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May 03 2022

TO WHERE I AM NOW

Last day in Stockholm, we fly back to Porto tomorrow. So after ‘rest day’ yesterday, today was see Anekdoten Jan Erik and talk mandolins (he has one from 1952 and another from 1949). Then, catch up with my daughter and the grandkids, see Anekdoten Nicklas and his partner Sophie and meet Niko (MOAT) and his Weeping Willows bandmate Anders (who played on Spirit Level and the first MOAT record). Then, watch Liverpool beat Villareal 5-2 to make it to the Champions League final (sorry for the spoiler). Real Madrid – Man City tomorrow in Spain, 3-4 from the first leg. I’ll miss it, I’ll be on the plane.

I woke up this morning and hit the gym, which actually means there are some machines in the cellar but the surroundings don’t matter if you have the equipment. Afterwards, I took a skipping rope outside and skipped. Skipping sounds like fun but it’s hard work and afterwards, I lay on the grass and felt the heat of the sun on my face – until a cloud came by. That’s the difference when you are farther north, the sun has to be in a cloudless sky to feel its warmth. In Porto, although it can be chilly in the shade if a cloud comes by it doesn’t feel like a temperature drop like it does in downtown Winterland.

The hot news of the day is that Olivia filmed us on tour and the video is available on my YouTube channel (IN DEEP VLOGS | On The Road Again, Anekdoten Swedish Spring Tour 2022) or below. I am 14 humans short of 1000 subscribers (not paid subscribers) and allegedly when I have 1000 humans I start to get royalties for views. I don’t know how any of it works but if that’s true, well, we’ll see, it’s probably 1 cent every 6 months.

 
Walking around Stockholm, standing at stations, it’s all so familiar, I lived here for years and I know my way around. I’ve walked these streets hundreds of times, I’ve stood at these spots in the stations so many times and today I ran across the platform from one train to another because I knew the other train was the right one without looking at the signs or seeing where it was going. I contemplated the fact that all the teenagers and young adults here weren’t born when I lived here first. The construction site at Slussen that was a construction site the last time I lived here is still a construction site. Many things are the same but a few buildings have sprouted up. Old haunts are still there and others are under new management with a different vibe and a different menu – and different music. Shops I frequented have gone and others are unchanged. It’s the evolution of a city.

Packing our bags, trying to fit everything in, we have a five and a half hour layover in London. We will meet sessioneer Noel at the airport for a cuppa as he has some Dylan records for me. We are going through customs and re-checking in for our Porto flight, it was 200€ each cheaper to do it this way. Talking of Dylan, I saw a young lad carrying a book about Dylan (in English) today, I commented, he smiled knowingly.

Music today has been Traffic’s John Barleycorn Must Die (1970). It seems to cross genres and eras so naturally. Originally it was to be a Steve Winwood solo album but turned into a Traffic reunion album without original guitarist Dave Mason. Lots of organ and piano from Steve Winwood as well as guitar, Winwood’s voice, Chris Wood’s flute and sax, Jim Capaldi on drums, great.

Music Of The Daze

Written by Marty Willson-Piper · Categorized: Blog

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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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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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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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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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