Dr. Frank's What's-it

Well, best of luck with that cold! It's a pain in the butt trying to do shows with a sore throat, although you might have something with that new "autistic chimp" sound...

Damn radio stations with no streaming audio!

Feel better soon and try to get some rest, (if that's possible!).

From what I've seen in the past, Universal Buzz is always a "record now, play later" situation.

But I'll be keeping an eye peeled...

Hope you feel better, and good luck with the winds in that behemoth.

Frank get that Vitamin C down ya pronto, and lots of water too.

i didn't end up making the drive to rochester because it's far from buffalo and the roads were terrible last night. plus i had diarreah.

i'm already pissed about it, but i'm ready to be pissed even more: DID THEY PLAY BOOK OF REVELATION in rochester?

frank - i know everyone tries to talk bands into visiting their crappy city or mud hut village, but you really should play in buffalo next tour. or even on a solo stint. i write for the only free weekly arts magazine in buffalo, i can definitely give you ink and do some pro bono promoting using other avenues as well.

i dont know if you recall this, but i'm the kid (now a MAN!) who made the "bad boys of rock n roll" flyers in Boston when you came through for the Revenge is Sweet tour. the one with the kids eating paint chips, sticking utensils in electrical sockets, etc.

that means i'm cool.

First off - great show last night. We (Serious) had an absolute blast opening for you. It might have been a bit of a weird scene last night because I managed to talk all of my non-showgoing friends to show up. Most of them would be more likely to go see Dave Matthews or Toby Keith or something. So they're really not familiar with punk show protocol, whatever that is. I am kinda interested in what made the scene "weird" for you though...

Anyways, I used to work for Universal Buzz and this is how it goes down. They record bands that come through town, mix and edit the shows, and distribute them to their subscriber base of college and non-commercial stations. They maintain a catalog (probably around 400 shows now) that the stations can pick from, put the shows on CD and send them out weekly. They have subscriber stations in most of the major markets, all college and non-comm stations. The shows end up being 45 min to an hour, with a little commentary/history about the bands in between. Also a lot of the shows are available on the website in realaudio. It will probably take 2 weeks to a month to prep your show, then it will be added into the catalog.

Keep checking the site - www.universalbuzz.com - and the MTX show will probably come up for voting in the next month or so. If enough people vote it will be put on the site in realaudio.

Thanks again for coming to rochester. We had a blast, you guys rocked, and hopefully if you make it through here again it'll be a little less weird. Although the town is just weird in general. I can guarantee the scene here is better than what they've got in Buffalo though...

Stanley from Serious

drink some "throat coat" tea, if you haven't tried it. tastes like shit, but i survived a show once by a filling up a water bottle with the stuff and downing it between songs. and i was surprised to find it actually worked.

voice or no voice, im still there in brooklyn on tuesday.
nick

Speaking of the Brooklyn show, does anyone know how to get to it from the city? I'll be in NYC that night, but am not terribly familiar with the subway system...does anyone know how one would get to the show from Penn Station?

I'm coming from the city too. Go to northsix.com and they have directions from everywhere. I'm more concerned about getting back, than getting there. Hopefully Dr. Frank will be nice and healthy by Tuesday!

Mr. Afternoon
Yes, they did play book of revelations.
You missed a pretty rockin' set. I came all the way from Ithaca(and had to actually get a ride to Syracuse first, in order to meet my ride to THE ROCH), then again I didn't have dysentary. Sorry you missed the show man, my heart is with you. And yeah, BUFFALO! I'd go! ROCK!

See you at the Middle East tonight.

Hope the chimp goes away.

I have that nasty bug, and this is the first time in a week I've woken up and not wanted to go back to sleep, and I'm not even on tour. Goodluck and feel better Frank!

I've had to deal with colds before performances so many times, I don't even like to think about it. What I always do is use chloroseptic spray and vicks vapor rub, lots of cough drops, and right before you go on, drink lemon juice and do a big fat line...er, no, maybe not the last one. But the lemon juice is a must. It tightens your vocal chords.

Dr. Frank, I am about to cry. I can't go to your show this Wednesday! Instead I will be sitting at home doing nothing at all. Long story. And the worst part is that now I can't bring you any cookies! Yes, I know they will be sorely missed. I hope the show goes well, but I am still extremely pissed that I cannot go. Good luck with your voice.

