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Mal Waldron is Tom's Niagara Falls. Eric Dolphy is my Niagara Falls. OK, I give up, what does "my Niagara Falls" mean?

Magic Sam!

The one thing I remember really liking about Mad was the inside back cover where one drawing folded over to reveal the real story...

"A blatant piece of bebop pole dancing" If I were to ever issue a late-period PW's boot, this would be the title! Not that I would ever do such a thing, for so many reasons...

For a moment I thought it said 'Canada abolishes the penis'... but seriously, what's up with them not getting how bad having the Loonie at par with the US dollar is for their exports and tourist trade, if I didn't have family there I wouldn't go!

OK, I change my vote to the Born to Be Blue session with S. Clark & G. Green, not sure about optimum running order though...

Well yeah, but have you ever heard a cooler band name? I think it may be the most obnoxious band name I've ever heard, and I play with "Smegma"!

Generally true, BUT some 'rejected' sessions have seen the light of day, either in whole or in part (and some merely 'unreleased' ones haven't, so?)...

ECM yes they do have a certain something that sets them apart, and in principle that's all good, and I certainly own some that I like v. much indeed, but in practise I don't love the label the way I do vintage Blue Note, Stax or Chess. Let's put it this way, I put some recent ECM releases on hold at the library where I work, based on discussion here and they left me kinda kold and I don't think it was just a fluke that I didn't like those particular releases, it was in part their ECM-ness...

I like Ike so I'm tempted to say "all of 'em" but if I had to choose it would be ...no I can't pick just one!

Looks like BN is working on a much needed revamp of their website, "coming soon".

Picked it up from my local Bricks 'n motor, Hank plays more Bird-like than anywhere else I can recall, obviously a labor of love to put this out. Bennie Green is fine, made go back to the Mosaic Select.

Nice clip, any idea where they are? I am, needless to say, bummed beyond words by Duck's departure, for me he & Tommy cogbill are pretty much 'it' on 'lectric bass.

I think it's touching they included David Marks who was only in the band breifly, a long time ago.

Summer of 64 would've been Eric 'Slowhand' Clapton with the Yardbirds, then Beck '65-66, then beck & Page v. breifly, then Page 67-8 Thanks. So I guess I heard Clapton even before I went to the first ever Derek and the Dominos concert and kept asking "who's Derek? Where's Eric Clapton?' The 2nd guitarist at that show was Dave Mason, not Duane. I think it was before they recorded. And I guess I didn't hear Beck until the '80s when he was in a movie I was working on. I realized he was important when grips kept coming up and thanking me for letting them spend a day listening to Jeff Beck. I find it hilarious that nobody's mentioned that when Beck left the Yardbirds, he left Page holding the bag on some substantial touring commitments for the band. Page hurriedly put together a rag-tag group of 2nd rate musicians, and played the dates as the New Yardbirds. When this band became more successful than little Jeffy could ever hope to be in his wildest dreams, he had the audacity to accuse little Jimmy of stealing material and thunder from him. The rest as they say is history. Despite his talents, Beck's a big-time prick in my book. I was never able to get into any of his stuff, save his holy trinity recorded in the mid-70s. His flash leaves me colder than Holdsworth's playing, which is really saying something. That's not quite the way it happened. Page was asked to join the Yardbirds when Clapton left, but turned them down 'cause he was making way more as a session player, but recomended Beck. Then a while later Page was hanging out at a Yardbirds gig when the bass player left, joined on bass then switched to guitar when rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja had learned enuff bass to cover that. Then Beck bails in the middle of a tour. Then Page and remaining three original members record an album and a few singles, tour some more. And finally then when remaining originals leave future members of Led Zep play a few gigs as New Yardbirds. If you can't hear anything in Becks playing, your loss, but 'oh well'. As far as who's 'a prick', Page is at least as good a candidate as Beck. As players, that's another wholly unrelated matter. But this isn't really about them, is it?

Summer of 64 would've been Eric 'Slowhand' Clapton with the Yardbirds, then Beck '65-66, then beck & Page v. breifly, then Page 67-8

I hope you mean 'hard to overestimate his importance', otherwise you're insulting him...

I own most, but not all, of this in a hodge podge of packages, but since some of it was a present I'll probably keep it that way. I can hardly believe that Ray isn't in Downbeat's Hall of Fame, or anybody's, he sure is in mine. Could play lots of different stuff, if not quite everything, he prefered singing songs but that's another issue.

Amazing as many of Earl's recordings are, coulda/ahoulda/woulda been even more so - he's known to have played with, among others, King Curtis & Ravi Shankar - hearing them play "Soul Serenade" in my head right now...

Talented guy, way interesting life, has there ever been a (good) bio? As a cancer survivor myself, best wishes to him!

http://idelsohnsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/blacksabbath_linernotes.pdf thought this might be of interest to some posters here...

Am I the only one hear who thinks "Rolling in the Deep" sounds like Gnarls Barkley's "Driving Me Crazy" (just the hook)?

rowdy crowd, lots of back 'n forth, handing the mic to band members for commentary, etc. that's "tripping"?!? http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/trip

rowdy crowd, lots of back 'n forth, handing the mic to band members for commentary, etc.

I hate to say it, but I thought the excerpts I read were horridly florid, but maybe it's impossible to write about Bud without that happening...