Saturday 8th February, 2014, I find myself helping out an old friend, subbing for his band’s regular drummer (a lovely bloke) who has been rendered out of service thanks to a painful attack of Gout. Well, I wasn’t doing anything else seeing as it was early February, a period in the gigging musician’s calendar synonymous… Continue reading Revisiting An Old Hero (Out Of My Comfort Zone)
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Philosophical thoughts about life from Nick Lauro
Steve Brown, 1954-2013
The Man Who Made Me Believe in Myself Again 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
Letting Down Our Children
How The Contentment Of A Generation Created A Breeding Ground For Apathy 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 (above), I realised just how far my generation have slipped into the trappings and comforts
Bereavement Without Death
(Have A Nice Life) 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… Continue reading Bereavement Without Death