Hello,

I hope Joe reads this. Excuse me for my English, i am Dutch. I want to thank you. Why? Because:

I am 16 years old and i play guitar for about 3 years now. But a year ago i got a disease. My right arm got totaly paralysed and my left arm a bit. I had a lot of pain and i couldn't play my guitar anymore! THAT was a nightmare. But slowly my arm got better. They said it would take AT LEAST 4 years to recover, i did it in 1 year. It was unbelievable. But the point is, I always thought: I only play blues music, i don't like shredders. I loved blues (i still do) and only played blues. I couldn't listen to al those fast notes. But i realised i was wrong. I heard your song: "Chords of life". I thought: MAN this is good! It wasn't sloppy shred. It was beautiful. The sound, the playing, the composition. Then i heard "Friends". I became a fan of you. You don't try to play everything fast, you play what you like. And maybe that is fast sometimes, but sometimes it NEEDS to be fast. I was so wrong. When i heard these 2 songs i was still paralysed. But when i heard you i wanted to play again SOOO much. I practised and practised and slowly my arm got better. I practised the song: Always with me, always with you. And i never had so much fun learning a song. The fysiotherapists and i think i recovered so fast because of playing guitar. So i want to thank you SOOOOO much. You gave me back my guitarplaying. I listen to your music with so much joy, and i play your music with even more joy i think. If you have time. This is a clip of me playing live at a contest i won, i try to play my heart out at the end of the first song (While my guitar...):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-F99Ix_yDg