Rooster_Ties

After two hours on the phone with the tech-support people at Time Warner Cable (RoadRunner), and two new cable-modems since Wednesday morning -- I'm now kinda, sorta, half-way back in business. But I'm not out of the woods yet, and not by a longshot. My access is stull sluggish as all get-out, and my firewall is about half-way hosed. It works, but it's been banged up pretty bad, defending the attacks. (Not my words, that's what the tech-gal said. The fire-wall will shut parts of itself down to prevent certain kinds of attacks.) Not sure if I totally believe that, but I am planning to download a new (different) firewall later tonight. Got a service-tech coming over in about 4 hours, to double-check the line and all the hardware. Of course the on-site tech can't diagnose firewall issues (probably), so all they'll be able to do is elimiate the possibility (remote, at best), that any of this is line/hardware related. What a pain in the ass. Half the time pages won't load gifs or jpegs. Some pages load slower than when I had dog-shit-slow dial-up. What a pain!!!

Went from close to 8,000 (less than 8,100) all the way up to 8,800 attacks (total), in the space of like 5 minutes. Nearly zero gifs and/or jpegs are loading when I do finally get a page to come up. Can't even begin to get something like cnn.com to load. Many pages are just timing out. Can't believe that I was even able to start this thread. I've tried rebooting dozens of times, and rebooting my cable-modem too, dozens of times too. Sometimes I'll get access back, but even then -- it's still really slow. But most of the time it's mega-slow, like slower than when I used dial-up. (I'm on Time-Warner's "Roadrunner".) Why would I be a target for something like this???? 4th-attempt to post this...

What the fuck?? My internet access has been up and down all night (and from what my wife says, today too), and when it's down -- it turns out that it's just really, REALLY slow. And I just looked at my fire-wall (ZoneAlarm, the free version), and it says it's blocked like 8,000+ intrusions, and the number (8,000) was going up and up by the second -- like I was being attacked as I watched the fire-wall control pannel. What the hell?? How can I stop this???? HELP!!!!

A modest suggestion: Can we limit this to albums by leaders who recorded minimally as sidemen prior to their debut album as a leader?? There's plenty of albums by guys who did LOTS of sideman work, before ever getting to lead. I think the key is to find the debut albums where the leader had only ever recorded maybe two or three times before as a sideman (5 times at most!!) ----- where the line-up of the debut was particularly impressive.

..sort of like making a mountain out of an Antheil? B-) Worst pun I've heard in ages. OUCH!!!!

Undergroundagent had one ('89 issue) that I think he was selling recently. Might already be sold, but it's worth a try. (He originally got it from me!!)

I have several of his symphonies, recordings both on Naxos and CPO. Seem to remember that there were a number of musical similarities between Antheil and Shostakovich. Haven't listened in a while, but remember this being some pretty decent music. I'll revisit some, and get back to you...

Yup, definitely -- the recent purple-velvet Hendrix box is really a winner!!! As a long-time Hendrix fan (by my senior year in high-school, circa-1987, I had something like 40 or nearly 50 Hendrix LP's, including plenty of bootlegs), I have to say that this box set includes most of the very best tracks from many of those bootlegs. I can't tell you how many crappy-sounding double-LP Hendrix boots I bought (sometimes for up to $40, which wasn't cheap for somebody in high-school), that only had like one track each that was really worth having (a some particular tune Jimi only played once or twice, ever!!). And now I've got this wonderful box set that collects up nearly all of those must-have-tracks, and presents them in wonderful sound too. Best rock box-set I've ever encountered.

This one's still crackin' me up, even a day later.

Here ya go, Chuck...

When you get right down to the rat killin'...

Forgot to upload this one earlier. Don't have a back cover this big and nice for it, though...

Priceless.

I'll look for more later. I think that's everything there is to find currently on eBay. An anybody fill in the rest??

"Live and Swinging"...

Here's "Feelin' Kinda Blues"...

"Portraits", the only one I had ever seen before today.

Here's a good "Everywhere"...

Here's a so-so pic of "California Soul"...

Here's a not-so-good pic of "Moment of Truth". (I'll delete this post as soon as we find a better one.) Here's a better one, but still not such a great image, quality-wise.

OK, here's a good "Eternal Equinox", from a current eBay auction...

Somebody just listed a couple Gerald Wilson CD's for sale in another thread (look for undergroundagent's recent thread under "offering/looking-for"), and it occured to me that although I own the Gerald Wilson Mosaic, I don't think I've ever seen any of the original album covers (except "Portraits"), for any of the other dates from the GW Mosaic (his complete Pacific Jazz years). Anybody have any to share?? Can we find images for all of them, and post them in this thread?? Thanks!!!! -- Rooster And PS: Which of these (if any) have seen individual CD release??? Either in the U.S. or Japan (or perhaps Europe??). Before today, the only one I knew of was "Portraits" (which I very briefly owned, before getting the Mosaic), but Allan has both "Portraits" and "Moment Of Truth" for sale as individual CD's.

Poking around on the other board (AAJ), I haven't been able to find anything (yet, at least). But for what it's worth, as I'm doing general searches on Google, the name appears to be spelled "Johnnie Splawn" just as often as "Johnny Splawn", at least in on-line citations. Haven't found anything interesting yet, although there's an interview with McCoy Tyner on AAJ where Splawn is mentioned. Doesn't say much though...

Link: LOOK HERE...

I've only had "A Beautiful Day" for a couple months, and I've only listened to it about half-a-dozen times. But I would generally give it a thumbs up. (I'm a bit of an Andrew Hill nut, but stepping back a bit -- I would probably give "A Beautiful Day" a solid letter-grade of a "B".) I probably like "Dusk" a bit more (let's call Dusk a "B+" in my book), in part because there's less of Hill's piano-playing on "A Beautiful Day", than there is on "Dusk". But if you don't yet have Andrew's "Black Fire" - this was just recently released as an RVG. It is really one of Hill's all-time finest albums ("A++"), and one of Joe Henderson's best and most interesting side-man appearances too. Run, don't walk, and get "Black Fire" just as soon as you can. (Go ahead and get it now, we'll wait right here for you. ) Another really great Hill disc is called "Passing Ships", and is a recently released recording (released for the very first time, anywhere), from 1969. It is a studio date that was thought to be lost forever, but good-sounding tapes were only just recently discovered. It features Woody Shaw and Joe Farrell, in a slightly larger group than Hill had ever recorded with before (up until that point, anyway), and it serves as a sort of precursor to his later Big Band recordings. The universal opinion of most of the people on this board is that "Passing Ships" is an oustanding album (probably a solid "A", or an "A-" at worst), that can be enjoyed by both fans of Hill's more "out there" work, as well as his somewhat more "inside" style from the period of 1967-1970. So, to recap, "A Beautiful Day" is certainly an interesting and very enjoyable recording. But above and beyond that, you really need "Black Fire", and you'd probably love "Passing Ships". Get on it!! B-)