Hey Dan

On my resent trip to Oregon I had an amazing conversation with an old friend. His name is Ron Petty he plays drums in the band Phamous Phaces. He also owns the music store where my Mom does the books. The conversation involved why his band travels from Oregon to Europe to play gigs. His answer to this question of frequent flier miles verses sleep is cable TV.

You see, after weeks of living in a hotel in Liverpool while playing gigs in clubs there it hit him. There is nothing on cable there. Oh sure we love BBC here, but apparently in England it stinks. With nothing on TV people are forced to leave their homes and walk down to the local pub have a pint and listen to a band. The music scene is great there, so much so that the import bands. Take the town he lives in as the other extreme. It has great cable and only one bar left that has live music. In fact few bars at all are left.

Ron is also what some may call politically opinionated. He like me is not a great fan of our current political playing field. The problem? You guest it! Too much on Cable TV. People must not be watching the news. If they were, they would run into the streets and demand things be changed.

So I have a new plan… slowly reduce the number of good shows on cable TV until live music and political awareness improves. I tell you some time the answers are just right there. Thanks Ron, hang in there.

you can find out more about Ron and Phamous Phaces at www.phamousphaces.com