Big Al

According to Borders online inventory, the only Conns to be found in the chain's Texas stores are in a couple stores in the Houston area. The rest of us (D/FW, Austin, San Antonio, etc.) are S.O.L. If only Forever Young would take these 40%-off coupons!

I'll bet it was a Parker....

The Max Roach Memorial was particularly touching; yeah, Schaap went on and on as usual, but he also replayed a large number of interviews done with Max Roach over the years and, in most of those cases, Phil sat back and let Max do all the talking. Max sounded gracious, generous, and happy to be talking with Phil. Still, OTOH, it's hard to let go of how Phil botched the Ellington releases he oversaw (Newport, BBB, Such Sweet Thunder, etc) as well as the Goodman Carnegie Hall mess. Stick to radio, Phil. PLEASE! (I'm curious about which liner notes he proclaimed himself the "world's greatest authority on jazz"...)

You mean AZTEC SWEET! I can has! No no, I meant ain't the Turrentine sweet? I haven't gotten to the sweet SUITE yet!

Ain't it SWEET?

Damn..... reading that was like...... well, like listening to an airing of "Bird Flight." I appreciate the guy's attention to detail, but damn..... do I need to have every strand of my carpet explained to me at length? I need to lie down....

I remember that BFT and picked that CD up for the same reason. I love humming along with the bari part during the head!

My prayers and condolences are with you, my friend.

Perhaps someone should start a "Chuck Nessa Facts" thread, a la the "Chuck Norris Facts" site.

"The Metal" by Tenacious D, by way of Guitar Hero 3. Hard to play along with a song when you're laughing so hard. So now I've been screaming along with it in the car!

LEONARD FEATHER: In my book The Encyclopedia of Chickens, I mentioned the promising talent of a chicken who was tentatively taking his first steps across the road. Since then, I've had the opportunity to work with the chicken and he has matured WAY past the mindless squawking of those who would call themselves the "new thing in chickens" or "avant gizzarde."

Saw 'em on SportsCenter last night. Unreal!!!!

"Deppenschmidt." Very cool name!

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been chicken. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But chicken has marked the time. This frying pan, this bird, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Ohhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come. And they will eat!

Because he was trying to get away from that damn AFLAC™ duck!

felser: I've got a copy of each for sale!

Y'know those vanity cards shown at the end of Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men? Here's one that had a surprise on it: http://www.chucklorre.com/index.php?p=202

Getz/Gilberto was 1964. Bit hard to start a craze two years after. MG Oops! heh heh heh....

These just keep getting better!

I like this album okay, but I've never understood how THIS album was the one that kicked off the samba craze; didn't that honor go to Getz/Gilberto? If not, it should have. This album is actually pretty boring in a lot of spots, and I'll be frank: I've never understood the appeal of Charlie Byrd, one of the most frequently boring jazz guitarists. If his sound was any thinner, it'd be invisible.

REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT: The chicken has sown the seeds of discontent within the chicken community, and now those chickens are coming home to roost. We should not be saying "God Bless the Chicken," but "God run over that damn chicken!" BARACK OBAMA: I unequivocally am distancing myself from the chicken, whom I have known for 20 years, and in whose coop I spent 20 years. DUBYA: The chicken, see.... if.... if the chicken.... with the economic [pause] STIMulus package.... see, the road he's facing.... and we're all.... facing the war on terrists.... it just makes sense..... for him to cross the road..... MARK LEVIN: Now I know a lot of you are thinking, what about the chicken? What if he gets run over? Well, I'll TELL you what I think of that chicken: he's a chicken because HE'S A LIBERAL! AND ALL LIBERALS ARE CHICKENS! AND YOU KNOW WHAT I SAY TO THAT LIBERAL CHICKEN? SCREW HIM! HE'S A LIBERAL CHICKEN! YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, YOU HEARD ME! LET HIM GET RUN OVER! YOU DON'T FRIGHTEN ME, YOU LIBERAL LEFT-WING CHICKEN WACKOS. GET OUTTA HERE, YOU MAKE ME SICK. WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK!

Wow, that's exactly what happened to me! Junior & senior years of high school. Then I stopped listening to them almost completely. Oddly enough, thanks to this thread, I'm going through that old phase all over again! I forgot how much fun it was listening for those differences. And "Tomorrow Never Knows" in mono ROCKS!!!! I'm finding that the albums sound much better in mono in almost every instance. Agree with you there, especially on the RUBBER SOUL tracks. "If I Needed Someone" sounds SO much more organic in mono. Haven't gotten to it yet, but I can't wait to listen to SGT PEPPER, MMT, and the White Album in mono!

Probably a bootleg. Or wing.

I thought you were all done with jazz, Al? WTF? (let me guess what your response will be.....hmmmmm....) Oh no, I'm never done with jazz. We're just on a break.

To avoid a thundering herd of Chick-Fil-A Cows™