December 15,1997
I have recently completed my move to the Hollywood Hills in sunny California.
I fell in love with Hollywood when I first visited in 1993. The past few years have been difficult keeping in touch with my family, friends and colleague's. I hope now I can be better at holding onto the relationships that I've truely valued in my life.
I'll never forget that I am British, um, Canadian, er American...oh, I hate nationalism!
Duran Duran were in Hollywood recently puting on the best live show I've seen them do since the Police Picnic in Toronto in the early 80's. Wes and Steve were brilliant on bass and drums and Warren, Nick and Simon were spot on with all the tricks from their recordings. Who Do You Think You Are from the new album and Ordinary World were a couple of the highlights for me. A great show that you must see!
I came across a fantastic Duran website that almost has the same name as one of my songs. It's just a State of Mind. Their News page is the best on the web!
A great new web site for musicians who use samplers was mentioned in this weeks MusicWeek news from the UK. Samplenet has news and reviews as well as a huge FREE sample library!
Amazingly, the average buyer of these planet destroying dinosoars are also the very baby boomers who have faithfully pretended they care about our environment! In Los Angeles, they even move away from the city so as to better pollute the suburbs and the beaches with their filth belching eco-killers!
And if that's not enough reason not to buy a truck, sorry Sport Utility Vehicle, how about the very reason most people do; Safety.
SUV's are dangerous to drive and deadly to our planet! The car makers won't make them if you don't buy them!
Where did all the Flower Children go?