AllenLowe

he's full of shit - ask him what he pays his sidemen -

narrow minded, adhoc? there's nothing wrong with MANY recordings of the 1940s and 1950s; as a matter of fact, if you've ever heard "live" music, you'll know that we hear more in mono than stereo, and that the sound on some of those old recordings is more faithful to "the real thing" than many a multi-track/isolated/digitally processed CD - for example - the Savoy's, the Verves. the Capitols, the Victors - try Hawkins/Tatum/Nat Cole/Bird/Bud Powell/Lester Young - beautiful sound, little surface noise, sounds like THE REAL THING -

Motorola

cool it, drooly - the AACM book is philadelphiosicioustically relevant -

Philly? Where's that?

honestly, I found most of Carlin's truth telling - as in examing the meaning of language in the Carlin examples previously cited - to be a bit of a bore -

biggest rock problem where I live (among other problems) is bad retro music, a la Elliot Smith - these guys all need a nurse-assisted enema to perk them up - I'll have to ask Chauncey -

CAESAR STABBED TO DEATH ROME TIMES 15 March BCE Julius Ceasar was stabbed to death today by a conspiracy of disgruntled Roman Senators. According to Dannus Gouldus at a rally afterwards, "any fuckin' moron can see that J.C. was murdered by a lone nut." Gouldus than informed the crowd that "the world is fuckin' flat."

and Chauncey, you mentioned in one of your posts that you had lost both hands in Korea, and were now using voice-recognition software - so how do you do the handjobs?

PJ Harvey lately sounds like a parody of herself -

yeah, too bad they closed it down -

problem is I inevitably get bored with a cd's worth of James Chance - DNA I like, though same problem eventually -

by the way, best post-1970 band I've heard - Execution, with Peter Laughner -

rock is a complicated topic - best stuff of the last 30 years, IMHO, was No New York - the reason many of my generation have trouble with rock, post 1975, I think, is the change in the rhythm sections - from blues-based (and clave) to a kind of white-guy's thrash; much different sound - works sometimes for me - I hate the sound of the guitar in most post 1975 rock - those who have seen my posts here know I am critical of guitarists who are afraid of the sound of electric guitar and strings, LOUD - there's too much solid state, too much bad pedal sound, too much fake distortion (sometimes pedal, sometimes pre-amp or middle-class noise) - Cliff, as for John Lennon, a brilliant guy who wrote brilliant and un-equaled songs - for starters, Mr Kite, Day in the Life, I'm So Tired, He Said She Said - lacked some artistic rationale for his work, which Yoko supplied and which, in the process, ruined him - as soon as he became an ARTIST his artistic life ended, unfortunately; also one of the greatest rock and roll voices ever -

Charlie Parker at Newport, 1957 - www.youtubeneverhappened

brilliant guy who's work became clouded, IMHO, by self-righteousness and misogyny -

PRESIDENT GIVES GOOD SPEECH UPI OCTOBER 4, 1865 by Wendell Hooperslopper President Lincoln gave a speech recently in which, according to him: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

don't want to get everyone mad, as usual, Stowell is a great player BUT - like almost all "jazz" guitarists I hear he seems afraid of the sound of an ELECTRIC guitar - the way he plays it it's just an acoustic amplified - most of you jazz guys are just too afraid - it's either parlor-time or bad solid-state synth - DO NOT BE AFRAID -

Beatles had a good sense of form - wrote a lot of bridges for rock and roll tunes - even a blues with a bridge (You Can't Do That) - though I still think Lennon, pre-Yoko, was the greater of the two writers - George, however, was a mediocrity (according to Geoffrey Emeric, most of those great guitar parts were played by Paul) -

who's the rest of the rhythm section?

look, it reallyt wasn't that hard to bump into Pony Poindexter, if you know what I mean -

I think that's the famous snuff LP - what you hear in the background is the sound of Red strangling Oscar Peterson -

9.0 - the John Holmes Edition

now it's 6.0 - Berigan was right -

Howard Reich on Armstrong? Great, now I'm going to have to start hating Louis -