This is a song I wrote about a crazy preacher man I lived with for ten years , he's a fire and brimstone man of god from Glasgow who studied at Scots college Rome , The Vatican. The firebrand once Babtised me in an ice cold glacial river in the high Alpine maritime of France , stating "I'll wash the Fxxxxxx sin from your worthless soul; looking back from the deep water at his husky dog blue eyes and the clear blue sky I thought I was going to die !!.

After he'd given me his devine water boarding in the freezing fjord I certainly felt cleansed of conscience and less conceited.

This is a song I wrote for a hard drinking Marlborough man called Simon, who got pretty busted up when he fell in love with a girl back in the seventies. I know how he feels! Back then Pride didn’t exist, but she was called Gaydar , a very unusual name so I suppose he should have seen the red/pride flags, but then so should I.

He still misses her, and those wild days driving across Africa, living under canvas. They had the wildest times — and so did I !!!!.

THE JAZZ MAN

This is a little jazz piece I wrote inspired by a friend of mine whose sir name is "Wright" hence why i based the lyrics around that rhyming similie , come pun . I had the privilege of studying Jazz under the guiding tutelage of a brilliant Jazz-man maestro named Mr Bentley who had a music room with the model D black Steinway turned to perfection which I can only be held responsible for knocking it back out of tune as a young clumsy muso ; He did once tell me that in his younger days his apprentice working as a gas fitter was the legendary Joe Cocker himself that takes some beating the Woodstock Wizard himself.

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