Last night I felt very good. What does he mean by that? Not quite, vibrant good health - someone has coughed over me & I'm gently declining to take their self-distress on board. More something like, in tune within myself. Something like, back on a time-line with a trajectory, to quote a friend. Perhaps, now 11 years and 6 months after the beginning of EG's demise, the repercussions & resonances of that are lessening their effect upon my life.
The sky over Mount Juliet is grey but it's not cold.
BBC Radio Two suggested I do their interview by 'phone. ISDN lines address the quality of sound, they say. This from my e-mail in response to the interviewer:
"It's not the quality of sound that concerns me: I need to look you in the eye & sense your capacity. More important, your physical presence brings with it the energy to make the interview possible. Otherwise, it's down to me to provide the energy for your project. Why should your project interest me?
As someone who has put more time into interviews over the past 30 years than I have into playing music, I note that interviews proceed on the basis that people seem to like to be interviewed. In this, I am an exception! This is because I rarely meet an interviewer who is able to contribute to my sense of wellbeing, in whatever fashion. Where I am able to speak frankly of my interests and concerns, I note that my comments are conventionally censored out of the interview".
Dinner with Ian Wallace this afternoon at 17.00. Ian has moved to Nashville from Santa Fe & I'm looking forward to catching up on news.
22.13
Back from the studio: "The ConstruKction Of Light" now werned, twerned & squerned.
Dinner with Ian was most enjoyable. We haven't seen each other for several years, although we speak on an infrequent but regular basis. It's a pleasure for me to speak to an experienced player; one who knows the concerns of the lifer & has found strategies and approaches to deal with hard times which the life holds. Ian looks in great shape & health, better than I've known. We discussed Crim history, not all of it easy, and some of it mentioned by Sid Smith in his diary. I invited Ian to contribute "Notes From The Drum Stool" for the Summit Studios Club release. Happily, he agreed. And we agreed to have lunch or dinner next week.
