Parford Well BampB Most Acceptable
09.15
Parford Well, B&B Most Acceptable, Sandy Park, Chagford.
Oh no! Guitar Craft dreams in the night. The Completion Course is beckoning.
A fabbo Parford Well breakfast. Loading the car & off to work.
10.18 Super Audio Mastering, Monk;s Withecombe, Chagford.
Today’s work: ITWOP - the album in 5.1. The problem we have faced with The Devil’s Triangle is our inability to find the original multi-tracks, leaving us with the original stereo mix. Simon’s masterly touch, along with
Penteo has polished the job. DT I, II & III are now tickled. If allowed a radical option, I would delete DT II & move from I straight to III. But probably that would be too much for most of those who continue to fondle vinyl sleeves in private rooms. An earlier attempt by Simon & Robert is recounted in the Diary for
Tuesday, 7th September 1999.
10.30 In response to members of the Guitar Craft Team & an interesting initiative by one of them…
this is a superb example of how Guitar Craft moves out into the world while simultaneously ceasing to exist.
the quality of the notion, and its rightness, offers no guarantee that it will succeed in the world. i have seen bona schemes fail because of earthly pressures. but, it does suggest that any effort or work that goes into getting the school into existence is worthwhile, whatever the external result of that.
currently my antennae are indicating that there are major creative shifts underway, and the forms & re-alignments these generate will become clearer in the next 12-18 months. i have cleared my own calendar at the end of the year to allow more room to respond as & when these arisings present themselves.
12.50 A through-listen to ITWOP - the album in 5.1 I…
Simon considers that Pictures of A City is the finest surround-mix he has heard – ever! This is a significant commendation.
13.48 Onto the 5.1 of Beat. Neal & Jack & Me – Absent Lovers. This belongs to utterly different time & space than Poseidon & Islands.
15.28 Much werning & twerning continues as Beat moves through Heartbeat, Turkish D (original name), Waiting Man & now Neurotica.
16.45 Requiem done.
Neurotica is my fave from Beat. Waiting Man & Heartbeat are also strong.
Onto added-value tracks for the Islands DVD & CD. Taken together, these are somewhere between added-value, historic-interest, and cruel-and-unnatural punishment.
18.06 Done. Off to Worcestershire.
20.56 Home & unloading. WillyFred is waiting to play & The Minx to gentle. Yippee!
