MOTOWN

Firewater

Sunset!

Faeries wear boots

Grooves

Grooves 2


To try and sum up a journey it is literally a ride over which there is no control, as I remember events and try to make sense of so many crazy scenarios it was as if there was no rhyme or reason and in realizing this the reason for chaos theory mathematician magically turning up along the way makes total sense. Yet what I was trying to do was make some sense of order of literally everything which I guess is some form of chaos theory realized. The chaos being my life and yet being in a state of mind where I was observing even myself as I responded to every impulse and followed no matter where, as if everything I did was in some way justified and I had to experience the impulse to know it and so in this way walks in my bejeweled garden sat alongside dark brooding desires to lash out that caused me harm and invariably made me think what the fuck was that, where did that come from, what the hell does it mean? This did not occur to me when in bliss, I simply enjoyed, therefore the dark stuff was what made me think as if it was determined to get my attention and make me realize something.
And indeed eventually I did as I began to link cause with effect but not just for myself as in a personal healing upon my own psychiatrists couch in self-analysis, I literally put the world, the human condition on the couch and as the beat of a butterfly’s wing is akin to the hurricane so I stood in the eye of the storm and sought to understand and even calm it.
I could see everything and everything just appeared as if in some celestial pattern of inevitability, one thing led to another and another, everything just flowed to me in an order that I recorded and I never once doubted what I was doing, even when asked I simply registered the question, gave no reply and continued as if it were an audio blind spot designed to avoid unnecessary interference. For 8 years I was thus engaged and dedicated, in the middle of which I produced the Green King album 1995 derived in conjunction with the Wall design, an audio visual work of Art which I realized much later, as for me it was more a living thing, I was simply doing it because I had to like breathing and as breath is given so I gave it away to whoever I met as we do with words upon breath, though many insisted they will pay and clarified for a fool the means to make more.
I eventually realized I was no longer sleeping, the reason I say this is because of the regular occurrence, sometimes four or five times even more a night, of getting up to write stuff down, it was as if I just rested and slipped into some other realm from which I kept going to and fro, I suppose I must have hit deep sleep at some time but I became accustomed to dream walking as I called it and so many things were revealed sometimes leaving me baffled for weeks on end but eventually even the most baffling elements would fall into a coherent scenario, as if they were players rehearsing and awaiting the Q to collectively perform and present a story in full Technicolor with a cast of thousands and play out some ancient scene that yet had its relation to common occurrence and showed me perhaps what Jung called archetypal elements of the human condition or workings of consciousness.
I simply let it flow self-interest was of no consequence, I had no plan, desire or intention other than to go with it whatever it was and songs and melodies just appeared, complete as if already dreamed in some way and were waiting for the opportunity to appear as I sat meditative playing and riffing for the company of sound tuned to my heart, then a manifestation, the fondest and most profound time etched upon memory being the writing of ‘Shine On’ which came with a supporting cast of elements as wind moved cloud and sunlight flooded my room and tears rolled down my face as I sang the lyric of the song just come “For in every tear there’s a drop of fear and it just aint the way that it goes” looking up as warmth surrounded me like a golden cloak and gave me a hug though words cannot begin to express the plethora of joy and pain that flooded my being as a torrent of realizations made themselves present in that light filled moment, I departed myself and viewed as if across the room the happy sadness of the scene both proud filled and with compassion for the struggle weeping before my eyes. 


SHINE ON

more free blues...

john the revelator - traditional gospel blues

Still dealing with injury so a song from GK. 
Recorded live 1 guitar with single beat delay, drum and vocal. From the Green King Album.
Densely symbolic, in places operating on 4 levels simultaneously as part of the audio visual concept with the studio Wall painting in London. 

Hot Footing

This is a song about tom mix, and this is me at the memorial, in arizona, its a really cool place and there's a lot of spirits there as well.

Tom's Song

 As always the song just appeared, a couple of notes and then a flow echoing what was happening.

Love me tomorrow

(Intro) Heard It Through The Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips Do You Love Me - The Contours Superstition - Stevie Wonder Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye My Girl - The Temptations Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell I Want You Back - The Jackson 5 What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin Money (That’s What I Want) - Barrett Strong Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes My Guy - Mary Wells Baby Love - The Supremes Comodores - Easy You Really Got a Hold On Me - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” — The Four Tops Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars Leavin' Here - Eddie Holland Shop Around - Miracles Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandellas War - Edwin Starr This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You) - Isley Brothers All Night Long - Lionel Richie

Motown Mix

1989 Four part harmony. Paul John Peter & Bob. playing rhythm guitars lead guitar and bass, live recording session at John's Flat in Belsize Park, spontaneous performance and arrangement. Mixed by Paul.


