neveronfriday

Sounds like you gained some weight. Cheers!

Let me see. These are the same labels which are going after grandmothers, kids and innocent bystanders to collect "royalties" for illegally downloaded tracks? And then they have huge difficulties finding artists who are basically playing right next door in the club? And they can't find a postal address to mail a check? But Grandmother Jones was easy to track down ... after all she had downloaded three tunes by the Beach Boys. Man. Stick them all into a large canvas bag and dump them into the next river. Scumbags.

Just to acknowledge this BFT. I can't post much at the moment, but I love the disc. Maybe I can finally get with the program again with BFT #11. Cheers & Thanks!

*lol* Got a good laugh there. Cheers!

I'm not the trinity kind of guy. I like to do things myself. Cheers!

My condolences to you and your family.

Hey, I actually liked some tunes when that one came out. Today I'd probably only put it on if you pay me for it, but ... Cheers!

Sent a PM.

Stroke survivor? And I didn't even feel it ... Cheers!

I'm late as usual. Happy birthday and, appropriately enough, CHEERS!

one beer please! Thanks! You got it! I just have to find a way to buy you that beer. Free beer? Count me in! CHEERS!

Yep.

Nice. The last one just came a bit ahead of time. My 80th is/was delayed by old age. Cheers!

I got my disc yesterday. Thanks! Will listen to it ... now. Cheers!

I remember Stephen King once talking about collectors who were afraid of leaving eyeball tracks on the paper of their limited editions. I guess he knew nothing about Mosaic and its customers. Cheers!

Fantastic! Congratulations & all the best!

I'm of an age at which I don't eat the stuff anymore. I just look at it. My doctor warns me all the time about never touching the sugary stuff anymore. Would catapult me right into my grave. So, I have to rely on what the guests tell me about my cakes. And on watching them eat them. It's just that before the last cake eating session, I passed out in my wheelchair, and I simply don't know how all that stuff ended up on the table ... nor what happened to the guests, for that matter. Cheers! (THAT they won't let me do either, but I don't give a hoot)

Do you think they ate all those dressings with the cake?

At that price, I decided to buy several to stash away as future presents. This edition comes highly recommended by me (again), so don't miss it if ordering from Zweitausendeins is an option for you. Cheers!

*sniff* Thanks guys.

Does the pope work on Sundays?

Let me add some to that!

By the way, I intend to keep this thread very much alive once I finally get through the wildest catch-up-on-work-after-having-been-sick-too-long phases I've ever had the good fortune of living through. Cheers!

Jazzmoose, I didn't have this box set yet and went for it upon your recommendation (yeah, I know, I always need a bit longer than anyone else). Before I continue: I always thought that this early Armstrong stuff was not really what attracted me to jazz. I filed all of it under "Dixieland" and said no way, José! Not me. Well, how wrong I was. It's a great set, and the sound ain't bad at all, considering the source material. I'm not going to check now, but I think it's a Schaap job, and it's a job well-done (despite the nagging in regard to many of his other projects). Of course, the packaging reduces the half-life of the actual CDs substantially, but I have to admit that in my eyes, it's a classy package worthy of the music presented within. The music itself (it's blasting through my apartement as I write this) is eye- and ear-opening. I'm on disc two and am having a grand time. This one is going to keep me busy for quite a while because I'm hearing lots things I've heard on later recordings by different artists. There's tons of history here which to me sheds a light on roots I have so far not been able to appreciate all that much (and were therefore missed or simply ignored). I found the set in my fave second-hand shop (sealed) for around $20 bucks and considering the amount of money spent on other, lesser collections, these were perhaps the best-spent $20 this year. Thanks for the recommendation! Cheers!