The Magnificent Goldberg

Niles Weston Taffy Thomas The Rhinestone Cowboy

Thanks for posting this. I can't understand what I'm looking at, however, so here are a few questions. 1 Are these pics of time? ie starting at LHS and working through the tune until ending at RHS? Or does it read like Hebrew & Arabic? 2 Why are there two pairs of graphs? Do they represent the bass and treble controls being set differently for different run-throughs? Or are they left and right hand channels of a stereo recording? 3 Why does each graph have peaks above and below zero? Do these represent bass and treble clefs? 4 When you talk about the graphs of the CD being squared off, what it looks like to me is that the numbers just go off the scale - so how do we know that the graphs don't keep their basic shape when the numbers are bigger? (Or smaller in the bass clef.) 5 I can't see anything in the graph to support a 12 or 7 db range for anything. Does that information come from a different source? MG

Thanks - mystery cleared up - there's no Hank Crawford in there It's not stuff I'd recommend to someone getting interested, or experimenting. Not that it's bad, but I'm seriously hooked. MG

Jacques Necker Deep Throat Chesty Morgan

Lou Donaldson - Sweet Poppa Lou - Muse (WEA France) MG

that's a fine, but sickening read. .................anything but better schools or hospitals. Good article. Ms Long has the right approach to identifying subsidies, by the looks of it; ANYTHING you give to a business is a subsidy, even (or especially) an easy ride through the regulations. And businesses are very good at getting subsidies that don't seem to be subsidies. That's evident in sport, as the leagues have the ability to write rules for themselves that maximise their take. MG

Nope. MG

One of the greatest places I've ever been is Kolmanskop, on the edge of the coastal desert, in Namibia; a turn of the century diamond town that was abandoned in the fifties. It's now being restored for the tourists, but the atmosphere in those sand-filled buildings was incredible. MG

Yardbird Michael Foot MP Admiral Richard Inch

Rain forecast for most of this afternoon hasn't materialised. It's a bit windy; our bay tree in unstable pot got blown over. MG

Trouble Man Marvin Gaye Sambayal 'Concorde' Gaye

A few sermons Rev Isaac Jenkins - A fountain filled with blood - Songbird (ABC) one of the last Peacock albums recorded before ABC closed the label down. Rev W Leo Daniels - Quit talking to yourself - Peacock (ABC) - pity there's no image of this on the web. One look at the sleeve is enough to let you know it would be a serious mistake to leave the LP on the rack. now Rev Ted Cuveston - It's cheaper to seek her - Songbird next Rev W J Lumpkin - Satan is using his sifter - Kent Gospel another with no image on the web; eminently suitable for the implied/not visible action sleeves thread MG

Jojo the Dog-faced Boy Swamp Dogg Snoop

Sure Hank Crawford was on that comp? George Freeman only recorded with Jimmy McGriff on the Groove Merchant label and Jimmy hadn't teamed up with Hank then. Mind you, I love both Hank and Jimmy like crazy but, together, they do not lay me out flat; less than the sum of their parts (slightly). MG

Houston Person - Always on my mind - Muse Charles Earland - In the pocket - Muse (promo) MG

Well, it's not Wild Bill Davison, for one thing. And McGriff was another Philly organist who started in the early sixties, well after Jimmy Smith. He always thought of himself as a blues organist, not a jazz organist. Worked a good bit with Junior Parker and recorded with Albert Collins, a good friend, whom he influenced a bit, I think. I like 'Countdown' but for McGriff recommendations there are several much better ones. The starting five - Milestone The dream team - Milestone (Rusty Bryant had died by the time of this one) Black Pearl - BN (with Junior Parker) Chicken fried soul - United Artists (done at same session as 'Black Pearl' - Jimmy's organ room in Newark - The Silver Slipper The main squeeze - Groove Merchant (with Conrad Lester, whom you'll know from all your Freddie Roach albums ) I've got a woman - Sue One of mine - Sue MG

Or about to go on... Playing these two now MG

here's a clearer one

The Procrastinator The Sidewinder The Rumproller

This morning Joe Henderson - Canyon lady - Milestone Jimmy McGriff - Fly dude - GM (People UK) MG

Bingo Domingo Johnny Griffin Jane Gruffyths

No, it's not recent. That's why I wondered if anyone had anything more. MG

Alexander (who had and empire) Alexander (who had a ragtime band) Alexandre (who had a chain of ladies clothes shops)

Use anything except rough grade sandpaper I have used a Parostatic Disc Preener for many decades and it still works. MG