Having Elvin around changed my view: there is no time, it's just pictures that you paint. The song that he played on turned out my favourite. We became fast friends and I look forward to hanging out with him in New York. Even though he's about fifty years older than I am, we have a lot of similar tastes in music and what we both finnd funny.

For our album, he used his own kit - the Yamaha Absolute Custom gold sparkle. I conducted him, in a way. Any fragments of directions I gave were just to hold back, or don't go as outside. He had never played in a rock context before. I loved everything he did, but the average person is going to go crazy, or fall over! Once he got the idea, it was one take and it was done. I was standing beside him like a three-year-old! It was unbelievable.- Jeremy Taggart, Drums Et Cetera, Sep. 1999

As the disease progressed, rather than giving in and letting herself go, she [Eve], through charity organizations, travelled the globe to meet other children who had also been infected with HIV and basically gave them a little hope. And that's incredible. That's a 10-, 11-year-old with so much more courage and compassion than most people I know. That touches me a lot more than a really close football finish. That's why our songs end up that way. It's the things that really move us the most that inspires our music.- Mike Turner, Edmonton Sun, 7 Feb. 2000

As for the king -- Elvin -- I met him through Gregg [Keplinger], who is quite close to him. I saw him in Seattle at the Jazz Alley in 1997. After being blown away by his playing, I went backstage and met him. He was very cordial and exciting to be around. We really hit it off on a personal level.

Two years later I conjured up this wacky idea. I called Elvin's cooler-than-cod wife Keiko, and asked if they would like to come up to Toronto. They were into it, so we hung out in the studio for a night and cut the track. I have a DAT tape of the out-takes, which I would love to let everyone hear eventually. There's some unbelievable stuff -- about ninety minutes of gold. After that night, Elvin and Keiko sort of "adopted" me as their Canadian-born son.- Jeremy Taggart, Modern Drummer, Jul. 2000