Strange rhythm

Where has March gone?

I mean, I know I go on about this repeatedly, and I seem to find it impossible to grasp the fact that months speed by quicker as they get warmer and lighter, but WHERE HAS MARCH GONE??? I spent years saying it’s my favourite month, but this year I hardly seem to have registered its existence. I’ve just been getting on with life and March has buggered off into the distance while I wasn’t looking.

 

In other, less repetitive, news I have been buying up old music CDs from cheap websites and indulging in them in the car. This week has been dominated by Genesis. To be exact – the incarnation of Genesis that existed shortly after Peter Gabriel left, up to the point that they decided to become bigger-selling by copying the mega-successful formula that Phil Collins used on his first solo albums. So my journeys to and from work this week have taken place to the sounds of “Duke” from 1983, which I suppose you might call ‘The Last Transition Album’ before they sold out good-and-proper with “Invisible Touch”.

The drumming, I have to say, is sublime. I mean the musicianship all round is pretty exemplary, but the drumming….

RC 26-3-21