From: Andrew Loog Oldham
Subject: Re: Mitch Mitchell

bob;
the cruel master indeed.
no one up above warned the invincibles of the road they’d have to hoe.
guess mitch was not up to signing on for the next episode.
as i’m sure you know the hendrix experience, with mike jeffries , was really brutal. quite a suppressor and difficult to emerge from with the glass half full…. but he tried.
and thanks for the memory of wonderful sally and klein’s of westport.
best from buenos aires where pete best appears next week.
ALO

From: Luke Lewis
Subject: Re: The CMA Awards

George Strait DOES ride the range.  Think Frank Sinatra with twang.

From: Jon Landau
Subject: Re: The CMA Awards

Bob:  I had the pleasure of managing  Shania during the Come on Over years and your description of her creative abilities is inaccurate.  She and Mutt co wrote almost everything and you can feel and hear the difference between their collaborations and Mutt’s work with others in the cleverness, warmth and emotional range of so many of the songs.  No question that, great producer that he is, he dominated the record making, but not the song writing, in my opinion.  Also, Mutt did not imbue her with a superstar quality.  From my observation