The Long Fade

I’ve been having a ball with old friends and new in various recording studios. They say when you retire you should take a hobby. Painting, gardening, fishing. I’m cutting an album. How rock n roll is that. We’ve been at it since the summer so there’s a lot of pics. There’s also been a lot … Read more

The Long Fade

We had an absolutely wonderful time at Custom Space Studios today. The music and the playing was terrific. I laid down some acoustic guitar and then Steve Dolder played his Beat Boxx on a track. I declared his drumming “beautiful”, an adjective I’ve never used for drums before (Steve said he’d never heard it before … Read more

Double Bass

I had a remarkable day in a recording studio yesterday with these two incredible bass players. My regular guy with my band John Dawson rock solid as ever. At one point the studio was invaded by a fan who declared “John Dawson, you’re my hero! – then, (to his friend) hey Eddie- It’s the bass player with … Read more

Bullfrog on Eldon Square

My first band Bullfrog formed in 1969. I have always said there is only one picture of the original 1969 line-up and that’s a Sunday Sun clipping from when we gave an impromptu concert on Eldon Square. However, I have just re-discovered these tiny “proofs” in my scrapbook. I’m scanned them at a ridiculously high … Read more

Simon Calling

My (unfinished) book concludes with a gig my band did at The Georgian Theatre last March. So much has happened since that I decided to do a series of blogs “after the show”. This is one such blog. Not long after that show my lawyer Simon Long called me. It was my birthday but that’s … Read more

After The Show

In 2018 I began writing a book as many people had been encouraging me to do. The book is a combination of all the stories I’d told people over the years. It is unfinished but in skeletal form I know it concludes with a show I did with my band at the Georgian Theatre in … Read more

Steve Thompson
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