I was a single handed National Health Service Dentist working in Briton Ferry, Neath, South Wales who was forced to retire, aged 49, in 1998 with no prior knowledge and totally against my wishes. I have spent the intervening years try to find out why I was suddenly professionally destroyed.

A lot of people know why I was retired but refuse to tell me, telling me to forget my 31 years in Dentistry. Then I was told by 3 separate doctors that I will never ever get to the truth behind the loss of my career and I should forget ever being a dentist.

THE TRUTH!!

Anyway I started writing songs in 1965 and eventually wrote one that other people liked.

I played  piano or guitar  in lots of bands and when solo: “I sang them all the songs, from Bowie, Stewart,

The Rolling Stones and some I wrote myself” from  “A Nice Young Lady” (

 

                                                                                                                                                                                Alcoholic Blues was written in 1976 and was the 1st song I recorded in my  1st“home studio”  just after I got qualified as a Dentist. Not surprisingly this is not that version.

It’s  a musical version of Rodin’s the thinker! Just sit down with a beer and a cigarette  and you can sort ANY problem out.

The alcoholic was  some Dentist I vaguely knew who was found by his nurse one morning slumped in his underpants

in his dental chair surrounded by bottles of vodka.  The “rap” was added much later.

I wrote songs to escape from life but when all hell broke loose suddenly my life was in the songs.

I have been told they have quirky chord sequences, kooky and sometimes off the wall production skills

but these are as close as I can get them to the ones inside my head.

All vocals, most guitars, bass and  keyboards: Alyn James.

 All recorded at mY lEISURE studio, Neath