Peter:

No, I would NOT have attacked someone else for stating their opinion of David's music. But, what I might have done is ask them in a reasonable tone what they didn't like. I would be interested in that more than I would be interested in creating or participating in an argument.

I don't like Springsteen --- as he seems disingenious.

What you haven't addressed however --- is why is it so important that I must agree with your musical tastes?

The one thing that I have never done nor will I ever do it in the future --- is like something because other people like it or because it would put me in the IN CROWD. This is one of my biggest gripes with people like SPRINGSTEEN and U2 and a few others.

I wrote a piece recently in a reply to Eugene that one thing I have noticed about a large section of my music library --- is that most of the bands and musicians I treasure the most have all been on pretty heavy spiritual trips.

I never said that you or anyone else had to like them --- because I don't care what you like or listen to. That is for your wife to enjoy or tolerate, if that is the case.

I would never insult you if you said that you didn't like the bands I listed in that post --- I would just assume you were on a different trip.

However Peter --- and this is something you obviously don't realize, but I am happy to share this with you:

All this music, like an airport --- takes their respective fans on many different styles of trips. But even though we are all taking different flights --- we are all landing in the same place.

A smile, a knowing glance, the smell of her perfume on the night we met. A song you cannot get out of your head cause its' so damn great. Taking different routes, but we all are landing in the same place, and THAT is why music is so important to all of us.

The enrichment of our lives is what we are after --- and as long as that is what we get --- who cares who's drumming the beat?

That's the beauty of it all, really.

KDB = Buffalo, NY USA