When I dream, I often find that I am back in Summit Avenue, free, happy and with the world at my feet. My earliest memories are of Summit Avenue. It…

Recently I came across a great meme about owning the past. It read something like -: Unless we choose to own the past we choose to be owned by it.…

Before I began a ten year descent into ever darker places, I wrote a rough draft of some lyrics for a song that never got written let alone sung –…

When you embrace darkness it takes you in, welcomes you and then when you’re comfortable,starts to bite. Collateral Damage- Postcards From Hell I’m on more than nodding terms with darkness.…

Ritchie Blackmore just turned 76. It doesn’t feel right writing that. Heroes are larger than life. They’re not meant to grow old. Blackmore has always been my hero. Well at…

One of the great blessings of working from home is that I get the opportunity to correspond with a range of people whom I otherwise would not. Two of those…

“Salt of the earth” is one of those phrases that doesn’t get used much anymore. It conjures up images of hard work,true toughness, integrity, dignity, respect, loyalty and courage.The phrase…

I arrived in Ararat with 3 guitars, a broken bed, a sound system, a couple of thousand dollars worth of vinyl and a massive chip on my shoulder. I wasn’t…

I know success. Or so it would seem. Before I was thirty I was the Accountant at a small country branch of the Commonwealth Bank. By the time I’d reached…

The first time I heard Eddie Van Halen, I thought it was a joke. My best friend at the time played me Eruption. I couldn’t believe my ears. It didn’t…