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An Auto-Tune and a Vocoder are completely different from each other (as well as their 60 year difference in invention).

Right Jim - the arrow above the bottom box... Two ways to do extra artwork: 1) Highlight all of the tunes of an album and Ctrl-I or command-I them. Put the back cover in the "artwork" box first...then the front cover. When you're done, the front cover will show automatically and the back cover will show when you click the right arrow above the lower window. If you want to add more artwork, then you need to drop them in the lower window. You can drag as many pictures into that bottom window as you want and your front cover will still be the first one showing. 2) If you're starting with no artwork in the bottom window, highlight all of the tunes of an album and make sure that the bottom window says "Selected Item" (very important - I will elaborate later). In this case, you have to drag your artwork in the order that you want it finally presented whenever you click the window arrow. If, like me, you want: front cover, followed by back cover, followed by disc image, followed by everything else, then you have to drag them into this window in that order. For #2 (above), you have to have "selected item" showing when you do this because if you have it on "now playing" and you start dragging artwork into the box it will assign that artwork to whatever track that your playing. So, if you're listening to Duke's "...A Train" and you drop a Miles picture in the box - even if you have a full Miles CD highlighted, the Miles pic will become the artwork for "...A Train." Rod

I don't think that works. I think it only works if you don't have artwork already there. If you do, I don't think the new artwork will overwrite the old artwork. Yup, if you do #1, it will kill the old artwork. Doing #2 won't kill the old artwork tho - it just adds to it. Believe me, I'm adding new artwork over old many times each day. There are all kinds of other tricks that you can do: One of which: if you have a front cover and a back cover picture, then do #1 and place the back cover picture in the box first, then the front cover picture just after and your front cover actually shows up in the main window with your back cover just a click away. It's strange, but it's opposite of what you'd think it should do. If you have more pictures to add (picture of the disc, for example), you have to follow #1 with #2 and drop the third piece of artwork in the bottom window. Remember: Believe me, I do this dozens of times a day. Rod

...or is this a YouTube video trick?

Wow! He was one scary-lookin' dude!

"creature of nightmares"

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Actually, they're not a Krautrock band (an awful term thrust on the majority of German bands by the British press) even tho they hail from Mannheim. They're closer to hard rock with the occasional art-rock influence. If you're a fan of bands like Birth Control, Uriah Heep or even maybe early Deep Purple then you may be interested. The second album is actually considered to be one of their least progressive or "meh-like" with it's indebtedness to southern rock in some places. They were trying for a more AOR style that actually is kind of all over the place - a little soft rock here, a little progressive "tron" style there, Lynyrd Skynyrd at times, etc. A while back I posted a few of their LPs: "Concrete" being the live one where they really shine. It's a good start if you're interested. The first album is closer to a prog blues-rock jam (à la Quatermass) with heavy guitar, Hammond organ, harmonica, et al: and the third LP is pretty decent hard rock with some vocals that are kind of sub-par:

Long love affair with this soundtrack. Have owned 3 LPs of this since '71 (one of which is a promo copy that came with the "key" - if you've seen the movie, then you'll know) and the version on disc that came out 4 years ago. This could be the fifth version 'cause it's nice to know that it was taken from the original tapes. It's short (as has been mentioned) at only 26:20. Actually, there's no reason why they couldn't have released this in hexagon shape - there's octagon shape discs: Loved the movie as a youngster (even tho the acting was atrocious) to the point of seeing it at least a dozen times and writing a short story for high school lit class extrapolating on its concept. For me, Crichton could do no wrong in those days (he went insane in his later years). Telephoned him in '71 and he was very patient with a young admirer. A book "report" in high school on "The Terminal Man" turned into a multimedia event with abstract slides and sampled sounds/music from composers such as John Cage and Henry Cowell to Paul Horn, et al. This was Allen, Texas - imagine... This soundtrack has a special place historically. If you're interested in classic analog electronic music, then it could be something for you. If you're expecting jazz, then you can pass.

The cars and trucks that are currently built in the United States. Toyota Prius to be built in the US

This summer, while attending over a week of symposia and projects involving cloud computing, I had brought along the app, Simplify Media, installed on an iPod Touch just for this purpose of having access to my home music collection. It was really wonderful that I didn't have to rely on a pre-downloaded playlist of tunes. I could listen to anything from a collection of 200,000+ tunes from 22,000+ artists housed on a drive in Dallas while I was enjoying life 5400 miles away near the Danube. With this S.M. app, and possibly soon with the Apple/Lala joint venture, the "cloud" aspect comes into play with many people joining in together to listen. A friend in Tokyo will occasionally listen to my collection while I'm enjoying his. Telling him about new releases that I'd think he'd enjoy (or even old ones that I'd placed in iTunes) are now followed up with the words, "You know where to look!." Music radio seems to be a receding memory with the big ol' servers churning away in distant lands providing the base for our entertainment of the future.

You may be thinking of St Stephen's Green where it's easy to spend a lazy day. O'Connell and Grafton streets are a couple of commerce areas with street musicians on the latter and in the evening you can spend some time in the pubs and clubs in the Temple Bar area too. Oh! and if you're a history buff, you can see the Book of Kells at the Trinity College Library plus an amazing amount of historical wealth!

