etherbored

i like this copy, from the future projects page; "The following xxx releases are available for preorder." is there something in the back room we don't know about?

i see. when you attempt to put it in your shopping cart it gives the error message of no longer being available. that's lame. if they're unable to sell it, it shouldn't display as being available...

$106.00 is quite reasonable for factory sealed...

that's exactly what they did. i opened, and was enjoying, #2913 when the second package showed up at home. initially, i thought someone in my family was nice enough to send me a set for my birthday. obviously, the enclosed invoices crashed my short lived hope.

they acknowledged the mistake and are sending me a postage paid return label. i have two customer numbers, one with my office address and one with my home address. i account the error to that.

absolutely! this is why, in my post about my configuration, i mentioned that i had a top fabricated (for $100.00) that works far better than the can-am piece. i guess i should have made it clearer. i could have saved you some time.

no wonder they're dwindling rapidly. i ordered one roach set and received two...

not on the select...?

more, please jack!

i've just now watched my copy of the tati film 'playtime' for the first time in over a year. if any readers here are unfamiliar with tati, as many americans are, do yourself a favor and see this film. a masterwork in 70 mm...

sound samples of the forthcoming post-emi mccartney recording ('memory almost full') here... i've no soundcard at the moment. what's it all about? my expecations are low.

the charlap in question is simply the japanese issue of the new vanguard disc. note the catalog number.

regular|pepsi|cola for aloc|ispep|raluger?

??? i pm'd you a week ago on 'crescent' + 'quartet plays"...

i have about 50-75 of them and while they're usually pretty darn good they're no match for master koenig's work...

excellent choice! i thought *i* was the only one who raved about this record.

as thorough a dissertation as we're likely to find on this forum. are you a professor @ ntsu or wtf? fwiw, we are to accept an atist and their contributions at face value. to anything but is to pointlessly soil the magic of any artistry. otoh, to posthumously discuss and analyze the careers of the cornerstones of the genre is healthy. it allows many of us deeper understanding and perspective.

that songbook series. it was the best of times/it was the worst of times. likewise, i love those records, regardless of how differently they could have been arranged to make more of ella's voice. that series, more than maybe anything else in her catalog, was carefully engineered for mass market appeal. i mean, if my parents had those records... nonetheless, they are a definite zenith in the genre of the popular american songbook.

not that anyone reads what i have to say anyway, but i'd love to see a limited forum as, like many before me have said, i'd learn a lot. i've always promised myself that as time allows i'd supplement my knowledge and collection (of the genre).

at one time or another, i've owned, if not the complete ella catalog, certainly a majority of it (there were some out there/now sound pop records that i didn't own). it's just that, for my tastes, while ella is spot on in her own buoyant way, much of her material just doesn't connect with me beyond a (and this sounds worse than i mean it to) superficial level. that's due in no small part to the pristine clarity of her diction and delivery, something that's actually been seen as a double-edge in the circles i came up in. ps: i hope this isn't seen as "negative", because it's certainly not intended to be.

hear, hear. that recording gets a singular thumbs up, imho. there's vital and visceral, then there's been there and done that. these are the blues falls into the former.

well, later in ella's career that was her modus...

i would hope so. otherwise, this would be the most bland and mediocre of genres.