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Stephen, I've really been enjoying your stories in the magazine. In particular, reading about your discovering music that is near and dear to me -- The Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, and so on -- is particularly refreshing. Especially in an Audiophile Context, where people usually just want to talk about Diana Krall and Jennifer Warnes.
And you've turned me on to stuff too: Bushman’s Revenge's "Jitterbug" is a killer!
Keep it up! Oh, and be on the lookout for records from Last Exit -- an impromptu jam band with Sharrock, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Peter Brötzmann, and Bill Laswell. They're kind of a 1980s version of the fusion incarnation of The Soft Machine.
Oh, and the enzymatic Audio Intelligent cleaner is the best I've ever cleaned my LPs with, and I just use a cheapo Record Doctor II machine. It works a charm.