AllenLowe

ah, I love equipment talk - been selling off some stuff, but my final set includes: 1) custom made head, re-pro of a Tweed Champ with a bright cap added - 2) a Bogen PA rebuilt for guitar, has 4 7868 tubes, though I play it with 2 7868s (still gives it about 50 watts) - and soon to come: 3) a Knight PA rebuilt for guitar, 15 watts, with 2 6v6s (both of these PAs, by the way, were re-built by an amazing guy in Minesota named Jay Graf - they are works of art - what I like about them is that they have no mulitple gain stages, transparent tone controls, are all tube, and are so responsive that they return me to the sense of connection between musician and instrument - also, all his amps have great power tube distortion) - speakers - basically P12Rs, P12Qs, C12N - all repros made by Weber speaker - guitars - 1) a weird old cheapo Japanese type semi-hollowbody 335-type refretted with two of the classic '60s Teisco pickups - p90ish in sound wih a bit less depth - 2) a guyatone '60s with a harmony neck and a Lollar P90 in the neck - 3)another weird old cheapo japanese re-fitted with old '60s Japanese pickups (love almost all of these pickups, including the goldfoils; they have a nice mid-range bump without the current-day metal squash that makes everything sound the same) - though I have virtually no gigs, been practicing daily for about 6 years (1 cd on guitar) - my current wish is for a drummer who would play a SMALL set (just one ride cymbal, bass drum, high hat, maybe snare or tom) - than no matter how hard they play it will be QUIET - all in the service of hillbilly/delta blues gone the way of free jazz -

disagree - check out the Classics issue of Mezzrow with Revolutionary Blues (can't remember the date) - this whole period is some of my favorite small-group jazz playing; spare, convincing, sincere, deeply felt - kind of a return to basics, and though it may be somewhat reactionary in intent, it is wonderful as music - in some ways it predicts some of the avant garde efforts to go back to an earlier way of not just playing but of "feeling" the music, and it succeeds -

how about if somebody hates all drummers - and I mean all drummers - I HATE ALL DRUMMERS there...I feel better now

interesting book, though I skimmed a bit - great stuff on Tommy Ladnier, as I recall - and don't let anyone put down Mezz as a musician - listen to stuff llike Revolutionary Blues-

enough of Jewish jazz musicians - let's get into oxymorons - like The Jewish Handy Man -

I played Over the Rainbow on one once, but it wasn't your standard Theremin - it was some weird cylindrical thing I saw at a local Theremin festival, kind of a simplified version -

"And that's what I did; stayed alive." actually, the whole point of this thread is that he DIDN'T stay alive - we all go sometime, and the stuff we leave behind sticks with the memory - think of Wes Montgomery's last work -

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Day Tripper -

silly thing about this is that there are plenty of crystal clear Tatum recordings - and even Piano Starts Here is perfectly acceptable - and what's wrong with the 1955 Glen Goulds? It's like those dumb-shits who decided to re-record Bird's rhythm section for the movie - when the originals are perfectly clear recordings that ironically sound more "real" than the re-creations - the truth is, a good analog recording, even one 50 years old, is more true to the experience of "listening" than the typical over-sampled, over-isolated digital recording in which every acoustical quality is created post-recording - 'cause let's face it, who hears in stereo high fidelity with no ambient noise?

Melba Torme -

Robin Hood -

look, I question the masculinity of any country that's got a million guys named "Adrienne" running around -

"Al-lynn Lowe? " that's why I wear loose pants -

oh, sorry, I thought you said DROOLING jazz musicians...

Phyllis Schaap?

Winifred Marsalis?

Charlene Parker?

DAISY Gillespie?

think of that phallic guitar - Alfredson pumping away - OVER-COMPENSATION?

also, think of the band name Organissimo - that's ORGANissimo - are they trying to tell us something?

Billie (Billy) Holiday? Lester (Lisa) Young? 7/4 (7.5)?

beware, as I mentioned: I've stopped buying their new releases as the ones I've purchased have been filled with bad noise reduction, digital distortion, etc -

just an excuse to look down women's blouses -

pick up the Arizon Dranes if you can find it -