Adventures of a Waterboy (Remastered) by Mike Scott;

Author:Mike Scott;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 1)
Published: 2017-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

A WALK IN THE LAKE SHRINE

Los Angeles, April 1991. I’m walking down a sunlit path in the Lake Shrine, a meditation garden close to the Pacific Ocean end of Sunset Boulevard. I’ve just been for a meeting with a record label that wants to sign me, and my new manager Dick Lackaday and the label’s A&R man Benny Breeze, an odd-looking chap with a distressing resemblance to one of the psychiatric patients in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, are strolling a little way behind me, heads close in conversation. The Lake Shrine was founded by an Indian guru called Paramahansa Yogananda, one of several Eastern mystics whose images George Harrison snuck onto the cover montage of Sgt Pepper. Lush gardens and swaying tropical trees surround the lake, and a tall white arch stands regally on the bank, crowned with a golden lotus that glints in the sun. The busy highway is close by and its roar is audible yet within the grounds of the Shrine a tangible calm prevails.

I stop to watch some swans glide by as Dick and Benny catch me up. Benny puts his hand on my shoulder and says, ‘Aw man, the Lake Shrine! Did you know my old man used to give money to this place? He told me once if I ever had a problem to go and think it over at the Lake Shrine and I’d be sure to feel better about it, and you know, I often did.’ I’m impressed. A&R men aren’t usually hip to spiritual places like this and I think to myself what a good guy Benny is, and what a sympathetic person he might be to work with.

We walk on round the circumference of the lake, finally returning to Benny’s car. He drives us back along Sunset to our hotel and drops us off. We’ll see him again tomorrow for more discussion about whether The Waterboys will choose to sign to his label, and after what he said back in the Lake Shrine I’m feeling pretty good about it. But in the hotel lobby Dick Lackaday turns to me with a perplexed look on his face and says, ‘Just before Benny spoke to you about his old man, he asked me, “What the fuck is this place, Dick?” He made the whole thing up!’

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