[chris]

Daniel Lanois would be an inspired choice to produce a Hip album, but.......there's no chance of it ever happening. I received an e-mail from him a couple years ago after suggesting that his production skills would be great for a certain artist (it wasn't the Hip). He responded saying thanks, but that he's concentrating only on his own music now and no longer produces albums for other artists.

Really? He just finished producing a little record by this up-and-coming band out of Dublin called U2.