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Jul 30 2022

TO WHERE I AM NOW

31 degrees today and the heat doesn’t seem to be dissipating into the night. It’s cooler outside but the front room keeps the heat. I didn’t open the shutters or the curtains in the bedroom today and consequently, it’s cooler in there but this room is still hot. I can’t bring myself to bring all the shutters down, close the windows or draw the curtains as if I’m in some nuclear bunker. I’d rather suffer with the blue sky visual, beautiful, cloudless, like the inside of a strange blue creature, inhabiting the arc of its skull. I imagined that we are microscopic and living inside an entity that is also microscopic to the entity that it also lives inside, and so on and so on forever.

Back on Earth, the Marquês market was on today, its last appearance till September, August seems to be closing time in Portugal unless you are a tourist spot where you reap literally while the sun shines. I haven’t had the chance to get down into town yet to see how tourist crazy it is down there but I’ve heard it’s nuts. I’m not sure that the tourists know about this market at the top of town. The awful DJ was on form today playing a daylight afternoon medley of fifties Rock ’n’ Roll followed by Frank Sinatra’s My Kind Of Town (1964) and then a Michael Bublé song before he returned to his usual unfathomable inappropriate seventies disco, I left hearing Ra Ra Rasputin (1978). Even when he’s eclectic, it’s all wrong, but then if I were playing Van der Graaf Generator followed by Television and Captain Beefheart, probably more people would complain. I’m presuming of course that anybody actually really notices what music is playing. Is nobody stopping to listen? It’s just background, loud background that nobody clocks. I always do, it doesn’t matter where I am, in a lift or a mall or a cafe, I always notice the music, even if it’s quiet.

I bought a nice African ornament of a lounging bejewelled figure and picked up seven more old Wire magazines for the archive. I decided to go to the other psychedelic psupermarket for something so boring I’m not even going to tell you what it was. When I got there I bought a whole lot of things I didn’t know I needed and on my way home tried to find my way into shady parts of the street. I was actually waiting for the Community Shield game to start. Last year’s league winners Man City versus last year’s FA Cup winners, Liverpool. Both teams showcasing their new star players. Alexander-Arnold, Salah and Núñez scored for Liverpool and Álvarez for Man City.

Olivia is back late tonight. If you want to see her behind-the-scenes video from the festival you can see it here:

 
She’ll be coming home to summer after winter in Australia. It was a bit weird going to Australia at the beginning of June and although it was wet, it’s still Australia. What was the hardest to handle was suddenly going back to it being dark at 5.30 after having gone through winter here and welcoming back the lighter evenings. In the old days, I never saw the winter, I was always in Europe or America in summer and then in Australia…in summer.

Music today has been Badfinger’s Straight Up, released in 1971 in the USA and for some reason 1972 in the UK on Apple Records. It’s full of great songs including the hits Baby Blue, produced by Todd Rundgren (No.14 in the US) and Day After Day, produced by George Harrison (No.4 in the US, No.10 in the UK). What a great album.

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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Bye bye, Oz! Okay, so I’d better go pack, we hav Bye bye, Oz! Okay, so I’d better go pack, we have to be up at 5.30 AM. And oh yes by the way, Olivia remembered at 11.41 PM that today was our six years anniversary together, haha 😍

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In autumn 2018 I went to Nashville, Tennessee, to In autumn 2018 I went to Nashville, Tennessee, to work with Salim Nourallah and his band, Richard on keys, Joe on guitars, Jason on bass and drums, and John on drums and bass and in a co-production role with Salim and as a fifth member of his band. After Nashville we retired to Dallas where all but Joe live (he lives in San Antonio) and worked on overdubs, mixing was next…then the pandemic hit. Finally, the album is now mixed and will be released in early 2023 but before that, we have the See You In Marfa EP from those sessions released yesterday on Bandcamp:

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A CD is also available and streaming will be from August 19th. The lead track on the EP is Hold On To The Night, complete with a video featuring an animated yours truly and co-written (a bit) by me: https://youtu.be/GhUk-MDm1VQ

This whimsical video was done by an Australian videographer/musician, Jordan Thompson.

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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)

Missing

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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