Earth" at a live concert, maybe a little bit of new music, and make the 20th Anniversary". And I thought: "This is a very good idea". I went to New York with the YES Union Tour, and I spoke to a very great friend of mine at Arista Records, and said: "I've got this fantastic idea!", and he said: "What's your fantastic idea?", and I said: "To do a concert of "Journey to The Centre of The Earth" with new keyboards, and record it live with new technology, add a bit of more music, put it on CD, isn't a great idea?", and he said: "No, is a really bad idea, is a stupid idea". I said: "Why?", and he said: "First of all when you did "Journey to The Centre of The Earth" your recorded it and wrote it with what you knew existed with instruments and recording techniques, so you pushed as far you could go. Now if you do it again, is different because you would not be pushing anything, and it was for the second period of time it was written, even it could still be played nice, you shouldn't do it, is a mistake." So I said: "What do you think that I should do?", and he said: "You should do another epic, another big thing because that is what you are really good at, with completely new music, completely new idea, but not now". I said: "When?" and he said: "You'll know when the right time is, I don't know, you'll know". So I said: "You can't tell me? You say that my idea is terrible, I should do a big epic but you don't know when. And I said: "You are the possible record company? and he said "Yeah".
YM: He is a good friend!
RW: He is a good friend, absolutely, yeah. A very wise friend. And I do listen sometimes to people whom I respect. And, it's so funny because I sort of forgot all about it. And then 3 years ago, in the space of 2 months, I got four telephone calls from four different record companies, very strange, and they all said: "You know there is a big lot of interest in musicians from the '70s who are still playing and doing all different sort of things from that period, and looking at the big epic. Would you like to do another epic?". And by the time of the first call I thought: "Perhaps this is what my friend Tom meant because it appears to be a good time". So they asked me to do a budget of what I thought it could cost, and it was really expensive, and three of the record companies said OK. So I said: "Let's start looking for a new idea, and I went back to Jules Verne and I looked to "Around the world in 80 days", the book, and I started writing, starting putting some ideas together, and then, it was crazy because, suddenly, every time you turn on the news on the television, somebody was going after a balloon! You open a newspaper and there is somebody in a balloon trying to go around the world, you open the window and there is a balloon that goes by.
YM: Oh, I know who's that man! Brandon is the man!
RW: Richard Brandson! And I thought: "No, no, this is crazy", because I worked out that I would finish the project by early 1999. And I thought, that's gonna be round about the time somebody is actually going to manage to go round the globe, and everybody is gonna think I did it because they were doing that. So I was in a strange situation of having four record companies who wanted to do a big project, but I haven't got one. So I read an article in the newspaper from Stephen Spielberg who was talking about have sequels for making films, how you have a story and you spin up from the story for a whole new story, but you have a relationship, which is very comfortable for the people who listen to a whole new story, new characters, but there's still a relationship. So I thought it could be fun to imagine if Jules Verne were still alive, and Spielberg had gone to see Jules Verne and said: Hey Jules, I really like your "Journey to The Centre of The Earth", somebody has already made a film of it, I really want to make another film, so you need to write a new sequel, a new story, another "Journey to The Centre of The Earth". So I read his original book and wrote a sequel, a new story based on three people who wanted to do the same journey that has done before, and these three people start off the same and arrive at the entrance of the volcano, but then in the Jules Verne's book it says that the shadow from the sun holds on the central entrance of the three. So I made them descend from another entrance so they could go down and happen the new journey. The other thing I did was I gave the new travelers no names, because they can be the person who is listening, can be one of them, so it doesn't say whether is a man or a woman...
YM: Even it could be Ozzy Osbourne! Even!
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Rick & Adam Wakeman live in Argentina 93.
RW: Absolutely!, anything you ask, yeah! So I did that and told the companies, and really liked the idea. And then I went to speak to them, and they said: "How do you see the band?". And I said: "I don't see the band as a one thing, the orchestra as one thing, and the choir as one thing. I see everything as a complete whole thing. So is not the band doing the backing track and an orchestra, I want the orchestra sometimes to play rock things, heavy metal, whatever, I want the band playing a classical thing". And they said: "Well, you don't need to go too far, just do the songs and a bit of the story and orchestra". I said: "No, no, no, you don't understand it!". They said: "That's fine, just do the record now". And I was really worried if it couldn't be done properly. My two older boys Oliver and Adam both said: "If you can't do it properly, you shouldn't do it". If you can't do as you really want to do it, say no". And literally just about to say "No, I'm not going to do it". It gets quite complicated, it is complicated actually... I've got a great friend in America called Nic Caciappo.
