May 19, 2009
Hi Folks
Well, the marathon UK, Ireland and Canada tour starts in 11 days, and John
and I fly to the UK in 6 days, so it’s all a bit frantic in the Bogle household at the
moment. But I thought I should try and write at least a little blurbette before I go,
as it will be some time before I have another chance to let you all know what’s
happening in the happiest kingdom of them all, Bogleworld.........
Firstly, most importantly, and some would say miraculously, the new CD and
the DVD are FINISHED! Because of the imminent tour, they’ve already been
released in the UK and the rest of the world except, of course, Australia. The CD
will be released here very soon, sometime this month I hope, but the DVD will
not be released in Australia until July.
(For all details on the new CD and DVD, including a snippet, please go to my CD page.)
As soon as I know release dates, where you can get them and how much etc., I’ll post all details on the web site.
Watch this space.......
Both the recordings of the CD and the DVD were relatively painless, except in a
financial sense of course.....in the case of the DVD, it was even enjoyable. The audience, the band and I all had a good time, and I think this comes across in the
recording. It’s not the best DVD ever recorded in the history of music, financial and
time restraints prohibited that dizzy pinnacle to be reached, but I’m reasonably
happy with it, and will not blush when I relieve people of around $30 of their hard
earned cash when I flog them a copy....similarly with the CD. I wanted this CD to
be stripped back to the musical basics, with no recording studio gimmickry, and I
think we succeeded in that aim. John Munro produced it and did his usual peerless
job, and the other musicians involved, most of whom were involved in the DVD
recording as well, made some mighty contributions. Fans of Colcannon, John’s
other musical alter-ego will recognise most of the names of the musicians involved.
For a small city perched precariously on the coast at the edge of the known world,
Adelaide is blessed with more than it’s fair share of very classy musicians.
Here’s a photo of John in the studio being peerless, along with Mick Wordley.
our recording engineer
We recorded the DVD at Stoneyfell Winery in Adelaide. Here’s a photo of the
band and I before the recording started. Or maybe it was after it finished, although
we all look a bit too sober for that.......
(left to right - Jon Jones, Damien Steel Scott, John Munro, Eric, Emma Luker, Pete Titchener)
As well as all this recording stuff, John and I were kept pretty busy with live gigs,
as readers of the last blurb will know. We did most of the major Australian festivals,
Port Fairy, The Blue Mountains, and the National in Canberra, as well as a fair
number of other concerts. The festivals were mostly enjoyable and certainly
profitable, with many CD’s sold, as well as old friends met, many songs sung, and
the odd glass of whisky drunk.....one of the best aspects of a festival for me is
meeting up with old friends, especially from overseas, and this year I managed to
catch up with Andy Irvine, Chris While and Julie Matthews, David Francey, and
the one and only Martyn Wyndham-Read, to drop but a few names......here’s a
couple of pics of me forcing my company on Chris and Julie. Being nice polite
English ladies, they’re pretending not to mind......
Also on a flying visit from darkest, deepest Lancashire was an old friend Pat Ryan,
who came all that way just to attend the National Festival in Canberra. Of course
she’s a school teacher and therefore has lots of money......she was here for two
weeks only and told me she’d taken 500 photos in that time....I’ve not taken that
many in my whole life......unfortunately the day after she got back home she broke
her ankle mowing the lawn, that lawn mowing is certainly a dangerous pastime, that’s why I get someone else to do it. Anyway, she’s still laid up amongst the cushions and empty sherry flagons, but hopes soon to be back at school terrorising her pupils. Or was it the other way around??
Pat’s stayed with Carmel and I a couple of times. In our garden we have a semi-
resident Koala called Klaus, (who’s got the biggest arse I’ve ever seen on a koala),
but he has stubbornly refused to appear whenever Pat has stayed with us, I think
he must have been insulted by some Lanacashire lass at one stage in his life, so
Pat, this one’s for you........
Of all the concerts John and I have done in the last 6 months, one of them stands
out......during the recent horrific bushfires in Australia in February and March this year,a little community called Strathewen was totally destroyed and nearly 30 people out of a population of 200 souls lost their lives. 10 weeks after the fires, the survivors decided to have a community memorial/celebration of life day, and they invited John and I to perform at a concert as part of that day. As one of them told me “We had to wait until all the funerals were over before we could start looking forward again”....
