Hi, and welcome to my Web page. It is always a pleasure for me to know that so many people are interested in the work that my fellow session men, and I created for so many artists In the I960's.   In those far off days I nicknamed us "The Musical Stuntmen" simply because we did all the "dangerous" bits for the groups, and artists of that time (like playing the right chords or drumbeats for them, so that they could put their voices on to our crafted backing tracks)   It was an exiting but really hard life as a session man, but I wouldn't have changed It for the world. A typical day for me was something like this...

6.30 am: Get out of bed and got ready for the first session starting at I0am at Pye Records in Bryanston street in London. 7.00 am: Load up my drum kit in the car and head for town in the rush hour traffic.  9.00 am: Arrive at Pye Studios Only to find every parking meter is full, hurriedly unload the kit down.to the studio (no roadies in those days - you did it yourself and drive to an indoor car park, run back to the studio to get the kit set up before the start of the session at I0 am.   I0.00 am: The session with Tony Hatch Orchestra begins, it's a big session with a large string section (the gentlemen) and the rhythm auction (the ruffians) working hard for 3 hours, with .a fifteen minute break for coffee in the middle.  I.00 pm .Finish the session at Pye, and go to get the car. Hump the drums up the stairs from the studio. I have one hour to get to my next session at EMI Studios and repeat the whole thing all over again - no time for lunch.  2.00 pm The EMI session starts, this time we are recording with P.J.Proby and the session runs into overtime, finishing at 5.30 pm.

5.30 pm: I have now got one and a half hours to get set up at Decca Studios in West Hampstead for the first of 2 evening sessions, the first starting at 7pm. I manage to grab a sandwich and a .beer at the local pub, gulp it down and rush back to the studio to get the kit sat up for the session. 7.00 pm: The session tonight is with Van Morrison & Them, and is just myself, Jimmy Page, Big Jim Sullivan, and Alan Weighall, along with American Producer Bert Berns, we put down 4 titles in a 3 hour sessions and as the other guys leave to go home (The Pub) I have to stay behind to overdub some drums on some tracks by Brian Poole, his producer Mike Smith arrives late so we don't get started until eleven fifteen pm.   I2.45 am That's it for another day, and I pack the kit up again and head for home, by the time I get to bed its 2.30am and I am up again at 6.30 to start the whole thing again!   On the way out I bump in to my neighbour who says my don't you people lead a glamorous life" Where the heck did he got that idea?   >

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