Hey Doc I hadn't seen you around in a long time, I been workin too much Day job to be online enough, 7 days weeks sometimes... good to see ya on here,
Stan

Doc,

Thank you so much for your kind words,

You are truly an awesome contribution and inspiration to the Universal language of "Music"
KEEPING IT TOTALLY REAL!
"BOSS AND WORK ARE 4-LETTER WORDS" TOTALLY RELATE!

All the best to you,

David (The Piano Wizard) Kelly

dear doc. Thanks for the kind words about martian acres. I appreciate your efforts on behalf of our troops. I was in the service from 1967 to 1971 and look upon that period as the most important game-changer in my life. I was real good at following orders. But upon discharge, I found that I was also pretty good at speaking up and speaking out, when I had something on my mind. At the time of my discharge in 1971, I became pretty politically active concerning issues relating to vets, vets’ benefits, and the government’s amnesia concerning those who had served. It was all so galling. By the same token, I also emerged deeply suspicious and angry at the casual political decisions in Washington which put a good share of my generation there in the first place, and put several of my friends on the wall. I say these things because our Martian Acres music sometimes touches on both of these themes and sometimes even sounds like it might have been written by totally different people--people so different that they might not even be able to get along over a couple of beers. In the June OurStage “playoffs,” for example, we have submitted one song (which is presently located somewhere in the twenties or thirties in the Indie Pop category) entitled “War (We’ve All Been Here Before).” The title pretty well says it all, as that song definitely wears its suspicious politics on its sleeve. You may very well not like it, although a surprising level of good feedback has come in from vets and service members in the two years since we released it. Because we utilized the services of a world-class clarinetist, Dexter Payne (whose services we could probably no longer afford, in light of where his career has gone since), the song seems to have really made the rounds. There is a second offering which comes from the point of view of the soldier, somebody’s kid who is serving seven time zones away from home and trying his heart out to do the near impossible–maintain and sustain the love of the woman back home (whether girlfriend or wife). That one makes no political points whatsoever, but rather just tries to put the listener in the soldier’s hopeful and prayerful shoes. It is entitled “Loving on Borrowed Time.” As I write this, it can be found in the seventies or the eighties in the Rock category. Since most everything seems to sink like a stone, I have no idea where these songs’ll be if you decide to hunt them down. Actually, now that i think about it, both are displayed on the first page of our website and there is a built-in player, so it would be a piece of cake to "hunt them down" there. If you do give them a listen, I would be most interested in any feedback. Yours, Dennis Wanebo of Martian Acres.

Hey There Doc!
You are a man I can relate to!
I'm still in the factory, and kickin' out the tunes when life will let me.
Keep at it. We are the influences for the next generation, much the same as the previous one was for us!

~PeacE~
BRK JR

Thanks for your kind words and your friendship

Thanks

Louise B x