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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.

I'm 71, married 33 years this year. Retired at 66 following being laid off after 40 years when Cerner downsized to sell to Oracle (I'm thankful I missed the circus of horrors that has been, and my severance package was twice what the current Oracle packages are for the 30,000 employees they dumped to fund betting the house on AI). For the first time ever, I paid someone to shovel our driveway and clear our walks following an especially bad snow storm here this winter. Thankfully, we're able to still be pretty active as needed, and our house and lot are not particularly large at all. I still mow my own lawn, etc. Biggest unexpected twist to retirement is helping to raise our eight year old grandson (who is awesome) - he and his mom live with us. Thankful for each day of health and clarity I'm granted, and trying to invest the time and energy well. My mom is still alive at 92 and I help care for her also, so I'm seeing the effects of aging through her, but also how she is handling it with grace.

Talking Heads - Tentative Decisions

I have up mowing my lawn the year after we moved into our current house and donated my mower. But we have a lot of stuff after 45 years together, even without the music. What the heck, possessions are only temporary, they end up in others’ hands or in the landfill. Off to Goodwill and the used book/music store soon.

Draft analysis https://www.cfl.ca/2026/04/09/which-cfl-draft-prospects-are-catching-the-leagues-attention/ ***** Combine analysis https://www.cfl.ca/2026/04/09/which-receivers-defensive-back-boosted-their-stock-at-the-cfl-combine/

The Walter Norris Quartet “Sunburst” Concord cd Bass – Larry Grenadier Drums – Mike Hyman Piano – Walter Norris Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson Recorded at Coast Records,San Francisco, August 13 & 14,1991

Mode Records MOD LP # 110 (reissue) - Stu Williamson Septet " A Jazz Band Ball" - rec. 1957 - Engineer: Dayton Howe

I had just asked him what it was like playing on the Teddy Edwards session with Billy Higgins. He thanked me for the reminder. No idea why he's pointing at me other than that it might be good for captioning ideas.

Mode Records MOD LP #119 (reissue)- Harry Babasin And The Jazz Pickers feat. Terry Gibbs - rec. 1957 - Engineer: Dayton Howe

JJ Cale - Stay Around (Because)

I a going to catch them at the Side Door in Old Lyme, CT tomorrow with George Garzone instead of Bergonzi.

Ogunquit is one town north of me. It's a nice little town. We go there often, particularly to visit their restaurants. We have been missing our Canadian friends lately. There used to be a lot of Canadian tourists visiting our beaches down here in Maine but not last year and not likely this year either.

When I was growing up in New Brunswick Canada people (not me) would vacation in Ogunquit which is down your way I believe.

Clearing the decks/shelves here; any o-board-ers interested can expect to receive a healthy discount and free US shipping, just message me here. https://www.discogs.com/seller/callen/profile will be adding more soon so check back periodically.

We actually downsized almost 10 years ago now. We were living in this big house in Atkinson, NH when I came in from clearing the snow after another blizzard dumped 2 more feet on us and I saw myself in the hallway mirror. My face was purple. I asked my wife where she wanted to retire and she said, "Here", so I said, "Then plan on being a widow, because this driveway is going to kill me". We started shopping that week. I wanted to move to a condo in a city like Cambridge, MA, Newburyport, MA or Portsmouth, NH when my brother decided to move up to his beach house in York, ME. I checked the prices and I checked the frequency of major snowfall and we decided to settle up here. We still get snow, not nearly as much as we got in the boonies of NH and the driveway is a hell of a lot smaller, so that part's been good. But I lost a lot of living space moving here. The biggest PITA was downsizing my wine cellar. I used to have a shelving system in my cellar in NH. The basement here is finished, so I had to buy a wine fridge, which holds a lot less wine than my wine racks did. The cancer thing only turned my hair gray. But then again, I didn't need chemo, so that was good. It's the heart stuff that I worry about. You're lucky that your profession actually rewards experience with improved skills. I retired after 41 years as an electrical engineer and near the end, the kids knew the newer technologies much better than I did, so it was getting a lot harder to stay ahead of them. My only saving grace was that I specialized in RF technologies and RF is RF like a B♭ is a B♭.