The Magnificent Goldberg

Got one Russian-issued CD (not illustrated on web) with these two on it: (Ah - the days when a new LP cost 37/5d!!!! I might actually have SOLD that LP - the handwriting on the price tag looks like that of my boss in those days.) MG

Charles Dickens Johnny Dankworth Cleo Laine

You bet! And will it be completed in time? Ho ho! And let's all have a bet what the cost will eventually come to. My guess: £29 bn MG

Not quite. "Laughing soul" is 36:35. "Musart", according to the timings of the tracks on the sleeve, which MAY not be accurate, is 43:56. When you add in time between tracks, it seems clear that the two would be between 30 - 50 seconds too long. MG

Bert Postlethwaite Peter Smee Derek Slee (see Dr Who Cru)

Roy Budd Pedal Pushin' Papa Nick Cave

I, Claudius is pretty low quality [technically] by today's standard, but Rome has its own problems. The sex in Rome is pretty much of the gratuitous variety, though, reflecting far more on the base motivations of the modern producers than on the base motivations of the characters. I'd say Rome is essentially a fairly well-done soap opera which uses history as an inspiration. Claudius is more a historical novel--an elaboration on history--with some pretty interesting reflections on power, sex, governance, empire and family. There is no mind like Graves' behind Rome that I can tell. It pretty much shouts the fact that it is a product of the entertainment industry. Any deep thinking went into the financing and marketing. By the standards of such products it's well done--like the Sopranos, say. There's enough intelligence in the writing to keep you amused for a while, but for me I can just as easily walk away mid-episode and imagine my own developments. Or read Vidal or Graves or someone else who can imagine better than me. Ah - that's it! Thanks for that. MG

This has been a problem before on BFTs; it seem to have something to do with the number of quotes you have - successively, not nested. It was solved by responding to half the preceding post in on post and the rest in the next. Or words to that effect. MG

Lydia Dustbin Tyrone Shoelaces Lemme Golightly

Well, it's been off for a lot of the day, and I didn't have time to restor e to yesterday. But I just turned it on now and it's back to normal! GRRRRRRRR! Thanks to everyone for their assistance - even Chuck, who was the rightest of you all MG

Yeah - that's exactly how I feel. MG

Well, I've done all the other things. Thanks Rock for this link. This is what it sez: That's wonderful! I don't understand any of it - except the bit at the end about registry values having been fucked. If that's the cause, then I can simply restore to yesterday morning. MG

Yeah, I can do all that. Every time I hit a link that opens another window, it opens one 1.5" wide. Yes, I can make it bigger. But it's a pain in the arse to have to make every fucking window bigger. Windows has become unteachable! Can't learn! Won't learn! And I don't know how to make the changes permanent! MG

Last time I was on, I was doing a couple of things at once and made an Internet Explorer window quite narrow, so I could see what was going on, while I did something else. Now, every time I hit a link which opens a second window, the bugger is only an inch and a half wide! I've tried turning it off and on again, to no avail. How do I persuade Windows that I want full screen windows? (Or will it be like this for the rest of my life?) MG

She plays REALLY hard swinging stuff on Willis Jackson's "Star bag". It hasn't been reissued, however. MG

Yet another booful day! MG

The kids will look back to this year and say, "we always used to have lovely springs". MG

Richard I Alfred Lion Leon Thomas

David - you have a boxed set of this session? I would buy that. Chuck - it's the remix box. MG

Hah! I'm not in the market for either version of this one. And there's a second hand copy of "Bad Benson" in Cardiff, which I'll pick up next time I'm in town. MG

Ah well, my view of the world is that no one has as many cups of tea a day as I do. MG

Am I missing some kind of irony here? It's still easily available from Warner - since 1988... OOP in the US. Guy What kind of a business plan can Mosaic have for this? It's nuts. You can get it from Amazon.co.uk new for £4.97 about $10 plus post. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zawinul-Joe/dp/B00...5279&sr=8-5 Mosaic of all companies realises that it's in an international market? MG

You, sir, are a very wise man. Not quite, Jim. "Blues up & down" wins, very slightly, in my view, over "Griff & Lock", its CD mate. MG

It sux. I put in my father's real pimp name - Ike the Lombard - which is proper thirties stuff - and got Master Pimp the Lombard Smooth, which is about as naff as you can get. MG

I think you're right, Jazzmoose. What was particularly noticeable about the article was that, for one that is stated to be related to general principles, it very quickly focused down onto computers and the Internet. Surely not ALL R&D relates to that? Well of course not - medical R&D is big business, too, but not a word is mentioned of that subject, or any other. What about transport? What about... Furthermore, the style of writing was a bit too gee whiz. Calling researchers "shock troops" is nearly as accurate as calling GWB a statesman. MG