LH ... Bob's acceptance speech for the Tom Pain award are the words of a well established artist .... I certainly don't take them as the words of some brash, highschool kid at the annual commencement taken pot shots at the old guys ... what he said then, had some 'kick' to it, some definate meaning ... food for thought... allegory ... I'm sure that nite was the transition for him, a wakeup call "I was so much older than, I'm younger than that now"

That 'letter' certainly is the result of a publicist persuading, anyway in it's typical structure it is Bob.

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