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ePlaya :: View topic - mcE=MCsquared
..> i am a moogerfoogin' warpextor cosmoverse. ... please communicate! warpcosm@yahoo.com mcE=MCsquared (my mom calls me: Warpextor Cosmoverse) ...
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ePlaya :: View topic - Have Freak, Will Travel
..> my cherries are popping non-stop. i like this milky-way, but i'm horny for cx-1. i am a moogerfoogin' warpextor cosmoverse. I LOVE. ...
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JamBands.com - Online Music Magazine
..> Plus touring around with these boys is a lot more sane than with Warpextor Cosmoverse all the time! You better have your bootstraps and chinstraps buckled ...
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www.myspace.com/dynamacaroni
..> ... the Master of Ceremonies Himself, EmCee Warpextor Cosmoverse aka Sherrif Tony, aka Sherf Toe Neil and aka George S. Pond playing the BIG bass Fiddle! ...
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www.myspace.com/mcemcsquared
..> Warpextor Cosmoverse now plays the electric and acoustic guitar and bass for CX-1. His witty lyrics explore everything from the Golden Rule to Quantum ...
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(/`7._(/`7......Wha Gwaan in R.A.W......74/)_.74/) Friday December ...
..> The SELECTOR, Warpextor Cosmoverse, says to expect to hear songs from the NEW ... Dance Instead www.snakeoilmedicineshow.net Warpextor Cosmoverse a.k.a. Geo ...
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(¯`·._(¯`·......Wha Gwaan in R.A.W......·´¯)_.·´¯) January 19 ...
..> It's me, mcE=MCsquared, Warpextor Cosmoverse inna 'nother Dimention. 2006 finds me in the MIX with CX-1, the Fresh Sound Vibe with MORE GRAVITY & X-RAYS per ...
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Jon Price - New York electric bassist specializing in Funk, Soul ...
..> And thanks to the brilliant savvy of Warpextor Cosmoverse, Oteil Burbridge (pretty much my favorite bassist in the world) ended up on stage for our second ...
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Dynamic Art Gallerie! - Bio
..> Our highly-transportable Art Show was dubbed the "Dynamic Art Gallerie" by George Pond (aka Warpextor Cosmoverse) of the SOMS. ...
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Progressive Underground Guests
..> Warpextor Cosmoverse - 06/07/98 21:57:42 My URL:snakeoil.home.mindspring.com My Email:snakeoil@skybest.com What's your favorite Prog band? ...
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Oh, what a night | Mountain Xpress Arts & Entertainment ...
..> (His "normal" alter ego is Warpextor Cosmoverse.) Speaking of buzz, the recent release of a new documentary should infuse even more mystique into Flat ...
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The T-Dawg/Harvest Fest CORN FIELD
..> I'm just digging MC Warpextor Cosmoverse sitting in on CuCu's Nest... "when I say Yonder, you say Mountain!!" :-) Thanks Pigpen! ...
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Andrew Show List
..> ... All Night Comment: 9th Annual Halloween Masquerade Ball, * with Warpextor Cosmoverse, Set 3 had the boys "Dressed to Kill" in costume as KISS. ...
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db.etree.org - Show Detail - Acoustic Syndicate 10/27/01
..> 9th Annual Halloween Masquerade Ball, * with Warpextor Cosmoverse, Set 3 had the boys "Dressed to Kill" in costume as KISS. Display Setlist > > ...
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Jon Price - New York electric bassist specializing in Funk, Soul ...
..> Warpextor Cosmoverse. Jupiter Location: Emil Halas studio ... (Warpextor Cosmoverse - vocals, Eric Kalb - drums, Sean Foley - synth, Aaron Price - synth, ...
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CrazyLoveRecords
..> From: warpextor cosmoverse. Date: Wednesday 12 April, 2006. Review:. its warpextor *uck-a-doodle-foo cosmoverse, 'ere to say ...
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CrazyLoveStore
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PhreshWater.net: Snake Oil Medicine Show - Preaching Galactic Unity ..> Although the band has seen many lineup changes, its core is still the same: George "Geometrognome Warpextor" Pond (bass and guitar) as the band's founding ...
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SolFest 2002 - photos of events in Mendocino County on Worldisround
..> the Warpextor Cosmoverse Hey y'all, i cant wait to meet you at the festival this year!! The Snake Oil Medicine Show, from North Carolina will be bringing ye ...
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Thread / General Message Center / Acoustic Syndicate / USER
..> Warpextor Cosmoverse himself, the show in Sylva was, "the truly Quentisenntial Acoustic concert!!! fun fun!" Don't know about the Boone show. ...
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Asheville Music Zone 10/04/02
..> Here's some pics where the great Warpextor Cosmoverse came on stage and rapped a bit, helped Bigs a bit, and got cosmic on the stage. ...
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Legends in Boone, NC 2/28/02
..> Here's Warpextor, long exposure stylie! Here is Fitzy breaking it down during North Country Girl! Email: rabbitsherriff@hotmail.com.
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ePlaya :: View topic - Have Freak, Will Travel
..> buzzsaw BRC-FUN is the BOMB..... changed my attitude, longitude, altitude, and my interest in sax and violins. we (me and warp23) need to see some freshie ...
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..> brc-fun Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Oregon, USA ... I'm the person who's brought the "electric buzz-saw" to BRC for the last two years. ...
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"The" the POND BROTHERS
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Imagine if Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were blood brothers, hip to
the new audio-visual technology and in the current of global
consciousness. That duo could have been like the Pond Brothers.
George and Andy Pond are drawing on the taproots of bluegrass and
mixing in qualities of world music to create a fresh sound they dubbed
Bluegrasstafari in 2002. They play original and traditional love
songs, jazz-fueled instrumentals, and unexpected covers. With twin
vocal harmonies and firey fast finger picking, Andy and George shine
brotherly love on the listeners. What sweet songs come from a
lifetime of musical communication! It's amazing they can sing with
such big smiles!

