Letting Go Of Darkness Is Not An Easy Task
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 – the Man In Black who Shone Light in my 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…
Life is Precious Drink Every Second of It In
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 – a term seldom earned
“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…
Check out anytime. Its the end of the line
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…
Success tasted dirty stale and repugnant
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…
Eddie Van Halen, dead but his music will live on
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…
Coming Home to a Life Left Behind
I’ve been coming home to football for a while now. It’s been a long journey and there’s been more than a few stumbles along the way. I am almost there.…
Ghosts and demons of my colorful past hold no fears
When I fled Geelong in 1986, I was fleeing myself more than anything. In essence I was broken. An emotionally crippled, spiritually dead, morally bankrupt shell of a man in…
Music, Memories, Madness, Magic and Mayhem
“There is always music,” a friend reminded me this week. No matter what. There Is Always Music Without it, life would be desolate, cold and so much more confronting than…