Last week I was in Bayswater in London when I came across a huge poster on the Underground Station advertising an exhibition of Stone Roses photographs. It was wet and windy and my family were all tired from walking around London but it was just down the road at the local shopping centre and really I wasn't going to get another chance to see it if I didn't go now. So off we went. It was a big room full of expensive large photos. As we walked in I realised the only other people there were Ian Brown and his two sons. Ruby chose that moment to ask who the Stone Roses were. Ignoring that I said hello to Ian, had a little chat and got my photo taken with him. I was a bit tongue tied. I mean The Stone Roses created one of the best albums of all time. And then they brought out this single on 12 inch.
we played this to death at the Lizard Lounge. It would get everyone up dancing from the get go. It was incredibly hip. And just a beautiful groove and that kinda summed up where we all were in 1990.
The Stone Roses got me back into playing my guitar more and writing songs. I hadn't really done much since the break up of Little Murders 6 years earlier but the Stone Roses got me all excited about music again. Unfortunately thanks to bands like the Roses and the rise of alternative music in clubs the popularity of Lizard didn't give me much time to actually play live. But at home I had my portastudio and I was writing again.
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