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Last night the “New York Times” posted a story about all the big corporations that got money from the government:

“Large Troubled Companies Got Bailout Money in Small-Business Loan Program – Companies with accounting problems or in trouble with the government received millions in federal loans”

Read this story and you will become completely disillusioned. The small guy is screwed, the corporations rule. The money was distributed by the banks, and who do you think has the best relationships with the institutions? And sure, Shake Shack gave the money back, and Ruth’s Chris too, but today’s news is that three publicly traded hotel companies won’t give the cash back.

And now comes the Tara Reade story.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, Fox News and its cronies have pivoted, from Covid-19 to Biden. For weeks now, they’ve been talking up the difference between Kavanaugh and the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, how the left is soft-pedaling the accusation of Biden when they went for it in extremis on Kavanaugh.

Okay, the left dodged that bullet, they said that Reade just wasn’t believable.

But three days ago the “Intercept” dropped a bombshell:

“New Evidence Supporting Credibility Of Tara Reade’s Allegation Against Joe Biden Emerges”

Now the “Intercept” is not Fox News, as a matter of fact, Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill may not be loved by the DNC, but a lot of left wing Democrats give them and their news outlet respect.

So, there’s CNN video/audio of Tara Reade’s mother calling in to Larry King complaining about what happened to her daughter and…

I know, I know, your first reaction is to say LOOK AT TRUMP’S BEHAVIOR!

But I’m not sure that will win.

Biden already has the black mark of the Ukraine investigation. No, he did nothing wrong, but the optics are terrible, Hunter Biden traded on his dad’s position.

Once again, don’t counter with the Trump kids, that’s the Republicans, they fight in a different way. But the Democrats are all about the appearance of fairness, a big tent that accepts all thinkers. It’s not a coalition of corporations, evangelicals and the xenophobic. So…

My first reaction is Biden is so over-the-hill, so intellectually compromised, that he truly believes nothing happened with Tara Reade, BECAUSE HE’S FORGOTTEN!

But this issue is not going away. And the longer it’s hammered, the worse it looks.

Now one thing’s for sure, in the past six weeks we’ve seen the need for Medicare for All, if for no other reason than the indigent should not have to think twice about going to the hospital to be tested.

And now, with these corporate giveaways… It looks like these entities are the enemy, and need to be reined in.

Which makes Bernie Sanders look prescient.

But today they canceled the New York primary, the DNC believes the nomination process has been settled.

Now if you’re old enough, you remember the story of Thomas Eagleton. Picked to be McGovern’s vice president, he had to step down after it was revealed he had shock treatment. Tony Soprano can see a therapist and still rule, but not a politician. And that holds to this day. You can inhale, but you can’t take antidepressants, you can’t have talked out your problems with a professional.

So, Biden can continue to deny, but he’s not on the winning side of this. You can vote for Biden because you believe in what he stands for, if nothing other than he’s the anti-Trump, just like people voted for Trump as the anti-Hillary, but if you’re in between, if you were a Sanders or Warren supporter, WHY BOTHER?

The Democrats will win this election if they get out the vote. Can Biden get out the vote?

This has been a wild and wooly, unpredictable primary season. But now that it looks settled, maybe it isn’t.

Maybe it’s not Sanders, but it’s looking like it’s got to be somebody else.

Forget my personal feelings, put yourself in the shoes of the voters. Biden has been a bumbler who has inspired no one. But he’s believed to be the safe candidate who can take down the Orange Menace. But what if he’s not safe?

This is the America we now live in. We could call it gotcha politics, but really it’s something different, the rank and file feel passed over. On both the right and the left.

That’s another reason people supported Bernie, HE DIDN’T TAKE CORPORATE MONEY!

Meanwhile, Biden is from the ultimate corporate state and despite having all the fat cats and companies behind him, he’s almost $200 million behind in fundraising.

This story is not going away.

As for fighting it… Biden did a bad job of fighting Ukraine, he sat on his hands for days when an emphatic denial and pushback was necessary.

Meanwhile, the out of touch Biden is notoriously handsy with women.

This is what happens when you play with your brain, not your heart. The DNC got what it wanted. Someone safe, who would not upset the base. And now he’s upsetting the base!

