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methinks they doth protest jsut a little too much, 'cause whether they intended it or not, there is something ironic about a jazz piano trio playing "Iron Man" in 2007...and I think they know that. Sure the press has seized on a small corner of what they do, but that's entirely predictable. And, on the whole I find their music far too much like Black Sabbith or Rush, bombastic and lacking in nuance, and none of it, self-composed or reinterpreted, anywhere near as profound or funny as Sonny R's "Surrey" or T. Monk's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", or for that matter the Platters' "Smoke". Given that they couldn't even draw a decent crowd to a freebie some time ago in Ptld, I's surprised the're still a hot topic... Maybe "she's so fine my 409" was covertly stating a preference for big girls? Think I'll go write some Studebaker songs...

We were both working in a now defunct redcord store; just another reason to lament the demise of bricks & mortor...

Kinda makes sense if you think of the rest of the Move, w/out Wood or, later, Lynne. But still only kinda...

I, for one, 'drew the line' somewhere between benedetti & JJ, not sure I can articulate exactly why...

Yesterday I took some magazines to donate to the Tidal Wave (where the library gets rid of old stuff). Almost didn't go in to shop, but I did...and found: Andrew Hill - Mosaic Select, no book Milton Brown - 4 cd box on Prper, long booklet Sister Rosetta Tharpe - 1 cd on Verve Lee Wiley - Mosaic Single Bill Frisell - Good Dog Lenny Bro' - with Levon Helm & Rick Danko All that and a bag of chip, well cookies actually, for a grand total of $9!!!!!!

Well...this is well into speculative territory so all the usual caveats apply in full, but I think Wood was one of those inately musical people for whom the usual standards don't really apply and he was so far into his own little space that he didn't know/care how the lyrics would seem to others, notwithstanding that he may have been trying to some degree to be trippy, more Brian Wilson than Syd Barret - off, but functional, but definately off. Not surprising that he had a fascination with mental health issue - "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited", etc. The rest of band seem to be in a very different place, so down to earth that most of Wood's shit is just flying over their heads. And the Move's bouncing from one style to another has a definate Spinal Tap edge to it...in other words, the less tongue in cheek, the more strange...not that I have a romantic (in the kiterary sense) fascination with strange, but if the shoe fits...

Um, actually...no, I don't think so.

I've got no particular probs with the JJ box, it is what it is, and am eagerly anticipating this one. In fact the only miles box I think could've used some editing is the Gil Evans one, and I'm still glad I got it...

What is/are Walmart Pond scum, Alex?

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...