Well, Bob (Deckman) and I are putting together a concert program for this coming fall and plan on doing a house concert or three. Figuring on fall should give us enough time to get our socks pulled up, re-up a bunch of the stuff we used to do, and a bunch of new stuff.

I know Bob is putting a CD together, and I'm thinkin' along the same lines. Neither of us have any records out, and as Dave Van Ronk said, "in vinyl veritas." I've got a lot of good stuff and I'd like to get some of it recorded before I topple off the twig.

I've done some recording, but only one band (from a tape of one of the Sunday afternoon U. N. Pavilion concerts at the Seattle World's Fair) ever hit vinyl. Bob's on that record too. There are several copies of the record floating around, but I think the only one that ever actually sold was to a very myopic Italian gentleman with no taste buds, and he thought it was a licorice pizza.

I bug my senators and representative constantly and attend precinct caucuses when they occur and talk politics a lot. But I can't clean up that pig's breakfast in Washington, D. C. all by myself.

My main activities are music, writing, and teaching.

Don Firth