YM: He runs the YES Information Service, isn't it?
RW: That's right. He's a great great friend of mine. He is also a great friend of another man called Dwight Dereiter who works for EMI in California, and I told Nic, I can't fight with them, I think I'm not going to do it. He said: "Why?", I said: "They don't understand what I wanted to be, and I can't make any demo, because how can you make any demo of something like that?". So he was going for dinner with Dwight Dereiter, he just mentioned it, and Dwight Dereiter said: "Have you got a copy of the synopsis of what Rick wants to do?". And he said: "No, but I can get one". So he showed it to Dwight Dereiter and he said: "I really like this. The answer for this is through a classical because they will understand". So he took it to the president in America, he said: "Yeah, I like this. But because Rick is in Europe it has to go through Europe, so then sent it to London, to the head of EMI Classics in London, a man called Richard Lyttelton who has enormous experience with classical, but he's also great experienced with rock, he was the man who signed Queen to EMI. He's so knowledgeable. He found me and said: "Please come to London, and come to dinner". So I came to dinner not really hopeful, just the opposite. He said: "Question one: Your "Return to The Centre of The Earth" project, have you signed to any label?". I said no. "OK. I want to talk to you about why I think you should be on EMI Classics. Explain to me what you really want to". And I told him, and he said "Fantastic!". And I said: "Do you know I can't pay you anything, I can't show you now". He said: "Of course you can't, but I understand it. And anything we can give you we will give you". It was just absolutely tremendous! And it took another month too for the contracts, but I do already start the work because I knew that was right. So I'm very glad that I took my first advice in Arista records who said: "Don't do it now. Wait for the time to be right". And I'm grateful to my two boys who said: "Don't sign the contract. You must wait or don't do it at all". And by listening to these two people's advice I was able to produce exactly, or beyond what I dreamt it to be because everybody who took part just gave more and more, and more, and I never ever thought that I would ever get the chance to do it. I am nearly over 50 this year, and someone told me five years ago: "You know? when you're 50 someone will give you the finance to make the dream". And I would laugh.
YM: Well, you never thought that "Fragile" would reach the top of the charts, and it happened. So life is like that!
RW: True, true, is very true.
YM: We know you're going to put "Return to The Centre of The Earth" onstage. Is possibly Tenerife - Canary Islands, Spain- the first place to open the Tour?
RW: Yeah, that's what we're planning, in fact, I've got a bag full of faxes from Tenerife. Originally I wanted to try to do it as close as possible to the Teide volcano, but it's going to be difficult.
YM: It could erupt suddenly and it would be very inconvenient!
RW: Well is a very ecological area, so it's very difficult. The good thing about Tenerife is, and that is my dream for the premier, wherever you are, you have the mount Teide volcano behind you. So is perfect. I love the island very much cause I spent a lot of time, and I've got great friends there -Note: In fact, Rick owns a country house in Tenerife, where he tries to get a suntan every time he can. Is also that, you know when people do premieres they do premieres in New York or London, or maybe Los Angeles. I think people have lost their imagination. "We're gonna do a premiere. OK, London!", you know. And the thing is: How many premieres can you remember now? I can't remember any because they're all in NY or London. So I look for something different. And I love Tenerife! And it got everything, it got the volcano, and we're going to film it, my men want to film it, and when we make the film, obviously there will be a computer holographic and make the Teide explode...
YM: No more plastic dinosaurs!
RW: No more plastic dinosaurs. That's the plan. We have to work very fast because the cut-off date is June 1st. The problem is that is very expensive, very very expensive, with orchestra, choir, and, you know, we need to talk to Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, because they are fantastic, but first of all, we need to get permission from Tenerife's government to know if we can do it, there are people working on that now. Is very expensive and it needs sponsorship. Now already we have sponsors, but they're waiting for the CD sales.
YM: But the CD is doing very well, it reached the 34 in the UK charts.
RW: Yeah, but it has just been released everywhere else in the world, one week before I think in Spain.
YM: Yeah, last week. And we can't stop listening to the CD every day.
