...and then find yourself on tour, opening for James

"I must say I wouldn't pay to go and see avant-garde. It's very chancey, especially if you've got more than two people playing. The more people you have, the riskier it is, and the harder it becomes to finish. You think it's over and then some idiot starts up again."

"I could hear something after that incredible discipline, y'know, that it was about finding things inside your own body and your own instrument. And I've got to be careful in airports, especially in queues... you know I suddenly start with ooommmmmmuuuwooommuuuuuuwm or something."

All his ECM albums are excellent, with the likes of Barre Phillips and Mat Maneri chipping in occasionally. ECM at its best.

Available to listen back here. Happy birthday Amina Claudine Myers!
www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...

Oh yeah, I was definitely in a minority with the Talk Talk appreciation. And I didn't like their then-current recordings when I subsequently checked them out. I can't remember the order of things, so sure you are right, though it does seem surprising. In retrospect, John Martyn was undervalued.

What made that day was how excited everyone - including the band - seemed to be that it was happening at all (+ it was a good show).

... The same year, I got to see some other big dogs (The Who; those Rolling Stones) and the last outing of the classic Motörhead. That's enough nostalgia for today.

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