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I don't mean to derail this thread, but are there any contemporary guitarists either of you like and can recommend? I've been enjoying everything I've heard from Frisell, Abercrombie, Bireli Lagrene, Nguyen Le, Metheny (primarily the non-PMG stuff), Sylvain Luc, Ralph Towner, Marc Ribot, Jim Hall, and Sco. I'm always curious to discover more.

Just curious....is playing with Sco a bad thing? I get the point of later BN vs. early BN, but want to know if there's something behind this comment?

Has anyone picked up the new 10th Anniversary edition of "Mallrats"? I've got all the other Jay & Silent Bob DVDs, but have been missing this one, as it's been OOP for a while now.... Kevin Smith sells autographed versions of his flicks on his website, I just discovered.

Good choices both!! Very different albums though...

I picked this disc up last week in Austin, and found an extra disc titled "Free Jazz Classics Vol 2" inside. Wasn't expecting it, which made it all the better. Both discs are very good!!

Chad Pennington is out for the Jets for the season too...torn rotator cuff. I don't follow the Jets that closely, but doesn't this guy get hurt like EVERY year??

Ouch!!! That looks like it hurts!! Is she able to still close her mouth??

From Wikipedia: Musique concrète (French; literally, "concrete music"), is the name given to a class of electronic music produced from editing together fragments of natural and industrial sounds. It is the opposite of traditional composing (known to some as Musique Abstraite, literally, Abstract Music) as the sounds are recorded first then built into a tune as opposed to a tune being written then given to players to turn into sound. Concrète was pioneered in the late 1940s and 1950s, spurred by developments in technology, most prominently microphones, and the commercial availability of the magnetic tape recorder, utilized as tape loops. Pierre Schaeffer, a Paris radio broadcaster, created some of the earliest pieces of Musique Concrète, including "Étude aux chemins de fer" ("Study with Trains"), "Étude au piano I" ("Piano Study I") and "Étude aux casseroles" ("Study with Baking Pans"). Each of these pieces involved speeding up, looping, and reversing recordings of sound sources like trains, piano and rattling cookware. Schaeffer also collaborated with another Musique concrète pioneer, Pierre Henry. Together, they created pieces such as "Symphonie pour un homme seul" ("Symphony for a Man Alone"). Concrète was combined with other, synthesized forms of electronic music to create Edgar Varèse's "Poème électronique". "Poème" was played at the 1958 Brussels, Belgium World's Fair through 400 carefully-placed loudspeakers in a special pavilion designed by Iannis Xenakis. The fictitious 'twelve-tone composeress' Dame Hilda Tablet, created by Henry Reed, spoke of her creation of 'Musique concrète renforcée'. After the 1950s, Concrète was somewhat displaced by other forms of electronic composition, although its influence can be seen in popular music by many bands, including The Beatles and Pink Floyd. Traditional and non-traditional Concrète experienced a revival in the 1980s and 1990s, artists like Ray Buttigieg experimental series "Earth Noise" and "Sound Science Series" uses found and intended sounds in old and cutting edge techniques, although modern sampling technology is now often used in place of magnetic tape. Recently, the growing popularity in all forms of electronica has led to a re-birth of Musique concrète. Artists such as Christian Fennesz, Francisco Lopez, and Scanner use many Concrète techniques in their music while often being classified under more common electronica genres such as IDM or downtempo. Music magazines such as The Wire regularly feature articles and reviews of musique concrète.

Nice article... Nice call Weis uses play called by boy dying of brain tumor SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Charlie Weis doesn't usually let anyone else call plays on offense. He made an exception for 10-year-old Montana Mazurkiewicz. The Notre Dame coach met last week with Montana, who had been told by doctors weeks earlier that there was nothing more they could do to stop the spread of his inoperable brain tumor. "He was a big Notre Dame fan in general, but football especially," said his mother, Cathy Mazurkiewicz. Weis showed up at the Mazurkiewicz home in Mishawaka, just east of South Bend, and talked with Montana about his tumor and about Weis' 10-year-old daughter, Hannah, who has global development delay, a rare disorder similar to autism. He told Montana about some pranks he played on Joe Montana -- whom Montana was named after -- while they were roommates at Notre Dame. "I gave him a chance to hammer me on the Michigan State loss, which he did very well. He reminded me of my son," said Weis, whose son, Charlie Jr., is 12 years old. Weis said the meeting was touching. "He told me about his love for Notre Dame football and how he just wanted to make it through this game this week," Weis said. "He just wanted to be able to live through this game because he knew he wasn't going to live very much longer." As Weis talked to the boy, Cathy Mazurkiewicz rubbed her son's shoulder trying to ease his pain. Weis said he could tell the boy was trying not to show he was in pain. His mother told Montana, who had just become paralyzed from the waist down a day earlier because of the tumor, to toss her a football Weis had given him. Montana tried to throw the football, put could barely lift it. So Weis climbed into the reclining chair with him and helped him complete the pass to his mother. Before leaving, Weis signed the football. "He wrote, 'Live for today for tomorrow is always another day,"' Mazurkiewicz said. "He told him: 'You can't worry about tomorrow. Just live today for everything it has and everything you can appreciate," she said. "He said: 'If you're [in pain] today you might not necessarily be in pain tomorrow, or it might be worse. But there's always another day." Weis asked Montana if there was something he could do for him. He agreed to let Montana call the first play against Washington on Saturday. He called "pass right." Montana never got to see the play. He died Friday at his home. Weis heard about the death and called Mazurkiewicz on Friday night to assure her he would still call Montana's play. "He said, 'This game is for Montana, and the play still stands,"' she said. Weis said he told the team about the visit. He said it wasn't a "Win one for the Gipper" speech, because he doesn't believe in using individuals as inspiration. He just wanted the team to know people like Montana are out there. "That they represent a lot of people that they don't even realize they're representing," Weis said. When the Irish started on their own 1-yard-line following a fumble recovery, Mazurkiewicz wasn't sure Notre Dame would be able to throw a pass. Weis was concerned about that, too. So was quarterback Brady Quinn. "He said what are we going to do?" Weis said. "I said we have no choice. We're throwing it to the right." Weis called a play where most of the Irish went left, Quinn ran right and looked for tight end Anthony Fasano on the right. Mazurkiewicz watched with her family. "I just closed my eyes. I thought, 'There's no way he's going to be able to make that pass. Not from where they're at. He's going to get sacked and Washington's going to get two points,"' she said. Fasano caught the pass and leapt over a defender for a 13-yard gain. "It's almost like Montana was willing him to beat that defender and take it to the house," Weis said. Mazurkiewicz was happy. "It was an amazing play. Montana would have been very pleased. I was very pleased," she said. "I was just so overwhelmed. I couldn't watch much more." Weis called her again after the game, a 36-17 victory by the 13th-ranked Fighting Irish, and said he had a game ball signed by the team that he wanted to bring to the family on Sunday. "He's a very neat man. Very compassionate," she said. "I just thanked him for using that play, no matter the circumstances."

