32 results found for The Music Business

The Music Business

#507, SOFITEL, BEVERLY BLVD.,...
19.08 #507, Sofitel, Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. Leaving the Little Willcox in Chiswick was hard....
16 Jan 2003

The Music Business

MOBILE HQ, CRIMSON TOURBUS,...
10.48 Mobile HQ, Crimson Tourbus, currently at W.42 & 8th. Avenue, NYCNY. Farewell Hotel Desig...
07 Mar 2003

The Music Business

THAT AWFUL MAN & THE VICAR -...
Toronto   So the tour is begun. The “Star sleeper bus” coming to drag us aw...
19 Sep 2022

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
09.47 Another grey day. Rising late at 09.30. I was up late packing & de-vibrating from the pe...
27 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
10.24 Snow has returned to Mount Juliet. The view from The Basement is bright. At this time in Engl...
25 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
09.45 The view from The Basement this morning - snow has melted & the beginning grey has given...
24 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
20.09 Another grey, and wet, day at Mount Juliet. The Crim rehearsals, yesterday & today, are...
21 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
09.49 Another grey day. Already this morning business - two signed documents relating to the Virgi...
20 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
08.05 Mozart. Mozart. Adam's music for flute brings sunshine to an otherwise grey morning over Moun...
18 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
20.33 A cold day here in Nashville & its environs. The first day of winding up the Crimson Bea...
17 Feb 2003

The Music Business

CHEZ BELEWBELOID, MOUNT....
17.51 Rising at 04.45 to a wet morning. Reading for the morning: Ken Wilber's Sex, Ecology, Spiritu...
14 Feb 2003

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH.
17.03 A quiet day at home with The Little Horse has become an e-frenzy. This comes via a third part...
09 Feb 2003

The Music Business

WATERSTONE'S COFFEE SHOP,...
14.42 Yippee! I am with my Little Luvvie! That is, not at this particular moment. Her afternoon sho...
06 Feb 2003

The Music Business

DGM HQ.
17.29 David & I are Tone Probing away in DGM SoundWorld. We have several concerns that are call...
04 Feb 2003

The Music Business

#507, SOFITEL, BEVERLY BLVD.,...
08.28 The sky is hazy, and the hunt for AOL is about to begin -- 09.29 E-flurrying successful at...
20 Jan 2003

The Music Business

#507, SOFITEL, BEVERLY BLVD.,...
08.29 #507, Sofitel, Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. Yes. It's that time again - battling to get onlin...
17 Jan 2003

The Music Business

TOURBUS IT-IS-BARELY-ADEQUATE,...
  Rising in Hotel Acceptable at 06.56, bags down at 08.30 and onto Tourbus This-Is-Not-The...
22 Sep 2022

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH.
20.25 A cold day with frost and mainly blue sky. T & I have had a day at home, with two local...
08 Jan 2003

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH.
11.33 The sky is blue, the sun is shining, hard frost delineates the forms & shapes of building...
07 Jan 2003

The Music Business

DGM HQ.
11.57 Discover joy in the small things. The sun is shining through a sky mainly grey & full of...
03 Jan 2003

The Music Business

THAT AWFUL MAN & THE VICAR -...
For those interested in the thinking behind DGM Ltd, that is the subject of this week's excerpt fr...
14 Jun 2023

The Music Business

THAT AWFUL MAN & THE VICAR -...
It has been interesting re-living last year's speaking tour with Robert as the clips emerge week b...
06 Jun 2023

The Music Business

THE BIG STEAL
The Big StealIt is a while since I have written about the inequities of the music business (Spit! Sp...
12 May 2023

The Music Business

FRIPP & SINGLETON ANSWER...
In a conversation that took place at The City Winery in New York City on September 23rd 2022,...
Feb 17, 2023

The Music Business

THAT AWFUL MAN & THE VICAR -...
Another video from the Fripp/Singleton tour last autumn. Most nights we were asked about the Toyah...
07 Mar 2023

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH.
13.06 Bredonborough. The sun is shining. The sky is blue. The air is nippy. That does not actually...
09 Dec 2002

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH.
12.08The first call of the day was from David at DGM HQ - Sanctuary want a radio friendly edit of Ey...
01 Nov 2002

The Music Business

DGM HQ
14.56Call & e-mails are coming in, and Bill Bruford is visiting tomorrow, with concerns over The...
08 Apr 2002

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH, WORCESTERSHIRE.
08.52 The sun is shining, the sky is blue & the temperature brisk. The world is mad, if televi...
06 Apr 2002

The Music Business

KING CRIMSON TOUR BUS OF...
11.00 The King Crimson Nashville To Asheville tour is now ended, and has merged seamlessly with the...
01 Mar 2003

The Music Business

DGM HQ.
11.08 A grey, wet day. Alex is not coming in: he is sick. Contagious staff are encouraged to stay...
22 Feb 2007

