FOX News, Stax Museum and Humility

So, an interesting day turned into an amazing one. We left VS a few hours ago to arrive at Ardent Studios to be met by a film crew from FOX News, who had got wind of some Brits in town and wanted to do a piece on our visit. We also met John Fry, President of Ardent Studios, who personally showed us around, film crew in tow. It was fantastic to hear the story of the studios, and all the famous people who have recorded there - REM no less for example. The film crew then followed us to lunch, and interviews with myself, Damien, Alice and Ken (President, VS) followed. The students are currently huddled round the TV waiting for it to come on!

John then took us to the Stax Museum which was another amazing Memphis experience - he took us in as guests and then toured round the whole museum telling us an incredible amount about the history and narrative of the label, with artists such as Otis Redding, Booker T and the MGs etc. - it was fascinating and again inspiring. The most impressive thing about it was that this guy was one of the most important people in Memphis music history, featured in the museum, and in fact mixed and mastered loads of the famous recordings held at Stax, but yet gave his whole afternoon to looking after us. Utterly humbling.

Right off to watch the news. I hope they got my good side...