Cloudland Blue Quartet – Track of the Day
Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight
Various Composers - Masters of the Baroque
Grand Funk Railroad - Mark, Don & Mel 1969-1971
Various - 51 Albums 1962-2012 for Jamie
Shawn Colvin - Cover Girl
King Crimson - Heavy ConstruKction
To the podiatrist first thing and feet seen to for another eight weeks or so...
Always have a good laugh with Helen (for it is she)...
She is happy with how my podiatric shoe implants seem to be working...
Nice day...
Two Pains au Raisins purchased then back to Corstorphine Village and a look round the (too many for comfort re a prosperous local economy) charity shops - nothing partaken of...
Two ordinary croissants and a loaf of bread acquired from the village baker - the Pains au Raisins will nourish tomorrow...
Home for breakfast, then, basically, did nothing all day apart from create a facsimile of a Grand Funk Railroad compilation from 1972, integrate over 100 rock and pop recent acquisitions into the overall collection - 90 minutes to move everything to accomodate them each into the correct places and, late afternoon, pulled around 100 CDs from the collection, that I know I will more than very likely never listen to...
I am loathe to get rid of CDs but I think these will go - I may experiment with a sale on e-bay or Amazon Market Place - or I may take them to a charity shop...
Tonight we were off to musical chum of over thirty years, Jamie Frain's 50th birthday party...
...I compiled an MP3 DVD with 51 albums on it, one from each year from 1962 to now...
A taxi to Lynn's and our trio was one of the first on the scene...
The surprise arrival of Jamie's youngest brother from Sydney, Australia reduced the birthday boy (and a few guests) to tears...
They have not seen each other for over five years...
Here they are together at the end of the night...
Musical chums of over thirty years Gus, Sandra, Jim, George, Paul and Keith were also in attendance...
Note Jim's boredom about the inevitability of my picturing matters for this blog...
Post a set of covers from Jamie and a different band to his trio with me and Keith from a couple of weeks ago...
...or even the quintet of me, Jamie, Gus, Keith and Nicky Hind which took to the stage in Edinburgh 32 years ago - and which was featured on a widescreen TV by the stage showing a revolving collection of pics from Jamie's first fifty years ...
...your correspondent could be seen strutting his stuff in a dad-dancing-at-a-wedding stylee with Anne, Lynn, George, Jim, Paul and Keith at various points in the evening...
Gus and Sandra presented Jamie with a picture taken at his 18th birthday party back in 1980, when Gus, Jamie and I shared a flat in Edinburgh...
Meanwhile, Jim seemed still to be suspicious of my non-stop snapping...
At the end, Jamie was joined by his family and friends for the inevitable Hokey Cokey...
After more chat and promises amongst us to get Capital Models together again over the summer and to try and proceed with "Dodefest" at George's home in the borders (maybe we can convince Gus to play live if we set it for 26 August, the 32nd anniversary of our last gig), we bid our friends farewell and Anne, Lynn and I managed to find a taxi...
Home around 2 am...
Highlight of the Day : Partying with our old chums...
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