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What? No Tom DeLay on the back?

Could Herbie Nichols be next? A Hank Penny? A Dime-bag Dime? A Brand New Dollar Brand Dollar?

I'd suggest that you try to find the very thick bags used for LaserDisc sets. I've bought a few hundred - but this was many years ago - so I'm not sure who has them anymore. A Google search should work tho. They're extremely thick and come with or w/o flaps. ®

So you finally got it! Good! That run of it (plus the originals) that you noticed last week was a great wash of wonderful sound and, like I said, something that I thought you'd really enjoy. The booklets are real eye-openers. ®

"Very Fine Indeed"

Do you have to pay for the surgery?

We had just named our new second cat after him last week. Many, many fun times seeing that band.

Organissimo: always keeping you in stitches.

i thought that it was 634-5789?

Thanks Al for that! Do you remember if that Chinese place was anywhere in the North Texas area? (heh, heh...) R~~

A family member wanted to go to "Macaroni Grill" to celebrate a birthday tonight. In the middle of long bouts of bellowing baritones and shrieking sopranos, suddenly I hear "Mambo Italiano" - done not by Rosemary Clooney or someone else relatively well-known - but by Alma Cogan! I was so taken aback that I completely lost my train of thought and mentioned this to my sweetheart. I then heard, "The other night, you didn't know that it was Pearl Jam and tonight you recognize Alma whatshername?" Anyway, do any of you have any stories of hearing the VERY unexpected song in a public place? ®

This is sooo completely the way I feel about him...and it is surely only one of the many reasons that I love Brother Jim!

Yes! Make art! (a la Knizak or other deconstructionists)

Eeeew...yucky gooey mess that Jarrett/Shostakovich. More like "24 Prelukewarms & Fudgedups" It's kinda like having dry martinis with your borsch - all wrong and quite disgusting. Better you get the Scherbakov on Naxos or spend a bit more and spring for the Nikolayeva (whom I think it was actually written for?) - can't remember which label, but a Google will do the trick. ®

Ay sir! Those and the Composition Notes too are a wonderful reference for me. The size and sturdy binding are just right. I would've used a different typeface and the occasional changes in dark and lightness in type can be a mixed blessing, but the info/ideas are the real deal. I just wish that he would get some kind of grant and spend 5 years doing nothing but updating his writings. There's such a glut of audio already. One of my concerns is that he has a family history of bad health and early death and it seems that, so far, he has, thankfully, cheated the odds... ...but the idea that he would leave us someday with an incomplete text record of his compositional ideas would really be a shame. It'd be nice if someone like Lock, or Heffley, or someone to get him to committing to, at least, audio recording (easy handheld device?) an hour a day about each composition, in chronological order, after where Composition Notes leaves off. They can always be transcribed later.

Ambien...whoa... Not long ago, I was on a 10 hour non-stop flight sitting next to a girl in her early 20's. Chatting, she suddenly produced some Ambien and asked ME(?) whether I thought she should take a whole or half of one. Having no idea, telling her so, and not wanting the responsibilty, I watched her talking to me while, inside 5 to 10 minutes, one of her eyes began rolling up and around and around in her head in a pretty frightful manner. I offered her my window seat, and nearly instantly she completely went OUT. The only problem was that she had lodged her leg in-between the seat in front of her and that person's window so that her leg was pretty much lying across this other poor woman's arm rest. The woman called the flight attendant over and the ordeal of trying to wake this young girl began. Meanwhile Ms. Ambien had earphones on with an iPod sitting in her lap. The attendant said to me, "Maybe you could turn her iPod up and she'll wake up" to which I answered, "Do you really want me to reach down there and begin fingering her iPod?" At that moment you can hear this roar of laughter spread thru the plane. After offering to get out of my seat so that the attendant could maneuver this girl out of this difficult situation, a good 10 minutes of yanking this girl every which way continued and produced ZERO results. The attendant apologized to the other woman passenger for not being able to remedy the situation and told her that she'd just have to be patient. About three hours later, Sleeping Cutie awoke...said she felt wonderful...refreshed!...like she had a full night's rest! I asked her how much Ambien she had finally decided to take. "I took half. I didn't wanna take a chance."(!!!) I've decided to stick with "Sleepytime Extra" tea.

Yes, but I think that that CD only has a single realization of about 14 minutes in length instead of what you get on the LP. ®

I agree... Many here are waaaay more qualified, so you should listen to them, but as a youngster, "Live/Dead" was the only Dead I had until it was stolen from me over 35 years ago. Never bought another thing of theirs until a few years ago when I picked up the 10 disc set of the Fillmore recordings that includes this concert (I think it's out-of-print now). It's the only Dead that I have, 'cause I've always found them and their fans over(t)ly masturbatory... ...but, heh, I suppose after the viscidness disappears, you'll probably wanna do it again, so... ®

Big shame. Always a reminder to go see the guys whose music you grew up with whenever the opportunity arises: Sonny, Pharoah, etc...

Don't know if yer still around, but: Damu picked it up from Madvillain (MF Doom) from the "Rhinestone Cowboy" cut which is a mix of about 3 short samples. (There's an instrumental version too). "People" say that it's from the Novi Singers cut "Jeansy," but I've got "Jeansy" and it doesn't sound a thing like it, so if I were you, I'd contact the Stones Throw messageboard and see if they can help you out. ®

Interesting topic MG! For me, the opportunity has arisen to be able to study with the artist Hermann Nitsch. For those that aren't familiar with him, he was a member of the Viennese Actionists and his performances were often filled with rituals that involved animal sacrifice. Mentioning this opportunity to a fellow O-Board member (who hasn't posted in quite a long time), he was emphatic that not only should I not consider studying with Nitsch, but that I should, so to speak, completely erase him from my mind - meaning, of course, getting rid of any music that I have of his, and not buying anymore and certainly not studying with him. Tho I deplore any of the animal sacrifice elements of his performances (add: being a vegetarian for 35 years - bordering on veganism), the sound and ritual aspect is so wonderfully enticing that this opportunity sits right on the edge of my desires. In the last couple of years, I've thought that I'd come to a set conclusion that since I already had hundreds of pages of his scores and notes and over a hundred discs of his work that I could just as well become "self-taught," when it comes to his compositional ideas, but this excuse for a way of working can be used for all kinds of endeavors and deflates the need for any type of apprenticeship which could be considered an absurd idea. So the idea still sits there waiting to be acted upon (or not?). Sometimes doing nothing, the answers appear anyway.

One, two, buckle my shoe Three, four, knock at the door Five, six, pick up sticks Seven, eight, lay them straight Nine, ten, a big fat hen Eleven, twelve, dig and delve Thirteen, fourteen, maids a'courting Fifteen, sixteen, maids in the kitchen Seventeen, eighteen, maids a'waiting Nineteen, twenty, my platter's empty ...