Mari-O!

On the Alex thing, it happens more often than people get it right. Like with Keith Richard(s). I'm grateful to you for posting this with a perfect story that includes you too! And listen, my friend, never say "never." I'll take almost surely never another rap tune, and I feel the same way. I think I had exactly one of those inside me that could get up to that level and it took a tremendous amount of work. You did a great job listening to the lyrics and making the bass fit with the right kind of propulsion. Adding the horns and background vocals took it up another notch. A complete success, except for one thing. Hope for anyone supplying a solution is fading rapidly. When Peter Gannon commented, I thought "Ah! Now I've got him where I want him!" And I threw down the gauntlet. Nada. It may be a lot trickier than I thought. If we can't collaborate on another rap tune, maybe on something else. Who knows?

So, Mario, thank you and remember, you couldn't have done it without me.

Dean