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LONG-TERM VISION (5+ YEARS)
Have you a big goal? A life’s mission? Something that you would be prepared to spend years, if not decades, working on?
Preparing to play stadiums
Colin Archer and I were both in bands when we were around 17 years old. In fact, most of the ‘cool kids’ (yes, I was a cool kid) were in a band of some description.
My band, Stage 2, was in the same heat as his band, The Edge, during the North East ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition. The Edge won and my band came second but there were no hard feelings – they were better than us.
I got to know Colin and even ended up programming a drum machine for him (ironic when you read the rest of this story). One thing that shone out of him was his ability to play guitar. He wasn’t ...
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