Another good friend I had around those days was Paul Robertson, who was an actor in Kaddish. He was a multi-talented artist. One of the greatest actors I know. In addition, he was totally into the Beatles and wrote a ton of great songs and recorded them like the Beatles used to in Stereo. Today you hear a wall of music, which hits you like bricks. Stereo means that you may hear a drum and bass, and then a guitar comes in on the left speaker, then a piano on the right speaker. It may be a thinner sound but very inventive. The Beatles certainly made the best use of stereo than anyone. When I was a teenager my brothers friend Sam Berger was the coolest guy because he had all these Beatles English Imports. That meant that the tracks were mixed differently so you could hear the same song orchestrated completely different with the stereo sound. You can hear me making fun of those days in the song 'Thirty Years Old'. That was a song I wrote for my older brother on his 30th birthday (a few years later). He was a huge Dylan fan who I think was quoted once as saying 'I don't trust anyone over thirty'. Hence the chorus 'thirty years old - I can't trust myself anymore'. I recorded it with Neil in his basement on Brunswick. Anyway back to Paul.

So Paul produced some of my songs with his 4-track cassette player. He added a John Lennon interview clip to Too Much Sorrow, which was pretty cool. Extremely creative man and one of the few 'true' artists who makes magic with everything he touches. A very sweet and humble man too. In fact the 'real artists' usually are very humble. Neil in years to come hooked up with 'Teeny Hodges' Al Greens guitar player, who by the way told us about the how he just woke up one morning with this girl in his mind and wrote the legendary song 'Love and Happiness'. I mentioned him because one of the things I remember when we jammed one night, Neil, Teeny and his brother on keys is how incredibly humble and down to earth they were. They say one with good character traits is like a canister full of rocks, it makes no noise. But only one rock in a canister makes a lot of racket. Anyway I have been blessed to know many high quality artists and high quality people. Paul is among them. We worked together on Kaddish and then later with Video Cabaret, which felt like I had joined the circus. Dianne Taylor was so intense and worldly and intellectual; but also loved to laugh and make others laugh too. Tons of fun hanging out with actors and playwrights. We recorded 'Blue Moon' one night after rehearsal at Video Cabaret.