On the left it’s all about character. You’ve got to appear squeaky-clean. That was one of Obama’s virtues.

Joe Biden is no Barack Obama.

Happy Song Playlist

“Big Barn Bed”
Paul McCartney and Wings

The fourth time is the charm.

“McCartney” was underrated, primarily because it signified the breakup of the Beatles, but it’s unjustifiably forgotten. Sure, it’s slight, but that’s part of its charm, it feels like something you’d cut at home.

“Ram” was inferior.

“Wild Life” was nearly unlistenable.

The came “Red Rose Speedway.”

I didn’t like “My Love” then and I don’t like it now, I don’t think I’ve listened to it all the way through since the days of AM radio. And once I bought the album, in the eighties as a cutout, I got into “Medley: Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands of Love/Power Cut.”

But I loved “Big Barn Bed” from the first time I heard it, and can still remember times I did hear it, like on the drive to Watkins Glen, but after a couple of bummers I did not buy “Red Rose Speedway” when it came out and in that era if you didn’t own it, you were reliant on the radio and that meant “Big Barn Bed” was always special to me, just like Argent’s “Liar.” But in the internet era, everything is available for all to hear.

Truthfully, it’s the fifth album, “Band on the Run,” that broke the curse, that demonstrated not only that McCartney was fully back, but he was the equal of George Harrison and John Lennon in the solo era. And I love “Venus and Mars,” but after that it was up and down, unfortunately mostly down, despite the positive reviews, although I do love the title track of “London Town.”

So, “Big Barn Bed” is all about the background vocals, and the a cappella denouement at the end.

You cannot listen to “Big Barn Bed” and stay in a bad mood. I’ve never burned out on it and still feel as joyous as ever as I listen to it on the big rig right now. And I feel like I’m 20, instead of 67.

“She’s a Rainbow”
The Rolling Stones

This is not the best song on “Their Satanic Majesties’ Request” (did you ever find the four Beatles in the 3-D cover?), that would be “2000 Light Years From Home.” And the album might contain Bill Wyman’s best cut with the Stones, “In Another Land,” and there’s incredible energy in “Citadel,” but this is upbeat in a way the other cuts are not.

“Mexico”
James Taylor

“Gorilla” came out in May and played the entire summer of ’75. The entire record was more upbeat than what preceded it, the LP was light, like the summer.

This was from back before any northerners went anywhere but Acapulco. Of course, Southern Californians went to Tijuana, maybe even Ensenada, but Cabo was just a fishing town, never mind Zihuatanejo or Tulum. This was in the pre-internet era, when what happened south of the border absolutely stayed south of the border, back when Mexico was seen as exotic as opposed to dangerous.

“Mellow Yellow”
Donovan

This is not Donovan’s best cut, that’s “Sunshine Superman,” or maybe “Catch the Wind,” but this was a gigantic hit just when America was waking up to recreational drugs. Was it about smoking electric bananas? I’ll leave that to you.

“Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me”
Keith Urban

And I got the one I love beside me
My troubles behind me
I’m alive and I’m free
Who wouldn’t wanna be me

Powerful, with more than a little bass, the song is electric, just like the guitar, this is the kind of cut you put on loud to inspire you, not metal to squeeze out all the bad feelings, but to lift you above the earth, where nothing can impinge on your mood.

“Easy to Slip”
Little Feat

Now this is a conundrum, the lyrics disqualify this cut from this list, but the sound is a bullseye. This is the song I sang in my head when I skied the bumps in Utah.

This is from the second Little Feat album, “Sailin’ Shoes.” No one bought the first, which is maybe why they put “Willin'” on both LPs. And it wasn’t until the fourth LP that the masses caught on to Little Feat, and it took a long time for people to go back to the second, but this is the one with “A Apolitical Blues,” which Van Halen covered, amazing how other people listen to the same album cuts as you.

“‘Til I Die”
The Beach Boys

Possibly the last transcendent Brian Wilson track.

“Sunflower” got great reviews, but was unjustly ignored by the public. “Surf’s Up” was not as good, but it got ink and acceptance and suddenly the Beach Boys were rejuvenated and started their endless tour, which they’re still on, albeit in two camps. This is primarily dreamy, when you’re already in a good mood, lying on an inner tube, floating down the river, in your pool, or just in your mind.

