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You're talking 'bout the 10 CD box right?...and not the metal box thingy?

I went to another, better stocked, store today. I bought a copy of the two-disc version of Daydream Nation (I never bought the CD to replace the LP). It's amazing the ennui I feel going into these stores nowadays. The excitement is gone and I don't think it's an "age" thing. High prices, lack of creativity (in the store selection - not in the "real" world), and being amidst listless employees and tepid pablum flowing from the speakers all contribute to this feeling in a major way.

Clerk at the local B&N used to work at Tower. He said he didn't know about any downsizing either... Picked up the latest Terry Riley for $8 and some Ives symphonies. I went straight to the boxsets, but the selection was pathetic - worse than the Borders stores I've been to.

Just to be sure...When you use compressed air, turn off everything and after each spray, work the pots from the lowest to the highest - slightly vigorously. This may have to be done nearly a dozen times with a few sprays each time. If you've already done this, then, yes, the next step that these guys have mentioned should be taken. I get noise while turning dials, but that's usually on purpose.

I've got these. Quite a variety, so it's a bit hard to recommend things to someone I don't know. You've got Baraka's poetry and solo piano from Anthony Davis and with James Newton you've got something bordering on "chamber jazz", etc... I'll need some time to go thru the list. the Ocean Club, just as an off-hand thought, is great as well as the "modern music" things (what's with the "Thomas 'Snake' Johnson"? - never heard Tom call himself that? - betcha 7/4 will find that amusingly weird)), but I need to look at the list later and refresh my memory about these titles. R~~

This is nice too:

His wishes stated about Adorno's books are examples of what you'd like to do to his book. Soon you'll get to the part where he equates Germans and Austrians.

These guys are short in the crotch.

Thanks to both of you! Very enlightening - yes, I'm coming from the age that's closer to the cataract side of life, so this confirms some things that I've heard. Thanks again you two! R~~

Vibes, How long do you have to use the drops? Years? Also, I have heard that Lasik doesn't compensate for general eye deterioration due to age, so that, let's say, 10 to 20 years from now (which is shorter than you think) your aging eyes become worse than if you had never done the Lasik surgery. I've wondered if this info is a myth. Did you have a consultation with the doc beforehand about your "future eyes"?

Oh, yes - a very fine recording! As a matter of fact, you can get all of that LP plus eight more tracks in this:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkI1Be...Kjdyq9eVc-bSX6w Cuban Mambo pioneer Cachao dead at 89 2 hours ago MIAMI (AFP) — Legendary Cuban musician Israel Lopez, known to the world as Cachao and credited with being one of the originators of the mambo musical style, died on Saturday in Miami, his spokesman announced. He was 89. A gifted bassist and an innovative composer, Cachao was born in Havana in 1918 and began his career playing music for silent movies. By the 1930s he was well known as a Latin jazz virtuoso along with his brother Orestes Lopez. The two had a prolific musical output, recording scores of records. In this period he wrote songs in the style that became known as mambo by combining the traditional danzon music with upbeat Afro-Cuban rhythms. Mambo became popular around the world in the 1940s when Cuban band leader and composer Damaso Perez Prado -- known as the King of Mambo -- came up with a special dance for the music and it began to be treated as a separate genre. In the 1950s Cachao and his brother recorded a series of successful records of jam sessions with local musicians that combined mambo and jazz. Cachao fled Cuba in 1962, three years after the triumph of the revolution led by Fidel Castro. After a brief exile in Spain he moved to New York, then Las Vegas, and eventually to Miami in the 1980s, where he performed along with other renowned Latin musicians such as Tito Puente and Gloria Estefan. Cuban-American Hollywood star Andy Garcia produced a documentary on Cachao's life in 1993. Cachao and his brother Orestes won Grammy record awards in 1995 and 2005, as well as a Latino Grammy in 2003. Cachao died early Saturday due to kidney failure, spokesman Nelson Albareda told local media

I bought this album at Woolworths, so maybe Chuck is right.

"Suppose They Gave a Ceremony and Nobody Came?"

