The Magnificent Goldberg

You wouldn't want some of MY vinyl, Noj - where's the smiley for "Yechcchhh!"? Almost every CD I buy that I already have on vinyl is a huge upgrade. MG

You could do a lot worse than play some Charles Kynard on the programme, Ghost, particularly side 1 of "Where it's at", which is all church material. Kynard was a regular church organist, as well as jazz musician, and his stuff has a lot of the right feel. Professor Herman Stevens (on Savoy) and Rev Maceo Woods (On Vee-Jay) made a lot of Gospel organ records which influenced jazz organists. MG

OK - I can hang on until 2009 for the Baby Grand reissue - I have 6 of the tracks on a cheapo European CD. MG

I'm English - we only tip 10% MG

Me too. I have the LP version, made in UK (it did not have a Rare Groove sticker, anyway). If I remember well, it came out together with Duke Pearson's "How Insensitive", a Candido Blue note LP (the one with the Richie Havens piece) and a couple of other BN titles. All made in UK. luca thanks MG and Luca, it's maybe to early, but the the conclusion could be that it isn't a "rare groove series"after all... (untill proven otherwise, of course. if 1 member of this forum has one, it all turns around again) just like the "midnight creeper"? which of course qualifies as a "rare groove series" musically but strickly speaking isn't part of it, and was released remastered, out side of the rare groove, or any other series... JB I hope what I'm writing still makes sense... :):P I think I may have confused myself. Following up what you said about "Midnight creeper", I had a look at that, and also some definite Rare Grooves, which say so in the spine. "Pretty things" doesn't look like the Rare Grooves. It looks like two other CDs that came out here at, I guess, the same time (they all say 1993) Patton's "Let 'em roll" and GG's "Alive" (the straight reissue with no bonus tracks). These - oh, I see they have consecutive numbers 89793/4/5 - were all made in Holland. They all have a coloured strip about 3/4" deep across the top on the back, with a little picture of the front cover in it. There is no remastering info included in the insert. And I have a sneaking suspicion that these issues didn't come out in America. MG

Don't talk to me about Britons buying holyday homes over here...we never thought about terrorism for solving the problem in Tuscany.. Terrorism is essential behaviour when there's no one there to listen to protests. MG

All of this is absolutely right. Britain was in a similar state after the war - huge housing crisis as so much housing had been destroyed by bombing. During the war, the Government had an enforced loan system in place - Post War Credits. You had to pay them with your taxes. After the war, the PWCs were repaid in instalments (with interest), the first of which was in the late forties and it produced the first property boom of the post war years. Average house prices rose to three times average earnings. Every time that's happened here (and it's the case now), it's been followed by a 30% fall in prices. My Dutch uncle (who was really Dutch) bought his house in the fifties with cash - real cash - pound notes! I greatly admired him, not just for this but for that general attitude, though we didn't quite manage a mortgage-free house - but we had managed to save and limit the mortgage to what could be paid off a decade or so before I retired. Apart from that, I think the only loans we took out were for two of our cars. My daughter and her old man are terrible for debt. I don't know how they sleep at night. MG

i have read that in japan home loans are passed from generation to generation. I wonder to what extent Spanish house prices have been affected by British people buying holiday homes in Spain. We had a similar problem in Wales, with English people buying rural cottages for weekend retreats, particularly in Welsh-speaking areas. Prices were pretty soon put out of the reach of the local people. A short programme of terrorism - a few months' of burning down such cottages - sorted the problem out. People became aware that their insurance policies didn't cover them for acts of terrorism. Japanese homes are hugely expensive; even tiny ones. When I visited Japan a few years ago, I was astonished at how little of the land is actually usable for housing and how much of what's usable is needed for agriculture. With a very large population, the prices of houses isn't surprising. MG

This is a typical bubble. Caused by easy money, like the boom preceding the Depression. Bubbles work so long as everybody believes the good times will never come to an end. When something happens to alter that belief - zapppp! A contributory cause of peoples' belief failing may well arise from the failure of their earnings to rise as expected. Outsourcing/Walmartisation might contribute to that. But, from what I've read, the new ideas for easy mortgage money all contain a built-in zap of one kind or another, which automatically kicks in after a while. Thus, the bubble is like the "Mission Impossible" messages - on automatic self-destruct. MG

Well, that really depends on how much of it you need to mortgage. My house is worth about twelve times my pension, but I don't have a mortgage. Indeed, you can - but it depends crucially on when you buy and when you sell. And if you know that, you possibly should be in a different business - as Louis Jordan said, "If you're so smart, how come you ain't rich?" MG

My wife remembered a big sealable jar in the back of the dead space under the kitchen units, so we reclaimed it as a second tea caddy. Now we can each have our favourite teas; she's drinking Asda English Breakfast tea at the moment; I'm drinking Tescos Finest Ceylon tea. Brill! MG

I've got one - though it's a Dutch version. It LOOKS like a Rare Grooves item - similar style design on back and inside - but it doesn't actuallt SAY "Rare Grooves" anywhere. MG

Yesterday’s haul was Thanks to all for advising that Newbury Comics was a good reliable firm! MG

That seems to be my memory of that disc as well. Having said that, and now that I'm listening to clips again, I forgot (or never realized) that Billy Mitchell is on here. I really dig Mitchell, so maybe this one's worth hearing again. I like Billy Mitchell too. Didn't realise he was on this. Hm, maybe. MG

Too busy to visit boards yesterday, but last night played Harold Vick - Don't look back - Strata East Bill Saxton - Beneath the surface - Nilva MG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofxYabC6WUU When was this? Who was with him? and here's another. I can't say I'm a great fan of Rollins, but perhaps I should be. Missed a lot. Only have the one with Stitt & Diz. Where to start? MG

Les McCann - The shout - PJ Liberty reissue MG

I've got the Quadromania 4 CD set. It has Billy Banks material as well as the band with JC Hig. I like those a lot. I could do with more, I think, and perhaps the RCA set will be next. MG

Bailly Spinto Nayanka Bell Magic System Great game - just ordered the Magic System CD, which I didn't know about.

It turned up today! I've got to hand it to Saul Zaentz - when he sold Fantasy to Concord, he kept the copyright to the photo library. Credits say that photos from Wattstax c2007 The Saul Zaentz Co. Ha ha! Just started listening to it! What a fuckin' band!!!!! MG

Yeah! Yeah! - and I haven't even started playing it yet! also got MG

Dang ! I forgot. Track #1! "Cruesale-U-Whale" ... (probably only the second time in BFT history that a cut has alluded to the monster of the deep.) go here for now and you're in heaven. load 'em up baby. "Bill Beau Trio: Live at the Blueport Lounge" 1958. long ago this was posted on the board courtesy of that rind grazing on kilobytes. i played this stuff over and over ... i knew not why but it just grabbed me with it's grit and bounce Wow! I guess the lady on the cover is Chi Chi. Looked at the site; can't undertand it. Is there supposed to be some way of downloading all these tracks or what? MG

(Legs Diamond knew my father - for those who know the Lloyd George rhyme) Ike the Lombard Ike Quebec Dwight Eisenhower

Jo Jo the dog faced boy Hound Dog Taylor Johnnie Bassett

A question, MG - correct me if I'm wrong. Is this your interpretation of a lyric from the Coasters' "Searchin'"? The last one should be Boston Blackie, a reference that may be lost on non-Americans. Yes - evidently another glorious misinterpretation of word you can't quite hear, because they're not in English. Thanks very much for that Jack. MG