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FYI, there's now a third tune you can sample (in full) on the BN website. Go HERE, then click on the red link not far below the album cover - the link says "Andrew Hill - Time Lines digital player" in big red letters. Then if the digital player doesn't come up automatically (it didn't for me), click on the "launch the player here" link that does come up. Then it will play the first three tunes first two tunes, plus track 7 on the disc -- full-length versions too, not just samples. Kinda like one of those "post card" promo kinda things they've been doing lately on the BN site. A little less involved than for some other releases - but hey, it's something!! 1 Malachai 2 Time Lines 7 Ry Round 2 Tracks #1 & #2 have been available through THIS PAGE for several weeks. Track #7 is the new one. The new third track (#7) features Tardy on bass clarinet.

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Again, where the fuck is quality control?? Is nobody proofing anything anymore?? Booby Hutcherson, Herbie Handcock, and now this??

A friend bought a sealed copy of the Sam Rivers "Contours" Conn about a year back, and it was totally blank too. Music was fine, but no printed label on the "non music" side of the CD itself. WTF?? Where's quality control???!!!!!!!!

Not on this order. On your NEXT order. Sheesh!!

pfeh... Cheap bastards... 15% sure isn't much of an employee discount. (Not complaining about it only being 15% for the general public, but if that's really the ACTUAL employee discount...) 20% would be something -- 25% would really be something. 15% isn't even worth the time of day. I'm about half sure there were a couple brick and mortars stores around here (KC) that had 20% as their standard employee discount. And there was one store that around the holidays -- for a couple days in December -- it jumped up to 30%. 15% - that ain't hardly nothin'.

Neither do I.

I just dug out Fancy Free yesterday, when I was looking around for anything else I had with Jimmy Ponder. (I just got the John Patton Select on Tuesday, and Ponder's on one of those dates, "That Certain Feeling" from '68.) Haven't spun it (Fancy Free) yet, but I will shortly.

There was a recap of the Grammys on NPR this morning, and they had a couple tiny interview clips with Sly's brother (not 100% sure of the name, maybe Freddie?). And his brother was relaying something that Sly said backstage right after it was over... ...and I'll be damn if the voice Freddie used give an impression of Sly was JUST like Miles' voice, all raspy -- EXACTLY like someone doing an impersonation of Miles (and we've all heard dozens of people impersonate Miles voice over the years, like most of Miles' sidemen in interview clips for instance). So, who knows if Sly even has much voice left at all. I have to admit I know very, very little of Sly Stone's music. I recognized most of the tunes last night, but only cuz of my general cultural awareness of them -- certainly not from having heard them other than a handful of times over the last 15-20 years (and some of that is even from them having been used in advertising and such).

Sly tonight reminded me just a little bit of Miles, from quite a handful of post-retirement concert footage I've seen over the years. (Certainly not everything I've seen of Miles post-retirement, but a few concerts here and there, when Miles was lookin' a little more frail than he usually did.)

Probably my favorite quote related to this topic... "Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair." -- Charles Ives

Once or twice a month, tops -- and only cuz I do like their breakfast burritos (yum!!). But other than that, I think I eat non-breakfast meals at McDonalds only about 2 or 3 times per year (and sometimes even less than that).

4'33" (for orchestra)

That isn't JLP on violin, is it?? (Doesn't quite look like him to me.)

You might be right. There are a number of copies of Eternal Spirit available on-line at the moment, (most) reasonably priced. But not "But Not Farewell".

Since this has turned into sort of a Cobain thread too (don't blame me - I didn't start it!!)... I think Kurt wrote quite a number of really fantastic tunes. I think everything I've ever heard by him on the radio was grade-A stuff (and listening to commercial alternative rock radio a lot, my statement includes at least half of the entire Nirvana catalog of tunes -- a LOT more than just what gets played on AOR or Jack-FM type stations). BUT, over the last couple years - I recently broke down and bought most of the full Nirvana CD's (for the first time, if you can imagine). And I was struck at how almost everything of theirs that wasn't ever played on the radio -- was really B-grade or even C-grade material. It's all diamonds, or coal -- and nothin' in between. Cobain was certainly capable of genius, that's for sure --- but that's a long way from being a genius.

Clapton ain't had a hit (a real hit) for, what?, like 10 or 12 years (my guess is Layla off the Unplugged album was his last - and that was an OLD song!!). The only way Sting gets hits these days is by putting his songs in advertising (the one in the Jaguar ad was his last real hit, if I remember). Tom Petty?? He ain't had a real AOR-radio "hit" (or anything close) for going on 10 years (unless I'm forgetting something - wasn't "Free Falling" his last?). Springsteen struggles (a bit, maybe quite a bit?) to get anyone to even notice when he releases something new (resorting to going on Charlie Rose (PBS) and/or Nightline with an interview by Ted Koppel - if I remember right). And fewer and fewer people jump when Madanna releases a new single (by an order of magnitude or more, if I'm not mistaken). Any more, half the time the only reason I even realize some of these old farts (that's a term of endearment ) --> I even realize these old farts have a new record out - is when I see some direct advertising about it by chance - either on VH1 (where their songs aren't played anymore, but where their theoretical fan base still is), or print ads in the free weekly papers, or else TV advertising tie-ins. It's not like Classic Rock radio plays much if any new stuff by the same artists that are their absolute bread and butter, in terms of oldies. So, you can write off Prince's "lack of hits" since Purple Rain and Kiss because of "bad songs" - but there's a LOT more going on here (in terms of what songs get made into hits) than just "good songs" vs. "bad songs". Prince, like everybody else I just mentioned, is pretty much "old news" -- at least from the perspective of the marketing wizards and bean counters in the corporate music biz. That is, UNTIL he gets old enough to be really some sort of "elder statesman" status. (And even then...) (I ain't sayin' all this a bad thing, or a good thing -- but it is something, that's for damn sure.)

One went for $20 on eBay recently (here). Seems like not all that long ago when Hill's two BN's from the late 80's / early 90's weren't all that hard to find (and usually for cheap). Edit: out of stock at half.com, and the only one (used) on Amazon that is priced some crazy amount nobody should have to spend.

Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page Live in Baton Rouge, French-TV 1967. Setlist Includes Train Kept A Rollin', Dazed And Confused, and Goodnight Sweet Josephine. FYI, the Dazed and Confused clip starts approx. when the slider-bar is shifted over to about the second "m" in the word "Post Comments" (which appears right below the slider bar). Wish these things had time indexes.

Muddy Waters - Honey Bee -- Live at the Beat CLub in 1970

Public Image Ltd. on American Bandstand

I don't claim ANY of these are particularly great (or even good). Just things I just stumbled on that I'd never seen before. The Move (with Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne) - California Man live on TOTP in 1972 Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters - Chameleon live in Chicago in1974 (w/ Paul Jackson, Bennie Maupin, Mike Clark and Bill Summers) Pink Floyd - Animals TV commercial The Who - Heaven & Hell live, Tanglewood 1970 Pink Floyd - Cymbaline... (live circa very early 70's?) Pink Floyd - Breathe and Money Live 8 Rehearsals part 1 More in a bit...

Man, thanks for that clip!! Caught it when it aired the first time, and it was the highlight of the show.

That's about what I thought 7/8 years ago.