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Steve Swallow was on that record too!

Sam Brown was on that album; a dude whose involvement with all types of drugs led to his suicide at the age of 39. RIP.

October 23 Ernie Watts - 1945 Saw him in the 1990s in Hildesheim with Quartet West. Charlie Haden played behind a paravent ...

And now, the news that everyone has been waiting for...the Playoff Scenarios! https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/23/112th-grey-cup-playoff-scenarios-hosting-duties-matchups-crossover-to-be-determined/ ***** Week 21 picks https://doorfliesopen.com/2025/10/23/cfl-beat-254/ My picks... Tiger-Cats over Redblacks - The Ticats will clinch first place with a win. Stampeders over Elks - The Stamps need the win for the playoff implications. Alouettes over Blue Bombers - The Als are the better team. But this game is meaningless to them if the Ticats win. The Bombers need the win for playoff implications. So let's reconsider this one after we know the results of Friday's games. Lions over Roughriders - BC needs the win for playoff implications. But maybe not, if the Stampeders and Bombers have already lost. Another one we need to wait and see about. ***** Game Notes https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/23/game-notes-what-you-need-to-know-ahead-of-week-21/ ***** RB all-star candidates https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/23/6-running-backs-who-deserve-to-be-named-to-the-all-cfl-team/ ***** Week 21 previews https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/23/3-keys-to-victory-for-ottawa-hamilton-in-week-21/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/23/dl-cleyon-laing-lb-lucas-cormier-return-for-ottawa-redblacks-finale/ https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/hamilton-tiger-cats/cfl-week-21-ottawa-redblacks-hamilton-tiger-cats/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/23/3-keys-to-victory-for-calgary-edmonton-in-week-21/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/23/edmonton-elks-sit-five-starters-for-regular-season-finale-against-stamps/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/23/calgary-stampeders-lose-receiver-jalen-philpot-for-final-clash-with-elks/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/23/he-isnt-a-five-year-vet-montreal-alouettes-to-play-qb-davis-alexander-in-finale-regardless-of-playoff-implications/ ***** MOP and MOC candidates https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/article/breaking-down-who-should-win-the-cfls-most-outstanding-player-most-outstanding-canadian-awards/ ***** For the first time ever, the Bombers have sold out their entire regular season. https://3downnation.com/2025/10/23/winnipeg-blue-bombers-sell-out-entire-regular-season-for-first-time-in-franchise-history/ *****

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If you look into this Free Press article. they cite a study that has little backing for their conclusions. Their article is based on an internet-only study with no clinical follow-up: https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(25)00018-6/abstract Basically, they had an online survey where they asked a bunch of people who claim to smoke a lot of marijuana if they get sick and based on their answers, made a conclusion that marijuana smoking is the only reason for their problems. A study like this could be done for almost any medical condition.

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Interesting new one from the Mahavishnu - see link. Released 14 November on vinyl and CD but the latter is nearly $35 albeit for an SACD. Never heard of the label but I guess this is because it's a movie score. https://www.impexrecords.com/john-mclaughlin-music-for-abandoned-heights-180g-33rpm-lp/#:~:text=Experience guitar legend John McLaughlin's stunning 2025,Music for Abandoned Heights%2C on HQ-180g vinyl.

This is odd... when someone on the Hoffman forums asked the LP mastering engineer, Matt Lutthans, whether this was digital or analog, instead of, "We mastered this from a 24/192 digital master" we got this word salad: Here's the deal. There's digital, and then there's digital. Cutting an album from a commercial CD, or from some sort of (often poorly) pre-mastered, processed digital file....that's one thing, and it's generally subpar; nearly always quite bad. Fine. We know about those. This is not one of those. In this particular case, the performances were recorded on an Ampex 600, if I recall correctly, and yes, the recordings are mono. A set of tapes has been in Jim Wilke's collection for all these decades, and those two reels were physically shipped to me for mastering. (Blue Note now owns and archives these original tape reels.) As the production team and I started going through the contents of the tapes, we discovered a problem: One song was absent from the tapes I received, but a flat, existing, archival digital transfer existed for that track, and it sounded fine, so we included it -- and the album is better for it. For the tracks that were on the analog reels: They were transferred by me, personally, at The Mastering Lab at 24/192, and those files remained UNPROCESSED and untweaked throughout the digital steps for LP production. (The digital work on those tracks consisted of flat editing for increased continuity/flow ONLY.) What you hear on the LP is those flat 24/192 files, edited slightly, no compression/limiting, "no nothing," run through the tube-based analog TML console for live-during-cutting EQ, then into the all-tube cutting system. (The track that came from an existing digital transfer required a little bit of in-the-box EQ to get its tonality to match with the newly-made transfers of the other tracks, but it was minimal, and final "artistic decision" EQ was still done on the TML analog console for that track, as with the others.) I used to really respect Matt's work but this explanation from him on this has really messed that up. "There's digital and then there's digital"?? No Matt, this is digital. Which is not a bad thing in my book, but it's still a thing. Is Blue Note trying to replicate the Mobile Fidelity fiasco? If it's a digital master, just fess up.

Agreed. These products are unregulated which poses issues on several fronts, public health being a biggie. I have friends that use weed and shroom products that display self testing results, and these friends haven't had any issues. Those products are purchased at higher end boutique stores and not the quickie mart. That's why I'm wondering what products are being used in the linked article, and if there's any studies cited. That still has a paywall unfortunately. Maybe it works for others?

When I started college in 1970 there was a sign in my dormitory which explained that marijuana had now become much more powerful than before and warning that the new super weed was causing 'bad trips'. 55 years and the supposed authorities are still trotting out the same canards and tropes! For some people, using cannabis is a problem and they get into all the same gyrations as people stuck in food addictions, etc. For most it's not that big a deal. My advice: stay away from those vape cartridges. You have no way of knowing what's in there and people adulterate them with things like vitamin E which is toxic to inhale like that. Dry herb vaporizers are good.

Gas station shrooms, or weed, or sushi too for that matter — just inherently seems like a bad idea.

It sold out in CD format even before release and there were only 300 copies made, with no review copies. I managed to get one of the last ones. Spun CD1, the Cheltenham concert and it is really good. Pretty much as I remember them. The booklet includes a photo taken in the centre of Bath - must have been taken on the day I saw them there back around 2003/4. What I do recall from that gig is that it was jam packed with their (and Keith Tippett's) fanbase in the Bristol area - so that may account for the rapid advance sales of the CD.

Beyond category.

I don't know what I would possibly say to someone who doesn't think Bari Weiss or her media company produces work "in good faith". And anyway that would get into politics, unfortunately. The link is supposed to be a gift link so I don't know what happened. The gist is that high levels of pot usage among the current population is producing a reaction in some users in which they are in utter and total physical despair, with multiple trips to emergency rooms, endless vomiting (cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS)). For those who start to experience this, nothing cures it but quitting the weed. Here's another link https://www.thefp.com/p/grass-sick-cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome-marijuana?r=px8hr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Well then I guess I won't be picking this up. Hopefully they'll consider a repress.

I only noticed this a few days ago. JIB Bandcamp showed CD sold out. DG had CD for preorder but I dithered, it arrived within a day or two and showed "Just Sold Out" almost immediately. Moral: I should follow the JIB Bandcamp page.

Beethoven Piano Sonatas No. 7, 9, 14

Bud Shank: New Groove. Pacific Jazz/TOSHIBA EMI PJ-0021 [Japan 1992]

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