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Love Nudes For LuLu, hated Spy v. Spy. In the former case I thought the concept helped the playing, in the latter it (Ornette as punk?) just got in the way...

The 40th Ann editions don't look to add that much to the 30th Ann stuff I have, so I guess I'll pass. Shazam is my fav, but it's the only one I owned back in the day. On the strange coincidence side, they covered both Love and the Moby Grape (and Jackie Wilson and Bach). If someone turns up tapes of their early mod motown covers band incarnation, I might buy that. Til then there's always the early Who and Small Faces (what other good examples of that mod sound are there?) And yes, I do think Wood really was that daft, in a good way...

If he gave it up by choice, that's more impressive...

Anyone else a fan of the Move? Fav album/personnel?

Anyone else love this animated Nickolodeon show, music by ___ Lurie? The cowboy tuba polka show is airing now.

Am I the only one who thinks that Plant is a much better singer since he's lost the ability (range) to do all that acrobatic shit he did with zep?

metaphorically good, literally not so good...

con, good attitude, sorry to say I had a hard time being quite so philosophic 'bout my AOTWs...

Dude, you finally get your chance to pick an AOTW that you really love and nobody else digs it. I fell your pain, and clem hsn't even posted yet! Haven't heard this one myself, if I had I'd try to find something nice to say...in principle, deteriating (sp?) pipes aren't a deal wrecker for me...

The tom Paine I was thinking of is from a collection of essays known as The Crisis, how I confused that with Swift's A Modest Proposal I have no idea. Comparing either Alexander's selfinvolved whining or clem's selfimportant hyperbole to Swift's masterpiece of black humor or the grim realities of Irish history which provoked it is, of course, rediculous. The're both so much more like the delusional romanticism of psuedo-Jacobites after the fact...or not, this tempest in a pis pot isn't really worth thinking about too hard.

Can the frisell/Page team up be far behind?

so, is this your Culloden, and which one of you is then Bonnie Prince Charlie? (requisite Tom Paine ref)

I'm being ably tended to by my ex-wife, Therese M. Scott, DO.

Just drove home my new (to me) beautiful '62 Studebaker Lark Cruiser (4dr longer wheelbase), 289 v-8, auto, pw steer pw brakes (discs in front from a '63), runs a little hot, needs some stuff to make a daily driver, but still it's great...

Typical of wiki, in that it's wrong and/or misleading in a number of ways...

I work in a library, I meet people all the time who can't read a map. At all, period. Can't or won't, because the're too used to failure and afraid to try? I don't buy all the touchy feelie selfesteem crap, but their are lots of people who don't believe anything anyone tells them, except bad shit about themselves...and if you sere to stereotype it I'd go with plaid, but that's a rant for another day...and, no, stupid isn't sexy in and of itself, but needing my help can be and all other things ain't never equal so...

Thanx muchly for aiding my failing memory, yes the Collage concert of.. is another good one. are there any late recordings of Pee Wee and Teagarden?

the recent double cd (which could easily fit on one, 22 songs, seventy some minutes) by Willie, Merle & Ray Price is quite nice, nothing new, but lots od nice singing on classics by Lefty, Floyd Tilman, Cindy Walker, etc. and featuring the playing of usual suspects like Johnny Gimble and Buddy Emmons.

the quartet albums with modern material, one on Impulse and one on Columbia, the names of which I'm forgetting, are v. nice, I'm sure others here can supply the particulars...

My guess is that if you're willing to put in a little effort it will be obtainable for $60-80...

Not really one trick ponies. They hit the big time with "Eyes" in 1959, but had been making great jump sides and bluesy ballads since the early 50's. Check out their Chance or Chess recordings some time - a far cry from the slick pop for which they're famous (which I also dig, of course). Yeah - I've got some stuff on videotape done at the Apollo featuring the Flamingos and did they ever jump! Around '56, when they got their first hit - the original version of "I'll be home", which Pat Boone killed, they started doing retro-Doo Wop stuff. The groove on "Eyes" is truly sublime, but an accident of timing - how could they do that in '59? Dunno. MG Ther's a canadian DVD that my library has called The Twist that has a great clip of the Flamingos in jump mode, don't know what it's taken from. The DVD has a lot of pre- and post- twist stuff, for context...

The shame here is not the $, or that it's going to Wynton, but that there's someting in our culture that says jazz has to have a single spokesperson and then forget about it...let a million flowers bloom!

Thanks for the good words steve & Lon, sorry I posted this in the wrong place, I've been kinda scattered since the accident. I guess keeping your classic in the sop is safer, but I love driving mine. The other side accepted responsibility so I've got a retal, waiting to hear how much $ I'll get and I've got a line on several Studes (what else?)...

I found the tracks in question to be maybe half a step down from the previously issued stuff...their worst fault being a kinda neither fish nor fowl lack of purpose, better in some sense than Always Something There or the Look of Love, but at least those were what they were (high class cheese) and can be enjoyed as such. Bottom line is that when they get arouns to the rest of the unissued stuff from this era I'll buy it, both to hear Stan and to try and figure out 'what were they thinking'.

I love doo-wop, as well as other group vocal stuff. Waws listening to the Belmonts acapella album just the other day, will have to check out the Moonglow's one. My little girl won't go to sleep until we sing "Goodnight Sweetheart", but then she probably thinks everyone drives a Studebaker like her dad...