The Music Business

JOE THE PROLIFIC ALMOST....
10.11 Joe the Prolific almost always manages to tune the day's beginning for me. And snow has been s...
08 Feb 1999

The Music Business

#507, SOFITEL, BEVERLY BLVD.,...
19.08 #507, Sofitel, Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. Leaving the Little Willcox in Chiswick was hard. There is something about seeing my Wife for several consecutive weeks that adds to the quality of my life. A straightforward, enjoyable flight to LAX to find a chauffeur waiting with my name on a board. This I was not expecting. Charlie Hewitt tells me that Vic Garbarini, my interview for tomorrow, & the Belewbeloible Ade are held up in Nashvi...
16 Jan 2003

The Music Business

MOBILE HQ, CRIMSON TOURBUS,...
10.48 Mobile HQ, Crimson Tourbus, currently at W.42 & 8th. Avenue, NYCNY. Farewell Hotel Designer! I grew fond of you and enjoyed sitting in your lobby. Fashionable twenty, thirty & forty-somethings enjoyed your lobby lounge & bar in the evening, too. Yesterday I had almost forgotten the noise of your air conditioning vents, such is the rapidity with which we become accustomed to ongoing sensory input. Until this morning, that is. S...
07 Mar 2003

The Music Business

THAT AWFUL MAN & THE VICAR -...
Toronto   So the tour is begun. The “Star sleeper bus” coming to drag us away from the comforts of the hotel arrived five hours late, so we arrived late to the venue (comparatively easy to deal with), the driver had however exceeded his allotted hours and so was unable to collect us after the show (a little harder to deal with), and the “Star bedroom”, Robert’s sanctuary for the next three weeks, is a bl...
19 Sep 2022

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
09.47 Another grey day. Rising late at 09.30. I was up late packing & de-vibrating from the performance. And I enjoyed a glass of bubbling solution with Martha & Ade Belew, upstairs in Chateau Belewbeloid, back from Soundcheck. Martha's views of the band, and of the dress rehearsal, were useful as always. Supportive while frank, and quite unlike any other commentator on the band. My view of Fripp's performing role in this band: I do no...
27 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
10.24 Snow has returned to Mount Juliet. The view from The Basement is bright. At this time in England there is a major discussion underway, regarding the possible/projected European tour for KC, between management & agency. Here, a little pre-tour packing & organizing, and now to take guitar in hand. The Little Horse opens in Eastbourne today, and flowers should now be with her in her dressing room. 11.57 Telephonic & online diff...
25 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
09.45 The view from The Basement this morning - snow has melted & the beginning grey has given way to lotsa blue. Hooray! Rising at 07.25, part of a switch to the new time zone: Performance Zone. Our call for band rehearsals is 18.00. The equipment is moving from Thunderbirdz to a new space, large enough to simulate playing conditions. 09.49 Yow! The sun is shining! This is the second time on this visit that I have seen sunshine. And it's...
24 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
20.09 Another grey, and wet, day at Mount Juliet. The Crim rehearsals, yesterday & today, are increasing focus. The four players have become King Crimson once more, although noticeably limping gently from King to Crimson & back again. But we are towards the end of the middle. After today's rehearsals I felt less dribblatum est and more tired, that is, tired in a good way after a day's honourable working. Dribbling exhaustion is not use...
21 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
09.49 Another grey day. Already this morning business - two signed documents relating to the Virgin audit settlement, that arrived at Chez Belewbeloid via FedEx yesterday, are returning to DGM's solicitor in London. Also, an e-flurry addressing inter alia the alarming failure to achieve definition & clarity regarding the possible/likely Crimson tour of Europe in June & July. The agent has had several months' notice to plan & prepar...
20 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
08.05 Mozart. Mozart. Adam's music for flute brings sunshine to an otherwise grey morning over Mount Juliet. 08.45 Ian, Jakko & C21SB management have acted to address deceptive advertising for the Band in Europe. They are apologetic, although no blame attaches to them. An e-mail to Ian just off -- dear ian, if i change my name to ian, can i join your band, please? 19.29 Dribble dribble. Hooray hooray! A good day's rehearsal. We are co...
18 Feb 2003

The Music Business

MOUNT JULIET.
20.33 A cold day here in Nashville & its environs. The first day of winding up the Crimson Beast of Terror in preparation for unleashing it on the world. Apparently, the English magazine Classic Rock, in their review of TPTB, suggests we should call it a day. This is the simple arrogance of a reviewer not yet quite grown out of believing their own reviews. Yet not quite approaching the arrogance of Andy Gill reviewing TCOL: "music is too im...
17 Feb 2003

