Hey Norm, Thanks for the okay on playing along. I'll try to find the time to work on it this week. Thankfully, summer vacation is on the way and I can really spend more time recording... And thanks for coming by and listening to some of my stuff. If you really want to get the flavor of this February's complete CD, check out the playlist "Late December" if you'd like to hear this year's RPM album in order rather than back to front. Keith

I could use a studio boy like this! Totally cool - hypnotic.

Norm ..Excellent as always....I couldn't find Elvis anywhere down the cellar over the weekend???.......Maybe!!!!....

Norm darlin, you need a nice lay down!

well it wasnt me, the beer would have been finished, and fridge would have been emptied.

Top beat Norm

very nice, i like the soft touch, it's very rich and textured, something about this beat is especially captivating

nice work - it must have been your doppelganger joining in !

Well I believe you had a visit from the ghost of funky percussion. This is really really cool man. I love the little rolls in there, and it has a killer driving beat.

Storming and raunchy.

Love this track, Norm! Would you mind if I messed around with a little acoustic rhythm guitar alongside your outstanding drums? I've got the capo up on the second fret and this beat has me playing in a way I never have before!

Nice head-bobbin' drum-talk. Well produced!

Yeah! Moves or what?!!!

Love the Rhythm Norm! fireworks on the beach.

Oh golly, I hear some synths and strings. I'm gonna download it. Ya never know :)

sweet groove man.

Nodding my head to the count of the bell clave....yep yep this is sweet.

Norm you Rock buddy!

Moves right along. Nice!

Sweet beats. Like the tones here - very inspiring. ;)

Great vox! I like the horns as well as the unsympathetic left channel choristers, observing the narrator walks alone. Well done.

Beautiful job, Emily! I love it!

Ha! Very clever! I love the bass lick and vox... and I'm very proud to be a part of your first accoustic recording of cornet, flute and harmonica. Historic indeed. And what an interesting poem. I read up on it. Some highlights: With "Hysteria" Eliot created an unconventional poetic diction by using verse rhythms that were based on the cadences of speech rather than poetic structure. It is possible that the laughter may be a product of the woman’s ‘hysteria’, but it is more likely that the title applies to the narrator’s reaction to that laughter. “As she laughed,” he begins, “I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it.” He begins to feel as though he has physically become the laughter he is observing." "The narrator’s goal is to collect pieces of the details he was able to capture in order to rebuild a coherent reality. The reader is left somewhat skeptical of this goal, however, because of the narrator’s doubtful language. “If” the woman’s breasts “could” be stopped, “some” fragments “might” be collected. Each line contains two distinct words of uncertainty, and by the end we are not sure that the narrator’s hysteria can be cured.

This is excellent! Great percussion and bass groove. Well done!

Here's to the ingenuity to customizing the tool to work for you, rather than the other way around. Sounds really great!

Cool story about Majnun. Very pro sounding production. Horns sound great to me.

I always love your piano work. Now this really works. I had to look up "Euler's Constant" but it's still Greek to me. Quite a mysterious number.

Carlsbad is a great cave... perhaps a bit commercialized: it actually has a US Post office in it's depths - 750ft below the ground. But the reverb in this piece is excellent: fitting of the 7th largest cave chamber in the world. Well done. (It would have been a long process getting that large of a choir up out of the cave on it's small elevator.)

I like your nurse, but whatever she gave me is freaking me out a bit. Who brought the chipmunks to church? Menacing work, V. Menacing. Sounds like a rough week.

Glad I listened up. Great voice.

What a voice! Great, funky, funky funk.

Oh so funky. Most excellent!

Ahh. You saved the best for last on your album. Excellent, all.

Very nice. I'm loving all the Christmas songs on AT today... well done VJ & JV.

Excellent. The percussion work is delightful.

I hope that you've found them by now! Great fun!

Excellent!

This is excellent!

Excellent!

Fire? Check. Snow shovel? Well, check (if I must - but I get to punt on one too, right?) Make music? Check. Congas tuned and awaiting their beating. EWABS? Check. Ready for a blizzard. Thanks for the 4 suggestions... although Monk has a nice addition. We are booked to get mucho snow tomorrow so I'll hopefully have an excuse to stay home and get something really important accomplished for a change, ELM or not.