Todd Clouser: Musings

Stick around for a busy March and April. Check the calendar for Tour info and www.artsdayout.com for our upcoming events.
Thanks as always for your support.

Its been a good and busy time preparing for the upcoming weekend highlighted by "Arts Day Out", an event that Im more excited about than any of the shows I've done, as my students will get a chance to rip in front of folks and enjoy the rewards of the past two years plus of work. Ive been practicing with them all week and everything looks to be incredible. Its really gratifying for me as well. I never imagined myself being a teacher, but its become something Im enamored with. There's a cyclical inspiration that takes place that confronts the cynicism we gain with age.
If you're in Los Cabos, come down Saturday from 12 to 4. Friday I get to pad my ego and rock chops with a set with former Dire Straits guitarist and good friend Jack Sonni, with a couple sets of my material prior. Saturday night post Arts Day Out we'll be back at Havana's to enjoy the atmosphere we've committed to cultivating. A weekend I've always aspired to be a part of, and lucky enough, have been able to help create with a sense of confidence and ambition I've found here. I'm aching to begin......
Other things coming... 2 week Mexico run with Adam Linz and Greg Schutte from March 25th to April 6th in clubs, La Paz, Los Cabos, Cerritos, Guadalajara.

Im beginning conversations for a couple weeks in Europe this summer in hopes of getting things moving over there, and a New York stop to continue studying as well.

All the best, thanks for your support
Do it, do it, do it.... its the only good fight there is. you'll ride life straight to perfect laughter

We've settled into a really excellent trio for the next month or so down here. Sebastian Dimarco of Argentina on upright bass and Geovanni Ramos of La Paz on drum set, occasionally joined by his brother Leo on percussion. Its a fun and forward thinking group and feels like a unique band with distinct character. We've got some good stuff coming up, but are playing little less as we tend to planning the Arts Day Out weekend in January and a busy spring with shows in the Baja and on the mainland with Linz and Schutte..... there's another record hanging out there as well, just working out the appropriate way to get it out.
Thanks for your support...

Thank you everyone for a great week. Havana's yesterday made for an incredible night. Too many good people. Im lucky and humbled.
Also want to thank Sebastian Dimarco for killing it on upright bass and Geovanni Ramos on drums. This is the trio we're gonna work for the season, all like-minded, positive, and ready to create whats to come.
Come out, support live and original music.
Here's the set we played, more or less-----

Aqui Como Alla (Ribot)
California Chaser
Unbreak the Morning
Caravan (Ellington)
Seven Nation Army (J White)
Beatnik Highway
Son of a Preacher Man
Motel West and Blue

All Out London
Cold Duck Time
Drive at the Sun
Manic Depression


Man with No Country
Hey Joe
----- Roberto on harp
Shake em on Down - with Paul Clade on guitar, Roberto Blanco on piano

The rest is a mystery..... good times

Sunday is turning Monday and Im restless as usual. Excited about the coming week's release shows in San Jose del Cabo and all else to come. We're getting really positive reviews on the new record, so thank you, and most importantly thanks to all who made it happen. Before I let shame creep in too far, I'll let it slip through my fingers that I actually like the record too. Everything has been quite a process to get here, and coupled with the tours and coming events, it feels everything is moving in a more tangibly positive direction.

And there's a bunch more material to come.

Thank you for your support! Come out to the shows this week if you're in the Los Cabos area. At the risk of inflating expectations, we've got a bunch of unique things going on that should make it memorable, Id hope at the least.

See you soon

Thank you all again for an incredible, just sort of sold out, night for the MN version of our "Beatnik Highway" record release at the Dakota Jazz Club. I felt really good about the music that night and what we were able to accomplish.
This week the Los Cabos season kicks off in a proper way. Havana's Saturday night with our regular trio of the past year, Julio C de la Cruz on bass and G Ramos on drums. These guys kill it and we've managed to create a pretty unique approach. Hope you can make it out.
Beyond that, things are booked though April. Saturdays at Havana's weekly, except where noted below. Some highlights:


Dec 10 --- Liga Mac at Tiendas Palmilla
Dec 11, 12 --- Album Releases at Galeria Ida Victoria and Havana's Jazz Club
Jan 24, 2009 --- Inaugural "Music Day Out", artist and student interaction, recitals, and workshops
Feb 17, 2009 --- Double Album release, "Out in the Hellwind/Bright Life"
March 18, 2009 --- Visiting artist week, featuring Richie Cannata
March 26 --- Todd Clouser Quartet Baja shows with Linz, Schutte, Weinbeck
April 1 --- Mexico mainland tour, Todd Clouser trio with Adam Linz and Greg Schutte ---- Guadalajara, MX City
June 2009 --- Europe with Linz and Schutte

Thanks for your support!

