[kj] OT John Loder RIP

[Neil Perry]

He used to be my boss when I worked at Southern (for
only six months, not being able to survive on what
they paid me...). He was a nice enough bloke but with
a conflicting attitude toward what he did; he wanted
press for his bands, but frequently would remove all
journalists from the guest list, and then complain to
me a week later that there had been no reviews in the
press. Sometimes he wouldn't even let us, the Southern
staff, go to the gigs for free, we had to buy our own
tickets if we wanted to go. I once had to deal with a
whole queue of journos outside a (sold out) Babes In
Toyland gig who couldn't get in cos Loder had ripped
up the guest list. I told them I couldn't get in
either, and was going home, and advised them to do the
same! 

On my first day at Southern there was a bloke in my
office putting up shelves. I thought I recognised him,
and it was indeed the guitarist from Crass. He said
'Can I give you some advice about this place?' I said
sure, and he said 'Leave!'. Loder was a nice man but
he should have stayed in the studio twiddling the
knobs and not got involved with the business side!
Still, it was a fun place to work, Lee Scratch Perry
used to wander in and cause havoc. He was once caught
trying to put the house cat in the microwave, because
it had been sent by satan to ruin his work.
N

 
--- iPat <pmdavies at gmail.com> wrote:

> he was a very nice man, who had an influence on a
> lot of the music i
> listened to at that time and since.
> 
> 
> > This sucks too...
> > 
> >
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1552016,00.html#article_continue
> > 
> 
> -- 
> iPat
> "Why are we ambitious? Why do we want to succeed, to
> be somebody? Why
> do we struggle to be superior? Why all this effort
> to assert oneself,
> whether directly, or through an ideology or the
> State? Is not this
> self-assertion the main cause of our conflict and
> confusion? Without
> ambition, would we perish? Can we not physically
> survive without being
> ambitious?"
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