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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040a11c3.png"> <div> <B>a</B></div> <div> <B>n</B></div> <div> <B>e</B></div> <div> <B>c</B></div> <div> <B>d</B></div> <div> <B>o</B></div> <div> <B>t</B></div> <div> <B>e</B></div> <div> <B>s</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#99CC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Erno : The Psychedelic Folk Experience</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT>|   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Erno : The Psychedelic Folk Experience"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id107.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="erno story part 2"><U>erno story part 2</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id108.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="michelles review of cbgb gallery gig"><U>michelle's review of cbgb gallery gig</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="michelles ps/cm session review"><U>michelle's ps/cm session review</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id110.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="michelles 3rd cello session email"><U>michelle's 3rd cello session e-mail</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id111.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ernos musical tirade"><U>erno's musical tirade</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id112.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="bands suck"><U>bands suck</U></A>   |   <B>erno's pledge</B>   |   <A HREF="id114.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="musical saw promotion"><U>musical saw promotion</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ernos anger with booking agent"><U>erno's anger with booking agent</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="magical musical"><U>magical & musical</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id117.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="a message to bill"><U>a message to bill</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id118.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="phffft!"><U>phffft!</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ernos gig preparation"><U>erno's gig preparation</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id120.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="a message to jodi"><U>a message to jodi</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id121.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="the talking heads are finding me"><U>the talking heads are finding me</U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2ecf4010.png" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <img src="HTMLobj-649/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="229" height="58">  </div> <bR> <div> pledge</div> <div> turned out to be bullshit...</div> <bR> <div> Hi kevin,</div> <bR> <div>     This is my pledge to take things a little easier for a little while. When bunk (later titled plastic sun/crazy moon) is completed, I'll have 3 excellent full-length albums to my name. Some groups have a whole career and only produce 3 records. What I'd like to do after the 3rd record is concentrate on making and getting the packaging done for the records. It will give us a final sense of accomplishment. At that point, we can send them out and sell them at shows. They will look more substantial, and I feel people would pay $5 for them. I need time to recuperate from the intense past couple of years. I may want the 4th record to feature michelle on the whole thing. I may want to record it completely through my paris. I also want to give things a break so that while you are marketing the stuff, I can do mostly songwriting. With the recordings and performances, I haven't been really tapping my creativity like I feel I should've been. I want to play shows, but maybe not rehearse so much. Maybe the day of the show we go over stuff quickly. I would love to do some jams with you. I also would love to record submarine, icicles, mistakes, Sarah's desert, and merely obvious for a live record. These songs would actually be recorded live at slip. Maybe we can pick a few others like stuck in the ocean or monotony and release for that live record. We can call the record lumbago live or something. It can be a shorter record, but I'd like it all to be live. That will require a lot of microphones, but I'd like the musicians to not be isolated, but like we're on-stage.</div> <bR> <div> What do you think?????</div> <bR> <div> tom</div> </td> </tr></table></body>