Ever since spending my xmas vacation in Florida in 1992, when I was just ten years old, the whole Grunge and Alternative music scene has been a huge part of my life. Fast forward to the year 2000 and my second time in the US as a highschool student, this German teen really wanted to be cool and tough and what not. So what did I do, staying in the state of Illinois and even visiting Chicago, hometown to one of a very few bands I still love today: Giving away all my SP cd’s, including MCIS of course, to the youngest son of my host mother for christmas. Great idea back then after I got more into metal and thought that anything without a doublebass wasn’t right for me anymore. If I could I would travel back in time and hold on to these prescious records. Some of them I repurchsed by now, the only one still missing from my current collection is Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, which makes me melancholic and sad *sigh*