Day 4 of the Bill Higgins Musical Nomination... Ok so as a family we overstepped the mark. The house in Deeside Drive was great, the location opposite Kaimhill and the old Deeside railway was a great playground. But hey - we couldnae afford it. So it was decided that we buy a posher house in Mannofield and expand the bed and breakfast business that we had already started because we couldnt pay the mortgage. We had realised my Fathers promoted teachers post didnt make us millionaires! (No shit Sherlock!). Anyway the new house had 3 floors and it became so busy with boarders and guests that oftentimes I found myself sleeping in the rafters of the attic. It was all going so well (actually we were still up to our eyes in debt) until one Friday night when I returned from the Scouts, the door bell went and I opened the front door to my Dad returning from God knows where. He stood there crying on the doorstep. My life fell apart there and then - I had never seen my Dad cry. Alison, my 8 year old sister had been diagnosed with Leukemia that day. She was the most beautiful saintly kid in the whole world. 2 years later she passed away and, as is typically the case in Cancer scenarios, my Father met someone else and my Mother and other sister Gillian, returned to Glasgow. I stayed in Aberdeen, because by that time I was in my Fifth year at Aberdeen Grammar and I still had plenty of time to really screw up on what had been already a dismal school career. I lived most of the time in that three floored house on my own until we eventually sold it, undervalue of course, to pay off the debts. Game changer. What kept me sane was that I joined a record club and you got the first 3 LPs for tuppence for signing your life away to the distributing company. Worth it though. Angry with life? Just ever so slightly. I used to play this at full volume, over and over again, in that empty house... as I looked out the windows onto a fairly unpromising future. A musical influence? You could kinda say so. However, I only found it numbed the pain if you played it at maximum volume and found old guitars to smash up on the floor ... the neighbours must have loved me! https://youtube/watch?v=qN5zw04WxCc
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:30:42 +0000
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