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It was never my thing to do on a regular basis at all, but one night on a Salsa-Cumbia-Merengue gig, one of the percussion players gave me a few bumps of cocaine. We then went on stage and played a 15 minute merengue. And Im talking the real sh*t, Latin audience with many Dominicans at a club in NJ. Mid 1990s. Was probably was one of the best Merengue performances I ever did. This never became a habit, I dont want to promote the usage of cocaine nor do I wish to suggest I performed often on cocaine. But the times I did......Merengue music made sense.

(first posting to the forum, howdy fellers) My dad was/is a pianist. One of his students gave him a copy of Yes' Relayer one year. I was 11 maybe...circa 1978/79...and only listening to The Beatles. I sat there with headphones on and listened to "The Gates of Delirium" start to finish. A few years later, by the time I was 14 or 15 in the early 80s, I was reading Dad's Contemporary Keyboard magazines and buying up ELP records from the discount bins at the local Woolworth's and then collecting the other Yes records and Genesis Live. But the psycho-musicological damage from listening to Gates of Delirium has been inescapable ever since