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About Me


former guitarist with eve & the garden, and sometime guitar noise maker for helen turner, miles cain, ascent and a few others (i forget) - now going it alone in the big bad world!
performing for nearly 25 years, i finally got round to recording some of my own musical thoughts in 2001 on 'postcards from aunt cordelia' - bizarre at the best of times, some people said kind things about it. guitar biased but pulling in any genre i could safely get my hands on!
last summer (2006) saw the release of my second solo album 'strange tale' - bizarre at best, some people again said nice things about it. guitar biased but pulling in all the remaining genres left over from 2001.
it also prompted a few people to buy my first album. go figure - general public huh?
i've been doing guitar karaoke style gigs up to now (i.e. watched by lots of japanese businessmen smashed on saki), but am seriously looking to find some other happy-go-unlucky balladeers to turn this lurching monster into a full band.
know any jazz/rock influenced second guitarists, chapman stick (ideally)/bass players/ keyboard/loop players, or drummists? well do you? i'm a nice guy, get in touch. no money but hey this is music.
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don't forget to visit the main website:
www.tollboothmusic.com
for completely up-to-date news, visit the blog:
tollboothmusic.tumblr.com
and if you'd like to buy either of the albums, just visit our online shop:
tollboothshop

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/28/2006
Band Website: tollboothmusic.com
Band Members: ....just yours truly!
Influences: far too many to mention, but there is a little list....rush, the enid, mike oldfield, thin lizzy, vai (the odder stuff), nitin sawhney, belioz, holst, john cage, rupert sheldrake, charles fort, aristophanes, norton juster, ayn rand (and yet i'm left wing - go figure!), jasper fforde, damanhur.
Sounds Like: apparently satriani, though i really don't hear it. varies from rock thru to windham hill!
Record Label: tollboothmusic
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

its all gone lovely & quiet here now......

awh - that's better.  since all the advertisers started hounding people on FaceAche, and the thrutchy (thank Mike Harding for that word) adolescents have migrated to Twitter (you just so don't ne...
Posted by p-a-d on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:20:00 PST

The Sound of Laughter - revisited

bit late in posting but what the hey and who's reading anyhow????sooooo..... remember the insane workshop day at the primary school recently with the found percussion and the incredibly loud noises an...
Posted by p-a-d on Thu, 17 May 2007 01:14:00 PST

New TWO material

Not the usual 'inside the tracks' expose ths week - just a gentle little advert to tell y'all that some of the music the new tollboothmobile rig has been recording is now posted.  A long-time fri...
Posted by p-a-d on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:21:00 PST

All wired up about radio packs...

aaah, cars - hate 'em.  sitting here as i am waiting for my local garage to come and pick up my poor neglected Space Wagon which gosh, surprisingly refuses to start after 6 months locked away in ...
Posted by p-a-d on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:46:00 PST

the sound of chaos and laughter

Sometimes something unexpected will happen that makes you rethink the things you do in a surprising but pleasant way.  This week has been one such experience.  A while ago, following a truly...
Posted by p-a-d on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:11:00 PST

PADini predicts! Ghosts will take over the world!

Really short blog, but just while i remember....i used to get really naffed when i got into a band or thought "they're gonna be big this year" and they made it, but i never said anything to anyone (wh...
Posted by p-a-d on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:25:00 PST

Talent + Microphone = Happy Place

hello all - there doesn't seem to be a mood smiley for 'chipper' but i guess that's where you find me.every now and then something magical happens - truly magical.  that moment when you put a dec...
Posted by p-a-d on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:32:00 PST

CHIN UP! It's Easier to Hit That Way - sound engineering and the first girlfriend syndrome

first new year blog and no resolutions broken - well - none written to be honest, and darn tootin' content with it.so.... the chicken lurgy came and went and left merely one or two scar-ettes and ta f...
Posted by p-a-d on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:48:00 PST

POXWATCH!

ohhhh, this is ridiculous - i'm thirty mmmgmmhm - i shouldn't have chickenpox!  but that, i have!if you are reading this, and have not had chicken's lurgy, then i'm afraid it may already be too l...
Posted by p-a-d on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:32:00 PST

christmas hits and the unintentional santa!

with the news that two of my favourite artists (sarah mclachlan & barenaked ladies) have christmas albums out at the moment, it would seem that the world has truly and finally gone to hell in a ba...
Posted by p-a-d on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:33:00 PST