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Listened to it again, still hate it.

Guitarists: Nels Cline, Hendrix, Sonic Youth, Huskers, Neil Young Not Guitarists: Lee Morgan, Bill Evans, Miles, Trane, ahh, the list goes on. I'm not much of a jazz player, but listening to it has had an effect on how I play. Osmosis, or something like it.

Just Like That Alright, this falls under the "shameless self-promotion" dept, but my band has a CD for sale on it. So if you're shuffling through what they have to offer, and you're wondering what to check out next, the band's name is Station Wag. It's a rock CD, no greaze, but I'm curious to hear impressions.

I made a "customized" tape of Revolver, omitting "the worst song ever", "Yellow Submarine". Liked that album a lot, hate that song.

Dig the early R&B styles. The vocallists (Slim Smith, Delroy Wilson, Ken Boothe, et al) remind me of the Motown or Stax sound. The Skatalites covered "Sidewinder", the Baba Brooks band covered "Watermelon Man", both sounding very natural in the island style. Hell, Clifford Jordan made some recordings for Studio One near the end of his career (although it sounded to me like he didn't know what to do with it, but the rhythems were nice).

Overheard while in line for an SY show in 98: "Looks like the old school is out in force tonight" Another "old" band celebrating a milestone: the Melvins are 20!! Just saw them in Portland last week (with Mudhoney opening, no less). Man, they tore the place UP!! It's great to see bands that have been around for so long still being vital. Who needs hit songs?

Rosenthal's "Hard Bop" made me a Lee Morgan fan before I ever heard his music. Pretty good book, too.

Another Latarski book to check out is "Movable Guitar Chords". Instead of learning what a Bbm7 is, it will show you multiple positions for a m7 chord, and where the root, 3rd, etc is for each chord form. Very handy, and helped me change the way I think about guitar. It's also got a handy chart at the end that shows what each chord voicing is made up of. Helpful when you know your modes.

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band-Lick My Decals Off Baby. Worth owning a turnatable for.

Lakers...ahh, the fecking Lakers

Can't seem to get the link to work, so here's the address for KWVA: KWVA Eugene, 88.1 PO Box 3157 Eugene OR 97403 Email: kwva@gladstone.uoregon.edu

Link to KWVA. It has a couple of jazz programs, the Jazz Trip on Sunday afternoons, which caters to mostly modern jazz, mostly eclectic, and the Changing Same on Tuesday afternoons, which is all free jazz. Hope I got this to you in time. Also, if you ever decide to swing down south,Sam Bond's is probably the best place to try out your stuff. They book all types of music, and the crowd is usually pretty receptive.

Martian Time Slip, Time Out Of Joint, Man in the High Castle all are high on the list, but Confessions of a Crap Artist probably tops them all. Then there's all his short stories. One of my favorites was the one about the man who invents a machine that transmorgrifies(sp?) sheet music into animals. There was a Wagner bug, a Bach beetle, etc. Great concepts.

Tried to wait until he was old enough to babysit, but it didn't work out that way. Thanks for all the kind words! This baby has much love!

And man, am I glad she's finally here! And we're getting sleep this time around! Her big brother seems to have been taken with her, but a second kid definately feels like twice as much work, mostly because the first is still around. Can't believe how smooth everything went. Labor was twice as fast (thankfully) and we got home and it felt like she was always there. Looking forward to a life of meeting her boyfriends with a shotgun!!!

I liked the use of Jon Spencer in the film, and enjoyed the performance. It shows how influential the blues still is. Spencer, Beck and Cave especially cite James, Howlin' Wolf, et al as importent influence in their music. What they do is their interpretation of the music. So it doesn't suit everyone who thinks they know what "the Blues" is. Jon Spencer is closer to what I get out of the blues than Bonnie Raitt.

Didn't watch all of it, but I enjoyed what I saw. Even the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Beck bits. That's a little closer to what I get out of some great gut-busting blues than Marc Ribot (too many notes. Disliked his take on the Blind Willie Johnson song).

Judas Priest's "Green Manaleshi"(sp?) in a McDonald's here. Talk about weird!

Lee Morgan's "Take Twelve". My first taste of him and I'm still getting over it. And another vote for Ellington's "Indigos" (coincidentally, my first Ellington album too).

Beats the hell out of Barney. And there songs are damn catchy (I had that "Fruit Salad" song in my head for weeks after I heard it).

My wife and I used to dance our boy to sleep to Curtis Mayfield's Superfly. By the end of "Pusherman", he was usually asleep. James Brown also did the trick, "There It Is" or "Popcorn" being the preferred tracks. Right now he's obsessed with "Daddy's new cd", the one I recorded with my band, but along the way there were similar obsessions with Neil Diamond and the soundtrack to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and the Wiggles. Go figure.

Found confirmation of AB's tone ratio while looking at a G&L website. A maple neck will brighten the tone about 10%, but that's it. Not much.

Another 2. But I consider Elmore Leonard to be classic, and I've got some bushy-ass eyebrows.

My own 2 cents. On the maple vs rosewood, I definately get a quicker feel on the maple neck. Don't know why, but I always slow down when I have to switch to rosewood. Being a true G&L believer, I've got to suggest checking out their Tele knockoff. Leo Fender knew what he was doing.