RW: Thank you, that's great. The thing is the sponsors says: "Look, we have the money, we will sponsor the show, but if the CD doesn't sell very well it is crazy for us put on shows, I understand, so we'll wait and see after maybe a month, six weeks, how the CD everywhere is doing. If it's doing OK and well, then we will say OK, we do the concerts. So it's a terrible time for me because I don't know for sure how many concerts, if any, until perhaps the beginning of June.
YM: And you have a solo tour now in the UK.
RW: Yeah, we start in a couple of weeks now. It starts for many reasons, one is that ... I want to say my wife thank you for letting me do everything, and also because I finish the tour in June, so it means I have plenty to keep me busy, cause otherwise, I'd wonder how the CD is, I want to do the concerts, you know... It keeps me busy. But I desperately want to do the concerts. Everybody who is taking part wants to do the concerts. I'm happy with what I've done, but I think I would feel very miserable if there were no sponsors.
YM: No, it won't happen. I know so.
RW: I hope so.
YM: This is going by itself, I think this is the best thing you've recorded in 20 years!
RW: Yeah, you know that the great thing with this album is I had the time, is EMI never put any pressure, "Must have it now, must have it now!" : Never. And when I was ill, I couldn't finish it to the time they wanted it, they were fantastic!, and the hospital said: "It will be at least two months till you can work again", so they said: "Then make it three months". You know, they were so good! And also with the financial side, we wanted Patrick Stewart, and he couldn't come to England and it was going to be very expensive, so they said: "Go to Hollywood and do it". And when you've got that, for example on the mixing, which was very expensive to do because we had lots of special computers software made to help with the mix, we had 96 tracks that incredibly needed computer helps to mix, and it became obvious when we were mixing that we were going to need another two days, and it's very expensive. And I thought: "OK, I can't ask the record company because they've already put enough, so I thought somehow I would put it myself, and I got a call from the company: "I heard that you added two more days", I said "don't worry, I'll pay it", they said, "No, no, no, if you need two more days you'll have two more days". I never took advantage of it, but when you have that, and you have all the people who are involved with the album who really want to make it work, you know, you have time to look at every little bit, and Ozzy Osbourne went into the studio three times in Los Angeles, he said: "I want to do it again", and was treated not as a job, or something...
YM: Like sheep.
RW: Yeah, they just really wanted it to work, and for me that was fantastic! For Patrick Stewart, I had booked only for two hours. He stayed for the whole day. Because he wanted to. And when you've got everybody like that..., you know the band, they are very young, Fraser Thorneycroft-Smith -guitar- is 24, Simon Hanson -drums- is 23, and Phil Williams -bass guitar- is 23 I think, very young guys, and I would put them in the studio and they would mean to be working till five, and get back at ten o'clock and they're still there. "Why are you still here?". Well, we listen to what we did and we wanted to do it again". So all of the time the people just wanted to keep doing it, and that is what made it, to get everybody involved. They really really really wanted it to work. Even the engineers, all of the engineers involved, one classic James Collins and Erik Jordan at CTS studios, they were booked to start every day at 9.30, they were going at 7 o'clock in the morning. Working on things, little problems, just because they just wanted to do it. When you've got that from everybody, in a great encouragement, it makes me work even even even harder. I look to this whole thing and it's taken many years to have the London Symphony Orchestra again to work with, so maybe this is a great opportunity, maybe the last time!, so if I this is gonna be the last time I have to give it everything I've got, so the least I can say: "If this is the last time, then is the best I could ever do it".
YM: You've worked again with the London Symphony Orchestra, 25 years after having some troubles with them because of the recording deals, when you booked them for two concerts for the live recording of "Journey to The Centre of The Earth" on 18th January 1974, and they wanted to get paid for the recording rights of both sessions, even when only one was going to be used. And it took to create the New Symphony Orchestra for the tour. No regrets at all?