From Penn Station take an A, C, or E to 14th St and then transfer to an L. Get off at the first stop in Brooklyn. Just ask where North 6 is.

FUCK ROCHESTER!

People in Buffalo hate Rochester. The guy from Serious that said they have a better "scene" than Buffalo might be right, but we are a blue-collar drinking post-industrial nightmare city. ROochester is a bunch of fucking rich motherfucking poopsucking bastards.

I can't believe you are talking smack about Buffalo. what are you doing, trying to talk him out of playing here? i curse you.

mr. afternoon. Right you are about Buffalo. I grew up in Dunkirk which is basically a mini-buffalo complete with abandoned factories, projects, and general urban blight, and I watched buffalo's slide from 40 miles away. Buffalo IS punk as fuck. I think people support the music out here a little more. and yeah, I'll tell any band that's listening if you have a choice between Bflo and Roch, Rochester is the way to go. Now if they're gonna play both, that's a different story.

Buffalo has some great bands that as far as I can tell go pretty much unnoticed out there. The Bloody Hollies and the Blowtops are two that come to mind. Whatever. In 10 years Rochester will be a bigger shithole than Buffalo and you'll be the one sucking poop.

And everyone knows the only rag worth a shit in Buffalo is the Beast . Read the Beast, wipe with Artvoice.

hahaha i was the editor of the beast last year. now i;m assistant editor because it doesn't make any money and i have to devote my time to things that put food on the plate.

we went color last issue. i wrote the "happy vanhalentines day" thing. next issue im writing about the red sox bitching about the yankees and also gay marriages.

check me out holmes.

Dittos on the vitamin C. Mainline the shit. And tons of water. Some people have had good luck with this Zycam, which I kid you not is goop you squirt up your nose for cold symptoms. I have found it to be helpful and some people find it to be a miracle drug. For fever, 2 plain old aspirin every four hours, always works. Again, tons of water. You'll have to stop the car a lot ... .

WFNX, man you are taking me back. It started out as WLYN and I could just barely pick it up circa 1980. It was like Radio Liberty for people behind the Wall. Some history here:

http://punkblowfish.com/WLYNone.htm

what,no suggestions for echinecha(or however you spell it)? raising my root beer to hoping you
feel better. do all of the above and more,though
i think echinecha is for before you get sick,when
you just start to feel it. nonetheless it probably
wouldn't hurt to cut the vitamin c along with
some of that stuff.

beth

I know a lot of people who swear by Zinc, you can get-em in cough-drops too. If Frank follows everybody's advice, then I'm buying stock in Walgreens and the band will probably get accused of having a rolling meth lab if they get pulled over by Sheriff Buford again ;)

HEY DR FRANK PAY ATTENTION

HEY DR FRANK PAY ATTENTION

THIS IS IMPORTANT

... i was just perusing some of your old blogs which focused on poltics and war more than music. they were very interesting and i find myself having similiar attitudes.
i was all about going into iraq and kicking ass. i thought saddam was naughty and deserved to be dethroned, etc. i also thought it would be a good way to inject democracy into the violent, chaotic and oppressive culture of the middle east/islamic neighborhood. i like democracy.
however, i now see it as a rerun of vietnam and totally regret my support of the war (which obviously influenced the decision to invade). it's a quagmire over there and it's gonna wreck our economy even more, cause deaths, etc.
i'm curious to hear your current view of the war. i'd like to be convinced that it was the right thing because i hate agreeing with hippies and activists.
if you wrote such a thing, please direct me in the general direction. if you didn't please do so. in return, i will buy the new version of "and the women who love them" even though i already have almost all of the songs in my collection. by my estimates this should translate into at least fifty more cents in your bank account and your response would only take a few moments. fair is fair.

senior tardes,
Judging by the content of your threads, it is quite easy to deduce that your only knowledge ov Vietnam comes from a history book or war-stories from a father-figure or even grandfather-figure. I myself am too young to have faced it first-hand, but until we have everyone between the ages of 18-40 being drafed, have thousands of people protesting and have hundreds of our men taken as POWs and never returned, let's lay-off of the 'Nam comparisons, shall we?

Channon,
are you the dr frank's comments board police?
why don't you quit waving your almighty knowledge all over the place, as it's breadth and width is making us all rather ill.

