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Thanks so much for all the work you do around here, Jim, keeping this place going. You're practically a saint for doing so, in exchange for nothing more than our thanks and gratitude. (Probably time to make another donation.) Thanks again!!

Jimi Hendrix - "Live at Winterland" --- Rykodisc, released circa 1987. Maybe technically not the oldest CD in my entire collection (maybe I later bought something used that was actually issued earlier), but Jimi @ Winterland was definitely the very first CD I ever bought, I'm pretty sure of that. I was a senior in high school that year - and vaguely remember buying it in the Spring of '87, a couple months before I graduated. I'm also pretty darn sure I didn't own a CD-player back then either, and I had to get a friend to tape it for me, in order to listen to it. Had a roommate in college with a CD player (thankfully), and finally got one of my own around late 1988 or early '89. Still have that Hendrix disc too.

Amen to that!!

Miles' DOB: May 26th, 1926 My dad's DOB: May 27th, 1927 More weirdness... Miles' father, and my father's father -- were both dentists by profession, who both worked in East St. Louis, IL. (OK, I guess not all that weird.) Happy Birthday Miles!! Happy birthday Dad!!

Yeah, that's the one that has me really wondering.

What was that?? Musta missed it the first time. Link?? Thanks in advance!!!

They can sell the limited edition Conn version at $17.99 list, and then two or three years after it goes OOP, they can turn around and RVG it. Limited, in a sense, but not really. Easy to complain about it, but if that's what they gotta do to cost-justify getting an obscure date into the marketplace, so be it. And if the "yeah, it's obscure, but not THAT obscure" dates somehow underwrite the cost of the reisue of the "yeah, now THAT'S what I call obscure!!" dates (that might otherwise never get reissued), then so be it. They gotta do what they gotta do.

I think it's maybe time for an "intervention".

OK, for some reason those Shirley Scott "Soul Shoutin" notes just totally reminded me of this passage from my "Intro to Western Music 101" college music class (which I took back around 1991), or more specifically - from the book for that class, which was... Stanley Sadie's Music Guide: An Introduction (1st edition, © 1986) Please have a barf-bag at the ready (don't say I didn't warn you!! )... ...and please read every word of this quote (from page 345): Still, over 15 years since I took that class, I marvel at the quote above. It is real, I assure you. Our own Spontoonious has seen the book with his own two eyes, and can verify its authenticity. Read it again. This was the book every student who took "Western Music History 101" got to read. I stand before you, dumbfounded. (And, strangely enough, the passage does read much like album liner-notes often do, doncha think?? The rest of the book isn't nearly as bad as this one passage (how could it be??) -- but the passage above is real, and really does kick off nearly 11 pages about Wagner's place in music history.)

Haven't seen good ol' Masterhit in ages either, but he's only fun at certain kinds of parties - doncha know.

Our own beloved Fist o' Death (Use3D) hasn't posted but three or four times (total) since December, and every once in a while I wonder what we'd ever do if Musicboy ever showed up again (especially if Jim was, like, off at a gig or something). But at least half-seriously, Jim, how's your bro?? Are you personally carrying all the weight of moderating the place these days?? -- single handedly??? Hope your bro's doin' AOK. (By the way, in case anybody wonders about me being AWOL next week -- I'll be off the board from Saturday to Saturday. Try not to have too much fun without me, you hear!!)

That version of "Well you Needn't" may well haunt me all the days of my life.

A google image search of her name keeps coming up with this guy too... Are they a package deal?? Are they somehow joined at the hip?? See, here's more...

I was thinking the same thing. I'd never heard of her - not once - until I'd read the title of this thread. Monheit -- yeah, I've heard of her. Even heard a few tunes too, somewhere along the way. Not my cup of tea, but I'm certainly aware of her. McPhee - I've got no idea. -_-

Music agent Ian Copeland dead at 57 Brother Stewart in Police; brother Miles founded I.R.S. Records Thursday, May 25, 2006; Posted: 8:40 a.m. EDT (12:40 GMT) LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Ian Copeland, a rock music agent and entrepreneur who represented The Police, R.E.M., Adam Ant, The Go-Go's and other seminal rock groups that emerged in the 1970s and 1980's New Wave and Punk scenes, has died. He was 57. Copeland died Tuesday of melanoma, said Amy Grey, a family spokeswoman. Copeland was one of three brothers in the family who became prominent figures in the music industry. Younger brother Stewart was the drummer for The Police. Older sibling Miles founded record label International Records Syndicate (IRS Records). In the mid-1970s, Copeland moved to Macon, Georgia, where he worked for an agency booking tours for several Southern rock groups, including Charlie Daniels, Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band. Word of London's emerging punk rock scene excited Copeland, who sought to get the agency he was working for to bring the raw new British bands to U.S. venues. It didn't work. But when his brother Miles signed the British band Squeeze, the two siblings arranged for the band to tour small clubs in the U.S. They used the same strategy to promote other bands, including The Police and the B-52s. In 1978, Copeland moved to New York and launched Frontier Booking International. The young talent agency represented New Wave and punk acts such as Adam Ant, The Bangles, The Smiths, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and the Dead Kennedys among others. from CNN.com

Patton, John - Boogaloo (Blue Note)

Wouldn't be official without this... Have a happy, happy birthday!!!!!

There's two sides to every coin.

Yeah!!!!! Any idea if Billy Harper will be on board?? Oh please, oh please, oh please - let it be so!!! FWIW, it is now confirmed that Billy Harper WILL be a featured soloist on the Tolliver big band recordings, sessions for which are coming up next week (beginning of June). MC confirmed Harper's participation in this project, via an e-mail we traded last week. Don't know yet if it will be on Blue Note. Either way, the important thing is that Harper's on board. YES!!!

Interesting new covers. Don't know if I immediately like 'em or not, but they are interesting (IMHO).