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another optical illusion http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.html cool beans!

early this afternoon (GMT), i.e. some 8/9 hours ago, I had the ole SQL too many users message thrown at me again.

http://www.ecm.de/ :rsly: slurp

that would be real thin paper with ring wear just from looking at it, then?

look for clues in your PM box

Was Virenque ever tested positive?

the report can be found online here From what I gather after a quick glance is that the authors were unable to confirm whether proper procedures have been followed with respect to the testing of the 1999 samples. That's a wide open door of course as WADA and its laboratory have always stated that there are no second samples anymore, the samples are old, some already opened and whatever else. Theirs was set out to be a test of methodologies carried out furthermore to get an idea of how wide-spread the use of EPO may have been. The report once more states that UCI and only UCI is authorised to judge and discipline when it comes to doping and doping tests. There is quite some polemics in the report which make it pretty obvious that UCI paid for this independent investigation; WADA and the French Ministry likely see UCI as an emperor without clothes when it comes to clean sports, which may be why they did not cooperate to this investigation. In the end there is lots of blahblah on formalities and very little on the science; this is not about truth or other redeeming motives, but much more about Power and probably lots of Money.

thanks much to Dan for sending a series of scans to paste together. So here's a real mean Bu. I have uploaded a better version of front and back here (500KB)

a B&W scan of the backcover

here is a list of products w/ prices. The site needs login, but can be read through google's cache, which is what the link points to.

JimR just sent me the pic (thanks Jim), quote: "this is not the greatest image... " I could make it smaller than the maximum 100KB, so here it is. A better quality pic is welcome!

can't find anything on Hudalla either. Schulze was born in 1934 AFAIK.

I have been listening with half an ear only, but there is some stunningly beautiful stuff on this disk! and... hmmm... Zappa... !

of course not!

that's the one Claude is looking for!

gave it a first spin this afternoon and first impression is that I lurv the first part with all the whack stuff, had a bit of an attention dip half way through when it went and became a bit more pedestrian, but was wide awake towards the end again. Nothing I recognised as part of my collection, so this will be good edumacation!

also: Manfred Schulze, who played with the Ulrich Gumpert and Hannes Zerbe bands and played on some FMP releases, also under his own name. He was responsible for the "Manfred" part of the Manfred-Ludwig Sextett with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky. No recordings exist of this version of the Sextett, however. The only available music by the Sextett has on baritone... Wolf Hudalla, who probably has the coolest name of them all and who started out in the band of Heinz Hänsch, later to join the Eberhard Weise band, together with E-L. Petrowsky. His recorded work is available on one singel CD... Both players stem from the former GDR.

the best thing would be if all of us would start bothering the guy about his posts and try and pry and push him to post some true shit like death wishes and voodoo crappe and some more of that. So we can all look like adults and Aric can look like a fool once more. then again, maybe not... ??

thanks Lon, I should drink more in order to sharpen my logic abilities I guess... :rsly:

Not that I mind some good ole tangents, but what is the connection between Jane Fielding and Marilyn Moore?

my thoughts also, but mighty long antennae!

it seems there have been plenty Japanese reissues of this (and comparable albums). Every new swoop from Japan had them. So how come no one reissues this "domestically"? (And indeed tag on some of those unreleased sessions.)

I have been listening to the above depicted album and I like it. Jane has a rather pleasant husky voice and lingers some behind the beat. Very pleasant in its laziness, but it does get in the way here and there, like on the Shorty Rogers original Summer Day. I rather like the sparse instrumentation here, voice, piano and bass. Same as on Beverly Kenney's Sings For Playboys from a few years later. Fielding is certainly not the bestest singer ever heard and the album suffers some from doubtful tune choices and colourless programming, but ey... the Claxton cover makes up for plenty!

I wasn't there, but some Dutch friends of mine were going great googley moogley about it as well.

it's scary and you are never prepared when you drive into it and tune in to listen to the local weather and traffic announcements.