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Saw the whipped cream lady at a record convention awhile back, thought it was kinda sad/creepy myself. Not that I don't have my own gettin' old issues but I try to keep moving on...

I was thinking at one time of making a mix tape &/or CDR of jazz pipes for someone my wife used to work with who knows trad piping, is there anyone who should be on it besides Rufus and Ayler? Maybe someone coming from the folk side to jazz? As someone who plays C-melody, I love to see unusual instruments getting jazz usage. Scotland, the rave...

I voted for RW, not because I think he's better than the rest but because sometimes he's just exactly what I want and that's worth recognizing any day.

Al, Do you like their work behind Otis and other singers? Dana

And as good as the MGs, and various variations, were on their own, I think they were often better behind singers. My favs their would be a v. ong list...

Jazz Kat: sorry to not reply sooner. "sing a simple Song" is on The Booker T Set, "Boot-Leg" on various greatest Hits things, and "Dock of the Bay" only on the box set or the 1000 Volts of Stax import VA collection. I think if their "Dock of the Bay" was issued as a single and/or used in a movie it could be a major hit...

I may actually prefer them doing covers, slightly, but there's really no need to choose. some favorites: Sing a Simple Song, which is actually a sort of Sly medley since they work in bit of other songs of his; "dear James Medley" from the Mar-Keys Memphis Sound (Mar Keys= MGs + horns by this point); and for an original Bootleg. I kinda like the naive-ness of their earlier work... And if y'all haven't heard any of the originally unissued stuffs thats come out more recently, check their version of Dock of the Bay!

Got it out of the shop last night (new master cylinder and brake adjustment) and went to my first drivers club meeting last night. People actually cheered when I said I drove my Lark to the meeting! I may have been the youngest one there at 50! As I told the wife, the Studebaker is insurance in case being a jazz fan isn't boring enuff...

Am I the only one disappointed by this album? I like Harold Land and I like folk tunes too, including many jazz renditions, but I found this one to be, oh how shall I say, "condescending" isn't quite right but it's the best I can do... No offence to those who do dig it, different strokies for different folkies.

Who wouldn't want an Avanti? I missed one here that had been in storage 25 years for $7,000 (that's half what a good one is worth). Of course 25 years in storage still means it was 16/17 years old when it went in and the base engine had 10.25 to 1 compression so it would probably run ok on modern premium...but it's a rolling work of art. My consolation is that I paid less than that for what's almost certainly a more practical daily driver and Avantis are basically tweaked Larks under the fiberglass. Maybe we could start a car/jazz band analogy thread: If the Miles Davis quintet is a ferrari, then what band is the equivalent of an R3 Avanti?

I picked up the Lark and drove it home about 100 miles from Astoria this last Sunday. Still trying to figure out what I'm going to do for insurance. Collectors limited insurance would be cheap but I'm pretty sure I'm going to drive it too much to qualify. The drive home went fine: 50+ psi and zoomed right up the hills. I've taken it to work once. want to get the brakes looked at since the're only adequate for modern traffic if the're working perfectly. Noisy, slow, ineffiecient; what more could you want?

If I play Tequila v. slowly and v. rubato (basically the way I play everything), it sounds kinda like Coltrane.

Fixed first post, hope it's clear(er) now.

In the notes to the Holy Ghost box (hours of fun that is) they refer to one of the selections by the quartet with Don Cherry as "tune Q" and go on to say in a footnote: This compostion has been mistitled regularly heretofore as "Saints" and as "Spirits", though both names already belonged to different recorded Ayler compositions by the time they were appended to it. What we refer to as "[tune Q]" is the same composition that appeared as the first track on side B of Spiritual Unity, ESP 1002 edition I, as distinct from the piece that replaced it on edition II. WTF?! Has anyone heard the Spiritual Unity edition I version of this tune and whyohwhyohwhy hasn't it been included in any of the CD reissues (or has it)? On a related note, is there someplace that explains generally about all the tune/name confusion in Albert's work? I love Ayler but this all getrs kinda confusing...

I liked the expression "the same difference" so much I used it as the title and basis for my philosophy thesis.

Sounds like a Hawk of some sort, looking forward to seeing pics. Funny thing is, I've gotten more response here than at the Studebaker Drivers Club forum...

Great story 'bout the guy buying the prototype but I know Studes well enough to know I'm not getting that lucky? Any more info on what it was a prototype for (the GT Hawk maybe?)

che, You're not getting the subtext here, so i'll spell it out. The politics are an integral part of who they are in total, as anyone who was really paying attention should've known. Part of the backlash may have been the feeling that Dixie Chicks as a name implied a more Nashville product kinda thing as opposed to the Austinite tongue in cheekiness that understanding the name in a more ironical way implies. Shedaisy are a chick trio who as far as I can tell pretty much are Nashville product, no inconvenient politics, instrumental skills, individual perspective on what is or isn't country or any actual character at all... In short, I think the Chicks are (at least relatively) good. Dana

It's a 4dr (by the way did you know that at one point Ford called theirs Tudors and fordors, just for the history and literature majors out there). Nice shade of red it is. '59 was the first year for the Lark, gave Stude its first profit in years and allowed the board to diversify their way out of the auto business and save the stockholders bacon. The Avanti, beautiful as it is, is basically a Lark underneath and helped get them out of the car biz by losing $.

OK, seriously if you take the politics out of the Dixie Chicks whattaya got? Shedaisy, that's what. Who are not exciting to me on any level...

$4,800. Rebuilt motor, brakes and interior. Runs fine. Body worn but straight. No garage.

I'm seriously thinking 'bout buying a '59 Studebaker Lark, anyone want to try to talk me out of it before it's too late?

Nationalize the NHL, put the teams in Canadian towns where no one works in the winter and make collecting poagy contingent on playing...

Natalie's dad, Lloyd Maines, played with pedal steel with Joe Ely back in the day. Stunning stuff. And she needs a spanking, from me.

Man, I gotta get this to practise for my gig! (See thread on "my gig"...) B-)