Big Al

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™

I wish Ron Washington was like Ozzie Guillen. Hell, I wish Guillen was managing the Rangers!

Mick Jagger: to teach me how to walk Billy Ray Cyrus: even though I was there to watch the chicken cross the road, had I known the chicken crossing the road would've caused this much controversy, I would never have allowed the chicken to cross the road. In fact, the chicken should've known better than to cross the road. Dan Gould: things look good for the chicken because the road's been good to him. Granted, his stats don't look good while he's home which makes the road look that much more appealing, but with a road average of .289 compared to his home avg. of .211, I can understand why he'd want to cross the road. Of course, this assumes that Theo doesn't bench him first. I'm sure Dan will have a good one for me regarding my hapless baseball team!

If there is anyone sitting on the fence about the Wilson, if you are a lover of piano-trio jazz, it doesn't get much sweeter than this. Some would say that it's five CDs of the same thing; I would say it's five CDs of pure piano bliss by one who set the bar very high, IMO.

Vroom!!!

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!!!!

Would be nice to have 2 disc deluxe editions of their core catalog! With singles, related tracks, mono/stereo, etc. No kidding. Have it done like Pink Floyd's PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN set.

Nothing on the Beatles site about this. This almost certainly has to be illegal. Having said that, I hope this wakes up EMI/Capitol to get their rears in gear and get the product out there in some legal form.

Six Flats Unfurnished - Benny Goodman

Wasn't "Rockit" immediately following his "Feets Don't Fail Me Now" phase? No wonder they were walking out: they thought they'd accidentally walked into a disco! I give Herbie Hancock a lot of slack, though: few musicians' music moves me the way Hancock's does, and AFAIC if the only thing he'd done was Maiden Voyage, that would be enough for me to consider him legendary.

Well, they weren't thinking; they were reacting to Herbie's Grammy win, which got tons of attention and suddenly thrust him back into the the center of popular culture, at least for 15 minutes. Collectively, the folks who put together a list like this don't really know anything about music, art, theater, literature, etc., so it becomes a barometer of which creative people have managed to sneak onto the radar of the mainstream, and it becomes an outlet for the list makers to prove how "hip" they are. Except they're not. But that's why I think this kind of stuff (Herbie's Grammy win; Time magazine, etc.) is good for jazz; it gets the music into the discussion. Not that any single moment will change the world. In the end, it may well end up being meaningless, but if enough little moments can coalesce, it might make a difference. Maybe. Reminds me of the marketing strategy that says any single radio ad, billboard, TV commercial, newspaper ad or whatever is unlikely to move somebody into the "buy" column. But the aggregate has an effect on people. Suddenly, the product "clicks" with consumers and lodges in their mind -- it's the 10th contact that does it, not the first. That's another reflection of the shame of jazz disappearing from TV, radio, general interest magazines, newspapers, etc. Out of sight, out of mind. Another interesting thing about the list by the way, is that Wynton Marsalis is not on it (unless I missed him). Ten years ago, if a jazz musician would have made the list, it would have been him. I completely agree.

I wouldn't call it a "nice" win, I'd call it lucky, stolen, were the beneficiaries of a horrid performance by the closer. Exciting works, too. But it ain't nice. Nice is 8 innings of excellent pitching, a few clutch hits, 3-1, over and done. That's what the Cubs had, until Wood gave it to you on silver platter: 1st pitch, hit batsman second batter, double to left over Soriano's head, any other outfielder on the roster catches it for the first out. unintentional walk strikeout line drive that just clears Fukodome's mitt, then clears the bases. The last hit was the only well-hit ball. Not nice. Lucky. If you're a Brewers fan, it's still nice! Getting rid of Soriano was one of the smartest things the Rangers ever did. Unfortunately, he was picked up by my other favorite team. Kerry Wood has to be one of the saddest stories in baseball, and a case-lesson for any kid thinking they can go straight to the majors out of college. He should've been one of the game's greatest pitchers, but either he or his handlers didn't give him the time to properly develop. Now he's floundering as the Cubs closer. It didn't have to be this way.

I hope this experience doesn't lead to an ever-dwindling interest in ice cream, Al! STFU FFA!!! :D