Category: Music

I am privileged to have come into contact with some extraordinary people. I am even more privileged to call some of them my friends. None of these people is well…

Last evening, I had a visit from a friend that I used to work with 35 years ago. Although he is five or so years younger than me, we were…

One of the great things about being an underground writer (So far underground that you’d need a mining permit to find me), is that you meet some really interesting creative…

By my reckoning, Turning to Crime marks Deep Purple’s 23rd studio album. It is also the eighth album of what has become known as the Steve Morse era. The album…

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…

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…

“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…

I’ve just about completed my book tentatively titled Postcards from Hell, Snapshots From a Purple Mind. It’s no epic and is probably self indulgent but its been cathartic for me.…

Around the time of the second Iraq War, I started jamming on a Sunday afternoon with a local Ararat musician, Darren Sherwell. It started out as a bit of fun.…

From a very early age I have been in love with music. That love  grew and materialized in an ongoing affair for the past 40 years. In that time I…