I have a Blackmore's Night cd coming and I'm anxious to hear it. I just hope it was recorded well. I like the music but sometimes the recordings can be ruined with the way they are recorded.

I like you thought the added instruments served to augment the albums strengths. The horn section on the Eagles farewll Tour DVD is good also. Another great use of the sax is Dire Straits DVD On the Night. Really an excellent DVD. I never realized that when they toured they had so many extra players with them. It makes their music really full and complete.

It's labeled as renaissance music and I really like what I've heard so far. It's very melodic and inviting music. It easily draws me into it. So we'll see after I have the whole album to listen to.

I don't like most music DVDs because I don't want to watch antics, I want to hear music. So I shy away from most DVDs. However, I have found some so far that just play music and are very engaging. The Eagles-Farewell Tour, Dire Straits-On the Night, David Gilmour-David Gilmour in Concert.

The Pink Floyd-Live at Pompei DVD is good but you have to be a PF fan to really appreciate it. It has more info about them than music on it. It's a hoot to see Gilmour when he was a kid I always felt kind of sorry for Roger Waters as I think he fell victum to believing his own hype. He's talented but I get tired of disallusioned lyrics after a while.

The Ghost of a Rose which is the Blackmores Night album I ordered was waiting when I got home from working at the museum all day. It is wonderful to my old ears. It's just sweet music to me.

Your Valencias will love this album. You might not but they will. The vocals are by Candice Knight and she sounds a little like Joan Baez wihtout her shrillness which I didn't like. There are some folk/rock tunes but mostly smooth melodic music.

Blackmores guitar work is similar to Gilmour in that he doesn't beat you up with flash & speed. He just plays good solid music that pulls you in and you find yourself waiting to hear the next instrument that joins in. Also I found myself trying to guess what the next song would be like.

I found a new cd on Amazon for 13.00 and it was produced by Blackmore so it's recorded properly and not at 100% modulation like some rock albums.

I included the url for anyone who might be curious about what happened to the several times lead guitarist for Deep Purple His music doesn't sound anything like what Deep Purple became from the mid 70's on. If you follow Deep Purple and are familiar with their album The Book of Taleisyn gives a hint as to what he does now on the title cut and a couple of the other renaissance type songs. They are no where as good or well constructed as what he does now.

• Ritchie's site

Here is the website for the Bee and some of the pictures show the log cabin which is part of our museum. It's a small town affair but we're excited as we have watched it grow from just a log cabin to a decent sized building plus a shop building and storage building for wagons and things.

The mountain in the background of the pictures that show the Dufur Valley is Mt. Hood. Not a big mountain but when I see it I know I'm home