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  1. MLB 2009 Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    time to put an * on those Red Sox world series.

    Forgetting for a minute what a nightmare putting a retroactive * in the record book would create... I still don't think you can do it because apparently he just tested positive this season only.

    You can't do that ...if you could prove evey player on the team was doing roids maybe.

    in 07 i don't think Lowell, Ellsbury , pedroia, papelbon , Schill, Beckett, were doing roids.

    and even if you do Roids doesn't mean you will win Championships ....A-Rod, Giambi .....

    It wasn't roids anyway. I bet it was weed! "Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me a medication, not a steroid, which he thought was OK to give me," link

  4. Musicians - Post Your Music Here!

    in Musician's Forum

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    I didn't know where else to post this information, but, for those in the Bay Area, but I'm holding my thesis concert on Saturday, May 9, at 7:30pm in the Mills College Concert Hall (5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613). This project seems to have been consuming my time recently and, well, I figured I'd let people know about it:

    1. Solo

    2. Duet: Grex (me: guitar, vox; Rei Scampavia: p, fl, acc, vox) [potato dirges]

    2. Trio: Me: guitar, Christopher M. Skebo: tpt, Luigi Marino: zarb

    4. Quartet: Host Family (me: guitar, Andrew Conklin: guitar, Jason Hoopes: bass, Jordan Glenn: drums) [moon songs]

    Fred Frith said that we sounded good in rehearsal, for whatever it's worth.

    My myspace, for sound purposes: www.myspace.com/karladevangelista

    -Regarding Host Family, for name recognition purposes--Glenn leads the trio Wiener Kids with Aram Shelton and Cory Wright, Conklin the band Quinn, and Hoopes is in the Atomic Bomb Audition (which also features, members of Fred Frith's Cosa Brava and Mute Socialite). It's a Mills thing.

    I'm in the middle, also, of completing an epic 100+ page MFA thesis on the Blue Notes/Brotherhood of Breath, to be finished within the next hour. I'm pretty excited to share it here...

    Congratulations on being done with everything soon! I'll be there and am sending an e-mail.

  5. Blue Note and Hip Hop Culture

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    So I know there was the Madlib Blue Note mix record. I've just now come across some other random Blue Note hip hop stuff. I was walking in the Mission district of SF past a trendy shoe store, and saw these Adidas shoes. Then a friend sent me this link on if Wu-Tang were with Blue Note. Not sure if this is a new trend or just a coincidence.

    Wasn't the "Blue Break Beats" tagline something along the lines of "you've got to hear Blue Note to dig Def Jam"? I remember that as far back as 1993.

    Yeah I've seen those, and other mix records of Blue Note tunes marketed for DJs that seemed less legitimate. I wonder if Blue Note will become more active in Hip Hop, with contemporary artists other than Madlib.

  9. *** Cecil Taylor ***

    in Artists

    Posted

    From Richard Shapiro's Cecil Taylor sessionography

    http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mtaylors.html

    The Village Gate, NYC, September 19, 1965

    1. Number One

    2. Octagonal Skirt and Fancy Pants

    Cecil Taylor: piano; Jimmy Lyons: alto sax; prob. Henry Grimes: bass; Sunny Murray: drums

    Rare Broadcast Performances Ozone (Italy) 19 (lp)

    Note: This was originally recorded for BBS tv broadcast by WNET-TV, NYC. the original material was broadcast followed by a panel discussion involving CT, novelist Ralph Ellison and critic Martin Williams. The taping from this original broadcast is some 29 min. long. These are believed to be rehearsals, not concert performances.

    Note: Some sources give the drummer as Andrew Cyrille. Some give the bassist as Alan Silva.

    Note: The rest of this record features music by Charles Mingus.

    Do you know where to find that panel discussion? on that Italian LP? Interesting mix of characters there.

  17. THE Freddie Roach?

    in Discography

    Posted

    I have that record and it doesn't look like him on the back cover... at least compared to the BNs I have.

    It's not a bad LP, though.

    Bob Reid wasn't a BAG cat, either. He was from Alabama and lived in Paris from the late '60s. Played bass with Archie Shepp, Sunny Murray, Byard Lancaster et al.

    Thanks Clifford. Yeah, even though he's the leader, I wasn't referring to Bob Reid. I should have specified. Oliver Lake's name was the one that caught my eye for the BAG association.

  20. Thelonica

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Okay. . . well I never considered this a "female Thelonious name" but rather an invented term to mean "about Thelonious" or "from the pen of Thelonious" or something like that. . . .

    ah, but if it were...

    (I thought it was a combination of Thelonious and Pannonica, but that may just have been a silly assumption)

  25. FA: Art Ensemble 67/68, Ornette "Who's Crazy"

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted

    I sell a few things here and there on Ebay and I've had very few problems. Of course the occasional jerk, but that happens anywhere. As a seller,I have found that if you ship quickly the buyers love it. I work near a PO so I usually ship the day after payment. Prices can vary quite a bit- sometimes something goes for a very good price, other times it's barely a nibble. One tip I've seen is to have your auctions end on a weekend so you get more eyes seeing it.

    I've always ended them on Saturdays for just that reason. I tried checking out some ending auctions, but had trouble sorting through the over-priced-unsold-buu-it-now items to get a sense of selling prices, except I saw one Billy Harper live CD end for $2.99, which scared me.

    That's funny. I find that as a buyer I miss auctions more often when they end on weekends because I'm out and about.

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