While he was eventually banned from using an amplifier (The whole story of the ban featured on his first CD "Looking For Trouble"), it was more then an amplifier, it was actually a karaoke machine. But instead of using the tape machine part to play backing music, Grod used it to record his sets when busking.

So, to make this "Yours & Mine" CD, Grod poured through the many tapes to find the best versions of each song he had recorded over the months. So the vast majority of the tracks on the CD are in fact taken from a live performance while busking.

It's called "Yours & Mine" as the first half of the CD is of other peoples songs (cover versions) which is the "Yours" and the second half are songs Grod had written... so "Mine."

So this CD is a purely acoustic CD, just guitar and voice and largely taken from live performances. The rest were recorded at home but each one is recorded from just one take.

In making this CD, as with "Looking For Trouble", the songs were first put down to cassette tape as recorded by Grod's karaoke machine. So again the sound quality on the CD suffers slightly from tape hiss. Of course being recorded "live" there are a few buzzes, clicks and occasionally slight feedback noise. At this stage though Grod was getting better at using the recording software and managed to reduce most of these slight distractions.

So the idea of this CD is this.

Imagine it's early evening in summer, you are sat in Bath's famous Abbey courtyard, admiring the Abbey and Pump Rooms, when a busker suddenly turns up with his guitar.

As you carry on taking in the beautiful scenery and the sun is beginning to set, turning the Bath stone all around to a golden glow, the busker in the middle of the square begins his set of ballads, with a golden voice. Starting with songs you already new and loved, and then ones you'd never heard before, but match the ones sung earlier. Including songs that also made you want to tap your feet and sing along.

The picture used for the CD is taken from a photograph of Grod outside the Houses of Parliament in London on a late summer evening. The clock of Westminster behind him being where the bell "Big Ben" chimes, to keep the M.P.'s on time.

Little did he know, that day in 2000 when he also visited the Millenium Dome exhibition, that five years later, Grod would be standing in the General Election in Bath as an Independent!

He came last of the 7 candidates with 59 votes, but his campaign was a silent one. Grod said nothing. The loudest busker in Bath simply stood and was silent. He didn't even go busking, he simply stayed at home for 4 weeks, turning up for one "Meet the Candidates" forum on the eve of the election.

But Grod did produce a DVD-ROM, "VOTE GROD MP" showing who he was and what he stood for.

It was meant to be a web-site.... but every effort was made to stop Grod putting it up. Even the "electronic electoral roll" he was given, to do a free mail-shot to everyone in Bath, turned out to be a blank disk, and it was then too late to do the mail-shot.

Grod's became a silent campaign because he was effectively silenced, by a series of dirty tricks. Including freemasonry and witchcraft symbols (Including Aleister Crowleys book "MAGIK") suddenly appearing below his flat. These including a "rotting horses head" beautifully carved out of wood, wand with a carved snake on it, a beaten up banjo and a directors chair.

However Grod logged all these dirty tricks and then showed them on a further CD-ROM, that he sent to all the people who had sponsored me the £500 deposit, which was subsequently lost. Just to let people know what had happened to Grod and why he'd gone quiet.

Because it had been going on for quite a while. That certain people and authorities were persecuting him and it needed to be exposed. They of course, didn't want anybody to know.

Grod's campaign was going to be via an interactive website, where people could download videos he had taken, showing what he knew. Then debate any question via a chat-room and email. He was going to start a revolution from his bed-sit.

Except BT refused to install a phone line as promised, or the "broadband" connection needed. So while Grod was blocked from running the website, he simply put it all to DVD-ROM "Vote Grod M.P.!" and passed it out. So the information got out... to at least about 20 people, who might then begin to spread the word themselves.

Unsurprisingly Grod didn't get to be Bath's MP, it was won again by Don Forster. But that is actually what he expected would happen, and in fact had met Don on several occasions. Including when he has come out to hear Grod busk, and always comes over and drops a £1 in the guitar case. The M.P. telling Grod what a great job he is doing. A different view from the council.

Grod has met and performed for quite a few famous people while busking in Bath. Amongst them Prince Charles, The Queen, astronomer Patrick Moore, and Rowing Olympic Gold medallist Matthew Pinncent.

But one of Grod's favourite stories is not only has he sung "Annie's Song" to punks Godfather Johnny Rotten (John Lydon of "The Sex Pistols and PIL fame") but also has sung it to none other then Annie Denver. The person the song was written about by her husband, country legend John Denver.

So, imagine you are sitting amongst the celebs in Bath's Abbey Courtyard, the sun setting on the Georgian architecture and a busker starts augmenting the ambience with softly sung ballads, each one a favourite of yours, and mine.