AllenLowe

I'm going back to my old Emeny with the rhythm box -

I'll only say one thing - plastics -

jazz is dead - god is dead - and I'm not feeling too well myself -

well, when women are victimized they are often not believed, which continues the victimization - I'm not trying to start a side-debate here, but I think it's important to take victims seriously, and this was not just a matter of a domestic argument but systematic abuse - and all the evidence I have seen points to Ike as a victimizer - I am not saying the music is not important, just that this was not your garden-variety angry guy - I take the subject seriously - not only in the wake of some fairly recent revelations about Al Haig, but also in light of the murder of a friend of mine a few years back who was caught up in just such a scene -

I won't tell you who is who - just to keep it objective -

careful - last time I started talking about herpes, Jim almost closed the whole place down -

I will also add, Jim, that there are quite a few models of how to do it differently, and the Conference idea we are talking about is one potential key - we need to talk about it fairly soon, as I think you can, through this site and the conference, tie quite a few things together - one guy who hipped me to a lot of this stuff is Marty Khan - great and knowledgeable guy who knows all too well all the BS the industry can sling -

I did learn a long time ago that if they want you to pay them to get you gigs, you probably shouldn't do it; this was defintiely a little more sophisticated than that, as they set themselves up as a press-agent type of thing. I don't really know the answer to the gig issue, as I am so out of things these days and off of the scene that I don't know what one does; I remember talking to one agent in the late 1980s who basically said, "come to me when you don't need an agent to get work," meaning that they want groups who are already pretty well set up to work already. The truth is, on a certain professional mid-level (which is the highest I ever achieved) you are likely better off doing it yourself, as unrewarding as it is - I made more money on my own label releases than I made on the one semi-major label release I ever had (Enja) - they stiffed me on the European publishing, never gave any accounting, never sent it anywhere, a total waste (but a nice CD) -

less sensitive over time? hmmmm...I guess I can throw away my bottle of Detain -

great and important musician - listen to the stuff he did on Sue records - brilliant guitar playing - also, however, a rapist, based on Tina's portrait in her autobiography - not just her, but a lot of the early girl backup singers were coerced -

well, I don't like to brag, but a lot of people mistake me for Brad Pitt (yeah I know, but he's done tv) - you decide:

and of course, we all know "The Moehl From Ipanema" - (please somebody stop me before someone gets hurt)

and of course, in California, such operations are performed by the Valley Mohel -

and than there's that other old favorite: "I Enjoy Being a Moehl" (got the spelling right this time)

I just hope he doesn't sneeze -

"whenever i'm looking for some jazz-related informations and opinions (about an artist or some specific album) the first thing i do is scanning the organissimo-board (by using google)." you don't by any chance work for the NSA?

that guy must have sharp teeth -

of course, I used to have a job circumsizing babies at the local hospital - didn't pay much, but I got to keep the tips -

well, we can all sing that big Latin hit, " A Day In the Life of a Moyl" -

yes, if I do self-publish, Lulu will be the likely source -

I probably already posted this, but I first heard Hayden with Ornette at Slugs in NCY, probably 1969, with D. Redman and Billy Higgins - incredible command, and he was nice enough to talk to us kiddies between sets about how he approached playing with Ornette, which was very illuminating - I do know, however, that he can be very nice AND very difficult -

actually, my Chicken agrees with me on most things - we did argue about Truman and Henry Wallace, however -

this place is better than viagra - just ask my chicken -

I'm out of my depth here, in terms of the classical side - though I do remember Johnny Carisi telling me he hated minimalism: "Sometimes," he said, "less is less." (of course, he also hated, in the musical sense, all post-1960s avant garde jazz, and Clark Terry) - personally I prefer to continue to beat a dead horse and, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, reiterate my complaints about formalism -

she's a great singer, but she lost me years ago - her writing, to me, hit the same wall that American folkies tend to always hit - too much photo realism, even in the guise of mediocre symbolist lyrics; too much ego. My favorite Joni Mitchell is Dave Van Ronk singing "River" -