RW: No. thing has changed. First of all, in the orchestra, there are only six people left from the original orchestra, which is a different one. Is interesting that the London Symphony Orchestra has women in the orchestra, 25 years ago there were no women. Also, there is a much greater understanding from rock musicians of the orchestra, and a great understanding from the orchestra to the rock musicians. You know, in the 70's the problem was never with the orchestra, it was with the union people involved, and they were very strict, always people who run the orchestra, now they have new management, a lot of new people looking after everything, and they were fantastic, and they signed with the choir. And the other interesting thing is that the orchestra now really understands all the music, for example, there is a track towards the end, "Floodflames", and the initial music of the beginning is timewise, actually very complicated to read musically, everything is changing, is crazy. When we recorded it in the studio with the band, it took a long time to do it, we just kept going wrong, it was ridiculous. We finished, and I wrote it down for the orchestra, and I said to Fraser: "You know Fraser?, this may end up just as a band because I don't think the orchestra will play this, and it took us eight times to get it right". I said, what I will do, I'll try and if it doesn't work I'll do something else. So we went into the studio and it was about the third thing that we recorded, so we put "Floodflames" and I looked to Fraser and also the engineers in the studio who knew that took us eight times to get it right, and they just looked to the top and played first time completely right all the way through. And we just looked at each other, and Fraser said: "Isn't it a bit tricky?", I said: "That's amazing!". The orchestra of 25 years ago could not play this.
"Journey to the Centre of the Earth" Live 1975.
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YM: You have brought back the old Mini Moog for this album, also in "Keys to Ascension, after a long long hibernation. Why now?
RW: Again my boys, they're 27 and 25, and the last two years we were in London, they brought me to clubs to hear new bands, some who I like, some who I didn't, but I was interested in look at the keyboard players, and they all had all the analog: they had Hammonds, and all sorts of things, and nearly all of the ones I spoke to said to me: "Why don't you use the Mini Moog anymore? Cause the Mini Moog is your instrument, is crazy! So when I started this project I said to Stuart Swanley -Rick's engineer- I want to pick some instruments that I want to use, and I'm not gonna tell the company: "Get me everything you can that's new".
YM: Do you own the same Mini Moogs that you owned in the 70s?
RW: No, no. They were stolen I had nine. They were all stolen.
YM: YES were stolen many times in the 70s, at least I can remember a couple of times.
RW: Yes, I had nine Mini Moogs in my life, eleven if I add the new ones, but all of the nine, all of the YES, were stolen. Even also I had a Prophet-10, which I loved and is very hard to find Prophet-10.
YM: Yes, that's right, and even Prophet-5 is hard to find.
RW: Yes, but the 10 is the one I want.
YM: And do you still keep stuff like Polymoog, RMI Keyboard Computer, etc?
RW: The RMI, I have a lot of equipment stolen, about eight years ago. My RMI was stolen, a lot of it was stolen. I have heard that some of it are in private collections. In the same way, I was speaking to Keith Emerson about this last year, who's a friend of mine, you know there's certainly a situation where ... almost like people who collect paintings, there are people who collect equipment. I mean, I had a double Mellotron that was made for me. It was stolen many years ago, and just recently a man wrote to me in America, and he just bought it and he wanted me to authenticate it. And it was in quite bad condition and he wanted to repair it. So I wrote him back and I said: "You know, I'm really glad you've got it. Actually, it was stolen. But don't worry, I'm not asking to give back, I don't want it back, but it was stolen from me.
YM: Are you using the new Mini Moog or the old ones?
RW: No, the old ones.
YM: Have you tried the new one, what do you think about it?
RW: Yeah, they're good... but they're not a Mini Moog.
YM: That's because they work with different transformers...
RW: Yes, is different, the new ones have some advantages, because they are very stable, very accurate, but are not the same. But something that is great about the original Mini Moog is the fact that they are not very stable. And over the time you are playing it things can change, and it makes the instrument exciting. So the new one: yes, very good, but I think it's a shame that is called a Mini Moog because is not really the Mini Moog, is an instrument "based" on the Mini Moog, but I would say you're better off if you want the authentic sound to get the old Mini Moog and just put out with the little problems.
Live at Badalona -Spain- 3/6/76.
YM: Is there any chance of hearing your old Mellotrons & Birotrons again?
Note: Rick Wakeman created in 1976 seven companies, all related to the music industry. One of them was Birontronics Ltd., where he committed David Biro to the creation of a new improved model of the Mellotron, called Birotron. Rick replaced the old Mellotrons for his Birotron in 1978. He played it in the albums "Tormato", "Yesshows", and "Criminal Record".
RW: Oh no!, I don't have any of them!
YM: They're missing!!!
RW: Yeah!, I believe there are six Birotrons left in the world. I heard that one was sold in America last year for $ 35.000.
YM: Wow!, you could be rich now! You only made about 30...
