Living Large In London

On Getting The Life You Want

Thanks for all who sent such nice emails after my last post. Yes, life is very good and I'm living every moment as it comes.

The other day I worked up the courage to call British Grove Studios in west London and ask for a tour. Dire Straits' founder Mark Knopfler built it last year and recorded his most recent album there. 

The Killers were in for a while last Christmas and just this past week legendary engineer Geoff Emerick was in to remix The Beatles' Stg. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. (He mixed that the first time too along with Revolver, The White Album, and Abby Road!) Anyway studio manager David Stewart was very generous in taking time to show me the place this morning. I'm going to put out a new CD this fall and I'm really thinking about recording it there.

Heady stuff to be sure. But one thing I've been learning this past year is that we all get the life we make and if we don't have what we want it's simply because we are unwilling to do whatever it takes to get it. As you may have guessed, I'm getting the life I want from now on - no excuses! From my health (I've lost over 40 pounds since last July) to my personal relationships, to my music career my goal is to plan like I'll live 1000 more years and act like I'll die tomorrow.

Whew, that was quite a rave, but I do get worked up on the subject of living my best life every day. Anyway here're a few pics from British Grove. Enjoy.

Cheers,

Dave

London: Like I Was Born To It

Whirlwind Hop Across the Pond

The stars aligned in a rather sudden fashion over the past couple weeks and I found myself quickly saying yes to a couple weeks in London - my first trip.

I'm having all kinds of fun exploring and just generally soaking everything in. Another great benefit is that I had already been planning to play a short pub/club tour somewhere in Europe later this year so I'm getting the details on booking and playing clubs in the area while here.

This really is a great town. I feel so comfortable with everything that it's easy to envision myself spending a good amount of quality time here. I'll try and post a few more times this week and let you know what I'm up to, but for now I'll just leave you with a couple more photos and sign off.

Cheers,

Dave