It occurs to me that the main, perhaps the only, reason we have so many Italian fans and friends is because we happened to tour there with Green Day in 1996. A subset of the young kids who were at those massive shows developed their own little MTX "subculture" and have kept it alive to this day. If that tour hadn't been cut short this phenomenon could well have happened in other European countries as well, who knows? But it didn't, and because it didn't Italy is our safe European home (if "safe European home" is the term I want.) Ciao!