Issue 56

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. But then some silly words jumped out and put themselves to the silly little tune, and before long a verse, and another, and a chorus.. Bugger me! I had a song bloody writing itself. I couldn’t resist it any longer and rushed, rushed I tell you, into the barely used…

..adventure couture-wise, mostly in an attempt to be the opposite of Spectrum in every respect, but also reflecting what was going on in the pop scene at the time with the advent of glam rock – you could say that visually at least we weren’t all that different to Gary Glitter and Marc Bolan, both…

.. tell me to tell me that he was 29 years old, that he was serious about his rap music, that one of his rap nom-de-plumes was Jules Rockwell, that he was registered with Centrelink, that his mother would prefer it if he could hold down a steady job and that she preferred Massive Attack…

.. nylon-string guitar for instance sounds unnervingly ambivalent and jangly as a result, especially in the top three strings. Not to mention that my right ear is so shot to pieces that I prefer to wear an ear plug rather than a hearing aid when I’m playing or listening to even slightly amplified music, as…

Mal Logan and Enza Pantano have visited my studio recently and recorded some Hammond and vocals respectively on a couple of my new tunes – and of course in this case, a good time was had by all, and everything went down in one take. Great stuff! Thanks guys, I owe you one! (No, make…

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