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   Chat about arrangement ideas:
   Tom: If we ever play "Lord Bateman" again, I'm telling ya:
   twelve-string electric guitar.
   Jim: Hey, why not?
   Amy: It's the only one we haven't brought back.
   Joe: "Lord Bateman" is a beautiful tune. Adding twelve-string electric
   ... hey, any instrument that I can't play I have tremendous respect
   for, not to mention the person playing it. Not that I don't have
   respect for the violin.
   Helene: That's a big deal.
   Joe: It is a big deal! I tried playing it. It wasn't pretty. It's a
   credit to everybody else that I'm able to think up this stuff because
   if I don't have anything to play off of, I'm going to sound lousy. And
   you're always pushing me in new directions. Someone once offered me
   this advice: Always endeavor to surround yourself with people who are
   smarter than you.
   Helene: You're supposed to play tennis with people who are better than
   you.
   Jim: I don't know if you necessarily need to surround yourself with
   people who are smarter than you but -
   Joe: Well, I meant people who are going to challenge your point of
   view.
   Amy: People who are going to lead you to do things that you wouldn't
   do otherwise.
   Helene: I always enjoyed being in orchestras that were too hard for
   me. You end up with an inferiority complex except that you get better.
   [laughter]
   Tom: Something I've gotten out of working with Jim over the years is
   that he has a real sense of adventure about arrangements and a
   willingness to go one step or two beyond what I'm usually willing to
   do. I stretch out and take chances musically.
   Jim: Tom and I were talking on the phone the other day and I was
   telling him about that idea for horns on "Bruton Town" and he said
   something like "I have my doubts." And then, I didn't say this, but I
   really wanted to say: "Well, Tom, I'd be worried about you if you
   didn't have your doubts!"
   Helene: But that's actually been kind of a ritual, where Jim comes up
   with something and everybody laughs at him and says: "Oh, I don't
   know." And then we end up doing it anyway.
   Amy: And then we do it and it's really cool!
   Helene: That's been going on for eight years.
   Jim: Well, sometimes we do it and it really sucks and then we just
   forget all about it.
   Amy: Well it's good to have those.
   Tom: I think his success rate is greater than fifty percent.
   Helene: And we never say: "Oh, well because seventy-five percent of
   the time your ideas are really cool we're just going to buy it at face
   value this time."
   
   
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