Life and Soul

Ecuador -Part 1

It seems like once again I’m bored, bored of work, board of putting up with the restraints & restrictions of living in a society that is organised, governed & exploited by those privileged enough to have attained to seats of money & power.

Once you enter the arena that is business & politics your ethics & moralities can easily be swayed by the force of the man with the money or by the promises of the elusive, exclusive investors or big deal.
Many times had I found that the next gig is in Dutcha Bank, Morgan Stanley, Credit Swiss, Andersons, KPMG or any other big nasty financial or consulting company? It gets worse you can include Microsoft, Vodaphone, Cisco, BAT, MoD, the list goes on. I find myself working for the very people I have so much disagreement with, this gives me a unique fly on the wall situation.
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Ecuador -Part 2

Lets be honest it’s the people that get on my tits, right from the top table of directors, through management & down through the staff. I have sat through about a billion conferences, working as a sound engineer, most designed to motivate or to promote a new product or new management directive.

They are all giving similar messages, they are all trying to grow their market share, control overheads & please their shareholders. That is about it,

To be honest from what I see, and it’s the same situation with the government, these so called leaders, heads of the game don’t have a clue, their past principals & values & their understandings are all based & from Victorian, Empirical, ideals of the world. The wealthy control & have all, the rest are nothing but slaves to the wimp & fads of the so formed elite society.
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Ecuador -Part 15

My reason for leaving work within the music industry were based on conclusions that soon became apparent after a couple of years working as tour manager & Foh sound engineer mainly for WEA & EMI
Head down, listening, learning; I was keen mostly paying attention to the people I was meeting, their personalities, trying to fit in and understand their world.

Welcome to a world that’s dominated by self importance, obsessions with power & the fame names of association. The record companies are well at fault, they lead new artists into a world of designer cloths, shoes, limousines, fat jewellery along with many other extravagances. The management, agents & promoters play along; they are in the club & are getting very well looked after, thank you very much.
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Ecuador – ver 4 pt 1

I can’t do it, I am unable to happily pretend that everything is OK, True & Just; that our present path as a so called civilized race is one that leads us ‘ALL’ to peace & happiness. I take it that this ‘Peace & Happiness’ is indeed what we desire above all else……well I think not, not here in the West, the mighty hand of capitalism & consumerism has reached out & re-programmed millions if not billions of people.
All lost, mindlessly consuming each new product or the explanation of a situation, soaking up the implications of playing up to ego, vanity, material success, fame & money.
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Ecuador ver4 Pt2

I’m tied, tied of work, tied of putting up with the restraints & restrictions of living in a society that is organised, governed & exploited by those “privileged” enough to have attained to seats of money, fame or power.
Bigged up idolised & revered by the masses these so called “stars” or “celebrities” enter a world of fantasy where everything around them becomes false, set-up, cut, edited, affected & exaggerated to the extreme. Nothing is real, nothing has any soul, and most times there is no spirit to be found; the wants become material & the vision shallow.
Surrounded by yes people who themselves savagely guard their overblown pay-packets; circles, interests, wants & needs. All changes as you are accepted into the club, “the club above the rest”.

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Ecuador -Part 3

So I find myself on yet another plane journey, this time thankfully of my own choice not a flight out to work but one to relax. First I have 17 hours on one of the most trying airlines there is, Continental. Overfed air-conditioning, gross pre-packaged, pre cooked food attempts & over happy, over sized, non-helpful hostesses.

Finally after 17 hours flying we arrive in Quito the capital of Ecuador, South America.

First let me tell you of our change of planes in Houston, Texas.
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