2021
I’m older now and it seems that one of its benefits is that I am finally becoming the person I should always have been. I’m quieter, happier, less impulsive (that one takes effort), less stubborn and a lot more considerate. I don’t see too many of the ’old gang’ anymore... nice people but far too young to be any kind of a support structure!.. and that has helped me to find my inner peace. I now only spend time with people I care about and who care about me. As soon as I see a glimpse of arrogance, anger or plain rudeness I’m off in the opposite direction without a word of protest or hint of disappointment. It’s nice not to hear the sound of my own voice complaining... to quote a friend, "my dark passenger has finally left me." Anita Fran has helped. I ...read more
"San Francisco - a U.S. city favourite of mine, if not one of the greatest cities in the world - also offered me a seminal moment in my early career. After guest starring in the television series, The Streets Of San Francisco (1972) (Karl Malden and Michael Douglas), Clint Eastwood, who saw the episode, offered me the role of ’Davis’ in the second of the Dirty Harry films, Magnum Force (1973). Not only would that film mark a first ’big’ break, Magnum Force would eventually lead to an offer from Aaron Spelling to do the role of Hutch in Starsky And Hutch. "San Francisco and her musicians also provided me a serious beginning to my recording career as well as the musicians who would make up ’The Band of Friends’ for the next twenty years... Andy Kulberg, Chris Michie, Norton Buffalo, Richard Green, Jac Murphy ...read more
I have two albums by Pueblo Café ; La Batalla (2010) and Busch Oro (2004). My favourite tracks are Reflejos, Nieves Tiempos and Todo Mi Vida which translated into English are All My Life, Reflexes and Snow Times. Long before I looked up the lyrics to translate them into English and discovered what they were singing about; I'd already had one of the tunes playing as the soundtrack to our lives back in 2007 when putting together a short film about a holiday in The United States. It was winter in London, England so a welcomed break in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Hawaii over a period of nineteen days was not to be sneezed at (excuse the pun). Pueblo Café are also known as The Browntown Looters and it was their Todo Mi Vida track from 2004 that I ended up using ...read more
I’m about to change all that right now by telling you about my next adventure: Switching up a gear and revamping this website into something that my family and loved ones might want to look at long after I’m dead and gone... There are a few of you that I’m pretty sure I’ll outlive so I’ll try and post something of interest for you sooner rather than later, starting with something that literally inspired me to get out and get filming again. I shot it a couple of years ago whilst renting in Werribee, Victoria,MelbourneAustralia. It got me out of bed and out the house at 5 o’clock on a Sunday morning to catch the sunrise, a big truck and a 1970s V8 powered muscle car. ...read more