08.03
Hotel Acceptable, Portland.
Morning View…
Greater Perspective Morning View…
A Better View (if you lift the blind on the other wall)…
A lobby call for noon: Bill the Director, Hector, Matt, Brian & RF van north to Seattle for some 3 hours. This Is What We’re Going To Do I…
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19.41 Hotel Acceptable, Seattle.
Arriving at the Soundbox around 15.00 where, Bill tells me, Crimson played in 1981 – and Bill was there.
I remember the (modest) hotel, and the difficulty at breakfast in explaining to the server that I wanted hot milk with my coffee. Amazing shock horror! Seattle unaware of lattes, cappucini, café con leche & café au lait! And yet, it was so.
Soundbox Dressing Room…
Venue I…
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Setting Up…
Bill The Director Directing I…
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To the hotel for a welcome shower & clean clothing, lobby call for 20.00 & off to the gig. Early Evening View I…
Early Evening View II…
23.50 The Seattle Guitar Circle began at 20.30, in three locations around the FOH, in A# harmonic minor (an octotonic version, down a semitone). This tuned the air of the performance space by bringing a quality of intentionality to bear, and setting up the beginning of Slow Music at 21.00. Slow Music & the SGC cross-faded over perhaps 5 minutes.
Peter has acquired a new model of the pedal that brought about his equipment-meltdown yesterday, but added a wonderful new item of technology: a butter knife. This Peter used to great effect, arguably employed more effectively than the Solar Voyager 1.3. Unarguably, the butter knife used less electricity.
From this guitarist’s stool, the first set was tentative; the second, outgoing.
""Tomorrow" is the first lie of the Devil."
