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Ron Williams & Donna Summer (1969)

He pretty much gave up art for good after the Large Glass. There are all kinds of stories about his intense, some would say, "over-the-top" devotion to chess. He even lost a wife after 6 or 7 months of marriage because of his constant chess playing.

Steve Weber (g, vo) Gerard Malanga, Ingrid Superstar (performer) Velvet Underground Marion Brown (as) Scotty Holt (b) Ronald Shannon Jackson (d) Allen Ginsberg (spoken word) Peter Orlovsky (performer) Peter Rawson (g) Tuli Kupferberg, Viki Pollon (vo) Ishmael Reed (spoken word) Andy Warhol (silence)

My composing days sprang from the 60s, but they were unusual in nature. I would sit and transcribe tunes (Buster Williams’ “Firewater” and Jarrett’s “Lucky Southern” being a couple of examples), and was a comp. major at North Texas in the mid-'70s. ...but the reality starting in those '60’s/'70’s days was that I found writing little rat droppings on paper completely unsatisfactory for the sounds I was interested in. "Unlearning” was the preferred route for me. I still couldn’t tell you in any way what "key” something is in - and, frankly, never really cared. Theory class was a bore to me. I became disheartened in college by the fact that I wasn’t allowed to be in the electronic music classes until at least junior year - even tho I went with a reel in hand to the head of the electronic music dept. when I was in high school - looking to get approval to get into North Texas (actually, my first school choice was Naropa in Boulder - studying with “The Beats”). I was making electronic music in the early 70s already - why did I have to sit thru classes that I had no interest in and were completely unsatisfactory for the sounds I was wanting to create. My instruments of choice were percussion (early '70s: alto sax too because of Braxton) - and, yes, I went thru the rote of reading thru practice books for most of those days as well. Only one teacher for pitched percussion (Burton), but what I got from that were nuances of playing and not necessarily extreme technique. Anyway, I still compose (audio, video, text, sundries…), but not in the usual manner. Most of my work is transferable to instruments if desired. I’m in the middle of a couple of large works - one of which that was begun in March of ’19 and expected to be done in Aug. ’25 - that have lately been reworked some due to the more public presence and ease of large language modeling. tl:dr I don't hear music in my head (melodies, harmonies, etc) when it comes time to compose.

Drunken Boat Whole Lotta Soul

That's true, but you can get a PDF here. The liners in PDF form are just a larger, easier-to-read version of what's printed in very tiny print on the physical edition, but yeah, when it comes to download, I'm guessing you don't get them.

Finally getting around to (and enjoying) this. Packaging of the two volumes is odd, but probably saved some money(?), but the music is where it counts and it's wonderful. Volume 2 isn't up yet on Discogs. It kinda reminds me of the days when I had to spend hours diligently filling in metadata on those huge Lowe boxsets, but I'll try to get around to that maybe next week. Meanwhile, I'm engrossed in listening and some text editing. That reminds me: nice touch with the QR sticker and the link to the liners. Allen has sooo much to say, but you gotta have good eyes, so if you want to save the sticker, you can find room under one of the CDs.

It was on "The Gift" from Season 3.

It's got Lester Bowie, Julian Priester, Erwin Helfer, and Scotty Holt as well!

Actually, it's the '02 model (made in '01), but first gen anyway. Our '01 model got hit by a wild driver with no license and no insurance a few years ago. I drive properly - not as extreme as this guy - but I'm aware. Also, I don't use ethanol-laced fuel.

Mercedes has been awful for years. They got big-headed and started cost-cutting which dovetailed into reliabilty issues, high maintenance costs, too much invested in high tech... Also, they've got a lot of competition from other "luxury" brands that they didn't have before. I still love my 23 year old Prius. Just an amazing car. 66.7 MPG. Put new speakers in yesterday.

Absolutely! A lot of the good players left and I wondered why even they bothered to do another album. When did Bruno shut it down?

I think Shelley Fabares is still alive... (I had to check if Lloyd Bochner and Cliff Robertson were still alive. They're not).

I'd say Shatner, Takei and Veronica Cartwright just off the top of my head. I was named after Serling - and the debut episode was on my first birthday.

The first one is a shot of chorus girls playing chess backstage at the Latin Quarter nightclub on West 48th Street, just off Times Square in New York City, 1958. The second is John Wayne playing chess on the set of Rio Bravo in 1958, watched by co-stars John Russell, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson and Dean Martin. The third is Marcel Duchamp playing chess (of which he was very good - according to John Cage) on a sheet of glass in 1958. This one is of Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968:

Yup. Latin Quarter.