I also have it. It's loosely a concept album based on the musical inventions of Mr. Spalding, a Boston eccentric. AMG says: "The concept is that the music is inspired by a late 19th century Boston bookkeeper named Mr. Spalding, who created an orchestra of mechanical animal musicians run on steam power. Mr. Spalding was a bit of a recluse who died when the orchestral device's main boiler exploded, also destroying all of his devices. This album is recorded in that particular style -- sounding a bit like a circus gone mad -- making it possibly one of the only tuba-based pop records in memory." Three of the last four songs are played straight, and they plus a couple of the concept songs are worth having for Grays fans. Too bad he didn't make a straightforward rock record -- I really love the songs he contributed to the Grays (esp. Nothing and Everybody's World). There's obviously tremendous potential there. Gary ---------- I have it also and I agree with Eric's take on it. It's not something I play very often, indeed I haven't for years. On 21/07/2008, EricSSims@aol.com wrote: > > I have the Buddy judge cd. It has about 15 songs, about 10 of which are > weird but baroque pop with a carnival/circus sound to them. The rest are > more normal pop songs in similar vein to The Grays. That is my take. ____________________________________________________________ Click to find out what your future holds. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3lzGqRuBJgubb2Tz47pszFrNh50tL1VqjTgDiFn7pUdXOMal/