The tractor even gets in a few solos

Oh, if you're doing as much driving as you say, please be careful! Many roads are narrow and there are the locals (seemed to be many young people) who take those tight curves in wide arcs - very dangerous. I've heard that the crash rate is very high in all parts of the country. Expect the Guinness Storehouse tour to be expensive, but it may be worth it to you. ...and, yes, Cliffs of Moher (but I still have some recurring nightmares because I nearly went over due to stepping on the back of my long coat and losing my balance), the Burren, castles, Kilarney, etc...yes! all wonderful! and expect to see a LOT of rocks - You could spend time in Avoca in County Wicklow, but it'd be best if you were a fan of the old TV show Ballykissangel. Don't remember any jazz (tho there was contemporary classical in Dublin), but do you really go to Ireland for jazz? You could begin by flying in to Shannon on the West and work your way clockwise to Dublin on this trip...and save the south for another two week trip. It's a lovely country that needs to be taken in gradually and gently.

Each trip to Ireland has been so incredibly lovely, that I could write many blog pages on them. I will say one thing here tho: if you're a bit flexible on your dates, try to be in Dublin on June 16th. The 2004 celebrations were legendary (because of the centennial celebrations), but I've been during other years and the mood of the city - especially in front of the Joyce center - is absolutely electrifying! Rod

Of course it's Sony fault. My point: Matthew and I (and possibly others) ordered the box from Amazon.fr because they stated that post-December 18th stock would be the new boxes. It appears that Matthew didn't receive this, so this is why I thought that they should be contacted - which he has now done. It'll be interesting to see what response he gets. ®ø∂

It was a progressive rock movement that began in the late 70's. You can find more here.

My work is play (Linz, Austria): The Ars Electronica Center reflecting on the Danube - 40,000 LED lights that slowly (or quickly, depending...) shift colors: Closer view of the front: From the back during an outdoor concert: The side of the Lentos Kunstmuseum - notice the museum's name etched in the glass: The view outside my hotel window on the one rainy night during my stay:

There's truly an astounding number of good bands from that era that fell through the cracks and some that were more RIO in nature rose a bit above to get some extra attention. Just in Belgium alone (since we're talking about this now), you had Esperanto, Univers Zéro, Bene Gesserit, and Aksak Maboul who had pretty large followings, but there were a few other better than decent bands that fell a bit out of radar range. Other Belgian bands with various degrees of similarity to the Wallace Collection's use of chamber music instruments would be Julverne, Finnegans Wake, and Louise Avenue. If you're looking for a more Canterbury influence, try Cos or Pazop. Oh! Isopoda was a very popular band with a big Genesis-like sound. Anyway, these are just the Belgian bands, and there's a huge number of near-obscurities from around the world floating around out there ready to be (re)discovered.

Late 60's Belgians whose best album is still their first one methinks. Basically, a couple of members of Sylvester's Team and a couple from the Belgian Philharmonic. Lots of singles. Tried to make a comeback album in the early 80's, but it wasn't very good at all. Find this and enjoy:

Amazing choreographer who discovered that she had cancer just a week before her death. German Dance Legend A Life in Pictures

Oh, I knew it was lowbrow crap. Never had any question about that. The "masquerading as middlebrow" part came from the fact that it was shown on PBS in the US and was therefore watched by tons of people who think that British TV is - by definition - more "cultural" than American TV (personally, I don't watch ANY TV these days). The kind of people who disdained "Rosanne" (which actually had an almost identical cultural POV) in favor of "Served." Wow! Man, did you buy a wide enough brush to spread your assumptions? So, you're telling us (coming from a guy who doesn't "watch ANY TV these days"), that all people who watch a British comedy on PBS are, by your description, snobs that define all (or even most) British programming as refined, cultural erudition? ...and you're trying to tell us that "Rosanne" - the show that was to represent the problems of the American working class - is somehow culturally similar with "Are You Being Served?" You really don't "watch ANY TV these days" do you?

The clip is from the end of the episode, but Cannonball and Feliciano are featured throughout. If I remember correctly, a treasure map is found in a dead guys pocketwatch and Feliciano spends time trying to convince Adderley that they are going to find riches soon. They walk and walk with Feliciano always refering to his friend as "Trim" (of course!). Meanwhile, there are these silver hunters that also know of the existence of this possible motherlode and so the trouble begins. The clip at the end really has no bearing on the storyline - it's just a chance to feature a jam session that fades out to be followed by credits. It's been years since I've seen this episode, so I'm going from hazy memory, but I think that this is close. I should bring it out and watch it sometime to re-familiarize myself with it.

I don't think that they were looking at presenting anything much above lowbrow at all. Very frequent stabs at highbrow mentality which according to an interview I saw with Lloyd and Croft is right where they wanted it. Actually, the classes of ridiculous self-importance amongst the characters with their various faux pas puts it precisely in that area of social satire that made it work so well. This comment reminds me of my brother-in-law who said that he hated Rowan Atkinson because "he acts so stupid" - well DUH!

Inman showed up here in Dallas for fund raising and hosted a public dinner that just happened to fall on my birthday. Our Dallas station has the distinction of being the first in the nation to broadcast British comedies. Back in '74, they began with Monty Python and kept adding others as the years went by. They kinda got stuck on the same old ones during the Bush years because of the cutbacks on funding, but they began promising new ones just last month. I remember that they tried to show this really funny show from New Zealand, but they got all kinds of negative feedback from people who wanted only British comedies. ( )