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Pith & Wind -
Standing in the
shadow
I missed a call from Rob Harwood yesterday.
I can’t actually remember what I was
doing yesterday but it must’ve entailed
turning off my phone or leaving it unattended
for a while. Anyway, I called him back as
I was were driving back to Mt Waverley from
wherever – and before you mobile phone
wowsers object I have a hands-free device
so I can live with myself. (I saw the French
movie Sexual Chronicles of a French
Family last night with a woman using
her hands-free phone whilst driving, which
I believe was a first - using hands-free
is considered so socially daggy that we
almost never see it on film).
For those of you who don’t know, Rob’s
a free-lance sound engineer who has supplied
and operated PAs to bands and venues great
and small for decades now, in the course
of which he’s managed to record most
of them as well. I’m sure I’ve
mentioned that this year’s the 20th
anniversary of Rod Claringbould’s*
Acoustic Sessions, held in various locations
over the years, but now (mostly) held at
the Clifton Hill Hotel and Rod’s planning
to release a CD to mark the occasion. Over
the last six months Rob’s been going
through all the Acoustic Sessions recordings
he’s accumulated over the years with
a view to putting the best ones, or the
artists’ choices at least, onto the
20th anniversary CD.
To his delight he discovered three usable
tracks of ours recorded in August 1994 (!),
so probably from the Star and Garter era,
which feature the beautiful.. read
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Dick's
Toolbox - Time and time again..
An event happened the
other day that made me realise that the
difference between disaster and happiness
is often very small, fortuitous and turns
on casual even subatomic decisions. It could
have made me consider the nature of time,
the possibility of multiple universes and
the combined weight of my bicycle and me.
But that seemed too hard.
Let me explain. I, acting as the trusty
companion to my cycling Lone Ranger Doug,
was half way around what we call the Clinton’s
Road circuit and approaching Smith’s
Gully where there is the eponymous and highly
recommended General Café, Bakery
and General Store. Normally we would call
in for a latte and maybe a muffin …..
or even lunch if the hour was right. However
I, for reasons which I may yet explain,
was on one of the two reduced calorie days
of the week and therefore I could only have
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