Thanks to everyone for making our Mnpls album release an exceptional evening.

Fri, Nov 7th, Dakota Jazz Club
Set I
Beatnik Highway
Son of a Preacher Man
Drive at the Sun
Amazing Grace --- Todd Solo
Short Story (Ken Dorham)
Ocean Mirror
Caravan
Aqui Como Alla (Ribot)
Man with No Country

SETBREAK
Bright Life -- with Molly Dean
You Gotta Grow Up Sometime --- Molly Dean
She Got Lonely On Her Own ---- Todd solo piano

Set II
Cold Duck Time (Eddie Harris)
All Out London
Billie's Bounce
Untitled
Manic Depression (Hendrix)
Unbreak the Morning
Born By the Night

We're (The Royal We) putting together a really unique night for the album release at Dakota on Friday. Guests, some solo stuff, songs.... Im really excited about it. Ill be in the studio the rest of the week touching up some mixes on the never ending album of songs project. Molly Dean is gonna come do some singing on the record.
Hope to see you Friday, 730-ish. Call ahead and get tickets or a table so you dont get parked in the rafters.... www.dakotacooks.com

Todd Clouser and the Band of No Country cordially invite you to the
legendary Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, MN Nov 7th, 730 pm, to
celebrate with us the next release in a series of writings and
recordings, the 12 composition, unclassiffiably modern jazz dance rock
album "BEATNIK HIGHWAY".
A record inspired by wonder and wander, exploration
without hesitation, and dedication to craft, "Beatnik Highway" finds
Todd and Band playing at their most confident, layering the album's
gifted melodies in improvisation against rich but accessible harmony.
The tunes on the record are footed in the jazz vocabulary, but avoid
categorization with equal adherence to groove and a melody meant for
memory.
The band of Todd Clouser on guitar, Benny Weinbeck on
piano, Adam Linz on bass, and Greg Schutte on drums, augmented on a
number of tunes by Henry Weinbeck on trumpet and Joe Savage on pedal
steel, have crafted a listenable but dense record, with 9 original
compositions and unique arrangements of 3 popular tunes. "SON OF A
PREACHER MAN", a live-evil inspired "MANIC DEPRESSION", and a
fittingly ambiguous arrangement of Elliott Smith's "INDEPENDENCE DAY",
all performed in a manner unique to the band, make for the trio of
covers.
In short, "BEATNIK HIGHWAY" is a record of excellent players
running through a variety of styles, woven together by fine
composition and improvisation. DONT MISS THE RELEASE!

Todd Clouser Quartet
Friday, Nov 7th, 730 pm
Dakota Jazz Club, MNpls, MN

www.dakotacooks.com www.toddclouser.com

Im taking care of some good friends' dogs for the next ten days in their home up here on the Gringo Hill. Its a tough place to disappear, but Im committed to doing so, with the exception of teaching obligations. I brought up a bunch of old folders of half done tunes, 3 line poems written on the back of receipts, and a small piano and my guitar setup. Im looking forward to a throwback week of writing and planning for the upcoming season here in Los Cabos. All will turn to madness as the Dakota CD release nears and from then until early summer with shows, teaching, and a promising season of events.
Im paging through old charts, old demos I had forgotten making in my basement in Minneapolis, and all sorts of poetry. In the least of cases they provide an able starting point, if not for their merit, for the inspiration to inquire into my repulsion.
It feels good to be in a different space and committed to just writing and playing each evening after work. The results will show themselves in time, unless of course they're no good. All the time and resources put into all the recent recording, album artwork, etc. can get themselves in the way of continuing to create. Im remaining committed to kicking dissuasion and cynicism in the jugular.

