It’s the biggest ask of the lot, to create a different field of actions and results. Ever wondered what it takes? It must take new events and new outcomes, new people and new circumstances. It takes new thoughts and new attitudes and is the kind of thing which makes you[…]
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Black Cat Bone Will See Me Through! When I first started out, I remember answering adverts in Melody Maker from people looking for guitarists. You were never really quite sure.. could be Bob Dylan for all I knew. Might be some top chart act looking to recruit, a record[…]
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Means Getting Your Teeth Into It! 8.30am and a phone call from Tommy Harden in Nashville, telling me all the final drums are sent over to Humph and the last steel guitar track will be there later today. Plenty of tracks flying around and that’s what you get, working with[…]
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Take Risks & Get Across The River The music, the parts, they all represent things. Time, places, people, events, feelings, dreams, changes, challenges, experiences, victories, defeats – all captured in a snapshot of sound but echoing with hidden memories of how it all was, is, might be, or even how[…]
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If You Want The Good Stuff To Happen – You Have To Keep Going I remember telling myself that over and again, since ever I can remember. It’s always panned out that way, no matter what or how it feels like in the middle of all the cycles and changes[…]
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Old Faces, Acquaintances – You Who Thought You Could Rearrange The End That line and phrase is from a Roy Harper album called The Unknown Soldier, it’s got Dave Gilmour on it and Kate Bush pops up on a track. Something made me think of the album today and in[…]
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Get Close – Then The Shapes Change Grey Cooper Blues Experience album Big Road, got a heck of airplay from Blues DJ’s here in the UK, across Europe and even two States in America, Kansas & New York. The album was even nominated for a UK Blues award. But this[…]
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Pack Up Or Crack On? With the band being split that is 20% of the income for the studio gone. I get the news that my studio partner Jim, is splitting his band and that now means that over 50% of the income for the studio is gone. We got[…]
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Work In A Band, Is Like Work In The Wind Let me see, that is 3 existing songs from the current set and 9 new songs I have written for the new album. Fittingly, the very last one of them would become the album title: Modern Man Blues. We had[…]
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Running A Band Is Not All Glamour ‘If you can just change these three lines here in the second verse and a line in the chorus to these following lyrics, then everything should be fine’. I think when you wake up to an email from a band member, calmly announcing[…]
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