Ron Geesin Quotes

I've always said, that you've got this crazy situation where you've got the phonetics, the choir phonetics in the funky section, you've got them one beat off what I intended, and it was always an ambition to correct that - somehow. So the best solution came, given to me on a plate, by the Chelsea Festival. So we did it, as I explained on one of the nights, we did it the right way wrong, and the wrong way right! [Laughs] And that works fine. It's quite a fruity, juicy section, and it stands to be done twice, and then you've got the offset of one beat, with the accompaniment still 4/4 in the group.
Ron Geesin

After meeting "Nicky" (as he was called then) Mason, at our (mine and Frankie, my wife's) basement flat, in October 1968, and our having struck up a warm friendship with Nicky and Lindy through the next year, I was introduced to Roger through them, probably at a party or other social gathering. I first visited him at 7:30 on the 8th of October, at his house on New North Rd. in London. We, (Roger, my wife, and I) went out for dinner on the 29th of October 1969, and from then on, I struck up an equally close friendship with Roger and Judy.
Ron Geesin

Much of my musical history can be got from the above chronology. I have always been a keen appreciater of black jazz, skiffle and jug-band music, not blues in the folk sense. I am moved by the utterances of individuals in most fields: Henry Purcell, Edward Elgar, Sergei Rachmaninov, Gabriel Faure, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell, Hari Prasad Cahurassia, and most virtuoso executants of Global ethnic music.
Ron Geesin