Not knowing is GREAT! I DON'T WANT TO KNOW! Of course, if they're "super based", that would be cool, but then their commie customers would stop sending in their dosh. Whatever. Performers need to PERFORM, and otherwise STFU!! That said, the artists I got to work with usually taught me something I did not previously know. Sometimes ones who are wholeheartedly the enemy now, but learning is learning. And even the enemy has the capacity to THINK, I think. I wish I had not lost track of many of them, but when I switched careers, I cut all ties to the previous one like a cultist. Is that not life, though? I feel like Al Bundy waxing lyrical over his high school sportball victories. Except for how I got to team up with my wife, who did the same things when we met, to earn us a bit more dosh doing more of the same at her much more legendary bar. She hardly ever charged me for beers. That is apparently the value of my soul. But again, I digress.