What a shame that such an important person in Jim's life and career had to pass away at such a young age. What would have happened to "BOOH" if David hadn't found Steve Popovich? As David said in his Classic Albums interview, they were creating record companies for the sole purpose of rejecting Bat.
It is also a shame that this thread, which started out with really lovely thoughts from Jim, descended into name calling (although it is certainly not Klasien's fault - I thought her first post in this thread was lovely).