The Pond Brothers hail from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, NC.
It's the same town where Robert Moog developed and manufactures his
industry changing analog synthesizers. George and Andy are proudly
sponsored by Moog Music and deftly utilize the spectrum analysis and
frequency modulation to put a little science in their folk music. To
enhance the production, George incorporates projected visualizations
and Light-Up Wire at some of the Pond Brother's multi-sensory shows.

Andy, with his custom Nechville banjos, and George, with his momma's
Gibson guitar, are known in the industry as fun and innovative
individuals. That is why the Pond Brothers attract musical geniuses
everywhere they go. Their most recent project involves Joe Craven and
Futureman. Building on the resonant creative forces of art and music
this premier show is hosted by folk artist Robert 7 at his Temple of
Intertwanglism in Old Candlertown, NC.

If you enjoy performers like Mike Marshall, Darrol Anger, Steve
Kimmock, Vince Herman and Vasser Clements, all of whom have shared the
stage with Andy and George, check out The Pond Brothers and find out
for yourself why America's musical heros want to team up with these
tiny, ancient pickers.

~by Maizy Metrix March 22, 2007....LOVE!

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Oct 11, 2006 / vol 13 iss 11
A sound to raise the dread
CX-1 and Jamaica's Overtakers push the fusion envelope
by Alli Marshall


Shine On: CX-1 glows with the power of bluegrasstafari fusion.
"We used to be called Ites, Gold & Green," says Jamaican vocalist Ruth Brooks. But in honor of its stereotype-busting punctuality, the band was rechristened: "We were always a little bit earlier than the other bands," Brooks notes. "If the show started at seven, we'd come at six, so we'd overtake them."

Thanks to a group of Canadians, the band Brooks shares with her husband, Ruben, and their longtime friend Leroy Williams was dubbed the Overtakers.

The trio is distinctly Jamaican in every way but its attitude toward clocks: Their sound is rooted in the pre-reggae rhythms of rock-inspired mento and they eke out a living by playing in the tourist area of Negril. But it's the group's Western North Carolina connections that are influencing their current musical direction.

