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1 Calm Me Down listen to mp3
2 What Are You Running From, Where Are You Going To, And How Do You Know When You Get There?
3 Sad Eyed Mules
4 A Man Can Lose Himself
5 Someone
6 Bloody Honey
7 Shrinemaker
8 Jesus and The Angel
9 Piggy In The Middle
10 Shadow Box
11 Gentle Life
12 Guitar Star
13 Time For Bed
14 The Ballad of Vinny Peculiar
15 A Guitar Fan's Imaginary Soundcheck At The Silver Spurs Country and Western Cafe, Bromsgrove, Circa 1976...

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"Liverpool, late 1997, I’m in my late 30’s and have a demo collection in excess of 200 songs, some of them I’ve recorded alone, some with bands, some of them I remember with affection and some I’ve totally forgotten, until now… I really ought to do something…"
And then there’s real life
"I’m a recovering divorcee mental health professional with a deep affection for all things Bukowski. The CSA are onto me and I miss my children… you see if I hadn’t made GONE everything before, every action, every reason, every stupid mistake, every glittering success [glittering?], every disaster, would all amount to nothing, would all have been a waste of time. I had no choice. I had to do something…

"Most of GONE was recorded over 6 days in Liverpool in late 1997 with producer Rob Ferrier [Clinic, Space] at the now defunct Pearl Studios. It features contributions from long standing VP collaborators Neil Carter [drums], Nick Robinson [bass] and a guest vocal from Jo Smullen.

Some of the songs on GONE were already recorded. The now trademark VP number Calm Me Down (1996) was being touted around the indie labels and getting a better than average reaction . . . although Vinny couldn’t understand why they weren’t biting his hands off [nobody ever can). The acoustic tracks Blood Honey and Gentle Life were recorded separately in a solo acoustic session in early 1997. Rob Ferrier (all the things technical to Vinny's all things musical/lyrical) produced the record. GONE’s subsequent release through BUGHOUSE [Liverpool indie label now sadly defunct] was a personal catharsis for Vinny. It didn't sell bucketloads (only 1000 pressed in total) but it was a great start and we all need that, don't we?