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    He had been admonished many times, has agreed to never do it again at least once, and has not AFAIK been threatened with banishment until now. (Banishing someone, you should know, is not something I can do myself; that's Jim's decision.) As for 'the policing of this rule being inconsistent," the moderators, despite what you may think, are human beings who have lives to live outside the boundaries of Organissimo, and thus we can't monitor every damn thing on a board that is brimful of posts everyday. We go on what we see ourselves and also rely on the reports/complaints of board members. Speaking for myself, the latter is the case at least half the time. Speaking for myself again, each of Aloc's missteps (or what you will) is like having a toy poodle drop his little craplets on your lawn twice a week while its master stands to one side, either lost in space or with a sly grin on his face (who can say?) It's not the biggest crime in the universe by far, but if you've been enough of a fool to accept the moderator role, it make you wonder what the f--- you're doing and why the f--- you even bother. Welcome to 2012, I guess. Just thinking that maybe there should be a step between warnings and banishment. Maybe first warning, then 30 days suspension, 2nd infraction 90 days, 3rd banishment. Not sure if this can be done. Odd to be discussing board policy on a topless waitress thread Both Larry and I (in my moderator days) have warned aloc more than once and Larry told him on another thread before this latest rule violation that he faced banishment if he'd do it again - and guess what, he did it again... It's not his second or third strike, it's his umpteenth strike. A 3-step route from warnings to banishment would need monitoring and that might be a problem: apart from Jim there are only two active moderators left with Magnificent Goldberg on permanent leave and my resignation last spring, so you could say they're understaffed.
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    You forgot to edit the thread title
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    When I was a moderator I also warned aloc not to post articles in full, yet he continued to do so. Whether it seems trivial or not is not the point, rules are rules and they're there for a reason. When rule violations cause problems, it is Jim who bears the brunt, not the offender.
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    As mentioned in Marcello's post the Cadet reissue was edited, though I don't know in what way.
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    Scheduled release date is now February 2012.
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    Sam Rivers RIP

    J.A.W. replied to david weiss's topic in Artists

    Very sad, he was truly one of the greats.
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    Bob Brookmeyer
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    Very sad news. He would have been 82 on December 19.
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    ahhhh crap. I don't have it. I like the players on it, but has anyone heard it? Been diggin' it? Nothing spectacular, but nice. It's always good to hear Cohn and Kamuca.
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    This is a great set. Recommended!
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    I guess it's not gonna happen...
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    I'll decide whether or not to live with it, if you don't mind. I don't need orders from you. I did not send this message to you. Whatever. Say hello to the others on my ignore list. You really want to block my posts because of an imagined insult? No, your "live with it" remark was just the last straw. Anyway, I'm not going to discuss that here.
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    I'll decide whether or not to live with it, if you don't mind. I don't need orders from you. I did not send this message to you. Whatever. Say hello to the others on my ignore list.
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    I'll decide whether or not to live with it, if you don't mind. I don't need orders from you.
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    do you have more biographical informations about trumpeter DON FERRARA? Had he own bands? He never made any recordings as a leader and I don't think he led any bands.
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    Joe Morello Pete Rugolo Russ Garcia Eddie Marshall
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    As far as I know Dave Burns died in November 2009.
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    I agree, a rotten company with very bad product. I had a few Trip LPs back in the 1970s and they were awful, full of air bubbles, scratches and other anomalies.
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    Garon wrote the notes to the Documents, so I guess it'll be the same as in his biog - 'unknown'. FYI the man behind the username 'Sam Hopkins' on that discussion is blues researcher Alan Balfour, who left the forum a few years ago... Yep, he left in September 2005 with the line "OK I know when I'm beating my head against a brick wall"
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    It's P.D. It is now...
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    Well, that's not quite what I think of this set. Some of the individual sessions are spread over two discs in the set and I'd rather have them on one disc as issued on Original Jazz Classics (except for the Five Spot sessions, of course), and I don't like the Caribe date at all, I think it's far below par compared to the other sessions. I'm not too fond of the Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis date either, it's indifferent at best, and the European sessions suffer from mediocre sidemen.
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    Took me a beat to get it, but Same here; very funny
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    It may have been one of the moderators who did that that would of been kind of a lame thing to do, though... I totally disagree. I think everyone, but especially the native English speakers here, should try to use correct English which can be understood by all, including those whose first language isn't English and may have trouble understanding mangled English.
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    It may have been one of the moderators who did that
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    Pity we don't have a time machine to go back to the Five Spot on that date and retune that awful sounding piano...
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