Big Al

I've become quite adept with the old Swiss army knife and can fillet one of those babies in no time. The CD or the motherfucker? Or maybe the fish?

Yep! Got mine yesterday as well!!!

Took advantage of the $10 sale at Virgin Megastore in Grapevine to stock up on some remasters: Sly & the Family Stone Greatest Hits Pink Floyd: Meddle, Wish You Were Here, and Animals

My thoughts exactly.

I still have a .pdf of the 2004 Fantasy catalog on my computer--terrific resource! PM sent about that!

Count Basie SIXTEEN MEN SWINGING As well as the rest of the groovy vinyl I bought from Dan, but especially this happy slab o' vinyl!

Dippin' into the $1.70's around here. Gonna enjoy this while it lasts and hope it never gets as high as $4 ever again!

First of all, I respect your logic and your reasoning, and I think I know where you're coming from (i.e. the ONLY reason I like Foreigner's Double Vision is simply because it was one of the first rock records I ever bought. I tried listening to it with the attitude of not having heard the record before. My reaction, naturally, was one of revulsion. This record truly, TRULY, sucks, as do most (aw hell, I'm on a roll, let's just make it ALL) Foreigner records); in other words, I get the part about things being a product of their time. But that ignores the fact that, especially in Ronstadt's case on these two tracks (which are both live, BTW), the performances are absolutely, mind-bogglingly BAD. It's as if they spent all this time and money on production values but completely forgot about the song itself! I'll grant you that Abbey Road had a shitload to do with that, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. Shawn is dead-on about Queen in this respect: the songs may be shit, but DAMN do they sound nice! For my money, the radio can't play "Fat Bottomed Girls" enough for my taste; sure it's a stupid song, but that drum sound totally KICKS ASS!!! In other words, I dig that it's totally subjective, but in Ronstadt's case, it would've been nice if she'd maybe dug just a little deeper than the surface of the songs she was butchering. Al, have you heard Linda's versions of these songs .....Rock me on the water (which i prefer over jackson browne's) Willing, and she does a nice version of Neil Young's Birds. I think the songs you mentioned are the overplayed hits of the day like "when will i be loved" there is a lot more to her than that. No, but I have heard her version of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy," and it would've been so easy to let the simple charms of the song speak for itself rather than run it through the same processor that made all her other songs sound the same.

Good heavens!!! What the heck happened to those scans??? It's like someone used some kind of shade on the scanner! Yechh!!

That cover is GREAT!!!!

Non-jazz: I always liked what Andy Partridge of XTC said about Depeche Mode one night while hosting MTV's "120 Minutes:" "And now we bring you a video of Depeche Mode live.... although I don't know how live it is when you turn on a drum-machine in front of 20,000 people."

Just listening to 'Getz Au Go Go' on LP this morning - the applause sounds very much as if it has been spliced on the end of the tracks. Quite crudely done in fact. I thought the show was done live without Astrud. The Getz quartet played for the crowd, and Astrud's voice was dubbed in later on.

Gad, the Mavs suck right now! Third game in a row they've lost after leading to start the 4th quarter. They're losing because they're still doing the same stupid shit that has caused them to choke for the last three years: taking the jump shots and avoiding the paint like it was a quicksand trap. Honestly, they need to dump everybody who was a Mav when Nellie was still in town because they are STILL trying to play Nellie-ball. And failing miserably.

Good point. I don't necessarily agree, but good point nonetheless.

You only feel like one? Which part of that question do you want me to answer?

Exactly. You can't cheat an honest man.

You rock, Bob!!!

Thankfully, I've never seen these ads. But then, I don't watch much TV to begin with and didn't watch ANY election night coverage. Or it could be just because I live in Texas.

This girl can play!!! http://www.tinethinghelseth.com/en/ And she's even Norwegian! Oy - born in 1987, I feel old! Holy crap! She's the same age as my daughter! Now I feel like a dirty old man!

And right on schedule, too! I am really eager to hear this!

Hey hey HEY!!! You guys are derailing the thread and getting off topic. This thread is all about ME, remember?

I actually like this album, despite Page's relative MIA status. I agree, although it's far from a favorite, and I can see where jazzmoose is coming from. It pretty much solidified the punks' stance against the "boring old farts."

I don't completely agree with that; I thought that their first LP had serious possibilities. I remember at the time thinking they could go one of two ways, either interesting and quirky pop, or boring dinosaur rock. Obviously, they didn't agree with me on the appropriate direction... And, being a Mott the Hoople fanatic, I wanted to like them so much. What a boring let down. I'd have to say stadium concerts did serious damage to the artform. Well, that's just insulting. As soon as I figure out which of the two should feel insulted, I'll get back to you... Good heavens, man! Three straight hilarious posts at 2:30 in the morning??? I wish I had that kind of stamina!

That was a wonderful thing to behold when it first came out (so to speak). I actually saw the guy at a San Francisco Steakhouse in Dallas right about the time he fell off the radar. I've been around used-car salesmen who gave off more honest vibes.

Clearly, those two are blown away by Marsalis.