Chuck Nessa

I'm self taught and had a shitload of teachers.

I always preferred females who played double reed instruments.

Buddy took up "bad vibes" early on in his career.

Never been to Austin. Have no plans to visit Austin. Drink beer alone. Nothing wrong with that.

I never understood why he didn't make a tenor sax record. It would have "killed" a few folks here.

Very close but no cigar.

BTW, can you supply pics of him jumping a longhorn?

Former Veep and Longhorn-bandwagon jumper Dan Quayle? No cigar, but that open wrist (free for slitting) is a pic I'll treasure.

I hear you, but I am still not sure that Columbia would have marketed Monk or Mingus to the same extent, to try to push them to #1 jazz icon. They filled other niches well -- the eccentric genius niche, for example, as well as the Angry Black musician (of course Miles had a piece of this too). Maybe I am attributing too much cleverness to the marketeers. Maybe they just gave Miles a bit of an extra push, but he spoke to a vast audience (everything up to Bitches Brew) and did the rest on his own and it became a self-perpetuating machine. It would be interesting to rerun history to see who the labels would have promoted in the absence of Miles and whether it would have worked, but I'm certainly glad we have his music. How the heck do you think Monk showed up on the cover of Time! Columbia "moved mountains" to get this done. Mingus always sabotaged his own self.

Can anyone reference my Indiana mention? Rachel, Litweiler and Mark don't count.

It was W.

Neither of them is from Indiana.

You don't understand what "mechanical rights" are. They have to do with the publishing of the song and the use of the music and words, not the recording. They obviously paid the mechanicals if the song is in the movie. Welcome back Chuck!! This place ain't done been the same without ya. Notice I only posted about "facts". Don't feel any comfort talking about ethics here at the moment.

You don't understand what "mechanical rights" are. They have to do with the publishing of the song and the use of the music and words, not the recording. They obviously paid the mechanicals if the song is in the movie.

Depends on how you look at it. The distribution systems are better today. So more recorded music might be available for sale now than at any time since the beginning of recorded music. Tomorrow, looks like the distribution systems will even be better. It's more likely that MORE music will be available to MORE people in the future. Satelite, cable, and the internet radio are offering more music thru the air than before. People hear music thru their cell phones. They buy ringtones. More music is played on TV shows and there are more shows and movies created than in the past. More music is being used (and paid for). Do TV shows and movies use music without paying for it?? Alot of new artists get their songs played on commercials, so they have other forms of revenue coming to them, not just the sales of CDs. Looks like music availability is going UP. Just the distribution systems are changing. Artists can make money selling CDs, selling online, playing concerts, doing commercials, putting their songs on TV or movies, doing exclusives for radio, etc. More distribution systems, more money. There is still a BIG market for MUSIC. Since I seem to have lost the ability to communicate clearly I'll go away. Have nice futures.

Can someone supply the running time of the broadcast? My dvd is called the "director's cut"and runs 73 minutes.

Just realized this program is the same as a dvd I received a couple of weeks ago.

I "give a shit" but can't be involved 'cause I can't see it.

Thanks! That was a hoot.

Played my copy for the first time yesterday and I took it off after 2 tracks - random skips.

Black and white AND gray in this area are the same as they have always been. That stuff doesn't change 'cause of current "customs". FWIW (not much it seems), there is more recorded music available for sale now than any time since the beginning of recorded music (and I mean percentage of the whole). THAT is what is put in jeopardy by current file sharing.

Did you order the life-size inflatable version or the dashboard bobble-head? Already had it and already broke it.

I received a message my Coltrane shipped yesterday.