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Me too! I have gotten a few autograph requests via email over the years for the far better known Ken Dryden. My standard reply is, "I'm not the goalie, I'm the hockey puck!"

My copy must be at least thirty years old.

Original LP

I drive, so I'm willing to stay further out. The Baymont on I-75 is a good value.

Recently I've stayed at the Marriott Knoxville Downtown, but I booked a couple of months ago. It currently has only a few rooms left at a pretty exorbitant price.

Well that's too bad. I feel that the Studios box is the best thing they released in a long time!

Me too. I did not buy the Electric Ladyland Studios box, and found the Hollywood Bowl CD to be of little marginal value. It's been some years since any of the ongoing releases really knocked me out.

A desert-island disc for this listener.

Where do people stay? The first hotel I tried is already booked up.

Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock should be a great show. I've seen them a number of times as the Flatlanders (with Joe Ely). Unfortunately I don't think we'll see Ely with them again - his FB account just announced today that he was diagnosed with both Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Here's a photo I took from the last time I saw the three of them together, in Philadelphia.

Me at a studio for promotion fotos Thats the wonderful Miss RA, my girlfriend, who is not a trained musician but can finger out stuff that really makes sense to me and I picked up some of her stuff. She has such a sense for music, it´s incredible..... Here we checkin out what I rote down from the stuff she played...... I´d say after such a rough start this year it turned out to be the best year I ever had. And this one was done outdoor. Well I lost some pounds that´s true

So great ! I love it so much and it helped me so much....

Non-jazz acts of interest to me include Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, and Orcutt Shelley Miller. I note that violinist Charles Burnham is in the WIlliam Hooker quartet. Dave Douglas' quintet has James Brandon Lewis, Rafiq Bhatia and Tomeka Reid. Caroline Shaw and Georgia Anne Muldrow (with Harriet Tubman), maybe even Karen Mantler are there to tempt JSngry. Slightly lacking in star power on the jazz side, but solid. Marilyn Crispell looks like the highlight at this early stage.

This afternoon:

I love Jimi, but I'm dubious at this point on buying any more than hours 'n hours I already have.

Mine too, ever since I bought the Barclay issue of this LP in Swaziland (Eswatini) in '69.

I listened to Essra Mohwk's (Sandra Hurwitz) first two albums and thought she and Sill were doing two very different things. I found Sill's first two albums to be vastly superior musically to Mohawk 's pounding out minor 11th chords and wailing out unmemorable melodies. As Robert Christgau said of her, ""Here is a vocalist who should throw away all her Leon Russell records. When she calls herself a 'full-fledged woman,' it sounds like 'pool player's' woman, which given her persona makes more sense."[ Also, lumping her in with Judee Sill as a 'forgotten singer/songwriter' makes no sense, as she released twelve albums in her long career as a singer/songwriter, and had gigs with, as background vocalist and lead vocalist, such well-known artists as Carole King, The Grateful Dead, Kool and the Gang and John Mellencamp. There is also the fact that she was a beautiful woman, and had a relationship with Frank Zappa, who encouraged her and signed her up with his record company Bizarre Records. She even sang with The Mothers for a while. Sill, on the other hand was not what you'd call an attractive woman, was ignored by Zappa (even though her husband played keyboards with the MOI), and she publicly outed the head of the record company she was signed with (David Geffen of Asylum Records) calling him a"little,fat fag who wore pink shoes", causing him to drop all advertising for her records, which resulted in poor sales. I don't know of anyone who ever heard of her who lived outside of her tiny contingent of fans in a small section of California. Sill also had the same addiction problems her husband had, and severe back problems from a car accident. It also hurt both singer/songwriters that they were not playing what was then considered 'commercial' music. A few of the same sidemen on both albums ; Eddie on Bass, the mysterious Donald McDonald on Drums , and Steig on winds. I'm referring to the Jeremy and the Satyrs album and Sandy Hurvitz' first album on Reprise. If anyone knows what became of McDonald, please chime in here. I can't find anything about him anywhere,

Sorry, another hockey thing. "Habs" used to be a common way of referring to the Canadiens. I always thought it was based on 'Les Habitants, the informal name given in the 17th century to the original settlers of "New France"', but apparently the history is murky. The 1970s Canadiens dynasty with Dryden as goaltender is "legendary", no exaggeration. Really great teams.

I Googled Habs, thinking that it might mean Habaneros. But it didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Canadiens According to About.com, the first man to refer to the team as "the Habs" was American Tex Rickard, owner of the Madison Square Garden, in 1924. Rickard apparently told a reporter that the "H" on the Canadiens' sweaters was for "Habitants".[59] In French, the "Habitants" nickname dates back to at least 1914, when it was printed in Le Devoir to report a 9–3 win over Toronto on the ninth of February.[60][61] hab·i·tant noun plural noun: habitants 1. archaic an inhabitant. 2. an early French settler in Canada (especially Quebec) or Louisiana. "the habitant farmhouses of old Quebec" Origin