Which just happens to be down the very un-Jamaican road of bluegrass.

When they said "Bluegrastafari," they meant it
"After meeting the Overtakers and becoming friends immediately, we've gotten together as often as possible," reveals George Pond of CX-1.


The freshmakers: The Overtakers bring mento groove to bluegrass. photo by Jimmy Zhou
For the local musician, fusing styles is nothing new. His previous band – Snake Oil Medicine Show, known for blending various musical styles with onstage visual art – recorded Bluegrasstafari while in the Caribbean.

Pond's current band shares more than a fondness for reggae with the Overtakers: Both groups involve family. The Brooks share their talent not just with each other but with their grown children (including daughters Tia and club-hit singer Crystal Axe, who will join them on the upcoming tour). In the case of CX-1, it's a brother act: George and Andy Pond share the stage with Jay Sanders and Billy Seawell. Appropriately enough, it was another pair of brothers who indirectly facilitated the first meeting of the groups, which will tour together this fall.

"I had some friends I met here: Jed Greenberg and his brother Ben," Brooks recalls during a phone conversation from her home in Jamaica. "We were walking down the road one day and these guys came up and [said] 'Do you play banjo?' and we [said] 'Yes!' So, we were introduced to each other and we played music together for about two weeks."

Though it may seem curious that the Brooks knew what to do with a banjo, it's actually key to why the Jamaican musicians hit it off so well with Greenburg, a former bassist for New York-based Donna the Buffalo.

"The frequent use of banjo in mento may come as a surprise, since this did not carry over into later Jamaican music," explains mentomusic.com. "This is strange, considering how great this instrument sounds in mento, and how many different ways it was played. It strummed the rhythm similarly to the role of guitar in reggae. It was a lead instrument, sometimes played very precisely and sometimes very loosely. It could riff wildly, or be played as orderly and pointillisticly as a music box. Sometimes it chimed like a steel drum, other times it sounded like a mandolin. But banjo always brightened up the song."

And then the Web site goes on to point out, "One thing mento banjo doesn't sound like is the banjo playing heard in bluegrass or other American musical traditions."

For Ruth Brooks, that distinction is pointless. When Greenberg left Jamaica, he told his bandmates about the Brooks family, and the Overtakers were invited to the Grassroots Festival in Ithaca, N.Y.

"The first time I heard real bluegrass, I was crazy about it," the mento singer enthuses. "It's a sweet music. If you're sick and this music is playing, you'll be raised."

In the family way
At the Grassroots fest, the Overtakers were introduced to Pond's Snake Oil Medicine Show and a bond quickly formed. This led to trips between Jamaica and North Carolina and a collaborative effort to record the Overtakers' Jamaican Roots Music CD, released on the eco-minded Tree Leaf label.

"Snake Oil Medicine Show began performing with the Overtakers six years ago in Jamaica," recalls CX-1 promoter Maisy Cooper. "Soon a real family vibe overtook all of us."

Family is a theme of sorts between the two groups, but as far as Brooks is concerned, their ties are thicker than blood. "We have a lot of family bands [in Jamaica]," she notes, "It's normal here. I think all musicians, whether they are from Jamaica or not, are heart brothers."

The singer similarly embraces the melding of CX-1's eclectic mix with the Overtakers' simple, melodic island tunes (they call it mento-reggae in honor of their type of fusion). "You know what," she muses, "It's wonderful. Reggae is a heartbeat along with the bluegrass. With George singing and Ruben doing the reggae – it's fantastic."

She continues, "They're completely natural to be played together. We put reggae and bluegrass together and it sounds like something completely different. I know other people get it, because there's always a crowd. Even in Jamaica."

"Whatever music we play now is a mix," Pond affirms. "As reggae as I get, I'm still not totally reggae. And Ruben, from getting to know us, he plays with hillbilly rhythms."

While the blending of these two styles has created a unique form of music, Cooper and Pond hope this particular combo brings about more than just a string of concerts.

