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PS: Ever since I saw that Bynre show on Austin City Limits, I've kinda had my eye out for some sort of bootleg of that show. (I wish I had taped it.) The arrangements of the Talking Heads tunes with the strings were simply amazing. If anybody has any tapes from Byrne's recent tours, specifically with the string section, I'd be very interested. Thanks!!!

Just got tickets to go see David Byrne here in Kansas City on Sept. 15th. I was on the fence about going (cuz of the ticket prices, $35 to $40 per person, plus the TicketBastard™ charges), but I noticed in the ad in the free-weekly paper that he was going to have a string section with him (presumably the same group I saw him with when he was on Austin City Limits (on PBS) two or three years ago, which was a string sextet consisting of three violins, one viola, and two celli). Actually, doing a quick search, here's a picture of the group, including the strings... And here's a blurb about the string section... Another pic, with the strings...

I wonder if a young Free For All is on this Woody Herman date??? Paul???

Oh shit.

I refuse to give Paypal my bank account numbers, and never have. Once I used up the $500 spending limit (or maybe it was $1,000, can't remember), they tried to put the squeeze on me when I got down below $100. I ignored them, and then suddenly - without any explaination of any sort - my credit card spending limit got bumped back up to $1,000 again. My threory is they want you to use you bank account, but if you won't give it to them - they'd still like to have you as a customer, even if you only pay via credit card. Moose. Spend away, and when your spending limit gets down real low, see if it doesn't pop back up again. PS: I haven't burned through my second $1,000 yet, to test my theory a second time. (But I am down to a little less than $400, so the time will come, one of these days.)

I've never had a problem with them, and I've used Paypal to pay for nearly 100 (OK, maybe closer to 75) items over the last two or three years.

Come on, Jim. For purely musical reasons only, which one would be your least favorite???

Well, nearly all the Miles Columbia box sets are out (assuming "Seven Steps to Berlin" is the last one, though perhaps they'll do another one for all the various sessions from the 70's (after the "Jack Johnson" sessions), though that's pretty much up-in-the-air, I'm afraid -- so I didn't include it in this poll). And since the "Seven Steps to Berlin" box isn't out yet, we'll have to go with this description, and our personal knowledge of most of this material. From Jazzmatazz... And for the sake of this poll, let's all assume that the unreleased tracks (which we don't know anything about yet) – that they aren't all from any one particular album's session -- but rather just assume for the sake of argument it's one or two more bonus tracks from each of the various albums that make up this set. (So in other words, don't vote like you're getting an hour more of Miles with Sam Rivers, cuz that's probably not gonna be the case, sorry. For what it's worth, the previous Jazzmatazz description said that the majority of the unreleased material came from Antibes in 1963). So which period of Miles career for Columbia is your LEASE favorite, or the one you are the least interested in. And why???

Without any special effort to find them, I somehow acquired all four of Karen Mantler's dates as a leader (all of them bought used). I just listened to the most recent two earlier today, and I have to say that although she defies categorization, she's a winner in my book. At first I thought she was just quirky (and she certainly is), but the longer I've had these discs (the first two going on 10 years now), the more I think she's the real deal. Any other Karen Mantler fans here too??

My wife works for the federal government (U.S. Dept. of Education), and she got this in her work e-mail today. I would assume that "civil servants" means anyone who works for any governmental agency (or frankly, any company that has a name that even sounds governmental). -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 8:18 AM Subject: Borders Public Service Perks Borders Books & Music Stores are offering savings to civil servants later this month, the company announced Tuesday. As part of Public Service Savings Days, civil servants, postal workers, firefighters, police officers and military personnel will receive 20% off regularly priced books and music and 15% off regularly priced DVDs. The promotion runs from Friday, June 25, through Sunday, June 27. Government employees will be required to show a current pay-stub or official identification to qualify for the discount. "Borders thinks it's about time we give back to those who do so much for our communities everyday," the company said in a release.

Ain't that the truth!!

After two years of having nearly all my 'classical' discs still in boxes from a recent move, I've been unboxing everything (finally!!) this past weekend. In doing so, I stumbled across Ornette's "Skies of America" and the Bluebird disc "Forms & Sounds" - which may be less well-known than "Skies..." (I suspect). And yeah, I had plum forgotten I even had these discs, cuz oddly enough I must have briefly had them filed in with my 'classical' discs for some reason, though I always remember having them in with the rest of my Ornette. By the way, in case anyone hasn't heard "Forms...", it is made up of the 21-minute title track for classical wind quintet (oboe, flute, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn), with 'trumpet interludes' by Ornette himself. And then two works for classical string quartet, "Saints and Soldiers" (20 minutes) and "Space Flight" (4 minutes). I'm listening to "Skies..." now, after not having heard it in two or three years. I had forgotten what an interesting recording this is. I go back and forth about it's worth as a true orchestral work, but there's something undeniable about it's impact, on purely aural terms ('viscerally' speaking). I'll get to "Forms..." next in my listening, but I remember it being a slightly thornier listen, if I remember right – harder to approach than "Skies..." – fewer themes, less 'tunes'. But "Skies..." really works for me, and I can't quite put my finger on why, hence this thread.

