A dear friend of mine recently, out of the clear blue gave me a brand new glossy black cut away Takamine G Series Acoustic/Electric guitar and for that, my JOY was such that it was beyond verbal explanation. Not only is this guitar an incredibly beautiful instrument, the sound that radiates from it fills a room with the ring of heaven. Since receiving this precious gift, many new songs are flowing from it, including the recent ones I posted here recently Red Mountain, The Me Inside Of Me and the New Version of HERO. To me there is nothing sweeter than the sound of a beautifully crafted guitar with new strings, especially when that beautiful guitar came from such an incredibly close and dear friend. I have been blessed to collect some incredible guitars in my time, some of which I have pictured on this site, but this one being acoustic and electric truly allows me to be much more creative in writing and recording music and makes me sound so much better than I am, I swear it is like this instrument has a soul and knows what to do and when and it makes me very happy. You can barely see it, but you can see part of it in my new profile photo. I am so grateful for people like my friend who for no reason other than love and friendship gave me this instrument with a soul. Usually when I write, I am in a different room than my wife and I have my legal pad, one of my guitars (my Takamine now) and my Black Labradour ANGEL,(who actually goes everywhere with me and is ALWAYS by my side) so my wife has informed me that I should indeed now name ANGEL and Takamine as Co-writers to all my songs ! ! Perhaps she is absolutely correct ! ! !

As most of us writers,artists,players and bands here on IMRadio know, we are all on as many music web sites as we can manage to find and get our music uploaded on, are we not ? BENin10D has been here on IMRadio now for almost 2 years now I blelieve and here is the HUGE difference between IMRadio and ANY OTHER SITE on the entire internet and this is not just to make Paddy feel good, IMRadio is the only music site I HAVE EVER encountered where the site actually invests their time, friendship,emotions and YES, we must realize a lot of CASH for us to not only be here, but for our music to be promoted and heard and almost any market we could ever imagine or desire. Paddy knows every one of us, personally and we each know him, like he has been our friend for many years, even though very few of us have had the distinct pleasure to meet him in person. He makes it a point to let each of us artist know how much he appreciates us and our music personally, not through some robo message like other sites, he personally encourages us to grow and each time we add a song, he makes it a point not only to send the automated upload message, most times he sends a personal note about his thoughts on the new upload. Of course, I can not speak for anyone else, but I feel that I have alot of experience in attempting to promote my music through an online presence and I see most of us on here on all the other site as well and not one single time has any of the many other sites taken a personal interest and appreciation in me or my music like here on IMRADIO and no where else have I found a group of artist that feel like family and treat each other as such, again even though we all come from many different countries,creeds, races and genres. On IMRadio, the staff and music transcend all of those barriers that seems so impossible for the rest of the world to be able to do. So I think we should declare this IMRadio WORLD, a very peaceful Internet Independent Country floating out there in the waves of the internet with our very own worthy President Paddy and his team, who seem to have such a natural talent for pulling this large group of musical artist together as one happy family, which is something that most bands can't even make happen within themselves (Grin) But, I have been meaning to make this declaration of Thanks and appreciation for a while and today the words came. Thanks So Much Paddy & IMRadio for being our best friend, teacher, promoter, fan and of course Programming Director on the biggest radio station in the WORLD! Or should I say the best WORLD on the internet radio !

It has been to long since I have been here to say hey ! My wife got really ill and had to go live in a medically supervised place and we had to sell our house and me and Angel (My Black Lab) have moved to a new place, so music has not been on the top of my priority list. But have truly missed hearing all of you guys !