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Did they?! That's funny. I saw them on Austin City Limits recently. Michael Stipe came out and did Night Swimming. I also feel like I've seen them on some other HD concert programming... so many small venue HD recordings going on right now! The coolest one I've seen I think was The Mars Volta. They BLEW IT OUT with question and answer sessions between tunes!!!

"Recorded in a bakery, a nunnery, a magic shop, and a church." "Mastering by Bob Ludwig with thanks to George Marino." "Thank you to everyone who has helped us." Doesn't that last part get them off the hook?

I was a freshman in high school... that was a good six months before I became a music snob! All's I can say is I'm glad my wife owns Coldplay albums instead of Joe Satriani albums. I'm sure he has influenced plenty of guitarists and has plenty of people that are actually TRYING to copy his music, and I don't care to hear their albums either! Let's all hope Joe and Coldplay get together for a romping rendition of I Can Fly/Viva La Vida on a television near us very soon.

Alright... who of you are Broncos fans? Just looking at the last few posts, I can tell there is some Cowboys chatter here... PANTHERS are lining y'all up right now! We've got some tough games late in the season. The build-up has been incredible. Monday night was a blast!!! Redemption. Redemption. That first Tampa Bay game was torture.

I imagine Joe Satriani will then be swept under the carpet again after a short ride on the coattails of this law suit. This is the second time I've heard his music in thirty two years. The other was at a friend's house (who sat around finger-tapping a lime green guitar) in high school. Satriani was always featured in ads in the Electric Guitar Magazines. I guess one of his songs made the cut on a sample CD that came with one of the magazines. As soon as it was over, we made him put Are You Experienced? back in.

Has anyone been in touch with Dmitry lately? Last time I saw him, he was passing through Richmond VA and I happened to be n town. We did some digging together at Plan 9, and had lunch at a Vietnamese spot with my brother. Before that, I hadn't hung out with him in a year. Happy birthday Doc!

WORLD!

Searching for more information on my Pioneer, I came across this: The audio industry lost one of it's true digital audio pioneers over the weekend. Don Wadia Moses founder of Wadia Digital was not only a brilliant engineer and scientist, but an incredible man. Anyone lucky enough to know Don personally will miss his warm and down to earth personality. He was a true gentleman and caring person. He will be missed.

Not to hi-jack your thread Jan, but I may be dipping my toe into this realm in the next few years. I own a Squeezebox, which comes stock with a modest Burr-Brown 24-bit DAC. The Kenwood six disc changer that I bought used from my cousin ten years ago finally crapped out on me this past year, though I hadn't been using it much in the past three years anyway. I recently purchased a Pioneer Elite DV59avi for $100 on Craigs List with the intentions of using this in my audio set-up, though I have been using it solely to upconvert DVDs ever since I brought it home! I've read that the Pioneer can be upgrade through some high dollar mods, and I noticed that Lon's very own Decware has a less expensive Pioneer mod, though on a lesser model. If I understand correctly, down the road, I could invest in a higher-end DAC, by-pass the DAC in the Squeezebox and The Pioneer, and hear improved results?

As long as they make less, maybe the Chinese Counterfeits be more valuable than the originals. We'd all better hedge our bets and buy both.

The melodies don't sound exactly the same to me though. How many notes have to be the different before it is considered a different melody?

Definitely similar, and I probably wouldn't have ever heard a single note from Satriani for the rest of my life had I not clicked on that link, but is this a legal issue?

I like it ok, if I remember. I also got Think Before You Think around the same time and remember liking it more.

Shit... I mean, we're not talking about a 20 minute Cecil Taylor excursion or Albert Ayler or Japanese noise here, or are we? It is just music. You can talk while it is playing! Try it in a playlist or a shuffle. Its only fair. If Bells comes on during a shuffle, hey, we deal with it. Example: "We don't have the money to do the kitchen right now. You know that! I love your ideas, and I think we can do a little bit at a time, but you have to understand that we can't do it overnight and the place is going to be a construction zone for a while once you decide you want me to get started. Listen to that horn line. Gorgeous!!! I know you, and I know after a week of this, you will be all over me to hurry up and finish. With money the way it is right now, we have to work in stages, ok? Mmmmm... that's Albert Ayler. {Insert interesting biographical nugget here.} Huge sound, right? Listen to his playing compared to the saxophone in the last tune. It is another world altogether! It is going to be great when its done, and it really won't be all that long when its all said and done. Remember the bathrooms? It is going to be messy, the it is going to be bare, and little by little, it will come back together, ok? This is Miles' Quintet. This is a Wayne Shorter tune. Remember that song Rio that I am trying to learn? Same dude. Isn't it beautiful?" And we continue to talk about what is on our minds.

Is Telepathy in high demand?

How is it still green??!!! They had Mason Jars back then too?!

Details?

Isn't the main difference between a cd and a cdr an extra layer of varnish applied to the disc once the information has been written? I feel like there is a thread about this here somewhere.

I will emusic this. Thanks Jim.

Matt, how can you tell that the packaging is not from an offset press? I'm curious about this process. The company must have at least on digital press and capacity to trim/fold/saddle stitch the booklets efficiently.

Larry, any thoughts on the following? Loose Assembly Last Year's Ghost Loose Assembly Speed of Change Josh Berman/Keefe Jackson/Anton Hatwich/Nori Tanaka/Jason Adasiewicz Luminescence Ingebrigt Haker Flaten The Year of The Boar

Another 482 release from this scene that I own is Aram Shelton Arrive. Aram Shelton, Jason Adasiewicz, Jason Roebke and Tim Daisy I can't say that it grabbed me the two times I have listened to it since I bought it two summers ago. Maybe I'll go back and give it another listen. Generally speaking, I am less a fan of Daisy and more a fan of Rosaly. I'm only making the contrast because of the similar line-up to Roll Down (Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Jason Adasiewicz, Jason Roebke and Frank Rosaly). I feel like the compositions didn't reach me. Anyway, I'll give it a go tonight and see how it sounds. BTW, Roll Down seems to be the only album available on vinyl from 482. Strange.

Roll Down is one of my absolute favorites of the last few years!

Someone just recently mentioned that this is also available at amazon.com as an on-demand album (CD-R, artwork/liners on digital press, etc).

I love the cover art.