"When we heard the Overtakers' music, we knew that it was music the world was waiting to hear," Cooper stresses. "This idea we have to bring the Overtakers' music to the people of the world developed through the music we created over the course of our friendship."

As for Brooks, her focus is on sharing with an ever-broadening audience. "We'd like to go into schools – we love to do that," she relates. "You need the younger generation to learn to play and make [their own] songs up, too."

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Monday, November 13, 2006
Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
This image is from the 18th century book titled Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert (Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians from the 16th and 17th Centuries.) The University of Wisconsin Digital Library scanned and posted the entire tome, rich with stunning and cryptic illustrations, on their History of Science and Technology site.

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Biograffiti of Phil the Painter…and pictures too!
I was born in sunny South Florida in the mid-Spring of 1970. Bathed in warm yellow sunlight and stimulated by bright tropical colors, I would lie for hours in a hammock in the big backyard of my parents’ house, just taking it all in. It was there, at age two, that I first started-out drawing various garden bugs. My Mom, Pop and Grandmom drew garden variety bugs, as well. They encouraged me to draw and use my imagination from the get-go. I am an only child, so I spent a lot of time by myself, imagining things, writing stories, drawing pictures and wishing, with all my might, for a brother or sister, so at least then I could have someone to play with. My Mom, Judith Cheney, is a Painter, Illustrator and Naturalist. She had a cottage studio in our backyard where she would Paint. In order to keep me out of her hair, I was given endless art supplies. My Dad, Phil Cheney III owned a little sign shop where I was sent when the art supplies couldn’t pacify me. He was also an avid fisherman and many a morning we would wake before dawn to go fishing. We fished up and down the Florida coast, from the Inlets and Beaches of Palm Beach County to the Mangroves and Flats of the Keys.

My Grandmother, Catherine Hardin Moore, was a writer and poetess. She taught me to be “Thrifty” and best of all, how to make up stories. We collected sea-shells at the beach and sang songs together. She made me blue grapefruit juice (fresh-squeezed with Blue food coloring), peeled my hot dogs (I found out later that this was because she burned them) and made me eat peaches (also peeled) and cottage cheese. When I was 8 years old, my Mom and I went to Maine for the summer with some good friends of ours. I think it took us a week to get there from South Florida. The first night in Maine, we stayed in Port Clyde. We had delicious strawberry shortcake at the Inn, with fresh strawberries. My memory of this trip is like an old home movie being projected with a dim bulb. The next day we embarked aboard the “Laura B.” for a voyage to Monhegan Island. It was to be a prophetic trip. Once we were out a good ways at sea, I got up and moved forward along the railing towards the bow. I wanted to feel the sea-spray as we plowed the chill waters of that Northern Ocean and I have always liked to see where I was going.
Suddenly I felt strangely important, as if I were a great leader returning to my homeland. Victorious. As I look back, I think this feeling was a side-affect of having listened to the soundtrack album from “Camelot” a thousand times. I carried it with me everywhere I went. It was there on the “Laura B.” Then I heard a voice calling me across the water. A whisper on the wind, like a voice that wakes you from a deep sleep, and you swear you heard it but there’s nobody there. Its sweet, salty words tickled my ears. I got chills all over my body as I heard them say I would do something great in my lifetime. I think it was definitely one of those time/place situations but it has stayed with me always. In fact, I spent the greater part of my late teens and early twenties sitting inert, subconsciously waiting for more instructions that never came.

