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Week from Monday 7th July 2025 - Another week for clearing up a few overdue 'MUSIC PROJECTS', mostly stuff to go on the "Miles-Related" MP3 disc... I've also initiated a new 'THON on my soshul meejer. I'm attempting to play EVERY CD or TAPE in (what I have of) the REAL WORLD RECORDS catalogue, in chronological order. And with a lot of 'fake news' circulating about there being a "NEW KING CRIMSON STUDIO ALBUM", I dug out the mix CD that I did a while back, of all the 'new' material from the Seven Headed Beast's live albums. I should really get around to printing a cover for it! But first I have to GO OUT... I've combined my routine Tuesday Poundlanding with a trip up to the hozzy for a routine blood test. I don't think this involved any more footslogging than usual, but I'm somehow left with VERY sore feet this morning. This might be because my BLOOD PRESSURE seems to have dipped a bit lately. We'll see what t...

Week from Monday 23rd June 2025 - No 'OFFICIAL BUSINESS' on the cards this week, so I can tackle a handful of 'MUSIC PROJECTS'. DGMLIVE.com have now released all of the shows from the KING CRIMSON 2015 tour as downloads, so I have availed myself of the BRIGHTON DOME concert that we attended (almost TEN years ago!?). But rather than do a 'double CD set' of the whole thing, I'm assembling one of my famous 'SINGLE DISC HIGHLIGHTS' 'listening' seedies, while also archiving the unedited show in its entirety as an MP3 disc. I'm also getting around to giving some MILES DAVIS live recordings the attention they deserve. They'd been sitting on the harddrive for who-knows-how-long? Audio quality is not of the essence, so I'll probably assemble those onto a MP3 disc. Then I have a good quality 'naughty' recording from the time when JOHN McLAUGHLIN and his 4th Dimension Band toured the Americas with JIMMY HERRING's Invisible Whi...