14.27
The interviewer from Berlin is sick with flu. So, I have until 15.30 to compute, practise & pack.
All my interviewers on this trip have been well researched & informed. All men, all of them mature or about-to-be-becoming post-mature. This contrasts with my last European interview venture where a significant proportion were tricky young men, more concerned with antagonism, jousting & cleverness than engaging in dialogue, even critical dialogue. Or even professional dialogue.
Inevitably, a professionally oriented interview, like for a music magazine, will field professionally oriented questions & receive professionally oriented answers. This guarantees a certain standard & range of question, but also tends to set a limit to the possible range of answers. For example, if one is addressing detailed functional aspects of "the creative process", more is required in response form the interviewee than amusing anecdotes of hanging with the Crimson dudes, which is more than sufficient for some interviewers. Anecdotes are fun, and part of the entertainment world.
On occasions, I am able to present interview responses to questions which haven't actually been asked. This is something like giving garden floor answers to basement questions. Its effect is to drain my energy field & exhaust me. Another way of expressing this: the necessity of the question provides the energy which enables the answer to be given. If the answer is a necessary one, and the right question isn't asked, the interviewee has an energy gap to fill. I remember one particular article which was fundamental to the early period of Guitar Craft: certain information had to become widely available and disseminated, and this article was the way to do it. But the (good) interviewer didn't ask the questions which would have elicited the answers. So, I had to do the work for both of us.
Dr. Peter Kemper was the most recent interviewer, and is a good example of the adage that the question determines the answer, and enables the answer. His questions took a different approach to the other (very good) interviewers, and enabled a different range of answers to appear. Thank you Dr. Peter, and all the other excellent interviewers.
"Good habit is necessary, bad habit is inevitable."