I don't think so. One on E. 4th and Broadway and one on the upper West side, 72nd and Broadway. But no Tower in Times Square. Obviously got my locations mixed up. Anyway, it was somewhere in NYC. (I've only been to NYC once, and it was only for 3 days.)

Anybody remember when Best Buy used to have quite a surprising number of imports in their jazz section??? Not Japanese BN's so much, but I seem to remember that I got quite a number of Japanese Miles CD's on Sony, of titles only available over there, before they ever came out domestically. (And even, occasionally, in Best Buys in places like Peoria, Illinois; or Davenport, Iowa -- neither of which are even towns with populations over 500,000) I'm not saying Best Buy's selection was ever incredible, but there was a time (10 or 12 years ago) when you could find quite a number of unexpected gems at Best Buy, for really half-way decent prices. Oh, this was a Tower thread, I almost forgot. Never having lived in a city with its own Tower, back during my College years (1987-1991), and even well into the mid-90's, I used to always love to visit every Tower I could get to (Chicago, Washington D.C., Boston, NYC, Austin, Toronto), and I'd always walk out having bought nearly $200 in discs, every damn time (even closer to $300 once, if I remember right). The Tower in Chicago (the one about 20 blocks north of The Loop, not the one downtown that used to be Rose Records), used to have THE best classical room I ever saw, anywhere. But those days are long gone. The last two times that I was in a Tower was in NYC (Times Square) in about 1998, and in London (Piccadilly Circus) in 2001, and neither time was the classical room really anything to get all that excited about. And the jazz sections were even worse. Seriously, I think I bought about $100 worth of discs each time, and really didn't have to throw back very much to get down to that amount. Though in Tower's defense, the Virgin Megastore in NYC (Times Square) had an even worse Classical room (than Tower). The one at Virgin was fairly big, but nearly everything was pretty much standard domestic issues. Sure, they had HUGE sections for mainstream composers, but those sections were that big only because they stocked nearly ever damn "common" title by those composers (so, pretty much everything that was in-print, but standard domestic issue). But nearly nothing in the way of interesting imports, or older stock that was technically out-of-print.

OK, now that I've posted to the thread, my post (above this one) appears to be the first post in the thread. BUT, I didn't start the thread.

What the heck??? When I bring up this thread, there are no posts in it, not even a "first post". The thread is just blank, expect it does have a title (and still has one when I bring up the thread). That's just wack!!!

Thanks Joe and Gary, I'll check those resources out today (this morning, probably), for sure!! (And I'm glad to see my work-around still works!!)

Got bit real hard by some spyware early last thursday (yeah, almost a week ago!!). Ever since, I haven't been able to bring up my brouser, without the session crashing immediately. FINALLY, just a few minutes ago, I found a work-around, sorta (and FYI, this is the first time I've been on the board since last Thursday!!!). Spybot clears out the problem just fine, but then every time I reboot, the problem is right back again (and I have to reboot, cuz Spybot can only clean up so much of the problem the first time it runs, since several of the registry entries can't be changed without rebooting (cuz they're "in use"). When I bring up the browser (IE), I get 'dll' errors, and they don't seem to be consistant every time either. Anyway, I think I've found a work-around, for the time being, but man -- this is a real pain in the ass. I've had my e-mail working just fine, and images populate in e-mail messages just fine too (for pics that aren't attachments, but are instead links to images out on the net). I just haven't had any way to get to any browser-based stuff, for over 5 days. Yuck!!!! For what it's worth, the Spyware that got me appears to be something called... CoolWWWSearch

Getting back on topic... And the link for this last one is bad, but there's still a thumbnail of it on google, which you can still sorta read...

Like everyone here, I wish all the best for you in your new adventures. Please check back with us from time to time. You're one of the kindest souls I've yet met on boards like this, and it was (and is!) always great to have you around. You will be missed, and please keep in touch!!

It's folks like Hardbop that I miss the least, when thinking back on the old BNBB. And there are more aspects like that to the AAJ board (Hardbop, and a few others like him), than there ever are over here. Hence, this is my Internet home, and I only lurk occasionally over at AAJ (I check things out there maybe twice a week).

IMHO, nearly 75% of their entire American Classics series is worth its weight in gold.

Yeah, anybody know???