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  • How do we get around America – a country so vast that all of England would fit in its back pocket? In The Tour Bus. And being the USA, they […]

    Bus Wars

    How do we get around America – a country so vast that all of England would fit in its back pocket? In The Tour Bus. And being the USA, they […]

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  • Are there true gentlemen in rock and roll?… not so sure about now but I think there used to be and I’d like to think I met the best of […]

    “My Dear Boy…” Touring Hazards

    Are there true gentlemen in rock and roll?… not so sure about now but I think there used to be and I’d like to think I met the best of […]

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  • Each day we roll into a new city on tour and if time permits between those Phoner newspaper interviews and radio station visits.. we go in search of the cool […]

    In Search of Cool City

    Each day we roll into a new city on tour and if time permits between those Phoner newspaper interviews and radio station visits.. we go in search of the cool […]

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  • Where is the Counter Culture?” is a question that keeps haunting me. I was having breakfast in a small bar on Fillmore street surrounded by San Francisco people going about […]

    Where is the Counter-Culture?

    Where is the Counter Culture?” is a question that keeps haunting me. I was having breakfast in a small bar on Fillmore street surrounded by San Francisco people going about […]

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  • I was very saddened to read in the papers yesterday that Neil Aspinall is seriously ill in a New York hospital.  The paper called him ‘the fifth Beatle’.  I’ve known […]

    My Other Beatle

    I was very saddened to read in the papers yesterday that Neil Aspinall is seriously ill in a New York hospital.  The paper called him ‘the fifth Beatle’.  I’ve known […]

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  • Hope..its everywhere. Does everyone share the same hopes and dreams of success, of making it? I’m sitting by the pool on a glorious clear blue texas day.  The buildings opposite […]

    Austin Rising

    Hope..its everywhere. Does everyone share the same hopes and dreams of success, of making it? I’m sitting by the pool on a glorious clear blue texas day.  The buildings opposite […]

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  • Is there a defining moment in our lives when we suddenly know we want to be in a band? I think there is. I was at school at Hampton Grammar, […]

    Why you know you need to be in a band…

    Is there a defining moment in our lives when we suddenly know we want to be in a band? I think there is. I was at school at Hampton Grammar, […]

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  • Lyrics... one minute they are just words lying flat of a piece of paper and the next minute they have a whole life ahead of them, living, breathing.. Its why […]

    I’m Driving in my Car…

    Lyrics... one minute they are just words lying flat of a piece of paper and the next minute they have a whole life ahead of them, living, breathing.. Its why […]

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  • It’s been a few days now since the last blurred Jack Daniel’s insulated sounds of Carbon Casino 7 have faded back into the quiet of life here in Somerset and […]

    The Carbon Casino Gamble

    It’s been a few days now since the last blurred Jack Daniel’s insulated sounds of Carbon Casino 7 have faded back into the quiet of life here in Somerset and […]

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  • We did a “podcast” for the Guardian newspaper website yesterday (to air soon).. we used to dread doing “yet another” interview, the type where it’s all about plugging the record…. […]

    The Game

    We did a “podcast” for the Guardian newspaper website yesterday (to air soon).. we used to dread doing “yet another” interview, the type where it’s all about plugging the record…. […]

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