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Wow, I'm surprised someone actually knew who this was. I go back to the early '70's when it comes to Bradley. We used to see him at the old White Eagle when he was fronting Steve Bradley & The Rhythm Tones. Then later at places like Frankenstein's or the Rock Creek Tavern when he was with The Sleazy Pieces. That was a great bar band. I used to see Mesi with Brown Sugar, a group that included two other local legends, Lloyd Jones and Paul DeLay. Never saw the surf show. I stopped going to clubs many years ago when the smoking was out of hand, so I missed a lot of local musicians and bands over the years. Now that smoking is banned in all public places in Oregon, I'm starting to get out a little more. Mesi is a monster on guitar. Crazy good. I know Mesi better than Steve, thought the film about them captured their personalities well - Mesi is definitely the more tightly wound of the two. Too bad you missed the surf gig, it was several years running Th at Clydes Prime Rib - top of the hill on Sandy Blvd just before the light on 57th. Brown Sugar were indeed a great band, you have the picture sleeve EP where they all look like babies? I need to get out and see Jimi somewhere, as well as Dover @ Duff's on Tues, and maybe some new bands I'm not personally acquainted with...

Cool that you're taking lessons from Steve Bradley, did you ever catch his 'Chamber music of the New Surf' (my term) gigs with Jim Mesi? I play C-melody sax, not as well as Trambauer, or the guy who lived in my apartment bldg 30 years ago....

I have an LP on Miles (with Sonny Stitt) live in Europe on '60 that says "Miles was not boned by convention"! Yes, but what was he boned by?

Totally agree on the excellence of BB's Louis Jordan trib (w/hank crawford horn arrangements IIRC) and the worthlessness of Mom's Maybe's pointless posertude.

Have we discussed this fine album I just heard for the first time recently. Ribot plays acoustic, Payton and Byron are on it too - old tunes, Ellington, Monk and older. Nice relaxed feel. Any thoughts?

I'm sure it bugged the drummer if it fucked up the bass plaer's time, which it probably did, although I do get Stitt's thinking here - that's why i play C-melody, I wonder if ornette's ever played one? The notion that being even a smidge less than the greatest genius of whatever ever is somehow a crime is the worst excuse for an idea ever...

My favorite tenor saxophone taxonomy: DAVE PELL Nino Tempo arthur rollini ziggy vines You have to guess who this is. You've got me. Who? (Anyway, nice to see Ziggy there, although for what obscure reason I don't know ... but he could play!) Q Sorry -- just an attempt on my part to construct an impossibly incongrous imaginary player. Maybe I should have stuck with my first thought: FRANK TRUMBAUER Big Jay McNeely Hey, that's me!

Pete Brown can also be heard on Champion Jack Dupree's Blues From the Gutter, IIRC!

Where can I find that duet with Cootie Williams?

Oh bury me not on the lone prarie...

I work in a library, you'd be amazed how many people can't get that distinction...

If you want to close a thread, just have me post on it - seems to end 'em most of the time!

I thought 2 Jews Blues was Barry Goldberg & Bloomfield (uncredited), no?

I didn't see the truly awful Busch bargain brand on the list, must be those charming adds with the stripper silhouette that read "Grab a Busch" - nothing like subtlety!

an Art of the Automobile (or some such name) thingy at the Portlabd Art Museum, nice enuff to go twice, no Studebakers but almost - a Pierce Arrow built at South Bend. Talbot-Lago, baby! Couldn't drive a 7 figure car on the street though, I'd be a nervous wreck...

Article linked above says he played the Opry exactly once! Guess this 'too country for country' thing ain't nothing new....or was he too modern in the '30s?

This is definately one of those cases where I gotta say "I had no idea he was still alive"!

Tried to listen to some of this, had to quit and find a nice clip of Cream in a club in '66 to clear my head....

I once saw the Motreal Candaniens score three times in wel under a minute, back in the 6 team era - apples and oranges I know, but still... and nothing is as inept as my beloved Roughies losing the Grey Cup for having too many men on the field! I'm just dyslexic enuff that I initially read this as "How many damn notes are there?"

Listened to Wonderful again last night, was digging it OK til I just kinda got bogged down in it 'bout half way through. Put on Bobby Broom's Modern Man (on Delmark) with Idres, Lonnie Smith and Ronnie Cuber and their version of "superstion" totally did it for me, as did hearing them do Layla with Cuber playing the familiar guitar lick, YMMV, etc.

Me three, kinda/sorta - got it & liked it ok but I think I'd rather hear Bobby b play Layla...

Yeah, it was OK...but Willie and the Wheel rocked my boat harder. Eric's done shit that totally rocked my boat (mostly but not entirely a long time ago)and a lot that's totally snoozeling, so I'm not expecting much here. Yeah, they play Layla to death on the radio, but I'll still take it over Free Bird or Stairway any day.

What sucks is people who think 'x sucks' is any way to start a conversation 'bout anything...

Thanks for the link, nice interviews with BB King and Lovano re Lester.