Chapter 21

"Y'know, something?" Zac said.

"Yes." Taylor answered cheekily. "I know a lot of somethings actually."

Isaac snickered.

"What Zac?" he asked.

"Well, see, I was listening to our first live album, Live From Albertane, last night, and listening to what is gonna be on this new live album… it's really weird."

Isaac and Taylor looked at him blankly.

"Umm, well, see, I think… ok there's a lot more screaming on Live From Albertane, than this one."

"You think so?" Taylor asked.

"Well, yeah. Ok, see what I think has happened is that we've… the level of screaming has gradually dropped over the years, but we don't notice it until we compare live albums, y'know what I'm saying?"

"Y'know, my memory of Live From Albertane was not so much the screaming and the problems we had trying to soften some of it, as it was the recording of Man From Milwaukee." Isaac grinned.

"Why's - oh." Zac realised.

"Now is it just me, or did your voice crack in the middle of your solo Zac?" he teased. "Me thinks it did!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was twelve, shut up."

"Y'know Zac? I'm with you. See, I don't think we have an album where Ike's voice was breaking. I don't think it's fair." Taylor grinned. "Say, I wonder where we put those old tapes from before we got signed?"

Zac's eyes twinkled.

"Ooh…" he said deviously. "We could like, release a song where Ike's voice is obviously breaking as a bonus track or something."

"Yeah. It'll be an almost completely pointless endeavor, but hey, who cares?" Taylor replied.

"Exactly." Zac agreed.

"Ahh, you're just sore losers." Isaac replied.

"Y'know, something else just occurred to me," Taylor said, "you know our kids band? The Four Amigos? If we sign 'em in 2013 like we're planning, they're all gonna have to worry about their voices breaking at around the same time as each other."

"Ohh, how cool would that be? They're doing an interview and all their voices are cracking all the way through it." Zac grinned.

"Hey, I think we have some incriminating evidence on Mackie too." Isaac said.

Taylor laughed.

"Y'know, we can be so mean sometimes. But maybe we should get back to working on this live album."

"Oh, you think so Tay?"

"I do think so Zac."

"Well, if you insist."

Chapter 22