Big Al

All prices include shipping to US or Canada. Outside that is whatever it costs to ship it to ya! THOSE WERE THE DAYS - Cream (4-CD set, BMG issue) $20 ***SOLD*** LUSH LIFE - John Coltrane (DCC gold disc, saw-cut in the spine) ***SOLD*** ESSENTIAL SLY & THE FAMILY STONE (2-CD set, BMG issue) $10 ***SOLD*** PayPal preferred, checks from known members. Not really interested in a trade unless it's something really good (did someone say the Buck Clayton Mosaic? ) PM or e-mail acrearick@hotmail.com

Getting stuck for 2 hours in this, which caused me to miss my uncle's funeral: http://www.nbc5i.com/news/9368788/detail.html Who says NY has the worst drivers?

Ahh. Thanks!

I'm serious! I really don't know.

Dumb question: who is "Darko?"

Drat. Just missed it. -_-

Helluva game. HELLUVA game!!! I mean it. I know my team lost, but that was a BASKETBALL game tonight. In a way, I'm happy for D-Wade that the Heat won. I mean, DAMN what a night he had! Hope he doesn't do that again anytime soon. Don't know what happened to the Mavs in those last six minutes. Wasn't pleasant to watch, Icantellyouthat! Ah well. We do this again on Thursday. Now it's a SERIES!!!! Somebody better check on Evan, see if he's recuperated yet.

It's gettin' awfully damn close in the final minutes. D-Wade is a MONSTER tonight!

Haslam is one tough MF!!! You can tell he's in some serious pain! But Josh Howard, that MF is on FIRE!!!

D-Wade already at 21 points? At the HALF????? This is the Heat I was dreading at the start of this series. Let's see if my guys can start to find the bucket again! GO MAVS!!!

Yeah, Shaq is definitely back in form tonight!

First season of Coach is out today! FINALLY!!!!

I said a long time ago (quite a few posts back) that Miami did not need Antoine Walker, that it was a bad trade. Sez who? Seriously, though, I remember jumping for joy after finding out the Mavs got rid of that guy.

'course, now that I've jinxed it, Miami probably WILL come out as, like JSngry said, a "coked-up buzzsaw!" (Great line )

Damn... you just don't ever learn, do ya?

Thanks for giving king ubu a chance to read the correct name of the opening theme! It's not Jaco, but .... ouch, ouch, and more ouch... Ah well, you did better than I did, so I can't chuckle TOO loudly!

Hate to be a party pooper, but this album did absolutely nothing for me. In fact, it was quite a letdown after the roaring Keep That Groove Goin'.

I helped, too! (I just voted a few minutes ago.) I've got Physical Graffiti on vinyl -- Ten Years Gone, Custard Pie, The Rover, Trampled Under Foot, Kashmir.... how could anyone vote for anything else?? "The Rover" should be played extremely LOUD!!!! :tup

I don't know squat about soccer, much less World Cup soccer; I watched the first twenty minutes of the US/Czech game on a Spanish-language TV station, so I had no idea what was being discussed among the broadcasters. Having said that, even I could tell the US team was stinkin' up the joint! That first Czech goal was some kinda wicked and Czech seemed to just dominate the entire time I watched! Yeesh!!!

"Going to California" sure proves that.

Could you explain, please, for the non Texans? Waterloo Records is a brick-n-mortar in Austin, and every time I go in there, they are always playing some off-the-wall sounds like I've never heard before (along with the occasional Latvian Water-Buffalo Serenade thrown in for good measure) that alternately fascinates and frustrates me. Same with this BFT. (Hope that didn't come across too harsh) So with all that in mind, here goes (and it ain't pretty): Track 1: Starts off like a Johnny Pate arrangement filtered through Henry Threadgill. How’s THAT for name-dropping? Nice groove, but waaaaaay too busy for my tastes. Sounds like three or four different people stepping over each other to solo. Track 2: Sounds like classical music played on a trombone. Doin’ nothing for me, sorry. Track 3: Sorry, not a fan of so-called “world music” by any stretch, even if this isn’t. The way the marimba (or synth-marimba, for lack of a better term) is played here is like nails on a chalkboard. Track 4: Nice color/harmonies courtesy of the clarinet & muted trumpets. Tuba makes it a little off-kilter, though. Drum sound a little too crisp for these ears. Like the sound of the vibes, though. Sound (i.e. mix) of the whole seems too claustrophobic, despite being extremely loose. Can’t explain why. Track 5: Has that kind of Russell Gunn Ethnomusicology groove goin’ for it. Ahhh, I love electric piano like that! Mmmmm yeah! Keep that groove goin’, baby! Goes on a little too long, but nice groove nonetheless! Track 6: Monk plays classical? Silver plays Satie? George Winston plays Monk plays Satie? No clue. No interest either, I’m afraid. Track 7: I like sax-drums duets like this (I guess it’s a duet, can’t hear a bass player if there is one). That’s about all I can add to this, no clue who it is! Maybe Tony Williams shortly before he passed? Although the fidelity suggests something pretty recent. Track 8: I wanna guess that Rene whatever-his-last-name-is. Like that’s any hint. Still, just a little too slow for me. Track 9: Hellacious groove surrounded by a most interesting instrumental commentary behind the soloist. Hell, I couldn’t even identify the instruments if I had to! Hey, where’d the groove go? Now it’s starting to sound like it was recorded/engineered at the same studio as track 5. Oh wait, that would be the start of track 10. DUHHHHH!!!! Pay attention, boy!!! Still, the soloists for tracks 9 and 10 sound like the same player. Very recent, which means I have NO idea who/what/where this is. Trumpeter sounds like Freddie, or someone who wishes he was Freddie. Maybe this is a wildly cleaned-up CTI recording? Too long for my tastes. Track 11: HA! What a cool groove! Drat! Should know this tune. Maybe one of those Bill Laswell Miles remix projects (assuming there’s more than one)? Or maybe it’s from the Yo Miles set. But then, of course, I guess Miles for just about any muted trumpet that comes down the pike. Hmmm... as the track progresses and all the electronics phase out, we’re left with a nice trumpet-drums duet. Obviously not Miles; obviously, I’m still clueless. Track 12: Jaco plays Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring? Interesting use of the electric bass as if it were a rhythm guitar a la Freddie Green. Maybe that really is Jaco. No idea who’s on alto, though. Track 13: That’s some swingin’ cello, there! Track 14: Nice. Lovely big band surrounding some vibes. Cal Tjader maybe? Something from Melancholy Moods (I think it’s called)? Track 15: Now THIS sounds more like Tjader. Who knows? Two straight tracks o’ Tjader? ‘salright with me!!! Oy, that was a tough one! Very eclectic, Mike. Many many surprises!

Yeah, that's the one with "Cannonball." I remember really liking it when it originally came out, but listening to it now is painful. Too 80's-slick for me.

I think Miami will get their act together back home. Not hoping for that by any stretch, but I would wager there's some serious soul-searching goin' on right now.

JSngry threatened to tell everyone that Monday's real name was Tuesday unless the Board got a plug....