Im really very excited about this album we are just finishing. We've all invested a lot of ourselves into it, and its apparent in the results. Joe Johnson and I spent a week with Schutte coming in off and on tweaking the mixes, though the recording was mostly live, a few takes, often the first being the one ending up on the record. Im humbled by playing with these guys and all the time they felt these songs were worth. About the music..... everything was written and arranged in the past year and a half, as is commonplace on our records there are shades of styles, all stamped by the desire to feel, travel, get things done.... Id like to think. It feels like a lot has led up to getting to where this record lies, this being the most concise of the stuff Ive done, not necessarily making it all that concise I guess... but anyway, Im babbling. Much of the writing was done on a summer of travel between Europe and Southern Africa, then refined and dressed in heat back here in the Baja. I hope you will like it, I think you may, and I hope you get to come see the band Nov 7th, Friday, 8 to 11 at the Dakota Jazz Club. A Friday night at one of the nation's finest jazz and beyond venues. Im excited.
There's an album to follow as well, all recorded, of songs..... called Todd Clouser and a Band of No Country "Out Naked in the Hellwind"..... one Ive always had to make, a title thats been waiting for it, and songs that found the right players..... 2 plus years of sessions and work. Id say more, but its no good being apologetic about art and titles.
Thanks for coming by!

We've been in the studio the last 5 days or so, mixing, tracking a bit, etc. Im really excited how things are sounding and very grateful towards everyone for investing themselves in this. By week's end, we should end up with the mixes of nearly two years worth of on and off sessions. I tend to get eager and divulge too much too soon, but there's some really great moments in these tunes, a few everyone should recognize, and everything has been treated well and honestly. Its raw and straight from the players.
Its nice being back in Minneapolis and getting out to see some friends play, a couple groups Ive seen I would reccomend, "Jelloslave" has a really unique and honest vibe, two cellos, tabla, and Schutte on drumset/percussion. Caught them Friday night at the Dakota. Groups like these inspire me to committ fully to vision and feel. Adam Linz trio at Cafe Maude kills it. Just follow that dude around and you're gonna end up in some goodness.
Everyone wants change apparently. Get your hands dirty. Its waiting to be done, and its not gonna come from elected oficials, the best they can do is inspire us to be better, to question, to be decent to each other.

Be back in MN tomorrow for a long recording weekend. A bunch of good stuff we do live we're gonna put to tape and get the new record mixed as well. Ive got 6 hours in the LA airport to kill before the red eye flight, something I wouldnt mind generally, but all this time on the internet(s) keeps sending my fingers typing in political pundit sites. Something I really need to stop. It gets depressing. Its like VI Lenin said, or was that BJ Armstrong, well, in any case, "wake me up when september ends", and October, actually just wake me up the day of the election, let me do my part, and then go back to living a life Im quite enjoying aside from all this schoolyard insult political stupidry. Theyve turned it into a madhouse yet again, which I do believe is a conscious effort that benefits one side.
Does anyone wanna talk about the stuff that really makes a difference in people's lives? For the sake of good Gods everywhere, come on, come with it, and come with it real, if you have to rely on fooling people, you aint worth a relyin on (something Id imagine my uncle from north texas would tell me, if I had an uncle and he was from North Texas).
Telling myself to calm the nerves, back to real things.... like this recording session this weekend, a great string of release shows coming together, and our coming Los Cabos music season, begun in style October 10th with our a new band sure to tear San Jose a new arroyo and a host of students coming down to strut.
By this time next month, our album will be ready to drop, for the first time featuring a couple unique arrangements of other folks tunes, those folks being much more recognizable names than I. Its coming together well, our song EP will release on the heels of the jazz record, and we will forge on screaming goodness, no matter how often the cynics get the best and make a lifeless melee of all we can. Defy the cycle.

Ill be back in MN to do some recording Sept 10th for a few days, maybe sneak in a small last minute show.We're just beginning to schedule release shows, looking to be around election weekend.
Things are slow performance wise for the months of heat. Ive been on a intimate instrument relationship building binge since returning from NY, spending a beyond healthy amount of hours a day practicing, thee threat of practice's rigors and muse destructive nature being counteracted ably by the inspiration gained from being back teaching. Dumb luck in finding the balance. Kids with makeshift instruments, spontaneous dance, outlandish hollers of melody, and songs of humor and simplicity have a way of making the ones and zeros of technique and density of theory study become tools to again express like a kid, as opposed to an exercise in grooming the commonplace muscles of pomposity (big words aside), cynicism, and complacency. Kids do it right. Im lucky to be reminded of that often.

