Hendrix never sleeps

Heard on NPR today that a 'new' Hendrix record is on its way in March. "Valleys of Neptune" comes from Jimi's storied post-Ladyland London sessions. Heard just a snippet on the piece...eh, sounded like, well, a Jimi outtake.

They at least had producer Eddie Kramer on there to talk about the release, which he spent a year cleaning up and re-mastering. Kramer is still in awe of Hendrix - I guess most of the rest of us are too, although can anyone think of any dead musician's closet tapes so thoroughly exploited as Hendrix'? With the possible exception of Elvis....

Me again

Hat in hand, returning again to the blog. All sorts of excuses are possible, some legitimate (work, for one), but also a bit of the reverse entropy that probably 98% of bloggers suffer.

Anyway....

Day 2 at Loveland - crowded and no surprise, since the past two weeks have been absurdly cold up there and yesterday was the first real break, with temps in the high teens/low 20's. Decent snow in the trough runs, thin cover elsewhere. All of Lift 6 is open, with pretty decent snow, and we managed to get lots of sun and 23 runs in.

Interview this week with Erik Deutsch, former Boulder keyboardist now trolling sessions with some Pretty Big Names in NYC. I don't have his CD, but then did that ever stop me?

Past that, uncertain.

Winter seems long this year.

Well...day 1

Finally got my first day of skiing in, squeezed in between three Saturday conference calls for work.

No comment on the circumstances - the skiing was okay, though. Snowing moderately when I get started, the sun came out around 1PM, good visibility and there a decent amount of loose, soft snow scattered across the December hardpack. Not mkuch for terrain, but I got 13 runs in and skiied pretty well.

A bit tired and legsore by 3:30, so quit a little early.

They got some snow this week - almost a foot - and a few runs off Lift 6 finally opened up.

No pics, sorry.

Does death exist?

This guys says no.

I'll have to think about this....

Not getting any better

The RW has its boot on my neck - 25 years in IT and never come across a project so fraught with fear, loathing, ass-covering, power-posturing and crushing demands. It's killing people off. One by one.

Too damn busy

The day gig's been straining me close to the point of breaking lately - working weekends, 12 hour work days, etc. More to come the next several weeks, unfortunately, so struggling to keep up with life outside the office.

Had a great interview with Al Stewart last week - haven't transcribed yet, but it's fair to say that Stewart is as much a history buff with a guitar as a songwriter with a penchant for writing historical-subject folk songs. We found oruselves discussing Solzhenitsyn and Kirov and some of the under-reported brutalities of WW2. Looking forward to the story.

Next week is somewhat dicier - I had hung my hat, probably mistakenly, on getting an interview with Bruce Hornsby. And as Sunday approaches, nothing in hand and prospects dim. Plus, my usual editor is taking two months off to wander South America, and I'll have a new guy to deal with. Time to scramble, and I hate scrambling.

Deinitely off-balance entering the holiday season. Plus...mountains aren't getting any snow, and I need to ski !!!!

Grrrr....

"Stratos"

Bouyant, melancholy, evocative. Like drifting across a sunset-stained cloudbank, evening stars just appearing overhead. Serrie is an amateur pilot - I have to wonder if a non-pilot could have composed/performed this.