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Questions answered.
Posted by Bill: Monday August 4th 2008
Thanks to all for comments on 'Feels Good To Me', which has been around for thirty years now. Suddenly that does indeed make European life of copyright, at only 50 years, seem short indeed. People like me – instrumental, song writing, drummers – have our independence really only courtesy of the Copyright Amendment Act of 1936, which I thank the Heavens for on a daily basis.
Thanks also to Russell Whitworth for his review-that’s-not-a-review of Ronnie Scott’s. It’s one of the most informed and informative reviews I’ve read in a while, Russell, so take up the pen and get to work full time! Ronnie’s was a lot of fun and the band on good form, with new piece from Gwil called ‘Rhetoric’. It was good to meet a number of you after the show.
Backstage at Ronnie's:L-R, Tim Garland (saxes) Bethan Hay (Tim's UK Agent), Bill, Amanda Garland, Rob Ayling (Voiceprint Records)
Most of the rest of this blog is answering questions, see below. August is bit of a holiday period, so I won’t be blogging again until after the book is delivered in a few weeks, at which point I hope to be excerpting passages from it here in a more regular fashion. See you then!
Quick Pics:
Eric "Doc" Smith - 8/2/2008 4:15:37 PM Eric, that’s amazing. Small world indeed. Andrei, I think, never sleeps, or maybe only on planes. I’ll try to get up to London to see the band in a few days when they are in the UK. Everything, in this self obsessed world, is always recorded, and always on YouTube in about two minutes, usually sounding terrible.
Brent Sanderson - 8/1/2008 6:58:15 PM. I’ll buy that, Brent! Especially the bit about no expressly stated chords..!
Duncan Parsons - 8/1/2008 6:17:31 AM Duncan, thanks for these links which, you’re right, may interest others more than me. Welcome to the amazing YouTube which seems to have too much of everything.
Nobuhiko Arioka - 8/1/2008 12:54:27 AM Nobuhiko, I’m guessing you’re writing from Japan. Your question is interesting because it points up the cultural differences between the Eastern and Western way of looking at the job of the artist. I did indeed play that section differently to Giles or Wallace, but that’s because the modern Western artistic tradition encourages me, as a unique individual, to bring my personal interpretation to the music – to illuminate another side of it, as it were, or maybe to uncover more possibilities. This I would give precedence to, over any preconceived idea about what ‘jazz style’ or ‘rock style’ may be. My Eastern colleagues have, it may be said, more ‘respect’ for the original, considering it a masterwork, and as such consider it their duty to reproduce the masterwork in it’s entirety and they may have less interest in the Western notion of individual self-expression.
J. D. Mack - 7/30/2008 5:45:43 AM J.D., sorry, seems to be a confusion here, hingeing on the phrase ‘double CD’ . Early Summerfold and Winterfold discs each included a free CD as an introduction to the other – if you bought a Summerfold CD you got a free ‘Introduction to Winterfold’ and vice versa. This was in place for the first two or three years until stocks expired and new versions come now with the one CD. This info was/is posted under ‘Reminders’ (top left, News Page ) which also pointed out that the intro CDs remain available free of charge from the online shop. So the phrase ‘double CD’ was used to describe a ‘two CD package’, not that there were necessarily any extra material from the main CD! Incidentally,there is no further material from the Bruford Tapes show.
Apologies for any misunderstanding. I am very insistent that all products are described as precisely as possible specifically to avoid any kind of confusion. If you are unhappy at anytime with a purchase, please go to mailorderdgm@aol.com if you bought it at our online store, www.voiceprint.co.uk if you bought from them, or back to the store if you bought from a physical store, where I’m sure you will get good service.
Jay Kuhn - 7/19/2008 1:15:08 PM Well, it was a sweat, Jay, and being the impatient, arrogant little so-and-so I probably was, I was too busy sniping to notice that we were making a brilliant record. Credit mostly to the others for having the stamina to pull it off. Your description of Wakeman around that time sounds about right…! More on this in the book.
Howard lane - 7/16/2008 5:03:00 AM Sorry to hear it, Howard. Needless to say, they don’t flake on me. Isn’t that weird, that the tiny difference in the way your stick hits the cymbal and mine hits it causes the stick tip to flake. You may want to take this up with Pro-Mark – they’re always interested in this stuff.
Jim Rhoads - 7/15/2008 1:34:33 PM Jim, it was just a session, so really, not much to report. I flew out, met these very friendly guys, did whatever I was asked in the studio, and left. No input on drum sound, no writing credits, but then you wouldn’t expect either. You haven’t read much on this because there is so little to say. Being a studio-drummer, I quickly discovered, was not where my strengths lay.
With Pavlov's Dog, St.Louis, MO 1975.
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