One more thing...

We're different on one major point..

Your restaurant analogy about not wanting to be "surprised"..

I love surprises..
I love it when I see something I never imagined before..
Many times I've tasted something completely beyond what I thought I was getting..
Sometimes I hated it..
Other times I loved it..

Music is the same way for me..
When I turn on the radio..I want to be surprised..
I don't always know what I want to hear..
I can remember clearly the first time I heard Blood Sweat and Tears..
I was driving into Chicago on the Edens and listening to the radio..
It was a top 40 station and I knew what to expect..
All of a sudden I've got horns and this amalgam of jazz and rock and roll blaring out at me.
I'd heard jazz horns before..but what the hell were they doing on my top 40 radio station.
I had to pull the car over and listen till it was over.

That's what I'm talking about..
In todays world that song would not have been played on my friendly little top 40 station..it would have been classified as outside the top 40 genre and I might never have heard it at all.

Thanks kids

Bob