Chuck Nessa

PLEASE, some "free music" fan check out Blue Monday. I can't believe no person responded to this. Not even Sting fans. Someone must have it for rent.

After the NYT piece, this has been a nutso day for me. Unfortunately I didn't make a dime.

My reaction to Sandke is much like my reaction to Easley Blackwood: Very bright guys doing very intelligent things that never engage me. Sorry folks but I end up thinking they wasted their energy and my time.

Chicago, no question. No knock on Boston though. From my POV, Chicago is a place where stuff is created. Boston is a place where everything is digested.

Plain and simple answer for me, but you gotta follow the story. We (Ann and I) were farm kids. We went to Iowa City (college town) and then Chicago. After a couple of years my job took us to Bloomington, Madison and Boston. Then we moved back to Chicago. A job opportunity in small town Michigan was offered when our kids were 9 and 13. We smiled on the gig and the chance to get the kids out of the big city. Job turned to shit in about 2 years but we had a house and didn't want to uproot the kids again. Now, 20 years after the move, We'd love to be back in Chicago but can't afford the city anymore. DAMN! We would need another $20-30,000 a year to support the lifestyle. We do miss the food, art, music, etc but get by with the internet, Ann's cooking and Lazaro's recording sessions at the radio station.

I suggest ANYONE with interests in jazz beyond 1957 hard bop check out Stormy Monday. The following is from the All Movie Guide. Stormy Monday is a four-person character study in which style is all that matters. This tautly constructed, deftly executed crime thriller is set in economically depressed Newcastle England. Sting plays Finney, a relatively honest Newcastle jazz-club owner who crosses the path of crass American gangster Cosmo (Tommy Lee Jones). Flaunting his wealth at every opportunity, Cosmo wants to involve Finney in a land development deal — if only he'll give up his club. Both men are enamored of Kate (Melanie Griffith), who becomes a pawn in their ongoing one-upsmanship. Kate and her lover (Sean Bean) try to prevent Finney from corrupting his own sense of values by wallowing in the gutter with Cosmo. Stormy Monday, the first feature-length directorial effort of former jazz musician Mike Figgis, who also wrote the script and composed the score, tells its story using subtle shadings of character and a vivid evocation of its Newcastle setting rather than through violent action. Figgis's moody direction of his excellent screenplay is quietly effective and brimming with visual nuance and irony — particularly in its perceptive take on love, money, jazz, and economic necessity. — Hal Erickson

I hope Clem comes back. He makes me think. I know some members don't like thinking, but let the rest of us exercise our brains.

All the best to you and your dad. I wish I'd been able to take my mom home for her end. Be grateful for that.

Must be the reason they called the label Water.

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah yes, Dick Hyman - a name at odds with itself.

"I got yer tip right here!"

Geez, I thought it was Robert Taylor in Quo Vadis!

I read that story this morning. Damn!

I'm probably the only person on the street knowing this. Here it is in context: 'Twas brillig, and theslithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One two! One two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!

Jabberwocky.

so are these actually different takes or were some solos deleted from the original One Tension masters? ← Back in the mid '60s Horst Lippmann, producer of the lps, told me the PJ was a combination of the 2 originals and Dick Bock did his usual scissors job on the tapes.

Nope - her's is silver.

If they say they have xxx copies left, they will sell these even if the time has run out since they paid for 'em.

Before I send money, I wanna make sure this is stereo. Right?

I heard 3 or 4 rapid "pops" which I assume was the Taser. I thought it was automatic gunfire at the time.