As you can imagine it was a highly emotional concert, and possibly one of the most
rewarding John and I have ever done. To meet and talk to those people was to
have your faith in the courage, resilience and compassion of the human race re-
kindled. And listening to their harrowing stories of loss and their often miraculous
stories of survival certainly put our comparatively petty problems well into their
proper perspective I can tell you. John and I were given a tour of the devastated
town, which just did not exist any more, and the surrounding area, and it was a vision from hell....and this was 10 weeks after the fire....and yet, and yet, so many people we talked to were determined to rebuild, call it blind optimism or foolishness, I prefer to think of it as resilience, stubborness and courage......there’s hope for the human race yet.......
Yesterday John and I received thank-you certificates from the local Arthur’s Creek
CFA (the local fire brigade) thanking us for our help during the aftermath of the fires.It made us feel embarrassed, humble and proud all at the same time. All we did was what we do, and that’s sing a few songs in the hope that it would lift spirits a little and give the community a couple of hours of escape from the grim reality which still surrounds them. I don’t use the word heroes much, but I met a lot of them in Strathewen that day.
Sometimes being a musician is a really rewarding experience....
Another concert of note was Anzac Day, at a place called Balmoral in Victoria, where John and I sang at the Anzac Day service in the morning and gave a concert for the
locals in the evening. Just a small country town, about the same size as Strathewen
was, about 200 people. No TV cameras and hordes of media, no thousands of cheering spectators, just a small country community honouring it’s service men and women. Very authentic, very Australian, very enjoyable.....
That’s it folks.
Carmel keeps adding to the list of things around the house I have to
see to before I head off overseas, so better get on with some of them I suppose.
I’m actually taking my laptop on tour with me, so may file a little blurbette every now and then from the tour, but don’t hold your breath.....
A last photo, as has become the custom on these blurbs it seems.......I’m a bit of
an auction junkie, and I bought a “Bali Pavilion” at one of these auctions. It was pretty cheap, and I soon found out why when I tried to erect it. The instructions were in Vietnamese, half the screws and bolts were missing, and I soon found out that bamboo is a slippy sort of building material that splits when you breathe on it too hard.......3 days of hell ensued, but I kept thinking about the money I was saving and persevered.
Here is the final result. I took the photo from approximately 20 feet away, believe me it looks better from that distance.......of course Carmel now refers to it as “Eric’s Folly”
See you after the tour
Cheers
Eric
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28th January 2009
Hi Folks
Hope you all had a happy and peaceful festive season and that 2009 will be all that you hope it to be........for many of my American friends the year started off pretty well given that Georgie Porgie has gone and President Barack Obama now sits in the White House. The task before him is daunting, no doubt about that, but I wish him well, and hope he turns out to be the leader that the USA so sorely needs at this time. Meanwhile, we’re stuck with Kevin Rudd, who may not be nearly so charismatic but seems to be reasonably to fairly competent. I did write and offer him my services, as a musician I have had years of dealing with financial meltdowns and crisises, but so far he’s not got back to me..........and that’s enough about politics.........
Well, as you can see I got back from the Canadian tour safely enough, if a little frostbitten. An enjoyable tour, but COLD!!! My life was probably saved by wearing long johns and occasional emergency transfusions of malt whisky. But as I’m typing this, the temperature in Adelaide today reached 46 degrees C, (for my Canadian readers, that’s plus, not minus!) a 70 year record. And there’s another week of it on the way apparently.. It almost makes me nostalgic for the freezing snows of Canada....almost.......
Here’s a photo of me’n’Carmel at Lake Louise trying to look as if we’re not about to die from hypothermia at any second. Carmel joined me in Canada after the tour so that we could spend Christmas and New Year together in Canada, and so that she could help? me spend all the tour profits......
I’ve been to Lake Louise a couple of times before on previous tours, but always in the summer. But summer or winter, it’s a beautiful place. As indeed is most of Canada. And those Canadians are tough! Here’s a photo of mine host and tour supremo John McDermott cooking sausages for us on an outdoor barbeque in Georgian Bay where we spent Christmas with him and wife Agnieszka. Look at the bloody snow! In Australia we don’t venture outside to barbeque unless the crows are walking along the street thumbing lifts because it’s so hot.......
