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Allow me to take the other side, at least up to a point. I've owned this twice and gotten rid of it twice. I also have or have had Alligator, Midnight, Say it Loud, and compilations with tracks from most of the rest of Lou's output during this 'acid jazz' period (hate the term and it's an anachronism). To me this is the album were it starts to get too formulatic for me; it's not terrible but it's just just not nearly as good as the four before it or the best of what Egregious was doing with Grant at this time (compare their versions of "It's Your Thing"), much less what Grant and Lou had done together on Natural Soul, etc. It's a crying shame Lou and Grant didn't record together during this period, or better yet Lou, Grant and Stan. Does anyone know why Patton and Idris/Leo never recorded together? That's another what if I can't help thinking of. Melvin is good, but not as good as Green or Ponder for my money. and the cover is just, well, cheap is the polite way to put it... On the other hand when one of the cuts comes up on a compilation or other context that allows me to listen in a less contenplative/comparative way, I generally enjoy the heck out of it!

i really like it, not as much as some of the issued at the time AH or Passing Ships, the fact that I paid $2.25 for it helps...

Ted, I'm in Portland, OR but I am willing to go to the internets (obviously)... I picked up the K-7 lingo on a trip to France.

No, but they should - it's allways good to take people from the States out of their provincialism....

I kinda like the Desmond/S&G too, cheese wiz tho' it is....a nice $2 album.

"I won't dance, you can't make me..."

never thought Buckley was all that bright, or Mailer or Vidal. And they were all insufferably full of them selves, if those are/were our 'public intellectuals' then no thanks... Buckley was so far right he once said he would've opposed the American Revolution, which makes him more selfaware and honest than some, but still... Oh, and perfect for the diefenbaker cabinet in 1958.

As long as you're in South Bend, might as well go to the studebaker museum... Did you know Jr. walker was from Souht Bend? Moved to Buffalo, hence "Twist Lackawana". Hope your gig goes well, sorry bought the thread drift...

How about the one about the big bad record companys conspiring to keep real jazz from being the music of choice of a happy & properous nation at peace? Or the one about pointed headed intellectuals conspiring to made happy white youth worship ole, sad blue music?

Love Have a Little Faith and most of those others mentioned above and Further East... But I've heard live gigs better than any official release, especially one with just Joey Baron.

yes, you should've gone, Ornette was as lyrical as i've ever heard him. Who knew that what that band needed was yet another bass player... Any thoughts from those who have seen Orenette recently?

I don't think there is any/much hostility to knowledge as such here or in the UK, but there is an ingrained tradition of anger at being told (or thinking that you're being told) that knowledge, or anything else, is good AND YOU CAN'T GET IT. That would make anyone hostile. And being told what's wrong with you, you're so hostile, while denying the reality of the AND YOU CAN'T GET IT, doubly so. Even if you personally don't mean the AND YOU CAN'T GET IT, it has to be dealt with before any progress can be made on this point...

At some point the defence attorney's got to ask himself, is this what I went to law school for? And I don't think "animal" necessarily implies "live", it could just as well mean not plant or mineral or human...

they play anything by my buddies in Smegma?

anyone know a good source for blank 100 & 110 min cassettes? getting hard to find round here...

Just make 'em all downloadable at $1/tune and let the people decide what's good.

Seems like the writer of the above referenced article has done their homework which is certainly a good thing...but it also makes sense to me that the bigger impact on today's probs would be the failures and abuses of post-slavery policy here and there. Of course, those failures may just be a measure of how hard it is to undo the effects of a pernicious evil like slavery. Also the abstract quoted above seems to assume that the formation of the nation-state is a good thing/the only way forward/whatever, not sure I'd take that as a given... not that I know jack about this subject really, but it's interesting - history does affect now in so many ways but there are so many ways to read its 'lessons' since there are no do overs to test them against.

On the teen edition the other night there was a nice you high school girl who played alto and said her favorite was Johnny Hodges. And no, she wasn't overtly geeky...

The wife and I saw ornette here in puddle town last night. It was exquisite; don't think I ve ever heard Ornette play so lyrically. current band is O., denardo, 1 acoustic bass, two electric bass. Once they got the sound sorted out you could hear each distinctly and this lineup allowed them to go in a lot of different directions...

Sure Winehouse "has talent", shouldn't that be a given? But what a trainwreck, and somehow a certain Joe Tex song kept coming to mind... I kinda enjoy Keeley and Kid Rock, it went off script and vered close to chaos; by contrast Herbie et al played well enuff but it was totally on script. Bouncey looked good, Tina didn't, neither one sang well and "Proud Mary" is supposed to be dbl time at the end and it wasn't even close. Overall I enjoyed it for what it was and didn't expect it to be something it isn't and ain't never been or gonna be.

I remember, barely, you could still see them once in a while when I was little.

Not funny to me, but I can't remember anthing Silverman or Kimmel has done that I thought was...

be happy to tell you, as son as I figure out what she's saying...

jeez, did I kill this thread too? MG here's a counterexample for you - Smokey robinson's "Yesterlove" YES ter IS the PRE fix that WE fix to THINGS that have GONE by, forEVer they say etc. Not the sort of thing that one's likey to say in evryday conversation, but not the way you'd say it if you did...lovely just the same.

OK,assuming Larry thesis to be more or less true (I know lots of 'rock' lyrics but don't have that much time oe patience, and have a hard time imagining many of them as conversation or any way other than how they are sung), what does it prove? Maybe just the toothpaste theory of art, i.e. if you squeeze the naturalness toobe at one end it's gonna pop out the other... Oh, and I don't think Dylan can be taken as representative of anything other than himself, in phrasing or anything else... And one other thought, perhaps the writers of standards expected to be taken seriously or at least heard if they merely conversed and others may have felt the need to shout or otherwise make an extraordinary effort just to be heard, that is rather speculative but if it's just a formal difference that doesn't mean something like this, who cares?