Id feel dishonest to myself, and in neglect of my better nature, without mentioning how good it feels to again be inspired, beyond music or writing, about the direction and possibility that we are capable of, and responsible to. Politics is something I try to avoid on this site, but this feels bigger. Thanks Obama for reminding me how this feels, both the optimism and the responsibility to act according to it.

Im looking forward to another incredible season of music in Los Cabos and beyond this year.

Im working on getting some appropriate words to describe the past couple weeks in upstate NY and the city. I was lucky to make some heros my peers and play daily. I spent 5 days studying and playing with Medeski, Martin, and Wood and a group of excellent players and Im not the same. Aside from thee tangible results in my playing and general confidence that this is indeed what I do, and what I should, the band's generosity and empowering approach to music leaves me renewed, inspired and committed to music, education, and positive things beyond.
There is so much cynicism in many of our modern musicians, not to mention contention, tension, and competititension (TM that). The experience with MMW made my blood feel younger, like when I used to play in my basement, reminding me that feeling is a place you have to work to get to through practice, a commitment to health, and a mentality that cynicism is an enemy to be battled ardently.


I took the train down to the city afterwards and saw my friends Richie and Eren Cannata. Thanks to them for having me sit in at the Cutting Room and rip with the great Spyro Gyra guitarist Julio Fernandez, things got boiling. I spent a couple extra days in the city to see Bill Frisell and Ron Miles.

Marc Ribot and and John Scofield came to hang with MMW as well, both of their playing all good kinds of sick and beautiful.

Thats thee abridged report, cause Im back here in San Jose and there's a beach requesting my attendance, but a quick idea of whats coming up..... Im teaching music at Mission again and a few private classes and workshops as well, so contact if interested.

October and November will see a bunch of shows in MN and Mexico for our album release and a couple events happening in Los Cabos.

We're planning the inaugural "music day out" down here, a day of workshops, student recitals, student bands, students sitting in with our fine local players, and a night-time show and throwdown. Lots of good art a chance for Los Cabos musicians to promote their upcoming schedules. Ill let you know more soon.

Thanks for coming by. A bunch of new tunes will be up soon.

I got the masters from a session we did over a year ago when I was back in MN last week. Id all but forgotten or written off what came of it, but Im listening now and feeling a lot better about it. Its kind of a collection of the songs Ive always needed to put out, but with stronger performances and done in sort of the live vibe fashion of Baja. About half the tunes are kind of a chronological sequence of the month leading up to the time I left the states, a relationship I was in, on through the dwindling of that and hopefully a positive capitulation to it all.
Listening to it now for me is like finding an old photobook. Its difficult to discern singular emotions that come from the listening, they come all mixed up ,just get a general sense that, man a lot has happened in 2 years, and I need to get these out and write the story's next piece.

I always have trouble getting over my vocal performance, like noticing the lines on the forehead without seeing the face. But its alright on these, and there is some really beautiful playing by Adam, Benny, and
Greg. Im out of character with emotion in listening. I think thats a positive sign. I hope you'll like them. If not, we'll give it another try with the next batch.

Its hot back in Baja and feels nice. Taking some time to practice and get things in order for a NY trip and gettin the new record edited, mixed, and mastered. We've got a bunch of good ears on it. Thanks again for a succesful trip up to MN and look for a couple release shows up that way in the fall.

we ran all over the place playing the dakota, a great room, but thought Id post the tunes.... some off the record to come..... a bunch of new stuff. I owe a troughloaed of gratitude to Adam Linz for producing the album and tweaking our set, songs in the studio, and improving my playing in general.
Here's the set ... Dakota, July 15th, 2008


Short Story --- Ken Dorham
Aqui Como Alla - Marc Ribot
Silent Army - Clouser
Drive at the Sun - Clouser
Silent Army - Clouser
Phase Dance - Metheny
Caravan
Night Is On - Clouser

II
Put it Where You Want It - Crusaders
All In a Name - Clouser
Born By the Night - Clouser
Man With No Country - Clouser
Unbreak the Morning - Clouser
Thunder on the Mountian - Bob Dylan
Manic Depression - Hendrix
Cold Duck Time - Eddie Harris

