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Someone should send them an email. They would have fun with it. Love that show...

Same here.

The third bass is electric! Isn't that illegal?

It's a mandolin. A custom 5-string electric mandolin!

About those guitars, I read that he had given them to someone to hang onto while he wasn't using them. Picked the wrong guy apparently; when he went to retrieve them for the Remember Shakti project, he found them in such disrepair that they were essentially useless. I suppose he could have had Abe Wechter build him another (in Paw Paw, MI, coincidently), but he chose to go with electric. Doesn't really bother me either way. I think I saw pictures of the thing after it was abused. What the hell was that guy thinking?

They could put Prasant Radakrishnan in that group quite comfortably. Dig this solo piece he does on alto. As for Shakti, I much prefer McLaughlin's old acoustic guitar sound rather than the electric tone he has now. The acoustic seemed to cut through that ensemble sound very easily, whereas the electric seems to get lost a bit. Zakir is the man. I saw him last month with his brothers, also percussionists, as well as a few other percussionists. One of the players also was on tabla, and the difference was night and day. Zakir is so fully formed in technique and application in a soulful way that it blows my mind. I wish they would have had Shankar on those reunion albums, but U. Srinivas is no slouch replacement. And Debasish Bhattacharya is great too on the Saturday Night disc. He is coming to town this fall!

They are going to be in St. Paul next month, and this clip makes me think I need to go. I think fitting solos into more concise spaces will be good for Derek Trucks. Towards the end of that clip it is interesting to see him solo on different material. I see that there is a live DVD coming out: Amazon link

Like Bobby Previte?

So buy immediately : CD "Eddy Louiss trio" (with Klook and René Thomas) @ Dreyfus Jazz CD "HLP" (Humair Louiss Ponty) 2 volumes @ Dreyfus Jazz CD "Bohemia After Dark" (coll. Jazz in Paris) (LP "Orgue") @ Gitanes Jazz/Universal LP "Orgue vol.2" @ America That HLP set is superb!

I saw the movie today. The wife read the book, but I haven't. I liked the film, she really liked it. It felt like it was going to end 4 or 5 times in the last half hour. I don't know how they could have done that better.

The Mars Volta does it for me for sure. I read a awful review at Something Awful which made me buy it. Ridiculous titles, absurdly long songs with instrumental interludes...you are speaking my language! Frances the Mute was my favorite non-jazz album that year. Saw them on tour - shitty venue, killing band. I would love to see them in a club or theatre venue. Its like Soft Machine and King Crimson with William Bouroughs writing lyrics and an LSD influenced Santana playing guitar. Jon Theodore is a monster drummer, too!

Love the guitar sounds on a couple of the cuts. Just jumps out of the speakers. Eddie's voice can get old after a while. I am going to see them in June. Tom Petty opens!

It even has an EQ! 120w!

The pic isn't that bad. People do get old.

I would love to see some folks around here try their hand at some cover art for this session.

Howard Roberts - Good Pickin's Jimmy Raney - Featuring Bob Brookmeyer Herb Ellis - Ellis in Wonderland Eddie Fisher - & the Next One Hundred Years For anyone who is interested, these all arrived with regular retail barcodes and even with those pesky strips on the top. Each one is top notch, BTW.

Email sent on the Guiffre, Wayne, and Thomas discs

If Jerry Falwell were only that entertaining...

Absolutely. Having worked for years in an indie store and a short time in a corporate-whore store, both were ultimately closed due to online purchasing. How many times at that indie shop did we offer to special-order an item? Many times. We had to, because we didn't have the room or resources to carry a deep back catalog of specialized items. When people start saying "nah, I'll just order it online," then you have trouble. Soon they stop coming in at all, ordering from Amazon with free shipping. Sure, downloading has an impact, but I think that the online marketplace's effect is much greater. Let us also remember that not all downloading is illegal. [iTunes, eMusic, etc.]

It certainly is no Dynaflex.

If you are just looking to shrink some things, Easy Graphic Converter works wonders. This will shrink huge files effectively without much loss. You can have the image resized to a target size as well. And it is free!

Me too! Ordered all four of those guitar discs.

I have a paralyzing fear of monkeys. And bees. And clowns. I will not be going to Sierra Leone any time soon now.