Re: Leinhos, Peter is out of the office.

[Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com>]

I feel significantly less content than I did ten minutes ago.

Thanks Mark :-)

Kevin

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:41 AM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> 
wrote:
> Its hell when yer in and its hell when yer out...
>
> I loved being a professional musician, touring was fabulous, all that sex
> and drugs, studio was cool, became a genius at Sonic the Hedgehog, 
>Shooting
> videos was fun, cos that was my job, photoshoots.. cool as fuck... all 
>those
> make-up girls and screaming queen assistants running about fetching me
> Lattés (before I knew what a latté was... ) But then the meetings...
> MEETINGS?? I hear you ask, yes... hours and hours of wingeing moaning 
>band
> meetings, days and days of endless management/record company meetings...
> pushin, slowly pushing, in that very annoying kind of... "we love and 
>stand
> by your thing its great" way for a hit.. or at least a track you could 
>dance
> to... of hum along too would be just great guys... in the end theres 
>none of
> your original band there... its just meetings and meetings, and getting 
>up
> late and going to bed late... and pissing off your girlfriend cos you 
>cant
> cook anymore, refusing to walk if you can get a taxi...
> so then I was out... phew... breath of fresh air.. foreign fresh air
> infact... working.. in a job... it was GREAT!!!... playing at a few 
>cellar
> bars and art galleries, where a few people still knew me, but I could 
>well..
> I could loop!!! In those days using 5 different delay pedals with hold
> functions, no synch.. oh and a vortex... Its was so easy, so simple... 
>do a
> job for money... and play what the fucking hell you like!!! Again... 
>after
> 13 years it was like a revelation!!!
> After another 13 years.. well Im sick of working... should have gone for
> SOMETHING within music, as it is I built up a successful e-learning film
> company, but now I want out... HATE IT! HATE HATE HATE it... I tell my MD
> that people arn't turning up on time and are leaving early, then I 
>realize
> that it mainly me... shit...
> Now I have a kid, its more difficult to throw it all in and be skint 
>again..
> so Ill stick with the little bugger till he's 18...
>
> Then Im off... wife can come if she wants... if she doesn.. then too 
>bad...
> where? any-fucking-where... I might buy a cottage in a village in 
>Morrocco I
> like next year.. so.. come my 60th birthday.,. youll find me there, maybe
> have little bar, or looping cafe.. any where without TV, without mobile
> phone coverage or without fucking Wifi...  and loop to my hearts 
>content, in
> the warm evenings, with a beer in my hand, the only light coming from a
> faintly bluish glow of the softstep at my feet...
>
> Mark
>

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