Firewater Slowburner

Never did get round to including the verse where the bad guns and ugly clubbers are transformed into Fun Guns and Lovely Clubbers. Inspired by an event at Glastonbury in 1994 during very hot weather when children were shooting peeps with water pistols to help cool down, the responses were fun to watch. Rock harmony and lead solo along Eagles meet Beatles vibe. Featuring Pete Orr Electric Experience lead guitar & harmony vox. Waterboys bass player Gordon Davis. Just the one take at the time having just heard the song too, pretty awesome I thought, great players. Lead vox is weak in places, apologies for that, still hope you enjoy the song, all the best.



Good Hearts

Soul Explosion

Something's Got A Hold On Me (Rerecorded)

New Song. Please share and let me know what you think.

"Abigail"

Green King version recorded by Sons of Fat Harry, Bob Paul John & Peter

Green King

Prana Crafter -Fairies Wear Boots-Acoustic

Grand Funk Railroad - Your Captain (Closer To Home)

Let There Be Rock - SuperButt

Blues. Songs been waiting a long time to be recorded. To busy playing, surviving then got ill. First take so see how it goes. Cheers.

Melancholy Woman

Sorta Blues Improvisation over a chromatic scale. 
Guitar: Gibson Es339 ; D' Addario Flat Wounds 10-46 strings.

Chromatic Blues

Stevie Ray Vaughan Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

This is my 2nd collab with Ewen Allardyce on voice and lyrics. Pure awesome talent, Hope you enjoy.
It's been chosen to play on a blues radio programme: Gold radio blues (Maryland) Sunday 20/1/2013 .  Here it on Ewen's cloud: https://soundcloud.com/ewenallardyce/1-2-me-2-with-nothinbutdablues 

1 2 Me 2 (NothinButDaBlues-Ewen Allardice Collab)

Programming/Production/Vocals and Guitar-Stuart Thomas


Wicked Game Vocal Remix (Chris Issak cover)

Stuntin'

Rise with the sun

Skin and Bones  Words and Music: Pravinand Maharaj

Skin and bones
Heat and snow
Dark and white
Rest and flow
It’s the wider truth
A big fat wider truth

Leave and run
Be my guest
All the guns
Haven’t fired yet
It’s the wider truth
A big fat wider truth

There’s a hole on the mountain
There’s a tower in the fountain
There’s a bridge over Hades
By the Quarry-side
It’s the wider truth
A big fat wider truth

Meet the damned
Damn the beast
Half the man
I’ll always be
It’s the wider truth
A big fat wider truth

Cover pic by Julia Rohwedder on deviantART. 

Skin and Bones

I found this in my spare room today.
An old 1970s Kay single coil filtertron thing.
Took it out the bag tuned it.
This came out!

1970s Kay Thing Blues

Thanks to Carmen Champagne and Jason Krug of The Grimm Generation for so graciously allowing us to cover their song, make sure you checkout their Soundcloud page too, plus hear the real thing on this awesome song…..thanks again Guys, hope you like it.

SHAKE THE TEMPLE AND SHAME THE SUN

Let’s name names and take the blame as an act of christian charity
Make a play for the right way
It’s pretty but it’s scary
And then just drive
Take a long ride
Pack a bag
It’ll take some time
Sirens wail and we’re not slowing, never knowing what’s around the corner
Fortune favors the bold, My Love, might as well floor it
It’s gonna be all right
We got the second sight
Taste the air
It’s alive
And faster we fly...
It’s a revolution, but a small one
Liberation, one by one
Evolution into something
Shake the temple and shame the sun
Let’s name names and take the blame as an act of christian charity
Make a play for the right way
It’s pretty but it’s scary
And then just drive
Take a long ride
Pack a bag
It’ll take some time
And faster we fly...
It’s a revolution, but a small one
Liberation, one by one
Evolution into something
Shake the temple and shame the sun

The Grimm Generation 2013


Firewater Slowburner

Bob Cairns