[Michael Green]

Hi TuneLand,

I have been beating around the bush for too long now about my personal health. Trying to maintain looking strong is nothing but a falsehood. You should never have to read between the lines when it comes to me and my health. I am in the public eye, and that is the way it is and there is nothing I can do about it. Trying to keep things from people only makes one more weak.

I am a person that wants to give and share my life with you, even on more private issues. Others may look at this and see it as wrong, but I see it as a front, and nothing more. We live on this earth to be real, and for me anything shy of that is a lie.

The tune is about freedom and finding your personal path to being in tune. How can I being the leader of the tune do this if I am not what my friends say straight up. There are many people behind the tune and want to see it move forward. There have been people who have carried a heavy load. One that was much to heavy for them to carry. There are also people that I brought into the tune that were the wrong people and I should have moved on from right away, but didn't because of my own ignorance. Instead I let great people like Jim Bookhard carry the load much too long. I am so glad that Jim has truly had a chance to retire now and is able to live his life in peace.

Andy, has also been carrying the load and someday will retire himself. Andy and Jim both stay faithful to the tune and have been and are great friends.

When I learn what I need to from Andy I will be running Tuneland mostly on my own until others go along to join the cause. In the meantime I know that you know where I stand.
I wish that everyday I had the strength that I once had to post 10 or 11 posts a day. Posts run through my mind like crazy, and I wish at those moments I was by a computer to share them.

The last 3 years, especially the last year and a half, have been extremely tough, both physically and mentally. I have gone from doctor to doctor trying to find the cures, and even now continue my search. God willing this search will be over soon and I hope to be on the right path.

Basically I need to rethink my whole way of living much like Ultrarunner has done when he took up running. I wish to do the same thing only putting my efforts into the tune. I'm hoping within the next year that things can finally be settled with SUNY so I can basically be focused on Tuneland, and SUNY. Herman Miller has also been a blessing during this time. These things would not be possible if it were not for the computer age.

Now on to my health. The fact is the doctors are not sure what is wrong with me. Part of it is my heart, my nervous system, and as a result of these the lack of blood and oxygen to the vital parts of my body. One thing that this has made clear to me is that I need to make a big diet change, even more drastic than the changes I have already made.

The next step that I would like to take is to start getting away from meds. This is difficult because of so many preservatives in the foods we now eat. After doing some studies and consulting with an expert I have come come to the realization that we as a whole are eating a lot of poison. I don't need to get into a lot of details because it is all over google, saying that with the right guidance that we as people can reverse this terrible tragedy.

I have decided to not go in for heart surgery, but instead find the right nutritional path. In my case I do not believe that pills are the answer. I have given them a try and now it is time to look other places. This will mean that I will need to find the right "Balance" as these process is going on. Isn't that what tuning is all about -- "Finding Balance". When I moved to the east I met with many doctors that to be honest I really didn't care for. I now have 2 more that are possibilities.

Here's the bottom line. I want to be able to be much more real with you. You all know how much I am dedicated to the tune from every angle. I have a great and loving support group, and I truly believe that this is God's way of getting me back on the right track.

I look forward to the day that I am as bouncy as I was when the Tune started for me many years ago, and I also want to be me and not someone else. The pleasure of media should always be about truth, and I want and am going to share that truth.

Enjoy your music today, and if you have time, I wish you would send up your thoughts for me.

God bless you and I love you. Now let's tune


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Michael Green
MGA
Las Vegas,NV
702 368 7550
info@michaelgreenaudio.com

[chipdivot]

Hi Michael,

It is very difficult to find a doctor that wants to keep you healthy and not just treat symptoms. I just finished readin an interesting book I heard about from my mom...it's The Hundred Year Lie. here the website looks very much like an alarmist site but it does make some interesting statements. Reading the Slippery Slope of the history of chemicals in out lives and what happens thru the years...sickness, cancers, etc. One thing the author talks about is the synergy of all the chemicals combining together and now what compound do you have and what is it doing to you Each one by itself in the minute amount might be harmless...but what happens when you put them all together?

Anyway...Michael..I hope you are able to find health again...and it will be worth the hard work to find it.

