Dear Bruce,

Look. I really appreciated hanging out with you in the summer of ’84 at Uncle Steve’s Blues Bar and playing pinball. It’s an hour in my head that makes me smile because I never expected you to be such a regular guy. But I’m sorry…

I’m not hearing anything NEW on this NEW album. I’m hearing bits and pieces of a lot of your old stuff. Jeez, you even revisit “10th Avenue Freeze Out” on “Livin’ in The Future.”

How about a new album with something…I dunno…new?