Suibhne, mandotim, and Lox, my fellow travellers on the wild world of WAV. WAV I have noted, numerous times to you in the past, to which I will use the phrase ad nauseum to MY OWN postings to your various threads that as Lox notes above-rock is, in a purely musical anthropological sense, NOT from America. It is an amalgamation of many styles...which each had their own root elsewhere. Travelling in 40 countries has nothing to do with it. I could use many examples here, but the most succinct story I can relate is when John Lee Hooker heard the late great Ali Farka Toure for the first time. He said something like, hey man-that guys ripping us off. To which someone said to Hooker-no-you're ripping him off!! Because WAV wants everything in a nice tidy little box, Catalan singers only singing their native tongue, Sardinians, Bulgarians, and Polynesians doing the same thing, with no pollinization allowed, he's not likely to understand that point, though the rest of you probably do. Mandotim, your as likely to get a straight answer to WAV as I am to this question...WAV-so what about Sting's frequent guest contributor on several albums...Kathryn Tickell? Oh dear-whatever should us Americans think of Northumbrian pipes on a "rock" song. Shudder. I shall never listen to rock again...its been contaminated by "that" English instrument. Pardon me...I think i need a moment