Take care,
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Chipdivot

[Matt Marquardt]

Hi Michael,

I'm sorry to hear that your health is still in decline. If you look at my profile, you'll see that health and fitness are of personal interest to me. So, I've spent quite a bit of time researching this. The only wisdom (for lack of a better word) I have to offer, that may be helpful is this. When it comes to watching what we put in our bodies, remember it's just as important to make sure enough of the good stuff goes in, as it is to keep the bad stuff out. People who are trying to improve their health, tend to focus on the bad stuff, but it can be just as challenging to get in the habit of eating lot's of fruit and vegetables, whole grains etc. The other thing is, as important as diet is, don't neglect the exercise component. I believe this is every bit as important. Especially for someone with a "lack of blood and oxygen to the vital parts of my body".

Anyway, thanks for being open, and keeping us up to date on this.

Take care of yourself,
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Matt Marquardt

[Michael Green]

Hi Guys,

It feels so good to open about this stuff. You have no idea keeping this to myself was doing to me.

Being me, or being you is just as much a part of the tune as the tune itself. There was a time when I thought it was wise to be silent and just go through it without people knowing how I felt. Honestly though after 30 years of being on the road I'm at the point where I have the need to share. It is like being in a silent marriage where no words are spoken, and that for me doesn't work.

Again thank you for your support.


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Michael Green
MGA
Las Vegas,NV
702 368 7550
info@michaelgreenaudio.com

[Hiend1]

Hi Michael,

WOW Isn't you are already feeling good after letting go all those stuff to us

Pursue your personal top 10 list for 2007 that you have made and you are in the right path to long life

We Tuneland will always support you no matter what

Nice avatar photo of yours. A good beginning of your first step
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Music Is My Life !

[Michael Green]

Yes,

Hiend1 I felt that I needed to get back to a more personal me, so Andy and I looked at changing the avatar to show what is in my heart. I'm glad it made the connection with you. It did to me as well.



Good eye
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Michael Green
MGA
Las Vegas,NV
702 368 7550
info@michaelgreenaudio.com

[TxsGal]

Michael,

Really glad to see that your finally sharing your Health issues wirh all in Tuneland. I 'm sure you have updates for us and will soon post. How things are going so far. I really think that things are loking up for u Michael you have seen the light at the end of the turnnel. Seems that you are coming to terms with a lot of things that pretain to your health. As well as your emontotonly being. I see a lot of really good things for you in the future. Not only will Tuneland shoot off like a shooting star. But ......those that have always looked for a place such as this to come to and share there ideals and dreams soon well find there way here to Tuneland to spread there knowledge about life, love and health.

You will find out that once again love will not only be knocking at your door but will knock all of those walls down as well they will come tumbling down. And Michael will once again be that person he has been seeking for so long. To you my friend I toast to life and what lays ahead. Run with it Michael don't let it slip through your fingers. Shoot for those STARS!
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Kristi

[Michael Green]

Hi TuneLand,

Thank you for being you. For the people who read this, it is because I see other people being themselves that has finally given me the courage to be myself. In other words I am TuneLand because TuneLand is me. For the last several years I have shut myself off from certain realities. I tried to make a failing industry awake all by myself, and maybe a handful of others. This was the wrong approach, and it almost cost me my life, and the truth of my life. As much as I will always fight to help people see the truth of audio, there remains a much bigger truth. The world is full of life and love. TuneLand is about sharing that love. TuneLand is also about sharing reality.

For several years now I have tried to help an industry that doesn't want to be helped. It doesn't want the best of the best like it says it does. This Little corner of the world was fading quickly and I was under the water trying to hold up this sinking ship. While I was doing this my eyes were completely blind to the world (whole world) around that was moving forward. I poured my body and soul into this sinking ship so hard that I lost my own health. I believe what finally turned it around for my was the day that one of my High End Audio products finally gave up the ghost, and I was forced to find a replacement. To my shock and horror I realized that there was no replacement to be found in this false world of High End Audio. I was lost, and had to give it much thought. People sent me units to try and I found no music within them. Finally (in my mind) I thought back to the beginning of the hobby, before it became a business. Back when it was about real listening, instead of talking about it. I walked into a shop and bought the very line that started me on this journey to begin with, applied the tuning principles to it and sat back and heard real music again. Not just part of the picture but the whole picture.

