AllenLowe

it's true, I swear - I read it in the Daily News -

thank you for alerting me -

will also make sure our cabins adjoin on the cruise in April -

well, yes, many musicians record too much - and Cliff, thanks for the flowers - I just sent a thank-you-pm - the wife sends the best to your wife - look forward to our annual summer outing -

it's the right thing to do

well, I disagree about Francis' stuff; one reason I think that he has remained sharp and on-target is that he is not over-exposed as so many critics are, he is prolific enough but picks and chooses, doesn't write just to write, as seems to be the case so much (and which is one reason I shied away from music journalism). I was thinking this about one particular rock critic whom I think is brilliant and sometimes exactly on the money, but sometimes sloppy and strangely obtuse, And then I realized how much this guy has put out over the years, and it's probably largely because he had to do what he did to make a living in the way that he was making a living. But I find that Francis' work is more measured, he doesn't take this scatter-shot approach. He writes plenty but he takes enough time about it.

hey, that's a picture of my wife, you cur - pick your weapon, see you in Rahway at dawn -

"I think I'll reserve the right to continue thinking that Allen is a bit of a dick if that's o.k. with everyone" ahh, gracious to the very end - still, in the interests of peace, and since Passover is coming up, I have send Cliff a private and reconciliatory email -

th-th-th-th-th-that's all, folks -

yes, I am somewhat bewildered that anything I wrote was construed as jealousy or bitterness; I have known Francis for 20 years and count him as a friend. He is unusual in a critic of his stature; he lacks any shred of pompousness or self-importance. I have read virtually everything he's ever written. He is one of the few critics (I count Larry K. here as another) whose opinions, when they differ from mine, send me back to the source to see where I've gone wrong -

"And it doesn't feel to me like he is making this board his personal blog." Adam, you're using up my bandwith -

look, if you can't insult and alienate your friends, who CAN you insult and alienate?

1) I was sincerely congratulating Francis, yes, he is a great writer and deserving of the award - 2) I regret a bad joke I made earlier which, after being called on by Christiern, I edited - 3) Englewood and I do not get along, true - basically the origin of our conflict was in the thread about my interview with Wynton in which, gratuitously, he posted about what a bore (boor) I was and that, omigod, we were now going to have to listen to another boring and pompous Allen Lowe thread and we would never hear the end of it because it was the annoying and pretentious Allen Lowe going on again about himself - needless to say, I was somewhat insulted by his remarks which I felt were rude and un-called for. And not really accurate. because I am what I would call mildly OCD and possessed of a strange sense of humor I have taken the opportunity to remind him of his rudeness at every available opportunity. it ain't the Hatfields and the McCoys, but it is what it is.......

I too have been guilty on more than occasion of the "I'll tell him" syndrome, though I do think certain kinds of disability should be off limits; and though I do understand how anybody, in the heat of battle, can make this kind of misjudgment (and as I have said to myself, thank-you-non-existent-GOD for the editing function here). the whole learning disability thing is complex and personally difficult (as I, like many others here, grew up in a time when such things were never diagnosed). I have made my own accommodations to my own learning disability, which has somewhat narrowed my ambitions but has never, however, made me give up trying. The thing about these kinds of problems is, as I said, that everything tends to look perfectly normal from your side of the fence, and you often don't realize that something is askew until you get some kind of rude and usually inadvertent awakening (like a spouse who quite honestly has trouble figuring out why you do certain things). Still, it sometimes, from a personal perspective, makes life (for better AND worse) much more interesting. sometimes, too, when you get into something personal with someone they pick up on it, with some perception. Their mentioning of it can be very wounding. so that's what prompted my comments. on the other hand, realizing such, it is quite possible that MY comments in various situations may have been equally insensitive (sorry, 7/4; maybe now you'll support Stem Cell Research).******** *****am I doing it again? I hope not as 7/4 and I are friends and as everyone knows it's impossible to insult your friends - right?

I am still the cheese

this is a public service announcement from Gradual Dementia, USA. $10 a month could help supply me with cable tv. It's a terrible thing to lose your mind - I'm not looking for a handout, just some quick cash. But all seriousness aside, glad my post made some sense. Don't wanna sound like Sammy Maudlin -

nice man, great transferring engineering - but the scraping technique he used to eliminate clicks and pops, though effective, and far superior to things like the Packburn, has real flaws - most particularly a deadening of the sound resulting from transferring to tape at 7.5 ips - don't know if those links advise it, but in later years he was using digital techniques like CEDAR - this, by the way, was initially pointed out to me by an erstwhile member of this board. I won't mention his name, unless he gives permission (no it wasn't CHEWEY),

at one time or another some of here get into personal battles and disagreements. But there is a difference between citing outrageous and obviously false things (like 'your mama' stuff) in order to put somebody down, and ridiculing things like learning disabilities. so with that in mind, I would like to mention that Attention Deficit Disorder is a real and complicated condition - accompanied frequently by real learning disabilities. It is a bioligically-based disorder and makes life difficult, at best, and torturous, at worst. Certain kinds of accommodations that many people can and do make to the real world are, for the person with ADD, much harder to make. A personal perspective that makes complete sense to a person so-afflicted can put him at odds with the outside world in many day to day situations. I say all this from personal experience, from a son who has Aspergers and ADD, and from looking into the mirror every morning. just wanted to pass this on.................as I am happy to accept all and any personal attacks. But certain modes of criticism, to quote one of our erstwhile members (who applied this, correctly, to me personally) are out of line -

yes yes yes good show cliffie

yes Cliff, I guess you can't be one if you can't spell it -

fixed by the miracle of editing - though he did insult my mama -

than, when blue ray came out, I thought, oh hell, I'll wait for SOME DECENT FUCKING MUSIC TO EVER COME OUT AGAIN - ahh...feel better now -

than, when MP3 came out, I thought, oh hell, I'll wait for blue ray -

than, when surround sound came out, I thought, oh hell, I'll wait for MP3 -

then, when Quadrophonic came out, I thought, oh hell, I'll wait for surround sound -