Yours,
Slim Hathaway Jr.

"i now see it as a rerun of vietnam and totally regret my support of the war"

This is so monumentally stupid it must be a pose, and mr afternoon must be a liar.

Go look at http://www.command-post.org/

or any of a dozen other places to find out what is really going on in Iraq.

Short answer -- the dictator is gone, life is improving daily, the terrorists are being driven into the ground. But you knew this.

sigh.... I live in Maine and I've been waiting to see you guys for years and always missed shows based on age requirements (an 18+ show when I was 17, a 21+ show when I was 20), so I was really excited for the Boston show. Unfortunately we in the North got a buttload of snow this weekend. I decided to drive down anyway, but my travels were halted by some fools who had to go and get themselves in an accident on my damn road. Dammit dammit dammit. Maybe next time.

okay dorks, let me rephrase that: it seems as if the iraq situation is similiar to vietnam, albeit on a smaller scale. so far.

we are going to have american troops in iraq for years. and they will be dying fighting in a foreign land against people who are more familiar with the terrain. and america's military superiority will not save the lives of soldiers who step on poorly rigged cluster bombs. kind of like a 2004 version of poisoned bamboo chutes. that seems pretty similiar to me.

yes, i do garner my knowledge of history from books and talking to people who were in the war (not father figures though, my dad is older.) where did you learn about vietnam? in dreams you've had or were you a gook in a past life or something?

and your knowlege of the iraq situation seems to stem from a hefty amount of FOX NEWS broadcasts and white house press releases.

please come strong or dont come at all. you make yourselves look stupid in front of dr. frank. and you don't want that, do you?

and lexington green, the "short answer" may be easy to digest and help you fall asleep at night but short answers aren't really that important. yeah the dictator is gone.

the terrorists are being driven into the ground? YOU IDIOT! there were no terrorists there before the war. and the terrorists are KILLING american soldiers and Iraqi civillians. For the most part we are *detaining* them in retaliation.

"life is improving daily" - for who? are you on crack? yeah, the US and UN are making attempts to clean up the mess they made when they carpet bombed the capital. but if you think life is any better for the THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of dead and injured people you are, well, kind of wrong. And if Iraq is such a swell place now with the US presence perhaps you should move there.

i didn't bother going to the link, because any place called "command-post" is obviously going to be biased towards a militaristic adventure. some people just like violence, but instead of growing balls and being violent themselves they jerk off to war coverage and make little websites about it.

summary: go fuck yourself.

PS - if the owner of this blog disaproves of the arguments and hostility on here i'll stop. there are dozens of other morons i can argue with.

Wow. There are a number of unfortunate stories about people missing shows lately. I hope attendance is not down too much at your shows, Frank. These people are risking life and limb. Now that I think about it, I missed a show of yours in 1998. I think you were playing with the Groovie Ghoulies in Phoenix and I was damn excited. I had it planned out in advnace, ride and everything.

We got a ride from the only kid we knew that had a car. It was a 70 something Ford Mustang. This kid did not allow us to listen to anything except terrible radio-friendly country or Tom Petty's Greatest Hits with that Last Dance With Mary Jane song. So, the only thing everbody could agree on was Tom Petty's Greatest Hits on repeat which started to sound not so great by the third listen.

Halfway up the kid that owned the car decided it was time to pull over. The reason: the car may be overheating. The real, and most likely, reason: he thought we were immature and he is the enemy of the Mr. T Experience. After loitering in a truckstop parking lot for half-an-hour we were able to determine that a car that was never overheating in the first place was, in fact, not currently overheating. After establishing that fact, this kid decided that it was best if he took us all home so we couldn't enjoy ourselves, unless we enjoyed listening to Tom Petty a couple more times.

It was like the silence of death on the way back.

Who do I blame? I blame this kid, I blame the Ford Mustang (I hate those things anyway but this is fuel on the fire), and I blame Tom Petty for putting out that damn greatest hits collection.

So, yeah, I can sympathize with you folks that couldn't make the shows. I have risked life in limb too, sort of. These are the risks I am willing to take to see this band. We are all such great number one fans. Keep rocking Frank and we'll try to make it to the shows, if we don't die first.