OK...so no response to something really incredible. OK, how about a YouTube video?

Hey Guys, This little bit of video that follows may be of interest to the musicians amongst us, but non-musicians will get a real kick out of seeing what can now be done to recorded music in graphical form. It's pretty amazing and it probably will put your creative brain in overdrive just thinking of it's possibilities of use - the instructional aspect of dissecting a composition alone is quite mind-boggling. The video is about 17 minutes long, but you can go ahead to about the 4 minute mark to start sampling the goodies. Note, especially, at about 11 minutes, the guy moving Chet Baker's trumpet tones around. Truly impressive software that should be available later this year. Below is a snippet of text about the software: "Once in a while a product comes along that really takes things to another dimension - take the Celemony Melodyne - that put audio into the world of grid editing, enabling incredibly powerful manipulation of recorded audio. Well be prepared to have you mind blown once again. Today Melodyne previewed their Direct Note Access. Essentially, they have made the impossible possible. Take a stereo (or mono) track of polyphonic audio - piano, string quartet or whatever and then through some kind of wizardry, explode this into the separate individual notes and edit to taste as you would with monophonic audio within Melodyne. Yes you heard right." The video: http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=6281 The website is here: http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=358&L=0 Rod

Oh, goodness. You guys are still around? I thought that this place went to the great grinder in the sky. The (O)wners are pulling their hair out by now? Wordsandsounds just sent me a shout over at Last.FM pointing here. Yup, he's right about the posts over at AA"j", but why clutter up the servers with old news. It's pretty boring over there anyway: it's not even interesting enuf to make it an illicit affair. Jim's right too! New and old projects... • Zorn wanted something for his new book... • Stockhausen's death births an article for a German Musik magazine... • Creating audio from pictures, but trying to get past the "novelty" aspect... • "Realizing" a work of mine (piano) from the early 70's, that wasn't technically feasible at that time... • Sifting and sighing <ohhh...> over the mess of things that need to go up on eBay... • big etc Still doing the "rodcasts" (now known as "Concerts By the C" - with apologies to Mista' "Misty") almost round-the-clock these days - 'cept if it gets in the way of some (technical) cleanup which has to happen every once in a while. Is there such a thing as "incidental" cracking? Just occasional visits to the hand-to-hand man? R~~

You done stole the crack pipe outta my hand!!!

Yes, excellent! You know that he won an Emmy for his theme to "Dragnet" that we all know so well? Does the dog go boo-hoo-hoo?

In the 70's I was absolutely devoted to this stuff (and a lot of other German music). Often streaming from my bedroom at home and in the dorm rather loudly accompanied by swirling, pulsating kinetic art. Lost interest in TD in the 80's because after making some serious cash on soundtracks, they changed their sound too much for my taste. Never lost my love for Schulze and have every release of his - well over 100 CD/LPs. He's managed to keep his wonderful sense of time intact throughout the years while still keeping a personal style. His latest, Kontinuum, begins as a real nod to his 70's roots, and cruises thru styles he's developed over the past 38 years. It fits like a glove. Next summer, I'll be going to see both of them at Loreley in Germany. Tho no longer a fan of the recent TD, it'd still be nice to see Edgar Froese play. If this were 1974/75, I'd be peeing my pants over this lineup, but I'm in that inbetween phase in my life when one doesn't pee their pants (if they can help it).

Dad's been had! OK, maybe he didn't really know, but on the occasional time that I've checked TV for weather, etc during the week it's been mentioned as a local broadcast. Don't know if there's a stream, but folks can Google Channel 27 and Dallas and see if it's online.

I had to play their stuff in Chicago clubs in the 80's. Surprised to hear that new stuff was still being released!

Right now, of course, I'm thinkin yes, but it hasn't arrived yet, so we'll see what shape it's in when it gets here (it went out yesterday). Many times I've bought LPs that were worth hundreds of dollars to some folks while spending as low as $1 to get them (this record years ago). Conversely, I've sold stuff for hundreds of dollars that meant practically nothing to me, so it all, of course, depends on one's interests.