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Ken Dryden

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  1. The issue remains I like to play new CDs in the car, it knocks out some listening for me. II am always a minimum of 1200-1500 CDs behind in my listening and if driving for an hour or two day can help me get a couple more of them heard, it's great. I have no desire to be exploring digital options when there is something new that I own that I want to hear. I previously had a portable CD player with an adaptor that fit the cassette player (which I never used) for our 1992 Camry years ago. I never had any issues and waited until I was stopped to change CDs.
  2. When you have been driving as long as I have, you will still look back before backing up, etc. The safety features are a bonus, not a substitute for driving cautiously.
  3. Eubie Blake gave 1883 as his birth year, but after his death in 1983, research verified he was born in 1887. As I remember, Tadd Jones was the one who uncovered Louis Armstrong's true birth year of 1901 in baptismal records, though he used 1900 throughout his career.
  4. Much as I detest the lack of the cd player is a pain, I do enjoy the safety features, which I've never had in a car that I've owned and driven (my wife got the last 2021 new car purchase). I figured that at my age, they will be of help, particularly with the number of idiots who run lights, change lanes mid-interseaction and various other stunts.
  5. It wouldn't be a problem for me without it, as the music would play straight through. When my wife joins me, she likes to skip around and untitled tracks are of little help. The other issue is when I trips taken on short notice,(like when my wife says "You drive" at the last minute), i don't always have time to load unheard music onto a flash drive. It's not the cost, I have a bunch of them, including a few that I received as an Amazon Vine reviewer. The funny thing is I have never activated a Sirius trial with a new car. I like choosing the music, not allowing someone else to program it. Plus I don't want to have to remember to cancel the damned thing.
  6. There are times I want to hear a specific cd and don’t have time to load it onto a flash drive, especially new purchases. Then there’s the problem of having to take time to enter track titles and such. i was suspicious of the no name brands on Amazon and suspected many were junk. LG has been reliable for electronics in the past.
  7. I finally took the plunge and bought the first new car for my use in my lifetime. The lack of a CD player is a pain and I wonder if anyone has a recommendation of a good CD player with USB to connect to the vehicle.
  8. I grew up with cats and have had them in every home we've owned, so that's thirty three plus years of having anywhere from one to six cats. We're at four now and I doubt we'll add any more, they tend to live fifteen years or more, with a couple of exceptions. They are entertaining and good company, though they aren't allowed in my music library, two floors above where they live.
  9. That's probably a wise move. New owners have often screwed things up royally, although some did it for years and should have been relieved of their teams for their gross cheapness.
  10. I think I have finalized mine and it is under five minutes. The more the merrier, since there are plenty of people interested.
  11. I can’t imagine taking the time to upload my collection, I don’t have enough time to hear all of the new acquisitions and releases as it is.
  12. Oscar Peterson played organ on some of the studio sessions with Count Basie for Pablo. Dick Hyman was widely recorded on organ, though I prefer hearing him on a theatre or pipe organ, as he gets a great sound.
  13. This is the LP I was thinking about, which my father bought and later gave to me. This CD is long out of print but shouldn't be too hard to find. It has a lot of his important small group recordings. Also check out The Carl Stalling Project CDs, which have Stallings arrangements of Scott's music for Looney Tunes cartoon soundtracks. Too bad Stash never got around to issuing a Volume Two, whether it was due to licensing or founder Bernie Brightman's death and the liquidation of the Stash Records label that followed. I am unsure how much of Scott's music is on the two Stalling CDs, but "Powerhouse" was used in many Looney Tunes. I always remember the one with the fast moving assembly line using a snippet from it.
  14. Didn’t his big band also play standards, in addition to his originals?
  15. During one of my last trips to JRC a few years ago, a guy picked up some vintage original Blue Note LPs without prices on a desk near the front and asked Fred ”How much are these?” Fred yelled at him “Put them back, they aren’t for sale!” I am sure they were already sold or getting read to be auctioned for high prices.
  16. A man had a problem with his sound of his gas discharges, they changed from the normal Bronx cheer to the sound, "Honda..." His doctor was mystified, so he sent him to a proctologist. Shortly after the patient undressed and was examined, the doctor exclaimed, "I found the problem, you have an abscess!" The man asked, "What's an abscess got to do with it?" the doctor replied, "Abscess make the fart go Honda."
  17. Cats react to things in different ways, but it is often fascinating. When I had my knee replacement earlier this year, my wife took over my care of the cats in the basement. Two days after surgery, my wife called from the basement and told me our oldest cat (Zeitlin) barely touched his canned food and went over to the door looking for me. I grabbed the walker, folded it to use as a crutch and made my way downstairs and assured him that I was still okay. I give him partial credit for encouraging me to take the stairs regularly during my recovery, it is fifteen steps to the basement and sixteen to the top floor (HutchFan has been in our home to climb them). Fifteen days after surgery, my PT measured my range of motion at 110 degrees and said 90 was the expected result. So Zeitlin gets credit with getting me moving a lot.
  18. I remember one of Benson’s Warner Bros. CDs where he started singing in a song in the wrong place, stopped immediately and yet they released the track as is. I asked a label rep at a jazz conference why they didn’t edit it out or do a re-take and got the reply, “We thought it was a good take otherwise.” Maybe they were running over budget…
  19. I was an AARP member for two years after turning 50. The discounts offered were never for anything of interest to me or I was happy with the businesses that competed against them.
  20. I have the Kirkeby bio, I seem to recall reading that claim in it, but it has been awhile. I will check it when I have time.
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