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John Verity decided that he would kindly master it for me because I’d interviewed
John a while before that, and I’d opened for John at a couple of gigs as well.

BiTS: And tell me something about what you see
as your future. What are you planning to do, say
over the next two or three years?

GG: Well, as I've retired from live gigs, I've had a
plan for over two years to record an acoustic

blues album with a fiddle playing friend of mine,
Cathy Edmunds. We’ve jammed together quite a
lot. In fact, she credits me with her being able to
play the blues. She's a highly skilled violin player

and a great musician. And she wanted to play the
blues a couple of years ago, and I was running

kind of an afternoon blues jam that she came to,
and since then, we've played all kinds of blues, at
all kinds of different places. And we've had this
plan for two years to record an acoustic blues

album, me on guitar and vocals and Cathy on
Cathy Edmunds
fiddle. So perhaps, she actually plays in two bands

at the moment as well, but when we get the time
after Christmas, I might do that, put that on plan. I've got a studio lined up for that
at some point as well.

BiTS: That sounds absolutely fabulous. Yes. Good luck to you with doing that. You've
obviously opened for a number of people over the years, and you've got favourite
musicians of one kind or another. What is the musician that you most like to listen

to these days?

GG: It's actually Warren Haynes of Government Mule.

BiTS: Wow! Me too.

GG: One of my favourite current gigging bands. I've long been a fan of Government
Mule. In the days before you could download any music you wanted online. I used
to trade cassettes first of all and then trade CDs of live shows of the Grateful Dead,

obviously, Government Mule, Little Feat and lots of other bands that I’ve been
introduced to by doing that. So Government Mule are a huge favourite and Warren
Haynes, I did get to do an interview with him at Holmfirth, the Picturedrome at

Holmfirth, when Government Mule played there a while ago. We did the interview
on the tour bus. It was quite good fun.

BiTS: That sounds absolutely fabulous. You look after yourself, Gary. I'm going to

ring off now and wish you the best of luck. Thanks for talking to me. Very much
appreciate it.