How good to see you, Ron:

I gotta tell ya, your life is never boring. Xanadu (the movie) was a major flop. Vidohounds Goldern Retreiver Movie Guide gives it a Woof!
That's one notch lower than 1. It was one of (if not the last) Gene Kelly's movies. It ranks right up there with the movie of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton.

I've recorded most of my music stripped down. With the exception of a short time span in the early 60's when I performed on occasion with Luke Faust in Greenwich Village, I've performed alone. I actually like to have people singing on choruses, though. I always thought that was a little strange when I'd book a solo musician in the concert series I ran, and they didn't like people singing along on the chorus. I thought that's what choruses were for.

Working on this project will be interesting because I am skimming over old grooves in my brain, like Luke Skywalker in his F-Wing fighter, trying to use the Force to swoop down at theright moment and recapture lyrics that have long since slipped into limbo.

Another little project of mine, which I just completed is to create a sound track for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer stories. It turned out to be a lot of fun. I tried to create the atmosphere of a film noir movie with music. It took me three tries before I got something that put me in that time and place. Fortunately, I have a lot of bluesy, small combo jazz.. instrumentals and vocals. Back when I was a teenager, and in my college days, I'd sit in the dark and listen to music, late at night. I haven't done that in close to fifty years, and it feels good to just let the music seep into my pores and wash away all other external stimuli.

I can always count on you to drop by, Ron. Maybe Ebbie and some of the other used-to-be regulars will drop by and push us close enough to 1,700 so that we can roust Elmer out of his rabbit hole.

Jerry