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Who is in the group? I have seen him twice at the Twin Cities club the Dakota. The first time with Art Farmer & a local rhythm section and the second time with Sonny Fortune. Give it a chance on the solo tip, he has a nice live sound. He recently moved back to the Twin Cities. From what I hear he is not living a real healthy lifestyle, so you might want to takes this opportunity to see him.

I haven't heard about this before. Is this supposed to be everything or just the 1950's recordings? How many discs was it planned to be?

Working at a record store for ten years I seen tons of weird CDs. Here are a few off the top of my head: I saw a Nirvana Nevermind CD that was misprinted "Neverming," of course the owner grabbed that one! I had a customer bring back a Dylan Highway 61 because it had Robert Goulet's music on it, instead of Dylan's. Their were many CDs in the first pressing of Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall Cd reissue that wouldn't play at all. In general, I have seen a ton of quality control issues with Sony stuff. I have had to send the CDs back on my Louis Armstrong Complete Hot Fives and Charlie Christian boxsets because the discs were messed up. The Armstrong had the CDs glued into the set and the CDs in the Christian had some substance I could not get off on them. In both cases, Sony sent me a mailer to send back the CDs and sent me brand new clean CDs.

I think it was just the first pressing. Maybe even a limited edition. If you went to the store and bought it the day it was released, you got this issue. It is an art booklet if I remember. I was working at a record store when it came out, it was only the first pressing. I used to love telling people about it after they had the disc awhile because they would come back so happy, like I haf given them a present! There was also a limited edition version, but it is made more like a book, than a standard CD.

He played in the 7th Street Entry at First Avenue on Christmas Day a couple of years back. I didn't go to the gig, but my friend went who is a fan of Chance and said that it was pretty bad.

I have been re-reading "Ball Four" while on break. Did MLB outlaw 'greenies' for the upcoming season?

I was at some 90's shows. I remember digging them, but ten years down the road I wonder to myself if they were great shows. I was at the Soldier Field shows on 06/18-19/93 and at the Seattle Memorial Stadium show on 06/13/94 Seattle Memorial Stadium.

Does anyone know what he died from and how old he was? I will have to dig out my Eremite CDs. R.I.P.

"Mississippi Lad" is fun, I just played it the other day. Have you heard the John Hammond CD Wicked Grin? Pretty fun to hear someone else sing his songs and hear Waits primarily playing guitar. I have the second volume of the Gatmo Sessions, but have still been unable to find the first. I also saw him on the "Mule Variations" tour. He played two nights at the State Theatre and it was great to see the variety between the two nights. The funny thing is the theatre is between the streets 8th & 9th and Hennepin Avenue. I love how he performed on an amplified wood box with dust on it. During certain songs he would stomp on it to add percussion to the song. Did he make any references to any local places? In town, he made references to a surplus army store, the The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, and some crop art that he had seen earlier in the day at the Minnesota State Fair.

In a Mojo interview April of 1999 he says: "I was always rather intimidated by Frank, 'cos he was like some type of a baron. There was so much mythology around him, and he had such confidence. Tremendous leadership and vision. When I toured with him, it was not well thought out. It was like your dad saying, "Why don't you go to the shooting range with your brother Earl?" And I was like, I don't really want to, I might get hurt. And I did get hurt. I went out and subjected myself to all this intimidating criticism from an audience that was not my own. Frank was funny. He'd just say: "How were they out there?" He was using me to take the temperature, sticking me up the butt of the cow and pulling me out. Kind of funny in retrospect. I fit in, in the sense that I was eccentric, Went out every night, got my 40 minutes. I still have nightmares about it. Frank shows up in my dreams, asking me how the crowd was. I have dreams where the piano is catching fire and the legs are falling off and the audience is coming at me with torches and dragging me away and beating me with sticks...so I think it was a good experience. " I couldn't find the Captain Beefheart reference in my magazine stash, but I know he has credited him for influencing his post Asylum/Elektra years. He has said that when he started dating Kathleen Brennen, while making "One From The Heart," she exposed him to a wider variety of music. Out of this music, he has mentioned the influence of Howlin' Wolf, Captain Beefheart, and Harry Partch. He has said that he was afraid he would alienate his audience with a new sound, but Kathleen gave him the strength to go record his new sound.

I have tons of Waits. I have all of the official recordings, quite a few unofficial, and a few of the compilations that have one or two exclusive songs. Has anyone seen him in concert? What are your favorite movie appearances?

This is actually the reason I love the label. When I want to hear Charlie Parker on CD, each set usually has 2 or 3 alternate takes, so it's nice to be able grab these discs, and have the choice to not sort through any of the alternate takes. It's wonderful to hear how he chronologically went from bebop dates to strings dates and back & forth. The Hawkins CD's are great because they have songs I have never seen on any other CD. Off the top of my head, I have the Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy, Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, and Oscar Pettiford CD's.

That's the one, but mine had gum staining on the back! The last game he played in he was hit in the eye with a pitch. He left the game and eventually had surgery on the eye. He wasn't able to see very well out of the eye and than it was announced that he had glaucoma.

Everytime I see this picture, I think "and we will see you tomorrow night!"

Not the Leaf version? I was more a fan of the '85 Topps. It seems ESPN had his age wrong, the Minneapolis Star Tribune says 45.

Great price for a Jones/Lewis Mosaic. Bad price for a Ken Burns series set!

Twins fans worshiped him (until he was charged with sexual assault) because he brought two World Series Championships to the area. He seemed so happy playing the game and was usually in the running for batting titles. Most people from the area can quote the line the announcer made after Puck hit the homerun in Game Six of the 1991 World Series. I would see him sitting in courtside seats at Timberwolves games, he always looked very unhealthy and unhappy. Within one year, he went through a messy public divorce, a mistress made their affair public, and he was charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a restaurant. After he was found not guilty, he stopped going to the T-Wolves games, stopped working with the Twins organization, and moved to Arizona. Until yesterday, I figured he would eventually be back with the organization.

It has just been announced on the Minneapolis/St. Paul news that Kirby Puckett received last rites and passed away today.

He was the first player I followed. When I got into baseball as a kid he had just come up with my hometown team, the Twins. He always seemed so happy playing the game. Brought the twin cities our two World Series Championships.

Just announced: Kirby Puckett has passed away.

The local news just said that things look so bad that his family is going to take him off of life support tonight.

All of them! Seriously, I took off Nick Lowe "The Convincer," and dug this out to try and narrow it down to a favorite song. It's just too hard, there is so much variety on this disc. I love the mix from groovers to the ballad.

I don't think the price is that shocking because of the rarity of the guitar and the content of the emails sent. What is shocking is that anything can go that high with a seller with one feedback!

Nice photo from the Sonny Rollins/Don Cherry European Tour.

So, what are they made of? It is some kind of engineered formula that is supposed to taste like dairy, but it actually isn't. There is not any dairy in the cones and shakes because it would not be cost and travel effective. ....but those B.K. Veggie's are perfect...