<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I enjoyed your message, Tone. Thanks for the reply... Some thoughts:</DIV>
<DIV>>In watching the Cream video I thought Jack kept up quite well for a guy who<BR>>had recently had a liver transpant.<BR>Agreed. It was good to see them together again. It was when I got to listening</DIV>
<DIV>again to DisrGrs and FreshCrm (We're Going Wrong and Dreaming), to Jack's </DIV>
<DIV>driving bass and Ginger's insane drums that Epiphany came to me - you can't go </DIV>
<DIV>home again. MY expectations for the band's reunion were unrealistic.<BR>>I also thought Ginger kept up quite well for guy who hadn't played drums for<BR>>two years.</DIV>
<DIV>Yup. He was GOOD, but the 25yr.old Ginger was insane. MY expectations</DIV>
<DIV>were off - not his playing.<BR>>Take Eric's guitar away for two years and replace one of his vital organs<BR>>and let's see if he keeps up with Jack and Ginger.<BR>Perish the thought of that.<BR>>The RAH reunion was great. All three shone. Let's leave it at that.<BR>Okay. Agreed!<BR>>How about phoned-in song writing? Encondido's "Three Little Girls" seems </DIV>
<DIV>>a worthy successor to "WonderfulTonight".<BR>Well, there will be those who disagree, but EC's song writing ability is not</DIV>
<DIV>what "touches" (Rick's words) me so much. I love Knopfler for THAT!<BR>>I agreed with everything else you wrote, especially the "Plishhhhhhhhhhh"<BR>>for DeltaNick.<BR>Nick can take it, and he'd be the first to say so. Besides, my raspberry was</DIV>
<DIV>with a :-) on my face and in good fun.</DIV>
<DIV>Good to hear from you, Tone, and I hope that all is well with you.</DIV>
<DIV>Mel</DIV></div></body></html>