Slim and mr afternoon,
Normally I would not comment on the spewing of such feces, but it's odd how you two both show up at the same time and start acting like a couple of 14 year olds that I'm used to seeing on the RC Racing board that I use. If indeed you are different people then please quit sniping at people that express well though out opinions and quit acting like a couple of..... well.....kids. If you're a kid, that's fine, we're not haters of the chronoligically challeged ;) Just exercise some discipline and make a well thought out argument instead of brash generalizations and childish name calling such as "Catholicism makes the most sense and go fuck yourself, Lexington Green". No, I am not the "Dr.Frank blog police" there is no blog police, nor should there have to be. "And that's all I have to say about that...." (1. Forrest Gump, Rober Zemckis, Paramount Pictures 1994)

War and snow sure seem to put people in a foul mood. I’m not a fan of snow or war, but I’d pay to see a snowball fight between Mr. Afternoon and Channon.

I don't want to fight, I'm six foot five and three-hundred pounds, I'm sure there's some law against me fighting, besdies I think these/this guy(s) are kids and that'd be morally wrong. Anyway, they/he probably don't know better yet and I'm just trying to be a voice of reason and common sense, which this world is greatly lacking.

channon, you are as annoying as you are idiotic. and apparently you are grotesquely obese as well. let me break it down for you:

1.
"If indeed you are different people then please quit sniping at people that express well though out opinions and quit acting like a couple of..... well.....kids."

well, fat channon, you were the first to start the sniping. it was my well "though" out opinion on the iraq war that started this spat. if you can't take the heat, get your fat ass out of the kitchen.

2. "If you're a kid, that's fine, we're not haters of the chronoligically challeged ;)"

i don't care if you care if i'm a kid, and i don't care who you do and don't hate, but i tell you this: I HATE PEOPLE WHO WINK AT ME WITH THEIR KEYBOARDS. emoticons are quite infantile, as is the RC Racing board you use. if you are so concerned about people's maturity, perhaps you should act like an adult yourself.

3. "Just exercise some discipline and make a well thought out argument instead of..."

why don't you just exercise some of that flab on your thighs, tons-of-fun?

4. "...brash generalizations and childish name calling such as "Catholicism makes the most sense and go fuck yourself, Lexington Green".

this is a misquotation, as both statements were written separateley. furthermore, neither utterance is name calling. name is calling is like when i call you a ROLLY POLLY ASSFACE. and i said "catholicism makes the most sense to me." the notion of you being upset over this statement is incredibly hilarious to me. i think you are just embarrased that we, oh i mean "i" because slim and i are one in the same entity of course, are making you look like a fool in front of your cyber buddies. yes, i are making you look stoopid.

and the score is....
MR AFTERNOON/SLIM HATHAWAY: 10
FAT CHANNON: 0

now will the real slim hathaway please stand up, please stand up.

it's not my fault i'm fat. it's little debbie's.

I've had my point made for me. I believe we can all agree to ignore this and future posts from the kid slim-whatever/mr afternoon and put this unfortunate mess behind us.

anyway, wasn't this post about Frank getting sick? Get well Frank.

One more thing, if you want to act childish and call names or whatever then fine, we'll laugh at you, but don't use my name and e-mail address to make a post, that crosses the line.

can anyone here have a civil discussion about anything? what are we, in a yahoo "punk" chat room circa 1998? does anyone have a sense of humor anymore? damn...

I'm 6ft 2 and weight 350lbs, are you calling ME fat??? I doubt it! Visit my website http://www.qbkilla.com and be sure to buy the merchadise too!

Lexington Green:
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. So why don't you fucking stray away from conservative news sources and try to learn something about this war as to form an opinion of your own. This isn't about terrorists, it's not about dictators. It's about economics, it's about halliburton. If you support this administration then you are one of three things
A)Dooped, you've watched too much television and injested too much propaganda, you will never know anything even remotely resembling the truth.
B)A billionaire CEO. Yes America is a wonderful place to live, if you are already set for ten lifetimes and don't want to lose any money that could be spent on your great great great great granddaughters trust fund.
C)A fascist that doesn't believe in radical leftist concepts such as Free speech and separation of church and state. John Ashcroft makes McCarthy look like Ghandi.

"...why don't you fucking stray away from conservative news sources..."

Hi, Walter, pleased to meet you. I'm sure, deep down, you are a basically decent guy. I mean that. At least you are not apathetic about all this.

