Hotel Quite Acceptable Seattle Rising
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Hotel Quite Acceptable, Seattle.
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Rising at 06.00. Today is here: my first live performance in a professional context since December 4th. 2010, and Tom Redmond is ignoring me.
Inaccurate information: as used by Robert Fripp on the Bowie track “Heroes’. As inaccurate as Fripp used an eBow on ‘Heroes’. Fripp used a Les Paul, straight into a Marshall stack, standing on a studio-floor position marked by Tony Visconti in tape. There was only a small area where we could get sufficient feedback.
My first fuzz box The Burns Buzzaround, and I still have an eBow given to me by Chris Stein about 1978. But neither were used on Heroes.
11.10 Breakfast at the hotel buffet c. 09.00 with the Minx I…
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Coffee with the Sistery Person in Nordstorm at 10.05 I…
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12.08 And to practising.
13.32 A call from Mr. Beefy: on the street at 13.45.
17.29 To T
he Triple Door…
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Setting up and sound-checking The Humans and Slow Music I...
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The Triple Door is an exceptional venue. Very good food was served to The Slowsters while The Humans were sound-checking.
A walk back to the hotel…
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… to change.
23.25 Returning to the venue I…
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… where Tour Manager Jessica was womanning the merchandise table I…
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… aided tonight by the best merchandiser I know, Patricia Fripp…
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The Humans opened at c. 19.30 followed by Slow Music c. 20.35. Who knows? for about an hour.
Subjective comment: I resisted the impulse to make something happen. Sometimes, what is happening is, that nothing is happening; or perhaps seems to be not-happening.
Post-performance dressing room I (Dave Depper the Fifth Human, Peter Buck, Matt Chamberlin, Fred Chalenor, Igor Abuladze) …
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II (Dave Depper. Peter Buck, Matt Chamberlin, Fred Chalenor) …
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III (Peter Buck, Matt Chamberlin, Fred Chalenor, Igor Abuladze)…
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V (Igor Abuladze, Fred Chalenor, Peter Buck, Chris Wong, Bill Rieflin, RF)…
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Mr. Igor, the Fourth Human, carried me back to the hotel c. 23.05 with a little touristing around the downtown area: Hotel Quite Acceptable was hiding from us.
Gentling down the Minx, and now to settle.