Heh Mike, I don't recall your email offhand. Thanks for the discs. I
think I gave you the only copy of the Glowing in the Dark and Love
Changes video all those years ago.

If you are circulating these, at least give me some credit (!)

Heh, but if such is the case, and you are posting rehearsals, etc. I
should send you the Live City Gardens, the Glowing in the Dark early
rehearsal with Mark when I was first meeting you guys, plus the XPN
show. I've had a number of personal email requests but simply didn't
have the time/technology to burn CDs... ok.. I have a G5 and an audio
cable.. just don't have the freaking time to do that.

I have duplicate tapes as well as the originals. I'm a bit....err..
slammed with the reality/fallout of recent events... but mailing
shouldn't be too hard.

Don't think I'll make it to Philly for a while...or be traveling on
what used to be my part time corporate staging business (I'm a bit of a
basket case...and have no child care lined up yet, etc. etc... maybe
next Spring.. but have to tend to Crystal's craft business..... time
will tell.....)

Well, one of my sisters lives in Philly, and Mike Simmons and wife came
to visit for several hours one Monday recently (they have family in
NH). I have been in contact with Don Slepian
see
www.donslepian.com

who still says c'mon down to my new studio and let's do something
together. I have a video somewhere of him and Patrick Moraz jamming on
grand piano together, as well as Patrick playing Don's custom personal
touch sensitive midi keyboard (with pedals and attack one
gets.....different instruments.. now isn't that a rather....grand
mechanism of expresssion.)

and wrote a note to Larry Fast last night

http://synergy-emusic.com

I'm on the verge of asking for a benefit concert.. but my professional
(business meetings) crowd in NYC and DC are curiously....silent....

I have misplaced Rick Wakeman's email and home phone.. but then again..
he did get divorced for what.. the third time? I dunno. He'd be good
for a lot of prayers, and is a grand man who is professional and
sincere. If I didn't tell you, Crystal was onstage with Rick in Mass.
for his sustain pedal bit during his one man show tour about 2 years
ago. Someone sent me CDs and I have a picture of Crystal on stage...
but she was always an Elton John/Pavarotti type gal with some metal and
new age and other bits thrown in. She would say that people would come
to her place and think her CD collection was two different peoples.

I took her to her first rock concert when I had a gig in Toronto...
Roger Waters solo tour.... freaking awesome musical performance. They
played Pink Floyd better than Pink Floyd. (I would like to get a
recording of his first --?-- solo tour that supposedly had Eric Clapton
on guitar....??!!!) She saw all the smoke in the crowd and said.. is
this legal here in Canada? I just laughed and laughed.. she had never
been to a concert before.. her time in NYC was taking clients to
"Cats".

We did go see Elton John for his recording of "one night only"... we
went to see Aida the night before... and lo and behold... his guitarist
was behind me, another band member in front of me, and Elton himself
one row askew across the aisle. It was pure NYC...at the end of the
intermission.... Elton came in last with his security and the crowd
simply stood up and gave him a "standing ovation." A real highlight in
a wonderful full life she had.

Let me tell you a personal story about this some other day.

The wife of the Phish drummer stopped by when I was at Vermont Sheep
and Wool. He had bought her a high end spinning wheel the year before
and they are getting rid of their alpacas before a planned move.

I hope to write some more music.. have been listening to various early
and mid range Tangerine Dream and am reminded our your solo/our pairing
of "Experimental Cafe" -- now there is something obscure... some of the
settings/riffs seem so familiar.. I know it is coincidence... but, as
they said..if Einstein wasn't out there.. someone would have thought of
it sooner or later... there is amazing paralell-ness in this world.

Did I tell you some guy wrote from Princeton and said he worked with
Mark approx. 1982?????

Anyway, this is much better than being all worked up over her death and
absence.. it is a brutal transition.. a long time of grieving... I'm
getting the piano tuned approx November.... I just pulled out the 49
(?) key midi keyboard the other day.. and of course Billy found it this
morning....I really haven't delved into Reason 3.0.. I have lots of
cryptic notes on music (I sketch ideas with lines and dots....) and
certainly a vast pool of emotions to tap into.


a former employee of mine who now teaches piano in Georgia is stopping
by after Christmas. His Russian piano teachers commented on Patrick's
wild fiery grand piano "PM Live in Princeton CD"......this.. this is
what the SCHOOL GIRLS played in music school... hahhahahahah.....talk
about egos... Patrick is off the freaking chart passion and notes....

Crystal had set him up with 1-2 weeks of a gig in New Hope, playing the
national anthem for the Eagles AND the Phillies within one week, plus a
gig in Boston.. an interview with the Inquirer....and his PR/publicist
was whining that she hadn't gone through HIM.. Patrick had to bow out
due to.... family matters...but did get to his opening gig with Annie
Haslam of Rennaisance (sp?) in Phila. I think I've only
corresponded/talked once with him since. Apparently he is currently in
Switzerland......talk about wild geniuses!!!!!!! He was my idol...
Patrick was all about passion and collage....Rick is all about absolute
classical technique (he is amazing on acoustic piano, and Patrick is
too, in a completely different way).....two opposite sides of the piano
coin..

I could go on, but this is the top of mind stuff. They tell me to keep
a journal for Billy someday... like I have the time....but I will
certainly treasure the above moments.... thanks again... for the
memories... and the flow of emotions that we realized in both
Experimental Products and Experimental Cafe. It was a real pleasure and
experience..and a lot else too!





Bill Mutschler
Copper Moose
43 Maple Lane, East Burke, VT 05832

http://www.CopperMoose.com


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