Still Lazy After All These Years....
But somehow it's all gone wrong and I'm busier than I've ever been. I seem to be living my life backwards: I retired at 17 and am now entering the busiest time of my career so far.
I'm releasing a CD of songs. Having done 4 instrumental albums as a WEA artist, this is a new venture for me. Rather than try to sing songs about teenage love, the lyrics deal unashamedly (and sometimes explicitly!) with life as a 50-year-old father-of-two.
I'm also doing more and more production work. A natural progression after my experience as a session musician and technology-anorak.
As a producer, I know that I'm interested in the moment of creation, not re-creation.
I love to work with players rather than programmed music.
And if you can hear that it was produced by me... I've failed. I'm not the artist, so it shouldn't sound like my record.
OK, the list of names to impress the impressionable:
I've worked with (among others):
Roger Waters (post-Pink Floyd)
Mike Oldfield
Suede
Scott Walker
David Allan Coe
Westernhagen, and many more.
Fans of Withnail and I will also be familiar with my playing: I played guitar on the soundtrack of this classic movie.