RW: 35. I had four, but two were stolen, and two were damaged beyond repair. So we believe there are six left, and one is in a museum, it has been just bought by Hard Rock Café in America, I believe also for a lot of money because they bought the very original one. I don't have one. I would like to have one, I must admit, I'd love to have one. The Mellotron... I used to have two single Mellotrons and a double special Mellotron. And the two single ones I had, I was so frustrated, because of tuning problems, and the tapes... And full of anger, I took the two Mellotrons into a field, put petrol over them, and I fired them.
YM: You really did that? I can't believe it!
RW: Yeah. And all of them, all the wood, burnt and all the metal just...
YM: Did you enjoy that?
RW: At the time, at the time I enjoyed it, because they had ruined so many sessions through going wrong and breaking, but afterward I regret it. Oh, of course, I regret it!
YM: And they were two 400 Mellotron, isn't it, the white ones?
RW: Yes, so however how many 400 Mellotrons were built, I can tell you there are two fewer. I don't have a Mellotron, a must admit. I suppose for the studio, if one ever came up and it's in very good condition, perhaps I would like one for the studio, but not to take on the road, cause if I take one on the road I would think after four or five days you will find me in a field with petrol and it will be burning.
YM: Well, Julian Cope was last year doing some tour in the UK just with a Mellotron!
RW: Oh, very stupid! No, I did a radio program on The Live of the Mellotron, and it was very funny, and I was interviewing lots of people — it's a good program! — and it was interesting because the people who love it with passion were quite happy to put out all of the problems just to get the sound, and that's fine!
YM: What do you think of the actual revival of the analog synthesizers in electronic and pop music?
RW: I think young musicians have been very clever. Because I speak to a lot of young musicians because of my boys and it is very interesting that a lot of young keyboard players said to me: "You know? You did big mistakes, keyboard players, in the '90s and 80's". And I'd say: "OK, I'm interested. Why we did mistakes?". They said: "When you were in the studio or on stage you had to have the latest model of keyboard, so a keyboard would come out, and then too much for you know it, and later the next model, so you get rid of that ...
YM: Yes, it happens still today.
RW: So he said: "How could you possibly learn about the instrument, too much fast? . We're interested in music, so we come back and listen to sounds you used to make in the '70s and say: That's a great sound!, We want to make that sound! The new instrument can make that sound, so we have the instrument". And they said: "You know?, guitarist they don't buy the latest guitar that comes out, there is a certain sound that they want from 1967, but they're not obsessed with the date". And when I came to make this album a lot of the young musicians that I knew through my boys said: "You are going to put Mini Moog on this, won't you? Because is a great instrument, and nobody makes anything like this anymore". So the young musicians have been really clever. You go to see young bands now and they have Hammond and all sorts of things. So I had a look at everything I got and took out the Roland JD-800 which is a great machine because no longer does anybody put a date on it, this is a new sound, and it has really been good. Older musicians like me are a very good service by sort of giving a prove to all listeners because they can bring them back out, and they are good, they're great.
YM: Do you have any idea of why "No Earthly Connection", "Criminal Record" and "White Rock" are still unreleased on CD?
RW: (Hands on his face like crying).
YM: Again the same question?
RW: No, no, no. It's just very frustrating because two years ago I went to see A&M; in America, and I said, I spoke to the president Al Kafaro, and I said: "Mr. Kafaro, you know you never release this on CD, but there are a lot of people who would like to, what are you doing?". He said: "We have no plans to release this on CD because they're all on Polygram". And I said: "Would you license to me so I can release them, I don't own any rights anymore of any of these albums, so I won't earn any money, but I just think it's important that it comes out". And he said: "OK, I'll see what I can do". And they arranged a contract two years ago to license back the three albums, and they signed a contract, and one week before it was due to be signed A&M, and Polygram was sold to Seagram. And with Seagram we signed the contract, send it back and they said: "We're not doing it". And I said: "Are you going to do it?". And they said: "No you can't have them". So after two years coming so close, they said "We're not interested". And we tried very hard, but there's absolutely nothing I can do.
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Topographic sessions at Manticore Studio, 1972.
YM: There is a story that claims that you, the members of YES, made a sort of agreement during the Topographic Tour, back in the '70s, to work together as a band in the 21st Century. Is it true?
