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Ya know, I've been thinkin' 'bout this... Imagine it, Say Mr. Dr. Peter fessed up and said he was, say, a vet. Can you imagine some of the questions that might start appearing: I got this problem with my Really, really, real track, big band blues, with real drums and midi drums and BIAB's doin' ... ad nauseum and bye the way, my cat's got this really bad furball - how can I fix it? Or maybe an MD, or better yet a surgeon - Hey Pete, can ya tell me how to perform a DIY appendectomy - my kids got a stomach ache...     Mr. Dr. Peter Gannon, Sir - I reckon you're very wise to keep ya trap well and truly shut on this subject! 'n I apologise for speculating about it earlier.
--=-- My credo: If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing - just ask my missus, she'll tell ya  --=--You're only paranoid if you're wrong!
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No PHD or other music degree here. I went to Berklee in Boston for a year, back around '76. Great school, and great city. I remember we went to a local Boston jazz club, which had posters of jazz gigs from about 20 years earlier (Miles, Dizzy etc.), and we were lamenting that "those were the days", and "they don't make musicians like that anymore". It was only years later that I remembered the acts that WE DID SEE that night were Gary Burton/ Pat Metheny for the first half, then Joe Pass solo for the second half. Can't remember if there was a cover charge or not.
BTW, re the "Dr." .... I'm an M.D.
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
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thanks for the information, dr. gannon. i was not trying to pry into your private life when i started this thread and i wanted to run and hide in shame when it started to turn ugly.
now, i am curious how you, as a canadian left coaster, got on with those bostonian right coasters. i'll bet you could tell some hilarious stories about the language barrier.
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Lots more not getting along is happening. You can count on not seeing many Canadians any more, and we won't be seeing you in all those old familiar places. As of Monday, you could get into Canada with basically no id, we usually took people's word at the border that they were Americans and coming over for a beer or to see Niagara from our side, or just to visit for a weekend. Maybe to come to my city to see the world's oldest continually in use baseball park. No more. No one allowed into the US without a passport. We Canadians can still visit Mexico, Jamaica, and all former British Commonwealth countries via the library card, but not the US.
You have to have a passport to go home. We have to have one to visit. Given that 70 plus percent of Americans don't have one, well you have to stay home. You can't ever leave your country if you don't have one, because your government won't let you.
Bush and Clinton were in Toronto yesterday for a conference / chat. Both were incredulous that the American government has put that rule in place, though it was a policy that was put in place during the Bush administration. They both vowed to go home and try and change it. This is not going to hurt us so much, but it used to be about 1/2 million Canadians a week dropped in for shopping/coffee or just to visit. Won't be happening now. We have more people with passports but between the National Guard, dogs, scanners, rfid scanners, medical isotope scanners, dirty bomb scanners, xrays, and detaining one in 10 arrivals to be interrogated like criminals it's pretty much over for the casual shopper/gas buyer, or just some of my friends getting a cheaper turkey twice a year.
The last time on the bus 3 customs agents dressed like swat team members with a gun drawn went down the aisle in our Shriner's bus and took the meat out of our sandwiches to dump in your landfill saying that importing any meat to the US was a health and security issue. Poor 80 year old Jimmy in front of me lost his baloney. Major issue that. Then they picked out our 2 black members and took them inside for a closer look. One was Pakistani and the other from British Guiana, both Canadian citizens, at least they had passports.
A friend who has a cottage on an island north of Detroit says it's routine to see drones and a Black Hawk chopper drop down and peer at his boat. He's a half mile inside the border on the water with his cottage. Gun boats too.
I had a captain once who was very paranoid.. when he got to being crazy we'd say to him..."it's ok to be paranoid, but are you paranoid enough?" He'd leave work sick most of the time when he got like that and we pushed him, but we got tired of getting out of the sack on a 14 hour night shift to wash the floor in case the actual chief might drop in on a surprise inspection and find a fuzz ball on the apparatus floor.
He died at 55 of a booze and tranquilizer overdose.
As to visits to the US the wife and I decided that if we are going for a week, maybe. No more day trips, 3 hours to cross the border is nuts. Of course now that you need a passport and we have passports (going to the UK next year), if we hear the wait is 3 minutes because everyone else quit we might drop in for a chicken dinner in Port Huron. We used to go 10 times a year.
Last year we cancelled the trip to the Michigan drum corps show...too much waiting, one car never made across at all, one guy who's 80 forgot his ID.
Big time threat he was, he's blind. We were dropping him off for free health care....LOL
John Conley
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I am embarassed for my country. And yet we fail to implement these practices on our southern border, from which we KNOW there is clear and present danger.
R.
"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."
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BTW, re the "Dr." .... I'm an M.D.
Ahh, you've done it now...
So, there's this bloke who walks in to the doctors surgery with a parrot on his shoulder. The doctor looks at him, glances at the parrot and then asks the man "what seems to be the problem?" The parrot says, "I've got this weird growth on me butt..."
--=-- My credo: If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing - just ask my missus, she'll tell ya --=--You're only paranoid if you're wrong!
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Dr. Gannon, I have had this rash.............. heheheee
Similar inquiry went on the n-Track forum last year. Someone mentioned that there were no Flavio (the creator of n-Track) pictures to be seen anywhere. Big old long thread about no pictures and the big mystery around it. So I simply emailed him and asked for a picture. Was no big deal.
We sometimes place unrealistic images upon folks we admire and create our own mysteries.
About that rash..............
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We sometimes place unrealistic images upon folks we admire and create our own mysteries.
right on, pappa willis!
the positive influences in our lives often go unrecognis(z)ed and unthanked. thank you peter. thank you flavio. 
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Wow he is an MD - I've been sitting in the lobby for 3 days waiting for him to look at this rash! 
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