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I like 'em all kinds a ways, cheese or not, onions, relish, tomato, lettuce, 'shrooms, etc. But my all time fav is probably what I like to think of as the oxymoron burger - veggie w/bacon!

I'm a white guy, born in the last half of the 20th century in America, married to a wonderful woman, with a beautiful child, so I already won, but sometimes I forget...

Today I had my traffic ticket dismissed (by a judge I went to law school with), didn't get a parking ticket for stupidly parking on the street (it took forever) and met a new stripper with a really BIG heart...and the Hollies are in the R'n R Hall of Fame and Kiss aren't, hooray! I should add that my going to school with the judge really had nothing to do with it; it was the arresting officer who gave me the option to go to a safety class and have the ticket dismissed...I think the judge is a trombonist, but if remember right the one time we played to gether I was horribly out of tune, contempt for sure!

No, man, Martians Come Back! Oh man, for me CCR'sSuzie Q is far weaker than either the Stones' or Dale Hawkins' original... Oh man, for me CCR's "Suzie Q" is far weaker than either the Stones' (on 12X5) or Dale Hawkins' original...Fogerty does write nice tho'

Bob sure made some nice dates, even if you're not a big bone fan (all puns fully intended) - the other guys make 'em worthwhile I'm particularly found of the one on Columbia with stan Getz. Elvin, Herbie H. and a very young Gary Burton, IIRC. I'll have to check out the show when I get time.

Damn, here I am in Puddletown and I'm gonna hafto miss this...

I get a new Xmas LP nearly every year, this is gonna be it this year....

'real LPs': Bill w/ Hawkins Back to Back/Side by Side (i have a dbl reissue, so I get them confused; Jo Jones!) unreal: fargo Time/Life RCA sm group collection shoulda/coulda Duke & Sidney B. Plays Burt B. the unrecorded Mingus/Monk/Haynes/Parker band plays Duke

The Hollies...and the Ivey!

Q&A isn't on ECM!!! OK, how 'bout some other Metheny side project thingy, say 80/81 or Bright Sized Life or anything as long as it's not a reg PMG LP (an aversion to the production values, mostly).

I thought it was "She looks straight ahead, not at me", or am I being self-centered? Either way, it doesn't bug me/he. Neither does "My heart beat (just) like a hammer'which is also in any number of blues in some variant and must've been idiomatic at some place/time. "I'm like an oven crying for heat" is inventive, it suggests that heat is what it (and I) was built for... I think most of the truly bad lyrics in good songs I just forget...but I'll try to think of some. I agree with Allen that Dylan often worked too fast and didn't edit, and that Reed long ago jumped the shark and entered his fat elvis period without much of anyone noticing...Songs For Drella was so bad that it was funny to me, in small doses.

Let's see if I can think of ten off the top that I really, really like: 1) Art Ensemble - Nice Guys 2) Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds 3) Jack DeJonette - Live in Europe w/Abercrombie & L. Bowie 4) Marc Johnson - Bass Desires 5) Metheny - Question & Answer (1st time together for Holland & Haynes?) 6) Burton/corea - Crystal Silence 7) Corea - Trio Music (half Monk, dbl LP) 8) Gateway 9) Return to Forever - Light as a Feather 10) Keith 'the grunter' - Nude Dance Mostly big names, mostly early, subject to change, that's what I like, YMMV.

We was robbed, too many men on the field, like that made him miss! I fully expect to hear it still being talked about when I'm in saskatoon next summer...

Riders, 35 Points

Yes Ringo, see long thread, esp'ly comments by Jsngry - he had some skills, more than Mo Tucker, and used them to good advantage... definitely agree re Roger Hawkins would add Levon Helm, the king of slow tempos.

"My Reverie" is a first rate Mobley ballad, one of many, and "Funk in Deep Freeze" from the session in question (originally, with Farmer not the one with dorham) is a great title for something funk-but-cool. I really like the names Hank gave his tunes, really must post the poem I made out of 'em here and quit just taling 'bout it...

I was actually thinking of people quoting Steve Cropper, at least to start their quitar bits; that and the experience of reading the sheet music in a fake book and not seeing what I thought of as the melody, but that's been a while and I'd have to check it to be sure, might just have been that fake book...

Rock drummers with some skills and who use them in ways I appreciate: Ringo Charlie Watts (I know many don't think so, but he works for me in that band) Micky Waller Keith Moon Mitch Mitchel that guy from the Hollies - Bobby Elliot? - nice 'n crisp hal Blaine (and lots of other session players, no doubt) on a related note, R&B/blues drummers who play for the tune: Al Jackson Jr all the Motown drummers - too lazy to look up their names to make sure I don't leave any one out James Brown's drummers - Clyde, Jabbo, etc. Fred Below Odie Payne, Jr. Sam Lay (almost forgot) just a little positivity for a change...

"...influence can not be understated" Don't you mean 'can not be overstated', i.e., no matter how big you state his influence to be, it is in reality all that and more? Or am I really not following? don't really have much of an opinion 'bout Phil, one way or the other, don't listen to the right stuff to know how influencial he may in fact be.

Gotta love a band called the Rockin' Highlanders who performed in kilts...McDuff, McGriff - maybe we're on to something here...

I'm on record here regarding my ambivalence towards all things ECM, BUT make no mistake, Conference of the Birds is fine music by any standard!

Thanks for the link, and for reminding me that Sonny Boy Williamson #2 recorded a version of "Drunkard's Special", although I can't find my copy right now or remember what title he used...

Since it had/was a hit, I'd love to see Visions re-issued, perhaps in tanden with the unissued session from slightly earlier which, IIRC, also has a rendition of "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is".

Green Onions

I thought the cover was the worst thing about Blue Mode, which I like if not quite as much as On Broadway or Love Bug (shich also has a cheesey cover).