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May 02, 2005
Excuse Me, Has Harold Budd Lived Here?
In the April issue, Wired Magazine reviewed Avalon Sutra, Harold Budd’s latest (and apparently final) recording. Accompanying the review was this photograph:
...and I’ve convinced myself that the ambient pianist is sitting in front of this awesome house:
...which I must have driven past and admired from a distace at least a hundred times en route from the Gordon Ranch (where I spent two winters living in squalor amongst masses of ornery climbers) to Joshua Tree National Park.
Google won't produce any evidence that Mr. Budd lived in that particular house, though this interview confirms that a colleague of his lived in Joshua Tree at some point; I’m willing to take that as proof enough, and let "glare" explain why the blue part of the house to appears washed out in the top photo. The angled doorway kind of gives it away, don’t you think? Fine then, it's settled.
Posted by Elizabeth at May 2, 2005 12:02 AM