I use the phrase initially very literally. It's an idea - 'mercurial,' I think, is a valuable description. I mean, it's a metal, it's a liquid, it's an element, it's a god, it's a planet. "There are so many references attached to mercury. He of course claimed that he was but sleepwalking after the previous night's carousing." ![]() ![]() I'd never seen him up before noon, much less out taking the air. Dominic Miller, David Sancious, and Vinnie Colaiuta were all delighted not to be stuck in some airless studio for weeks on end I even caught Vinnie, our drummer (a certified studio animal if ever there was one), walking in the garden one morning. I'd always believed that "settling down" was anathema to creativity, but I wanted to give it a shot. I suppose the album title suggests, among other things, that my mercurial life was beginning to find some balance, like I'd finally put down roots. The kids would come home from school in the afternoon and we'd all have dinner together like a normal family. ![]() ![]() I felt that at last I was living a real life. I'd spend so much of my life in hotel rooms and concert halls. I was enjoying these long periods at home with the family. "This was the second album written and recorded in Lake House.
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