What makes one musician focus on playing their instrument to perfection, whilst another focuses on what they can write with it?

What influences us growing up to effect this? The art of resisting 'knowing your place', and learning chords.

And what IS that noise behind me??

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does anyone ever have a normal first gig?

What keeps you going or makes you quite?

Join me for a look at how this all began for me, playing with no strings, being clueless about equipment and and setting up a school band in the early 80's.

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So. Here we go, I say hello, say a bit about why I'm doing this, moan a bit, whilst smoothly balancing this with some positivity, etc etc!! What four things do you need to succeed a a songwriter....listen and learn :)

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why make original music when nobody cares? How did i get onto this? Who the hell am I? Why do I keep doing this?

Here's the trailer for my new podcast on songwriting, failing, trying again and generally swimming against the tide of covers and tributes, down here in the real world....coming soon...

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