I was born in Hampstead, London in the summer of 1948. I got into music in 1964 when leaving secondary school. I saw someone playing a rhythm on a desktop ('Wipeout') and found I could do it right away. I asked what next and was sent to his teacher who showed me two standard rock rhythms. After 10 minutes I could do them. I asked him what next and was sent to the top drummer in the school. He showed me jazz independence and I could do that after just over one hour. I went back the next day and said I'd done that. He asked me to show him, uttered some expletives and said it had taken him 5 years to do it! So it seemed I had some sort of gift. I joined a rhythm and blues band and then in the summer of 1966 I joined a Chicago blues band with the late great Paul Kossoff (of FREE fame) on lead guitar. In February of 1968 I left to get into Avant Garde free jazz. I found my own voice and direction in this field of totally improvised music and was asked to write numerous articles by specialist magazines. In 1971 I received a set of 3 singing bowls and gradually added to this until now I've a collection of around 350. I have been studying esoteric aspects of sound and music-making since 1968. I have been consciously upon the spiritual path since 1964 and have read widely and been meditating since 1971 and involved with spiritual healing since 1964. Hence I came to write my first book titled HIMALAYAN SOUND REVELATIONS.
