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  • The word 'FUCK'!!!!!!!!!!!

    Current mood:adored


    Recently, well today actually, I received a comment from one of my myspace friends requesting that I not use the 'F' word! :-)))))
    I have attached the correspondence:

    Hi,
    could you express yourself, not using the f-word so often ?? not everyone is using that kind of language...it doesn't feel comfortable to me, and takes away from what your message is actually about...thank you !
    take care,
    S.

    MY REPLY:

    hi S.,
    i don't think so at all...the word FUCK is a regular part of my vocabulary, is in my songs, and defitnitely FUCKING part of me and what i am and breath and do! it expresses much more than small minds want to conceive in the one connotation which they cannot get past...
    so, in answer to your question if i can not use the 'f' word. my answer is FUCK no!
    you can delete my friendship if you can't come down to earth to realize that some people are not bothered by other drummers while playing their own drums...
    Percival.


    1:08 PM
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      • Clarisse

        And the smaller kids (those who start to read)?
        They aren't able to cope with it!

        ..But I understand You totally :) ..

        2 years ago
      • Matt Charles

        ..

        2 years ago
      • Mark Jay Smith

        What the deuce? Gosh, yes! Crikey!

        2 years ago

  • Meeting Amy Winehouse (or) The London Music Scene

    ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />London was a blast! And I can't wait to get back there…..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

     

    Everyone was individual, or tried very hard to be, and some didn't try at all – they just were!

     

    Did a lot and met some amazing and some not-so amazing singers and bands!

     

    There was a club that was called 10 Room, near Leicester Square where, every Monday night, singers would come together for a jam. And these weren't singer wanna-be's…they were all working and doing this album or singing for someone backing vocals on their album and so on and so forth.

     

    Well, one night, I was a guest vocalist along with the amazing Nat Williams (one of my TOP friends), Vula (wonderful lead singer from the basement Jaxx), Siobhan (Sugababes), and (unfortunately infamous for the wrong reasons) Amy Winehouse, before her album hit.

     

    The night was great! We all sang our asses off EXCEPT Amy, who came in late and drunk. So the singers who were there on time had to full in for her. We were not happy.

     

    It was my first and only time meeting her, but me, being from the 'old school' would not have cared if she had been the best singer in the world (she's far from it anyway)! She was late and that was bullshit to me!

     

    After she FINALLY showed up, the show was almost over, and she 'sang' one song after having to get help to get on the stage…and she was fucking horrible!

     

    I closed the show, and she came up to me afterwards and asked if I would do backing vocals on an upcoming album she was about to do (Back to Black). I flatly refused and told her when she could get it together professionally, then call me. A decision I have never regretted.

     

    11:57 PM
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      • Andrew Brook

        the problem with little amy is that they tried to make her go to rehab and she said no, no, no!!!

        4 years ago

  • On RENT, the musical...

    A lot of people have asked me about my musical background, so I decided to enlighten…..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

     

    I luckily have done loads of musicals which I started doing at ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Arts Magnet High School in Dallas, Texas, where I graduated from about a thousand years ago. Had some interesting classmates like Edie Brickell and Erykah Badu…

    Anyway, a teacher and long-time family friend, Nedra James, got me into the school and directed me in my first musical called, The Vision. After that I went on and worked in loads of musicals from Los Angeles to New York.

    I did my last musical in New York when I was about 20 called, The Life. It was not the Broadway production but the Showcase, which is how a Broadway show gets started. The show (without me as I had moved to Europe) went on a few years later to Broadway to win several Tony Awards…my luck! J

     

    Anyway, I started shortly after that on my own music escapade which has brought me far and wide…THEN this 'new' musical came about while I was in Germany in 1999, and a friend suggested I audition. It was RENT.

     

    Well, I audition and got the role of Benny.

     

    Now this was, for me, the best way to say goodbye to musicals as I worked with one of the most talented casts I had ever worked with and sang some beautiful songs with indescribable moments of joy and pain. This, for any singer, is the reason we get onstage, to be able to perform something we can stand behind and believe in…

     

    So, if you don't know RENT, then get a recording of it from somewhere (I am on the German cast album), as you will never forget it! I know I won't
    10:09 AM

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