Nick Lauro: #Drummer #Writer #Dreamer #Fool!
On 14 November 2013, I lost a very special person from my musical family. Steve Brown was my long-serving partner in our band’s rhythm section, with a solid working relationship lasting 6 years. If it wasn’t for ill health, we would have had Continue reading “Steve Brown, 1954-2013”
I’ve let my children down; yes, it’s as simple and as brutal as that. “How?” you may ask. Let me explain…
Watching the recent Russell Brand/Jeremy Paxman interview, I realised just how far my generation have slipped into the trappings and comforts Continue reading “Letting Down Our Children”
Kids hey? Who’d ‘ave ‘em?
It all starts when you bring them home as new-born babes, cocooned in their layers of blankets, fresh out of a watery womb-world, launched naked into the unknown. At this point in time, as a new parent, you pretty much have carte-blanche control over what your precious cargo are exposed to. Essentially, they belong to you. The reality is, they are only ever on loan.
As your growing bundle of joy lies immobile on his/her back, staring up at you from the Fisher Price baby gym, just able to focus past the hanging shapes they naturally try to discover, your thoughts can easily Continue reading “Bereavement Without Death”
Monday nights are pretty average and dull in my house, much the same as most British working families. The 6pm-8pm slot is normally occupied by making/eating our evening meal with background radio playing whatever is on BBC Radio 2.
By 7pm, it’s time for the Paul Jones R&B show Continue reading “Recognition After All These Years!”