RW: Jon Anderson always says that is true! The rest of us are not sure, because during the Topographic Oceans period I was full, not of hope for the future, but very full mainly of whisky, so I can't remember very much. No, this came about when we were in San Louis Obispo recording "Keys to Ascension", and we were having dinner, all of this, and Jon said: "Do you remember... when we did "Topographic Oceans" we all said that we would be together in the year 2000? And actually, there was something, because we all remember signing on a table cloth, in a restaurant, we all signed something in the table cloth.
YM: But...not in a paper?
RW: No, no, on the table cloth, yeah.
YM: And you took it out of the restaurant...
RW: Nobody knows where is it...
YM: It's like the Holy Shroud of YES fans!!
:-)))))))
RW: Nobody knows where is it or what happened to it. It was taken, but nobody knew what happened. And a journalist heard about this and wrote it, so it became that YES would be together in the millennium, and there is always going to be a YES in the millennium, whether is the five people who signed that.
YM: So, are you interested in working again as a member of YES in the future?
RW: It's very difficult for me, because... Sometimes is hard for people to understand that even now when I was in the band and not in the band, I'm still a fan and a great fan of YES. I love YES really, so I have very strong views on the direction which YES needed to take in the last part of the '90s. And basically, I was the only one who really would feel the way that YES should go. And I did not agree with what everybody wanted to do.
"Keys To Ascension" recordings at San Luis Obispo.
YM: Can you give some details?
RW: Yeah!, OK. When we did "Keys to Ascension" and "Keys to Ascension 2", I listened very carefully to the albums, and I thought: OK, we have here everybody is playing very well. Steve is playing great guitar, Jon is singing well, Chris is playing great, Alan is playing his best drums for many years, and I'm playing well. But for me there was something ... and I went back and listened to an early album, and I know what it is. With all of the older albums, we were not only playing well but pushing new ground, there was always a new idea that came in. An nearly all of the songs started with Jon with a melody line, a great melody, and I like the "And You And I" melody, and that's what started everything up to make some music. Nearly all of the music, reasonably, has been started from a rhythm bass with Jon adding on the top, which limits very much what Jon can do with a great melody. And I thought: Why is this? And it's because perhaps is too close between albums. For a band like YES we need time to go on and work with other people until work with other ideas. Jon was at his strongest when he... He went to live with the Hopi Indian. And came back with lots of ideas. I went off working a lot of solo stuff, working with a lot of people with new keyboard ideas. And Alan was at his best when he was ... "I've been in Africa, I've found these new ideas". So we're still good players, but we come back with new ideas this time. And I said: "You know guys? I really feel we need to spend time apart and work with other people, so when we come back, we're not better players still, but we've got lots of great new ideas to put in, so we can put YES music in a new direction. And they were talking of doing another sort of re-launch of YES doing a theatre tour. And I said: "For me, YES is not a theatre band, YES is an arena band, with a fantastic production, a great great show". And I said: "I cannot go round the theatres, you know, playing all the old hits, which I love doing. When we have done them, back in the "Union" Tour in the arenas was fantastic. It is just how YES needs to be presented, so, wouldn't it be a great idea if we spend two years, all getting new ideas and then come together really excited with lots of new music, lots of ideas, put it all together, make a fantastic album to go into the millennium, with a big arena show to go with it. And nobody agrees. No, no, no, we just want to go out now, let's do another album... And it's another album for me of not going forward with YES. For me, we should go forward. Nobody agrees, so I say: "OK, I'm going off anyway because I want to do my "Return to The Centre of The Earth", which is important for me to do". And they said: "Fine". They did the tour, you know, when they came to England they telephoned me and said: "Would you like to make the tour?". And I said: "You know, I wish you much success, but this is not how I see YES, this is not right. For me it's like Real Madrid playing football in the park — Note: Real Madrid is a Spanish football team —. You know? You understand?
YM: Yeah! It deserves something better.
RW: Is not right. It deserves something better! Is a very very very special band. And it deserves something special and it deserves ...
YM: But do you really think it's possible because of the industry?
RW: Not anymore. I think could it be possible if we were well prepared and had good management, and in YES for me have not had good management for years. And I think it needed good management to go to record companies and say: "Listen, YES is not doing anything for three years, they're going to go away, they can prepare an album for the millennium, and do some arena dates". I think the record company would say: "Yeah, OK". I think that could be done. But it can't be done now, and I don't think it will ever be now, and I don't know what could happen. But I love the band, you know, they are recording another album now. You know, I know how long it takes to write music for big productions, it has only been less than one year since their last one. Is not possible for a quality YES album to do this.
