Son-of-a-Weizen

So you've reverted back to your old habit of not paying eBay sellers for the cds you've won, eh?

So is it better to go with the "free" one...or the "trial" one?

Truth be told, under ordinary circumstances I'd rather drain a quart of vodka and spend the night in the sack with a whizzened old Elizabeth Taylor than buy an organ cd.....BUT having just checked out all the clips on Don Patterson's "Dem New York Dues" I think I'll drop the coin on it. How on earth though could someone slap "Oh Happy Days" onto a disc like that? Dreadful. I'll probably wind up with the Organissimo one too..."Jimmy Smith Goes to Washington" sounds pretty good.

Yes, I thought I spotted you in that crowd of troublemakers back in March! Seriously though, I presume that you would have been back there in the mid-late '50's or so? Some nice spot on the Innen Alster perhaps? Back to the Reeperbahn -- that area was quite the place back then from what I understand...that in addition to all the Grosse Freiheit 'activities' there was alot of nice music, dance clubs...attracting alot of well-groomed types. It really started to get seedy in the late late 70's.

Yeah, screw those old "chicken in every pot" campaign slogans......where's the good sense candidate with the "a Reeperbahn in every city!!" slogan ?

Paul, you don't even want to hear my opinion on gambling, and hookers. Heck, it's time to move forward on this and legalize prostitution. Let the state run it like a business....cut loose the low-life element (pimps), keep it contained in certain areas like it is in many european cities...run the mandatory health checks, etc. The Nevada model is even goofy imo because state law specifically excludes areas with high population densities (Tahoe, Reno & Vegas) .....but at least it's better than the present nonsense of having cops running oodles of sting operations, busting toothless hags on street corners, etc

Received a note from them on Fri. morning that it was back in stock...quickly grabbed it and now it's again listed as "out". Wonder how many copies an outfit like DG receives at a time....2 or 3?

LaRocca's "Basra", Jackie's "Swing, Swang, Swingin'", Blakey's "African Beat" and Donaldson's "LD+3" just don't click w/me.

Have you heard anything about the Japanese box due out on July 2nd?

Hey Mr. Golden Arm -- That mean your battle cry is 'Pull the Males it Makes Good Sinse!'

Okay....so maybe it's not a mini-lp...it's still too much for Japanese vinyl ! -_-

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No, not writing him off....it's just that her Dad has already picked up a couple of Benny Goodman discs for her because that's all he really knows. I need to play(ie...pretend ) the hip 'uncle-in-the-know' and bring in some new material.

Thanks very much folks....I'll definitely have a look at 'em. (If it's not in the bin at the local shop, there's enough time to order one online).

My best friend's 12-year-old daughter started in on the clarinet about 2 years ago. I'm going to be swinging by his place in NY in a couple of weeks and thought I'd bring her a cd. Last time they came to visit I made a burn of a DeFranco Mosaic disc and she seemed to like it (maybe just being polite? ). Anything else out there other than Benny Goodman that is accessible (and that I can find at a Tower or Borders)? Thanks.

I doubt it. First of all, it takes a little bit of time & effort to make these things. If someone is making 'em for you, they probably aren't just making one at a time for you. Since bats routinely break, you'd want to be in a position to replace a busted one in short order......I suspect that he orders up a couple of 'em at a time and has a few spares sitting in his house. The other thing is that if you were using a corked bat just to 'show off' to fans, then you'd make damn sure that it was marked with an "X" or something so that you could tell it apart from the others. It wasn't marked for a reason.

It's a magnificant set.....sounds great...go for it!!

Why not drain a few pints, throw a few steaks on out in the back and blare some McLean "Capuchin Swing"?

<<<What do you all think?>>> The Martha Stewart nonsense is a bit more exciting.

Why no 1618 ? You got somethin' against good 'ol fashioned defenestration????

Well, all the sites below the 300,000 mark are probably sex sites and you won't be able to compete with them for ratings unless you insist that Gould, Catesta & Berigan keep things moving (jiggling?) a little bit around here by periodically changing their various 'Bouncing Betty-esque' eye candy avatars.

Night Dreamer

Wow...people playing politics....and here I always thought that it was all just about the music.

I chose "Zero" because I saw a picture of David Lee Roth on the tube last night and that's the first thing that popped into my head.

Hey thanks Wulf...that's perfect!!!!! For those who haven't seen the re-issues.....this is what the 3rd generation obi looks like: