kenny weir

Are there no homegrown Californian nutjobs at all, Goody? I'm not sure where ground central for Australian and NZ whackos might be. There are various hotspots for freaks, tree huggers, ferals and ageing hippies and so on, but nowhere here that has the same reputation as your fine state for kookiness, fair or not. Melbourne's cross-culture, cross-gender, cross-everything overwhelming obsession for Australian Rules football is, objectively, pretty fucking screwy, that's for sure. I imagine there are a few. But when you consider that 60% of those currently residing in California are from someplace else [mostly snowbound states, Latin/Central America and Asia] the odds are better than even the guy who wrote this want ad isn't a native Californian. Everyone wants to live here...including the various assortment of dingbats, weirdos and nutburgers. It's just a wrongheaded image of California. Devil's Advocate: Couldn't it be argued, then, that those 60% constitute the real California? I must say, I rally dig the range of evocative terms available for use in such a conversation: Nut cases, nutjobs, whackos, dingbats, weirdos, nutburgers, kooks. Excellent! Any more?

Are there no homegrown Californian nutjobs at all, Goody? I'm not sure where ground central for Australian and NZ whackos might be. There are various hotspots for freaks, tree huggers, ferals and ageing hippies and so on, but nowhere here that has the same reputation as your fine state for kookiness, fair or not. Melbourne's cross-culture, cross-gender, cross-everything overwhelming obsession for Australian Rules football is, objectively, pretty fucking screwy, that's for sure.

No kidding Matthew! (They're called bowlers.) But yes, it can be gripping viewing, even for someone like for whom it quite a way down the sports pecking order. (Go Socceroos, go All Blacks (rugby union), go Melbourne Victory (football), go Melbourne Storm (rugby league) etc etc ) Man, it would be really something if the Aussies can pull this off. I thought this series would be a matter of indifference to me. But that was until Ponting started banging on about "the spirit of cricket". He had good cause, given the Poms' delaying tactics in the previous Test. But, really, he should just shut fuck up. He's heir to a long tradition of Aussies and barely legal cheating and sledging that goes way back. Spirit of cricket my arse. Go England!

Thank you, thank you! 53, eh? Feels good. Morning kung fu with my son, Vietnamese lunch, Footscray festival for our neighbouring suburb's 150th and kung fu school 3rd anniversary Thai lunch tomorrow - birthdays all 'round.

This is yummy beyond belief. Really good way to hear a whole bunch of artists who didn't record a whole album's worth of stuff. It also has a couple of the classic Little Brother Montgomery tracks - his stuff is like listening to Patton, House et al, but with piano instead of guitar.

Big price difference between the JSP and Revenant Patton sets, but like others I have no regrets about going for the pricier option. I got it for $160 from Amazon - they still have it for $170. All the most prominent usual suspects have been mentioned. But while I hear your specific focus on non-electric, non-Chicago stuff, I'd like to give a special thumbs up for classic, early Big Joe Williams - electric (much of it), yes, but right up there is sound and spirit. The lot available in a 5-disc JSP set with Tommy McClennan, Robert Petway and others.

As far as railway is concerned, this must be a typically british obsession. My father worked for the Luxembourg railways, where he was responsible for equipment. Several times per year, he received visits from members of british railway fan clubs, who requested to see specific locomotives which were missing from their collection of pictures. They wanted to take pictures of each individual locomotive, although many of them were identical except for the serial number. If one locomotive was stationed in another part of the country, they would take a 2 hour trip just to get a picture. They weren't interesting in any sightseeing, even railway-related. The only thing that counted was to travel to complete their collection of pictures. I was once an anorak too, in the late 80's, when I discovered jazz mainly through the ECM label, and I wanted to have a discography of all ECM albums. Instead of simply requesting a list from the label, I went thought the jazz section in record shops and wrote down the 1xxx numbers and titles of all ECM albums I could find. With the internet, such obsessions can now be pursued in a much more discrete way ... A good mate of mine is one of 'em - and a music nut! He and his fellow anoraks sometimes go out into the boonies, set up shop at a railway level crossing, fire up the barbie and wait for a particular train to chuff by. Then they go home. And it's not just photos - they collect recordings, too. Circular thinking, this reminds of a thread - long time ago so it was probably on BNBB - on which someone did a really bang up spoof job of putting up for auction on the board the inserts, bubble wrap and other packaging ephemera that comes with Mosaic sets - "touched and handled by Michael Cuscuna" etc etc. At least I think it was a spoof.

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorak_(slang)

OCD? Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OK, got it!

OCD?

