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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Antispam question: How many total fingers does a human have? Answer: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Fluffy[/i] [br]As you may have gathered from recent posts, I have been in touch with Mike "Soko" Sokolowski and in one of our email correspondence he shared something with me that I thought would be nice to share with the board. With his many years of knowing and working with TR his perspective and impressions of TR are of particular interest to me since he probably sees TR in a whole different way than I might. Although after reading them I think he impresses Mike just as much as he impresses me. I found his thoughts on the RCMH show quite revealing in his admiration for TR. What follows is a quote from Mike: [red]"Anyway, Tim did a couple of solo pieces and it really made me proud, because here was this magnificent, challenging and beautiful guitar playing that I've know for 20 years (sounding very much like Monday nights @ Millers) finally getting projected into an amazing, packed room like RCMH and hugely received. Back in the day I used to wonder if Tim would ever receive the recognition he deserves (I mean, when we used to hang out a lot he was the poorest guy I've ever known. Absolutely NO money.) By the time he got to the second solo piece late into the show (maybe Kundalini?), he was completely uncorked and burning. Brought the house down. Standing O -- the energy level in the hall was higher than all the Dave stuff that preceeded it. I was SO happy for him."[/red] While on the subject of Mike, another Greg Howard and TRelated project you all may be familiar with, The Offering, well Mike is planning on releasing the only recent perfomance of The Offering: Live at the Knitting Factory NYC. I have it from a good source(Mike Sokolowski)that the recording has been completely remastered by Greg Howard and it sounds far and away better than the previous versions that have floated around. Both Greg and Mike have told me how happy they are with how the remastered version came out and they are quite excited for it's impending release. Mike tells me he will be releasing it under his new banner, "Breezeway Archives" and it should have a "friendly pricetag". Mike is presently working on a project with Houston Ross(bass player with TR in TR3 and Puke Matrix) under his regular banner, SOKO and assures me more info on this will be coming soon. For now, I will end this, a quote about the new "SOKO" project from Mike himself: [red]"Houston and I are burning on the new Soko album. We've got tons of material -- and it's a real departure for us. Never been this psyched about a project before."[/red] That ought to peak your interest, I know it did mine! [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.