Ben Mink has also worked a lot with kd lang and Murray McLauchlan. So its actually pretty hard not to have seen him if you are a Canadian music fan.

Joe Hall's pretty weird. Somewhat less now (sobered) than formerly. Creatively weird. He told me once that he had achieved one of his main ambitions in life, which was to work as a desk clerk at a whorehouse.

When I think about it, most of the career musicians I know are more or less eccentric. Tilting at windmills in their spare time seems to be a general characteristic. Sometimes this is more productive than reversing first and last names. For example "Reverend Ken" Ramsden (spiritual leader of the Church of the Open Bottle) in Peterborough ON went to the Supreme Court of Canada and won the right to poster on utility poles. Another friend of mine successfully sued the National Capital Commission in Ottawa for "wrongful misappropriation of personality" when they used pictures of him in their publicity for Winterlude, even though they had declined to book him that year.

W-O