The Magnificent Goldberg

'Sall right for you guys who like western musics - about a quarter to a third of my collection is never going to be digitised by anyone. And it was deadly difficult to find in the first place. Replacement is quite impossible. MG

What was that? The Mafia have been dumping toxic waste in the sea off Naples, where the best mozzarella comes from. No one stops them, of course. Some of it has got back into the food chain and into the cheese. MG PS the biggest producer of inauthentic mozzarella in Europe is a firm on Anglesey - so buy the cheap stuff and you'll be quite safe; Anglesey only has a lake of copper (pretty blue colour), but copper's good for you, except when he feels your collar

I'd be interested to know how you made the connection between Olaudah Equiano and St Thomas a Beckett. That has me really puzzled. MG

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Last night The Three Souls - Dangerous Dan express - Cadet orig Curtis Amy - Mustang - Verve orig mono James Brown - Grits & soul - Smash orig mono MG

Glad to see Dan's endorsement of the Ernestine Andersons - a singer I haven't paid enough attention to in the past. I'm glad Concord is doing this. One day, they may put the Freddie McCoys and Paul Bryants out in this format. MG

Me too - I neglected to include it in my recent CDBaby order. (5/10, could do better if he could just remember what he's up to.) MG

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My experience too - I have a number of people under 30 working in my Faculty who would do my job better - more energy, on the ball with new developments etc. But, to protect my pension, I'll be sat in the post for a few years yet, doing my best but finding it harder and harder to adjust. Hm. I did my best - most creative - work between the ages of 46 and 60, when I retired. Most young people who worked for me or in association with me, couldn't keep up; but nor could a lot of the older ones But it wasn't for lack of motivation; they just didn't see things arse-backwards. MG

Ah, so perhaps it's not my pet methodology MG

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Someone reported in a thread I can't remember that the Hep site was down. I was planning on going for the Teddy Wilsons. MG I read that, too - seems it's up again: http://www.hepjazz.com/ Oh good - just a temp glitch. Thanks. MG

This is a problem for me, too. It happens so often that I've constructed a theory about it and, in the last few days I've managed to avoid it happening. I think what happens is, when you close down a board page you've finished with (and are therefore no longer connected to the board) the board sends your machine a cookie which might give a time you left. when you fire up another page, that cookie is read and matched to a record on Jim's server (or perhaps is deleted from your hard disk). If that check operation fails - no cookie or different time or whatever - you're required to log in again. Now, I've also noticed that e-mails from the board notifying me that someone's posted on a subscribed thread often don't appear in my inbox until some significant time after they're timed as having been sent. So that seems to indicate that they're taking the scenic route, coming via Vladivostok, Canberra, Capetown, Tooting, Accra, Rio de Janiero and Kanazawa. Or that someone is sitting on them for a while, just to annoy me. And if the e-mails take some time, why wouldn't the cookies? So, if you close an Organissimo page, then cut your connection to the web, perhaps by closing down altogether, the cookie can't get through, so you have to log on again. I've managed to avoid logging in again by making sure I don't cut my connection to the web for some little time after I finally leave the board. MG

Plus Brownie and Hans, lurkin' in the shadders..... MG

Oh my! MG

Goodness! It's the great Clyde McPhatter and "Lovey dovey". MG

Someone reported in a thread I can't remember that the Hep site was down. I was planning on going for the Teddy Wilsons. MG

Yes, they (wisely) hold the whole order until it's filled - 10 days, then my last parcel took three weeks from dispatch to reach me. I don't know why it takes so much longer from South Africa than Ghana. You'ld expect the reverse to be the case. MG

Rivers - 84261 Mobley - 84273 The Mobley was released in April 1968 but the Rivers didn't appear in the BN Decemmber 1968 catalogue. Must have been issued in 1969 or perhaps even later. Does the catalogue number indicate the order in which RM did the sleeves? Or the release order? MG

No wonder you want to do his ironing MG

I think you're both right. And, of course, both wrong. Some people go one way, some the other. Sometimes this may be a geographical thing. Other times a social class phenomenon. And sometimes it's just individuals. Where I live, which is extreme chavs-ville, young people certainly don't suffer from an excess feeling of personal privilege. A normal career path here is to register as disabled (bad back, psych problems) to claim sick benefits (better money than dole and you don't have to look for a job) and go on the hobble (an informal job for undeclared money) while playing in a rock band in the evening. There are several thousand rock bands in the South Wales Valleys and this is widely seen as the "way out"; so it is for a few bands like Catatonia; Manic Street Preachers; Super Furry Animals; or Stereophonics. But these are rare examples. MG

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There's some stuff in mobiles that's mined in the Congo and the miners have been dropping dead of cancer. MG

I've never used anything but electric razors. Decided at a very young age that - a) I couldn't be asked to deal with all that foam and whatever stuff b) I couldn't trust myself with a blade, and c) I couldn't see that it mattered a lot, anyway (but I'm blond) * MG * PS, well I was

Last night, it was Kenny Burrell - Round midnight - Fantasy, highly flexible early 70s pressing Jimmy Smith & Kenny Burrell - Blue bash - Verve orig, stereo, and doesn't bend in your hands MG