“Modern Music”
Be Bop Deluxe

If the band is remembered, and it’s really not, it’s for two cuts on the previous LP, “Sunburst Finish,” “Fair Exchange” and “Ships in the Night.” But I always preferred the follow-up, “Modern Music.”

The title cut is the best, but “Down on Terminal Street” and “Honeymoon on Mars” are also excellent.

The double album follow-up, “Live! In The Air Age,” was excellent (did you have the original, with the white vinyl?) And “Drastic Plastic” then pushed the envelope, but was still listenable and good. Then Bill Nelson broke up the band and slipped into marginality. At the advent of the century there were all these stories how he was broke, how his lack of cash had broken up his marriage, how he did work for EMI in promise of payment and didn’t get it and…I have no idea how he’s doing today.

“The Finer Things”
Steve Winwood

Yes, Keith Urban covered “Higher Love” on that Covid-19 telecast, and that is certainly an upbeat song, but at this point I prefer the second side of the unjustly reviled “Back in the High Life.” Winwood pointed the way to the future, gave up the roots for the modern sound, sold incredibly and was accepted by everybody, but now in today’s only stripped-down roots have credibility somehow the viewpoint on this album is different.

While there is time
Let’s go out and feel everything
If you hold me
I will let you into my dreams

My ex had moved out the year before. To quote another cut from this LP, “Here am I, where are you?” It’s very difficult when they leave, they were here and then they’re gone. And this was before the internet, never mind Zoom. But a year later I had a new girlfriend, I played this cassette as we drove up Pacific Coast Highway with my hand between her thighs.

“Highway to Hell”
AC/DC

From the Bon Scott era. “Highway to Hell” incorporates the ethos of yesteryear, when music was us versus them, when you listened to your tracks as a badge of identity. You were proud you were on the highway to hell, you could make it on a minimum wage job, the music was enough to get you through.

Living easy, living free

“Boogie Motel”
Foghat

There are bands you hate and then you love.

Like Foghat.

What seemed like mindless boogie back then is genius today, if only we had rock bands with this kind of energy these days.

I heard these songs all the time on KMET and KLOS and didn’t realize I missed them until KMET changed formats.

Between heaven and hell, check into the Boogie Motel

Yup, there’s that same metaphor, when hell was a regular feature in rock music.

“Flying High Again”
Ozzy Osbourne

This was from when he was still seen as the Prince of Darkness, before we found out on MTV he was a lovable Beatles fan. Like Foghat, I hated Ozzy, except for this one track I could not get enough of on KMET and KLOS, and then I went to see him on the “No More Tears” tour and it was all over.

“I’m a Believer”
Giant

At this point, Dann Huff is seen mostly as a producer, but before that he was a studio gunslinger and then formed his own band with his brother and tried to make it and…

Didn’t.

For a long time this was unavailable online. If you know it, you love it, if you don’t, get ready to have your head explode.

“A Place in the Sun”
Pablo Cruise

At this point, Pablo Cruise is reviled, maybe because after having success they moved to the middle of the road, but if you can’t get happy listening to this, if you can’t enjoy the guitar work, if you can’t get behind the energetic uplifting chorus…

You’re probably at home in all black listening to punk records, waiting for everybody to notice and pay attention to you, not realizing that era is over, nobody cares.

“Play on Love”
Jefferson Starship

From the humongous “Red Octopus” with Mary Balin’s exquisite “Miracles.’ This song opens the second side, this is when the Starship was celebrated, before the Mickey Thomas era.

“Playing in the Band”
Bob Weir

Everybody bought Jerry Garcia’s initial solo LP, which opened with “Deal,” but this is the solo track that is remembered and still played all these years later.

“Dance to the Music”
Sly & the Family Stone

Talk about exploding out of the gate…

This was the act’s initial single, heralding their arrival, who knew what would follow would be even better.

“Jet Airliner”
The Steve Miller Band

He didn’t write it, but he killed it.

Steve faded out, then he came back with the previous year’s “Fly Like an Eagle” and then doubled-down with “Book of Dreams,” this was the initial single, with the s-word intact on FM, but not AM.

“Meadows”
Joe Walsh

The second side opener from his breakthrough “The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get.”

