Always nice to hear from you.
While I’m here:
A little over ten years ago we had a reunion-of-the-old-gang get together at another drummer’s house in San Jose (he was in a band with Dave Shogren after Dave "left" The Doobie Brothers, but it went nowhere). Todd Phillips was there, so I got to hear his 18th Century upright bass about five feet away from my drumset. Since I have that same bass on a number of records (with David Grisman, Tony Rice, other masters of acoustic instruments), I can use the memory of the sound I heard that day with the sound on the recordings he plays on. Handy for loudspeaker evaluations.