A safe ending: Taser shot subdues man after two-hour standoff Wednesday, July 27, 2005 By Lisa Medendorp CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER A Taser fired by a Michigan State Police trooper put an end to a nearly two-hour standoff with an armed man Tuesday after the suspect stepped out the front door of a Whitehall home. The Muskegon County Prosecutor's Office identified the man as 22-year-old Lee Michael Sterhan. He was not injured by the Taser, which is an electro-shock device that causes temporary incapacitation. Officers rushed to restrain Sterhan while he was on the ground. He was then handcuffed and loaded -- yelling and screaming at police -- into a cruiser that was headed for the Muskegon County Jail. That was at 12:50 p.m. About a half-hour before, Kristen Mura, 24, and her 3-year-old son, Brandon, had escaped unharmed out the same front door at 128 Tulgeywood. Whitehall Detective Brandon Mahoney said Mura had awakened at 11:16 a.m. to find the suspect, who was an acquaintance, in her bedroom. He was wearing a ski mask and threatened her, according to police. "At some point, she was able to sneak off to the bathroom and made a (911) call from there," Mahoney said. But she disconnected, saying she wanted to go back to her son, who was still in the bedroom with Sterhan. Sterhan had created a disturbance during the early morning hours at the Mura home and had been sought by police throughout the night. Mahoney said Mura was frightened and had locked the doors to the home as well as her bedroom door. Police believe Sterhan got into the home through a small kitchen window and then used a butter knife to gain entry to Mura's bedroom. At 11:32 a.m., she called 911 again. "She said he had the gun in his waistband and she wanted police to hurry," Mahoney said. "Originally, she did not feel she could leave," Mahoney said. But she made a third 911 call about five minutes later indicating he was in the basement and she was in an upstairs bedroom. "We talked her out of the house," Mahoney said. "I don't think he knew we were out there at first," Mahoney said. Sterhan, a parolee from Muskegon, was expected to be arraigned today in 60th District Court on four felony charges -- breaking and entering, assault with a dangerous weapon, being a felon in possession of a firearm and a felony firearm count. The sequence of events that led to the standoff began at 3:42 a.m. Tuesday when Whitehall police responded to the Mura residence on a domestic disturbance call involving Sterhan. Mahoney said officers were told "he was acting crazy." Sterhan was a friend of Mura's ex-boyfriend, according to police. He had been let into the home, and when Mura called police, "he was burning food in the kitchen," Mahoney said. "He threw a couch and was punching holes in the wall. She was trying to kick him out." In addition to Mura and her son, a 17-year-old baby sitter also was present, police said. Sterhan fled when Mura called police, running between houses, over fences and through yards in the quiet neighborhood. Police were unable to find him. About 4:30 a.m., officers got another call from Mura indicating Sterhan was back at the house, trying to get in. An officer saw him in a yard to the north of the home, but he got away. Mahoney said police continued to search for him until about 6:30 a.m. At 9:41 a.m., police got a report of a breaking and entering at the Tulgeywood Lane home of a state police trooper in the same block as the Mura residence. The burglary was discovered by the trooper's sister, who lives next door. "She discovered handgun cases out and other items scattered about," said Whitehall Police Chief Donald Hulbert. The woman called police and called her brother, who works in Grand Rapids. As soon as the trooper arrived home, "he confirmed that two handguns, ammunition and other personal items were taken," Hulbert said, adding that officers began to think the two incidents hours apart on Tulgeywood might be related. Police later determined the break-in had occurred around 7:40 a.m. Whitehall Officer Jim Duram then called the Mura residence. Someone answered and hung up the phone. Duram called back, and "the telephone was answered by a male subject who appeared to be intoxicated and agitated," Hulbert said. The man said Mura couldn't come to the phone, Mahoney said. Police set up a perimeter around the house about 10:50 a.m., and Hulbert contacted state police requesting a negotiator and the Emergency Services Team, a unit that specializes in high-risk entries. In addition to Whitehall police, officers from Montague and the Muskegon County Sheriff's Department, and other state police troopers surrounded the home. Officers on the perimeter could see Sterhan moving around inside the house. Hulbert said a negotiator called inside to make contact with Sterhan. The suspect started to exit the house as he was answering the phone, the chief said. Sterhan was headed toward a car parked in the driveway. "He was ordered several times to stop and show his hands," Hulbert said. "He made a gesture toward his pocket and was shot with a Taser. That brought him to the ground immediately." Although the situation could have warranted the use of deadly force, Hulbert said officers used their best judgment and felt the Taser was the appropriate course of action. The two stolen handguns were found inside 128 Tulgeywood, Hulbert said. One of the weapons that had been stored unloaded at the trooper's home was found loaded when it was recovered, he said. As the situation intensified Tuesday, police in plainclothes had gone door to door in the neighborhood telling people about what was going on and giving them the option to stay home and away from windows and doors, or to leave.

JRTD only did transfers for the very earliest JSP issues - talking about 20 years ago. The label is under different ownership and they have changed tactics. Where do you get the information Universal Music Group distributes these in the US?