"I must be one of the youngest pups around here, and I'm 23."

...Get out of here!!! Are you serious? If you are, I am absolutely stunned!!


"Good to see a fellow young person.....I mean most of these guys are pretty old. As I understand it, Don is 57..."

...LOL, Jack!!! Actually, I'm 61 right now. Last week was particularly bad/busy, thus causing me to age at least 3.5 - 4 years. Man, I shouldn't be joking about this right now, 'cuz with the way my memory is deteriorating and the way I feel when I drag my @ss out of bed these days, I'm starting to believe that I might actually be closer to that age than my "mere" 32 years.



"Andrew is 43, and Kieran is damn near 60!! Denture-using grannies one and all!"

...Yeah, and don't forget that the three of us are test-piloting the new line of Depends undergarments as well. And from what I understand, Andrew is almost ready to unveil his latest work of ingenuity to Joe Public: an revolutionary air-conditioned, solar powered, supersonic walking cane. As for Kieran, well, that's a sad story. I'm afraid senility is beginning to kick in. It seems that he believed a claim made recently by a shady Canadian fellow who frequents another board and has actually begun wearing condoms on both of his ears so as to avoid ever getting "hearing AIDS." Yes indeed, it's a sad, sad story...



"Two CDs that are indicative of the genre and are undisputably great would be Harem Scarem's self-titled debut which is an absolute must, and The Storm's Eye of the Storm. If you don't have them, quit asking about Giuffria and get them!"

...I TOTALLY agree with Jack here, and would add to his list the following:
-Prism - "Over 60 Minutes With"
-Hardline - "Double Eclipse"
-Journey - Just about anything (their g/h compilation is a super place to start)
-Mark Free - "Long Way From Love"
-Boston - s/t

As for Vandenberg, I could get flamed like crazy for sayin' this, but hey, blame it on my frozen Canuck ears: To me they always sounded like a slightly heavier, more European sounding Foreigner (with a class-A guitarist). IMO, the singers' voices are really quite similar.

Take care,
Don