I'm doing my whole "friend" thing on myspace now. If you would like to stay in touch, the URL is, www.myspace.com/dkyle21 Hope to see you there.

Just for giggles I started a myspace page, www.myspace.com/dkyle21

Nothing new really, just some video & music I find interesting. Check it out if you like.

John Garr, the old band leader for this TV show sent me You Tube video of a performance we did with TeleMaster, Danny Gatton. To be honest, I was trying to get a gig in his band as singer right about then but just a few months later he was dead. Thank heavens someone saved a few of these clips and now I can share them with you. There are 4 performances, one of which I sing & the rest I just play on. Enjoy the music & interviews:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYK13NPAvks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-dg847sM_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCV9NpFrvE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/4engle (me singin' here on a Carl Perkins ditty)

This show was recorded EVERY Saturday morning rain or shine, hangover or mone and with or without benefit of sleep by various members of the group at 5:30am. This particular night in 1993 We had played in Columbia Tennessee Friday night, drove back to the sataion, stayed awake in the van playing stump the band and when the 5:30 call came for sound check & rehearsal, we were there, plugged in and ready to make music. Fender had offered to let Danny & I use whatever we needed so he asked for a Vibro King amp - slightly less than the sound the space shuttle makes when leaving earth's atmosphere. Don McGinnis stood directly in front of this speaker due to a shortage of space to get the wide angle shots to allow us all at once to appear on the ahow as one. It was LOUD folks! But we had coffee & plenty of it, instruments free to use from the Fender Showroom, promises of great things to come and various substances that allow people to pull off a stunt like this in a nearly freezing meat locker of a room used by Channel 4, WSMTV studios high on Knob Hill on Nashville's North West side overlooking the sleeping city, where some of us wished we still were... until we broke into the first song! Yeah, it was loud, but DAMN, was it GOOD! We rehearsed for less than five minutes, then Dan & Jay Montrose, his tech took my guitar apart to make it more player-friendly. Our producer came backstage, immediately went into shock and didn't come out of the control room until after the first song. Then of course, all the moguls wanted to interview him. He kept referencing them to my guitar, which he had just ten minutes ago had completely dis-assebmbled in the gren room. Astonishing as it was, the guitar smoked! Just flat out set everything except Danny's guitar on fire. He was doing a good enough job on THAT without my help. I wasn't going to play any lead parts for intimidation factors but Gatton said, "No deal man, I'm here to play with you not for you." so I had to put in my two pence worth. Anyways, it was fun & I thank John Garr for letting me know it could be downloaded from You Tube. Now you can enjoy a little of how I got to feel all the time with REAL guitar geniuses coming out of the woodwork. In case you're wondering, I felt GREAT!!!!!!

If every cloud has its silver lining then every fire must have its advantage as well... right? Well, hard as it may seem to find one, I think I've come up with a tiny bright spot. Although this is a real stretch, you will see by the picture that the sunset in Southern California has definitely been shaped by our recent fires. Smoke and ash can make for colorful sunsets at times like these.

This certainly isn't meant to make light of the tragedy families face when loosing homes, property or the most important element, lives. Even more regrettable is the fact that the blaze closest to our home was set on purpose... in more than one location. Heaven only knows what inspires someone to ignite the tender box that comes about at the end of an extremely dry summer in combination with fierce Santa Ana winds.

At the end of the day however, our brave and tireless firefighters have done work over and above anything that should ever be asked of ANY human. Their meager reward is an other worldly sunset that goes highly unappreciated in all the mayhem of the inferno. I'd like to think it's one of God's little ways of reminding us that something good, however small, can come out of even the worst of times, just in case no one else noticed.