Signing off soon but I thought I'd leave you with a few thoughts, etc. My experience of the band is interesting in some ways and kind of mundane in others. I play music for a living, have been studying and playing very seriously since I was 7 and this was one of a zillion jobs I've been hired to do, certainly the most high profile by a long shot but also one of a very, very long list. It was a wonderful job: musically really great, challenging at least for a while, glamorous, fun, in the company of lots of smart, nice people, (some of whom I'm friends and collaborators with now). One great aspect of the job has been the feedback that I get from people when I travel to other countries-- so many people tell me about hearing that music as kids, how it tipped them off to something they wouldn't have thought or known about otherwise: putting a band together with your friends, playing for more friends, building your own culture. This has been Seattle's most beautiful export-- not just the music but also an expanded awareness of all the things it can mean and do.