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About Me

Born and raised in London, I came to Los Angeles in '94 to study bass guitar. After commuting back and forth for a couple of years, at some point I realised that I had accumulated more stuff here than I had in England. That included a husband (jazz guitarist Frank Gambale) and some cats. I no longer have the husband, and we divided the cats evenly between us.A funny thing (or two) happened on the way to Los Angeles, and at the beginning of this year I finished my *first* book...Back in London in the 80s I was in a few bands, including my own, as well as doing a stint as one of the 'Anadin Brothers' with Dr and The Medics. Also sang backing vocals on my friend Paul Di'Anno's (former vocalist with Iroan Maiden) Children of Madness album. Much water has passed under many bridges.. as you will see if and when the book gets published!For the last 5 years it has been my privilege to call Laurel Canyon my home. It's wild to be driving past the former residences of Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell, John Mayall et al. I really think the Canyon has found it's way into my blood and mixed interestingly with my East London, DNA - although to be honest I don't actually have any real English blood - it mostly goes back to Eastern Europe, long before Bulgaria became trendy!________Isn't the map below cool? It's only got the most recent visitors to my profile but it's fun to see the new locations pop up when it updates. I'm hoping someone in Greenland will drop by :-)
SMV - Stanley Clarke, Marcus M / Thunder
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My Interests

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I'd quite like to meet myself 20 years ago. There are a few things I'd like to say.

My Blog

In The Studio

... no not really, well not yet.. but I always wanted to say that! However, I will be doing some recording towards the end of Jan - or maybe Feb, and so I am writing some new bits and pieces. Yeah...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:52:00 GMT

Summer of music

This summer I got off my arse and went to see some amazing live music. First was Mark Knopfler at the Greek Theatre in LA. Then Steely Dan at the Nokia. Back to The Greek for James Taylor. Then an...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:58:00 GMT

Marcus Miller Interview - Tanya Almor for Bassist Magazine - 1998

The following exerpt is from an interview I did with Marcus Miller for Bassist Magazine in 1998. It was my huge privilege to see Marcus with Stanley Clarke & Victor Wooten at the Hollywood B...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:42:00 GMT

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - December 11, 1918 August 3, 2008

I live in California so I only just heard the news that today Alexander Solzhenitsyn died aged 89. I was maybe 8 or 9 when my father read the newly published Gulag Archipelago in Russian, before it ...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:27:00 GMT

Cruelty to Compassion

www.crueltytocompassion.blogspot.comIf this link does not work, please cut and paste, or work out some other way to get to the site. it is well worth it for those concerned about how we change the wa...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:28:00 GMT

Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil

I just read a news item from the AP that said 400 baby penguins washed up dead on a beach in Brazil. It said there was some dispute over possible causes. 1) Over fishing had caused them to swim fur...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:37:00 GMT

Fuming.... and sad

I just read a story about another horse murdered in cold blood. Of course it's murder.. it is setting out with the intention of taking a life, cool, calm and clinical as a lethal injection is inserte...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:42:00 GMT

THE BOOK III

Having submitted my first book to the publishers a couple of months ago... I have learnt that patience is needed in the world of publishing. So in terms of goals, plans and hopes yes I sincerely h...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:55:00 GMT

Happy Birthday

I'm still 42 in Los Angeles, but in London it is already May 22nd and I have been 43 for almost 4 hours now. 43 is not one of those milestone numbers, it's easy to just let it slip by. But if I st...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 19:39:00 GMT

Love, life, London, LA

Last month I fell in love... again. It was an old flame of sorts, one that I had not seen for many months. But within a short time of being re-united, I fell in love. This time I was seeing through...
Posted by on Sat, 03 May 2008 19:25:00 GMT