Gigging, listening to music of all kinds, Alcohol (I mean it,man!), motorcycles, football(UK), fantasy novels.
(I take it it's a wish list) - Jim Morrison,James Dean Bradfield,Ray Manzarek,Bob Dylan,Bono,Phillip Parris Lynott,Scott Gorham,Jane Seymour,Harrison Ford,Johnny Depp,Harold Lloyd,Bon Scott,William Shakespeare,Natalie Wood...Oh yeah,and a little known guy called David Coverdale would be nice!!!And just one more time,for all time,my friend Geoff who taught me an awful lot,but not enough before his time was gone.My sun will shine a little less bright without you mate,I hope there's a Cuz in heaven for you to play crib with! I'd give anything to meet you one more time....
U2, UFO, AC/DC, Danny Vaughn, The Doors, The Who, Evanescence, All About Eve, Iron Maiden, Journey, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Free, Bad Co., Therapy?, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics...
Blade Runner, Braveheart, Goog Morning Vietnam, The Wicker Man (original), Highlander, LotR, The Commitments, Van Helsing, Much Ado About Nothing, The Italian Job, The Great Escape, Still Crazy, West Side Story, Red Dawn, Lethal Weapon, The Crow, Alien Trilogy, Hawk The Slayer, Contact, Risky Business, 9 Songs, 9 1/2 Weeks, Streets Of Fire, Almost Famous, Independance Day, MIB, A Time To Kill, The Bone Collector, Kiss The Girls, Quatermass and the Pit, Man On Fire, Star Wars, The Exorcist, Underworld, Little Shop Of Horrors, Stargate, The Matrix, The Doors...
House, Lost, Wire In The Blood, Touching Evil, Supernatural, Buffy, Charmed, The Clangers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Not The Nine o'Clock News, M*A*S*H, Dark Angel, Time Team, Top Gear, Morse, The Professionals, Robin Of Sherwood, Star Trek (all series)...
Anything by Tolkein, Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, Raymond E.Feist, David Eddings, Anne McCaffery, Bill Bryson, Frank Herbert, James Herbert, Forgotten Realms, Michael Moorcock, Dan Brown, No One Here Gets Out Alive, Ballad Of A Thin Man, My Boy...
In no particular order....Geoff Bruce, David Coverdale, Paul Rodgers, Fish, Steve Hogarth, Danny Vaughn, Danny Bowes, Steve Augueri, Steve Perry, Jim Morrison, Bono, Brian Little, Peter Withe, Tony Morley...and of course, my two grandfathers Thomas Samuel Wootton and Joseph Firkins for making my childhood years full of fun AND instruction.....and lastly, but DEFENITELY not leastly, my mum and dad Pat and Roy, who taught me to love life, and music in particular, and who continue to support me to this day and beyond.....
Each and every one of the above people have touched me in some way and shaped me into the person I am.....and for that I would like to thank them all......