(thanks to Jason for heads up!)

The story about Chad’s DVD, Eastern Rim, was definitely not a rumour. The piece, which is very relevant to John appreciators as it contains footage of the amazing jam held on on 11th April last year in Melbourne will be available on DVD from 10th March on.

Performances: In addition to rare, behind-the-scenes views of a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert, this DVD captures an explosive 30-minute improv live from Federation Square in Melbourne. Chad and his band mates surprise the crowd by turning a scheduled drum clinic into a full-fledged jam!

To read more and order the DVD, click here.

OK, this one is serious. And rather urgent.

Invisible Movement needs help to stay on its feet for the second time. For those of you who were not following this website in November 2006 and for those of you who don’t remember it, back in the days the old hosting company kicked I-M.net out of its server because of “using up too much of the system resources” and, thanks to an amazing person, who partly made this site what it is and who is and always will be the most wonderful human on Earth, no matter where she is and what she is doing right now, who agreed to accept donations at her PayPal, a donation rally for new hosting was started.

And then, a bunch of people donated enough money for the best hosting ever to be bought and the remaining amount was used for the longer-term domain name renewal. One of them, certain J.H. most likely gave twice as much as everyone else together.

In the meantime, I was 100% sure that I’ll be able to pay new hosting once the current offer expires with my debit card. Unfortunately, the situation in this country did not change, there’s still no possibility to use PayPal and, apparently, even though I tried, it turned out that I cannot use my debit card online and, as the current hosting offer expires in about ten days, so there isn’t much time to react or to send money by snail-mail to someone who would be able to pay it.

In short, Invisible Movement will need to run another donation rally this week.

Before anything else is done: I’m looking for a volunteer who can use PayPal and who will be able to accept the payments and then, when it’s all done, just transfer the donated amount of money onto the hosting company’s account. The person, of course, needs to be trusting enough to do this.

So, if you think you could handle being the volunteer for this process, please, contact me. I will pick the person who seems to be the most reliable or the first reliable enough to come up, then the donation rally will start.

I hope that, among 40 000 people who visit this website each month, there’s someone who could help with this.

The week behind us leaves its mark by an one-day-hiatus on Friday (there were two reasons for it and you can read about one of them here, just so you’d know it wasn’t some stupid thing!); BUT also an extra large update in the live photography gallery, including three photos from Mother’s Milk era, something from 2003 and some from 2006 and 2007. I can also assure you that there will be more next week.

Also, the gigography section is temporarily offline, as it’s being rebuilt. If you have been to any of John’s solo shows in 2001, performances in 2004, shows with Thelonious Monster in 1997, ATP Festival or 1st anual Hullabaloo in 2005, numerous (un)expected appearances at The Mars Volta shows or, well, anything else, I am kindly asking you if you would share a bit of your experience and/or media from those events. There’s a handful of people who have submitted their reviews, mostly of ATP 2005 and the 2004 performances already, but more is always welcome…think of it as if you were contributing to history, because it IS history!

Either way, here’s a short summary of this week’s updates and, to get the details, continue reading. This one’s for the picture-lovers for sure.

1. Fifteen new sets of live photos
2. Two new sets of screencaps/stills
3. One more language in the GLOBAL action

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(thanks to Ilyk for the news)

Portugal has signed on to WP1 and its May 17, 2008 global concert broadcast in Lisbon.

The event location, security, police, medical staff, stage, sound, lights, event production and tickets sales are being provided. Concessions, merchandise and local fundraising campaigns will also be included.

The country of Portugal has taken a leading role in supporting WP1 and its Ten-Year Global Peace Initiative. In Lisbon, Portugal’s Capital City, localofficials, business leaders and Peace activists are offering to host WP1’s First Annual Global Peace Symposium, sometime in the summer of 2008. As a gesture toward Peaceful Diplomacy and National Security, Portugal’s Government and several large corporations are committing financing for the May 17th WP1 concert event.

Top Portuguese Artists will share the stage with top International Artists.

In terms of International Artists, the Portuguese wish-list includes any of the following: Madonna, U2, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Genesis, Robbie Williams, Justin Timberlake, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, Rihanna, Jessica Simpson, Mary J. Blidge, Foo Figthers, Metallica, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Led Zeppelin, RATM, Linkin Park, Coldplay, Radiohead, Muse, Silverchair, Audioslave, Velvet Revolver, the Spice Girls, Take That, Tokio Hotel, Pink, Cristina Aguilera, Avril Lavigne, Pearl Jam, Gentleman and Jack Johnson. Invitees are being asked to perform four songs each.

For more information on WorldPeaceOne, click here.

As Contact Music reported, here’s one more thing Chad Smith said regarding the current RHCP hiatus and, well, it’s up to you to count when they will be coming back to work.

“We took a look at each other in September (07) and we were like, ‘You know what? I love you guys, but we all kind of need a break,’ and we all said, ‘Let’s reconvene in one year.’”

Here’s a brief list of what’s on this week’s playlist.To read more about it and see where you can get the last one if you liked it, click the “continue reading” link.

This week’s playlist has a dedication. But the dedication shall remain a …
…mystery.

• 13th February 2001: Modern Love
• 27th May 1990: Pretty Little Ditty
• 11th August 2006: Untitled #3
• 28th January 2001: Country Feedback
• 28th January 2000: Your Pussy is Glued To A Building On Fire
• 2002: John is describing songwriting process in RHCP
• 05th August 2000: Forming II
• 14th June 2006: End Jam
• 28th January 2001: Beginning Again
• 06th June 2007: SOS

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The updates for the week are here. As it’s the practice in the most of cases, here’s a short summary and, for everything else, continue reading.

1. One new set of magazine scans
2. Two new random cuttings
3. One-year-worth of press photos
4. One magazine article
5. One interview transcript
6. Three album reviews
7. One audio interview
8. One cover song from 1998
9. Two new video clips

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