A friend showed me round a Freemason's lodge the other day. It was a grand building in a Northern UK city. I was struck by how old fashioned it seemed - there was an air of faded grandeur about it - a feeling that this had once been an important and influential place, but no longer. Plaques on the walls commerated the fallen in the Great Wars of the Twentieth Century and forgotten aristocrats and notables.

Shimrod, our group played a gig at a Masonic lodge, in New England, USA, last year, and that was exactly the impression I got. You stated it very well.

There was one plaque relating the Masons to the Knights Templar, who I thought were wiped out by Phillip of France on 10/13/1307 (the original Friday the 13th). Strange.

Peter