The tour with John was enjoyable and, as far as I could see, successful. We did about 30 concerts in Canada and were going to do a couple in the USA, in Fitchburg, Massachussetts. But the day before the concerts there was a terrific ice storm in the area, and all power went out, in some areas for up to 5 days, so that was that for the planned concerts. A real shame as it was our only venture into the USA on the tour. I didn’t see the storm, but saw the aftermath, which was pretty horrific. Lots of destroyed trees and even the ones left standing were often bent nearly double with the weight of the ice that was still on their branches. Not for the first time I saw that when nature decides to flex her muscles, we are mere helpless pygmies before her, in spite of all our much vaunted advanced technology.
But in spite of the weather and other problems,we soldiered on, because we felt we had an obligation to our audiences to get to the venues by hook or by crook , to enrich up their lives with our music and to bring a little sunshine into their bleak existence. Also, we needed the money...
We mainly travelled around Canada by a swanky tour bus. God, I felt at times like a real rock star! Here’s a photo of the bus, which we christened The Bus......
But all good things come to an end as Napoleon is reputed to have said after the British kicked his arse at Waterloo, and after an enjoyable 3 days in Banff celebrating the New Year, Carmel and I headed home to Oz on 6th January.
But not before I dumped the long johns in a Tim Horton’s trash bin at their cafe in Vancouver airport......
And that’s about it folks. Since I got back I’ve been busy catching up with the mountain of correspondence that piled up in my absence, trying to finish some songs for the new CD, and getting the DVD organised. John has been working pretty hard on the new CD as well, organising the musicians, writing out arrangements etc., He, as usual, puts a lot more work into one of my CD’s than I do, and I get all the royalties. I should feel guilty, and I will, sometime in the future........ anyway into the studio on Monday, see if the songs stand up to the merciless
reality of a recording environment. Wish me luck. The CD will be called “The Dreamer” and should hopefully be out around end April/beginning of May........
Now to the DVD. It’s definitely on and will be recorded on 1st March (a Sunday night) at the Stoneyfell Winery in Adelaide. I’m hoping for an audience of around 120 or so to help out with the “live” feel of the DVD. So if any of you Bogliers out there want to be part of this history making event (it will be my first and last DVD) drop a line to me at the e-mail address on this web site and I’ll put your name on the door.
Do NOT phone the winery.
The concert starts at 7pm, so you’ll have to be there around 6/6.30. I warn you it will be a long night, with a fair bit of stuffing around between songs tuning up, changing lighting, camera angles etc., but because of the proposed recording set-up we hope to keep this to a minimum, and we should finish around 10.30/11pm. There will be a bar and light meals will be served, so bring money, although admission will be free and by invitation only. I did think about putting a couple of bottles of wine on each table as a sort of welcome to the concert type of thing, but I went and laid down in a darkened room for a while and the moment passed........
The address for the concert is: The Function Center, Stoneyfell Winery, 62 Stoneyfell Road, Stoneyfell. It’s in Stoneyfell, right? Be there or be square......am I showing my age? Anyway, if you want to be there, let me know, and soon, don’t shilly shally about........
As you will see from my concert list, 2009 is shaping up to be one hell of a busy year for me and John. But I don’t want to even think about it until we get this CD and the DVD done, quite frankly it’s too intimidating. John and I might even have to get in some sort of physical shape for the UK and Irish tour, do some jogging and things like that. But perhaps not. Anyway, I’ll blurb you all before we head off in May, let you know how all the recording went and all that sort of thing. In the meantime, a last couple of photos. One of me looking calm and relaxed backstage
at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto just before I went on stage to sing for 2000 people. Amazing what a couple of stiff whiskies will do....and one of John relaxing backstage reading a book just before he changed into his spangly jump suit to go onstage to perform......eat your heart out Elvis.......
Peace
Eric
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BogleBlurb 14th November
Hello Blurbites
Given the above, three serious questions must be posed.......
Is Eric in some sort of weird time warp? Is he, as is often rumoured, living in some “close, but no cigar” type of world paralleling our own? Has he finally succumbed to the nervous breakdown he’s always promised himself and lost his tenuous grip on reality?