Which I didn’t own for years, but I did buy the live album, “Don’t Argue With A Sick Mind” and drove from Salt Lake to Connecticut listening to the live take. By this point, I-70 was four-lane over Vail Pass. And at the top there are meadows, I listened to this over and over and over again as I drove through.

“Let it Rain”
Eric Clapton

Seen as a disappointment back then, “After Midnight” and “Blues Power” have become standards. The best cut is “Easy Now,” but this is close.

“Only You Know and I Know”
Dave Mason

Speaking of Clapton…

“Alone Together” came out the same time as Clapton’s debut…

For a long time the known take was the live one done by Delaney & Bonnie, with Clapton (and Mason!), and it’s more energetic, but this studio version is more soul-fulfilling.

“I’m Into Something Good”
Herman’s Hermits

“Mrs. Brown” was bigger, but this initial track is just so magical it’s undeniable.

“Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)”
The Mamas & the Papas

Yes, I could have used “Words of Love,” or “I Saw Her Again Last Night,” but this is now my favorite track by this act. This contributed to the legend of Laurel Canyon…we dreamed of setting ourselves free and moving there, but we didn’t have the balls, to jump the track and go for it.

“Deadbeat Club”
B-52’s

Huh, get a job?
What for?

Yes, from “Cosmic Thing,” with “Love Shack.” From a curio, stars of the underground, the band lost a member and then went to the top of the chart. This is my favorite cut from the album, there was a great video on MTV of the band just hanging out, like in the clubhouse of the “He-Man Woman Haters Club”…you could envision Spanky and Alfalfa grooving with them.

“Live for the Music”
Bad Company

The opening cut of “Run With the Pack,” this is the essence of being a rock fan. If Paul Rodgers had died in a plane crash, or O.D.’ed at the height of his career, this band would be enshrined in the Rock Hall and revered, but his crime is staying alive and still delivering.

“Hand in My Pocket”
Alanis Morissette

She could never follow up “Jagged Little Pill,” but we all wanted to hear what we she did next, now we don’t care. Sure she did “Uninvited” subsequently, but that’s all. She got back together with Glen Ballard, but it’s hard to recreate the magic, but it’s hard to live through this instant fame. Will Billie Eilish suffer the same fate? Then again, “When We All Fall Asleep…” won all those awards, but has only a smidgen of the talent and greatness of “Jagged Little Pill.”

“Baby Seat”
The Barenaked Ladies

The band played the 2002 Olympics and that inspired me to download as many of their tracks as I could from Limewire, and this is the one that stood out. And, the lyric is kinda critical, but the chorus and the bridge are so magical, you can only listen and smile. Then again, the words are inspirational:

You can’t live your life in the baby seat
You’ve got to stand on your own, don’t admit defeat

“Ah! Leah!”
Donnie Iris

Was the problem he was on MCA?

He had his moment, then he went into the mortgage business, but he was more than a one hit wonder.

“Uptown”
Prince

Now people know “Dirty Mind,” but for a long time they didn’t.

It’s a masterpiece.

This song about the hip part of Minneapolis is sure magic.

The album is only 30 minutes long, but that shows it doesn’t have to be long to be good. In the CD era there was too much filler. In the internet era it seems all we get is filler.

“Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
Queen

People seem to forget that this was the initial single, the breakthrough on “The Game.” Which is significant for many reasons, not the least of which is the band switched producers, from Roy Thomas Baker to Mack, and still had success. This stripped-down rockabilly cut is so infectious, I had to run out and buy the album immediately upon release.

“Sailing Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley”
Robert Palmer

I bought the following LP first, with the amazing “Give Me an Inch,” and then went back to this, to this day people don’t know this medley, they should.

“Joyride”
Roxette

A harbinger of the Swedish hitmakers to come.

Sure, this was a giant track on MTV and radio, but then the label was in flux and the act no longer got a push in America. Divorce yourself from the era, just listen. Those edgy guitars, this is what Max Martin has built his reputation on, not an unnecessary note, just magic. He followed in Per Gessle’s footsteps.

“Larger Than Life”
Backstreet Boys

Speaking of Max Martin…

To think our biggest complaint at the turn of the century was boy bands…before “Idol” and the “Voice” and…makes you yearn for what once was.

