Various – Rock and Pop Jukebox on Shuffleplay
Various – Jazz Jukebox on Shuffleplay
Uri Caine – Mozart
Various – Classical Jukebox on Shuffleplay
Django Bates – Spring Is Here
Wayne Shorter – Beyond the Sound Barrier
Up around 7:30 again and compiled an MP3 CD for Dr Prog featuring one track each from my top 100 albums of 2008...
After breakfast out and down to the bus for the trip to town to meet up with said Doc...
We met at the library, from where I borrowed the latest CD by Django Bates, a live set from 2004 by Wayne Shorter and a 29 disc box set of the history of the classical music label Harmonia Mundi...
We partook of some lunch at Café St Giles (formerly the other branch of Patisserie Florentin) and chewed the fat re prog rock with details of the programmes currently running on BBC 4 (which doesn’t work on our Freeview) which the doc is kindly recording for posterity and of which he has promised me a copy – in return for a copy of the recently purchased ELP box set – which he missed and which has now disappeared from Fopp...
I took some snaps throughout the day...
At the Docs behest, we visited Coda and Avalanche – no purchases for your correspondent but 5.1 Surround mixes of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” and the last Dream Theater album for the progmeister...
Then a short walk through Princes St Gardens took us into the Gerhard Richter exhibition which ends tomorrow...
It was excellent and inspiring, though you won’t get the full effect from my pics below, you’ll get an idea...
At the time of writing, you can view 63 works included in the exhibition, here.
You can also read about him and view some pics here...
He is easily my favourite living painter...
Sitting in one of the rooms in a quiet moment, I suddenly remembered when I was in first year at Secondary School, in my German class we all had to choose a German name to be known by – I chose Gerhard...
By chance we met Bob Gillies my old music chum from twenty odd years ago when we played together in the Dancers of San Martino with Count Brodski and Peri Urban...
Bob and I recalled the last time we’d been in the gallery together was for an opening around 1992, at which we’d both got exceedingly drunk – he ended up being sick all over a children’s playground, and I fell down a flight of stairs while trying to eat a white pudding supper, before spending the night in our record shop and falling asleep with my face resting on a lit calor gas fire...
Happy days...
The Exec Producer was on holiday in London and unable to Executively Produce...
A quick visit to Fopp (nothing purchased) then I bade farewell to Dr Prog – here are the two protagonists...
...and caught the bus back to the bottom of the hill on top of which we live and walked up – arriving home just in time to see Morton score an injury time equaliser against Queen of the South, Queens having led 2-0 after 20 minutes – very disappointing...
Meanwhile Anne had enjoyed the latest Edinburgh derby which, despite Hearts’ dominance, had ended in a goalless draw...
In the evening, an Indian takeaway – I feel a new regime (another new regime) coming on as of Monday perhaps...
“Demons” started on ITV 1 and shows some promise but I think we need to watch it on tape to scan through the ads of which there appeared to be at least 10 during each break – very annoying...
Wrote up this while listening to the, too clever by half, Django Bates before disappointingly finding out there was to be no “Match of the Day” tonight...
So some Wayne Shorter filled the gap...
Highlight of the Day : The works of Gerhard Richter...
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