A picture.....
Tells a thousand stories
My first solo performance singing gig
Songwriting session with Gary Tallant (Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band)
All those black dots on the paper....jeez
Mean and moody photo shoot trial
Set up for video shoot for Consent Under Coercion
Songwriting session with Grace Pettis and Gary Tallant (Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band)
Songwriting session with Judie Tzuke and Lasse Melberg (Redrama)
Concentate man!
Me and my 'prog brother' Gregor Philp (Deacon Blue)
Des being all triumphant after another vocal session
Smallest studio on the planet
To singer: 'Eh, what do you just sing?"
Eric Wainaina, Brian Johnstone and Emily Watts
I felt like Rush today, Recording while there was snow outside
My rig for the Scarlet Inside gig at Box, Glasgow
Honest I can play bass guitar a little bit
Beth Nielson Chapman and Brian
See my Yamaha NS10s over there...
Photo shoot trial
Songwriting session: BJ, Matt Stevens and Emily Watts
Photo shoot trial
Meh. I need to tale some singing lessons.
Brian Johnstone Musician on stage
Brian Johnstone Musician on stage
I ran into Kimmie Rhodes at Austin Airport. I first met her at the Songwriting Retreat
The Steinway with delta wings
Trying not to fall off that piano stool
Its ok to be serious sometimes....I think
Look mum I am a singer now
A bright screen - looks like aliens are landing in the studio
Brian explaining to Ralf that a chord can have more than 3 notes
Cowal RFC USA Tour 2011 - Santa Cruz
Grahame and me going to the Rush Gig in Dallas 2008
Me and Grahame in Fort Worth on our way to the Rush show 2008
Zdiar is also a place
Ralf and me (Zdiar) in the High Tatra, Slovakia close to Zdiar
A view from Zdiar (the village)
If I could speak Slovak I could tell you what this says - probably ski rental shop...
My final official game of rugby with concussion and a separated shoulder but smiling all the same...in cloud cuckoo land
BJ and Ralf ready for a off road cycling trip somewhere in Alberta, Canada
Cowal RFC Tour to San Luis Obispo California, 2009
Brian and Ralf's jolly japes
Greg Lake Tour Poster 1981 from press
On stage wth Stranger at Greenock Town Hall
A late 80's Keyboard rig for sure
My studio band for recording The Balance of Risk (without Ricky again!)
Mixing The Balance of Risk at Riverside Studios ,Busby, Glasgow 1995
Surprised look at a photo shoot
Eye Level (band) photo shoot circa 1990
Stranger photo shoot circa 1987
'The Rising; (band) photo shoot circa 1991/1992
Eye Level (band) - 'snowball fight' break from recording at Riverside Studios 1990
Euan and Harry (Eye Level - band) on stage at The Shelter Glasgow
Brian and Euan (Eye Level band) on stage at The Shelter Glasgow
Old and new keyboard technology including my Korg M1, Ensoniq ESQ1, Roland JV-80, Ensoniq Mirage Mk1, Korg Polysix, Moog Prodigy, Cheetah 770 and Casio AZ1..oh and a Mac LC3 with Studio Vision Pro....all very 90's
What do these buttons do?
Brian and Ralf (Zdiar) on top of a mountain in Canada
Moody Photo shoot in north Germany for Zdiar first album
Ralf in deep thought - or is he sleeping again?
Ralf writing and performing orchestral string parts - all with a single mouse button
Much fun recording Umbra at Ralfs studio
Brian doing the production and Ralf playing piano: woo hoo