I love men in kilts! I first discovered this band on Garage Band site, love them and downloaded several of their songs from there where the band was providing them for free download to get their name out. Enter The Haggis - Gasoline and from the great state of Louisiana one of our awesome Cajun fellas Tab Benoit Tab Benoit - Bayou Boogie (live) tab benoit Nothing gets you moving like good zydeco Buckwheat zydeco Beau soleil Wayne Toups and this group of ladies that my sisters and I went to school with. Les Amies Louisianaises Cajun - Les Amies Louisianaises - La Grace du Ciel them singing Amazing Grace in Cajun French

I go through phases. Anything from Indian folk music like the Bauls of Bengal to Jacqueline du Pre cello concertos, meditative and laid back modern jazz to the English Church music of Purcell and Taverner; the 60s British pop groups I grew up with which are still a 'guilty pleasure' to reminisce with on YouTube, to less successful attempts to appreciate hip-hop and then heavy metal while my son was growing up; great songwriters like Dylan and Leonard Cohen to Irving Berlin and Cole Porter to Chuck Berry and Hank Williams... but... I have an album somewhere of old style Delta Blues. Mostly just one man or one woman singing and playing a cheap old gut string guitar in a rocking chair out on a back porch somewhere (or so I imagine!) recording their masterpieces directly into an old style reel to reel tape recorder. Sophisticated production nil; inventiveness and spontaneity, honesty and heart 1000%. These wonderful old musicians can always makes me smile, or cry with them. It's my favourite album. Oh, and the Beatles of course... Unclassifiable; still amazing, intriguing, inspiring and delighting me after all these years. I also very much appreciate silence, only broken by the sound of waves, wind in the trees, rain and birdsong... the best music of all.

I can't even remember all of the concerts I've been to, but the first was Dave Clark Five. Next I saw the Rolling Stones, then a Dick Clark Caravan of Stars (many groups) The Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, James Gang, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moody Blues, Elton John, Ten Years After, Procol Harum, John Mayall, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Jefferson Airplane, The Who (twice), Hot Tuna, The Tubes, Jefferson Starship, Nina Hagen, Stray Cats, Orchestral Maneuvers, The Clash, U2, English Beat, Romeo Void, The Cure, Flock of Seagulls, Bryan Ferry, Pete Shelley, Killing Joke, Love and Rockets, Oingo Boingo, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Crystal Method, Human League, Blondie, Stereo MC, Echo and the Bunnymen, Peter Gabriel, Grace Jones, Jane's Addiction, David Byrne, Air, K.C. & the Sunshine Band, Gang of Four, plus others that slip my mind at the moment. A good portion of these I saw in San Francisco, which was a great place for concerts. I started in San Antonio and then Houston before I moved to SF. I've seen a fair number in L.A. also, but I haven't been to any concerts in quite a few years now. I used to go every other week (or more often) in San Francisco in the 1980s. I used to live next door to the Tubes at one time, and I also lived down the street from Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys just before I left SF.

I read about it just last night! He said that he’s already had surgery and chemo for it. I sincerely hope that he eventually is cured. I really like Toby and his music. His movie, Broken Bridges, is wonderful, too.