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Butcherly accents of the local kind came through the wall at 08.43 & David arrived shortly afterwards.
The street I…
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11.45 A morning of e-fury, including a pic from Ben Crowe of the about-to-be-becoming RF Signature No. 2…
To DGM SoundWorld I
14.25 … where David & Alex fired up the Solar Voyager…
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14.43 I have declined a major interview addressing 1969, Island Records & the making of ITCOTCK; noting that media-available History of any Period is significantly determined by those making-themselves-available to interviewing. The implication of this is that most history is governed by available information, documentary & testamentary evidence (history on the outside). Living, ongoing history is only available to us when we exert ourselves & make contact with what was real in an event. Because it was real, it continues to be real; is not governed by sequential time; and is available to us if we are able to make the effort. For anyone who has struggled with the notion of hyparxis & hyparchic time (and I am one of them) this is a practical example.
In DGM SoundWorld II…
… BenH & Mr. Stormy.
18.20 An afternoon of sorting boxes for Hernan & Martin to collect next week. Most of today’s files are highly prejudicial & concern Endless Grief.
A letter of March 7th. 1991 from Mr. Alder to the manager of Coutts’ extending my overdraft I…
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… to cover the shortfall in my company affairs due to the non-payment of EG royalties, which Mr. Alder loaned back to Mr. Alder & his partner via another of their companies. May we note, I paid the interest on the Coutts’ overdraft & Mr. Alder paid no interest on the forced loan he raised against me, nominally acting on my behalf. Shortly afterwards, on tour in Europe with The LCG, I notified Coutts’ that Mr. Alder was no longer authorised to act on my behalf. Mr. Alder’s response: You made me look like a common criminal! Well.
And a letter of January 22nd. 1992 from the auditor who recently died, and whose ashes were fired off in a rocket last Fifth of November I…
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The letter addresses my enquiry as to why, when the Polygram audit of 1982/1983 gave EG £300,000, did the artists receive so little? I received £3,599.68 & Bryan Ferry c. £6,500 (and Bryan was the largest EG artist, by a significant factor). The auditor writes that 70 artists received relatively small amounts, but provides no further explanation. He does not comment that, in addition to being my auditor, he was also EG’s auditor at the time of the audit, and was continuing as EG’s auditor at the time of writing this letter. Neither does he mention how much of the £300,000 stayed went to EG. Well.
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The opinion of the EG Music Group’s Managing Director, expressed to me not long afterwards, was that EG never recovered from these headlines. More accurately, EG never recovered from selling the record & publishing catalogues in 1991; the headlines made public what was already the situation in the office.
In happier times, the Financial Times from August 1975…
… two years before Mr. Alder took over EG. David Enthoven is in the middle, Mr. Fenwick on the left of picture, and Mr. Alder on the right. This was a glory year for EG business, and about to get much glorier in 1976 & 1977. IMO, this clearly demonstrates that, in this generation of music-being-made-available, the initiative had moved from the musical imperative to industry interests.
19.22 David has just left...
23.35 It waits…
DGM HQ.
Posted by Robert Fripp
10 Feb 2009
10 Feb 2009
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