Well no, although I must admit I spend a lot of time in the “close, but no cigar” world, that’s why I’m only nearly famous I suppose. No, the reason for the premature Xmas greetings is that I’m off to Canada on 5th November and will not be back in Australia until 6th January 2009, and hence would miss out on wishing seasons greetings to
the regular/sporadic/devoted/accidental (delete where applicable) readers of this blurb. Also, I’m such a happy guy that to me every day is Christmas Day anyway.......
This will be a fairly short missive, as usual I’ve left everything to the last minute and am now frantically trying to catch up with correspondence, finish off some songs, buy thermal underwear, do long overdue jobs around the house.etc. etc. before I fly off to the land of ice, snow and Tim Horton’s doughnuts.........I must admit to a terrible weakness for those doughnuts, a weakness I hope I can overcome, as I’ve managed to lose about 10 kilos in weight over the last couple of months, thanks mainly to a rigorous exercise programme and a new book I bought entitled “How To Learn To Love Lettuce”. This book, along with another one I bought called “What’s Really In A Sausage Roll” has changed my eating habits forever, or at least until this tour starts. Only Tim Horton now stands between me and my ideal body weight, which I didn’t think I’d achieve until I’d been dead for three or four weeks...............
Enough Elle McPherson-type chit-chat.......musically, it has been an interesting past two months. In the last blurb I told you that John Munro and I were heading up to Queensland to do three concerts with Graeme Connors, at Maryborough, Bundaberg and Gladstone. They were all very enjoyable concerts, well received and attended. My favourite was the Maryborough concert, mainly because it was held in the Brolga Theatre, one of the best provincial Arts theatres in Australia. Maryborough is a very pretty town as well, lots of well preserved old buildings, which is more than you can say for a lot of Australian country towns I’m sorry to say. Here’s a couple of pics from Maryborough, in the very attractive park in the centre of town.
I’ve entitled these photos “Old Gazebo with Old Geezer” and “Two Big Bores and a Small One” .
I’ve written 4 new songs over the last two months as well, the muse finally decided tostop avoiding me and give me a wee break.......about bloody time. Though I tend not to get as upset as I used to when afflicted with writer’s block, one thing the years and hard experience has taught me is that, the more you worry about it, the worst it will get, and you end up with a bad, sometimes incurable case of total creative paralysis.
But if you just accept that the muse will hit you over the head again eventually, but only in it’s own good time, then you can get on with your life. You can’t summon the muse, it summons you. Fairly often when you’re drunk or stoned of course, but unfortunately the next day you can’t remember the wonderful creative thoughts that
you actually had. Sober and straight is more boring, but ultimately more productive........
Encouraged by all this songwriting progress, I’ve gone ahead and booked a recording studio the first two weeks of February next year. I’ve still got a couple of songs to write, but have plenty of ideas, a few lyric scraps and even an embryonic melody or two. But wait, there’s more.........I’m definitely making a DVD!!!! You read it here first.....
I spent the last week investigating costs and possible venues. The costs of course were prohibitive, but at least four people have said they’ll buy my DVD if I made it, so thus encouraged I’ve decided to bite the bullet, take the bull by the horns, take my courage in both hands, and so on and so on.......I’ll be recording it on 1st March 2009
(a Sunday night) at the Stoneyfell Winery in Adelaide, a really nice venue, and they make pretty decent wines as well, a nice wee bonus. The recording will be made in front of an invited (means free admission!) audience, about 75/100 people in all I hope, it will be bigger than Ben Hur! Bring your own chariot.....
No, seriously, I’ll be posting further details in my next blurb, which will be when I get back from Canada. But there’s an invitation to all you Bogle fans out there to mark that date in your diary if you want to be part of this historical (hysterical?) event. I warn you that it will be a long hard night for us all, musicians and audience,
recording a live concert can be a sort of “bitty” experience, with pauses for lighting changes, tuning up, new camera angles, or even when I screw up a song, although that’s highly unlikely of course. But you can always drink copious quantitiies of Stoneyfell’s finest to help pass the time.
Anyway folks, watch this space, as they say........
One last photo. I told you in the last blurb that, shamed by Carmel’s Herculean wall-building exploits, I was also building a retaining wall, and promised you a photo of it when it was finished. Well, here it is. Now to some of you, in fact probably all of you, this is probably the most boring photo you’ve ever seen, apart from some of your wedding photos that is. Well, not to me, a lot of blood, sweat and swear words went into building that wall. There’s literally tonnes of rock there, all transported by wheelbarrow and and a shovel. It’s the main reason I’ve shed the 10 kilos I mentioned at the start of this blurb, and also the reason I ceremonially burned the shovel and the wheelbarrow when I’d finished.....
