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This proceedure (Fucking Goddamn Mutilation) was done to my mother when she was 13 (in the US, she's Danish/Scots-Irish). She was scarred for life, I grew up with the consequences. She recovered, more or less, eventually. People who defend/excuse this as culture should be shot. Yes, it does make me upset.

Perhaps they had a contract with someone else close by (the're everywhere) that precluded any other vendor with street access within a certain distance?

Somebody else suggested this, so hear goes, I think the alternate of Herbie Hancock's "Blind Man" is way better than the master (and I don't even own it!) It's that 'extra note' Herbie talked about in the bass line, makes it way funkier. Now it's your turn...

I didn't mean "learned from records" as a putdown, merely descriptive - if anything that fact may have helped him acheive his particular greatness. It also puts a different spin on the 'sold his soul to the devil' if you believe in a romanticist vision of an oral tradition oand that's what you think 'the blues' was...

This mastered way too fast stuff is old news isn't it, seems I remember hearing about it some years back. It only makes sense that Clapton would love RJ, they both learned blues the same way - from records, in Johnson's case while he was shacked up with robt Jr Lockwood's mom. Kinda ironical that Clapton's best work, Layla, was also sped up...

I remember something Glyn Johns said regarding the Stones that might be appropo here - something to the effect that first take would be good, second take great, then they beat it to death doing ten more and pick the sixth one, mix it funny and put that out, who knows why.

It is 'quiet Kenny' in a kinda loud setting, but it works for me...

konitz, ornette, rollins - any two of these would probably be great, all three maybe not? my time machine/lost tapes fantasy would involve Rollins & Lee Morgan together, or Lou D, Stanley T, Grant G, John P & Idris M, or Lester & Gil Evans, or?

CDRs?

Do the Math interview with Jason Moran has an interesing discussion of Geri, somebody link?

To me this is further proof that Grant was as much a fan as a musician, IMHO it's v. much a nod to Parker South of the Border, just as Goin' West is a nod to Rollins Way Out West. The Bossa Nova bonus cuts are v. good too. Good clean fun, to heck with essential.

It's no more, or less, 'rap' than Rufus Thomas's little recitation in the middle of "Walking the dog" was...anchrnistic is as anachranistic does (not).

Y'all forgotten "Willie the Wimp & His Cadillac Coffin"?

If you ever worked in a bricks & motor record store it makes perfect sense - we sent a good part of every day trying to figure out what customers had heard at some coffee shop/restaurant/whatever...but if you worked there it would drive you crazy 'cause they hear the same thing over & over.

It's Mccarty & Dreja from the classic lineup (unless that's changed) and they can do reasonable recreations of the original sound, but reasonable recreations wasn't what the original was about...

I'm quite fond of Run Devil Run, certainly a far better oldies album than Lennon's, mostly because it's far more straightforward. Made in the wake of Linda's death it's to my ears far more impassioned than most of his self-written solo work.

Actually I was not refering to the Live in Europe/London/Paris(and elsewhere) with the MGs/MarKeys, which is quite wonderful, but I was saying that the Bar-Kays were the road band at the end (last half of '67 roughly?) and I've never heard anything from any of those gigs...

Witchi Tai Too is supposedly based on a traditional peyote chant, but I've never heard the putative source so I can't really comment on how close it is...more 'authentic' than "Cheerokee" i'd wager, and the're both great tunes both as basis for improv and in themselves.

Do any of you who do the 'tape trader' thing know if any of the v. late gigs of Otis with the Bar-Kays have surfaced? That would be real interesting to me....

I read somewhere on the net, and then confirmed it at Concord's site, the're doing an expanded version of Otis at the Whiskey - more, loonger tunes,three full sets exactly as played over two CDs. Should be great, outta tune horns and all.

Witchi tai too!

So where's Lefrty Frizel's prize "for creative work with vowell sounds"?

You forgot: WILMA!!!!!

Finally got the Mono Box from the library I work for (Multnomah County, bewst public library going, thank you taxpayers)AND Sgt peppers, at least, is so better in mono, and I don't think theat it's just that it's allowing me to hear it fresh (or as fresh as it's going be for me at this point), but that is part of it. Also been on a Howlin' Wolf kick recently, not sure what that means but he's better in mono too...Live at Alices Revisited is way better than it gets credit for, better in many ways than London Sessions, but London is more interesting in a coulda/shoulda/woulda way, Alices is just the man live, great but it just is what it is. If Quad is 4 and Stereo is 2 and mono is 1; HW Live in Cambridge is next to 0 in terms of sound quality but it's a way fierce performance, way more than any Muddy I've heard and I love Muddy...

Really, I don't see how 'smooth jizz' could be any worse than this, and the chicks ain't that hot to me either, YMMV IMHO yada yada...couldn't even get to the end of the clip.