The Music Business

CHEZ BELEWBELOID, MOUNT....
17.51 Rising at 04.45 to a wet morning. Reading for the morning: Ken Wilber's Sex, Ecology, Spirituality. This is the second edition (Shambhala 2000) from the Collected Works, Volume Six. The first edition is in my study at Bredonborough. Now, an e-frenzy with multiple matters, many of them frictive & difficult, within both GC & Crimson touring & DGM business. One of the arising issues: a challenge, in the form of a hurdle, was pre...
14 Feb 2003

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH.
17.03 A quiet day at home with The Little Horse has become an e-frenzy. This comes via a third party, from a person I recently met -- -- I see that King Crimson is playing in Toronto in March 2003 with Robert. It would be fantastic to be able to see this show from a complimentary (sic) position and even say hello to Robert. This is a good example of how the joy available in performance is nailed to earth, even by good people. Perhaps the Frenc...
09 Feb 2003

The Music Business

WATERSTONE'S COFFEE SHOP,...
14.42 Yippee! I am with my Little Luvvie! That is, not at this particular moment. Her afternoon show in The Marlowe is at 14.30 & the second show at 19.30. I drove down after the press conference yesterday and joined her in Hotel-Modest-But-Sufficient opposite the theatre. It is a pub that accepted an unassuming place in the world perhaps 30-40 years ago, and continues to be unassuming (without claims to more than that) with furnishings and...
06 Feb 2003

The Music Business

DGM HQ.
17.29 David & I are Tone Probing away in DGM SoundWorld. We have several concerns that are calling for our attention. Much to my ire, I had to cancel today's session at Studio Eno to be here and address those concerns. Unable to contact Brian at his studio, I called his mobile & found him huff-puffing away on his bicycle in Acton. Brian is, he suggests, busy enough to be able to fill his day without me & promised he will continue to...
04 Feb 2003

The Music Business

#507, SOFITEL, BEVERLY BLVD.,...
08.28 The sky is hazy, and the hunt for AOL is about to begin -- 09.29 E-flurrying successful at the second attempt, calls to DGM HQ, Father-in-Law Beric & Little Willcox. Little Willcox is in Glasgow for the next batch of touring with Calamity Jane. She sounds in good cheer & very happy to be back with her team. Here, I came to the end of Ian Kershaw's magisterial Hitler:Nemesis at the nearby Starbucks, with the regular homeless peop...
20 Jan 2003

The Music Business

#507, SOFITEL, BEVERLY BLVD.,...
08.29 #507, Sofitel, Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. Yes. It's that time again - battling to get online with AOL, then get e-mail while online, then stay online long enough to reply. The good news is, from several messages waiting I was able to receive one - from Vic Garbarini, stranded by a snowstorm in Nashville. Vic is wondering how & when to meet and interview in the changed conditions. But since no-one has given me a schedule of my intervi...
17 Jan 2003

The Music Business

TOURBUS IT-IS-BARELY-ADEQUATE,...
  Rising in Hotel Acceptable at 06.56, bags down at 08.30 and onto Tourbus This-Is-Not-The-Bus-We-Were-Promised-Nor-What-We-Paid-For-Ahead-Of-Time. Unpacking in Suite Dismal, my allocated space. To spend three weeks in this space without windows and with no natural light, for one of my sensitivities, is close to crippling. If I attributed intention to this, it would be to deter me from undertaking another public outing in the US. Perha...
22 Sep 2022

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH.
20.25 A cold day with frost and mainly blue sky. T & I have had a day at home, with two local friends visiting for lunch & another for a glass of bubbling solution after work. Both of these were "short call" spontaneous events. We have other friends locally that we hope to see, and hopefully shall, before our respective tours take us far from each other and from home. Now, an e-flurry defeated: the AOL line is engaged. Fancy that. 20....
08 Jan 2003

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH.
11.33 The sky is blue, the sun is shining, hard frost delineates the forms & shapes of buildings & garden. I am missing my Wife very much but this afternoon she will be home. Yippee! Meanwhile, our Wonder-Cleaning-Lady Heather & Wonder-Builder Mark have been at work, cleaning the downstairs rooms & clearing blocked gutters respectively. My own e-flurrying addresses various concerns from Crafties & the promotion department o...
07 Jan 2003

The Music Business

DGM HQ.
11.57 Discover joy in the small things. The sun is shining through a sky mainly grey & full of clouds. But, here in Broad Chalke, the sun is shining although the weight of the mundane presses close. Assuming good cheer, fortitude, a measure of discipline & the sun shining through grey clouds, what is not possible? Today there is a pile of people here at HQ. Alex is in DGM SoundWorld working on the next Club release; Nicky is visiting t...
03 Jan 2003

