Also I had to read the first sentence/paragraph a few times to get it.

Thanks for the comment; most people don’t know that I really need those.

And yes, there will def. be something cool about the Agency. Here’s an absolutely exclusive scoop just for you. When I was doing the Johnny Cash stuff for STP Cash and I developed a great
relationship based largely on that I could play country music. But when we got into the studio, all the starfuckers from the agency, and there were a ton, wanted to be in the control booth on the talkback “producing” Johnny Cash and his band to do what
they did better than anyone else in the world. Finally, Ken Duskin bellies up to the recording console, grabs the client mike out of my hand and starts producing the spots. Johnny listens for a couple beats, and then says something like, “You know, you folks [all the agency “producers”] are sure telling me a lot of stuff I didn’t know, and I do need to know it. So, why don’t y’all appoint Country Al to come out here and sit with me and the boys and help us translate. Country Al, why don’t you come on in here and set down with us. That way we’ll know we’re gettin’ it right.”

Duskin never talked to me again, and I ended up playing with Johnny Cash and his band on the STP spots. You can’t make this stuff up.

Love,
Al