In fourth grade I presented my first Play, complete with illustrations. My favorite part of creating characters has always been drawing them, it brings them to life. The Play was entitled “The Nazerix: A Play A”. It was very inspired by a script I had of “The Life of Brian” by Monty Python. My script was made up of recognizable words mixed in with total gibberish. It recalled a journey by a group of cousins called the Nazerix. They lived on a far Southern Island called the Sequoia Desert. Their quest was a simple one: to gather bread and salt for Winter. The Nazerix’ nemesis was a Toll-Booth Lady who could not be killed by bread alone and haunted them wherever they went. She used no words, only a sign which read: “Stop. Pay Toll.” In several attempts to kill her, they used up all of their bread and caused an innocent Bird to disappear. All had to do was pay a nominal fee but they would rather resort to violence which spared no expense, even their food supply. After reading this Play, my Grandmother, who had encouraged me in this direction in the first place, wanted to send me in for psychiatric evaluation. Instead I got chess lessons. I am very lucky that my Parents were patient, calm and understanding. When I was ten years old, we moved away from South Florida and up into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. I had to leave behind my Grandmom and all of my friends. The North Carolina School System had little patience for Artistic children. My sunny warm yellow turned to chilly, dull brown. I went from deciphering hieroglyphics, writing plays and painting murals, to sitting in drab classrooms, where one couldn’t even chew gum and wearing multiple layers of clothing. I dealt with the change by turning to humor. This is when I started drawing Cartoons. I left the more serious Art of childhood, trains, dinosaurs and knights in armor behind, seemingly forever.

During High School and College, I worked on the student newspapers of various institutions as a Cartoonist. I continued to draw comic-strip style cartoons until I was 25. Then painting began to take over as my main artistic priority. Many of my post-collegiate years were spent in the food service industry, including a stint with a “Front of the House” catering company on the Lollapalooza 92 tour of America. It was during this tour that I caught the traveling bug and I haven’t been able to shake it since. Much of my Art and Humor is inspired by the experience of Travel. In 1996 I was working as a baker. Then fate intervened. It happened in the form of one Wesley Willis Winn. He appeared as if out of thin air. I was working at the Blue Moon Bakery in Asheville, NC and newly married (for the first time). Everything seemed to be “right” in my life when in walked Willis (aka “Woosel”). He was wearing high-water overalls, an engineer’s cap, Gandhi glasses and a long chin-beard (which he said he was growing for Halloween). He had just arrived in Asheville and he was homeless. His first words were: “My name is Willis. I’m here to wash dishes.” He was late. For a while, nobody really spoke to this strange new-comer. Behind his back everyone said, “Whatch you talkin’ about, Willis?” I finally approached him after learning that he was a painter and also a fellow “lefty” (a person who is predominately Left-handed).

Woosel introduced me to a group of artistic musicians, “Snake oil Medicine Show”. There was an instantaneous connection between us all. By the summer of 1997, we were touring around the South Eastern United States together. In January of 1998, while on tour of Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Georgia, I sealed my position as “on stage painter”. Snake Oil Medicine Show has performed at Festival grounds, Auditoriums, Theaters and every dark, smoky, hole-in-the-wall bar in between. At each and every location we have brought in Our original art and music. In most cases we have been able to “Charm out the Clones” (charm them out or at least confuse them), those poor souls who have only been exposed to Corporate Establishment Rock on MTV. They are usually shocked at first but once they open their eyes and ears, they really start grooving-out. At every show my paintings are displayed, in a kind of one-night-stand gallery, we call it “the Dynamic Art Gallerie”. I am so grateful to do art. It can be powerful and gigantic. It electrifies me and lifts me out of the mundanity of this life and up into the stars. Art is a HUGE part of my soul and all souls if they let it be. It is a glimpse of everlasting Love and the path to nonconformity. I believe that the various forms of creativity, such as art and music, are the living voice of Love - that same voice that called to a young boy across an open sea all those years ago.

Most of the paintings on this site were created on-stage with the Snake Oil Medicine Show and were conceptualized in the thick, creative haze that continuously encircles this “wildly popular multi-media extravaganza”. Our highly-transportable Art Show was dubbed the “Dynamic Art Gallerie” by George Pond (aka Warpextor Cosmoverse) of the SOMS. The Gallerie is dynamic because its only consistency is its ever-changing appearance. It’s never the same show twice!


My strongest influences are; my Mom, the painter Judith Cheney, Kirk Nelson, Woosel, George Pond, Paul Gauguin, Peter Max, my high school art teacher, Mark Phillips, Scramble Campbell, Nemo, Frenchy, Peter Max and my close friends and family.




photo by Al Madden 2000