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Dan Gould

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Dusty Groove Review-itis.

Don't let it happen to you!

Dusty Groove Review-itis is a rare but frightening disease in which otherwise normal people allow the unrestrained yet unverifiable ravings of the Dusty Groove Review-Bot to overwhelm their normal self-control, resulting in uncontrollable flatulence and (at least as scary) uncontrolled sending of credit card information over the Web. There is no known cure for Dusty Groove Review-itis, however, relief is sometimes gained through the welcome appearance of the "Item Out of Stock" e-mail notification.

Today's triggering event:

Paul Griffin -- Pours On Some Soul Sauce . . . LP . . . $24.99 (Item: 5951)

Somerset, Late 60's Condition: Very Good+ View Cart

Short tracks of soul jazz organ with a definite pop R&B gospel feel --similar to something that you might hear coming from the Stax or Hi studios of the time, but with a little bit more liveliness than Booker T & The MGs. Griffin's sound is clean and sharp, and the album includes a number of originals with an uptempo gospelly feel to them, like "Old Time Soul Sauce", "Some Down Home Soul", "Blow One For Otis", and "Wilson, Otis, and Aretha". Cool cover, too, with some groovy kids dancing at what appears to be a very segregated dance! (Cover has a bit of edge wear.)

I checked AMG and found that Griffin played a lot with King Curtis and also on Nat Adderley's Sayin Somethin ... and the next thing I knew, my credit card was flying out of my pocket and you-know-what was flying out my butt :excited: !

Anyone else ever fall victim to this nefarious disease?

Confession is good for the soul, doncha know ...

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Yeah, but also beware. Sometimes the DG oversell can hurt. Case in point...Albert Ayler's "Music is the Healing Force of the Universe." I read the hype and fell for it. I'm a fan of Albert, but this is pretty tepid stuff from our man in outer space. The woman singing should have been excorted to the nearest cocktail lounge to sing My Funny Valentine with Larry Young's wife.... :D

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Yeah, but also beware. Sometimes the DG oversell can hurt. Case in point...Albert Ayler's "Music is the Healing Force of the Universe." I read the hype and fell for it. I'm a fan of Albert, but this is pretty tepid stuff from our man in outer space. The woman singing should have been excorted to the nearest cocktail lounge to sing My Funny Valentine with Larry Young's wife.... :D

Ow! :g

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I am afraid to go to the Dusty Groove site because everytime I do, my credit card groans! I recently purchsed the Howard McGhee "Connection" cd -- sounds great, way too short, but good stuff. Also, the CTI double disc live set (Hollywood Bowl?), and other miscellaneous soul and funk music that I love.

Reissue of the Year? Mickey and the Soul Generation! This double disc set lays down some of the heaviest funk I have heard since I was first exposed to PFunk in college. A reexamination, of sorts, of a teriffic Texas band from the late 60's early 70's that put out a smattering of singles (coveted by collectors and later put into some of the earlier funk compilations as they became vogue in the 90's), now their entire output has been placed on two cds. 19 tracks on the first, and a smoking live set on the second. Take the best of the Meters, the JB's, early Kool and the Gang, etc., and you come close to what these guys are all about.

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Confession is good for the soul, doncha know ...

Okay... one Saturday afternoon in 1973, I watched an entire broadcast of the Professional Bowlers Tour on ABC. I know, I know... but hey- there was the Chris Schenkel factor, and besides, you never knew when you were gonna see somebody pick up a 7-10 split! :unsure:

BTW, I've spent more money at Dusty Groove over the past few years than any other person on the planet (despite my "mad libs" participation). That "Item Out Of Stock" message has only happened to me ONCE! :o

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Dan Gould said re Paul Griffin

>>I checked AMG and found that Griffin played a lot with King Curtis and also on Nat Adderley's Sayin Somethin <<

Paul was a very busy NYC studio player and was also an excellent and very schooled (and skilled) pianist. Paul would get bugged that he was only called for Soul and R&B dates - he felt he had more to offer - and he did.

BTW - he's on some Steely Dan stuff and if any of you remember comedian Robert Klein's HBO specials, Paul was the pianist and musical director. He was also married to Valerie Simpson prior to "Ashford and Simpson". At that time Valerie was just writing and doing song writer demos.

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Well, as Eddie Murphy said in "Trading Places"-"I can SEE! Praise Jesus I can SEE!!!"

(Yes, I got a temporary repreive from Dusty Groove-itis with the "Item Out of Stock" e-mail.

Only now, from Harold's comments, I'm wondering if I wish I hadn't missed out :)

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70s porn soundtracks? How much unimaginative wah-wah can you stand?

Strangest music I ever heard in a porn film (hey - back off. That was then, this is now!) was in some very early-80s flick, a strictly low-budget affair, when in the midst of all the wah-wahs, slap bass, and god only knows what other cliches, the soundtrack suddenly switched over to Buddy Rich's "Big Swing Face" (just the tune, not the album), straight from the Pacific Jazz album.

Explain THAT!

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I guess I could also post this to the "music related d'oh" thread, but here it is... Being the Hancock aficionado that I am, I once spent some dough on this CD. It's supposedly a "cult" album by some Japanese singer Kimiko Kasai - although I'm not sure if the cult classic status should be considered as a negative or a positive thing. I've seen people pay ridiculous amounts for the original LP. I realized that it was recorded in the late 70s, so some disco was to be expected. Nevertheless, I thought - hey - there's some nice tunes in there, like Stevie Wonder's "As" and Herbie's "Tell Me A Bedtime Story" from Fat Albert Rotunda and "Butterfly" - let's give it a go, it can't be all bad.

Boy was I wrong.

Probably one of the worst efforts Hancock was ever involved in. Ms. Kasai pronounces the (English) lyrics - hmmm, shall we say - in a very "Japanese" manner and on some tunes (like "As") it sounds absolutely awful and quite amusing, to say the least. And I'm not quite impressed with a lyric like "Tell me a bedtime story, daddy". She tries to scat and improvise on a few tunes and fails miserably. How did she think she could scat when she's having trouble even singing in tune? The various modulations of "Sunlight" were too much for her. Or the whole of "Maiden Voyage", for that matter.

The band plays great, obviously, and probably were paid a significant amount of $$$ for their effort.

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  • 1 year later...

my first order to dusty groove:

Here is your completed order:

ID________Name/Title____________________Format___Price____Quantity___Total

69456j Peter Brotzmann __________________ CD 8.99 1

8.99

--- More Nipples

84760j Roland Kirk ______________________ CD 14.99 1

14.99

--- Live In London

32093j Yusef Lateef _____________________ CD 11.99 1

11.99

B-)

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my first order to dusty groove:

Here is your completed order:

ID________Name/Title____________________Format___Price____Quantity___Total

69456j Peter Brotzmann __________________ CD 8.99 1

8.99

--- More Nipples

84760j Roland Kirk ______________________ CD 14.99 1

14.99

--- Live In London

32093j Yusef Lateef _____________________ CD 11.99 1

11.99

B-)

You are going to be extremely glad to have Roland Kirk In London. Unadulterated live Roland Kirk, and other than a few short piano solos, it's all Kirk.

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