farewell to great record producer Arif Mardin best known for Aretha and latterly Norah Jones but dearest to me for producing three seventies "blue-eyed soul" albums that were cornerstones for my pre-punk years, Andy Pratt's feverishly ecstatic Resolution (also maybe the biggest drum sound ever or at least my poxy Radio Shack amp thought so )the "white" album by the Average White Band which has an Isley Brothers cover that's better than the original, and Daryl Hall and John Oates slinky but tender formica masterpiece Abandoned Luncheonette. Just in passin, I'm not askin that you be anyone but you..my old wallpaper, the sign of the old inn, the vent, sitting in an abandoned luncheonette, drinking imaginary colas...