I actually bought “Millennium.” I had to hear “I Want It That Way.” I was stunned how good the LP was, this was the opening cut, it was more rock than most of what was on the rock charts. Backstreet Boys had something to prove, and they did.

“Gimme All Your Lovin'”
ZZ Top

I was tempted to include “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide,” but I’m using this because it was the breakthrough. Sideshow Texas band changes its sound just a tiny bit and via the equivalent of what was then a viral video becomes part of the firmament, loved by everybody.

“Can’t Get Enough”
Winger

I know, one of the “W” bands, but…

This is heavy, magical and mind-blowing, this is the power of rock and roll. Turn it up and squeeze the coronavirus right out of your brain.

Charlie Puth covers Bruce Springsteen’s Growin’ Up for “Jersey 4 Jersey” Benefit Concert

But when they said, ‘Sit down,’ I stood up

Bon Jovi singlehandedly made New Jersey cool.

Or at least lifted it up from the depths.

Let’s see…

Newark? Nothing good ever happened there, other than maybe the birth of Philip Roth. Growing up in the sixties all you knew about the biggest city in New Jersey was the riots. To this day, most people cannot remember that the capital of the state is Trenton. New Jersey was not hip, it was where you lived if you couldn’t afford to reside in Westchester County. Sure, they had Atlantic City, but that was seedy…it’s still pretty seedy. As for the western part of the state? Residents there often say they live in Philly.

Never mind the swamps, the crime…if you’re gonna boast about the Garden State, you’re gonna have a hard time.

Until Bon Jovi. Who climbed out of the swamp to dominate MTV and to embrace his heritage.

So many of the Boss’s songs were about New York City. Bon Jovi embraced New Jersey, flew its flag high.

To the point where this special was aired, and many famous people from New Jersey, even if they no longer live there, appeared. Then again, the Boss moved back to Jersey from L.A. Generally speaking Jersey is someplace you’re from, not someplace you’re going to. But Bon Jovi legitimized it.

Now we’ve been enduring these streaming specials for a couple of weeks now, and no one has gotten it quite right. Too much gravitas, not enough humor. Give credit to Chelsea Handler, she tested the limits in this telecast, Jon Stewart was not wearing a suit, these were regular people doing regular things, in many cases the celebrities looked like us.

Especially Charlie Puth.

One unpredicted result of Covid-19 is the celebrity fallout. Even at this late internet date, “stars” don’t realize they’re seen as no better than the rest of us. Sure, there are nitwits who’ve barely reached puberty who adore them, but as soon as they can become influencers themselves, they see it’s all a scam. It’s all manipulated, and your only thing to sell is your credibility, your art, the public has not time for artifice, and certainly no time for grandiosity.

Like John Legend didn’t realize the public would see his awards.

Even on Bill Maher, the guests all show their books right up front.

Self-promotion in this time of self-quarantine looks bad. But shoving your accomplishments in our faces? No one remembers John Legend’s performance from the other night, but everybody remembers his tone-deaf display of his awards. Who cares about awards anyway. Legend is an entertainer, inoffensive, they didn’t give Lou Reed awards, or Led Zeppelin either, those pushing the envelope are too dangerous to get awards, the committees embrace them last, if at all. And now, when Billie Eilish can go from zero to hero overnight, it just illustrates that we’re all in this together, that the road from nowhere to somewhere can be seen. But it’s damn hard to achieve your goals, to ring the bell, and if you get there, you’d better be humble.

So you’re rich, so what? You couldn’t have made it without the spending of the public, pay fealty to the people, don’t brag, like David Geffen. Hell, if you post on Instagram you’re looking for positive feedback, otherwise why do it?

So, although at times somber, “New Jersey 4 New Jersey” had a lighter, more fluid feel.

But the Boss disappointed.

Yes, we cut Springsteen a break, he sings about the underclass, but when you see his rehearsal room, when he sings these dour non-hits, it’s hard to warm up to him, instead of making his point, he appears out of touch.

As for Jon Bon Jovi…his music is about bombast, about arenas, his studio was more low-key than Springsteen’s, but somehow, without the band, Bon Jovi emoted and it did not connect.

And then we’ve got Charlie Puth in his bedroom.

