FOLLOWING THE MUSIC..TO WHERE EVER IT TAKES ME..
I WROTE THIS POEM MANY YEARS AGO AS A TRIBUTE TO RORY GALLAGHER
Music,Art, Reading, Gardening,Drinking in the garden.Travelling,having friends round,having fun,Italian,Indian,Thai food veggie,Writing,playing music, cards,chess, rescuing animals,visiting family and friends,Bookstores.Music stores, drinking outside on a sunny day and watching the world go by, music festivals,walking in the rain,watching things grow in the garden, Rainbows,Sunsets,Sand, Desert, Sunshine,Horses,the sea,Moonlight,Stars,Trees,Shells,Crystals,Snow,Thunderstorms ,campfires,Tea,Jack Daniels,A Good Malt, The odd bottle of Wine,Cool Beer,Rum,Chocolate,Ice Cream,going to the movies,Animals,Reptiles,Snakes,Lizards,Motorbikes,Old Cars,Cycling,Swimming,Yoga and meditation,Tarot Reading,Reiki healing,Sound Therapy,Healing through music.Where words fail Music speaks!!!
Like to meet like minded people,all the people who are in my space as my friends, anyone who is kinda into the same things as myself.but don`t have to be. music going to gigs, travelling having a laugh going to the pub, chillin out.bit of adventure forward thinking open minded, sincere and honest with themselves and others.meet some old friends again who are out there somewhere and find some new ones.
Dougie Smith,Hendrix,Zeppelin,Doors,The Band,Grateful dead,Allman brothers,Doobie brothers,Rory Gallagher,Frankie Miller, Johnny Winter,Pat Ramsay. The Blues Disciples,,Steve Vai,Captain Beefheart,Zappa,Nico,Jim Barber, Gerry Guigley,Steely Dan,Bessie Smith,Albert Collins,Elmore James, Bonnie Raitt.Woody Guthrie, Arlo, Chet Atkins, Nina Simone,Joan Baez, Judy Collins,Jennifer Warnes, Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox, Chrissie Hynd, Janis Joplin,Etta James, Aretha Franklyn, Tina Turner,Jane Mcdonald,PP Arnold, Lulu,Dusty Springfield,Deep Purple, Muddy Waters,BB King,Paul Rose,Eric Sardinas and Big Motor, Butterfield Blues Band,Blue on Black,Howlin Wolf,Silencers, Walter trout ,Alvin Lee,Tommy Lee,Dimebag Darrel,Paul Gilbert, Thin Lizzy,Phill Lynott,U2, Terry Bozzio,Jeff Percaro,Steve Howell,Donald Fagan,Motorhead,Cream,Spinal Tap, Primal Scream,Gogol Bordello,Velvet Underground, Colts,Disciples of Panic Earth,Neil Young, CSN,Y,Icould go on and on.SRV,Jeff Healey,Prince,Jon Petrucci, Billy Sheehan, Lynyrd Skynyrd,Toto,Ted McKenna,Satriani, Muddy Waters,Anton, Sonny Boy Williamson,Hubert Sumlin. John Lee Hooker,Robert Johnson,Peter Green,Andi Neate,Evelyn Glennie,Enya,Steve Miller Band,Sinead O`connor,Nazareth,Tear Gas, Tangerine Dream,Kinks,Flying Burritto Brothers,Trapeze,Guns n Roses,Thin Lizzy, Foo Fighters, Muse,Pearl Jam,Dylan,Rod Stewart,Metallica,Aerosmith,Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell,Joan Baez,Medicinehead,Gerry Rafferty,Hawkwind,Stacia,Argent,Canned Heat,Creedence Clearwater Revival,John Mayall,New York Dolls,John Cale,John Martyn,John Lennon,George Harrison,Johhny Cash, Johnny Lang,Lemonheads,Lou Reed, Velvet Underground,Biffy Clyro,A.W.B.Steppenwolf,,Whitesnake,Blue Cheer,ZZ Top, Redbone,Buffy St Marie,Red Thunder,Blackfire,Black Sabbath,U.F.O.Traffic,Ravi Shankar,Ananda Shankar,Gibson Brothers,Santana, Dream Theatre,Gerry Garcia,Gerry Rafferty,Donovan,Hawkwind,The Pink Fairies,Dweezil Zappa,Bowie,Argent,Michael Sheckner, Mr Big, Group,King Crimson,Mike Portnoy,John Bonham,Greg Bissonette,Keith Moon,Chris Glen,Slash,Muddy Waters,Howlin Wolf,Pink Floyd,Asia,John Wetton,Free,Bad Company,Black Crows,Clash,Queen,The Who,Brian May,Jethro Tull,Sex Pistols,Antonio Pontarelli,Leonard Cohen, Yehudi Menuhin, Bach, Verdi,Verese,Dvorak,Debussy,Itzhak Perlman,Holst,Beethoven, Mozart and of course Elvis.