III
Hey Joe - Hendrix
Below, Unsleeping - Clouser
Cantelope Island - Herbie Hancock

Im getting closer to finshing the charts for next week's recording and can't wait to hear how it all comes together. The other guys always have some input I would have been blind to. Im really excited about the songs on this record. Most of the tunes have developed over quite a bit of time and are more involved than a lot of what Ive written before..... and the live feel we get recording with Adam, Benny, and Greg is something Im always anxious to hear.
Dont miss 4th of July at Havana's featuring Howie Clifton on sax and all sorts of guests. We know how to make it happen there.
And then the Dakota Jazz Club July 15th in Minneapolis. Itll be a homecoming and the wrap up of 10 days recording so things should sound nice. If you haven't seen the band play, come out, all these guys are killers.

See you soon, thanks for your support

Im in the San Diego airport sitting next to an eagerly conversational fellow who looks hungry. The two Nathan's hot dogs accompanied by healthy portions of relish and nacho cheese and bloody mary are a dead giveaway. Its 845 a.m. Really nice fellow though, just a bad diet I suppose. Im on my first of what will probably be 5 to 6 diet cokes today. Better than the alternatives I tell myself.
Heading back to Los Cabos after a great week up here studying and playing. I was lucky to take some classes with Peter Sprague, a phenomenal guitarist and inspiring person. I cant say enough about his playing and sort of general outlook, for lack of better term. A lot of what was talked about was direction and approach as opposed to scalses and such. I left each class with him with a renewed energy to commit the time necessary to continue to grow as a player and writer.
Had the chance to play all week in a group directed by trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos, a monster player. The tunes he had as running were challenging and involved, and our performance went off well. Our group ranged ages from 14 to 50some witha 3 piece horn section, ,not somehting I play with often.... a great experience. The 14 year old was pianist Chase Morrin, who absolutely kills it. A quick search will lead you to info on his young and prodigous playing. Im hoping Gilbert and others will come down this season and do some shows in Los Cabos..... if you're in to checking out these players, look up Willie Jones III as well. He's a NY guy, drummer, who I had the chance to see play with Peter Sprague the other night. Monster..... all inall a week up here renewed a lot of my commitment to practice and hopefully the discipline that can wane from time to time, and its always a great experience meeting all these great players. A humbling and inspiring time.
What else?..... excited about recording beginning July 7th, got some charts to finish up but I feel good about the tunes. July 15th at the Dakota in Minneapolis should be a great night, somewhere Ive always wanted to play and itll be fun to see friends its been too long away from. Other than that, keeping busy in Los Cabos.... come down July 4th to Havana if you're around. Itll be fun as always.

Take Care.... hope to see you either the 4th in Los Cabos or July 15th at the Dakota

Hope everyone is well. Still feels spring down here, but Im hoping everyone up north is feeling summer.
Ive had a chance to do a good deal of writing and refining these past couple weeks in anticipation of recording in July. Thanks to everyone who has stuck around long enough to watch progress be made, and I do believe this next instrumental disc will be the most marked and confident group of songs thus far.... Im gonna finish up our album of vocal songs as well, but its just more forced, so if you know a good singer that wants to be a singer, tell 'em I got some songs for sale, and by sale I dont mean it in the clearance rack sense, I mean it in the first day X Box 3 comes on the market way (with no excuses for ego or my naivete as to the current run of video game systems).

Anyhow, Im looking forward to heading up to San Diego for a week of music this Sunday. It was all much more simple when planned. Now a year's worth of jobs have decided to condense themselves into a day, that day being this Saturday, the day I once planned on leaving. Ill be out at Cerritos this Saturday morning meeting with magazine writing partners and playing some quick guitar, then back to San Jose to play a wedding, on to the middle school students graduation, then to the summer solstice party for some more playing, all to end up on what will surely be a groggy plane ride the next morning.
Thanks for your continued support. It means a lot to be able to play and write and I'm doing all I can to make the mouse clicking worth your while.
Take Care

