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well, where do I start?

Well back in 1986 I decided it was time to give up the day job and realise the dream.

Since the age of about 10, I started getting an insatiable appetite for electronics, which became my hobby, and eventually my occupation at the top secret 'Airplane and Armament Experimental Establishment' (A&AEE) Boscombe Down (not that I can talk about it :).

However, preceding the days of a young inquisative boy experimenting with a mains transformer and a 9 volt battery connected to my cousin Alex (who lived through the experiment, but no longer trusts me), since the age of 6, I started showing my parents my interest in music.

This started (and failed) with the piano for 3 years (we had a grand piano 'John Broadwood & Sons' - wonderful), moved on to the drums (£40 Ajax 4 piece kit for xmas - most excellent:) for 2 years (but still failed), which were finally followed by a £2 'cheese grater' of a guitar, which I decided to teach myself!

After all, I had the best of music rudimentaries invested in me from the hundreds of piano lessons from the late Mrs Richards (Woolston, Southampton - who, one week, gave me a mint 1970 5 pence coin for doing my practice), supported by the rythm taught to me by my drum coach in Chandlers Ford (a personal friend of Buddy Rich no less! - I remember seeing pictures of him and Buddy all over the house!).

the shed

On the 28th July 1983, my 20th birthday, my parents had bought be an ex-government 12 x 24 foot shed (just to get me out the house :), which was erected on this very day. This humble shed, was to become known and remembered as....'The Shed'.

Within the shed I had my own space to mess around with my musical toys, which included my treasured Roland GR300 guitar synth.

I blame what happened next, on a bassist Russle Kenedy who was introduced to me by my great friend and keyboardist Phil Dunn - he loaned me a Tascam 244 4-Track! This suddenly opened up a whole new world of multi-track recording to me...

And low and behold, this shed would become the begining of many musical marvels...