Paul Buckmaster once told me shortly after I had done "Second Contribution" that in order to write one (1) second of music for an 85 piece orchestra, it requires up to 9 hours to notate depending on complexity. 9 HOURS FOR ONE SECOND!!! We made "Collaboration" next and a few months later when the time came to make another record for A&M, Paul came over to my house one day and almost apologetically and with great humility presented me with an orchestral score he had done, completely on his own volition, simply because he loved a particular song. I had already recorded that song once on "Contribution", with voice, guitar and harp, played by Harpist Skaila Kanga. It was for the song "L'Ballad". For this score, the orchestra consisted of 89 players. Remember 9 hours for one second? That's 540 hours of labor for one minute of music by that orchestra. The song according to the tempo he chose would run for 7 minutes. That's 3,780 hours he spent composing and notating the arrangement for "L'Ballad". When I asked him how he did it, he said, "well I would work or 2 or 3 days at a time nonstop over several weeks". Blew me away!!! So when came the time to record "Faces", I had huge battles with the people that were "handling me at the time", to get them to pay the budget for what it cost to record that song again. I won. Paul's extraordinary arrangement of L'Ballad" went on "Faces".

The point I am trying to make about Paul, was that he put the same amount of creativity, love, labor and intensity into everything he did, for everyone he ever worked for or with, always.

When he was not involved in anything musically, as a social person, he was an extraordinary humanist. His empathy for those less fortunate was what I would term almost unbearable compassion. He would rail on for hours about the inequalities between the rich and the poor and what the reasons were for those states of existence in humanity. To bring a note of levity to this homage to Paul, there were times when he would call either Juliette or me, depending on if I was at home, or on the road somewhere, and talk for up to 3 hours. Juliette had the patience to deal with it most of the time, and the courage to say "I have to get off the phone now Paul". I, on more than one occasion had to secretly wave at Juliette, and silently mouth, "Yell at me that it's time for dinner", she would and that would allow me to say, Paul, dude, I got to go. Dinners ready. I love you. We'll talk soon".