The Magnificent Goldberg

I don't understand. Why does it matter? MG

Don't know that I agree with that. I know a fair number of young people who have as much or more money as I had when I was in college in in my early 20's. Most of them choose to spend their money on things other than music - probably because they can get music for free. Hm, but do they have as much money as you do now? In the days when I was poor, I DID tape lots of LPs off friends. As I became better off, I bought them all. I don't know if it's so, either - nor the reverse. But music on the radio is free (at least at the point of delivery) and I doubt whether that fact led to music being devalued by the several generations who have grown up in the radio age. I suspect that there are people who are really into music - us lot for example - and a whole lot more who just like it; and probably those proportions don't change much from one generation to another. My feeling is that a young person's ipod is much like a transistor radio was in the sixties. You carried it around everywhere, annoying people as much as you could. Ipods seem very frequently to be used in the same way as a tranny: putting your tunes on random shuffle seems to me not unlike listening to pop radio, where you hear the same songs repeated every so often, until the record goes off the chart, when it's replaced with something else. Viewed in that light, perhaps it's not too difficult to see why someone wouldn't want to pay. And perhaps this is "normal". In the period up to the late sixties, the single (78 or 45) was the unit of music. In the late sixties, an even more prosperous youth (than the generation before) found that LPs were the thing, with the development of Rock. But that paradigm itself seems to be changing and people are now more concerned with individual tracks/songs. This certainly seems to be reflected in the CDs issued of modern dance music, which are more like various artists compilations - but put together out of new, not recycled, material. So, is it possible that people are merely returning to a more normal view of music as individual performances, and that the album thing was a brief oddity. I wonder if someone like Noj could contribute some ideas along this line. MG

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Thank you for the friendly welcome. Do you mind if I ask you what "The Magnificent Goldberg" means? Finally - someone who asks the question that has been on my mind. I think I like her already. Aha! All right then. In the sleeve notes to James Moody's "Moody's workshop", Amiri Baraka (then Leroi Jones) referred frequently to Moody's work with the magnificent Dizzy Gillespie big band. Only, for reasons that weren't clear to me until recently, he consistently referred to Diz as Izzy Goldberg. So, in my mind - and my mate's - there was this mythical band, the magnificent Goldberg band. When, in the late sixties, we were running an unsuccessful anti-art underground magazine, most of which we wrote ourselves, we were looking for a name of a reviewer who would give great reviews to, for example, cowboy comedy films, and pan the work of Antonioni etc. The Magnificent Goldberg therefore came into existence. I resurrected him when I was setting up a hotail account, after several tries at getting my name into an e-mail address - I refused to append an eminently forgettable number at the end of my name to make something unique. A few years ago, I found out that the reason Amiri referred to Diz as Izzy Goldberg was that, in 1946, Diz had used that pseudonym when recording for Sterling Records. Nonetheless, as you'll have noticed, The Magnificent Goldberg is still as anti-art as he ever was MG

John Wright - Makin' out - Prestige yellow label DG mono Very, very Prestige-ey MG

Hi Debra - and welcome! MG

Thanks, Chuck! Just checked and that Classics CD contains two other tunes that were left off the Chess compilation disc "Young Jug" as well. Since I don't have that one yet, I might just go for this Classics release. Oh, which tracks are they? Maybe they're on the "Early visions" twofer LP. MG

Not necessarily - the article assumes that these people were all fans anyway, or they couldn't have got to hear about it. If they were fans, they probably heard their friends' copies - and copied them (?) MG

Just found another one: And a large chunk of that one is material Savoy bought from United. Oh, and the other material is another good example of Leo Parker sessions released under the name of a now better known sideman. Not that I'm complaining, y'know The two I've got from the twofer series are "The roots of Rock & Roll" and "Honkers & screamers" - 'bout what you'd expect of me, ain't it? MG

The other thing you could make of it, were the data present, which, despite Reznor's assertion that he's , they aren't, is: out of the sales of the previous album, how much came back to Reznor and the singer after costs were paid? And out of the $5 sales of the DL, how much came back to Reznor and the singer after costs were paid? He implies he spent too much and didn't make a profit on the DL. Whose fault is that? MG

It's not going to sleep that's the challenge. I'm not sure that I could listen to 29 hours of even Grant Green without nodding off. Even if I were allowed to get up and dance. With a beautiful woman? Hm, not so sure about THAT MG

They look like Americans to me... MG

And, of course, an excellent way of using facts to deceive. MG

Yes, I have that album. Personally, I don't like Smith much. But Jaws and Shirl are fine. MG

Borrowing more than one can afford to repay conveniently in order to consume does seem to be bad idea. However, borrowing what you can afford to repay conveniently, in order to smooth out consumption that may come in financially inconvenient lumps is not necessarily a bad idea. Some examples are holidays, Concord sales of CDs , cars and other vehicles. Personally, I greatly prefer NOT to incur interest, and don't, but I realise that this is a quaint personal foible of mine. MG

Thanks a lot, Sundog. Got some ordering to do! MG

One reason I'm keeping my vinyl vopy of "The 78 era" - there are others on that LP I think that also haven't been reissued (though they may be on Classics). MG

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It is AWFUL when that happens. One of our cats was really stupid and didn't last as long as yours did - she was run over aged about two. Elissa is right - hope it won't be long before another is lucky enough to find you. MG

Wow! It is REALLY nice to see that Hog is still about and active. How is he playing? MG

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Come back OP, all is forgiven! MG

Oh my God!!!!! MG

But they have earthquakes and volcanoes out there. Isn't there anywhere in America where there aren't disasters waiting to happen (hurricanes etc) or horrid weather in the winter? MG