The Music Business

THAT AWFUL MAN & THE VICAR -...
For those interested in the thinking behind DGM Ltd, that is the subject of this week's excerpt from Robert and my evening in New York last autumn. It was one of my favourite evenings, so the law of Sod of course dictates that this would be the one night when most of the cameras failed. It appears that if the cameras switch off for whatever reason while filming, the file is there - a huge 100 GB file in some cases - but it appears be completely...
14 Jun 2023

The Music Business

THAT AWFUL MAN & THE VICAR -...
It has been interesting re-living last year's speaking tour with Robert as the clips emerge week by week. At some point, we will hopefully post a complete evening, as isolated questions only catch half of the event. The ongoing internal repartee between Robert, me and the audience is missing.   It is also good for the soul to be regularly made to feel like a prime chump. Whenever a question was asked, Robert would invite me to go fir...
06 Jun 2023

The Music Business

THE BIG STEAL
The Big StealIt is a while since I have written about the inequities of the music business (Spit! Spit!) which sadly occupy too much of my life – so let me introduce you all to what I shall term the Big Steal.We are currently involved in an ongoing court case which centres upon how royalties should be calculated on new technologies. This has taken me back to our renegotiations with EMI in 2003. At the time the new technology was downloads,...
12 May 2023

The Music Business

FRIPP & SINGLETON ANSWER...
In a conversation that took place at The City Winery in New York City on September 23rd 2022,...
Feb 17, 2023

The Music Business

THAT AWFUL MAN & THE VICAR -...
Another video from the Fripp/Singleton tour last autumn. Most nights we were asked about the Toyah/Robert videos. No doubt there will be others in later videos. This question had a slightly different slant to most, taking me back to the original Sunday All Over The World sessions. As part of some mad "expanded present" I am looking at those sessions right now for a surround sound release this year. Those few diehards who have read the third Vic...
07 Mar 2023

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH.
13.06 Bredonborough. The sun is shining. The sky is blue. The air is nippy. That does not actually mean the air is biting me, but that the temperature outside is nippy. That does not actually mean that the temperature is biting me either, but I am shortly going to walk the garden and avoid the weather's metaphorical teeth. Two hours of my beginning morning were spent on a letter to PC at BMG, my former music publisher. This is in respect of on...
09 Dec 2002

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH.
12.08The first call of the day was from David at DGM HQ - Sanctuary want a radio friendly edit of Eyes Wide Open. So David had a solitary Late Shift yesterday evening in DGM SoundWorld. We also discussed possible second editions of both The ConstruKction of Light & Heavy ConstruKction, moving forward with actualizing the audit of Virgin & BMG, and saying goodbye to the impossible Harry Fox. The Luvvie called this morning from Hull &...
01 Nov 2002

The Music Business

DGM HQ
14.56Call & e-mails are coming in, and Bill Bruford is visiting tomorrow, with concerns over The Sad Event. The change in DGM's condition, from that of about-to-be-moving-on to that of being-arrived-at-having-moved-on, is not sad at all. It is a triumph, resurrection, rebirth, a Wonderful & Joyous Event. 16.03 An e-mail has arrived for David Singleton from a character whose ongoing correspondence with us has been reliably hostile. Today'...
08 Apr 2002

The Music Business

BREDONBOROUGH, WORCESTERSHIRE.
08.52 The sun is shining, the sky is blue & the temperature brisk. The world is mad, if television news is any guide to the world. The news according to English tabloids suggests, the world is madder than that. Any reasonable person would despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater than that. And love is greater than that.  I My reflections of this sunny English morning are directed towards DGM's larger present moment: its...
06 Apr 2002

The Music Business

KING CRIMSON TOUR BUS OF...
11.00 The King Crimson Nashville To Asheville tour is now ended, and has merged seamlessly with the tour of Nashville To Lotsa Places Everywhere Else On Three Continents. The tour of Europe looks likely, even a goer. This includes points of existential terror for me, notably the Congresshall in Warsaw - a gift from Uncle Joe to his pals, the Polish people. This is one good example of how to transfer paranoia into architecture. Another good exam...
01 Mar 2003

The Music Business

DGM HQ.
11.08 A grey, wet day. Alex is not coming in: he is sick. Contagious staff are encouraged to stay away from the office. This leaves David & Robert the only two staff members in the office & the chance to clear desks & paper & inboxes. Swearing is coming through the wall from the village store office, in the accent of our landlord. 14.06  A member of the GC family has flown away http://myspace.com/jimgomez. A member of...
22 Feb 2007

The Music Business

JOE THE PROLIFIC ALMOST....
10.11 Joe the Prolific almost always manages to tune the day's beginning for me. And snow has been seriously falling, although not settling. And off to the Music Room to prepare Club Release No. 3. Release No. 4 is King Crimson live in the South of France in 1982. Brief Response to The Guestbook: Craig Astley: "Would (Craig) still then be in a dangerous legal situation" if he releases a Sunday All Over The World live cassette free? You bet! And...
08 Feb 1999

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