After I came on and posted this evening, I went on and read all the crap that's been going on. I haven't yet managed to discover what the congrat's Max post is about. I just walked in blindly, as always. For me, music is very emotionally based. Music was emotional for me long before I learned to perform on an instrument or began to sing. I listened and sang along long before I learned to play. Because of my own personal history with music, it is important to me in all facets of my life. I wake up to music and go to sleep to it. Because of this, when the person that I feel has had the most important muscial effect in my life is ill, it is worth talking about. I don't separate my music from the rest of my life. It is all part of the whole of who I am. I don't know or really care who's toes I am stepping one here. Sometimes music takes a back seat to other events in life and this is one of those times for me. I can't sit and talk about only music while one of my best friends and one of lif's great musicians is in crisis. This site has given me much in the few weeks that I have been here, both musically and emotionally. To me, that's what makes it a site that I will visit daily for as long as I have a computer. Every thread has a heading, I understood that was to let people know what was being discussed on that thread. If you aren't interested, there's lots of other threads to go to. I have participated in lots of threads that aren't related to healing. I read even more. Lots more. If the mainstays of this site don't want anyone talking about anything except the technical aspects of music, let me know and I will leave. If there is no feeling in music, what do you have? A bunch of dead notes on a page. I think music is about more than that. Kristi