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I can't be sure, but I think I heard that Gregory Green, Grant's oldest son, who works as Grant Green Jr, got that guitar in the end. MG I hope so. Skinner auction listing from 2007: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/4296426 2009 article, stating that the guitar was sold by Benson to NY dealer Rudy Pensa: http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2009/Mar/Grant_Greens_D_Aquisto_New_Yorker.aspx Perhaps Pensa sold it back to Green's son, but I haven't found anything about that thus far.

I suppose that's going to be difficult to know for sure, and I don't know when Benson sold Green's guitar, but that guitar was a D'Aquisto. D'Aquisto was John D'Angelico's apprentice, and basically carried on D'Angelico's legacy after he died (even finished building some of D'Angelico's unfinished instruments). D'Aquisto took the craft to another level with some of his innovations, and became THE master archtop luthier until his unfortunate passing. D'Aquisto's guitars were commanding huge (6-figure) prices for some time, so in a way it's kind of hard to blame Benson for liquidating that guitar. I mean, it could be argued that everybody needs that kind of money.

That's correct (a late-1930's Gibson ES-150), except that the Thomas LP was on Jazzland. I think the notes also said that the guitar was extremely rare (only a handful known to exist, or somesuch statement), which is false. The fancier ES-250 (also used by Christian) is the extremely rare model.

I just came across this at the website for Gruhn Guitars in Nashville: Stromberg Master 400; 1940 VG, two repaired top cracks, 19" body width, natural finish, owned and used by Freddie Green of the Count Basie Orchestra, still strung with Freddie's strings, extensive documentation provided by Freddie's son Alfred Green, comes with Freddie's padded gig bag. $90,000.00 Stromberg guitars are considered to be among the finest (along with the original D'Angelico guitars) archtops ever made, and this example would still be worth perhaps $40K or $50K even without the Freddie Green provenance. At any rate, this one is obviously historically significant.

Bill Kirchen at his best (and having fun).

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And whistling!

No... and it's never happened to anyone else here. The only explanation...

Very interesting story. I searched for more articles, and read about four or five others. The facts are still very unclear, as there are discrepancies regarding just about every detail (the number of planes actually buried, who buried them, the reason they were buried, how they were located, etc). At any rate, this topic begs for a documentary film.

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Kid Creole Beau Geste everybody doin' the mess around

Album covers that make you say "Uhhhh....."

Album Covers That Make You Say "Uhhhh...."

I do something similar on my Mac, but in screen saver mode, with the images changing every few seconds. I like seeing that when I return to the computer after not using it for 15 minutes or whatever the threshold is. Plus, I can initiate it any time using the "sleep corner" thing. Sometimes I like to run that when I'm at the computer, but doing something other than actually using it (like eating). When I am using the computer, I generally can't see 90% of the desktop image anyway, so I'm wondering whether having the desktop image changing would be as interesting. Typically the only situation where I really take the time to look at my desktop image is briefly, when I'm waiting for the computer to shut down.

Yeah, to them it's clearly just fun and games. It would actually be cruel to send them to that thread. Hell, it would be cruel to send anybody to that thread.

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I can see both sides of the argument, mainly because I don't care who's correct here. If this is the biggest debate topic going on here today, then life must be pretty good.

+1. Not exactly a Mel Gibson or Christian Bale style of "losing it", and kind of a misleading thread title. Glad I listened, though... that was pretty funny. Shatner worked that guy the way he deserved to be worked.

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Everybody who loves Raymond Everybody who digs Bill Evans Everybody who doesn't like something, and nobody who doesn't like Sara Lee

Not a new idea, of course: Artists who shoulda had a Mosaic... Nobody said "amen"... don't know if that put the kabosh on it, or what. Anyway, I'm sure there were other threads like that, in fact I could have sworn that Dan brought this idea up at least once before (a long time ago, perhaps).

+ Snap Your Fingers; Boss Bones

Must have been the weed, then. On a recording? Yes. I believe it was one of the later duets w/Jobim. I think all of that stuff is avail. in one set now. I heard Jonathan Schwartz hawking it as a premium on a WNYC fundraiser. The phrase "later duets with Jobim", as with many of your comments, leaves me tilting my head like a dog.

As I just discovered (several months late, but better late than never), and posted in another thread, Helena Jobim's 1996 biography of her brother- "Um Homem Illuminado" ("An Illuminated Man")- has at long last been translated into english. I believe it was completed in 2011, and became available earlier this year. http://books.google.com/books?id=Fv2z_0KZNrUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false http://chicagotheband.us/profiles/blogs/antonio-carlos-jobim-an-illuminated-man I've been complaining about this for so many years, it's hard to believe it finally happened (and that I missed it when it did ).