EASY RIDER. SOLDIER BLUE. HIGHLANDER. BRAVEHEART. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. BLUES BROTHERS. CHRISTINE. WALK THE LINE. IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER. SOME LIKE IT HOT. BROTHER WHERE ART THOU. LOST BOYS. THE COMMITMENTS. SLEEPERS.
GOOD FOR SHOUTING AT BUT LIKE TO WATCH FATHER TED AND SCRUBS THE WONDER YEARS
THE HOBBIT. LORD OF THE RINGS. ASTRONOMY. QUANTUM PHYSICS. CELESTINE PROPHECIES. OSCAR WILDE. MUSIC THERAPY. SOUND THERAPY. SPIRITUAL. THE FOUR AGREEMENTS. REIKI HEALING. ROBERT BURNS. WOMEN WHO RUN WITH WOLVES. MUSTAFFA GADALAH.
MY FATHER GERRY FOR MY LOVE AND KINDNESS AND COMPASSION FOR ALL HIS FACINATION WITH THE STARS IN THE NIGHT SKY HIS REBELLIOUS MAD IRISH STREAK AND LOVE OF WHISKY AND FOR ALWAYS HAVING AN ANSWER WHEN I ASKED WHY RIP. MY MOTHER BESSIE FOR MY READING SEWING AND KNITTING AND CREATIVE STREAK AND GOOD MANNERS ..SHE DID TRY RIP.MY GRANDMOTHER MAGGIE FOR MY LOVE AND MAGIC OF MUSIC WHO WOULD STAND ME ON HER TOES AND DANCE ROUND THE ROOM TO ANOTHER WORLD RIP. MY GRANDMOTHER JANE FOR HER HUMOUR AND STORYTELLING AND READING CARDS AND TEALEAVES AND HER TALKING MAGPIES.RIP. MY UNCLE JOE FOR BELIEVING IN ME RIPTHE ONE AND ONLY PAT SLOAN RIPALL DIED SO YOUNG BUT THEY LIVE ON IN ME AND WHO I AM NOW. TURNED OUT NO BAD.MY DOGS WHO WERE WITH ME OVER THE YEARS AND WERE LOYAL FRIENDS NOW GONE REX. PRINCE. TITO.JESS, ROXY AND RECENTLY OOR RANNIE OR RANNOCH RIP. MY BEAUTIFUL CATS DINKY. LUCKY. DALI AND HOLLY RIP.MY WEE BUDGIE GABRIEL. MY THREE CHILDREN LEE. LINZI AND JONATHAN WHO HAVE GROWN INTO WONDERFUL BEINGS. MY WEE SIS ELIZABETH FOR HER KINDHEARTEDNESS. MY BEST FRIEND "WEE EL" WHO HAS PUT UP WITH ME THROUGH THICK N THIN. MY DOG RORY WHO IS A PAIN IN THE ARSE OF A DOG BUT DOESN..T ANSWER ME BACK WHEN IM ON A RANT I LOVE HIM ANYWAY EVEN THOUGH HE..S NUTS. PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE JUST BY BEING HERE.LIKE MY NEW WEE GRANDAUGHTER LUCY SHE IS A STAR. LIFE IS GOOD. PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW THEIR DREAMS.. ANYONE WHO CAN PICK UP A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND MAKE IT SPEAK. ANYONE WHO PROMOTES WORLD PEACE.