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GET YOUR EFFIN' 'AIR CUT, YOU 'ORRIBLE LITTLE MAN!!!!! MG

I think these are his earliest recordings and he sounds more like his inspirations (I hear more Dex in his early days than George Coleman) - there are better CDs out there. I think that's true, though I do like "Mode for Mabes" - but he and Mabern always sound just right together, to me. MG

I've got all four of the Delmark Tab Smiths and I like them a lot. But I have a particular regard for the late '40s/early '50s semi R&B/semi Soul Jazz sax players and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone who wasn't into that kind of stuff already. If you're already into people like Jacquet, Gator Tail, Forrest, Cobb, Coe, Williams, McNeely, Moore - well, go for it. MG

No, I think he's saying what I was saying; you can't actually do anything about stopping the deaths of victims of nutters like that. But you MAY be able to stop other deaths, which you're paying taxes to arrange. I didn't go that far, because this isn't a political thread. And the REASON it isn't, is because there isn't a political answer to this problem. MG

Blimey! I've got that! Not the original, though - first reissue. You should be able to pick up "Meeting Mr Thomas" for a reasonable price - it is (or was until recently) available on the Jazz in Paris series. It's a lovely album! MG

Most of my Ska/Rock Steady/Reggae records are either instrumental or African. Though I'm getting into Lee Perry now. Sometime. Paris is the priority now - must get more African music! I have a few tapes of Senegalese and Malian films, but nothing from Nigeria. A few years ago, seasons of African films came along every so often on TV. But I more or less stopped watching TV when I retired, so I haven't kept up. MG

Yes - I forgot about that one. And also his "Cold day in hell". They've issued a new live one of Rush last year, which I haven't got around to yet. Bet tht's a good 'un, too. MG Others seemed to like the newly issued Otis Rush more than I did--the recording has that cassette recording sound. Oh, well I've got hundreds of African cassettes, so that would make no odds to me. MG

Interesting... I don't really fully agree (at least I don't think I do... in terms of specifically comparing their sonic personalities), but at the very least we can observe that Green was also influenced by Raney. There's even less of a similarity in sound between Raney and Green, imo, but at least Thomas had a bit more of an "edginess" to his attack and sound, like Grant. I wonder if Green ever heard much (or any) of R.T. I suspect that Thomas heard some of Green's work on Blue Note, but by then Thomas' sound was already well formed. If Green dug Raney (and he did), I would guess he'd have dug R.T. at least as much or even more. Oh, there's nothing specific in their styles that links one to the other. I agree Thomas couldn't have been influenced by Green and I doubt very much if Green heard Thomas at all. Raney is a possible link, as you say. But it's more the way each swings with an organ; they both FLY! And the way they both seem to attach importance to space; is that a Raney thing? I'm not familiar with Raney's style. MG

Yes - I forgot about that one. And also his "Cold day in hell". They've issued a new live one of Rush last year, which I haven't got around to yet. Bet tht's a good 'un, too. MG

One of the things I find quite strange about Rene Thomas is how much like Grant Green he sounds when playing with organists. Actually, I don't have anything of him without an organist on board MG

It's the first of his sessions that's been released. He made some tracks for Vee-Jay in 1956 with the Tommy Dean band, which have never come out. There are two albums from that Forrest session; the other is "Black Forrest". Some of the tracks on that one are true knockouts. I think my favourite Delmarks are George Freeman - Birth sign Junior Wells - Hoodoo man blues Jimmy Dawkins - Fastfingers Jimmy Dawkins - All for business Jimmy Dawkins - Blisterstring The Deep Blue Organ Trio - Deep blue bruise The Deep Blue Organ Trio - Goin' to town Delmark has also done a fine bunch of reissues from the United/States and Apollo catalogues. MG

Nice story Niko; thanks. MG

This was actually on the reverse of their first LP, "Let's do it again", but when they reissued all 3 Perception LPs together, it became the front cover. MG

Maybe Clem can answer that. He was talking about 60's garage rock in another thread. Tremolo pickin' like a mofo! Yeah, I had that "Misirlou" on Dick Dale's LP "Surfer's choice" back in the early '60s. But really, that was about the only track that truly HAD something. I never knew he tuned the guitar upside-down. MG

And many more! MG

Scott Dolan did Though it was only half a joke. West Africa is about the most civilised place I've ever been and a lot of this is because of the relaxed attitude people have there - which makes them rub up against other people rather a lot less. Learn something every day - thanks Clem. No - started off with Ska in the early '60s; never delved back from there. Can't do everything - not even me MG

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Why? It's perfectly rational. Let's start with how Rousseau's 'Social Contract' -- you relinquish certain rights in exchange for personal protection by the state -- is seriously flawed. Now dialing Blacksburg S. VA........ring, ring, ring.... No state undertakes that, Weizen. The arguments for and against gun control are almost certainly irrelevant in relation to an incident like this. Talk about gun control in relation to armed robbery or drive-by shootings. Britain has probably the most restrictive gun control regime in the world, but it doesn't stop incidents like those at Hungerford in 1987 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_Massacre or Dunblane in 1996 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_Massacre Basically, in these cases, we're dealing with nutters, not rational people like criminals and gang members. MG MG, If gun control legislation in the United Kingdom mirrored that of the United States, do you think that the occurrence of tragedies similar to the two that you note above would?: A. increase, B. decrese, or C. stay exactly the same Thanks! I suspect it would remain the same. I don't think incidents like this are either encourged or discouraged by the gun control regime. Nor, for that matter, any other generalised social/cultural situation. Some people are just sick. If something can be done about those individuals (and in many cases I would guess that does happen), fine. But to expect every one of those people to be identified before they do something horrendous is asking too much of society. MG MG

The astonishing Mickey Fields backed by the world's number one most exciting organist Richard "Groove" Holmes - Edmar orig (my entry for the greatest hype title of the week) MG

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Different type of thing MG

Another I like because of the atmosphere MG

I think this is the classic one MG