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<< (1023 and 1213 on-stage last weekend at ProgWest - Hi Duncan!) >>

first up- gene, many many thanks for coming through with the two machines and
the moogy mini. and for just being there. I've never had a keyboard tech
around before....
shame nothing had time to warm up properly because of those italian
stage-hogs and their might-as-well-have-been-a-cd performance. long live
improv, say I.
but taking all day to soundcheck did give their performance the edge, if you
like that sort of thing. is dario argento big in the US then?
and maudlin... I thought their bassist was a sport for playing the gig with
his right wrist in a pot like that- told me he'd sliced the tendons (yike!)
hence the weird angle, and he couldn't get out of the gig because of a plane
ticket snafu. they were fun, I thought. odd what passes for prog these days-
I mean, WE were there under some sort of cultural exchange programme cooked
up by mr thaxton; we expected fully to be playing to him alone, but people
actually cheered at the mention of the jodrell bank album. one guy followed
us all the way to PA for the next gig.
you don't forget things like that.

well, we had a fucking great time anyway, and then did it all again (sans
'trons) on th'east coast, like, hence the prolonged absence and tiredness.
the cello/bowed bass is a favourite of mine too, and I was "made up" to have
the real deal in front of me (steve insisted on the machine w/ choir anyway)
instead of the samples I crammed onto a ram card for my alesis s4. wish we
could've had them in the church in philly. ho hum.
we were unsoundchecked at progwest, but we enjoyed ourselves and met some
great folks who braved the unusually pissy weather and produced an
astonishingly complete array of our product to be monikered.
I'm please because we got all our stuff from london>LA>philly>jfk>london
without any serious damage AND I found a jap-reissue fender VI for $600 and
smuggled it through w/out customs extracting their usual pound of flesh.
and steve bought the spring album....

martin- I will ring you at some point when I can face a keyboard again and
the place is tidy enough for me to wrangle my 8 frames into the vicinity of
1098. I dunno though- since you and bradders had the beast apart, nothing
gets wrapped up anymore. maybe I should kick it around a bit, but it seems to
work perfectly with any of the weird (EMI and otherwise) collection we have
here at northern echo. oh- why did JB move the motor board? I took a while to
find it whilst tweaking my half-speed mod for the porpoises of sampling the
church organ into the aforementioned alesis box.....
charles is right- changing out a set on an existing frame is reasonably
simple. if anyone wants to see how easy it is, I could make a video (525
aswell, if necc.) for martin to supply....
and how come jon hasn't got the salley set? do I have the only one sold?

(um... tomita- does anyone have a vinyl copy of his debussy stuff? it had a
gear list on it, I'm sure. later LP's abbreviated this, and it's missing from
the little silver versions altogether. I think he had a vako box too.... I
can well believe the stuff about the talc- he looks like a fussy sort of
bloke in his pictures).

duncan/r.m.i./400nr1098 (which has been in a planetarium several times and
knows nothing of any sort of white powder except cigarette ash)