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Ts find (from the bin)

That's a good one!

35 years old over here but at the moment expieriencing a lot of sports associated injuries unfortanely. I know 35 is young but I find it hard to accept i can't work out the same way as 10 years ago...... My parents and parents in law are in their mid 70's now and very happy to have them around still. But the past 10 years I could really see them get older physically and sometimes that's hard to see.

54 (I will be 55 next July).

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Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton + Peter Evans - Scenes In The House Of Music I was listening to their second yesterday. A good group. Where are you based? I enjoy the seasonal updates.

I'm also getting to the point of having regrets for some of the stupid shit I did when I was younger. I should have worn ear plugs to those rock concerts. The resulting tinnitus and hearing loss sucks. I should have started eating right at a much younger age. I was diagnosed with super-high cholesterol at a fairly young age and have been on statins ever since. That didn't stop me from eating junk all the time. These days, I really miss french fries. I should not have taken that job on the road back when my daughters were little. They grew up way too fast to have missed that part. I wish I had listened to my friend Paul and gone to a couple of Jazz shows with him back in the mid-80's. I would've been able to see a lot more of the greats if I had started earlier. As it was, I missed seeing Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' last Boston show by about two weeks. I should have bought that red with white cove 1961 Corvette convertible when it was offered to me for 8 grand. I didn't because it was red. Even being red, I'd love to have that car today. I was also offered a '57 T-bird at a ridiculously low price but I was never a Ford guy. I should have helped my father restore one of his Indian Motorcycles. So much knowledge was lost when he died. He had all kinds of tricks on the best way to take those things apart and putting them back together. Maybe I'd still have one if I did. I'd also know how to drive one. I never did try driving one of those suckers with the left foot clutch and right hand stick shift lever with a right hand throttle and left hand spark advance. Actually, I'm glad I never had to drive one. It sounds even worse when I describe it. I should not have cleaned my Yamaha DT-175's carburetor with that can of (now banned) Trichloroethylene (TCE). I figure some day it's going to crop up during a doctor's visit. So much stuff we used back then was unhealthy for us, it's a wonder that we're still here at all. Speaking of that... when I worked for the Holyoke Water Department one summer, they patched/replaced a water main. The way they did it was using an asbestos rope tied around the joint which was then packed with asbestos paste to contain the lead solder. They mixed the asbestos paste on site, dumping the bag of powdered asbestos into a cement mixer and adding water. I should have stayed much further back from that mixer. As it was, I did stand far away, but the dust went everywhere. Speaking of that Part 2... at Raytheon, we used some nasty toxic materials. I remember one time we had a part that contained tiny bits of Beryllium Oxide. Nasty nasty stuff. I refused to work with it. There was also the time they sent me a part to test after it had been exposed to a nuclear reactor to see if it was "rad hard". It arrived in my lab in a lead-lined box with skull & crossbones all over it. They said, "Don't worry - it's been long enough. It's safe to handle". Fuck that. I had someone else test that part.

Getting old might not always suck: In some public places, there are preferential lines for the elderly. Such lines are quite useful. For example, you might fly into an airport in another country, and discover that the passport checkpoint has 2 lines: one line for the elderly (often anyone age 60 or older), with only 6 people in line; and one line for people who are not elderly, which has 200 people in line.

[Italics added] I posted about the Westbrook on a "British jazz reissues" thread a couple of weeks ago. This release initially confused me, but the way I read the non-compete agreement the "unreleased Hat Hut archives" stip allows him to release material by living musicians that's in said archives. Although it's not entirely clear: does "exceptions" apply to both the "living" clause and the "historic" clause, or just to the latter? After some thought I concluded both. Granted, I could be giving Werner too much credit on ethical matters... AlAy Ltd. is subject to a non-competition agreement starting June 2025 with a term of three years in Switzerland. During this period, AlAy Ltd. may not accept or release recordings by living composers/musicians. Our releases during this period will therefore focus on historic recordings from the past. Exceptions are unreleased recordings from the archive of the former Hat Hut Records Ltd. 4106 Therwil, which changed its name to AlAy Ltd. in June 2025.

I am getting curious about what the average age of the members here is.

Another warm morning. Slept well. My two closest “snow bird” neighbors are now back from the South, but it’s still eerily quiet early mornings with the wind in the trees the predominant sound, a soothing familiar sound. It will soon be eleven years I’ve been out here in this sylvan world. Spinning OUTOF./INTO “Motion I” Blue Note cd. This is an ensemble of current masters that delivers!

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Followed by How I love Ruby Braff!!!

I will catch the Long Ryders at the sala Copérnico in Madrid, next April 23. From my point of view, their recently released disc, "High Noon Hymns", is not as good as the two previous releases, "September November" (2023) and "Psychedelic Country Soul" (2019), but, still, I am expecting a great concert!

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April 10 Denny Zeitlin - 1938

reissue on the Japanese Solid label. Great music but absolutely dreadful sound.

At Hallwalls

If you like the early Heads material you would probably like it. It's the three person original lineup, minus Jerry Harrison. Early demos on one disc, then the CBS demos on the 2nd, and the third disc is live stuff from Max's Kansas City in Oct '76 and Syracuse in Jan '77. The demos sound like demos, but a good representation of where they were before their first album. And the progression from the early ones to the CBS is substantial, too, IMO.

How is it? I'm a moderate fan.