Mike Fitzgerald's next post will be his 1000th

[ghost of miles]

I salute you, sir, for your indefatigable writing, research, and discographical work. Look forward to reading whatever you publish next--you are one of a number of people who regularly raise the intellectual temperature around these parts.

[Leeway]

I'll second that. Mike is always prompting (sometimes more us to burrow down to the bedrock of fact when the tendency is to sometimes fly off in the balloon of conjecture (helluva metaphor, oh well).

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Well, this is it.

Whew.

OK - now that the pressure is off, I'll have something profound to add somewhere else.

Mike

[ghost of miles]

If this were Tolkien, you'd have to sing a song.

[Jim Alfredson]

If this were Tolkien, you'd have to sing a song.

I think he should anyway.

[AllenLowe]

Mike is one of those guys without which the research community would be in deep trouble - resourceful, ACCURATE, helpful and generous - and he has put up with my cranky posts on the Jazz Research line for some time now -

[tooter]

Thanks from me for all the help too, Mike. I've got Rat Race Blues on order.