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All of my immediate family here are fully vaxxed, I think the younger CND part only first shots. I'm hoping the CND border will open up and numbers will go down enough that I will be able to visit my mother in SK with out doing a 14 day hotel quarantine and feel reasonably safe about it sometime this year, hopefully before the snow flies (Oct.). Glad I'm retired. Dealing with the public under these circumstances would be stressful, to say the least.

I'd much rather see these out individually, and as much as I'd like to hear the unreleased session myself (and Tyrone's Train Wreck and the rest), I can live with it staying that way to see the rest of these readily available. Not that anyone asked.

"In October 2019, on behalf of Ms. Grand, LBKM and Baker Hostetler filed a motion for summary judgment defending her letter as a protected expression of opinion incapable of being proven true or false to attach defamatory meaning and liability. Judge Eric Vitaliano agreed." IMHO this doesn't really hinge on new law, opinions have always been not actionable as defamation. There may have been some clarification or shifting of the burden of proof, but essentially defamation has to the sort of thing that would reasonably damage someone AND BE FALSE. If it is opinion, which all assertions of motive and intent are, then it can't be either true or false and can't be defamatory (as long as you don't slip in some untrue assertion of an actual fact). Yes it's slippery, and no the court cases don't line up in such a way as to make drawing a clear bright line at all easy. Yes, I did go to law school and was admitted to the bar in two states; no I'm not in active practice and haven't been for ages and others may analyze this differently. Bottom line is that he chose to put himself in a position where he'd look like scum if the undisputed facts, and the likely opinions of the other party, ever came to light. And he chose to sue, placing the burden of proof and harsh glare of publicity on himself. He lost at summary judgement because the judge thought he hadn't even plead a winning case, so there was no point in going to trial. And oh yeah, she's foolish and probably seriously messed up and bad news, he's scum. Maybe redeemable scum, that remains to be seen. But I'm not selling the few recordings of his that I already have. Not sure when I might listen to them again, if ever. But I could say that about a lot of the recordings sitting on the shelves around me as I type this.

That seems odd, given what a wide swath of American music he played on. I must have dozens. Long thread over at SHF. Great drummer.

I don't think Bob wanted to be square, he wanted to be weird in a world in which other people weren't - nobodies weird if everybody is. And highly unlikely. If people were going to be stop care what Bob does or says, they would've done that already.

I was going to say 'not a chance', he's been avoiding anything like that for decades now, but that's just it - fessin' up and saying 'sure. that's exactly what I meant to do' (made Self-Portrait just to screw with people's idea of who he was) without any game playing might be the one thing left that would be surprising. But what if he did and no one believed him? That would be funny.

I have to wonder if he thought he was going to win in court, or if he thought he was going to win in the court of public opinion. But then, given the undisputed facts, have to question his judgement generally.

Thanks.

Oh, I'm intrigued now; how long was this iteration together?

Where in SK? (I have Family there)

As I once titled a mix tape, Burt So Bad [in a good way].

Yeah, but they probably wouldn't dbl check and would thus create errors which would then be replicated.

Oh yeah, that's definitely on the list.

Yes to both of these. Yes, that totally works. Nice track, kind of borderline for this concept but I'd like to have some some Kenny Garrett if at all possible...

Yeah, it's amazing he could play so well when his fretting hand's on backwards! Does anyone here know if the other sides Shirley cut for BN have survived?

Given Cuscuna's antipathy to Son of Sidewinder groove tunes, I'd just as soon they didn't.

IIRC, he recorded more but that was all that was issued, no idea if the unissued sides still exist. I think there's some other unissued BN from this era as well but again no idea if it still exists in any form. It's in the print and online discographies.

Rudy Wiedoeft and Benny Krueger - YouTube Rudy Wiedoeft and Benny Krueger a couple of tricksters on C-melody

Not bad. Ask the Ages is all that, and more.

Rejiggered version of the Band's Stage Fright, 2 CD edition; not bad, both the re-sequenced SF and the concert on CD 2, this will probably be my go-to version of this now.

Nah, just Oregon west of Hwy. 97 would be plenty.

The Complete Atlantic Recordings of Tommy Cogbill and Roger Hawkins.

I don't even think of some things that actually were on BN initially as being 'really BN' - if they were done after they moved to LA or show the imprint of an outside producer like Monk Higgins, or just don't feel right to me.

I think we're more on the same page here than not, selling the label and having more $ to play with led in the short term to a sort of Indian Summer - although we will probably never know exactly who was calling what what shots and when. And I own and enjoy Vibrations, and love Live at the Lighthouse - if they were to issue the as yet unissued tunes from that date I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I also love most Leo/Idris' work for the label '67-70. He owned that groove even more than Higgins owned Son of Sidewinder. And, unlike Cuscuna, I think groove tunes of various sorts are at the heart of what the label was about. And I wish they would just go ahead and issue everything done at/for BN until Francis left (1971?). Things like the Sounds Soul Symphony or Blue Mitchell's Collision in Black, i don't love but the're still part of the story.

Oh, I know... for one thing, without Liberty's $ no one comes back to BN in the later '60s - not Lou D, not Grant G, not the 3 Sounds. At least 2 of those would be a loss. They might not have signed McCoy or Elvin either. Also BN's thinking on publishing may well have been that if they didn't get it then some slimeball like Morris Levy would and then they'd have to deal with that.