08.31
DGM HQ.
A broad accent of the local kind is penetrating the thin division that has pretensions as a wall between my office & that of Butcher Fry in the Village Shop’s office; nominally next door, in actuality in the corner of this room.
09.04 Morning reading I…
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In his Introduction Anthony Blake quotes Patrick de Mare: Mind is between brains, not in brains. Similarly, Music dwells in the space between the notes, not in the notes. Something like, the notes shape the particular form of Silence that we recognise as music.
09.19 Dr. Lucy Green has just sent the complete document file of the Second Edition of Music On Deaf Ears. Hooray!
12.31 E-frenzying & playing catch-up on the alarming level of enquiries, requests, commentaries & information on latest ill-arisings in the Evil Empire; known to innocents as the Music Industry.
A visit to the Village Shop, to acquire mouldering produce for lunch…
Butcher Fry fiercely refuses to have his photo taken, thus denying the legitimate right of DGM visiting-consumers to invade his privacy, spoil the quality with which he experiences his life & piss him off generally. Butcher Fry has no rights! Innocent consumers (even those who spend nothing with DGM Live but who visit the site for free hot tickles – which gives them rights because they could be visiting some other site!) - may well be dismayed at the distressing arrogance, even hubris, of this man for failing to realise he has no rights at all in front of theirs. This is democracy in action! they assert. There’s more of us than there is of you, so get with the programme, Butcher guy!
Butcher Fry, holding his instrument for dissembling the parts of formerly-assembled animals, is not a person to whom I would present this argument in person…
Returning to the office…
14.38 A likely offer has been made, and accepted, on the 1959 Les Paul. The next guitar available for acquisition by the discerning…
… is this 1961 Fender Stratocaster…
… modelled by its current owner I…
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All bona fide enquiries should be addressed to [email protected]. Offers such as I have no money but will play it honourably so please give it to me for nothing! should be sent to [email protected].
If any enquirer needs helpful suggestions as to how to become a killer guitarist, especially while leaping in the air or adopting a pose while wearing a handkerchief for a skirt, there’s always this…
The three that immediately spring to my mind are these:
1. Have an aim.
2. Find your teacher / instructor.
3. Practice.
17.28 An inbox of 213 & no practising yet.
17.45 Off to Bredonborough via Wilton.
20.54 Bredonborough.
In Wilton, a visit to Romain’s Emporium Of Antiquities & Delights That Sell Themselves I…
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And this interesting Elizabethan pear wood cabinet…
A little transacting later, back on the road to Bredonborough, arriving to a welcoming from the Minx & WillyFred…
WillyFred has not been eating, this causing considerable concern to T. St. Edith of the Valleys believed that all ailments could be cured by a little more cuddling & fussing. Extra cuddling & fussing is applied to WF…
"Breathing is optional."
