Oh, that’s a legacy to be proud of! Unfortunately that’s one of your bands I have never seen live (but was lucky to see the other two!)
I still listen to this stuff often and consider Ancient Winds to be one of the best surf albums ever made and other albums not really less cool and enjoyable.
Congratulations to all of you!

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Ariel, you said it all.

Wow Ivan! I was just a kid of 53 when The Madeira began. Sure doesn't seem like it's been two decades. Adjusting to The Madeira took a bit of time for me (you know the story) but definitely became one of my favorites. Right there with my treasured Space Cossacks.

Congratulations on a career of making and performing great music for surf fans. Here's hoping you continue for many decades.

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As things come and go in life, 20 years is quite a number no matter what the subject. I lasted 20 years as a drag racer but that was just me, not a group of people trying to go the same direction. Ivan, you have many accomplishments to be proud of. I don't think you're done , yet.

It's incredible to me it's been 20 years. What a great ride it has been! Thanks for all the amazing music!

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Beautiful music. Congratulations on 20 years!

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Wow, I'm absolutely blown away by all the amazingly kind and generous comments here!! (Please forgive my lateness responding, it's the end of the semester and things have been getting a bit overwhelming.)

Thank you ALL so very deeply for all the congratulations as well as the comments. Woody, I'm 54 now, so I've caught up to you! I'm so glad you did eventually start to "get" the Madeira, too! And your "you know the story" comment is quite apropos, since my memory for the fist year or two of the Madeira is that most people either had no interest in whatever I did that wasn't with the Cossacks or seemed pretty dismissive of the idea that it could ever measure up. Well, I personally think that it most certainly DID measure up - and even exceeded it on some occasions! (Funny enough, I do sense a bit of the same thing with Lords of Atlantis now - not a lot, just a bit, but people can't help but compare the two bands, just as they did with the Madeira and the Cossacks. And for me it's about doing something NEW with each band, something I didn't get to do before, just "ride the chemistry", so to speak, in each band and see what happens. But in each case I'm always super proud of what we had done - or I wouldn't let it come out!)

BIG thanks to Vitaly (Samurai) for all your extremely nice words, too, in particular that you consider Ancient Winds one of the best surf albums ever! Wow! That truly means a lot to me, since there are few people out there that love and know surf music as well as you do, Vitaly! THANK YOU!

I must give my greatest thanks to Ariel for all his remarkable comments, though. Your favorite band of all time of any genre??? Holy cow, Ariel. I had no idea, but am deeply, deeply flattered and humbled. Thank you so so very much! And your full description of the band and our albums is dead on, of course, you truly get us. Finally, I will agree with you on Ancient Winds that it's our best single track, Patrick delivered an insanely beautiful piece of music with that one! I do think it's likely to be the one by us that's remembered the longest - I hope so, anyway.

Again, thank you all immensely, I'm truly touched. (Oh, and BIG thanks to Jeff for hosting us at the SG101 conventions three times, I think - 2008, the very first one - kinda, I guess, since we played the same venue that evening, but I think the convention was officially finished by then); 2012, and then 2017, which gave birth to our "Center of the Surf" live CD, of which I'm insanely proud!)

Here's a fun and rare photo of us, I think this is from '05!

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I can't believe it's been 20 years. Honestly, Ivan is one of the best guitar players this forum has ever seen. In all the videos I have ever watched of his, the man seems to never mess up or hit a wrong note. Congrats on 20 years, I really hope to see you play live one day.

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