+++ Rain by Xander & The Peace Pirates +++

Pretty inspirational story behind this English band. The lead singer's (in this video) mother took a prescribed drug during her pregnancy resulting in his being born with a birth defect of a missing right hand. His mother successfully sued the drug manufacture to have the drug removed from both the USA and Great Britain.

The singer started playing guitar at 13.

In 1967-8 at university when a dental student I played in a band with a guy that lost his left arm below the elbow in a car accident. His Dad made amateur prosthetics to enable him to play rhythm guitar left handed. He, Charlie, also dyed his hair yellow and purple!! And had a stomach pump named after him in my training hospital's casualty department, as he drank so much. Alcohol abuse sadly soon took him at an early age. He was reading Chemistry and used to drink the untainted 100% alcohol in the laboratories and fell out a 2nd storey window. So, so sad.

However nice to see how a disability, with technology today, can change a life for the better.

Alyn

hi just listened to a few of your songs awesome