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What they accused Miles of in this period - selling out/coasting/playing down to the audience, etc. - I don't hear it at all in his work, BUT I do hear it, more or less, in all those other guys...YMMV/whatever.

Maybe some Tristanoite took 'Trane to see Lennie? An encounter like that wouldn't necessarily be documented...

In reference to whether the bonus material on Blue John might change anyone's mind regarding the viability of that session(s) - probably not but it just might 'cause the bonus material is noticably more straight ahead/less greasy than the originally issued. disappointingly so to me, YMMV, etc.

I too always assumed that Swingle was some sort of horrid play on words...and maybe it still was?

Yep. Amazing how much he accomplished in that short time and how he changed music. For a Detroiter, that's an amazing statement. Soul developed between Billy Ward & the Dominoes' "Have mercy baby" in 1952 (Clyde McPhatter lead) and The Falcons' "I found a love" in 1962 (Wilson Pickett lead, plus Eddie Floyd, Sir Mack Rice and one of the 4 Tops' brother - the backing band later became the Ohio Players). Nothing that Otis, O V Wright, Carr or Aretha did after that took Soul further into church than "I found a love". (Soul is the classic instance of the innovators not being as good as some of those who followed.) MG PS the other members of the Falcons were Joe Stubbs (Eli's brother) and Ben Night. And the band in those days was known as "The Ohio Untouchables") Singing like you're in (a particular sort of) church when you're not isn't all there is to soul, much less music. "I Found a Love" is wonderful and soulful and churchy, but things continued to change in all sorts of ways thereafter. and Otis was a big part of that.

Cashews! Gesundheit!

pianoforte = soft/loud, i.e. an instrument that can play soft and loud (and in between) I agree with the basisc premise of this thread, that changing performance circumstances, specifically the ubiquitousnes(?) of PA systems even when they aren't needed. has wrought a change in performance practices and a changing skill set - that's life.

a v. disappointing album, would much rather have heard just the two of them singing with minimal accompaniment.

Last game they were the Mighty Ducks, this game the U of Zero - that's why they actually play games instead of just feeding the stats into the computer. And it's not like any of us actually know these guys, so it's silly to take it that personally...

So far the earliest I've found on BN is a couple of tracks on LD's Blues Walk, 1957 IIRC. Good excuse to re-listen to lots of stuff!

So I found some earlier fadeouts on BN, but the're not 'BN fades' if you know what I mean - they just fade away while repeating the head instead of having anything interesting, it sounds like they weren'y planning to fade "Sow Belly Blues" on LD's Natural Soul or the two cuts on side two of his Here Tis but just decided to fade 'em after the fact.

The sublime Flatt & Scruggs did cameos here and on Petticoat Junction, IIRC

The earliest I've found (so far) is HH's "Watermellon Man" in '62. After that they become rather common - not just Billy Higgins-fueled boogaloos, but other drummers and other grooves as well. I found some earlier things that might have benefited from a good fade...

Jimmy Giuffre and some west coast guys (I think) did a R&B parody honkers parody, as did Srtan Freiberg. I'm guessing Jimmy's is better, if not nec'ly funnier.

In Edmonton in late Nov there's barely enuff hours of daylight to play a football game. But I meant just living there...although I'm sure some of 'em head south as soon as the season's over...

Yeah, but that's just the history they've lived. Like most things, enjoyment/understanding of history comes from context. Kids are hitting history with a very limited context (and that becomes more the case as you move down the social scale). Some get hooked - by a person or period or event or by a particularly inspiring teacher (as is the case with other subjects). I did. Most don't. Adults watch TV, read, have broad interests, travel and gain that context where what once seemed like 'facts to learn' starts to have a purpose and meaning. One of the most common comments I get from parents are along the lines of 'I didn't much like history at school but I've learnt to love it since'. I don't think that's necessarily a result of poor teaching (though it can be); more that as kids they did not have the context to be receptive. By the time I reached 21 (at the end of a History degree) I knew a lot about some quite narrow areas of history. Having to teach over a broad area of time and place sped up my knowledge but much of what I've come to really love has been a result of novels read, things seen on TV, places visit and, above all, music I've heard (that kick started an interest in the civil rights movement). I do think adults forget how little they really did know as kids. They tend to become fixated on what they consider important as a result of a lifetime of historical interest and then feel it is imperative that kids know those things. Sometimes they get to be education ministers and create completely daft curriculum models that show no understanding of where kids are coming from! I've always been against the 'things young people must know' approach to history. A nation that has its young people learning different areas of history (related in some areas to the experiences of their own communities) will, to my mind, lead to a diversity of experience in the nation as a whole that can only be beneficial. Not the way politicians see it, however, who see history teaching as a means of inculcating a national story in order to assist social cohesion. Good post, obviously something you've thought about a bunch!

I've oftimes wondered what kind of shock must be experienced by players from the American south who play for Edmonton or SK when they first experience -100F windchill...

30/30, with some guessing...

It's fun and games for the likes of us, but there are many out there who can't express themselves cohertently...for example the Craiglist personals often have such bad syntax that you can't tell who wants to do what to whom and all kinds of comment sections online are full of such scattershot snark that you can't even tell if the're fer it or agin it!

Yes, it used to be very loosey goosey at the Canada/US border, at least at the smaller crossings. It's coming back that you need it, I've forgotten and had to have them fedx'd to Saskatoon! Still better/easier at smaller crossings, but always unpredictable...I've seen everything from done in a minute with little to no wait in line to an hour in line and then having to go in to explain why my immediate family are dual citizens but I'm not or even getting the car (semi-) tossed or having to surender susage that was actually made in the States but bought in Canada (I took a big bite off both ends to make sure they didn't get any). Oh well, could be worse...

I need the one with the Meters backing him, $49.99 on Amazon.

Looking for this for a friend, I've had it on vinyl since it was new. I think it's only been on CD in Canada.

Lucky you, I only have a reissue with a different cover with Phil (or Phil stand-in) wearing a 'back to Mono' button, when the album is very obviously stereo! Most ripped off Xmas album ever?

She's kinda cute, and not cute at the same time. Odd. You nailed it! Fucking bizarre, isn't it?! I will say she has the cutest little smile. Too bad she seems to rarely flash it. I suppose if she went back to her natural hair color, and laid off of that hideous lipstick, she could possibly shed the not cute part. Maybe... Though, based on her delivery in those vids Jim posted, she seems boring as all hell. Seems to me he started out there. While I STILL don't get Interstellar Space (even being one of the biggest Coltrane fans on the planet), I certainly get Andy Kaufman's humor. And the thought of the report of his death potentially being greatly exaggerated is far more intriguing to me than that of Elvis. I get Interstellar Space but NOT Andy K...so, what?

He had his own thing, but the "no no" interjection early in "With a Little Help From My Friends" is very, very Ray Charles.