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Dug.

I just missed it because I'm too dumb. Best wishes & all the best anyway!

LEDs give more head. True innovation all around. Good grief.

And very small you are ...

Nice. Saw Pass live many times. Always something special. I wish he didn't record so many comparatively mediocre CDs late in his career though. Too much lacklustre stuff (although usually he himself was not at fault).

Styx plays Journey.

I haven't listened to any of mine. I assume they are in perfect condition.

Depending on how you read that, it can well be misunderstood.

The Mars Volta, ever since I accidentally stumbled into a concert of theirs. I didn't think I could get into music like that anymore, but the sheer power and dedication I saw sucked me into their weird universe. "The Mars Volta" on Wikipedia

This one I'm really looking forward to (once it hits the archive). Somehow I still haven't gotten that Hep CD. It's one of those unfortunate ones that somehow slipped through several times when I was on mad shopping sprees. I have the wonderful "Alone Together" off that CD.

I have managed to makes things crash. Windows, Mac even Linux and even Unix (oh the horror!). It can be done. All you need is to divide by zero in some heavy duty calculations, make the programme running the calculation go wahwah and then the entire machine go berserk... NaN! NaN! NaN! beep beep beep.... Yeah, fun. I have to admit that I used to save partition images and then import the latest virus of the day and let that loose on my PC. A rather odd pasttime activity (and learning experience) but certainly better than a good computer game. Watching your setup disintegrate before your eyes is really something else. Try it. NaN! NaN! NaN! beep beep beep.... indeed.

With a bit of patience, you can set up a Windoze-based PC to run smoothly, with an uncluttered desktop and a very personal setup (hell, you can actually throw a MAC desktop mod on there). I've been completely crash-, virus- and trouble-free for a very long time - unless the hardware fails (damn those Maxtor harddrives). I'd like to have one of each, PC and a Mac (with cinema display). One day ... BTW: Besides a few players (iRiver), the Apple iPods (interestingly enough, especially that marketing successs story, the iPod Shuffle) have a leg up soundwise on the other mp3 players flooding the market with a million useless features and (usually) crummy sound.

Yeah, and doin' the Microsoft thing, they're trying to corner the online market over here as well. Buggers. Re Apple vs. France Source: Business Week Source: Reuters

Does all of this have any detrimental effects on the discs burned? Must be quite a strain on the surface. Any online links where this apspect (longevity) is maybe discussed in more detail? What Christiern posted above looks really cool, and I might give that kind of drive a shot if I was sure the discs lasted as long (or as short) as any other (better) burnable. My current setup, printing on high quality (Taiyo Yuden) printables is just a drag half the time.

Very, very cool. I'd love to see you guys over in old Europe, although I know how difficult it is to organize something like that. I'd provide you with a place to crash in south-western Germany, from which you can reach some of the major clubs from Frankfurt to Stuttgart and Munich, I'd feed you, let you have a drink or two and I would try my very best, in advance, to help you secure some gigs. With all the European members here (France, England, Spain and other countries), maybe with connections, I'm sure we should be able to pull it off with careful planning. Utopian, I know. Just sayin'.

From one of Germany's most renowned news sites ...

Yep. George does that to you.

It's George Bush. He's beginning to haunt you.

Crud. Missed the Brookmeyer again. : (

Teddy Wilson. Teddy Wilson. Teddy Wilson. And I'm listening to stuff you guys are never going to hear. Screw lawyers, etsates, corporate greed and stupid mofos wherever they are. P.S. Does anyone know a good lawyer who can mediate between a European and an American estate?

If we were to do this, at least we'd know that everything they issued would be way too big for its container. Up over and out. You really think so? I'd rather like to think no matter what, it would be too small. Down, across and in.

I've been a customer there for ages. They are usually very fast. Got most of my stuff today. On that topic: LOL! That Verve design department is a whack-job and a half: a) The Ella Ellington slipcase is too big for what's in there. b) The Ella Gershwin Slipcase is to slim for what they stuffed in there. c) The (nice) Ella/Louis you have to cut open to get to the music. d) To get the discs out of the Ella Songbooks, you need pliers. I think we should all pitch in and buy those guys a healthy supply of Playboy magazines. That would probably significantly reduce worldwide headaches and stop those monkeys from living out their sexual frustrations in the design department. Edit (Correction): The Ella Gershwin slipcase is far too flimsy for everything that's squeezed in there, so after once in and out, it is now too big.

Good luck.

Probably not what you had in mind, and certainly not earth-shakingly new, but in context I thought these findings here were quite interesting:

That UK offer was just great. I always thought the Ella/Armstrong complete set was too expensive since I had one of the single Verve remasters already. Now it was affordable. Ditto for the Ellington & Gershwin Songbooks (the latter I only bought because it was that cheap ... Ella is a bit too subdued on that one for my taste ... I heard my dad's LP box many times). The Nina Simone I had on my list forever, now I could finally jump on it. Etc. I'm really looking forward to the stuff, which has (mostly) been shipped already. Early Christmas (again). I decided to not get any of the Coltranes (not an easy decision). I'll go for some individual discs once I've checked out what is worthwhile in regard to my current listening habits and tastes. Thanks for all the advice here! I've just bought too much lately, also quite a bit of it because of frustration with a million hospital visits, etc. Currently I'm enjoying the Vogue box set and some Telarcs I bought from zweitausendeins dirty cheap. When I looked the other day, they had many (apparently only one or two copies) of their (uneven) jazz line. Plus, I got myself the 2gether (Warren Vaché & Bill Charlap) which is not only a really good album but also sounds fantastic (the sound being the reason I sprung for those Telarcs in the first place ... some Brubeck, Shearing, Jazz Messengers (Legacy of Art Blakey) and some uneven late Mulligan recordings ... all at, what, 2 or 3 Euro? I can sell them for more on eBay if they turn out to have been a "waste" of money and/or my time). If I do manage to finance the Cole set, I will definitely have to stop shopping for quite some time. It has become excessive these past weeks and months (I bought a ton of on-sale DVDs from around the globe to stock up on classics as well). ...