Almost unreal to think I am back in the studio working on new material.Yes I have got to do a piano track for the new single/song and run a film shoot.I have quite a bit of new stuff for you yet want to do them in demo form with just the voice and acoustic guitar.Also am working on a very large amount of audio worked up from five shoeboxes of cassette recordings.With all that was done there ws always a cassette player running with the outtakes being dumped onto cassette.This would be to include rehersal versions,outtakes,alternative versions,club and church performances,college concerts,some off the wall stuff just hanging out and playing,a lot of the first version demos.The arrival of so much japanese technology has made things possible for the indie artists that one could not afford to do in the past.You can't be spending 100 bucks an hour in the studio to produce an outtake.I think it is interesting to present the growth of a tune in it's stages from demo to production.Things were all being prepped to be broadcast radio ready.And broadcast certainly is not going to present a demo performance.It focuses the mindset of an artists to work a thing into a four minute deal at the max.Do you know why that is my friend?Broadcast radio is NOT about the music,it is about the advertisements,that is how they pay the bills.Had it not have been for The Ed Sullivan show in America there would have been no british invaision to our shores.His show would introduce The Beatles to America via three million viwers on sunday night.Right after you sat through Topo-giggio or Andy Williams.And again,that show was not about the music,it was about the adverts for colgate toothpaste.Interesting to note that the first british band to hit america was not The Beatles,it was The Dave Clark Five.The Beatles were still to raw,Brian Epstein was cleaning up their image to fit what The DC5 had already done.It was not the "mercy beat" that first arrived on american shores,it was the "Tottenham sound."And next in line was the bastard child of the blues,The Rolling Stones,the first presentation of a british band that did not clean up their act nor even bothered to try too,yet at heart were real pro's.They knew the value of Ed Sullivan to the point of when he insisted they change the lyrics to "let's spend the night together" they did so without complaint.They sold a lot of colgate toothpaste that night.The first song they did was one of their originals,"Time Is On My Side."Not "Satisfaction" as many would be led to believe.