16:28 That has been done that leads to many different possibilities it is like a jfk assassination rabbit hole or something yeah. And now let's back up a little bit and talk about your personal story because the longer I live, the more I find life playing out more like a well-written plot than just a bunch of random occurrences as they'd have us believe. Several threads in your life are full of the kind of synchronicity that defies logic. Talk to us about your path through say the music industry a bit, your realizations about the power of manifestation and how it ties into this big story? Yeah!
17:05 Well, yeah let's go back then right to the beginning. I don't mean to dwell on it overly but it is pertinent and will come full circle so I don't like to sound as though I'm reeling off a list of accomplishments because that's not the purpose in fact what i'm gonna tell you is more or less to point out the following of you can take a look at my you have to say, how are you when i had it all together i did this and that so as i say these things don't don't take them in vain because we're going to come to a point where
17:45 I have a comeuppance, and I reckon that I'd better sort myself out because all this sort of manifesting is very interesting. As a kid, I just always had the feeling that I could manifest anything. And I think perhaps fairly common experience for children until we get out into the world and get beaten up a bit by it you know i think we all feel pretty invincible maybe I don't know that there's been a true amount of research done on that but I know many people who felt that when they were kids, ahh! I can do anything. I certainly felt it. Oh yeah? Because I dunno your fresh from the astral your fresh from
18:32 wherever we were before and where will go after it. And even if you don't believe that, that's okay too but nevertheless there is something about consciousness in us that says I am special after all i'm the center of my universe right? I am the only person who can say I, I! No one else has that experience apparently and yet yeah we all do. I remember asking my dad A very, very deep question. When I was...I don't know, I seem to remember maybe about 8 or 9 and asked him this deep Zen question and said Dad why am i me an not somebody else? And I remember exactly word for word what he said He said Don't be silly Doris you are somebody else
19:29 Doris! I don't know where he got that from, he used to call me all kinds of names. Don't be silly Doris you are somebody else which if...you know that's a sort of Zen master answer like hit you over the head. You are somebody else because of course to him i was somebody else Oh, that's interesting. This sense of I-ness is universal and yet every single one of us thinks we are the I and nobody else is. It's very bizarre when you try to wrap your head around it. Anyway, we'll get into that later because that's one of the key things Shakespeare says, I am what I am! That's the name of God in the Bible, Exodus
20:16 chapter 3 verse 14 and wrap your head around that because it's three point one four, that's pi. In chapter three verses fourteen Moses is on Mount Sinai and he asks God who shall I say sent me? You know they're gonna think i'm nuts coming down the hill with these ten commandments you know tell me your name! And god says Hebrew for I am that I am tells him the name of God. I am that I am well It turns out that Shakespeare uses that very very very phrase in sonnet 121 I am that I am Anyway, we'll get to that so I'm a kid. I'm coming home from school in my early teens and there's a new TV show on and it's called The Monkeys
21:06 My dad is watching it, he kind of likes it. I didn't like because I was into the Beatles and I thought this was comparatively... It just didn't resonate for me but there was more going on than that because I actually had a visceral reaction to seeing this little bastard Davy Jones who's from around the corner from where I live. He's from Manchester I'm living in manchester and i think why is he got this job. He's the next beatles right next week it was intended to be the next people it was a you know they called the beetles the fat for michael the monkeys the pre fab four, add it was very strange to me that i have this absolute gut reaction actually hated him
21:55 In my got my stomach was churning where does that come from no reason no rational reason i didn't know him never done anything to me actually hated. I wouldn't watch the show i didn't like it years and years and years later, comes back to be very meaningful because i need to end up working with this is good yes so Anyway, that sort of background. That happened! What was that about? We'll leave that for a moment... I go out into the world as a musician thinking well i want to be that successful and do stuff like he's doing And all I knew was that I had read maybe one book and I can't remember what it would have been Maybe Out To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carney but I got this sense from somewhere
22:52 to manifest your goals, you must believe they already exist and you must picture them and imagine it. Not just thinking I want this to come into being but actually believe it already is And so I set off to do that and the first time i actually did it, I had done a bit of traveling. I'd gone to Africa with a jazz band. I come back and think oh this is cool! I really like the traveling thing maybe I would like to work on a cruise ship? I don't know where that idea came from but I bought a picture of a cruise ship slapped it up on my wall i sat in front of it every night imagining that i was there to see myself on the cruise ship picture palm trees and blue ocean me singing at the grand piano on a cruise ship seeing all these wonderful places in the bahamas but i never been to you know and i actually just got into
23:48 Oh, it's real. It's real and thinking that I am there and within about three months... ...I got a call out of the blue from someone did not know this person He said I got your number from so-and-so. I hear you're pretty good pianist Would you be interested in joining my band on a cruise ship? And i said ahhhh That's how it happens So I'll go on a cruise ship gradually i just did more and more of this is interesting i want to record deal. I was sitting at home after i get my cruise ships done i'm picturing myself signing a record deal in london that's gonna happen i can feel it not gonna happen its happened,
24:34 And lo and behold, through Contacts. I mean of course if i had to do the pushing and shoving and writing songs etc but nevertheless that's what i wanted and that was manifesting got a record deal But it was very small label and wasn't the sort of thing that i envisioned as i want be signed by ooh by Davis Arrested and my first record deal fell apart for various reasons I then, I went oh okay let's do that and i pictured where Clive Davis' office was in New York and I'm sitting in my apartment now in London and facing New York. I can picture his office
25:18 I just pictured myself signing a record deal with clive davidson and honestly within a few months the person who's taking care of my business then my manager, makes me quite surprised that this invites him to come see my show when i was going to see my showing london signs me on the spot. So i'm thinking wow this is amazing this is how you do it if u can believe it is So that was what started and so to get me through to the connection to Davey, I'm just going to rush through a bunch of things. That deal fell through because I was a pain in the ass to work with and I literally wouldn't let anybody do that job and Prime Davis said to me since I've signed you but uh but you haven't written any hits yet um because...and i got sort of upset over that well what do you mean I haven't written hits? You haven't put anything out obviously it's not a hit yet!
26:18 But he's saying, he's doing his deal. He's doing his Clive Davis thing you know I know a hit when i hear it and that third year demos and you don't have me...I went home wrote three songs in a huff you know I'll show you about a hit and I wrote three songs of one of them was a joke! An absolute joke song and it was called 15 and it was intended for a teeny-bot band. And it was very catchy, and obviously a hit! I mean to me it was a hit. And it went... Ba ba ba baby You'll soon be fifteen And you know what I mean When I say I love you
26:58 Alright, that sounds like a hit and I play it for Clive and Clive says yep that's a hit you're gonna record it. And I said no no no I can't record it I'm 25 years old don't you get it? It's a joke 15 is not legal! I can't be singing to teenagers And he absolutely insisted, said now you've got to record it. I said oh come on give it to the Bay City Rollers or some...you know what I mean? I just did that to prove to you that I can write a hit! No, we're going to record it. I recorded under duress really really upset over the fact and thinking well I'm gonna record a ton of other stuff and he's gonna hear all this stuff and release that and won't ever release this one because its just a joke
27:39 No, the end of it is a fabulous recording you're gonna release. Can be your hit record what i do that i'm going to end up being a teeny box and rest my life and actually very uncomfortable because i was already twenty five wasn't it so it just didn't work and i said no not going to find. Goodbye got dropped from that label So I've now been on two labels, but i don't care because i know i can manifest a label right? I can just manifest the next one and i come to America and i start trying to manifest. It's not working and by this point