"A WORD OF THANKS" "I WANTED TO MAKE A PAGE TO GIVE SPECIAL THANKS, TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME INTO MY LIFE AND PLAYED A PART IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IN HELPING ME ON MY CREATIVE QUEST. WEATHER IT BE A MUSICIAN, A WRITER, PRODUCER, MANAGER, OR JUST AN HONEST SOUL WITH A GENUINE HEART.
wEll I guess I need to start where it all began. thank you to my family whom put up with all my noise, REBELLIOUS BEHAVIOR, drug abuse and GENERAL lack of respect as a teenage rock drummer!
my PARENTS. my mother was my first musical INFLUENCE, she was an amazing singer.
I thank my 3rd form music teacher, miss bradley. she played electric guitar through a gunn amp and quad box, and sexy as hell "she sure got my ATTENTION"
I really need to give a very special thanks to daniel edward thomas. we were brothers in arms playing in the same bands with all the highs and low you could possibly imagine. for 27 incredible years thanks bro !!
thank you torey Leggett & DARRELL rOGERS . helping me get all the custom tama drum kits and all the great equipment i ever needed. from way back in the very early 1980's when you GUYS worked at "big city music" and sometimes beaven would run out and bring back a bottle of jack and we would roll out on the street totally fucked up...
a big thanks to gerard carr FOR MUSICAL GUIDANCE (GUITAR TEACHER) produced and engineered our first project at HARLEQUIN STUDIOS .release on vinyl. 1985 cheers.
thank you wynn the boss/anania for taking a risk on all those heavy metal bands in the early 1980's with those GALAXY / power station shows, with all the posters radio adds right up to more recent times with the metal reunion gig at the transmission room.
a big thanks to my good old friend since the 1970's jack kaka for all those amazing gigs with mantra. you invited me to play drums for you at the galaxy, power station and all those other great gigs i so enjoyed. i learned a lot from you in those early days bro. cheers...
a real big thank you to paul martin for being one of the greatest friends for well over 30 years. I salute you for the huge service YOU'VE done for the new zealand heavy metal music industry.
also a thanks to Tim Foreman of air force studios for two confessor albums METAL BEYOND MADNESS, POSSESSED TO PLAY and a great single "searching"
a big loud thanks to lance edmonds for giving us such an almighty pro live sound for all those years. a MAGNIFICENT live sound engineer, that ENABLED us to performance with absolute CONFERDENTS. cheers man !
A REALLY BIG THANKS TO OUR ROAD DOGS CREW KEITH OLSSON, STEVE DOUGLAS, KEVIN SYNNOTT AND ANDREW PRIME A SPECIAL TEAM OF GUYS WHO MADE IT HAPPEN AND KNEW HOW TO HAVE FUN. CHEERS!
A THANK YOU TO MIKE MECHEN FOR HELPING US WITH ALL THOSE POWER STATION GIGS AND ALL YOUR SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS, CHEERS MATE.
a huge thank you to george, caroline and andrew for all you guys have done for me over the years. the revolver (family) you guys truly rock...
thank you eddie rayner for your FRIENDSHIP, inspiration and LEGENDARY TALENTED PIANO PLAYING performance recorded on our album track "mikes face" at revolver studios. ha ha and of course that unique sense of humor..
thank you alec lacey for giving us all your free time, managing and promoting the band, album cover design and production. pulling your skills and many RESOURCES together to make it happen. awesome.
And of course a very special thanks to all the fans and supporters of all those band I was involved with. After all said and done, none of the amazing experiences I've been so fortunate to have had would ever have happened without you!! Cheers.