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Henry Cowell in 1917.

Reading the following article last night, I was reminded of this "New Forum Rule" topic. You are sure to cringe: Suing Your Readers for Spite and Profit

Here, let's try one more thing... You can see in the picture below that I am watching your video using RealPlayer, so it does work using that, so what you can do is download this folder to your desktop and inside is the small movie. Then open it in your RealPlayer - you did say that you use RealPlayer yes? Let me know.

OK, well, that last one was from my own website and is a .mov file. Do you want this movie in .flv or H264 or DivX or wmv or....what exactly? Maybe there's a reason that it's not so widely available.

E-Mail Gets an Instant Makeover

Me too!

Sorry that you had a problem accessing the vid. I can get both links, but I understand the need for a more user-friendly standard codec. I gave a video link in a Hank Williams post that only some were able to see, so it remains a minor problem. Anyway, try here and tell me if you're able to not only see it, but download it as well. The video is poking fun at Brion Gysin too! Rod

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I'd like to see the Zappa estate let go of the original "Bat Chain Puller" sessions. Most of the tunes have been released on the follow-up "proper" LPs (and "Odd Jobs" on the "Grow Fins" collection) , but there are still some tunes: "Seam Crooked Sam," a slower version of "Flavor Bud Living" (a hella guitar part), and the original version of "Brickbats" that would be nice to hear cleaned-up and "official" instead of the boot that's being passed around out in the Interlands.

From an online post to the Mac OS X audio Forum (Feb. 4, 2007): ...for those 50s and 60s records for Blue Note you are hearing a comfortable LIVE sound, which means isolation was achieved largely with microphone placement and player spacing (though later on in the 60s he did start using isolation booths for singers/piano/drums), not tons of gobos, headphones, overdubs, etc. Supposedly he always close mic'd the bass and the piano soundhole, often close mic'd the horn(s) as well, and used very few drum microphones (likely 2 - 3) as you would be getting a fair amount of drum bleed in your bass and piano mics. For these jazz recordings, he seemed to prefer windscreen covered Schoeps tube mics, the Neumann U47, and RCA 77. His studio has great acoustics - often compared to a cathedral in miniature - and he may have used a room mic on occasion to exploit this. It is funny that his recordings are often described as "natural," when he used quite a lot of eq, compression, and plate reverb, probably less to "add" anything as much as combat the limitations of his gear. He took great care with mic placement and he usually did his own mastering (and now re-mastering) as well. He also has very attentive (if not always golden) ears, and is skilled at putting together a good mix. There are so many unanswered questions about his techniques and it would be easy to continue to speculate, but to quote him, "...the only thing anybody needs to know about my studio is the sounds that came out of it."

Oh, I think the idea has been there, it's the technology that turns it into an instant translation in such a small package that's so amazing. Yes, it's not for completely accurate full renditions, but I can think of times looking at a menu while overseas and having to get out a Larousse in order to decipher whether an omelet has ham.

Great BBC documentary from 1997 (Part 1 of 6) - narrated by John Peel Hit that long lunar note and let it float Captain.

This just blows me away. Technology that just surprises me completely. Only one language for now (Spanish, natch), but think of the possibilities. Word Lens: available now.

Whoo Hoo! Thanks Bev!

Very sad. He had a pretty difficult struggle with MS for a long time. You can see it's devastating effects as long ago as the early 90's when Anton Corbijn did that short film with the Capt. sitting in his wheelchair smoking a fat cigar. I think John French said that he noticed symptoms as long ago as the 70's. A solid group of wonderful recordings that are left for us admirers.

Well, actually, it was last broadcast on October 10 of this year and the post is from November 13, but it's still a recent broadcast. BBC is saying that it'll be re-broadcast on New Year's Day at 03:00. Maybe last night's program will show up later sometime - would like to hear it. Heard about the butter ads - still funny! ...and the comment! - "God saves the Queen the fascist margarine." - 

This isn't the show that you heard, but it's rather recent: November 13 Thanks for the Eicher link.