Puth doesn’t get a lot of respect. At best, people see him as talented. They know he went to Berklee, he’s got his pedigree, then again, we anoint those from the streets.

So, on this show, Puth seemed about sixteen. With a barely there moustache. As for the wifebeater… One couldn’t really understand… Was this about image? If so, it didn’t work so well. Or, was Puth really showing his roots, do he and his relatives wear these tank tops? I don’t know.

But unlike all the celebs of the past few weeks, livestreaming to embellish their image, Puth was playing from his bedroom, FROM HIS PARENTS’ HOUSE!!

Sure, he’s got a few bucks. God, maybe he even owns a house somewhere. Then again, he’s traveling all the time.

And who wants to hole up alone during this crisis?

And the bed is unmade. Most guys do this, after all, they’re gonna sleep in it again tonight.

And his dog ran in and out in the background, a black creature, not a show dog of some exotic breed which a famous person cradles in their arms and then discards.

And then Puth starts to play.

THIS WAS MUSIC!

He played a recognizable song, not even one of his own, but one of the Boss’s!

Yes, Charlie Puth upstaged Bruce Springsteen on this telecast.

So Puth starts tickling the ivories and…you start to smile, you start getting this tingle in your body, THIS IS MUSIC, THIS IS TALENT!

And sure, his voice is not perfectly matched to the song, being sweet and high register, but he can certainly sing, he’s got pipes.

And he’s singing “Growin’ Up.”

Bruce Springsteen was sold as the new Dylan. And “Greetings From Asbury Park” was made that way. You’d think this was some Woody Guthrie, a man and his guitar. In retrospect you can hear the band mixed down low, but in 1973 Bruce was not yet the Boss.

But he wanted to be.

“Greetings From Asbury Park” is stuffed with enough words for three albums. This is a guy who’s got something to say, who wants you to listen, who is doing his all to make it.

Now most people only knew Springsteen’s debut from the covers, by Manfred Mann most specifically. But if you purchased this LP when it came out, there were three tracks that stood out..”For You,” “It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City” and “Growin’ Up.”

Well I stood stone-like at midnight
Suspended in my masquerade
I combed my hair ’til it was just right
And commanded the night brigade
I was open to pain and crossed by the rain
And I walked on a crooked crutch
I strolled all alone through a fallout zone
And came out with my soul untouched

It’s the last line that really matters. Life is about making you conform, kowtowing to your parents and then your boss. But rock and roll threw a wrench in that. The people who made it didn’t fit in, and those who didn’t fit in themselves glommed on and made these acts known, before the rest of the public came clamoring. That’s what engendered corporate rock, that’s what’s wrong with too much music today…it’s not about the identity, it’s not about the resonance, it’s about the sell. Even the performances evidence this. They’re for some theoretical rich people, billionaires, corporations, hovering above the arena, not even in attendance. It’s about making your mark so you can climb into the pantheon of wealth and exclusivity. But no one ever wanted Lemmy at their party. Once you’re invited, once you sell out…hell, even Iggy is acceptable these days, and in the Stooges days even insiders thought he was too outside.

And today you can fake it.

It’s de rigueur for someone else to write the material. Through trickery, you don’t even have to be able to sing well. Can you say J. Lo? But there are a zillion more. You just have to decide to be a music star, talent is secondary, whereas you can’t compete in sports through sheer desire.

But, Puth can play the piano, you marvel.

And he sings too!

And he hasn’t got a big rig, all he’s got is a laptop and an electric keyboard, and a mic, of course, that’s enough. Just like in the old days when you recorded to two track and performed live in the studio. If you’ve got the goods, the technology is not necessary, it’s at most the cherry on top. Today, it’s all about the cherry, the script has been flipped.

Springsteen was a star in his own mind in “Growin’ Up.” He lived in the stratosphere, untouched, if only everybody could see it.

And that’s how we felt, especially in the suburbs. We yearned to break out, from where we weren’t understood, where we weren’t accepted.

And Charlie Puth does not display that edge in this performance.

But what the music does is set your mind and body free, makes you hover above the floor, think about your hopes and dreams, makes you believe it’s gonna be all right, that you’re gonna survive, that it’s gonna work out for you…the performance gives you hope.

And isn’t that what we want right now?