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Well, I have several bits to pass on on this, having had another discussion at TMI when I was there for Starlines two weeks ago.
First, Francine King and Lee INSISTED, and Darlene Miller and Skip Atwater also agreed, that the take home CDs are NOT dumbed down at all, and are (recently anyhow) actual sessions done within the workshops, identical to the actual in the booth sessions. They did say the "GOING HOME" series is dumbed down for Focus 27 because of Bob Monroe's concerns, but all the official take-home CDs are supposedly the real thing.
Secondly, Amazon has raised the price for most of the downloads because "they did not realize the songs were 45 minutes long, a whole CD" and they are no longer 99 cents. This was because several TMI grads called TMI and reported the 99 cent downloads, and TMI called Amazon and corrected the confusion. This was done while I was there.
The take home from Starlines, which is a Free flow Focus 34/35, now says "DO NOT COPY THIS DISC." Our question was why we got a Focus 34/35 take home CD when we had spent the entire week at Focus 42 and Focus 49..... Even the take home from Starlines II is a free flow Focus 42, not 49.
But, I was assured, it is the real thing, and not dumbed down..... And I agree with Spooky. The place is much of the magic. I am going back in Feb 2009 for Starlines II.
Thomas
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