Hotel Suites Acceptable, Seattle.
Call to a GC mentor in California. Then to coffee & almandine croissant of beastliness & terror with Anthony Blake & Karen Stefano of the Duversity. Returning to more telephony with GC Mentor of California, then to a late lunch with Steve Ball, who lived two blocks from the hotel until recently. Steve reminded me that today is our 23rd. anniversary of meeting on The Drive To Carbondale.
The anniversary links two parts of my history: King Crimson & Guitar Craft. On one GC course, I asked Steve: what brought you into Guitar Craft? Steve replied: seeing King Crimson at Carbondale in 1981.
The Drive To Carbondale refers to a KC performance at Carbondale University in Southern Illinois on November 11th. 1981. It was so named because the date fell in the middle of a three-month tour through the US and on to Japan. The band knew extended touring fucked me over, that the middle was a low-point of energy & enthusiasm, therefore that at Carbondale the English guitarist would be in very bad shape. To acknowledge his easily-anticipated condition of feebleness & despair, they named the tour for the middle-of-the-middle & The Drive To 1981 - The Drive To Carbondale.
It is interesting & instructive to learn, even well after the event, of repercussions that result from our actions.
Then to coffee with Walter.
Evening with Seattle Guitar Circle. C major may not be rocket science, but E major is rather like putting an astronaut into lunar orbit: possible, but fraught with danger. An important for-the-future discussion followed.
