Absolutely, you can never put the genie back in the bottle!

So, now.......why do the rest of you members think people feel it necessary to defile themselves with a tatoo? I've asked a dozen people already and didn't get one single answer that made any sense. I'm starting to think it's a "follow the leader" or a "monkey see, monkey do" thing!


I've got to say........I was walking down Broadway in NY where the ritzy hotels are. I noted this absolutely gorgeous lady decked out in evening dress, high-heel shoes encompassing a pair of perfectly shaped legs, diamonds and pearls on her neck and arms and her glimmering black hair in a full Victorian hair style. Absolute class. The kind you see in the pictorials on the society pages.

She was stepping out of a limousine as I was drooling saliva all over my shoes. Until.........she turned away from the car and what did she have on her back? A full blown picture of an eagle going from shoulder to shoulder and down to her waist (she made sure she had a "low-cut" evening gown to show it off).

In a way, this is all good, for me anyway. Playing events all my life, I couldn't concentrate most of the time, because of the beautiful women in the audience, all made up and all decked to the nines to impress both the men and the rest of the ladies there. I even remember the time I was driving my new sports car and I turned to look at a woman waiting for the bus. Well, it only took a split second for me to plow into the back of the taxicab that stopped short in front of me.

Women looked so feminine years ago, and my head was like a doorknob that turned with every lady that walked by, all the while trying to control my testosterone level and keep it in the safety zone! Now I don't have to waste the time with a first look even 'cause there's nothing to look at anymore.

How is it good? The less time I spend looking at women, the more time I have to practice music!

MARK