If there is ever a possibility of starting a European branch, I'll qualify! The current campaign against the cuddly is bent on reducing our numbers, not to mention our girth. I have tried a variation of the Atkins Diet, the Chet Atkins Diet - all you have to do is spend so much money on guitars that you cannot afford to eat! Didn't work - income rose to meet expenditure. The Lord will provide!

One side-effect of the medical profession's determination to reduce me to "normal" proportions is that I now have a Blues name (I've always envied "Long John" Baldry, "Lightnin'" Hopkins, "Mississippi Fred" McDowell, etc.) Well, ladies and gentlemen, meet "Morbid Lee" O'Bese!

Alan