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"I agree completely that \"Boats\" was Eric's entire emotional bankroll, considering the events that led to its music and surrounded its production. Music is like love, or any performing art: when one spends an entire lifetime working toward certain goals and they don't materialize, disillusionment is overpowering.  The only thing that keeps you in it is the love of doing what you're doing. But you tend to avoid public/commercial goals like the plague.  I have friends who are not winning violin competitions, when they've invested their entire lives toward doing just that. They don't stop playing, but they do stop trying for awhile, because airfare to the sometimes-rigged auditions (the conductor's nephew wins, and can't even play well enough to record the cd which was the prize! etc) is very expensive.  Some of my friends can't afford their \"dream.\" But they don't stop playing, because, as they say, \"What else would I do? I'll just die trying.\"  I knew Eric would never stop writing/being involved in the music business.  Things are going very well indeed for Raspberries.  Here's a thought: The words \"There's romance in the sunset...\" may have been written as sarcastic irony, but I think there will indeed be \"romance in the sunset...\"! It may take a lifetime (and a lot longer than one would like), but I firmly believe that out-of-this-world talent WILL eventually be noticed, IF YOU PUT IT OUT THERE. Therein lies the rub (and the risk!), but a thousand, no, a MILLION failures are worth that one final success. Ahhh!      --Darlene \n"
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