This is true, but ... I find the place useful, even though I've only posted there a couple of times. I use it as a reference tool, much the same as allmusic. Hard to feel at home in a joint where politics, sport, religion and food et al are either rare or verboten. But if you want a discussion for 450 posts of every Fleetwood Mac album and single since their first recording, it's the place to go. I hear you. But tell ya truth, I dig it that there's a place where that sort of extreme anorakism can bloom. And that's coming from someone who has only ever owned one Beatles record - the Hello Goodbye/I Am The Walrus single. And individual tastes and notions of artistic "merit" (whatever that means) aside, is it really any different from kicking over the forensic details of, say, Hank Mobley or Thelonious Monk? And just BTW, this very forum itself has a thread on that Grateful Dead that is about a gazillion pages long.

This is true, but ... I find the place useful, even though I've only posted there a couple of times. I use it as a reference tool, much the same as allmusic. Hard to feel at home in a joint where politics, sport, religion and food et al are either rare or verboten.

Go to options in the top right hand corner of your screen. Click on "Standard" for the right Display Mode.

Having successfully participated in a trade for the Condon Mob box, I am still interested in doing deals on the following Mosaic big box OOP sets: Chico Hamilton Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions Both mint. PM me if interested!

I haven't heard this Campbell stuff, but I'm surprised it fizzles. I love the Hag stuff he's on - on Capitol, of course. And given my recent pursuit of great classic pop (as opposed to rock), I would've been happy to bend an ear to these albums anytime. But then again, given some of the stuff that is pushing my buttons at the moment, my mileage may vary from yours considerably. I have a fairly high tolerance for pap of all kinds.

*Ain't nothing like pho ... no matter how many different variations I try. Today, after a lunchtime kung fu class, me and Bennie hit a cheapo Chinese joint and had steamed Shanghai dumplings (superb, with a scorching hot blast of stock/soup sealed inside ready to burst forth and ... wherever) and the house beef soup noodles. They were good - beef slices, house-made white noodles, a couple of pieces of sliced radish, green onions, coriander (er, sorry, cilantro) and OK stock. But as I say, not a patch, IMHO, on the stock base, rare (lean) beef, flat rice noodles of the regal Viet version. Today's stuff wasn't as tasty, healthy (bean sprouts, mint) or cheap. *My long-running but haphazard efforts to replicate the buzz the Grateful Dead provide me is a fizzer. Always has been, always will be. Airplane, Quicksilver? Forget it. Actually, the closest are Trane at the Village Vanguard and assorted Sun Ra. *Again, I have never found straight out country rock that is as strikingly beautiful and original as the first Pure Prairie League albums. Although it's been fun trying.

Yes, yes - very, very droll droll. (BTW, in all my years posting, IIRC that is my first double post. My newish laptop is very sensitive.)

You're all absolutely correct - this dude doing Borat is cruel, mean, lazy, opportunistic, politically incorrect and (probably) purple. But - oh geez, the guilt, the shame, I'm so sorry - some of the stuff in that Borat movie was some of the funniest shit I've ever seen. Even if it made me cringe at the same time. So shoot me already.

You're all absolutely correct - this dude doing Borat is cruel, mean, lazy, opportunistic, politically incorrect and (probably) purple. But - oh geez, the guilt, the shame, I'm so sorry - some of the stuff in that Borat movie was some of the funniest shit I've ever seen. Even if it made me cringe at the same time. So shoot me already.

Small point: Fasttrack said Stan was being discussed because he played beautiful. He didn't say it was his beautiful playing that was being discussed. There's a difference. Carry on ...

I'm not sure the non-inclusion of a track specifically referred to in the booklet can be accurately be referred to as non-musical. Nor, considering the standard of excellence to which Mosaic has always aspired and almost always attained, can this be considered minor. And I'm sure they would agree. Don't worry, though, I'm not gonna be asking for my money back. Or, more accurately, the money of Jazzbo, who ordered this set on my behalf.

Oh dear! I wonder how many sets are affected. And I fear that the bonus of healthy preorders could be largely negated by setting this booboo right. Which I'm sure they will.

Hey, glad you got your stuff. As for the rest of it, I'm not holding my breath.

I wouldn't want to equate Marsh with Gerry Mulligan, but ... I read somewhere (here? BNBB? certainly a BB) that Michael Cuscuna was surprised that the Mulligan Concert Band set was the quickest selling of any Mosaic. I'm not saying this Marsh set would sell as quick! But there's at least anecdotal evidence that Mosaic gives some weight to the passions of its customers and that those responsible for deciding what sets get the green light are unlikely to think they have undebatable wisdom on the matter. The current financial climate doesn't help, though.

Thanks for the feedback, Stefan. I'm no shrinking violet when it comes to sound quality, so I'm sure it'll be fine. I suspect also that like the Horizon CD I got this week, there'll long percussion segments that do tend to go on a bit - presumably while something visually arresting was happening with the band. Great if you're there, no so good for prolonged, regular listening. But at that price and over six discs, that's not a problem either. And goes with the territory, eh?