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Larry Kart Conducts the Anat Cohen Orchestra Playing the Music of Bill Evans, with Special Guest Star Scott Hamilton (notes by Dan Gould) limited to 18 copies

Teasing the Korean Strips for Overweight Guys who live in their Parents' Basements. (limited to 17 copies)

I did spot John McCain at the recent Jonas Brothers concert -

78s sound better played on modern turntables - like the famed Audio Technica (can't remember the model number) - or a good audiophile one (I use a VPI) - remember that old speakers were problematic as well (too much bass, probably why it was prominent) - but Chris is absolutely right about many CDs from 78, though the early ones were ALSO marred by horrific Analog to Digital transfers - with 78s, as with everything else, also, condition is the most important thing - the best transfer engineers in this respect were Nick Perls (from Yazoo, I think Chris knew him) and Carl Seltzer (did some Folkways stuff, also things for the notorious Rosetta Weitz) - and of course Joh R.T. Davies. All those guys are dead now, but there are still people around, like Dog Pomeroy or Seth Winner or Steve Lasker that can do it right - also that guy who posted here briefly, from Britian (kind of hit and run; plugged his stuff and than split) - EQ and EQ curve, by the way, is also important, as are monitors, which can grossly distort what an engineer is hearing and how he resolves it - that's why, when I used to do this for a living, I invested in the world's greatest speakers (a pair of humongous Bryston's Labs) and a good digital EQ program -

just ordered "The Last Camel in Paris" - it better be good, 1.75

4.09 in Maine - not a big problem, as I really don't feel like going anywhere -

Barack Obama Plays the Music of Frank Wright

Chris Albertson Sings Israeli Folk Songs

"and let's not forget young white urban transvestites - "

I do have this image of them all sitting around and saying - "well, here's one for the young people; allright, another for the Greeks; can't forget the Unitarians; yikes, who the hell do the Jews listen to? Hey, how about the baby boomers? My god, we almost forgot about all the crazy women who voted for Hillary - "

Teasing the Korean Sings of Unnatural Acts with Common Domestic Animals

Allen Lowe and Dan Gould sing Songs of Love

Albanian Versions of Hot Dog -

George Bush Reads to You

Larry Kart Plays the Bill Evans/Scott Hamilton Songbook -

Berigan teaches Republican Wives how to Strip for Their Husbands

Son of Weizan Sings the Songs of Revolutionary Russia

David Beardsley duets with Esteban

also I have it on good authority that he had Jews in Hell on there until the Israel Lobby forced him to take it off - of course, Hot Dog is number one on his play list - and any Bird with Walter Bishop (definitely all the Verves) -

I'll bet he listens to Kenny G, Gandhi Jee and Najee -

"CHEWY SINGS SONGS ABOUT YOUR MOTHER" INCLUDING: MY MOTHER'S EYES MY YIDDISHE MOMMA YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW MOTHER-IN-LAW

I like Trower, but I would've thrown something at Al Hendrix if I'd seen him - the guy abused Jimi his whole life, even after he got famous, and only came to appreciate the kid when he realized how much money he was worth in death -

well, with modern techniques (I use CEDAR and digital EQ) one can actually increase the highs and reduce the noise in old recordings - I've done this a-plenty, it takes some work; used well, CEDAR de-crackle is seamless; neither I nor Chris, I assume, oppose new tech -

I do know that Braxton paid his sidemen well when he did his opera a few years agao - too well, from what I hear - as for the learning experience, well, that is the usual claim, but that does not mitigate the unfairness, I think, of underpayment - it's just one more rationalization from musicians who should know better. It's a question of them getting just a little bit less and allowing their musicians to get a decent pay date - for one example, a very famous jazz musician used to get about $7500 for his quartet, and paid his sidemen about $250 each - they were kids in their 20s, but it was still work - and do the math; he could have paid them, say, $750 each and still made more than $5000 for about one hour's work in concert.

my reference to wages has to do with concerts a few years ago in which Cecil did a series, hired a lot of young musicians, and basically paid them nothing -