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I just got back from an REM concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl. The music played before the concert (which I think is usually selected by the performers) was a nice eclectic mix including Tom Waits and Ornette Coleman! Shit, I remember when you could get people to leave the room by playing an Ornette record.

I have a small collection of photos: a couple of Doisneaus, 2 George Tices, a Willy Ronis, a Paul Caponigro and Herman Leonard's famous photo of Dexter Gordon. Also a few noirish paperbacks: Chandler & Hammett. Trouble is paperbacks eventually fall apart even if you don't read them. Makes much more sense to collect comics. Of course my mother threw all mine out.

Hey I was there! My wife, who's a journalist, got me in. Her hearing's still affected 25 years later. The cd captures it pretty well but it leaves out a guest appearance by Nick Lowe who sang "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass".

I was browsing through the Amazon DVD site and discovered that they're selling some box sets insanely cheaply. First seasons of Simpsons and 24 for $14.99 each!

Jim: those are great!

Actually I've always thought the BBs sounded more like the HiLos, though I know Brian often mentions the Freshman and they can be seen as influencing the HiLos as well as the Beach Boys.

Arghhh... I've just found that to be true of my disc 5. How/where did you get it replaced?

Where can these or the Japanese re-issues be found? I have a friend who's been looking for jazz Studio 2 for years. (It was the first Lp he ever bought. And it got warped when he left it on a window sill-- along with about 50 other records he's been replacing.

Saw Wallace Roney with a quintet at a small club here in Santa Barbara. I hadn't heard him except on the cd and Lazer disc of his apperance with Miles at Montreux. I'd heard that the had a new "electric" cd out but he showed up with an acoustic group and they blew the roof off the place. Group sounded a bit like the 2nd Miles quintet but with more of a blues feel. Lot's of shifting rhythms, pedal points and even stop-times. A great drummer named Eric Allen and equally terrific bass player who I think was Matt Garrison. They were selling the new cd at the club so I got a copy. It has Adam Holzman on Fender Rhodes and DJ Logic on some cuts. So far I'm a little disappointed in the cd but that may ust be becaseu I was so impressed by the live acoustic performance. Ayone else hearad this group live?

Fun, Water on the Pond and Circle in the Round (all 33 minutes of it are there for 99 cents each but not Teo's Bag. Nor is Falling Water. BTW after the boxes come out they usually reissue the original cds with added cuts from the box set. But I just checked and Teo's Bag and Falling Water seem to only be on the box sets.

All of them are on itunes except the latest. they're all listed as "Partial Albums" and you can only download them by song.The 60's box has 24 tracks including many of the alternates. It costs 99cents per track whether it's a bit of studio chatter or a 12 minute complete track! I can check what's missing if you like.

Uhhhh. Who determined which were the attractive faces?

NYSC is the Amaerican and Japanese standard. Europeans used to the better PAL standard refer to NTSC as Not So Great Colour.

Design wise they seem to have learned from their mistake. You canm actually read the essays and tell which disc you're looking at.

To answer my own questoin (now that I have the cd and quite like it) yes these are the "original" lyrics to goodVibrations. And I guess I miseed that an earlier post pointed out that they're by Tony Asher.

OK but having read that explanation does that mean that there are 3 unreleased comnplete takes that contain the theme and solos?

I can't answer your question but I remember seeing that episode. However I think Hawk is shown playing clarinet so he may not even be on the soundtrack.

I didn't know about the CC release of the gil Evans. I have them on cd as Pacifc jazz releases-- from EMI I guess. I read somewhere (maybe here) that the original tapes are in bad shape.

Bones Howe once told me that when he was engineering for Verve they didn't want to pay for stereo so he paid for it himself and kept the tapes! I don't know which sessions and I keep hoping to run into him again and ask him if they've ever been released.

Wow! 1955!!. That's the earliest stereo recording I know of. Was it meant to be stereo or did osmone sync up too separate recorders?

Obviously the new ones weren't written by the late Douglas Adams.

Rick Moranis once told me that they had planned a sequel: "Spaceballs 3-- The Search for Spaceballs 2".

The box set entitled "Good Vibrations contains 11 tracks from the Smile sessions. Can one make a decent version of Smile from them? Also that box set has a long track from the Good Vibrations sessions that contain different lyrics than those ultimately used. Are they by Van Dyke Parks?

"Runaway". new collection of short stories by Alice Munro. Man is she good.

I agree with all of the above. I'd add listen to some music. I find the right Ellington can get me through the worst of days.