Son-of-a-Weizen

Nice!! Now if a guy could only see fit to add in a wee spot of color and give that street lantern a warm blue glow, one could fire up the printer and replace this bland as dirt looking 2-fer re-issue cover.

Yes, and unlike the photo above, it has a light minty green tint to it.

I have that 'King' Flanagan 'Lonely Town'........and also the TOCJ which they fixed (Benjamin).

Hmmmm, all boozed up and camped out in one wide open outdoor location under the stars were ya? Damn, I knew I should have dropped everything and headed out for a quick 'drop-by'.

Absolutely! <<<<<Has the Booker Ervin been dropped?! I was looking forward to that one, and I think I'm not alone.>>>> Too true.....hopefully it's still on the table.

Well that's true, stuff can happen anywhere. Since I don't know you personally and have no idea what your tolerance level for 'X', 'Y' or 'Z' is.....I can only make recommendations based on what that area was like when I lived around there 15 years ago. Back in the late 80's the area stretching out from Lincoln Park past 11th..12th or 13th streets was a real mixed bag. When I was at 11th & D SE in '86 I once had to chase some peeing tom with a baseball bat out through the alley...and a few months later some some guy crawled into our street facing, ground floor bedroom in the middle of the night through an open window. There was just always something going on back there. At 12th & Maryland there was just the usual break-in and that interesting night when the upstairs neighbor caught a bunch of goobers trying to hitch his yellow corvette up to a tow truck at 3:00 am. Then when I was over at 14th & East Capitol in 1988 -- two blocks from where you're now looking -- I was held up at gunpoint. Only after they then stole my Audi and trashed all my hockey gear (in the trunk) did I get sufficiently worked up enough to leave. So, ah, I guess I'm still thinking about those good 'ol days Nevertheless, that was a long time ago and things do change...and rather quickly. In the early 80's, there were a couple of blocks down on lower 14th street over by the White House that were heavily seeded with porn shops, peep shows, strip clubs --- 10 years later every single one of 'em was history...dust...nada. There's no question that it's fun living up on the Hill....some decent bars & restaurants over on the House side by the LoC.....as well as the Senate side (Lounge 201). Some very nice walking neighborhoods and all that. Great place to live if you're single. Friends who live around 12th & Constitution say that it has gotten much better in 3 or 4 short years.....sooooooo, if your LoC pal says it's not so bad, and the current occupants are keeping a bike outside, then make a play for it. I have a meeting up there on Wed., so I might take a quick run out there and have a look around and see what's happening. What's the street address? I'll look for that bike.

I took a few quarter-size paint chips into a Duron paint store and asked the sole clerk on duty if it was latex or oil. He didn't know and said it would be hard to tell. Yeah right, and I suppose a petro-chemical worker couldn't tell the difference between home heating oil and 95 octane Sunoco? In this day & analytical age where they can give us the full rundown of the contents of the Tyrolean Iceman's stomach and intestinal tract, or analyze the bejesus out of martian soil, how is it possible that a clerk in a top name paint co. shop can't answer that simple question? I then asked him about some of the DURACLAD metal/paint products they were selling because I needed to repaint an ancient tin roof. I told him I didn't know if it was galvanized or non-galvanized and asked him how one could tell the difference. Again..DUH! Hey, when you're peddling specialty products in a specialty paint shop you'd better know something!!! The fact that we've never been serious (like the europeans) about apprenticeships in this country is a colossal @!%# outrage of the first order.

Yes, I've been on the prowl for this one.........thanks for posting it.

Yes, I was talking NW................forget about SE.

I like those Daily Lunch Specials......some 'real' chow -- no sushi, Volaille Consommé or 16-grain loaves of bread in there!!

I don't quite understand this. If a person peruses the bins and decides to purchase something, he/she then walks out of the music dept. with the item and proceeds to make their way toward the battery of cash registers often located in another part of the store (at least down this way, I think??). Since the music dept. staff clearly can't stroll arm-in-arm the 100 feet or so to the cash register with every person who exits the music dept. with a Freddie Fender cd, what exactly would the overlords expect the music dept. staff to do? Ditto for Borders where the cash registers (at the Pentagon City store) and music dept are located at opposite ends of the store -- about 150-200 feet as the crow flies (over the maze of book shelves).

At the time it was Yoko's 'Fly' LP......I still have it though....took 25+ years to appreciate a couple of the tracks.....can't squeeze blood from a turnip though.

I picked up my copy at Amazon Japan...and they still have 'em in stock for about $17. When you factor in all the shipping & handling fees, you're looking at about $25 -- much better than going the CD Universe route. It's a short disc (26 min.).....but worth that amount imo. http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B...3465451-0871414

.....I am apparently still a kid . Not just any old "kid'........but rather a super fab wicked excellent A+ kinda kid with a knack for hunting down elusive Mosaic vinyl sets!

Autograph collecting and the consumption of milk are for kids....which is why I have a few sigs from the '68 Boston Bruins and another of O.J. when he was with SF. While I did request a signature from a well known jazz author B) ....that was for the benefit of children who're forever saying 'who are you talking to on that stupid computer jazz board? ...are they real people? ...why are you talking to them about Dick Cheney when you could be taking us out for ice cream?' Good point......would you like chocolate chip or strawberry?

That area is fine. Jefferson Hotel is a couple of blocks away....Henley Park Hotel is over near 10th & Mass and they have decent Sat. night jazz in the lounge. National Geographic Society bldg. is a couple of blocks away (hit that a few weeks ago and saw the 'Mars' exhibit). Quick cab to the Hill.....not that far from Dupont Circle......Chinatown & the MCI Center might be......I dunno..8 or 9 blocks? Cafe Mozart and the weizen biers are down near 14th & H. I don't ride the Metro much anymore but my guess is that you'd be near the McPherson station. At that price..for a couple of months, I'd take it over Silver Spring in a heartbeat.

Can't say I blame the average japanese consumer for rejecting a product that has the visual appeal of some double-murder crime scene photo.

True, but if they're solely interested in making sales, I don't understand why they wouldn't re-release things like the 'Rare Tracks - Other Side of BN 400 Series' (TOCJ-5941-44) which -- unlike the others -- isn't available in various formats.......is always in short supply...and always commands a decent price? That's just one example.

btw, nice to see that you're back again.

Not that RVG...the other engineer from Kyoto - Ryunosuke ヴァンGelder.

You're a lucky man! I've got two girls ages 7 & 9...life is good!!! Don't forget to swipe a bunch of those 'mini' 3 or 4 oz feeding bottles from the hospital.....perfect for those little fingers to keep a grip on when you're out 'n about (driving around, etc...).

So now we'll have jewel box JRVGS? .....gotta love their ability to milk these titles! Maybe after they pawn off this lot they'll start thinking about that second unreleased session of 'Back From The Gig' or give Turrentine's 'Z.T.s Blues' a japanese run.

Why do I have this mental image of Chris sitting on the sofa, G&T in hand, giggling away in the dark with a hand firmly clasped over his mouth to muffle the laughter?

Yep, I even remember where it came from......the Lechmere up in Danvers, Mass.

Yeah, I got a different Nigerian scam letter the other day...they certainly are #1 when it comes to running scams. My question is this: the site you posted is a German one....soooooooo, are the Nigerians sending similar scam e-mails out in French, German, Polish, Greek, Serbo-Croatian, whatever? ......or are we talking english language operations only? Maybe you could pick up a little extra pocket money for SACDs Claude and offer to translate their stuff into French?