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Released on this day, in 2005. .

Just uploaded a new journal entry dated 14 March 2021. It has 4 images attached. Click on 'journal' to read it...

Released on this date, in 1997. .

Hello chums. On my "listen to the lot" journey I've come across this, Fiat Lux's "This Illness" from 1982. Never seen or heard this before. and so glad I've found it. Bill playing beautiful (as ever) EBow lines. And the band including Bill's late brother Ian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBdQWxOD-4 Hope you like it too. cheers Toby

These are just some of the albums released in 1971. What are some of your favorite albums that were released 50 years ago? .

Came across this live on stage interview with my dear, and sadly departed friend Harold Budd, It was conducted in October 2018, only a few weeks before Harold travelled to the UK to be with me for my 70th birthday concert in Leeds. Harold also, graciously, played on three numbers at the event which, I think, probably constitute his last ever live performance. The interview was done by Kurt Doles at the MidAmerican Centre For Contemporary Music, College Of Musical Arts and is a warm reminder of Harold's personality, his wit and intelligence of which I was privileged to know and share so well for so many years. But it also brings to the surface the deep sadness I feel as a result of losing him in such unforeseen and cruel circumstances. He was the most precious and brilliant friend I've ever had and I struggle to conquer the grief I feel from losing him. I don't know how to copy the link to the interview. When I've tried it doesn't seem to work, but here's as much info as I can get. Perhaps someone with more internet/computer savvy will help me out and post a more competent link. Harold Budd @ BGSU 10/5/18 Harold Budd interview by Kurt Doles, MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University 10/5/2018, part of a residency at the Toledo Museum of Art

I've told a couple of people in the past week that Blue As A Jewel was not only the first time the listeners heard your e-bow playing, but that it was from 1978, appearing first as a B-side to the Panic In The World single. Feels like I've got that information wrong because Blue As A Jewel is included in the Sunburst Finish reissue and I remember being either age 10 or age 11 when I first heard Sunburst Finish as a new release on a seriously booming system in 1976 in the car of a significantly older friend of mine and I was wearing a pair of red-white-and-blue-rimmed sunglasses a gal pal gave me. We were en route or coming back from sling-shot shooting at Mt. Diablo (in Northern California). Nineteen seventy-six is obviously not nineteen seventy-eight!

Hey all, does anyone know if the new "Two-Fold Aspect of Everything" download has been remastered? Quite a lot of this collection will be included in the upcoming "Quit Dreaming" boxset, so I'm wondering if the files used here are from that set, and if the remaining material, which I imagine will be coming out on a future "Love That Whirls" reissue, has been also remastered in anticipation of that release. Thanks all. It was nice to see it up there, with "Acceleration" and "Hard Facts" restored to their proper place.

Oh dear - covid's finally arrived! Feel dreadful, but never mind, i've got plenty of music to help me through - still feel like i've only scratched the surface though - spent ALL yesterday listening to Trial By Intimacy in it's entirety several times - amazing stuff & have been revisiting The Years & Plaything. Today, though, i'm concentrating on New Vibrato Wonderland & getting to know this album quite well now. I'm noticing a kind of fuzz/distortion/scratched record sort of effect on most of it & wondering if that's just a feature of my copy? I'm loving 'Hide & Seek', 'I Oil The Ticking Of Antique Clocks' , 'Mercuria Magnetica', 'Bless Me, Bless You' & 'In The Middle Of A Dream ... and ... this world is certainly Crazy Right Now - can't seem to relax until i know Trump has finally gone - currently obsessively glued to CNN to follow Georgia run-offs!

Welcome!...and here's to many self-answering questions spiralling delightfully into eternity! Is this a shit idea for a thread?

On the back of Brond finally making an appearance on DVD, I emailed Daryl about how he came to work with Bill, giving his more jazz orientated background, this is the reply I received:- " Bill and I were put together by a TV executive whose name I’ve now forgotten. He must have been asked by the director for something weird and vocal. I was at that time in an avant-garde vocal group called Electric Phoenix as their tenor singer and resident composer. The way the tracks were made was as follows. Bill would compose music in Yorkshire and send it on multitrack tapes to me in London (I seem to remember analogue tapes, though by then we were well into the digital era). I would compose vocals to go on the backings. The vocals were overdubbed onto the multitrack tapes at Angel Studios in Islington and mixed down there with Bill absent and me producing. For the CD and 12” single the process was reversed. I took pre-recorded vocals up to Yorkshire and Bill and I put them onto the backings at his studio. It was a productive collaboration and I found Bill a remarkable person. His spirituality in particular impressed me and I wish I’d got to know him better, but of course our two busy careers just carried on after Brond an we lost touch. Thanks you for alerting me to the dvd release: my copy is ordered." Very insightful, Bill, do you have any recollections? Listening again to the music there seems to be sounds that seem to be from the Fairlight, or something similar, how did you find using the technology that was very much at the cutting edge back then? Mick

Released on this date, back in 2013. .

Hope you guys are keeping cool there over the pond. It's in the 90s here and uncomfortable.

For this month's Bandcamp release, Bill has made available the fantastic 'Captain Future's Psychotronic Circus' - a cracker if you haven't already got this one!

Geordie Wslker guitarist of Killing Joke dead at 64. 😔 https://pitchfork.com/news/killing-joke-guitarist-geordie-walker-dies-at-64/(https://pitchfork.com/news/killing-joke-guitarist-geordie-walker-dies-at-64/)

So Bill (in good company) may not have made it on to Rolling Stone magazines 250 all-time greatest guitarists, but when Johnny Marr recalls the pre-punk guitarists that he most admired, Bill's is the first name mentioned. Always loved Johnny's playing style and all round 'good bloke' persona, and it's really nice to hear him compliment Bill (as I know he has done before): https://youtu.be/NjY2O92ByNw?si=mxMscJGueeWEzes2&t=920(https://youtu.be/NjY2O92ByNw?si=mxMscJGueeWEzes2&t=920)

Thank you guys for giving me the confidence, at last, to share my poetry since the Oracle Project etc ‘Rock Concert’ Tonight’s the night! Finally! Been counting Down for well over a year. Many anxious Tears, until it was actually confirmed that We had managed to obtain tickets. Had Pre-booked, but the backlog was huge And it was potluck who got a golden Ticket! At last! All was finally well wow! Take our seats. Chattering everywhere. Huge arena was abuzz with excitement. Support band strolled nonchalantly on- To the stage. Played a few songs. Rock And some slower. Nice selection from a Young band. Guitar, drums, bass, piano And vocals. Got the crowd going and Drink was flowing, so it was a decent Atmosphere. Finished their set. CDs Eagerly offered in the carpeted and big Foyer after the concert. Again, checked The sound, then the lights went down….. 2024 😎🎼

Just seen (and bought) a copy of "Record Collector" as I see there's a 4 page spread on Bill written by David Stubbs. Surprised no-one's mentioned it before unless I missed a thread on this.

Bill posted this before and it disappeared but it's back again (YouTube giveth and YouTube taketh away) ....