1983 was a year of immense personal change within my so far, brief lifetime. Being a mid teen, my body excelled in throwing mood-swings, courtesy of the hormones that efficiently executed their role of upsetting the DNA apple-cart. The year hadn’t started well either; schoolboy ‘musical differences’ within my band threatening to trash 1982’s progress, plus the departure of my favourite drummer Continue reading “Stuart Adamson, 10 Years Gone, Crossing Three Decades”
Category: Life Stuff
Philosophical thoughts about life from Nick Lauro
Threshold Beyond!
After the impromptu band reunion described in an earlier post, plans were made to get something together a bit more organised where I could actually play a drum kit. Whether or not these plans would ever materialise was a big ‘if’, but maybe the stars aligned in favour of fate as we managed to once again, break 30 years of inactivity and play music together again.
Hauling my Roland electronic kit up three flights of stairs to the attic studio of our host, Gary Smith, I wondered how we would fare under the scrutiny of a recorded jam, our first together as proper adults Continue reading “Threshold Beyond!”
New Years Eve, 2011
Looking back on 2011 at 00:49 2012
So here I am, back again for my usual end of year rambling, as the bells have tolled at the Palace of Westminster once more, ringing in another pointless celebration.
A quiet night, spent at home with the Suffolk clan, so the house is fuller and with a more buoyant atmosphere than it would otherwise have. Of course, by choice, I am not gigging again even though the opportunity was offered. But playing to a bunch of anaesthetised drunks in a Manchester Irish bar is about as appealing to me as a prostrate examination via urethra; so I declined. Continue reading “New Years Eve, 2011”
Where Did Those 30 Years Go?
It’s been a surreal evening – not in a bad way, but more in a, “well I wasn’t expecting THAT!“ kind of way.
It all started a couple of weeks ago when I made contact with a guitarist I used to play in a band with back in 1982. You know the sort of thing; look someone up on Facebook, discuss about getting in touch and see if it can really happen before life gets in the way. Well this time, things really did go the extra mile, thanks to a catalyst in the form of another blast from my musical past, Mr Gary Stewart Smith. Via a strange twist of fate, meeting up with Gary for the first time since the mid 1980’s was another chance scenario… Continue reading “Where Did Those 30 Years Go?”