neveronfriday

That Universal.fr site is just horrible. Godawful. Slow. Loaded with useless javascript. A crummy search function. Half the script calls send you straight into bits & bytes nirvana. One of the worst sites I've ever seen. Crap.

"The Dissemination of Bird, Pres and Bean"

I have the whole series (can't find #1 anymore on the Net) hanging in my hallway. I really like these, especially if you invest into some decent frames to match these high-quality prints.

Live and let live. I only have standard Miles Davis stuff that I thought I should have, and I enjoy it, but I've stayed away from these box sets because I'm not completist. I just don't dig it that much. But fans there are thousands of, so why not let them have what they want to hear? And I've never subscribed to the theory that only the artist has the right to decide what the audience should get to hear. But that's a whole 'nother can of worms. People also often forget that music is a collectable item. Maybe the author above has a collection of some sorts, and I'm sure he wouldn't object to a collector's item which was originally not intended for the market place. So, don't buy it if you think it's excessive but don't tell fans of Miles Davis' music what they should be allowed to have or hear and what not.

Yeah, it's raw. But like you said, still ...

Nobody got himself that one? You will regret it, it swings from beginning to end and is great fun to listen to! There's some really groovy shit on that one. Am diggin' it. Thanks for the heads up.

And they sent me three ? I called and told them I wanted to return them and then, instead of sending return stickers, I get one more. I now have 4 (four) Stax #2 here. I should think I've got my Stax bases well covered.

Of course I did.

This place is really beginning to stink.

I like Monty Alexander. Have been getting into his recent stuff, especially the recordings with the former Ray Brown Trio (especially Brown's last recording) and the "Live at the Iridium" CD. Great stuff on there! Just wanted to put that on record.

One of the few mistakes Ray Brown made in his later days was to let Keezer into his trio.

Thanks for the links. Great stuff.

In my country lowering the standards seems to be easier than a realignment of the educational system. Therefore, it has never been easier getting a high school diploma and entering university .. and that's where the problems then start. Payin g teachers more is not going to help much, if at all. What JSngry wrote above pretty much also sums it up for our educational system here (or anywhere else, I would think, minus one or two countries here or there). Unfortunately, it is utopian thinking. Sad.

I have seen them in several Paris stores. Some stores have them available for around €7. I have also seen them on sale for around €10! I meant the shop described above. This Membran series is all over the place by now.

If you live in Germany, there's a shop run by physically and mentally challenged people in Hamburg ( http://www.cd-lp-dvd.de/ ) that sells these for 7 Euro each. No postage if your order is above 30 Euro. They are not a full-scale online shop, but I've tried to support them in the past. Link to the series: Membran Series I have no idea if they sell outside of Germany, but I don't think so ... or it might be a lot more expensive. Firmly tongue in cheek, the organization behind this shop calls itself "Wackelpeter" ("Jello") in reference to some of the shakes, wobbly movement etc. that the employees or office workers have to live with. They are a great bunch of people and I try to drop by the shop whenever I'm in Hamburg. For many working there it was the only place to find a job and they try their damn best to help their customers. P.S.: Because they simply can't compete with any of the bigger chains, they only have some of the budget series and sometimes a really odd assortment of products. As far as I can recall, they only have the Membran/Documents/TIM cheapo series ... but they also sell them cheap.

Yep. Same problem here in Germany.

I was stupid enough to add two Stax Vol. 2 to my basket without reading/noticing the fact in I don't know how many "are you sure that is what you want" windows and e-mails. Duh. Duh. Duh.

"Virtual Personal Network" Oops, yes, that must be it. I also use a VPN (IPsec ... whatever that means) client to (also) go through a university server. I've been connecting through these so often that I disabled their icons in the tray (and forgot about them). Duh, I'm not the tech-geek.

Naaaah. The members here are the sweetest, kindest and most open-minded users on the planet. Really. I kid you not.

What's a VPN. Sth with Personal Network?

Because everyone here gets around a lot ... Some months ago I decided to leave a forum which I had been a member of for several years. The reason: too many provocative "free speech" issues that basically soured the atmosphere. Some days later I was invited to a private and hidden forum with over 60,000 members. I guess I was invited because many former members of forum A had disappeared to forum B (as I then found out). When I try to find this forum through the usual search engines, I don't find a single reference, which I find more than astonishing considering the large number of users. Now my question (please without any links or references): Are you aware of any other forums (aside from various porn forums or discussion groups I'm sure exist in such privacy) such as this one ... huge, invisible and private? I'm just generally interested. I'm surprised that there isn't a single reference on Google or Yahoo, although I'm sure there must be disgruntled users or some accidental mentions out there somewhere. Still, nothing. I wonder how you can "disconnect" such a huge undertaking from the rest of the Internet (this thing runs on phpBB2, btw).

Where?

Bargain price. GREAT box. You can't go wrong with this one. The book is worth the price of admission alone! Get it ... quick!