What a kick this October 29th has been. Actually, it started yesterday when I received an email from Tom Hayes who is the Gnosis2000.net founder. He was asking me if it would be OK to release the story about McLuhan to his membership. He showed me a story about another group submitted by an ex-bandmember called "Sudden Death" out of California. I had no problem with that and thought that it would be great to update the story with input of the other Mcluhan members. He also inquired as to my progress in locating other members. So, I told him I was coming up empty with regard to finding the "lost" members but I was still intent on doing so.
At 6:30am this morning driving in to Holland from Chicago I noticed another email from Tom. He thanked me for the update and promised to get back in more detail but that in the meantime he provided this link to a yahoo people search for Tom Tojza. Knowing that his name was unique he felt that the one reference to a Tom Tojza in the Chicago area and vicinity might be him. Guess what? Tom and I spoke at about 2pm this afternoon for the first time in 35 years, and again this evening. It was absolutely great. A really great moment in my life to be able to share with him what had happened with the album and such. I talked alot and filled him in as much as possible. I encouraged him to do a download off of the Mutant Sounds Link that comes up when searching Mcluhan Anomaly and to burn a CD for himself. He has not listened to it in at least 25 years and was going to do so. I know that when I did this 5 or 6 years ago it was absolutely ultra emotional. Anyway, we are all very excited about this and wanted to post this to the Blog. Hopefully I can get Tom and Neal, the other two "unlost" members to give us some thoughts and memories. Isn't life great? Stay tuned for more.
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