Hoppy T. Frog

New issue online now. Color pictures, why, I never!

None--the industry parted fools from their money by making people think they could get famous doing this, but all you got was a box full of 45s you couldn't give away. Somewhere in America, there's a box in someone's garage with Sam Rivers playing on their awful song. The only "famous" song poem was by this guy John Trubee who deliberately sent in something outrageous. Blind Man's Penis

Was at both concerts (Hello neighbor!), especially loved the Watts/Weston.

In a Wax Poetics interview Rivers stated he once did sessions for a song-poem company (you know, "send us your lyrics and we'll make it into a hit song!") in Boston, but the interviewer didn't follow up. Some deluded people could have had a genuine jazz rarity in their hands. More Infor on song-poems and the bizness.

This may classify as some more internet forum gobbledygook, but where's your THIRD 'quick and unnecessary' point? oops let's see... 3) Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! I thought you were doing a Rick Perry joke, but it seems you just honestly had a Rick Perry moment

Just this September he played a concert in Washington DC. He seemed a little short of breath, but only just a little. He played sitting down.

Zorn is a sucky poseur who has a lot of talented people around him.

The address for that recording studio is now Pete Miller's Steakhouse, a place that occasionally has live jazz. To bring everything full circle again.

What was the "Personal Export Lounge"?

Latest email update says Cadence will carry on...details later.

I'll take the ZentralQuartett, Michael Moore, and Ab Baars. PM forthcoming.

I have and love the Eureka Brass Band New Orleans Funeral and Parade.

WHEN DID THIS AAHPPEN OH MY GOD MICHAEL JACKSON DIED??????

i guess i'm an idiot for wanting to pay for music

To be fair to the National Symphony this current season they had offered an all Mahler "mini-package" of all three concerts with Mahler symphonies. I jumped at that, of course. Why they did not repeat the experiment for 2011-2012 (of course this time for a different composer, or style of music) I don't know. They are doing last minute "half-price tickets" through the local half-price ticket vendor, but I like to plan ahead and not wonder whether or not a concert I'm interested in will offer discounts (the subtext through all this is that I'm on a limited budget).

House was packed, my friend. BTW does Von still do his Tuesday night gig at the New Apartment? I'm coming back to Chicago in June. The club has been closed for renovations. Not sure when it will reopen. Stay in touch. I was at the New Apartment last June when the regulars were talking about Fred Anderson being in the hospital. The night he died (although I didn't know it) i was at a nearly empty Velvet Lounge.

And they aren't adding new titles, and they had a big "sale" (30% off) over the weekend. I once had three dozen cds in my queue--slowly they all became unavailable (thanks for telling me afterwards, idiots). Now i'm down to 10.

he ran westwind, which released some records that some performers considered "unauthorized".

House was packed, my friend. BTW does Von still do his Tuesday night gig at the New Apartment? I'm coming back to Chicago in June.

IT'S DEAD. Message says "not accepting new customers".

jazzwerkstatt is run by the reputationally-challenged Ulli Blobel, if that makes any difference.

The first year of the festival was the best: Wayne Shorter, the Rebirth Brass band, and Chuck Brown all for free on the Mall. The subsequent festivals have been pretty dull.

Why don't more orchestras try flexible subscription packages? I'm a 36 year old who has just ordered his second subscription season at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The reason? I can CHOOSE six concerts I want to see, at $25 a seat. My tastes are 20th century music and I can select the concerts that I really want to see. (Sure I love Beethoven, but I've got records, and I'd rather use my money to support Honneger's "Joan of Arc at the Stake") I'm shocked that not every orchestra does that. The National Symphony in Washington is doing some interesting stuff next season, but since I have to choose between two inflexible subscription packages, each with only a few of the things I want to see and the rest I couldn't give two shits about, guess what? I won't buy either damned subscription package at all!

IGGY AND THE STOOGES RAW POWER OVER AND OVER DEATH TRIP I heard a 40-minute endless loop of those drumbeats in a record store in Philly. The clerk told me he told his DJ friend that "he could listen to those beats all day", so his friend made him a tape. After 40 minutes, a snippet of Jimmy Page's slide guitar drops in. It was a trancelike experience, I tell you (I was in the store the whole time).

what does the record sound like? surely, he must be an innovator like Cecil or Ornette!