Henry Cow C/D and S/D

Do I genuinely need to point out that I wasn't taking that overly seriously?

― Stevolende

yes please, i'm neurodiverse and have trouble parsing sarcasm

THink I didn't finish a sentence there that people's temporality and mortality must be things that one needs to be conscious of. i.e by the time another opportunity arose may be less participants still around.

Also what goes into preparation for an event like this, is there rehearsal or is people's previous playing together enough for tehm to be familiar with each other's styles and means of instrumental communication . If there is rehearsal one would think that one would benefit from playing another couple of days at any juncture when people could actually get together. Like if there is a space in a diary for one get together one would think one would look into doing a few more when one had the chance or if one had the chance. Though getting older may mean drop in stamina which would mean one could do less concerts in a given time without needing to get energy together. I think David Crosby was talking about that in a documentary I saw on Sky Arts a few weeks ago and he's in the same rough age range.

Crosby's quite a bit older I think?

I had to check. Crosby - born in 1941. Fred Frith - born in 1949.

Huh, I didn’t know Frith was that “young.”

the core of HC were all actual real students when they first played together in like 68 iirc

also lol: "in October 1969 philosopher galen strawson auditioned for the band"

Ooooh

Re: preparation

Frith just shows up and improvises with different folks like 7 days a week he dont need no rehearsal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MndFeU6uf84

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=741797

Full set on yt, for the non-dimeadozen peeps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOVbnHI92Es