How is it that a musician can introduce themselves? As the proof of the pudding is in the doing where a performer is concerned, it seems most obvious in biographical statements that are all too common nowadays that such statements as, “greatest X of their generation!” etc, and glowing reviews are the norm. Yeah, I guess there’s that. But I’m mostly retired at this point, so I’m past the “brilliantly talented!” ” a “gift to their art!” phase of life (not that I make such claims, just commenting on how this is sometimes done). So what’s left? A poet I once knew wrote a work concerning hieroglyphs which had the line, “these tiny scratches echo lives.” In that vein, what better offering in this regard than these tiny engravings of numbers within the ether of the internet, echos of a life in music.
From old cassettes of live performances, some in concert, some from broadcasts, some incomplete. Stuff happens to old tapes…