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Wednesday, 27th October 1999  |
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19.39 Another good day, moving forwards gently once again. The Crimson blues has been unsettling Trey and myself. We feel it as a four, while Ade has it as a 12/8 shuffle as does Pat, except Ade & Pat have different downbeats within the same 12/8. The Crimson solution: Trey & Robert play a bar of 7/8 + a bar of 5/8 which neatly matches the 12/8. Then T. & R. reverse their 7+5 to offset each other (and go into a 12/8 for the subdominant). If this sounds arithmetical, don't worry: it rocks. Yes! Just another day in the life of Crim. A poster yesterday pleaded for Pat to be included as an equal 4th. member, involved in writing, production, etc. I mentioned this to Pat at the end of yesterday's work, surprised at our poster's assumption that Pat isn't an equal member. On what basis? Pat is as equal a member of Crim as I am. We're working 6 hours a day in the studio. That doesn't include the individual work we do. Adrian as songwriter / lyricist is sweating. That's always the case: come up with wonderful classic songs, please, but don't forget your vicious twisting little guitar line on this one and this one and -- Ade has adopted a new guitar tuning of his own, so he's now learnt some of the new instrumentals in 3 different tunings. Today we began with the Double Duo version of the first ever piece by ProjeKct Two, when it was a guitar trio: "Light ConstruKction". P2 played a version of this, but very different. The closest piece Crim has ever done to this is "Discipline". I hesitate to refer to earlier material. Alternatively, Crim does have generic song families. Alternatively, I have no way of conveying any of this to the Cow Farm otherwise. Frustrations: I haven't been able to reach Toyah in Israel. Ade tried send a fax 8 times but without success.
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