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it's big fun, but how does it all work? Can you set up rooms yourself so you can go into seclusion and discuss stuff seriously and without all the fowl?

I knew it would get to this. Is 7/4 awake yet? Let him sleep. He'll come with enough of his useless posts when he wakes up. Yesterday, he's had another busy day of trying to set posts records! Obviously the only thing he really cares about I see he's reading this now...

I knew it would get to this. Is 7/4 awake yet?

damn man, reading that makes my head hurt. It looks like you need a bit more time to re-read what you wrote before you post anyhow, so the anti-7/4 posting mode should pose no problem for you.

yes and even the nested links at the top remain in position when you try to click them!

yes, it's foreword, not forward and you've misspelled it twice more

none intended. The paper ubu posted is from 1877 as is indicated in the upper right hand corner. The paper published the famous anti-Dühring essay (or rather book) by Friedrich Engels. The title of the paper "Vorwärts" translates to "Forward", a little poke at Dan's insistent misspelling.

can we have periwinkle

that'd be William Claxton. there are several books collecting his work published by Taschen, most recently a very hefty (but also expensive) tome titled Jazz Life, discussed in this thread

okay, a google search for [beach music history] (hey, sue me. it worked!) gave some results on "white" beach clubs that played "black" music back in the days and on the East coast at that. From http://www.beachshag.com/ImagesSoundsResou.../BeachShag.html :

You got me on that one. Never heard of such a thing, but would like to know more! ← well, I read it somewhere some time and it does not seem to be Clarke (I just checked), so I will look and google some then.

wasn't there a whole scene of stylistically rather unrelated music played at beach parties or -clubs that came up somewhere towards the end of the 40s? One that really was only about having fun. So you had your jump and R&B and proto-R&R and whatnot; all of it as a predecessor of "true" surf music. I wouldn't bet on anything, but it seems there would be a good green to grow some similar lyrics on. Not terribly familiar with any of this, but I believe much took place on the other coast as well (?) and I wonder what all of this was like and how much was lost in the waves. So, I'm curious as well. Did Donald Clarke write any on this in his popular music book?

the text may be sunny, but there are way too few twangy geetarrs to add a white surf to the waves. Makes it all sound more cumbersome than reading the text alone would let you asume.

That email exchange took place in a whole other context and was indeed very friendly and went like that both ways. There is no need to twist and look for excuses for your crappy behaviour of days gone by. I was commenting on your obviously getting the idea that it really utterly sucks to get personal insults thrown at you for no apparant reason. You were an utter troll yourself in a not too distant past and so yes, one could say this is pretty ironic. I am not laughing though and I hope Clem deletes his crap like you deleted yours. Have a beer on me.

oh the irony...

van harte! or as we used to say back home: gefliesieteerd!

no listen yet, but disks arrived sound and round

Theo Schumann - S/T (Amiga 1981)

with evil Mr. UpTate in a supporting role...

The TOCJ has a 1998 © and is a 20bit remaster by Ron McMaster. Was this master never used for a US domestic release?

they get no money from illegal downloads of their music.

Would have to agree with Jim, It's all about the bottem line $$$$ ← I think you guys are misreading Ubu's remark. The way I read it, he has a problem with downloading because of the musicians as part of the equation; not with musicians because they are a bunch of copy protection promoters.

but them strings were arranged by André Hodeir right? I'd like to hear THAT!