* * * * * * * * * The sweetest couples corner: Jody and Scott - Jody, it was great to see you again and to meet Scott, too! I always enjoy hanging out with you. Best of everything in your new home and jobs - you truly deserve it. John and Claud - your happiness touches everyone - what magnificent people you are and we are all lucky to know you both. Thank you for everything and please come see me sometime! Mags and Brian - you are both wonderful and sweet - it's getting to the point whenever I see your names together "Solid Love" starts playing in my head ;-) Pearl and Steve - it was great to see you again this year! You two always seem to have such an outstanding time together with your many wonderful trips - you are a "Lucky Girl," Pearl. * * * * * * * * * * Yael and Stephanie - Wowee - more new musicial surprises! Yael, you have a huge radiance - I really kept blinking a few times when you sang, thinking I was watching the young Laura Nyro. Please call next time in L.A. Stephanie - I'm sorry I didn't get to talk with you more but I was so impressed by your set and hope to see you again. Kay Ashley and Jeff from NYC - Kay you were the female Gregg Cagno for us this year! Gorgeous songs and gorgeous voice - I wish you all the best. Jeff - wish I could have heard you play more! Please let me know when you move to California. Rose and Alison - Sistahs, you rock!! Rose, you are a great hanger. Alison - you sing beautifully and are party queen, too! Hope to see you both for NAMM in January. Patrick, one of my oldest friends - I always love seeing you and yakking it up. Best of everything with your new place and let me know when you'll be needing the martini glasses ;-) Lori and Hell - you finally made it the both of you and it was fantastic! Lori - thanks for getting Hell the last leg to Topsfield. Hell, you are such a neat person - see you sometime tomorrow ;-) Stephen from Vancouver - I always felt from his posts that this was a really nice chap. Well, yes, and then a whole lot more. I'm still shaking my head that someone could have such class, kindness, and gentlemanliness while at the same time looking like a surfer model in GQ. I don't think they made them like you down here in the States anymore, Stephen. "Oh, Canada!" ;-) Thank you for being so nice to me. Monsieur Deste - You outdid youself on the music this year. Amazing renditions of Joni. Still swear you were doing Poco rifts through "I Think I Understand." You should have seen the look on Hell's face during your set. It was even more impressed than when she saw Waddy last week, I'm not joking. As for the Atty May experience, well I guess us jmdlers just made the place a little TOO popular with the locals at this point and we have now created our own little monster. We'll have to "grow" a new, unknown venue, I guess ;-) Catherine from Toronto - I barely talked to you! I wish you could have spent more time hanging out with us, but it seems that you did enjoy the trek. I still want to hear "Dawntreader" with you and Mags! Wally K - your set this year was my very favorite with all the subtle Brazilian overtones. I can't wait to hear it again. Please don't make good on your threat to not come to another Jonifest unless it is in Alaska ;-) Anne- you are in my heart, too. My prayers are with you always. Thank you for coordinating the music - oh my what a time this year! Nikki and Victor - after four days together in our beach cottage I felt like you were my little sister and brother, especially with old Papa Paz dutifully rousting us all up at a nice late hour each day to serve us full, Southern style breakfasts. Victor, you know I think you are just too much - you blow me away. I would crawl awake in the morning and blearily ask Victor to play some Zeppelin or Tull and he would proceed to perform half an album's worth flawlessly. You cannot stump him! You are THE music man. Nikki - hope you are having a fun hejira on the road with Stevie Nicks and report in when you get back. Pazman - thank you for your be-in-ten-places at one time heart and spirit and everything you did for so many of us last weekend. I'll never know how you do it, but I always marvel at it. You are the soulman, indeed. Now I am approaching braindead state again and must go pick up the place before Hell gets here. Maybe more when I get my next second wind. Love, peace and thanks to all, Kakki
