Out of the Camp

Out of the Camp Ch. 41 – Changes

Close up image of a person smiling at camera
When the group, ‘Listen’, broke up and all the extensive national press coverage, the Parlophone...

Out of the Camp Ch. 42 – Brick Walls and Shysters

Roger Cairns
We had probably been in California three or four years when Mary took it into...

Out of the Camp Ch.43 – Lost in Quezon City

Ancient image of a person singing at a concert
One evening after a communications class I’d enrolled in at Pasadena City College, I was...

Out of the Camp Ch.44 – Endings and More

A street with some shops and moving vehicles
I referred earlier in these musings to notions of the ground shifting beneath my feet...

Ch. 45. 1962 & 1999.

A group of people standing in front of a building.
In 1962 my Auntie Lillian from Hamilton, Ontario came to visit us in Edinburgh. She...

Ch. 46. Coronation to Platinum & the Jazz Wedding

The queen 20 glorious years cd.
I suppose the biggest event in my early years growing up in Moredun was the...

Ch. 47. ‘Jazz Gigs in LA’ and the Return to Brondesbury Park.

Black and white image of two persons with an instrument
Work for our new small group started to trickle in with an occasional gig here...

Ch. 48. Auditions and other things.

Edinburgh, scotland at dusk.
My deal with Mr. Goodrich wasn’t the only ‘miss’ in the 60s. I had other...

Ch. 49. Olwen, Rock Jingles & the Free Press

Two years later, the CD release of ‘Let’s...’ was followed by ‘The Dream of Olwen’...