Diki - you're right about the Roland sound module. I have a buddy in Nashville and he does many of his tracks with the Roland DS-330 which has a very similar sound engine as the MGS-64. I picked one of those up on Ebay a couple years back still in the box for $85. A great little module it is too.

Chas - yeah, I hope the combo's come back. Such a heritage we have in this country. I saw Grover in San Francisco and I saw Stanley w/his band there too. Another time in S/F I lucked out and got to go to see James Moody - a very cool guy and a terrific player. What amazes me is that the music schools like North Texas State and Berkley are still cranking the grads out.... used to be you waited for Maynard Ferguson to come to town and hoped someone on the bus got sick... now I guess they all are making recordings and building web sites. I wish it was like the "good old days" too.

Randy