We're putting our Havana Wednesdays to rest for the summer after what has been the most memorable year of music and progress thus far. I'm looking forward to a quieter schedule, and some earlier night and the opportunity to do some writing and get things sized up and spankin' for next season down here. I do go through performance withdrawal despite still playing regularly at events and such, its not as rewarding or encouraging as having the chance to play original material or have nights on your own terms, but I think its the best move for a few months to tend to other aforementioned ambitions.
Ive got some tune Im excited about recording with Adam, Benny, and Greg in July with the addition of Henry Weinbeck on trumpet. We've all had more of a chance to get to know each others stylings, and moods, and comfort within the group seems to breed better outcomes, so that all should be fun.
Im also looking forward to meeting up with friends Eren and Richie Cannata in New York City and wading in the excellence they've created their in their studio. Got a week studying with guitarist Peter Sprague coming up in San Diego and a weekd with Medeski, Martin, and Wood and fellow musicians in upstate New York. Ill post things as they come up..... for now its baking in the sun, teaching kids, and getting pummeled by the occasional wave with a board attached to my ankle.
Take Care

We're putting our Havana Wednesdays to rest for the summer after what has been the most memorable year of music and progress thus far. I'm looking forward to a quieter schedule, and some earlier night and the opportunity to do some writing and get things sized up and spankin' for next season down here. I do go through performance withdrawal despite still playing regularly at events and such, its not as rewarding or encouraging as having the chance to play original material or have nights on your own terms, but I think its the best move for a few months to tend to other aforementioned ambitions.
Ive got some tune Im excited about recording with Adam, Benny, and Greg in July with the addition of Henry Weinbeck on trumpet. We've all had more of a chance to get to know each others stylings, and moods, and comfort within the group seems to breed better outcomes, so that all should be fun.
Im also looking forward to meeting up with friends Eren and Richie Cannata in New York City and wading in the excellence they've created their in their studio. Got a week studying with guitarist Peter Sprague coming up in San Diego and a weekd with Medeski, Martin, and Wood and fellow musicians in upstate New York. Ill post things as they come up..... for now its baking in the sun, teaching kids, and getting pummeled by the occasional wave with a board attached to my ankle.
Take Care

Dont have much to post other than all continues to go well and keeping busy even as the season winds down here. Lots of events with a bunch of our great players here in Los Cabos. The more I enjoy things here I am reminded we are a combination of circumstance and choice. We make things happen or let things make us.
Thanks for your continued interest in the music and such here. We're gonna finish up the couple albums by the fall and I look forward to getting over the embarassment of the staleness of the tunes left here for so long..... Im waiting to update the website with some goods and looking forward to quite a summer.... actually gonna play with guys like Peter Sprague and John Medeski. Good God. more on that to come.

Take Care

Im just returning, physically though not yet mentally, to Los Cabos after a weekend in New Orleans for Jazzfest, which I celebrated in usual festive fashion. The festival was its predictable shades of incredible, offering me the opportunity to catch up on the heavy dose of live music Ive been cut from cold turkey here in Mexico. The first band I saw was the Lee Boys, at the reccomendation of my brother. Bumps shot from my skin and the blood went flush as I heard the pedal steel lead. Church of blues. Its inspiring to see music played in an inspired way, and that band was so visibly grateful for their opportunity to share their music with jazzfest, the energy was contagious and all positive.
I got to see and briefly meet The Bad Plus as well. Their composition and playing skills are nothing short of mastery. They were great guys as well. The tune "Physical Cities" was especially ridiculous in their set. The whole show kind of left the chin hanging.
Walking around the fairgrounds offers the opportunity to make use of some dumb luck and stumble across all sorts of greatness. Walking through the Saturday mud, I sloughed past a little stage with a collective called "The Pinstripe Brass Band". They killed it and I moved my limbs. Coming into the festival Saturday, there was some outrageous guitar mastery screaming over a standard blues at one of the larger stages on the ground, which turned out to be Henry Butler's band and his guitarist. I was only able to catch a couple tunes, but got to meet Henry briefly a little later and talk players with him, as he eagerly admitted wearing his purple suit and sunglasses, referring to his guitarist's skills "we only hire 'em if they're killers". Killers indeed.
Theres too much other good stuff to mention here and Im still processing it all as Im recovering from an evening of seeing Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, who took to the stage at Tipitina's Uptown around 1 a.m.
New Orleans is such an incredibly culturally rich and inspiring place. Its all its own and we're lucky to have it to enjoy. Looking forward to getting back, hopefully one day with instrument in tow.
For now, we've got some shows coming up and all sorts of things for the summer, so stick around if you would.
Take Care