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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.

I used to live in the Twinn cities. I'd go to the 'north shore' (of Lake Superior) amd back south along the Mississippi.

I think its Of Love and Peace you're thinking of because I think some (don't know who right off hand, but I think a thread exists somewhere talking about it) complained about Eddie Gale's trumpet playing to the degree that they think it ruins the session. Personally I'm not bothered by Gales's playing, in fact I like this session quite a bit along with Mothership (perhaps another candidate for trainwreck status). Huh? Mothership doesn't strike me as a 'tranwreck' at all: do people really think so and why?

Sound of the City was a big book for me too, bought when nearly new. My couple is full of marginalia written by me whenever I felt particularly strongly, one way or the other. 'bout something he'd said. Dire straits were a nice little band early on, did they play many covers as a club band?

MORE THAN ONE MEMBER OF MY FAMILY HAS DIED IN A FIRE i WILL NEVER READ THIS JOURNAL

Untimely, to be sure, but not a big deal to me personally (I mean that in the nicest possible way). but when I heard Tommy Cogbill had died, "I cried like a baby".

Urine trouble now, and how appropriate, since this has totally turned into a pissing match, not surprising given the premise...

Let me think - I like Ayler's "Drudgery" but not the whole session, pretyy much all of his spirituals session (but it ought to b e issued with the originals done at the same session). I like Hank M's Reach Out, the whole thing but esp'ly the 'covers'. I like Stan T's "Always something There" and "Look of Love". But I'm not sure any of those are exactly train wrecks. Lots of things that weren't issued at the time, for techical or sonceptual reasons. Must be some pop/rock/soul too, but I can't think of any right now..

OK, this has done got weird... OK, this has done got weird...