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Jun 28 2022

TO WHERE I AM NOW

Back in Midnight Oil’s/Jim Moginie’s studio today doing lead vocals on Arktik Lake songs. I managed two today and will continue singing into the week. I always warm up before singing. Usually with I’m A Believer and Ticket To Ride before jamming around and making something up and playing some of my own songs, although today I was also singing Sunny Afternoon because I found a nice key to sing it in (Em with a capo on the 2nd fret). It makes the descending line flow nicely, that’s always the issue with that song. It’s a whole different vibe doing lead vocals, quite different to doing guitars, another piece of the jigsaw puzzle when you are making a record. Backing vocals will be done later, plus any other overdubs like violin and keyboards, if we want them. This is going to be a very guitar-heavy record.

On the way back from the studio tonight, the driver had a bust of Shiva on his dashboard, I recognised it but I asked him who it was anyway and he said it’s a god. I said god of what, and he said god of destruction. I said something like, “That’s quite heavy” and he said, “Who’s not attracted to power?”. Haha, he was otherwise a mellow and humble fellow, helping us with our post-studio bags. He was quite in awe of this statuette and other Indian gods. To think there are 1.38 billion people in India, they are catching up with China’s population of 1.402 billion. To think that so many on either side could see gods so differently.

I mentioned I had done an interview with Voice of America for the release of the See You In Marfa EP. It’s part of the Nashville and Dallas sessions for the ‘A Nuclear Winter’ album that will be released early next year. We now have the times when it will be broadcast. It will be on Thursday, July 7th at 11 AM Eastern Time on a show called Border Crossings, follow this link.

8 AM – Los Angeles
11 AM – New York
4 PM – London/Porto
5 PM – Stockholm/Berlin
1 AM – Sydney (8th July)

I’m not sure if the word mizzle exists in the Australian vocabulary but it certainly made an appearance last night. It’s not drizzle, and it’s not full rain, it’s another stage at one end of the scale. It’s a light floating consistent sheet that seems to be almost lighter than the air itself and if there is a hint of wind it blows sideways like a butterfly caught in a gust. The streets of Brookvale were quite empty on this unwelcoming wet chilly night. Still, at the falafel place, we just got in before a queue appeared. They are lovely there and don’t sneer when I ask for the tabouli without the tomato, allegedly just the green isn’t tabouli, it’s the tomato mixed with the green that makes it tabouli. It seemed that a lot of the queue had already ordered and were picking up what they’d phoned in. Does anybody remember the time when you didn’t do that? Does anyone remember the time when food delivery might have just been a pizza guy? Now, if you want a fricasseed truffle with essence of Hawaiian uki uki flower you get it delivered in twenty minutes.

Music today has been much forgotten Northern Irish singer-songwriter David McWilliams who some might remember for his song Days Of Pearly Spencer (1967), covered by Marc Almond in the eighties and reaching No.4 in the UK Charts. McWilliams’s song was ignored by BBC radio because of his manager and the man who started Major Minor Records, Phil Solomon’s investment in the pirate station Radio Caroline. The chorus was recorded from a phone box near the studio to get that effect. The song was No.1 in France, No.2 in Belgium and No.8 in the Netherlands. He died at the age of 56 of a heart attack in 2002.

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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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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