ceciliatan: (darons guitar)
( Jan. 21st, 2016 09:00 am)

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

(By the way, there will be a Saturday post! The donation counter hit $100 so now it goes back to $0 and starts accruing again! The more times we hit $100, the more extra story posts there will be! -ctan)

First thing when we got to Barrett’s office the next day I told him I needed the album on cassette so I could walk around with it in my headphones. Lo and behold, he had a tape deck and the preamp necessary for connecting a turntable to it. I know. That’s like I just said he had a crank to start the engine of his car. I set side one to dubbing and then turned the actual volume in the speakers down so we could have another meeting with The Aesthetician and some other folks.

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ceciliatan: (darons guitar)
( Jan. 7th, 2016 09:00 am)

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

(Check out yesterday’s “future of DGC” post and discussion! I want your feedback about a bunch of things! -ctan)

We met up with Barrett and Ziggy at the WTA offices, which were on a couple of floors of a midtown high rise not terribly far from the BNC and WTA offices. Not quite Rockefeller Center but only a few blocks south of there. Their lobby had modular white leather chairs shaped like kidney beans and photos of Weiland Thomas with Mickey Rooney and Dolly Parton. Elvis. President Kennedy. They were not all his clients, but the photos weren’t labeled to tell you who was and who wasn’t.

Barrett came out to meet us himself and then led us past the cubicles of secretaries and junior agents to his office, which wasn’t a corner office but had large windows and was spacious enough to seat six around a low glass coffee table. There was a magazine in Spanish on the table with a photo of Ziggy onstage in an inset box on the cover. I resisted the urge to pick it up. Ziggy was already sitting in the chair in the deepest corner.

“Can I get you something to drink?” Barrett asked as I shuffled across to sit next to Zig. “Lemonade?”

“Uh, sure.”

“Hard or soft?”

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ceciliatan: (darons guitar)
( Jan. 5th, 2016 08:50 am)

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

(Happy New Year, everyone! If you missed the 2015 “DGC Annual Report” hop back to last Wednesday to read it. We’re up to $35.75 a week now via Patreon! Almost halfway to the first goal! Cool!! And thank you all so much for your support!! -ctan)

I never understood the expression “it never rains but it pours” until the day I had to have five different meetings, two of which spawned the need to have MORE MEETINGS.

I know. After basically a week of fucking off (or fucking on, if we want to be technical about it) and pretending I didn’t have music business stuff to deal with, all of a sudden I not only had to finish negotiating what exactly I was doing as musical director for Ziggy, but also figure out what was happening with the Surprise Album (working title), sign some paperwork relating to the punk soundtrack, Artie wanted me to come by the office to talk about more promo for Tracks, and I think I’m forgetting something in the list there…

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