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  1. At the indie record store I worked at for many years:

    "I heard if you know the password you can buy weed here."

    "Where are your soft rock cassettes? I like soft rock. Is that bad? Am I bad?"

    "Can I get engraving done here?"

    We should have written more of them down...there were hundreds...

  2. I haven't heard this set yet but Dust to Digital does great work. Their Goodbye, Babylon box set of gospel recordings and Fonotone Records : Frederick Maryland set of the 78's Joe Bussard released (the last label to release 78's in the U.S.) are fantastic documents. These are both examples of how box sets should be done. Wonderful music and an obvious love for the music that comes through in the care taken assembling the entire package.

    I also highly recommend the documentary they did called Desperate Man Blues, about Joe Bussard and his collection of 78's.

    That doc is highly recommended.

    When were the last Fonotone 78s pressed? I thought about that yesterday, for some reason.

    For that matter, when did the majors cease new production of 78s?

  3. ABlakeyIndestructible.jpg

    Yep. (Free For All - Freddie) + Lee/(Reggie Workman-Jymie Merritt). I still think that FFA's overall "favored" status over Indestructable is a residual function of the latter having been OOP as an LP for may years while FFA stayed in print. Otherwise, hey, they're both topshelfstellardefinitive classics, but if I could only have one, it would be my orange and black buddy,

    But having said all that, Wayne on the RTE Olympia sides is Nutz Skwared. Or does that not count?

    These were my two thoughts as well.

    I love how it sounds like everything is about to go off the rails on Free for All. I still remember the first time I heard that in college. Shit! :rhappy:

  4. I think the sound's pretty good too. The horns are clear and upfront. It's Bley's piano that suffers--ironic given that it's his date. I only have one of the LPs, so I was happy to get the extra tunes on the CD.

    Same here -- have yet to see it in the racks, however...

  5. I'm looking at the international rates, which seem to have gone a big change. No surface main option???? All are first class or priority rates.

    I was talking with the nice mail lady at the post office in my building at work and she said that they are indeed getting rid of the surface option.

    With a stated delivery time of 4-6 weeks, I have never even touched that service. :blink:

  6. I bought one of the Danelectro Fab Distortion pedals for $16, new. Not REAL versatile, but it does the trick. Their $16 slap echo pedal does a competent job as well. [Then again, my guitar was a $74 clearance model from the Target store...]

    I bought a clearance guitar from Target for a friend as well, a Washburn "Lyons" strat copy that had a little practice amp in the box as well for about that same price.

    Was not a bad guitar for a beginner for that price!

    Yep, that is what mine is!

  7. i have been having a lot of trouble with my danelectro effects pedals lately.

    seem to be horribly made.

    Is this news? They're real cheap.

    Fair enough - aren't they like $40 a piece for the basic ones? Still - you can throw away $40 or invest $150 well...

    I bought one of the Danelectro Fab Distortion pedals for $16, new. Not REAL versatile, but it does the trick. Their $16 slap echo pedal does a competent job as well. [Then again, my guitar was a $74 clearance model from the Target store...]

  8. No, because I didn't get a chance to pipe in yet. ;)

    Guns should be outlawed. It would take a long time to empty the streets of them, and it wouldn't entirely stop killings, but it would help an awful lot. It would help prevent murders of policemen. It would likely reduce the numbers of dead in these mass killings.

    That is the same mindset that the alcohol prohibitionists took, too.

    I don't understand the "right" to own a gun--especially a handgun. Handguns aren't designed to shoot bears.

    Some, indeed, are:

    handgun_alaskan_brown_bear_1.jpg

    They are meant for human targets.

    I guess I have been using mine improperly, then.

    I don't think you can compare the two situations. Alcohol is a lot easier to make illegally than a gun is to build. I also think that Prohibition didn't have people's full support. Might be different with gun control. People might miss the weekly (and daily?) use of alcohol. You don't use your guns every day (or at least I hope not.) Different thing altogether.

    The craftiness needed to make passable alcohol [enough to get you loaded] is most definitely on par with the craftiness needed to make a passable gun [enough to get you shootin']. See the zip gun concept.

    If there are 30 million gun owners, then I think we could say at the most conservative that half of them do not favor making them illegal. That still leaves 15 million. That is a far cry from "full support" of gun control, especially in your scenario of outlawing all 200 million of those guns.

    And I must say that the notion of someone else telling me how often I can use something, let alone the government leaves me cold. Is there any other aspects of my life you see fit for government regulation / prohibition? :mellow:

  9. No, because I didn't get a chance to pipe in yet. ;)

    Guns should be outlawed. It would take a long time to empty the streets of them, and it wouldn't entirely stop killings, but it would help an awful lot. It would help prevent murders of policemen. It would likely reduce the numbers of dead in these mass killings.

    That is the same mindset that the alcohol prohibitionists took, too.

    I don't understand the "right" to own a gun--especially a handgun. Handguns aren't designed to shoot bears.

    Some, indeed, are:

    (see attached photo)

    They are meant for human targets.

    I guess I have been using mine improperly, then.

    [edit for photo]

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