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Dec 29 2021

TO WHERE I AM NOW

Hey, thanks everyone for all the nice words and here’s the latest update. Well Olivia is feeling better than she did and I’m allegedly still negative, that is until I take another test. So when I do I’ll let you know if I have escaped or whether it got me. Olivia had mild aches, a slight cold and a small cough – she still has the small cough. I’m not sure where I am at with it all, a night on the couch is never the same as a night in bed so when I woke up today it took me ages to get going. I was weary, but not ill. Obviously, I wasn’t able to go for Wednesday’s swim and the thing is that if I am ever weary, it’s the mega swim that gives me the energy, flooding my brain with endorphins and blood that rushes through my veins like torrents of uncontrollable floods from a broken damn, ok perhaps that’s a bit of an exaggeration but it’s interesting that exercise takes energy but gives you more than you had before you took it – it’s so weird being human.

We made another end of year best-of list with Torched Magazine putting both MOAT and Space Summit in their top picks. We also made an ‘end of year’ list for Space Summit with Jammerzine. Throughout the year we’ve been getting lots of good reviews with MOAT – Poison Stream released in February, Space Summit – Life This Way released in September, Arktik Lake – Shimmer released in October and the recently released Brix Smith et moi – Lost Angeles in December. Vinyl copies of Space Summit are due in the middle of next year, CD and vinyl of Lost Angeles in January. You can find all those 2021 reviews in one place here. We also had a Record Store Day (RSD Drops) release in June for Noctorum’s Sparks Lane, its first appearance on vinyl (buy here). Thank you for all the support for these projects and thank you for all the Buy Me A Coffee and the GoFundMe In Deep Music Archive campaign contributions, the latter a work in progress that will stretch into next year as we figure out how to make it happen and have the vision realised not just for the archive but for everyone involved in the Songwriting & Guitar Guidance project that sees people fulfil their own dreams of making music.

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Today is day three of Olivia’s positive Covid test/symptoms, other countries are making self-isolating shorter, US five days asymptomatic and UK seven days but as far as I understand it, it’s still ten days here. So, we wait and hope we can use the time indoors to get more things done. Although it didn’t happen today, there are still seven days left and with seshes and staring at screens to learn some extra things I could be suffering from computer overkill very quickly. That walk outside, just for the sake of it is so important. I don’t just go to the psychedelic psupermarket to buy the things we need, I go for the walk too. It’s hard to suddenly get your exercise from walking to the kitchen from the front room (avoiding Olivia) when you’re used to sprightly walks to the pool and swimming 70 lengths (that includes the walks there and back). Maybe I should listen to metal and headbang for a week.

Music today has been Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain (1971), the greatest example of black psychedelia. Bandleader George Clinton tripping on acid told guitarist Eddie Hazel (whose hero was Jimi Hendrix) to play like he’d just been told his mother had died. You should read the Wikipedia page, it’s fascinating. The album sounds like a bunch of dudes tripping off their heads in 1971, which is exactly what it is, but mix it with Clinton’s vision and the skills of the musicians involved and you have a drug-induced classic. The question is how many of the world’s greatest albums were drug-induced? How long have you got?

Music Of The Daze

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This is my stolen 1965 Rickenbacker 12-string, serial number EB157. If there's any chance of this guitar coming back to me before I go to meet my maker, then that would be wonderful. Please contact me if you have any information.

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TO WHERE I AM NOW A visit in the studio today fro TO WHERE I AM NOW

A visit in the studio today from old mate Mark Burgess from The Chameleons who has been hanging in Texas recently. I was thinking about the two of us growing up in the northwest of England and all these years later finding ourselves in such an unlikely spot together. We fixed a few issues in the universe and I carried on recording some guitars until Mark had to leave. Mark had played at the Galactic Headquarters next to the studio this year as Olivia and I had four years ago and this reminded me to remind myself to remind everyone to remind their friends that we will be playing there with Salim on Saturday, New Year’s Eve, for the ultimate in intimate performance. You can get tickets here (follow link below).

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TO WHERE I AM NOW Sadness manifested in a buildin TO WHERE I AM NOW

Sadness manifested in a building, today we went to visit Paisley Park. Prince built Paisley Park in Chanhassen, about twenty minutes southwest of Minneapolis. It opened in 1987 and he recorded his later albums there. Apart from Prince, REM also recorded and mixed Out Of Time there, recording Kate Pearson’s vocal on Shiny Happy People vocal. Madonna had Prince play guitar on three songs from Like A Prayer and the two co-wrote Love Song, finishing it remotely due to Madonna not being able to stand the cold weather and the rather desolate location of the studio. Of course, there are things around but it’s not in the city and it’s not in the countryside, it’s in a suburb, no distractions, just what Prince wanted.

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"Marty knows how to bypass scales and get to the heart of feel and timing. His musical knowledge spans multiple cultures and genres. Perhaps most importantly, Marty is a cool dude. I highly recommend his guitar guidance." (Jed B., MN, USA)

"Ok, so you’re sitting in your home and Marty is across the world but is actually right here teaching you how to play guitar and write songs. He is a delight to talk to and he is your teacher, meaning he wants to see you get something out of his lessons. You know he’s paying attention and wants to steer you in the right direction. I am so grateful and humbled that he offers his time in this manner. This is an amazing opportunity for anyone who admires anything from his enormous body of work. How often do you get to learn from somebody that inspired you in the first place? Amazing." (Ann S., CA, USA)

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This is my stolen 1965 Rickenbacker 12-string, serial number EB157. If there’s any chance of this guitar coming back to me before I go to meet my maker, then that would be wonderful. Please contact me if you have any information.

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