I have a very good friend who has been playing his T2 for about 8 years now. everything he does on it has been honed to perfection and he sounds terrific when he plays. My trumpet player, a music professor who has played all over the world, played a gig with him recently and told me "that's not him- he plays with discs or recorded music". I had to explain to him how that was not true and how many hours that he, and I, have to spend with our boards to make it sound like that.

It is very ironic that when we get to the point that we can sound like professional recordings, we get no credit for that from the audience that thinks its being "faked".

Mark, you've seen us play- maybe you have seen me "working the crowd" between sets, talking to everybody around the room and never really getting a chance to sit down with my guys for a break.