My Mum passed away late last year. 

She was 91 and her rapid decline after my Dad's passing in the latter half of 2014 was quite unexpected. She didn't run out of gas, she ran out of air, thanks to the unwelcome grip of Lung Cancer.

After her funeral Richard Lane, Michael Gabriel, Dickon Oxenburgh, Jeremy Fitzpatrick and Greg Gilmour joined me under the tall gums in Fremantle Cemetery, standing a respectful couple of hundred meters from the Crematorium.

I'd deployed the first verse of Nina Simone's 'Feelin Good' to round out the Eulogy about 45mins prior and planned to revisit the tune with my 5 dear mates there, in the shade, with the broad hatch-back open, mum looking out and my son Flynn, my great friends Steve & Mikaela Castledine and the hearse attendants looking on.

This is not what was recorded that day. 
'The Doctor' laid his afternoon voice over that recording.

This was recorded in the now emptied old FLY BY NIGHT CLUB in Fremantle, marking the passing of another great dame, in this case the kind that can be rejuvenated.

It was an impromptu improv as I stood in the Drill Hall at a respectful 15m from one of the small side-rooms where BIG BOSS MAN was setting up to rehearse. Just having a blow really.

So this is for my Mum, the Drill Hall that was and the landmark musical crucible it will no doubt be again.

Not a bad recording from my iPhone 5, lying flat on an old timber table top.

Honk Snap
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FEELING GOOD   on a 1925 MARTIN C-TENOR

Married Anglo Celtic Male - play Alto Sax and various complementary woodwinds - sing a bit - prefer ECM - love my Pentax K7 and how it captures fleeting moments - Foster Dad - Architect

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