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Cliff Englewood

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  1. I thought this thread was about Curtis Amy.
  2. Needless to say I'm really looking forward to Sunday, it's the optimism that kills you... The Joy of Six: great Liverpool v Arsenal moments and matches
  3. Yea they even use the original art work, they really don't give a shit do they but methinks it's only going to get worse.
  4. I think the bottom line is, no matter what way it's described or what the charges are, they are going after him because there is a feeling he got where he is today by cheating and to prove that should take as long as it needs to take.
  5. This has been getting more of an airing in the last 2 weeks than in the last 2 years, can't get enough of it;
  6. What? How explicit do you need someone to be? Cliff clearly makes the distinction between what he feels about Armstrong's fundraising ("is all good") and his suspicions about his performances. Maybe he should have tried words of fewer syllables, although that'd be difficult with the phrase "is all good". Well it's difficult for him, he has to watch out for faries and elves hiding his wallet and keys, while at the same time wondering if his dogs are communicating with him, he leads a full life. I'm not sure that it's actually about going after the best, it's more just a simple fact of suspicious activity, IMHO. For years in Italy, people wondered why the big clubs in Serie A like Juve, Milan etc, always seemed to get the rub of the green, always got the big decisions in their favour, then when they looked into it, it turns out there was a perfectly good reason for this, they were cheating. The games/results of the big teams were pretty much decided in advance. With Lance, I think it's down to the simple fact that with professional cycling, how well you do is simply down your physical fitness, at a guess I'd say it's a 95% physical sport, there isn't all that much skill involved and there is really only so much a body can do at certin ages. That's why I said I was more freaked out by his performances when he came out of retirement than before. I mean how can you compete with guys who are what, at least 5, if not 10 years younger than you?? And beat then them??? I mean it has happened in various sports for sure but not often and in a sport that is almost purely physical it happens rarely if at all, that's why people retire in the first place. So for him to come back and actually do ok that's odd to say the least, I mean if he had been finishing 50th or 60th ok, I'll cut him some slack, but still in the top 10?? Then there's the whole thing about him being a cancer surviour and doing so much charity work, both of which are really amazing and very positive examples for humanity, but the perception of those supporting him seems to be well nobody who survived cancer and does charity could ever do anything bad. And I'm not sure the argument that this happened in the past so let's forget about it works either, to take that to it's extreme would be that if you get away with murder initially, then the law is powerless to go after you ever again.
  7. If you're that dumb to read into what I posted as "Going after Armstrong for being such a strong supporter of cancer research" than I am probably more dumb to respond to you. Even a angry loner, shut-in type such as yourself should be able to read a sentence like "Fair play to him for all the "Live Strong" yellow wrist band malarky, raising money for cancer research is all good" and understand that I am actually praising praising him, that's what "fair play" means. Try leaving the house once ia a while, or do the fairies and ghosts that live there with not let you go.
  8. I think the point about going after Lance is that for so long he and his team have painted him as some sort of super-being and all round good guy/angel come down from heaven to live amoung the mortals, when all the time he was possibly just a big fucking cheat, who made a shit load of money from that cheating. Fair play to him for all the "Live Strong" yellow wrist band malarky, raising money for cancer research is all good, but lots of other people do that as well you know. I mean look how well he did in this years Tour as opposed to last years, call me a suspicious-aloiciouis if you want but....
  9. :g Yes, I really prefer the Dial stuff to the Savoy recordings, I listened to the 4 discs of the Savoy's recently, including the alternate takes, and felt it was just screaming "THIS IS BEBOP" a little too much for my tastes, the Dials are a bit more groovy IMHO.
  10. Or maybe Crouch is a dickhead who has gotten to big for his boots. :g Let the bitching begin... Martin O'Neill 'allowed wages to spiral out of control at Aston Villa' Seriously, I think this is very bad for both O'Neill and very bad for Villa, O'Neill will find it difficult to get a big club to take him on after this and Villa will find it hard to get a really good manager as obviously his first job will be to trim the squad and then keep them in the top 10 at least. Not good.
  11. Not to mention the fact of how important/relevant they are in the whole Hot Five/Hot Seven scheme of things, as they were, I believe, the prototype recordings for the Hot Seven line-up or sowed the seed of the idea anyway. But as Chuck points out the masters belong to someone else. :rcry
  12. It's a 2008 European reissue: Amazon U.K.. I wouldn't be surprised if it uses the same masterings as the now deleted big American box. I have both and I think, IIRC, that the mastering credits are exactly the same on both boxes, however for some reason the 2008 European reissue does not have the Johnny Dodds Black Bottom Stompers tracks that are included on the now deleted big American box ie tracks 13 to 18 on disc 3. You can see that disc 3 on the European version has 16 tracks while the US one has 22. It's srtange, I was going to post something on the Hot Five and Hot Seven recording myself as I recently listened to the 4 discs a couple of nights in a row and was really blown away all over again, as I hadn't listened to them in ages. "West End Blues" is just so good it beggars belief. There is more of the same on Johnny Dodds: 1927, on Classics, worth picking up if you can find it. AMG review.
  13. Yes and it's the only release I own where Orrin Keepnews liner notes don't make me want to throw up. :g
  14. Yea that's pretty much what I was thinking but I would have to say, what did he realise 5 days before the start of the season that he didn't already know 5 weeks before the start of the season? Looks like not everyone is unhappy he's going... O'Neill lost the dressing room and didn't like the cut-backs And it could get worse for Villa, apparently Sven is interested in the job. :unsure:
  15. But why a new cover for this? Those two are very cool indeed.
  16. I was suspicious of him when he came out of retirement and did quite well, when was that, the year before last???
  17. I've said it before and I'll say it again, you really do a lot of travelling. :cool:
  18. Didn't see this coming at all.... Martin O'Neill resigns as Aston Villa manager
  19. Very much so. Is the article worth seeking out a copy of the New Yorker?, I'm sure I can find it over here somewhere.
  20. I hope they don't and I don't think they will now. Peter Crouch, the teenage vice girl and new shame for England Peter Crouch beds £800 teen hooker
  21. Man, how is Robb Walsh still alive??? Triple Meat burgers, Breakfast Tacos, is he insane???
  22. Thanks for the tip John L, I'll give it a miss then. Lonehill also released this one a while back; which contains, obviously enough, the 7 tunes that were on this one, (I know it had 6 tunes originally); But it also had a quartet session with John Lewis and Gene Ramey and Jo Jones from 1951, which is excellent, so if you don't have the original Pres & Teddy, you should probably get the one on Lonehill. Was this the original cover of the session with Lewis?, or is it a completly different session altogether, I see Ray Brown and Buddy Rich names on the cover, it seems to have been re-issued in Japan fairly recently. And I love the Storyville 100 Years: Forever Young set, I even like the anouncements, I feel thay add to the whole thing rather than take away.
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