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  5. The End Days Are Near

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by DatDere

    Labeling Vitesse or Hans van Hemert as "Dutch Rare Groove" is really stretching it... Most of the stuff on this comp is Salvation Army dollar bin fodder over here, except for a couple of records that are truly rare.

    Anyway, I enjoy some of those rare groove compilations, but they certainly can be hit-or-miss, and the sound samples from this comp sound like generic jazzfunk-by-the-numbers. I've heard much better and more original sounding stuff on comps with records from Eastern European countries.

    A lot of those sought-after funk records that command high prices on Ebay don't live up to the hype as well. To me, the only one that really lives up to its reputation is that Stark Reality record. That album is wicked. :)

  8. Mizell?

    in New Releases

    Posted · Edited by DatDere

    I'm not really a fan of those Mizell productions, but it is kinda interesting that they were actually involved in compiling and producing this compilation. I thought these guys left the music business years ago?

  9. Dr. Robert Moog is ill.

    in Musician's Forum

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    Bob's Body Leaves Us

    Bob%20in%20Lab.jpg

    Photo of Bob at work in Asheville

    ASHEVILLE, N.C. — August 21, 2005 — Bob died this afternoon at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 71. Bob was diagnosed with brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) in late April 2005. He had received both radiation treatment and chemotherapy to help combat the disease. He is survived by his wife, Ileana, his five children, Laura Moog Lanier, Matthew Moog, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Renee Moog, and Miranda Richmond; and the mother of his children, Shirleigh Moog.

    Bob was warm and outgoing. He enjoyed meeting people from all over the world. He especially appreciated what Ileana referred to as "the magical connection" between music-makers and their instruments.

    No public memorial is planned. Fans and friends can direct their sympathies or remembrances to www.caringbridge.com/visit/bobmoog.

    Bob's family has established The Bob Moog Foundation dedicated to the Advancement of Electronic Music in his memory. Many of his longtime collaborators including musicians, engineers and educators have agreed to sit on its executive board including David Borden, Wendy Carlos, Joel Chadabpe, John Eaton, David Mash, and Rick Wakeman. For more information about the foundation, contact Matthew Moog at mattmoog@yahoo.com.

    We'll miss you Bob.

    http://www.moogmusic.com/index.html :(

  14. Problem with Hank Mobley - No room for..

    in Re-issues

    Posted · Edited by DatDere

    I'm pretty sure it's the right album, because the track timings match up and I recognized the title track from a Blue Note compilation I have. I re-read the liner notes and you are correct in saying that the original album should contain 6 tracks instead of 5. Weird, I guess I'll just take it back to the store tomorrow and see if I can get a replacement... I picked this one up new, but unsealed.

    Thank for clarifying the session details for me, I will definitely pick up those other Mobley albums as well. There's so much good jazz music for me to discover.. :wub:

  15. Problem with Hank Mobley - No room for..

    in Re-issues

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    I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but...

    I bought the RVG reissue of Hank Mobley's "No Room For Squares" today. According to both the booklet and the printing on the cd itself, it should have 8 tracks: 5 original takes and 3 bonus tracks. However, the actual disc only has the five original tracks and omits the bonus material. Is this a common error for this disc? My store didn't have any other copies.

    Anyway, I'm fairly new to jazz and just heard this album for the first time. I love it, but I'd still like to have the bonus tracks. Should I return it to the store I bought it, or adress Blue Note Europe directly?

    Thanks.

  16. CBGB's

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Hilly Kristal, owner and founder of CBGB, writes a brief history of the club that for the past twenty seven years has become synonymous with underground music. CBGB.com presents this history as it is written in sequential installments.

    Installment Vol.1

    The question most often asked of me is, “What does CBGB stand for?” I reply, “It stands for the kind of music I intended to have, but not the kind that we became famous for: COUNTRY BLUEGRASS BLUES.” The next question is always, “but what does OMFUG stand for?” and I say “That’s more of what we do, It means OTHER MUSIC FOR UPLIFTING GORMANDIZERS.” And what is a gormandizer? It’s a voracious eater of, in this case, MUSIC.

    I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve been asked those questions. Alot of people believe that OMFUG stands for something dirty, but the truth is, I felt CBGB sounded so pat that I wanted something to go with it that sounded a little uncouth, or crude.

    The obvious follow up question is often “is this your favorite kind of music?” No!!! I’ve always liked all kinds but half the radio stations all over the U.S. were playing country music, cool juke boxes were playing blues and bluegrass as well as folk and country. Also, alot of my artist/writer friends were always going off to some fiddlers convention (blue grass concert) or blues and folk festivals. So I thought it would be a whole lot of fun to have my own club with all this kind of music playing there. Unfortunately- or perhaps FORTUNATELY- things didn’t work out quite the way I ‘d expected.

    http://www.cbgb.com/history1.htm :)

  19. Metallica

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I thought that "St. Anger" was a very mediocre record, and the movie shows exactly where it all went wrong. Do these guys even enjoy playing music anymore?

    Hatfield churns out totally cliched power chord riffs (even Lars calls them 'stock riffs' somewhere in the film) and Kirk Hammett comes off like a spineless yes-man. The whole album is a Protools cut-and-paste affair (it's pretty obvious when you listen to the drumming closely).

    The only person who really seems really enthousiastic about playing music is Robert Trujillo, while the original Metallica members look like they would rather be doing anything else, like bear hunting or collecting paintings.

    Having said that, the movie itself is indeed very enjoyable.

  22. Copy protection question

    in Re-issues

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    My portable cd player refuses to play any of the copy protected Blue Note RVG's so I'm practically forced to rip and copy them, in order to listen to these albums while traveling. I've had plenty of success with CDex and a HP CD-R drive to read the discs and convert to WAV. Just convert all audio tracks and skip the last data track, then reburn. Unfortunately, this method doesn't seem to work with various DVD-R drives.

    I'm pretty new to jazz, so I don't have any older non-protected editions of these albums. The only alternative available to me is to order the US RVG editions online.

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