Don't watch if you suffer from trypophobia tho.

Maybe you can chill to the memories of your high school TV-watchin' days? [and this is only Part 1!] - or does it just send chills up yer spine? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utjQtCxa2rI Whatever happened to Karen Valentine anyway?

Are they really that rare in your area? That seems so strange because around this house, Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal come around here many times a day - practically every day for the past 15 years. Often, the parents move on after the young ones grow up, but there have been times when the same couple stays for a few years at a time. Bluejays, woodpeckers (one favorite: a downy woodpecker I call "Munchin'" because of his appetite - full name: "Munchin' Downy Jr."), wrens, owls, chickadees, titmice, mourning doves, and more, all visit here too, nearly every day.

If you're in the L.A. area... "GARY LUCAS, featured guitar soloist and member of the final edition of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, celebrates the career of visionary American maverick genius Don Van Vliet a/k/a Captain Beefheart, who changed the face of music forever over a career spanning a dozen brilliant and uncompromising albums, spanning 1967′s groundbreaking “Safe as Milk” through 1969′s radical “Trout Mask Replica” and finishing with 1982′s elegant “Ice Cream for Crow”..."

This from an email I received from "Downtown Music Gallery" in NY http://www.downtownmusicgallery.com/ WEEK 38 - December 13th, 2010 This week brings another batch of just acquired collections.. The first list is lo-ong Out-Of-Print MOSAIC LIMITED EDITION BOX SETS (If you don't know what these are, go to http://www.mosaicrecords.com/outofprint.asp for the learning experience) BUT, It's those who know about these are the ones who will show interest! These belonged to a super-audiophile [with an $80k system, we kid you not] MOST are LP sets, and a few are the CD editions [that he bought for the CD player in the bedroom!] The Vinyl is STONE MINT! The packaging is also perfect in the complete sets but we'll say Mint Minus so the picayune amonst you will be mollified! [any physical detriments are noted] When new, these sets cost an average of $25-$30 per LP times the number of LPs in the box set [i.e., a 4 LP set was $100-120, etc] You really won't see this stuff again in this condition - if you've been paying attention on eBay and elsewhere, you know the values being achieved have reached - in some cases - $100 per each LP x # of LPs in set! COMPLETE MOSAIC LP SETS: #107 The Complete Blue Note Forties Recordings of Ike Quebec and John Hardee (4 LPs) $225 #109 The Complete Edmond Hall/James P. Johnson/Sidney De Paris/Vic Dickenson Blue Note Sessions (6 LPs) $350 #110 The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Sidney Bechet (6 LPs) $399 #119 The Pete Johnson/Earl Hines/Teddy Bunn Blue Note Sessions (1 LP) $50 #126 The Complete Johnny Hodges Recordings 1951-1955 (6 LPs) $350 #127 The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger (6 LPs) $499 #143 The Complete 1959 CBS Charles Mingus Sessions (4 Q-LPs) $299 #158 Miles Davis: The Complete Plugged Nickel Sessions (10 Q-LPs) $799 #123 The Complete Commodore Jazz Recordings, Volume I (23 LPs) $999 #134 The Complete Commodore Jazz Recordings, Volume III (20 LPs) $999 MOSAIC CD SETS #147 The Complete Serge Chaloff Sessions (4 CDs) $199 Complete, but missing some packaging: #152 The Complete CBS Recording of Eddie Condon and His All Stars - 5 CDs PLUS BOOK, but NO BOX $150 #159 The Phil Woods Quartet/Quintet 20th Anniversary Set - 5 CDs PLUS BOX, BUT NO BOOK $150 #161 - The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions (1963-66) - 7 CDs BUT NO BOOK OR BOX $175

Ozzy Osbourne and Miss Piggy – “Born to be Wild” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2r4feujBsY Bing Crosby and David Bowie – “Little Drummer Boy” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKS0GngztOo

Al Green and Lyle Lovett - "Funny How Time Slips Away"