• Coming from a home that celebrated the Beatles arrival in the US in '64, I grew up listening to anything and everything Beatles in my youth. I was fortunate enough to be born on the day that Sgt Pepper was released in '67 and have always felt a connection with them since I can remember. In the early 70's it was following the Beatles as solo artists and listening to a great deal of A.M. radio. America, Chicago, Cat Stevens, CSNY and anything Top 40 was always on my brothers radio. When I got to be about 10 I was turned on to Van Halen. Still a big fan even today. When the 80's arrived I was there for the birth of MTV and I guess it was at this time my musical diversity really came to be. By the 90's most of music heroes from the 70's and early 80's were all but gone. The scene was long-haired pop metal, or glamrock or whatever they call it now. Guns and Roses, Nirvana and Van Halen were constants on the tape deck. Once Rap Music came, I gave up on music with the exception of an artist here or there (Tom Petty, McCartney, Beatles revival) By the time when the 2000's rolled around, I was heavily into classic rock and dusted off a few records (which I converted to CD later) that were so great they almost felt new again. I have to admit, the music in the 2000's has greatly improved over the 90's music. There are some very good artists out there who deserve to be highly praised but they don't work as hard as their musical predecessors. Then I heard of a band called Death Cab for Cutie. Here's a band that is so talented that if they were around 20 years ago, they would be a household name. Alas, with the music business the way it is, it doesn't surpise me that the band prefers to lay a little low and not be pressed into a Major Record Label's B.S. and get screwed finacially in the end. Anyways...it doesn't matter if you are 13 or 63, one good listen to Death Cab will win you over. They make great music. It's not anything like the crap that's been played for the past 15 years by some real terrible bands that have been praised...for what i don't know. In my teens it was the Beatles In my twentys it was Van Halen In my thirties it was Classic Rock In my forties, it's Death Cab for Cutie Thank you for bringing me back to modern music.

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