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avalon-digest         Tuesday, August 21 2007         Volume 12 : Number 211



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  [AVALON] Leo's diary - did everyone see this?          [Chandla911@aol.com]

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:51:45 EDT
From: Chandla911@aol.com
Subject: [AVALON] Leo's diary - did everyone see this?

Diary - 4 August 07
I'm on a plane from Olso to Monte Carlo. It's the last few  dates of the
Bryan Ferry tour b no more gigs until the end of October, and I  have to say
that
comes as a relief. The collective noun for a group of musicians  should be a
'grumble', and I am ashamed to say that I've been conforming to the
stereotype
recently. Not that I'm complaining, I'm constantly grateful for the  work.
The locations have become evermore luxurious (the last leg of the tour
culminated in a few days off in the Algarve), but the gigs have, for me,
become
difficult purely because I've run out of ways to make it interesting for
myself.
And this is playing challenging, brilliant music. How the hell do people cope
having to play for Girls Aloud all year? Luckily I had Chris Spedding to talk
to  and ask advice. He told me that even if you're bored of the notes you're
playing, they are still good notes and the audience will enjoy it, so
basically  b act if necessary. Of course he's right, and I'm always touched
by his
encouragement. But I don't want to act b I want to be emotionally involved
in
every note I play, and recently there have been times when the music has
contained about as much feeling as the buttocks of a man who has been set
about  at
length with a carpetbbeater. Maybe I'm just a spoilt brat. Anyway, last
night
 was fun b a festival with hired equipment that didn't work too well, my amp
emitting a constant buzz that was louder than the guitar itself. This, along
with a few glasses of wine, inspired reckless acts of abandon such as
invading  the viola player's riser and dancing with the backing vocalists. I
also,
for  once, came to the front of the stage for my solos b but that was
because my
amp  sounded so awful that I just wanted to get away from it. At breakfast
this  morning Bryan came up to me and said "You were really great last night.
Pissed,  weren't you?"


All good  things
Richard Mills


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