Messing about a fair few months ago with the new Mac M2 home recording studio, I recorded an old Marc Bolan song. ‘One Inch Rock’. I remember that I sang this song when I picked up guitar for the first time way back in my teenage years. Back then? After a week, or maybe less, of learning a few chords, and upon gathering the three or four much needed favourite basic rock and roll chords to play whatever songs fit, I managed to play this Bolan song.

Then? After gathering more chords, I excitedly began playing Summers’ own self written songs involving strange naive lyrical stories and melody’s. I sought songwriting journeys, which resulted into a subsequent trial and error of mish mash land. Having learnt the basic chords of A to G and rhythmically playing them confidently…..I thought I could rule the world with 6 strings and Summers’ expressions of perceived uniqueness. You can but dream as a teenager. It is universal law to be allowed to ‘seek one’s own future of hoped for’s and ‘give it a try’. Trying is a blessed gift. Not a curse. It is your experiencing a ‘Life is there to be lived’ and ‘having been lived ‘ gives you subsequent reality lessons. It becomes either a ‘Hold your horse son…..it can wait a while!’ Or ‘Ooooh. This is fun. I’m kind of winning in this vibe of lived life’. You try because you have a dream. Life is always but a dream away.

Going back to base, it was fun to play this Bolan song, decades, upon decades later. Albeit quickly here and in one take. Recording it as a once off catch in 2024, for checking voice on echo? Quickly over and done? I felt a weird sense of returning to my innocence. An acoustic guitar, vocal and guitar playing naivety and a wonderful vibe.

I played this song in my teenager years little box bedroom around 1969 on an old acoustic guitar. Here? Played in ‘The Den’. We all have our favourite room do we not? So here is an insight into mine. My ‘Den’. My equivalent of a ‘Man Shed’. A Nirvana space to settle the heartbeat into a gentle calm. Dark outside the window. Warm inside my heart.

An insight here below, image wise, into Summers’ current space of ‘The Den’……my home inspiration room wise.

HIT THE ARROW BELOW IN THE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE ….. AND? …. LISTEN TO THE SONG.

BELOW ARE 21 PHOTOGRAPHS USED FOR THE LITTLE VIDEO SONG ABOVE. TAP ON EACH TO ENLARGE. CHEERS.

AND MUSICALLY OUTDOORS FUTURE WISE?

The VeeDub Bus. BILLIE CLOUD 9……..