A diabolically bad video for Christmas – but I loved every second

The Blues is alive and well at 34th Street, New York city

I saw this pair as I was going to catch the A-train a couple of weeks back.

(And I can’t help adding that I saw Duke Ellington’s orchestra play Take the A Train when I was much younger).

My video is not exactly what you’d call professional. I just took my phone out and pointed as people went by.

These two guys play for hours at that spot – and they are good, as the man standing next to me pointed out with some fervour towards the end of my little clip. I have seen a lot of musicians, including BB King and Albert King, and these gentlemen would not disgrace themselves in any company.

It is – for me anyhow – little surprises like catching them which make life worth living.

I don’t know what you’re all doing but in two days I go to France where my friend Chris is trying to persuade me to ski after a twenty odd year break … and I was no good even then

I hope you all have a great Christmas. I will try to do better next year. I hope you do too.

About the Author

In 2003, the Chartered Institute of Marketing named Drayton one of 50 living individuals who have shaped today’s marketing.

He has worked in 55 countries with many of the world’s greatest brands. These include American Express, Audi, Bentley, British Airways, Cisco, Columbia Business School, Deutsche Post, Ford, IBM, McKinsey, Mercedes, Microsoft, Nestle, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Unilever, Visa and Volkswagen.

Drayton has helped sell everything from Airbus planes to Peppa Pig. His book, Commonsense Direct and Digital Marketing, out in 17 languages, has been the UK’s best seller on the subject every year since 1982. He has also run his own businesses in the U.K., Portugal and Malaysia.

He was a main board member of the Ogilvy Group, a founding member of the Superbrands Organisation, one of the first eight Honorary Fellows of the Institute of Direct Marketing and one of the first three people named to the Hall of Fame of the Direct Marketing Association of India. He has also been given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Caples Organisation in New York and Early To Rise in Florida.

6 Comments

peter hobday

Dec 12, 2012 - 11:00 pm

3 minutes 45 seconds and just two people put money in their pot.

admin

Jan 1, 2013 - 8:13 am

If you make 5 $ – which was my contribution – every three minutes or so, you’re doing OK. $100 an hour

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andrew wood

Dec 12, 2012 - 11:09 pm

I use to read every blog now I seldom do..it’s not that I think any less of your wisdom but since you switched blogs sometime ago the emails that come in look awful … I still click on some but not nearly as many I can send you some screen shots if you like

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