08.21
DGM HQ.
Frost on the grass of the DGM Park…
Alex has already arrived with Buddy the Wonder Dog, and set off on a perambulation around the village.
08.25 Morning reading…
09.40 Leaving for a day of visiting.
22.47 On the way out the back door, a brief kitchen meeting with David discussing, inter alia, Grooveshark and other disputational horrors; and some positive new arisings. More on this tomorrow,
First visit of the day, to Vision Express in Salisbury. Then to Uncle Bill in Southbourne. Uncle is recovering from a Devil Bug Of Extreme Horror; yet remains as positive and well-spirited as always.
Four miles up the road, to Don Hardyman. As we were discussing the current transiting from The Old World - The Sword of Gevurah! commented Don, indicating his own field of interest.
Then three miles down the road, carrying cakes to John Wetton. A wider-ranging conversation than I recall ever enjoying with John, covering 48 years of common history. This went back to our days as semi-pro beat group adventurers in the Bournemouth / Dorset area c. 1963-67; on the road with KC in 1972-74; and up-to-date with present-day adventures. On the period 1969-74 – The Golden Age of popular culture in Steven Wilson’s words – we agreed. We were writing the rule-book. Touring was then continuing-to-be discovered, and a long way from the professional, well-organised operation we have today. JW felt the industry / music life changed abruptly between 1979 and 1980. The hairies in record companies of 1979 were replaced by accountants and suits in 1980.
MTV was launched on 1st. August 1981. EG’s shift between 1977-84 was from a music company, whose chartered accountant Mr. SG Alder ejected David Enthoven, the music and artist man, to the EG partners’ repositioning in property, the Lloyd’s Insurance market and conventional businessing. IMO Live Aid (1985) was the last gasp of the preceding era. By the mid-1990s, number-crunching and the departure-eviction of music-people from record companies, institutionalized an ethos with an endemic violation of its duty-of-care towards artists.
But, this was not a nostalgic visit. John is now one of only a handful of people with whom I can discuss that age in the world, and our places in it; and this age in the world, and our places in it. A fab visit.
Returning to DGM c. 18.40. A call from the Minx at 19.10 as I was writing her an e-mail.
An evening computing and e-flurrying.
Enough. It waits…
DGM HQ.
Frost on the grass of the DGM Park…
Alex has already arrived with Buddy the Wonder Dog, and set off on a perambulation around the village.
08.25 Morning reading…
09.40 Leaving for a day of visiting.
22.47 On the way out the back door, a brief kitchen meeting with David discussing, inter alia, Grooveshark and other disputational horrors; and some positive new arisings. More on this tomorrow,
First visit of the day, to Vision Express in Salisbury. Then to Uncle Bill in Southbourne. Uncle is recovering from a Devil Bug Of Extreme Horror; yet remains as positive and well-spirited as always.
Four miles up the road, to Don Hardyman. As we were discussing the current transiting from The Old World - The Sword of Gevurah! commented Don, indicating his own field of interest.
Then three miles down the road, carrying cakes to John Wetton. A wider-ranging conversation than I recall ever enjoying with John, covering 48 years of common history. This went back to our days as semi-pro beat group adventurers in the Bournemouth / Dorset area c. 1963-67; on the road with KC in 1972-74; and up-to-date with present-day adventures. On the period 1969-74 – The Golden Age of popular culture in Steven Wilson’s words – we agreed. We were writing the rule-book. Touring was then continuing-to-be discovered, and a long way from the professional, well-organised operation we have today. JW felt the industry / music life changed abruptly between 1979 and 1980. The hairies in record companies of 1979 were replaced by accountants and suits in 1980.
MTV was launched on 1st. August 1981. EG’s shift between 1977-84 was from a music company, whose chartered accountant Mr. SG Alder ejected David Enthoven, the music and artist man, to the EG partners’ repositioning in property, the Lloyd’s Insurance market and conventional businessing. IMO Live Aid (1985) was the last gasp of the preceding era. By the mid-1990s, number-crunching and the departure-eviction of music-people from record companies, institutionalized an ethos with an endemic violation of its duty-of-care towards artists.
But, this was not a nostalgic visit. John is now one of only a handful of people with whom I can discuss that age in the world, and our places in it; and this age in the world, and our places in it. A fab visit.
Returning to DGM c. 18.40. A call from the Minx at 19.10 as I was writing her an e-mail.
An evening computing and e-flurrying.
Enough. It waits…
