AllenLowe

Chris is very tidy, I can attest - Chris - here's my favorite Sam Theard lyric, from a song he did called "My Dog Bozo:" (necessary preface: the song, as it goes along, is clearly NOT about a dog but about his member which, as he describes, is enjoyed by all the ladies in the neighborhood): "and every night before I go to bed, I take Bozo out and smack him on the head."

actually it includes his stock tips and a sample of his DNA for cloning - but I'll sell you my copy for $499 -

actually, someone found him one night, sitting in a graveyard, erasing his music - they said to him: "Mozart, what are you doing?" "De-composing."

there were tons of those - disgusting and wasteful - HOWEVER - there were significant LP releases without reverb - with excellent transfer quality -

Larry - I saw that and I think it may be missing the point - Decca owned, I believe, a lot of incredibly important 1920s and 1930s early jazz/blues/washboard/country stuff which has tricked out on LP over the years, some of it in incredible sound from masters - I'm hoping over the next few weeks to pull some things from my LP collection (and some cds if I can pull them easily) that might give some idea of what we've lost - if I can get the time, I will report back -

there are those (including myself) who think it quite possible that Collins was just passing -

happy to post something - will have to find the stuff and maybe post tomorrow -

if my 1950s jazz book ever sees the light of day, I have some things on him -

better off placing a sugar cube on the statue's tongue -

I've mentioned this before but I have a number of LPs from material that Decca owned - some of these are recordings from the 1920s from other labels that are fantastically clear; I think I'll gather these together and post them - if all this material is, as I suspect, now gone, these LPs (which are beautifully transferred) are doubly important - this is really horrible, I think (and no one has mentioned that the lost material may include the Louis Armstrong masters!)

bumping for the night shift - may be the last chance to get it at these prices - AND to help put lipstick on a pig -

with the Coen Brothers, I always come away thinking there is less than meets the eye - though I did hear a tune I mastered (for Rykodisc) on the film soundtrack (though not on the CD) of Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

but if you prefer I'll send a quarter to Adolf Machtsnichts, the Aryan Nation candidate for dog warden in Plyville, Wisconsin -

I've got some cheaper copies of the boxed set, vols 1-4, completely sealed and in mint shape, that I can offer at $40 shipped per volume, any volume (9 CDs, each box includes a large booklet of descriptive notes) - get 2 volumes for $75 shipped; 3 volumes for $105 shipped; the whole 4 for $135 shipped - FOR EVERY VOLUME THAT IS ORDERED I WILL CONTRIBUTE $5 TO THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN - I NEED THE MONEY AND I FIGURE SO DOES HE my paypal is alowe5@maine.rr.com

bumping - this guy was important -

kinda like the fo' day creep -

didn't know she recorded with Boykins - one of my favorite bassists -

does that mean the Tubby Hayes that is left over is considered to be an inferior product?

don't want to get into a fight here, but I always disliked the Allman Brothers band - another group of '60s guys in search of modality but not quite sure how to find it; long, well-meant jams that go nowhere because they confuse scales with ideas - even Bloomfield fell victim to this, not to mention Garcia - all are fine guitarists who, like Allman, never really "got" jazz - no shame in that, they just shoulda realized it befire going .......on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and - on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and

cd universe -

you coulda been the Danish Ben Ratliff -

actually, I just bought the Isle of Wight DVD - he's amazing, one of the few true musical geniuses of the last 50 years -

just listened to some sound samples - sounds like a broadcast, possibly -

can't be, but who knows? no stranger than Sarah Palin being nominated for VP -

I don't think anyone has posted about this, if so I apologize, but he died recently - I used to see him and his brother Happy play frequently in the Boston/Cambridge area (back in the old Passim days, middle 1970s); years ago I was visiting my parents up near Woodstock, NY and a guy was standing next to me at the post office - well, I happened to look at the package he was holding, and it was addressed to David Bromberg! the guy holding the package happened to be Artie Traum and we talked for a few minutes, my first and last personal encounter, but he was a genuinely nice guy and a great guitarist - and also a Coltrane fan according to an old interview I read - a real loss to the folk/roots/trad world -