Clarity
Week from Monday 23rd September 2024 - Last week was another fairly empty one, followed by a concentrated burst of activity at the weekend (mental rather than physical)... I had acquired a naughty audience recording of a SOFT MACHINE gig from a couple of weeks ago. They played a 'one-off' at the Pizza Express oop dzat Londin, no doubt as a warm-up for their currently ongoing American tour. It's quite an exciting listen if you can hear past the audio quality ('MY LIFE IN B***LEGS'). It's nice and clear, but Asif's drums are painfully loud in the mix at times. But a bit of tender-loving Audacity can fix that! I've learnt by now to expect a lot of patter and 'dead air' at a Softies gig. A set that appears to last about an hour-and-three-quarters, can usually be trimmed to the length of a single listenable CD, if I have the patience to do so - I can lose all the vociferousness and the 'Chew Ning', cut the DRUM SOLO down to an acceptable length, leaving a solid seventy-odd minutes-worth of MUSIC. So that was Saturday's PROJECT taken care of...
On Sunday, the BBC are carrying the Individual Time Trials at the UCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS in Zurich. All the other events during the week will require a EuroSport subscription, but then the 'proper' Road Races will be back on the Beeb NEXT weekend. A strangely random state of affairs, but I'll take what I can get.
24th September 1984... It was #OnThisDay #FortyYearsAgo, to quote an earlier edition of this bloggydiarythingy, "a bunch of us went to the Hammersmith Odeon* to see and hear FRANK ZAPPA relating the story of 'Roland In The Whore House' and other tales of Road Folklore, accompanied by one of his best ever bands..."
"*Of course, in those days, it WAS still correctly known as the Hammersmith Odeon - or the 'HAMMY-O' to all us seasoned rockers - and not the Hammersmith Super-Vodaphone-O2-Rama-Lama-Brought-To-You-By-Snickers Apollo, or whatever they call it this week..." End Quote.
I whooshed down to Gosport, mainly to visit the PRINT SHOP to run off the covers for my latest music seedy 'projects' (SOFT MACHINE, CAN, COBALT CHAPEL), but also to acquire a few currently-medically-vital 'SUPPLIES' (batteries and laxatives!)...
I've always considered myself an "EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE" kinda person. When I was "working", I was always at my sharpest, and did my best creative thinking, early in the morning. But all that seems to have changed now. If I go to bed early, I wake up after two or three hours' solid sleep and I remain restless for the rest of the night. Nowadays, my body prefers to stay up later in the evening, watch a late movie (something I could never do before), and then wake up in the morning when it feels like it.
On Sunday, the BBC are carrying the Individual Time Trials at the UCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS in Zurich. All the other events during the week will require a EuroSport subscription, but then the 'proper' Road Races will be back on the Beeb NEXT weekend. A strangely random state of affairs, but I'll take what I can get.
24th September 1984... It was #OnThisDay #FortyYearsAgo, to quote an earlier edition of this bloggydiarythingy, "a bunch of us went to the Hammersmith Odeon* to see and hear FRANK ZAPPA relating the story of 'Roland In The Whore House' and other tales of Road Folklore, accompanied by one of his best ever bands..."
"*Of course, in those days, it WAS still correctly known as the Hammersmith Odeon - or the 'HAMMY-O' to all us seasoned rockers - and not the Hammersmith Super-Vodaphone-O2-Rama-Lama-Brought-To-You-By-Snickers Apollo, or whatever they call it this week..." End Quote.
I whooshed down to Gosport, mainly to visit the PRINT SHOP to run off the covers for my latest music seedy 'projects' (SOFT MACHINE, CAN, COBALT CHAPEL), but also to acquire a few currently-medically-vital 'SUPPLIES' (batteries and laxatives!)...
I've always considered myself an "EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE" kinda person. When I was "working", I was always at my sharpest, and did my best creative thinking, early in the morning. But all that seems to have changed now. If I go to bed early, I wake up after two or three hours' solid sleep and I remain restless for the rest of the night. Nowadays, my body prefers to stay up later in the evening, watch a late movie (something I could never do before), and then wake up in the morning when it feels like it.
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