August 15th
Speak to Danny. He’s been at the Cropredy Festival that Fairport Convention hold in Oxfordshire every year. He was Compere for all of Sunday but didn’t play this year. We discuss his grand-daughter's appearance in front of the huge festival crowd. She played violin with great confidence. A version of ‘Is this the way to Amarillo’. She’s only 7. Talk about the holiday. He went to see Mel yesterday. And is now considering buying a barge!!!! Dan is going to tour the world with Eric Bibb, when we come back from Menorca. Exactly when he’d have time to travel on any barge, let alone his own, is beyond me.
Mel Comes over. We are to record a couple of solo’s on the forthcoming Crimson Jazz Trio record. Mel’s had a hard time with it, as the guide CD that I made him are out of tune and don’t make much sense with the parts that he’s been given. Ian had sent over some mixes via ‘Sendit.com’ but Mel had problems downloading it. So I just took the stems that Ian had given me mixed them and burned a CD for him to practise with. It was only after Mel had got here that I realised what an idiot I had been. All the files that Ian had sent me where at 48k and I’d made the CD from these. As a consequence, when played back through Mel’s Hi Fi the music appeared to be around a tone and a quarter out. Having established this error I make proper copies and Mel drives home for practise in the right key!!!
We’ll reconvene in a few days.
Speak to Paul Crockfords office about my pal Alan renting out part of their space. He is currently at Town House studio’, but they are soon closing for good!
The Mac book still keeps crashing or losing audio. Wonder when my G5 will be back. Hmpff.
Get a lovely e-mail from Roj Lewis. He was a mentor and of great help to me when I was about 14-15. He let me go round to his house and jam and play. He was a multi instrumentalist who actually had a proper band, that did proper gig’s, in London, no less. He even went to my parents to ask if I could accompany him, his wife and his band at an all nighter event at the notorious Kings Cross cinema in about 1973.
My mother agreed, because Roger was a teacher in the day time. I remember as we arrived at the gig they were showing an explicit documentary film about the infamous plaster casters on a huge screen. Not sure my parents would have approved of me witnessing these young women creating their art with just a bucket of plaster of Paris, some plastic sheeting and an erect penis. I vividly remember the grimness of the back stage area and seeing a rat run from under the sofa shortly after we sat down on it. It was all very exciting though. This was the life for me. I owe Roj a great deal. I had already given him a thank you on the booklet of the Double CD and was planning on going round to see him with a copy, so his mail was rather timely. It’s been donkey's years since we met.
Speak to Danny. He’s been at the Cropredy Festival that Fairport Convention hold in Oxfordshire every year. He was Compere for all of Sunday but didn’t play this year. We discuss his grand-daughter's appearance in front of the huge festival crowd. She played violin with great confidence. A version of ‘Is this the way to Amarillo’. She’s only 7. Talk about the holiday. He went to see Mel yesterday. And is now considering buying a barge!!!! Dan is going to tour the world with Eric Bibb, when we come back from Menorca. Exactly when he’d have time to travel on any barge, let alone his own, is beyond me.
Mel Comes over. We are to record a couple of solo’s on the forthcoming Crimson Jazz Trio record. Mel’s had a hard time with it, as the guide CD that I made him are out of tune and don’t make much sense with the parts that he’s been given. Ian had sent over some mixes via ‘Sendit.com’ but Mel had problems downloading it. So I just took the stems that Ian had given me mixed them and burned a CD for him to practise with. It was only after Mel had got here that I realised what an idiot I had been. All the files that Ian had sent me where at 48k and I’d made the CD from these. As a consequence, when played back through Mel’s Hi Fi the music appeared to be around a tone and a quarter out. Having established this error I make proper copies and Mel drives home for practise in the right key!!!
We’ll reconvene in a few days.
Speak to Paul Crockfords office about my pal Alan renting out part of their space. He is currently at Town House studio’, but they are soon closing for good!
The Mac book still keeps crashing or losing audio. Wonder when my G5 will be back. Hmpff.
Get a lovely e-mail from Roj Lewis. He was a mentor and of great help to me when I was about 14-15. He let me go round to his house and jam and play. He was a multi instrumentalist who actually had a proper band, that did proper gig’s, in London, no less. He even went to my parents to ask if I could accompany him, his wife and his band at an all nighter event at the notorious Kings Cross cinema in about 1973.
My mother agreed, because Roger was a teacher in the day time. I remember as we arrived at the gig they were showing an explicit documentary film about the infamous plaster casters on a huge screen. Not sure my parents would have approved of me witnessing these young women creating their art with just a bucket of plaster of Paris, some plastic sheeting and an erect penis. I vividly remember the grimness of the back stage area and seeing a rat run from under the sofa shortly after we sat down on it. It was all very exciting though. This was the life for me. I owe Roj a great deal. I had already given him a thank you on the booklet of the Double CD and was planning on going round to see him with a copy, so his mail was rather timely. It’s been donkey's years since we met.
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Do you know whether the CJ3 King Crimson Songbook volume 2 will ever be released? I am so pleased with volume 1 that I am eager to listen to whatever other recorded output they made before Ian Wallace sad passing. Any information you can provide is welcome.
Ignacio Trejos, Costa Rica
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