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Bytes From the Big Gig Disasters
14th May 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
It's exactly a year ago this month since Bytes From the Big Apple first graced the information highway. It's also the first anniversary of my departure from low-lying Nashville to move to higher ground in Manhattan. You can imagine, therefore, how disturbing it has been to learn of the recent floods that have devastated Music City. To see so many familiar buildings being swamped and to hear from friends who've...
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Bytes From The Big Apple: Conflagrations and Jubilations
15th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Come the first of August I shall be chalking up my third month as a happily-transplanted newbie in midtown Manhattan. Why is it therefore, that circumstances have mischievously caused my settling-in period to be constantly interrupted by a string of travels that have taken me to Boston, Nashville, London and Bermuda. Don’t get me wrong, each port of call has been well worthwhile. Getting to see the Red Sox play, visiting...
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Bytes from the Big Apple “A Moving Experience Pt 2″
26th May 2009 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Meanwhile, back in Nashville the opportunity to straddle the genres came when I was invited to cut an album for Sire with Jerry Lee's little sister, Linda Gail Lewis.
Now this formidable lady is a true Earth Mother of rock n roll. Not content to live in any kind of shadow whatsoever, she is two spouses ahead of her legendary brother having been married no less than eight times.During the making... -
Bytes From The Big Apple: Moving house is a moving experience
26th May 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
"A Moving Experience". Now there's a phrase that pays, and all the more so if you are going through the process of relocation.
For the past few weeks every waking hour has been devoted to packing, boxing and generally condensing my life's work into an army of crates stamped with that impassive instruction, 'This Way Up'.After spending fourteen fascinating years producing, writing and playing bass in Nashville, the hand of guidance...




