Hey Mike, I'm with ya all the way. I have heard these 'enforcers' refer to the offenders as 'gestapo' on many occasions, and though it is less offensive somehow when someone makes reference to a genecidal police state organisation, instead of the political party and ideals that underly it's approach, it is still horrid. The need to use such terms to make a point about music surely indicates misplaced priorities, and speaks volumes as to the volitility of our excessively corralled and haltered emotions.

Music is entertainment; not genocidal fascism.

Sometimes I think that people are allergic to the appreciation of others, and can only show appreciation if they 'need' to 'impress' someone. A sucky siren serenade is a pretty poor excuse for appreciation.

The whole dynamic about musical taste being so important that rude inhospitible insulting distractions ensue from polite conversation is inconcievable to me, and yet it happens to all of us. Odd ain't it? Double scoop-o-the best, ttr