Every single of your passwords are related to songs or album titles.

> You call your dog "Schuu".
> Your car liscense plate spells "SpyGyra"
> If you listen to one of their tunes on the Weather Channel, you record it because it sounds different.
> You start to "brag" explaining every one where did the name came from. (in scientific terms).
> You realize one sunday morning that you have to buy a new CD tower, just for your Spyro Gyra CD'S.
> Even if they have three shows on the same town, the same day, you attend to them. (Nothing personal Paul & Phil)
> When they talk to you about other musicians you say " Yeah but Tom's solos are better" (My case)

>You get mad when you listen to their valuable music in soap operas and cheap TV shows.

> You have several "Best of Spyro" self made tapes. (My case too)

> Their latest release is not removed from your changer until a new one comes out.

> You still have all the tickets of the concerts you've gone. (My case too)

But most of all, you become a "Spyro Freak" when you start to enjoy and understand the talent and the expression of this five outstanding musicians that keeps us posting and posting all year long.

Eril.

Eril- Some good ones but I think you missed an obvious one. Didn't you once say you had Innocent Soul as the signature song in your wedding??
Here's a couple:
-You ALWAYS have 3-4 Spyro Gyra cd's located anywhere you have a player (car, work, home, garage etc.).
-You are proud to wear your Road Scholars T-shirt...even to church on Sunday. I have really done this a couple times.

Ok here is my shot:

- Your wife tells you she has a crush on Schuu, or Jay, or Scott, or Julio, or Joel....and you really don't mind.

- You do not want to take your Spyro CD's out of the car changer and bring them inside for fear that you might forget to put them back, so you buy two of all of them.

Yikes!!!! I forgot that one!!!!!!

You guys never let me down!!!!!

Eril.

You've now seen the band 36 times....

And can't wait till October when they will be at the legendary Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles Calif. And at the Temecula, Calif Balloon and Wine Festival, so you will add concerts 37 and 38 to your memories.

--song or album titles become alternate log-in names for various online practices (I have used laser_material, hannibals_boogie and brightlight as IDs for Yahoo! games)
-- when you record at least three spyro gyra songs (usually four) in spite of the fact that the 90-minute tape for your car stereo is primarily a mix of several artists, styles or even features one particular group (in my case, Earth, Wind & Fire, Steely Dan or even ELO)
-- you can hum (or sing if you're real good) a hundred or more of their songs by heart when you'd be lucky to remember just the titles of half as many by the rippingtons
-- comments regarding the artist known as kenny g include some variation of the statement: "But Jay Beckenstein was as good or better on Galadriel (Rasul, Awakening, A Ballad, Mallet Ballet, Autumn of Our Love), and he did those BEFORE anybody heard Songbird"

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Woody

You make a new personal "best of" cassette every year, just to incorporate selections from the new CD.

You tell people who are new to Spyro Gyra concerts to watch what the other band members are doing while another one is soloing--and that the interesting backround stuff that the non-soloing Spyro Gyra members come up with is more inventive than other bands "out front" stuff!

Peace!
Paul

You're a Spyro Gyra "Freak" when:

1. "Morning Dance" still sounds fresh and exciting after 7000 plays on your system.

2. the band members remember you by name at the artist after-concert autogrraph sessions.

3. your name is "Paul 'something-or-other.'"

4. you have to buy a new T-shirt at every concert due to wear-and-tear of the one from the previous concert.

Whenever you consider the possibility of opening up your own diner/restaurant, it's a given that the place will be called Igor's.

On your list of 20 cd's you absolutely cannot do without, you've got a dozen from Spyro Gyra.

You start comparing the band's pictures from "AAA" to "Got the Magic"

You have an un-opened copy of "Morning Dance" in Vinyl

You start to play "air keyboards" on every Tom's solos. (My case)

Peolpe tell you "Don't you listen to anything else???" ( very often told by my parents)

You can tell by only listening to the begining of the song, which is it, from which album, and who wrote it.

Eril.


[This message has been edited by Eril (edited September 08, 2000).]

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