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A brief update

Weds 26th November, on ITV, is the airdate for The Making Of Machine Head. 11.45pm I’m told, but check just in case. I have seen the DVD and it is wonderful. I don’t know if it will be edited for TV but the DVD has a lot of extra material. The most exciting part is video footage of us in the 70s, at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, playing Smoke – as far as I know, the ONLY film/video of us playing that song. Great stuff. Dick Clark owns it. Martin Smith, who put the documentary together, negotiated but was allowed only a minute or so of the footage. Dick Clark won’t sell it apparently.

That was the past, now to the next phase.

The proposed November writing session was delayed because Michael Bradford, our producer, was unable to make it then, so we are all gathering in Los Angeles in December.

Rest assured that whatever may be going through your imaginations as to what will come out of it is also going through ours, and more – the anticipation level is high.

A first on many counts; writing with Don; working with Michael; being in LA. After the Christmas break we will, if all goes well, be in the studio recording what we worked on in December. As the first few months of the New Year go by we should have made huge inroads into the album. I’ll drink to that.

Can’t wait.

Good luck,

RG November 2002