My best news source is a fellow is just coming back from serving over there in the 101st Airborne, a brother of a close friend. Halliburton does not clear his emails. Other people who have actually been there recently are all over the Net and I rely on them to some degree as well. Rich Galen's posts are interesting, as is Baghdad Journal by that artist guy. There are lots of others.

As it happens, I don't own a television. Never have. So, wrong again.

"...you will never know anything even remotely resembling the truth...."

So harsh, so wrong. I will refrain from saying anything mean in response, and I will cling to my hope that someday the truth will become apparent to you, too. Again, no irony. Really.

I like cookies. Does anyone else like cookies?

Mama always said life is like a box o cookies, bound to get a few broken pieces...

(allright mama never said that, but she shoulda..)

i'm slim hathaway yeah i'm the real hathaway all you other slim hathaways have led yourselves astray.. won't the real slim hathaway please stand up please stand up...woot! woot!

Oh yeah, it's a war about Halliburton, man.

Long-term strategy to defeat radical Islam? Nah, can't be, cause neocons are evil and only lefties have a monopoly on goodness and truth. Whatever, dude. You're entitled to your delusions.

What a great show last night! It was so much fun and I'm glad I finally got to see MTX live. The guys in the band are really nice and genuine. Dr. Frank sounded great and put on a great show. Thanks for the great night, Frank.

fat channon, i think it's funny how you say "i think we can all ignore this guy and put it behind us"... like you are some baseball team that works together.

you messed with the bull, now you're gettin' the horns! the name calling began when you called me "senior tardes" - and the documentation is right there above us to prove it.

now that you realize your slow fat brain can't match my wit you are acting like you are too mature for name-calling.

i'll lay off you if you construct a written apology and lose 10-15 pounds by swimsuit seasn. you are a girl, right? i mean, no parent would never name a male child CHANNON, would they?

lexington green, if your main news source is a soldier fighting in the war you have to admit he's gonna be a little biased.

do you think, psychologically speaking, someone risking life and limb while also killing many other human beings can admit to himself or others that the war is all about making a small group of rich white men even richer?

i'm no liberal, i'm not even a democrat. but if you want to check out another side of the story read a (gag, im sorry but) michael moore book. although moore is as fat and annoying as your buddy FAT CHANNON, his books act as a good introduction to looking at our government in a more skeptical way without being too wordy and intellectual like chomsky.

Wow.

uh...get well, frank.

god spoke and said "love one another"...eh, that's the rumour making rounds anyway.

Ugh.....You are so completely stupid and childish that this is the last reply I'll make to ANY of your posts EVER, mr afternoon. If you go to a web translator, you'll find out that senior tardes translates to mr afternoon. You see, senior means "mr" in spanish and tardes means "afternoon". "noches" means evening and "la manana" is morning. You probably were getting it confused with "retardado" which is retarded. Don't you feel foolish now, M. après-midi?

actually, i feel hungry. but that's unrelated to this war. yes, i thought you were calling me Mr. Retard - but i still think you are a fatso.

and i don't much care if you reply to me or not. i'm not taking this very seriously and it's not causing my blood-pressure to rise, as it seems to be doing to you.

but something tells me you will indeed be repying to this...

SEE, I WAS RIGHT!

I don't normally post here, but I feel the need to vent a bit...Alright Slim, just fucking cut it out already. It's little pig-fuckers like you that make people abandon their blogs because it's not worth babysitting some little shit-stained diaper wearning fuck-nut like yourself. GODDAMMIT Channon, quit encouraging this behavior by responding to it!! Another thing Slim (who probably weighs 400 lbs himself so he feels the need to insult others), I'm fat and I'm fucking proud of it so you can suck my FAT dick. I like to see little ass-reamers such as yourself get the living shit beat out of them in the pit at the shows. Quit being a bitch and do your homework you fucking dropout poseur. Lo siento a todas las personas maduras que tuvieron que leer esto. LATINO POWER!!!! or something like that.

