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Clem, the Vaughn mentioned above was JIMMIE. I've learned to like Stevie. . . but Jimmie I liked the first time I saw him stand in front of a mike and sing and solo. . . .!

You know I really like the Cream Clapton and the Clapton of say "No Reason To Cry" best. . . both were a little bit different than the blues artist formerly known as Guitar God. . .

NO, I'm not really knocking Eric. . . . Eric led me to a lot of music. When I hear Freddie in the late sixties and seventies both the playing and the singing just scream out ERIC to me. . . . The Rush connection is very real too. Anyway, I wish Freddie King were as well known as Eric, but. . . maybe one day. We've still got Eric!

I've heard all three of those actually. They're not my cup of tea to be honest, and I don't know how to judge whether these drummers are as influential as those pioneers you mention. . . . I'm inclined to say NO, but I'm saying "I'll take your word for it" for now.

You know I really can relate to Johnny's resolution. Secretly I'm going to mirror it as much as having a clinically paranoid wife will allow. . . .

And when the first song wins a grammy, there will be a performance of my harder-edged followup, "This Shit was Made for Kickin'" ---this one is going to be controversial and cost me a lot of customers but I just GOTTA DO IT.

Man it sure is hard to tell those two apart sometimes? Except Freddie was Freddie first. . . . Listening to the Atlantic cd of the Cotillion "My Feeling for the Blues." Everyone else is out of the office and Freddie is making the finish line seem like I'll get to it! This one cooks!

It's Jim and David (GOM) and Johnny E (extracirricular activities) and Harold Z and Ubu and Couw and. . . well there are a lot of them, you've all contributed, thanks so much for a good part of the good part of the year!

I've got my sequel all planned, "A Pickup is not a Home without You."

If you do manage to cry, be sure to get your beer glass right underneath the cheek. . .

I'll take your word for it! Others' mileage may differ. . . .

I agree, that is a pretty good song. Maybe I can get someone finally to record my (I just know it!) country and western hit, "When You Left Me I Married My Dog"?

Just to stay with trumpeters. . . Clark Terry. How many decades? And like a steadily polished stone just shinier and sparkling!

I'll say Muggsy Spanier. Not one of the real innovators, but he put it out there every time on the line, and you knew you were in for a driving musical treat.

Rick Allen

I hear ya, I find many women attractive, in many different ways. I love beauty! I love my wife too and haven't strayed in the time of our marriage, and have no plans to!

Sure, hardly any attractive qualities. . . .

Carryin' On is a GROOVER DELUXE. Complete with cover BABE!

I'm glad you had a great one! I'm hoping to have a great dinner (at Fonda San Miguel, which is like a vacation resort about ten blocks from my home!) and be home snuggling with Helen in time for the New Year to arrive. I hope all have a great night and holiday.

I won't be complainin'!

Hmmm. . . I'm disappointed that there will be these guest stars; I think she would be better served with an album by her working band working alone. But then I'm NOT her producer!

She just thought that I would be better off smoking filtered cigarettes, and I'm not sure that is really true, but hey what do I know. I was lucky in that I had a very physical job almost all my smoking years and also was a drummer; I never felt lack of breath or had coughing or any other effects that I know of when I was smoking. . . . I feel a lot punier now after a half a dozen years as a desk jockey.

Like some of my first smoking experiments, as a fifteen year old in M'Babane. DON'T start OFF smoking Gitanes! Like sucking a desert wind when you're not prepared for smoking cigarettes. . . Rothmans International were a better "starter" brand, and I discovered that pretty quickly! Starting to smoke overseas was interesting. . . I smoked Rothmans and Dunhills, and Sobranies sometimes (love the white ones in a tin). . . .When I came back to America I occasionally "afforded" these brands, and at the University of Chicago had a Player's Navy Cut habit, but did Camels for a long time, straights, and then at the urging of a girlfriend moved to Marlboro reds (I don't think these were really as good for me as the unfiltered Camels) and then back to the Camels for a while, then Marlboro Lights and then finally, July 1, 1990, cold turkey and never again. . . .

Man, that Gitanes box brings back memories!

Damned good advice Patricia! I will write more! I CAN write More! I CAN! I CAN! I CAN! I CAN! I CAN! I CAN! I CAN! Happy New Year !