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DGM HQ.
How many music-download companies have 3 tractors in their corporate car park?
The sun is shining, the sky is blue I…
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… this in marked contrast to yesterday.
The Minx called just after 08.00 from her tv studio to tell me that, as she was driving past yesterday, she saw the Bredonborough Mill development flooded. Bredonborough’s old mill burned down over 25 years ago & was redeveloped in the 1990s. The lower floors of the mill maisonettes now have a closer view of the River Avon than last week.
An Immediate Music cue, one of the projects with Jeff Fayman & his partner Yo, has been licensed to the tv show Grey’s Anatomy. This a month ago but, mysteriously & wonderfully just after I typed this, the cheque has arrived in the post. In distinct contrast to almost every other music company of my close acquaintance, Immediate’s cheques arrive on time.
In DGM SoundWorld II David & Alex are preparing for all four nights of ProjeKct One –Live At The Jazz Café for download I…
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Next door, the DGM Filing System I…
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13.12 E-frenzy underway while, over my head, the best & worst of ProjeKct One. Some astonishing burning is followed by the limpest, tritest, most unimaginativist guitarist I can imagine, fully exposed to public ridicule, completely naked. A dismal, miserable, humiliating listening experience where the player utterly fails to honour his calling & profession; utterly deaf to the promptings of the Muse.
That’s improv, I guess. Clearly, the guitarist lacked the courage to do nothing when it was clear that doing nothing was the best available strategy. This comment, relevant to the Channel 9 interview posted on the DGM Newspage today by The Sidney Smith.
14.16 The journey is the destination. That is, where we’re going is how we get there.
David & Robert have been discussing P1 in the kitchen. I am in pain from listening to the guitarist, struggling & failing to find ways to contribute to the ensemble inprov. There are definite highspots, and they are remarkable, but it’s not easy (maybe not even possible) to fully appreciate them when removed from the full unfolding over 4 days. With P1, most likely the money shots just don’t deliver the goods. Pain continues – until the Team lift off again. Then despair lightens & hope begins again.
16.40 Only c. 100 left in the inbox. but I gotta get away for awhile…
Several very interesting offers of work are coming in, none of which I can address while dealing with the level of bureaucracy that presses down, the policing the catalogue requires, and the practising that is needed to maintain the standard required.
A new folder for the filing cabinet: infringements. This is now a several-times-a-week matter.
16.46 Filing for the Memorabilia Section of the DGM Art Department: the final hotel check-out (Sheraton Santiago) in my life as a touring musician I…
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Final show as Road Gigster, with G3 in Santiago, Chile on November 12th. 2004…
… and being supported in this decision by pal Joe…
This was the end of front-line touring, with live performance the raison d’etre of musical life, the centre of gravity towards which everything else was directed. Performance in front of audiences continues, but in a different way. On that day, a certain approach to the life of the working player ended. Actually, the Crimson tour the year before, Crimson - The Power To Believe World Tour of 2003 – is better regarded as the final tour, with G3 in Europe & South America the swansong/s.
May I note, as a matter of record: I had never known the support & encouragement of any touring outfit to the extent that I experienced with G3, both in 1997 & 2004. A stunning bunch of people, including management.
22.23 Dribble.
"The simplest is the most difficult to discharge superbly."
