Big Al

Sweets ain't on that one. Well, he is on that album; but those tracks with Sweets were left over from the sessions that produced BACK TO BACK. Big Ben didn't play on the BACK TO BACK sessions. How cool would THAT have been, though?

Thanks for bringing this album back up. Ben and Sweets together were so tremendous! What other albums did they do together? I can think of three right off: Sweets (subject of this thread) Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You? (discussed in this thread) Ben and Sweets (Columbia, yet ANOTHER fine date!)

Right at the 6-second mark. How do people do that? Not like "Have they no conscience?" but more like "HOw are they able to watch the auction in real-time?" Just boggles the mind! Scary to think there was someone else watching an auction for Don Sebesky's GIANT BOX LP for $0.99. Ah well.... keep on lookin'..... I hate when that happens!!!

My fantasy is Creed Taylor gets his original CTI tapes back so that CDs with the proper LP mixes can be released. But then, scouring used-LP stores is so much more fun!

That gets my vote for worst album cover of the year. BLEAH!!!

Anyone remember that show from the late-70's/early-80's on ABC called "Out of the Blue?" You don't? That's probably a good thing. I've had that theme song stuck in my head all morning, despite not having heard it in over 25 years!

I started with the 3-disc PoL collection and it's about all I've listened to for the last few months. The thing I love about their music is how much it grows on you. This is especially true of BEAT YOUR ASS. It's taken me a full month to really get into it, "Pass the Hatchet" notwithstanding, where they come damn close to out-Sonic-Youthing Sonic Youth!

Saw this last night and I basically agree, except I hated the ending. I'm supposed to believe that they spent the first two hours explaining everything in detail, to only have it wrapped up just like that? (Being deliberately vague so as not to ruin it for those who haven't seen it) The ending felt more like a cop-out (no pun intended), and I felt had, the way I felt after watching AMERICAN BEAUTY (another Best Picture winner, go figure!).

Thank you, sir!!! Or as we say in Alemanian, as translated from the original Portugeuse, "Dankatchoo!"

I picked up the JUMPIN' AT THE WOODSIDE LP by Buck Clayton over the weekend, and now I wanna track down the OOP Mosaic. Since it's not on the Mosaic site anymore, can someone provide the discography for me? Thanks!

In one of the liner notes for the recent RVGs (Lush Life I think; too lazy to look it up), Blumenthal calls Pearson's arranging "fine and functional." Sounds like he's in agreement with Chuck. I agree there's nothing earth-shaking, but they sure are nice listening!

A lotta scary fourth quarters this season would almost bear that out.

I'm working on both of those even as I type!

Heavens, I'm much more anal than that: my songs are off by maybe five or ten seconds!

The only way that record gets played is when someone pries it from my cold dead hands!!! As for the Night Ranger rarities, well..... it was ugly. My computer hasn't acted this way since I tried to save my mother-in-law's Mitch Miller record onto a CD for her.

You missed an important clue about Al's mental state: He is doing this for STYX records!!!! Get help, Al. Seriously. Don't I know it!!!!!! I knew what you meant! I've done the same thing with some of my Gramma's old 78's!

Yup. I actually blame that for starting this mess. I might've never known my records were spinning ever so slightly faster if I hadn't been looking at that thing. In this case, ignorance would've been much better than bliss. Except for that DeYoung vocal thing.....

This is true. I recently got a Fats Waller Bluebird 2-LP set, and more than a few times I was looking over at the record to see if it was changing speeds on me. Definitely some tape wear on that set!

Mark my words: this will be the year that Steve Nash makes Mark Cuban regret ever getting rid of him. As good as the Mavs are, Steve Nash (and Stoudemire, too) is THE reason the Mavs will go down in history as being like the '98 (?) Mariners, when they won 114 games and lost in the first round.

I need to make a doctor's appointment! What's this guy's number?

My goodness, someone jump on this! This is a beautiful session! I can only imagine how nice the TOCJ sounds, as I only have the domestic RVG. And that price is a STEAL!!!

Sorry for hijacking your thread, Al! Not a problem, my friend!

Here is the thread discussing Chris's absence. This was the main reason I didn't acknowledge Chris as the author of the notes, because I didn't want this thread to turn into another "Where's Christiern?" thread. We're not the first forum from which he's left in a huff; give it a few weeks and the Hoffman forum won't be the last one either.

Ever since I got my record player, and been burning LPs to CDs, I've noticed that the platter is starting to spin a little faster. No problem, right? I never really noticed the change in pitch until I started converting my Styx LPs to CD. Yeeks! Dennis DeYoung's voice is high enough without the platter spinning faster. I've used GoldWave on/off for various reasons and discovered that I could slow down the pitch of the song. So I slowed down a song by 97%, and it sounded right, so I saved it. Then I went back and grabbed all the CDs I'd made in the last week or so and ran 'em all through the converting process, thinking I was pitch-correcting all of them. And, of course, I got rid of all the first-copies that I had. Now, for some unknown reason, the platter is spinning at the correct speed! And, come to find out, I've actually over-corrected all those other CDs: now they're just a TAD too slow. Not that they were ever all that fast to begin with. So, here's the obsessive-compulsive part: I am seriously contemplating re-recording each LP for a THIRD TIME!!! Just to get it ever-so-slightly pitch corrected! And now I'm trying to find a way to have a program automatically pitch-correct a track for me. F'rinstance, if a song is in the key of A, I could tell the program to adjust the pitch of that song so that it is set to A. Does such a program exist? And anyway, is that not the definition of obsessive-compulsive?????

Pearson didn't do that one; that was all Hank!