Joe - you must be rich with experience about music - us englishmen ought to get together sometime for a good old chat about this strange thing that keeps us together...
and Blackpool sounds a great place to meet up.
I don't have your lifetimes experience in music but probably became aware of music around the time the Beatles arrived on the scene...
I played a piano until me mum told me I needed to go out and earn a living which I then did for 35 years following which retirement gave me the opportunity to go back to those things which I had enjoyed as a youngster and keyboards became my passion...
Rog

[This message has been edited by RMepstead (edited 04-25-2007).]