Crispycat Recordings: A family affair...

Saturday, August 19, 2006

A family affair...

Playlist
Eels – Shootenanny!
Alice Cooper –Billion Dollar Babies
Allan Holdsworth – Against the Clock
Halloween Alaska – Too Tall to Hide
Yello – Flag
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Sospiri : Orchestral Collages
King Crimson – DGM Live Sampler
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Best of 1990-1995
Sly and the Family Stone – Best of
Johnny Cash - American IV
John Coltrane - Crescent
Moulin Rouge OST
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon
Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark
The Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Up at 5 and outside it was misty...

We breakfasted at home...

On the site “DGM Live”, there are many King Crimson and Robert Fripp recordings available for download, but, due to some unknown fault on my PC, I am unable to download any of them...

However, I have sourced free samples on another PC and sent them to my home inbox and somehow, from there, I can save them to the hard drive – computers eh?

So this morning I spent some time forming around 10 or 11 downloads into an album, cross fading tracks etc etc...

Sounds good...

Then I rehearsed the set for the Queensferry gig this afternoon...

I drove down there for 1pm and the rest of the crew turned up around 1:30....

Mist threatened from the northern shore but came to nothing...

We had a particularly quick set up and I started my performance around 2pm as planned. Another very enjoyable outing. Here's a pic...

I stayed to watch Fraser Drummond’s Confushion before driving back home as I was due at Anne’s brother Keith’s for a family get together "anytime after 3”...

I debated with myself as to whether I ought to just drive there but decided instead to take the bus. And so my journey, door to door, lasted around 1 hr 20 mins instead of what would have been a 20 minute journey by car..

Here are (left to right) Anne, her sister Jane and her brother Keith - all pleased to see me of course...

While I had a few drinks, nephew Ollie and niece Kitty had a good time with the rabbit, Cottontail...

The food and drink were plentiful and we ended up getting a taxi home around midnight along with Anne’s mum after she, me, Anne, Keith and his partner, Maureen, had sat around the table discussing terrorism, socialism, books, films and i-pods and various other stuff whilst listening to, amongst others, John Coltrane, Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell and The Beatles...

Highlight of the Day : Another enjoyable performance where I hardly had to consult my music...

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