See you all when I get back from Canada
Stay well, be happy
Eric .
Webmaster note: Eric recently featured on a local TV programme
(click here to view the Quicktime movie)
(August 28th 2008)
Hello Folks
My last Bogleblurb
was, apparently, in April. I know this because two or three
people e-mailed me and asked when I’d be getting off my
arse and writing another
one. I must have had some sort of prolonged blackout or something,
because the
lasttime I looked it was June or thereabouts, and here we are
in August, in fact nearly
into September, when yours truly will turn (reluctantly) 64 years
old. Tempis Fugit
and all that......there were a couple of times in my life when
I very much doubted I’d
see 60 years old, so I should be grateful I suppose, but I don’t
feel all that grateful, mainly just old and knackered......not
that I wish I was 18 years old again, I couldn’t
handle all those hormones running amok all over the place, but
32 or 33 years
old wouldn’t be bad I suppose. And it would be good to get
my hair back and have
my 20/20 vision restored, and perhaps to be 6 inches or so taller....
if wishes were fishes.......
As a last
whine on the ageing process, here’s a photo of young Eric,
aged about
18 years old:
How did that
young, handsome, unlined, if somewhat sullen face turn into the
relief
map of the Himalayas that it so resembles now??
Whew, I feel a bit better now....on to musical matters. In the
last Bogleblurb I told
you John and I were off in June for a wee tour of Western Australia.
Well, we went,
we saw, we conquered. A most enjoyable tour, courtesy of my old
mate Richard Collins, Western Australia’ s shortest but
most honest and likeable promoter. Here’s
a photo of Richard and I chatting away at the Nannup festival
in WA. (I’m the slightly bigger shortarse on the left....)
It was a good
tour, wonderful audiences and very strong reactions to the music.
Positive ones, that is. The only low point was that John got his
Beatles watch and mobile phone nicked from the motel in Port Hedland.
However, at the concert at The Irish Club in Perth, I related
that sad story. John, still distraught over the financial and
sentimental loss he’d suffered, broke down and sobbed uncontrollably
on stage.It
was a wonderful performance, and it worked, as after the concert
this bloke came up
and shoved something in John’s shirt pocket. When John took
it out to see what it
was, he found he was holding a watch. Not just any watch mind
you, a Bvlgari!!
Which is worth a fair bit of money as you watch connoisseurs will
know. Providing
it’s not a cheap Hong Kong copy of course, which we don’t
think it is. The bloke had gone before John could voice his protest,
“No, no, I couldn’t” I heard him whisper.....
At our next concert I’m going to break down on stage and
tell the audience I just had
my Ferrari stolen, you never know.........
When John
and I were in Melbourne in April, we we approached by the promoter
who represents Graeme Connors, with a view to Graeme and I doing
a few concerts together. Graeme, as most Aussie readers would
know, is a singer/songwriter based
in Queensland, he writes good lyrical songs and sings extremely
well, so we had at least one thing in common. I’ve known
Graeme for years and thought it would be
good fun to do a few concerts together, and so it proved. We started
off with a
short stint in July in New South Wales, did concerts in Newcastle,
Forster, Casino and Kempsey. Then at the beginning of August we
repeated the dose in Victoria, with concerts in Benalla, Mooroduc
(where?), Melbourne and Bendigo. At the time of
writing we are heading for Queensland at the beginning of September
with concerts
in Maryborough, Bundaberg and Gladstone. The concerts have been
well received,
I think Graeme’s style and my lack of it mesh quite nicely,
the audiences certainly
seem to enjoy our dual performances.
Seems like
I have this thing about sharing the stage with other musicians,(and,
of
course, therefore ducking the full responsibilty for the concert
- you can always blame
the other bloke when things go bad). As I told you on the last
blurb, in November
John and I are heading off to Canada to do a tour with John McDermott.
McDermott
has been acting like a mad Chinese accountant with an abacus and
has added more
and more gigs to the tour, check his web-site for details. Anyway,
November is not
too far off and I still haven’t bought my thermal underwear.
