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TC

June 5, 2008

LOVED the video of the lady who sells p-mate (goyourway.net)! Just went to her website and bought *3* packages! Yeehaw! Now I can stand up to pee! YAY!

Love you Ben!
TC and the gang out in seattle

TODD KING

April 17, 2008

LOOKS LIKE EVERYONES HAVING FUN. THATS GREAT!! I'm FRIENDS WITH CLAY CABE.I HAVE NOT SEEN HIM IN A LONG TIME.I NEED HIM TO KNOW THAT I'm HIS FRIEND AND WILL ALWAYS BE. THANKS, TODD KING/DRUMMER
P.S. GREAT SITE !!!!!!!!

Chie Imaizumi

June 22, 2007

I love your website! See you soon-!!!

Chie Imaizumi
www.thousandpictures.org

Steve Wiest

November 3, 2006

You are the best.

Jerry Bryan

November 1, 2006

Hi Ben,

We met one day (3 weeks ago?) at KGNU. We didn't get a chance to talk, but I'm a musician with a Korg Wavestation SR, an Akai S2000, various mixers, MIDI controllers, routers etc., and sequencing/recording software running on a Windows machine, and a Powermac. Shall we talk sometime?

Jerry Bryan

Shannon Scott

October 21, 2006

It was beyond fantastic seeing you at El Chapultepec. Hope you get the gig. Please keep me informed.

Willa Panvini McCarthy

October 5, 2006

Hi Ben! Thanks for including me in this email distribution. It's great to catch up musically. Let me know if you're ever playing in NY. I'd love to come see you, but I don't get back to Denver much these days. Keep it up! Cheers, Willa

Josephine Carroll

October 4, 2006

Hi Ben, hope all is well. Looks like things are going well for you. Congrats to you and Paul for the Roger Bobo award! Honestly, I don't know who he is but I'm sure he's important in your business. Next time I'm in town, I'd love to hear you play. JC

Ms. Squaky

September 23, 2006

Hey Benny, remember the beautiful ballad by Hoagy Carmichael entitled "Stardust"?Envision this: The band is playing along, and suddenly, one of it's members gets lost on the form. All of a sudden, like a steely ice coated knife tainted with arsenic, comes an obnoxious (For now, I'll call it a bellow from down under for such a noise has yet to be classified) " YERR F----ng UP THE TEEEWWWWNNNNNN".Shortly thereafter, the whole group (except for the 'bellower' of the remark who was getting more agitated by the moment) becomes engrossed in laughter to the point that the tune was messed up, indeed! ALAS!! The saga...a new era only known to a select few, was borne unto us. THE AOA REJECTS!!!

Fran & Dennis Clifford

July 19, 2006

You're the best!

Rob Ramos

June 26, 2006

Hey Ben,

Awesome page!! Glad to see you are doing so well. Planning to come to Denver at the end of July (first time in 11 years). Will stop by one of your gigs and say hi.

Leon

February 2, 2006

Benjamin!

Franky sent me your web site url.
I miss you man!!!!

The Big Hitter
Leonious

Camille Valdez

November 29, 2005

Hi Ben !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long time no see !!!!!! Do you still give drum lessons???? Sheldon Valdez needs drum lessons. Please call me or email me 720-364-5340.........Comment I bet you sound great.....I'll see you at your next giggggg!!!!!!!

Padda from http://compo10.com

October 4, 2005

Glad I was introduced to your great music!

Rosty

August 30, 2005

Awesome site

john Icabone

August 4, 2005

I have just received an email from Tom. Great to see all of the sucess and jazz going on in your lives. I just arrived back in Denver and had a great email from Tom letting me know how everyone is doing. I am proud. Give me a call or send an email cell phone is 303 514-4409.
John

Michelle Rounds

July 15, 2005

great music / great site great guy

www.michellerounds.com

Fran

June 11, 2005

Hello to my favorite musician! This is really cool, Ben. Let us know when we can come see you live! Your music coupled with your own special charisma is second to none. Miss you!

Isle of Wight Internet Radio Station

June 11, 2005

I think your website is very well designed...Please also take a look at my site at: www.skynet365.com - Isle of Wight Internet Radio Station

TC Cooke

May 9, 2005

Fun website! Tack on a little personal stuff, like a photo or two of Dakota and Kat!!

Good on ya!
TC

rosanne makinen

April 26, 2005

very clean,cool site.

Jean

April 16, 2005

Nice sounds. I linked to it as my "sound of the day (a.m.)" at http://okir.blogspot.com/ I have a feeling another of your clips will be my "sound of the day (p.m.)" tonight.

Evert M

April 9, 2005

The maillady just delivered the Area 51 CD to my little home out in the woods of Michigan. Now I feel connected to the larger universe.

You can hear these guys listening to each other, and letting their fingers do the talking. It’s exciting…and interesting. They get you, and you think you’ve got it. Then they draw you on to something else, and you’re still there. And you keep going with them. Damn! That’s good. The Coltrane piece is fine, but their own compositions are finest. Luxuriate over Blues in Flat 9 and, yum, Alternate Reality.
This album is a fine treat of musicianship, mind, and soul.

Now, in the interests of full disclosure, I am Ben's dad. But never mind the blood. My dad's a musician too. I'm not. I just love the good stuff. I've been up close with Coltrane, Donald Byrd, Slide Hampton, Brubeck...and been tripped out with Santana, Jefferson Airplane/Starship.... Eric Satie, Gorecki. I just like to say good things about sounds and people I like. I know I'm responsible for my words. I'll put it on the line: These guys will give you great heart-mind music with skill. It will jangle your corpuscles -- and maybe even your gonads.

Aunt R

March 27, 2005

Pretty slick.
Hey, did you remember that the pic of you on bongos with Ra and Aaron was taken in our basement of first house. Was the year that ya'll drovwe from Maine to Ca. Also the day that Ra threw stones into the pool ans Buzz had a hissy fit.

frank vacin

March 27, 2005

nice site.
http://www.frankvacin.com

lois

March 14, 2005

nice site, ben...will look for your live shows and tell others...
hi Dakota!

Your BIg Brother

March 7, 2005

Soul, Do you ever sleep? I mean, husband, brother, son, daddy-o, drummer, producer, thinker of thoughts that reside outside the box, AND president and CEO?

Thanks for all the great bloopin' bleep-whops and other sonic tesoros. (And thanks for the photo op! I guess that's my 15 minutes of fame.)

Big hug out to ya.

James Onuska

March 6, 2005

Awesome audio tracks. love your work on The Goliath Beatle and the Ladybug Jam; great stuff. Area 15 audio is unbelievable. website looks very professional.

Kitty Janowiak & Denny Cortez

March 5, 2005

Love the different changes, sound quality and that weird echo on that one piece. Hope to see you soon.

Bill & Emma Makinen

March 5, 2005

Great music! Keep up the dream. Hope to see you this summer at Walloon.

Sam&Dave Randon

March 4, 2005

very interesting site, will be changing my isp soon...will have to keep in touch, also like this particular template, will have to contact you about it...finally, the music is the thang!