And how is Neoconservatism different from Islamic Fundamentalism? It's a difference of skin color. They have the same basic platform, which is the preservation of the status quo using religious rhetoric for mass brainwashing.
Mr. Lexington Green:
Was your buddy's brother at the closed door meetings held by the bush administration? The meetings where the nation of Iraq was sold to American and British Multinational corporations (Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, Bowing)? How the hell can you ignore the fact that Halliburton, a company in which our own vice president STILL HAS STOCK OPTIONS(vested interests) is receiving no bid contracts? What's more, they are fleecing the american people. Taking billions from the government(tax-payers) while providing little or no actual service(not 1.4 billion dollars worth anyway). How fucking patriotic.

poor slim... getting blamed for my abrasive posts. for the record, slim hathaway and mr afternoon are two different people.

Channon, i apologize for being mean to you. i just thought you were being goofy with that "i am the voice of reason which this world is sorely lacking" comment. it's lame, but whatever - i don't want to see you commit suicide over this.

and FAT MIKE, your band sucks. i don't care how fat you or your stubby dick is, i'll fight you anytime anyplace anywhere just like the monkees song. i think immaturity is the fountain of youth, and this should be amusing for anyone reading it. and if it isn't, it's not that hard to scroll past any of our posts. it's one thread on a huge blog in a huge world. do like frankie says and relax. no matter how fat you are, you are still just a little person in this great big world. and your dad is gay.

I just want to be sure that we all like the same band here, MTX right?

The show at North 6 was amazing. Even if Dr. Frank was sick, everything was all good. The band sounded a lot tighter than they did at Lookout 15. For about an hour I was in pure heaven. Can't wait for them to come back to do another show. Why they are not as popular as they deserve to be, I have no idea. But I will say this is definitely the best MTX lineup, I have ever heard.

Uh.. "Fat Mike" , is it? I never said that anyone was "fat" nor did i comment on anyone's weight or appearance for that matter. so i have no idea why you would spew your barely understandable insults at me anyway. furthermore, take your inbred retard facist pig views and shove them up your ass sideways. thanks.

(sorry dr frank for sullying your board further, but i felt i needed to respond to that)

Wow. So much arguing... I'd just like to say good luck on the show tonight, wish I could be there. I wanted to buy a t-shirt too. Ah well, what can you do? Now everyone can go back to their discussion over everything unrelated to MTX or this post. Which is fine other than there are now, what, 57 comments? And most of them are just childish arguing...

Sorry, Slim my bad, I deserved that because I had you confused with that other fuckwit. mr afternoon, obviously you just don't know when to shut the fuck up. NOBODY wants to hear that shit, take it someplace else. I'm done with this shit, you can't have a fucking conversation without some dickhead ruining it for everybody. This is the reason why I shut the fucking forums down on my web-site. I'm going to go screw some chicks and drink some beers but most likely not in that order.

i think i'll smoke some weed and watch some tv. definitely in that order.

Earl Grey and honey make a great throat-soother. And don't fear the forgoing of musical accompaniment. It might better suit your vocal chords to be one of those unplugged, John-Mayer-style "solo gigolos" (palindrome alert). Then you could change your name to "Dr. Awkward" and begin a coffee shop tour consisting of acoustic MTX songs, backwards.

You still have to come to Atlanta though. We're really stoked about seeing you. :)

OK, boys, settle down now. Don't make me come down there.

Thanks, Bill. I had a good time in NY, too. Good seeing you.

And thanks for the tip Karla. See you in Atlanta.

hey fat mike - it's not my fault no one comes out to see your crappy band. it's not my fault the offspring is on MTV and youre a fatso who lies about how he is going to go screw some chicks after he logs of the internet and wipes the cheetos from his lips.
*you* weren't having a discussion on here that got interrupted. you interupted our argument. and i haven't called anyone fat that didn't type out their weight purposely to make it sound like they were physically intimidating.
i dont know when to shut up? why would this be the time to shut up? i'm having a lot of fun. are you gonna do something to me? do you think you're a tough guy? do you think you're a bad ass because you're in a couple of shitty bands and run a shitty little record company?
the only person i feel bad for is dr. frank. but i'll keep all of my antagonisms in this already-soiled thread without spilling over into any others. and furthermore, if dr frank says to stop posting altogether i'll be happy to do that.
but the day i take orders or instructions on life from some chunk-ass douche in a band that tries so hard to sell out but only ends up losing the small audience it had is the day i want someone to take my life.
i'm glad you love it when little kids get "their ass beat in the pit." i love it when dangerously obese people have their arteries clogged by unsaturated fat and die of heart attacks.