The tour finishes about
23rd December and then our respective wives are flying across
to join us and we’re going to spend Christmas in the Rockies,
which should be visually splendid, if a little chilly. Being Scottish,
I don’t share the fascination with snow that most Aussies
seem
to possess,but it should be enjoyable nonetheless, and we’ll
be able to catch up
with a few old friends in Canada. Here’s a photo of me and
John McDermott in action
the last time I toured with him (2003 I think). I’m the
shortarse on the left.......
On the song
writing front, I have managed to grind out a couple of new songs
over
the past few months, I now have a total of 6 that I could record
on my proposed new
CD. Of the 6 however, I’d say that only 3 of them are certainties,
and the other 3
are marginal, we’ll see if John Munro can sprinkle them
with his usual magic musical
fairy dust and make them sound better than they actually are....after
all, it’s his job.....
I have a couple which I am in the process of writing just now
though, and they show promise. The songs are the usual Bogle mixture,
a bit darker than usual perhaps,
but then the world is a darker place these days. A couple have
brief moments of optimism however, so all is not yet totally surrendered
to the dark side of the force......
The shelved
DVD may be back on the agenda, I received a howl of protest (well,
more of a whimper) when I stated on a past blurb that I probably
wouldn’t do a DVD
as I’d planned. John Munro, amongst quite a few others,
pointed out that I owed it to
my songs and my fans to record a DVD, so what I thought was really
superflous. It’s
all right for them, they don’t have to pay for it.Suffice
to say, I’m once again
investigating costs, venues, etc., but nothing concrete yet, so
don’t hold your breath.
My ego says yes, my bank manager says no, not really..........
On the home
front, the war continues.....the garden continues to resist occupation
and conversion, but Carmel is slowly winning the fight. She has
now finished the
Great Wall of Carmel, and, maddened with triumph and flushed with
victory, she is
now intent on sculpting the rest of the garden into an Adelaide
version of The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.....God knows she’s
got enough stone, every time we dig a shovel into the soil we
seem to discover another disused quarry. We’ve got so much
stone that even I have caught the wall-building fever, and am
now building a series of retaining walls underneath the house
where I installed the rain water tanks. Which are gratifyingly
full by the way, we had a pretty wet August, and a cold one too,
the
coldest for 30 years so they say. When I finish the walls (roughly
around 2013) I’ll
post a photo on this blurb.
And that’s
about it folks. Next year is shaping up to be a pretty busy one,
so much
for my retirement, but it is coming, as soon as I: a) Win the
Lottery. b) Finish the
retaining walls, or c) die ----whichever comes first. I’ve
already been asked to appear
at the Port Fairy Festival next year, and the National Festival
in Canberra, and there’s
a few others in the pipeline. Allied to this our mammoth overseas
jaunt to Europe,
plus hopefully a new CD and possible DVD, you can see I’m
going to be a busy
little Scotsperson........
Last week
Carmel and I went to Colcannon’s 20 year Anniversary concert.
Colcannon, as most of you know, is John Munro’s other band,
his musical escape
hatch from playing with me all the bloody time.They got as many
former members
of the group on stage as they could, the ones who weren’t
dead or criminally insane
that is, and a mighty sound it was, most enjoyable. Talking about
the criminally insane,
I went to see Louden Wainright 3rd performing in Adelaide a couple
of months back,
mad as a cut snake, but what a songwriter. Most songwriters claim
that their songs are “honest and thought provoking”,
but Louden is in a class by himself. Some of his
songs strip himself and his realtionship with his family emotionally
bare to the bone, disturbing at times, but always moving.
Ronnie Drew
of the Dubliners died this week. No real surprise, he’s
been pretty ill for a while, but sad nonetheless, another of the
originals gone. I met Ronnie quite a few
times over the years and shared a few beers and laughs with him
at various festivals and clubs. Those times are a bit more precious
to me now. I’m told “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”
was one of the songs played at his funeral. An honour.........
Also Bruce ‘Utah’ Phillips died a couple of months
back. Another total original. I shared the stage with him a couple
of times, good memories....I still have his recipe for
Moose Turd Pie...good though.....
One last photo.
“Where do you get the inspiration for all those songs Eric?”
people often ask me. Here’s one of the answers........
Hoping you
and yours are all happy and healthy
Cheers
Eric
