Happy New Year to all you guitar maniacs! I've got a lovely Strat and a sweet acoustic and can't play either one...I think I know four chords (OK, three).

I have ambivalent feelings about technology...I love it and I hate it. Even though I was right in the middle of the whole Haight-Ashbury hoo-ha---and it really was incredible---I think my most colorful period was the early 70's playing music in the UK: bad food, cold weather, no money, no color TV, no car, certainly no computers, internet, email, or mobile phones, crap beer---lovely small breweries taken over by the big boys and shut down---(but GREAT sweet shops!). How DID we manage????

But I love the internet, of course, and especially when something happens that makes a new friend one has never met. This includes Rick Landers and Tom Watson of MG. The world is truly small and getting smaller.

As an artist and poster artist myself, I've always loved Wes Wilson's work, and have many of his Fillmore posters (see: www.olsenart.com); and though I knew almost everyone else who was anyone in the Haight during the late 60's, I never met Wes. I get constant queries about him from my website, but it seemed he had gone to ground somewhere in Missouri, raising cattle, but had essentially disappeared.

Well, I'm here to tell you that Wes has reappeared and turns out to be a really lovely guy, and we have become "internet friends" in the past two months. He lives in Missouri, and I live in Surrey...I love it. This could have never happened just ten years ago. OK, eleven years ago. Twelve at the outside.

If you would like to learn more about him, please visit his website at: www.wes-wilson.com and click on the "Bios & Reviews" section and be sure to check out his incredible poster art on my site.

What's incredible, is that he and I have so many parallel coincidences in our lives and I have just found another one: my good friend, Colin Brignall, who was Letraset's chief type designer and who lives here in the UK and is one of my long-time drinking buddies (he drinks lager, the lout), has an article on Wes with a link on Wes' site! I don't think even Colin knows that Wes has read it and provided a link to it! Well, it may not blow you away, but it blows me away!

Anyway, check Wes' site out if you are at all interested in the 60's thang.