Re: Last 5 Years. I was working with JRB cohort Brooks Ashmankas right after the cast recording had been released and I told Brooks how much I thought (and still think) Norbert sounds like him. To which Brooks told me that JRB told him that he actually wrote a lot of Last 5's score with Brooks' voice in mind, but that JRB didn't think Brooks could play a Jew. Not to mention someone tall.
Technology can be a miracle department: In uploading stuff to my website, I have been going back through literally decades of old cassettes, some of which are really badly damaged. I had two recordings of an old Howard Jones-esque (anyone remember him?) piece of mine called
Latin Jazz, with tons of echo-ey synths and me singing in Latin (hence the title). Unfortunately, like an idiot, I had not removed the protect-tab and had stupidly erased little sections from both copies through the years. But this morning with a little time and effort and Cakewalk Pyro, I have been able to reconstruct a complete version, which really makes me happy. I played it for DS Betsy and she could not tell where the edits were, which is truly amazing, because the synth echoes are really prominent throughout the whole piece.