YM: I can tell you that YES fans have been waiting for a long time to get an album, as you say, with more time of production, and we're still waiting for that.
RW: I can tell you, what is sad for me is I'm a fan as well, even when I'm not in the band. Whatever they may say, whatever they like me or hate me, I love the band, I love the guys very much. It upsets me when I see the record sales come right down low, I see the concerts come right down low, and it makes me sad because I know that the support for the band is there. But it's because the band is for me, and including when we did "Keys to Ascension", is not delivering what fans expect to be delivered. And that is for me what is sad. And I am to blame as much as anyone, I'm not saying is their fault, I am to blame because when we did "Keys to Ascension" and we put the new material there, "Keys to Ascension" shouldn't have been what it was meant to be because the live performance, which is like to say "Hey, werÚ back together", this is just a stop to get to tell you we're back together, we're now gonna spend time, a lot of time putting together a really good studio album. But the record company push, the management push: "No, no, do it now, do it now!", and we were not ready! And I am as much to blame as everybody else because I should stand up and say "No". But I didn't.
YM: Jon Anderson has said that he is very interested in doing a revision of Tales from Topographic Oceans with an orchestra. Would you be interested in that?
RW: No. I think "Topographic Oceans" would have to be completely re-written. Because there are not enough substance, melody, or ideas to make it interesting for an orchestra.
YM: You know? I used to love the album, and still, I do, but I read some commentaries you did about it, and thought about it and tried to see the things from a different perspective and I think you were right.
RW: And Jon actually agree. Jon and I agree on a lot of things, but if CDs have been available in 1973 when "Topographic" was done, there were never have been a problem, because on "Topographic Oceans" there is about 50 minutes of good music, and we would have made 50 minutes of "Topographic Oceans", of four pieces, maybe 12 minutes-10 minutes long. But because there were the confines of an album, we had too much music for one album, not enough for two. So instead of bringing it down to one, we just -what I call- padded it out to make two. And Jon and I, Jon want it very much to get Atlantic to let him edit to make a CD of 50 minutes, and Atlantic records said: "No, no, no. It stays as it is". So is very interesting that the big arguments were because of the confines of what we were actually doing. But I can tell you, because, as an orchestra you could do it, anybody can orchestrate as it is for an orchestra, but it would not sound very interesting because there is not enough, it would have to be re-written for an orchestra. What I would like to do it! If I could do one thing with any YES album, I would like to take "Tormato" and completely re-mix "Tormato", because there was some fantastic playing, and especially from Steve on that album, and great songs. But the mix, the production, was terrible. Because there were so many engineers and producers, that the sound ended up so compressed that it was a very very bad sound. And I would love to be able to re-mix that album. And the other thing I would love to do, but I don't think it will ever happen, will be to get hold of the original tapes from the sessions in France in 1979...
Tormato Tour 1978.
YM: Oh, I was just about to ask you about that!
RW: ...and for Jon, I would like to go with Jon into a studio and finish it.
YM: But the tapes are missing, isn't it?
RW: Nobody knows where they are. But I would love to get hold of them, and maybe would it be a nice album for me, would be to take "Tormato" remixed, and take the songs from the France sessions and put it together to make a 70 minutes CD, because it was almost the same period, during 78 and 79, and it's a good period and would match very nicely. I would love to do that, but I don't think Atlantic would let me, and I don't think anybody knows where the tapes are, and I've heard all sorts of stories. What is quite interesting is that I've heard that all the original tapes and film footage from the "Union" tour have now been bought by somebody, and I think will be released later this year. And I heard there is a complete video and a complete soundtrack for the CD. I think that is great because I think that the "Union" tour was very very important.
CREDITS: Interview by: Koldo Barroso — Topographic Sounds — Assisted by: Manuel Macía. Special thanks to Pablo Gonzalo Seoane, and Pilar García — EMI Classics — This is a Topographic Sound's work for YES MUSEUM.
PHOTO CREDITS 1, 7: Manuel Macía. 3: F. Fabregas. 5: Sky Bergman.
Recovered via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20191222104848/http://yesmuseum.org/WakeView1.html
