Saturday, 15th April 2006

08.50

Casa de Retiro Nuestro Senora del Transito, Lunlunta.

Where did that come from?

In the night: a Crimson anxiety dream. This was a present-day performance by the King Crimson of 1973-74: David Cross, John Wetton, Bill Bruford & myself. We were to perform in New York at (what was then) The Academy of Music on 14th. Street. It occurred to the dreaming guitarist that the audience would be expecting songs from that era, such as Exiles & Lament, and that we/I hadn’t played them for 32 years. It also occurred that the guitarist could play the mellotron lines on guitar synth. Then the venue moved to London & I didn’t know either the venue or how to get to it. Well well.

We are now into the Middle. The Great Divide is beckoning.

Guitar Craft now has sufficient maturity that there are a good number of experienced characters in places of responsibility. It is a given, in any form of training, that those at the beginning of their process will make mistakes. The tacit assumption is that experienced characters, in positions of responsibility, will not make, or make less, mistakes. For beginners, room is provided & allowed for their mistakes to be made. In GC, this is true for all of us: those in positions of responsibility and influence, as well as beginners. There must be room for all to fail, as well as to succeed.

The aphorism: may we have the courage to fail is balanced by the corollary: may we also have the courage to succeed. In-between the two, is where the action takes place.

Also increasingly clear to my eyes are the cultural differences between members of the Team in how they are approaching tasks. Each cultural approach has its particular value, its own restriction & limitation.

11.18 Personal meetings, many addressing important life issues.

12.55  Two group meetings.

Level One: circulating with the Buddies in the Outer Circle, counting groups of bars with tacits.

Level Two: an intermezzo (light relief between the acts of a tragedy). An alternative approach to cross-picking in A natural minor – cross-picking in A harmonic minor! Yow! This might be overly ambitious.

14.35  In response to the question: did the house rock last night? (referring to the Triple Circle lead by Hell Boy Tom) many reports were presented at lunchtime covering a very wide range of experiences in the meeting.

A grey day in Lunlunta…

19.59  The House was honoured by Visitors for tea.

A meeting with Level 2.5 after tea & the introduction of what, once upon a time, would have been the beginning of a GC Theme.

Many performances at dinner. A birthday cake was presented to The Mighty Bull with Horn Up Your Ass playing Happy Birthday To You arranged by Sr. Ugo (present in spirit). The Horn lives!

Now personal meetings continue.

A House Meeting with guitars, for anyone who wishes to be there, has been called for the Dining Hall at 21.30.

23.04  The configuration of seating adopted was the Double Circle, with 40 guitars in the inner circle & 60 in the outer; beginning with Circulations & then moving to the emergent theme in C harmonic minor.

Day At A Glance…

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