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Does Randy kick into Lonesome Dragon mode when y'all play BSL? I find Moses' drumming more interesting than most!

Please keep us informed. If this happens, I may be planning a trip to PA around this event.

This book has a little bit on just about everything you've ever wanted to read about. And then stuff you didn't know existed. I loved this book. I should read it again soon!

Good to see you back Mr. Lankin! Please do let us know what his requirements are. I am sure there are quite a few people that would be willing to meet them to hear him perform again!

Anyone know anything about this? Digable Planets on Blue Note

felser, I believe Walt Dickerson still lives in your area. Did you realize this? I would love to see him playing out again. I would travel great distances to be in the same room with his music.

Yes. ← Yes. Lon, which Jamal trios are you referring to?

I am surprised that he didn't record any other trio albums. This stuff is smokin hot and dense. I've never really had an ear for Horace's music the way I do for this trio album. I'm sure it will hit me one day the way Sonny Clark's non-trio recordings did. This is up there with the Thelonious Monk Trios, Sonny Clark Trios, Bud Powell Trios, Herbie Nichols Trios for sure. No particular order there, just thinking about piano trios in this vein. What else?

For some reason, no matter how hard I hit the keys, they just wouldn't type. Anyway, to finish the original post... Bu included! Why do you think Silver cylced through the bassists on this session the way he did? I love these hard bop trios and am interested in your recommendations for more like this. Go ahead, tell me what I've been missing all this time, because there are some tracks on this recording that are just monster. Thanks.

Wow. I'm late to the party, but this is a side of Horace Silver that I just didn't know existed! This shit is right up my alley. Listening to the first few bars of the first tune, Horoscope (which to many reading this right now is probably a classic), I could have sworn I was mixed up and threw in some Nichols.

Was the Continental in Norfolk or Richmond? I haven't heard any of this, but I have to say that I love that Ornette cover art.

I've been digging the hell out of the Studio One Selector!

You're right. Crooked Rain was...

I think Brighten the Corners is a fantastic album. I don't know how I missed this the first time around. There are some near-classic rock songs on this thing! Type Slowly for instance. Wowee Zowee is of course the alt-darling because of its scrawling nature & the heavily weighted factor that it is their sophomore effor, but Brighten the Corners and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain are real shots at making a good album. I think they succeeded with both. I actually like certain elements of Terror Twilight, but I'd say that Preston School of Industry's two albums do top it. The second Jicks album definitely rocks. Terror Twilight ranks at the bottom of all Pavement-related recordings, and that is still a pretty good thing. Yeah, The Fall is cool, but they made some real clunker albums to me. You really never know what you're getting when you buy an album that is 'off the beaten path'. I mean, they made a shitload of albums!

I definitely liked the 95 shows when Trey switched to percussion. This was around the time they had been rehearsing Remain In Light if I remember. Was that Halloween 94? I think the percussive nature of Talking Heads music and other things they were listening to at the time really influenced this. I have to say that I think Jon Fishman is one of the most technically proficient drum machines that I have seen in person. The guy is so accurate and so restrained. I really love to listen to them go deep into Ghost or some of the more deep funk oriented compositions mainly to hear Fishman get nasty on his hi-hats. I'm listen to a lot of drummers, and Fishman will always remain up there. Maybe it would be good to steer this thread in another direction. How many of you are familiar with the recording Surrender to the Air? I think this is an interesting release because it obviously doesn't appeal to the average Phish listener, but it doesn't seem to appeal to the average music listener period. Marshall Allen, Michael Ray, Bob Gullotti (!) & Jon Fishman (!), John Medeski, Damon R. Choice (I've never been able to hear his vibraphone on this recording. I'm wondering if he was playing through effects and it just isn't recognizable.), the Burbridge brothers, Trey Anastasio and Marc Ribot all seem to be heading toward a more Sun Ra plane. The inflate and deflate song titles fit perfectly. I think I've brought this album up here a few times and seem to get minimal response. It is one of those albums that seems to have slipped through the cracks. I think Marshall Allen fans would dig this more than Phish fans would. The music is so difficult to classify, I think a lot of people have a hard time with it because it is rare to find the mood that this music hits. What do y'all think? p.s. Dig that intro by Gullotti! So nice.

I love Bill Stewart's drumming, but I have had a hard time getting into his Blue Note albums. This one I am very interested in checking out though! One album that I seem to come back to often is Think Before You Think. Great playing all around.

Timely. I was listening to the IT soundcheck on the way home tonight. I'm going to have to grab the Tower set for tomorrow. I'd also suggest listening to some of the Big Cypress New Year's set if you think Phish didn't have substance. Only fans complain about specific shows, releases, or organizational crap. Everyone else could care less. I don't listen to Phish like I did when I was 20, but I still listen on occassion and it usually hits the spot when I do. My first show was at Lawrence Joel Memorial in Greensboro, NC 1995 followed by Hampton Coliseum 1995. My last show was Great Woods, MA 2004. The only festival I saw was Big Cypress down in the Everglades. I loved every minute of it, including the traffic. Phish gave me and my friends some great times. I have no reason to bitch about anything!

I like it. A lot.

No problem!

I've never used the AAC format. I always rip to VBR MP3. You have control over your bit rate as well.

I recently got a Gateway tablet PC through work and loaded iTunes. I think what you were looking for is File > Add folder to library. iTunes on both Apple and PC seems to organize my music in files by artist name, then album. Of course, I am free to manage my files however I want. My filing has nothing to do with iTunes. I'm guessing your files look somthing like music > jazz > tyrone washington > trainwreck > track name. All ou should have to do is choose the 'music' file to add to library. Anyway, seems like you've moved on, which is fine. My music is stored on an external hard drive. Unfortunately, the drive is usb. Burning from that drive is extremely slow, but what am I going to do. Anyone know a way to replace the usb with firewire? Is there a way to retrofit an external? I'm pretty novice when it comes to this type of thing...

How could you not be a fan of those steps though? And he's still got it! I thought he brought the place down!

Damn. I just don't know how I'll be able to meet with you guys. I was really hoping to have some free time to get out of this damn hotel, but they've got us bogged down all week with work.

They are replaying the show. Ice-T and Snoop just did Colors. I was in middle school in suburban America when this stuff was current. We used to listen to it on no label dubbed cassettes and headphones so our parents didn't know what was going on. Sometimes we would actually mislabel the cassettes to throw them off. This stuff had gone so mainstream that our parents even knew who and what N.W.A. was!

Hip Hop Honors. This is NICE!