Got back to Corpus Christi yesterday evening, after our mandatory evacuation last Wednesday. The roads were fine, and I didn't experience any of the incredible "Staus" (traffic jams) like those in the Houston area had to contend with. My brother-in-law left Houston Thursday morning at 3.a.m after boarding up his windows, thinking he'd beat the traffic out of town. But everyone else apparently had the same bright idea, and he got stuck. Stuck, as in taking over 9 hours to go less than 40 miles. He finally got to Austin Friday and said that despite the complete chaos of being stuck on the Interstate, people mostly remained civilized. Anyway, I hope any of our board members in the Houston-to-Louisiana area are ok after this one.

No mandatory evacuations here yet - school is on as normal for my kids today. But many folks are beginning to board up their windows, and I hear there's a run on bottled water at the stores. I'm going to wait another 24 hrs or so, to see where this thing is going, then make my decision on whether to leave the area or not. Who's playing at the ACL Fest, Lon?

Don't forget Dread Zeppelin, who started out doing reggae Zep covers!

Fat Albert Ayler anyone?

Bill Parcells was 77-0 in games where his team had a 13+ point lead going into the fourth quarter. After last night, make that 77-1. Washinton pulled two TD's out of somewhere, with less than 4 minutes to go last night, after a strong showing by the Dallas D for the first 55 minutes of the game, to win 14-13. Very frustrating to watch Dan Snyder jumping for joy in his sky box at the end of the game, like he'd just won the lottery or something. But at the same time, if the Cowboys can't score more than 13 points at home before a pumped up crowd (from the induction of Emmitt/Troy/Michael into the Ring of Honor), maybe they didn't deserve the win. Bledsoe had a BEAUTIFUL flea-flicker TD pass to Terry Glenn early, but other than that the Dallas O didn't really do all that much. And the other Monday Night Game - a "home" game for the Saints IN New York, resulted in a win for the Gints. Hardly fair - that game should have been played on a neutral field at the minimum, or preferably at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge or something. Hurt the Saints chances, and gave an extra home game to the Giants, that could ultimately affect who makes it into the playoffs in the NFC...

Man!! I wish I'd known about this! I would have made the drive up from Corpus for Wayne - and I actually could have made it yesterday too, that's the bad thing. Can we expand the "Jazz in Austin & Dallas" thread to include San Antonio too?

I've traded with John a number of times, from his postings at AAJ. He's a safe and reliable trader, for what it's worth.

The Aggies beat SMU today, 66-8. Nice rebound from the 1 pt loss to Clemson (who also lost today). Granted it was SMU, but they beat TCU previously, and TCU has beaten both Oklahoma and Utah. Reggie McNeal looked good today - threw 5 TD passes (4 in the 3rd Qtr alone!), and ran for another TD. And they took him out in the 3rd quarter. I hope this "rights the ship" at A&M, and they can somehow cruise all the way to the Texas game at Thanksgiving, ready to compete with U.T for the Big 12 South. That could be a good game if A&M continues to get better, esp. on their defense.

Okayyy...you've made the point that you dislike this label quite a bit. Moving on.

I wouldn't mind living in a world where those were all Top 10 smashes, Johnny

Have a good one, Dan!!! :rsmile: (I sprung for one of the pitchers that Robert J is sending over, don't let him tell ya otherwise!!)

I've somehow missed the whole Oasis craze. How did they manage to get to #3? Aren't they a Beatles slag-off band or something?

...He's never too young to get into Organissimo!!

He's gonna have to top Jeremiah Trotter getting ejected from the game for fighting with Kevin Mathis, during the pregame!!

I might agree with you about Shipp's goals being a bit lofty, and that there may be some self-congratulatory blather in some of the Thirsty Ear text I've read. However, I'm still really enjoying the music itself, whatever it is or isn't intended to be. I'm not really concerned with whether it is cutting edge, but whether I enjoy what I'm hearing - and right now that's the case.