Lucky, in the future I'll try harder to gain your respect. Uh, how do I do that? But first, let me correct a couple of your assertions. First, you've never heard me beating up on Diki. He's one of the handful of guys whom I deeply respect, both musically and (especially) intellectually. In other words, "he gets it". Secondly, if you go back and read all the posts, you will see that I was NOT part of that "feeding frenzy" surrounding Donny's frequent "exchange" of keyboards and the drama surrounding those "exchanges". Frankly, I couldn't care less about the frequency of Donny's keyboard purchases. In fact, I have similar tendencies. I'm just too dumb to sell the old ones.

Frankly, I was just yanking your chain a bit about "going back to being humble" after first letting us know how 'great' you used to be. Here's a tip; want to keep your pulse rate down......don't take me too seriously (but also be careful what you write.....Diki and I and a few others, will be all over it ). If you know ahead of time that you need to remove a post ten minutes later, that's a pretty good indication that you shouldn't post it in the first place.

As far as not respecting me musically, no problem; hardly anybody does . Luckily, I was able to recognize my mediocrity early, and not pursue it (music) as a full-time career. Probably a smart choice on my part. Me, I tend to withhold judgement about someones musical ability unless or until I've heard them play. But as I always say, different strokes..........

chas