The search began. If this was true with this component, it was as well be true as a whole. It was When I started to treat my whole system like I treated my products, there was no turning back if I wanted to spread the truth. I new that this would turn off a lot of people, but the truth is the truth, and the truth will prevail. So now I knew how to build an audio system for real, and make it better than anything out there, yet what I did not know was my own personal journey was in as much trouble as the audio boat I was trying to keep afloat. Due to many years of feeding into the negative, and negative people, I myself was sinking. It was time to look around me for why I as a person, as a onetime very healthy person was sinking.

When I finally made it to the doctor (thank God it was the right one) he was truthful enough with me to tell me I was dying. He pulled no punches. He looked at me square in the eye and told me that it was my choice to feed the negative, and die, or to cast off the negative, look to the positive and live again. He started with me from the beginning and told me that "The Tune" was perhaps the most powerful thing that he has seen come along in his lifetime. He also said with such a power gift (the gift of variable harmonic tuning) that was so positive why was I so negative about my own survival. It took me months if not years to realize that I was doing the same thing to myself that the industry that I was trying to help was doing to itself. The people closest to me could not pull me out of my own negativity. It was not until I stepped outside of myself and took a look at the big picture for real, instead of the glasses covering my eyes preventing me from seeing the rest of the world.

It was kinda like the business book "Who Moved My Cheese?"



I simple story about being stuck. This also led to "who stoled my cheese" and other great books. I knew that there was more to life than,

1. being negative, and too critical of others

2. being truly honest and positive was the only way to healing

Yes we might think that we are super human, but the truth of it is negativity, and wearing blinders does nothing but block our vision from reality.

Our minds, and bodies are built to be positive, and honest. When we start excepting the fallacies of life we introduce ourselves to failure. I leave with this (for now). Failure is self inflicted. It is caused by us not being big enough to look outside of ourselves and what we have excepted as false "Norms". Failure is negativity instead of being positive. Part of what we can be instead of being whole. This is what the tune is all about.

(being whole)

(being me)

Thank you Kristi,

I love you all
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Michael Green
MGA
Las Vegas,NV
702 368 7550
info@michaelgreenaudio.com

[Matt Marquardt]

Hi Michael,

Very nice post!


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Matt Marquardt

[Michael Green]

Hi Matt,

Thanks, and how are you?

WoW TuneLand

My eyes in the last little while have been so opened that it's hard for me to believe it myself. How easy it is for us to get tunnel vision. I was so bent on proving my point about High End Audio being a bit of a scam, that I lost site of all the music lovers and artists around me. What a big world it really is, and how easy it is to get stuck.

I was in a store the other day, and some people were looking to get into home theater surround. The sales person had a confused look on their face, so as all of you could guess I stepped in. The sales person was more than happy to go finish stocking shelves. I introduced myself, and was surprised when they said "Oh we use to read about you in the paper here" (small town) . I asked if I could show them a couple of things? "no problem". Lets walk down through the different systems and listen to them using the same source. As we did I saved the best for last (no surprise) it was one of the cheapest setups. They looked at me surprised as they said that they would never have chosen a system based on sound. I said "your not alone". Most people buy like sheep instead of taking charge of their own systems. After showing them why this particular system was better the salesman came back over and we packed it up in their cart.

This got me thinking about this last little while and how there are so many music and movie lovers out there that are not getting the guidance they need. I thought to myself, it's obvious that High End is shrinking because of the lack of performance and lack of understanding. Now I can either keep beating my head against the wall that is shrinking by the day or I can open my eyes, look around me, and see how big the world is "for real". With the last few High End trade shows only producing 3 to 4 thousand people, and after talking to at least that many people in a years time about music, and their systems, I've come to the startling conclusion that High End is no longer the place of music.

MySpace alone has hundreds of thousands of serious music lovers. After asking a few of these people about High End Audio one quickly realizes that what once was is no more. After telling these same people about tuning, they say well this only makes sense.

"this only makes sense"

Where have I been? And more importantly why am I trying to push this old Studebaker out of the mud, just to watch it go back in.



Nope, I'm loyal and will always be here to help the person who wants to find the best sound find it, but once your eyes are opened to reality, well

Have a great day folks and enjoy a new fresh Tuneland.
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Michael Green
MGA
Las Vegas,NV
702 368 7550
info@michaelgreenaudio.com