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Wonder if the liner-notes will be easier to read?? The "color text on color background" in the "Miles & Gil" and "IasW" boxes was particularly difficult, to the point where you literally couldn't see what several words were -- because the color of the text was nearly identical to the color of the background.

Even ignoring the "Revolution #9" aspects of the song, I pretty much can't stand the chorus to John's "What's the New Mary Jane?". There's a version on "Anthology, Vol 3" -- but I'm pretty sure in my younger days, I had a bootleg with two or three different versions, each one trippier than the rest. Most annoying Beatles tune ever.

Maybe. Was this only performed on the BBC?? I'll do some checking of mine own later, I'm up much too late. Off to bed... Yeah, I think this is the tune I was thinking of. Here's a bunch of sound-clips, for what it's worth: AMG page w/ audio-clips. This gets my vote for worst conventional Beatles tune.

You think that can stop me?? (Added attachment to post above.) Take that!!!

Maybe. Was this only performed on the BBC?? I'll do some checking of mine own later, I'm up much too late. Off to bed...

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Thirsty????

Somebody help me... Long, long ago -- I had a bunch of Beatles bootleg CD's (I think they were the Unsurpassed Masters series (or something similar), something on the "Yellow Dog" label maybe --- does any of that that ring a bell????? God, that was like 15 years ago!! They're long since sold, over 10 years ago.). Anyway, there was this one Beatles tune (pretty sure it was a standard "John and Paul" tune - as far as official song-writing credits go, though my guess is that maybe Paul wrote it) --- that they only performed live on the BBC. It was THE worst song by them that I had every heard. I think it was from around '65 or so, definitely early Beatles, or "early mid" Beatles (at the very latest). Can't for the life of me remember the title, but god - the lyrics and tune (both) were as trite as anything you ever heard, by anyone. Total syrup. Help!! What was that tune???? Somebody got the lyrics?? I know they're out there, on the net somewhere -- but I don't have a clue what to search on, offhand. THAT was the worst Beatles tune ever, I'm sure of it!!!

First, let me be the first to say (on behalf of couw): "oh god, not this thread again... " And now, for our feature presentation...

Eric, you need to get your ears around this... AMG review: Phil Ranelin -- The Time Is Now!! Most exciting damn thing I've heard in ages. Found a used one in St. Louis about a month ago, and I must have listened to it 20 times since I first got it. Sound samples: HERE Seriously, if you buy this and don't like it -- I'll buy it off of you, and see that it gets a good home. Call that a money-back guarantee, if you like. Get on it!!

Burn Sorcerer and Nefertiti on one CDR, back to back.

Lord, if only you had been joking......

Isn't it??

absolutely.

How ironic.

Everybody else -- get out there and see this group!!! It won't cost much, and they need people to play to. You don't have to take all your family like John (way to go John!!), but if you have even half a ear for free-jazz, these guys are really top drawer.

That works. Thanks!!

There's a bunch of Blakey sessions I don't have on disc, and having the Gilmore solos included would have made getting this one a big priority for me. I'm not saying it's a bad date without 'em, but Gilmore is what makes it unique. And without his solos, it becomes just another Blakey session I don't happen to own yet (among many).

Oh shit, I never did sent that!! Sorry about that, Joe. Crap. I forgot all about it. Can somebody convert it into an mp3 and e-mail it to Jim?? Probably the quickest way to get it to you guys. I'd do it myself, but I'm afraid I've never figured out how to create mp3's (probably don't have the software for it, or at least not that I'm aware of).

This quote from Jim comes from another thread on John Patton, and I thought I'd bet better of responding to it here in this thread... That'd be off the hook!! Or how about a combined John Patton / Larry Young tribute album (from Organissimo)???? That would probably get some serious attention from folks hip to probably the two most progressive organists ever. I mean, sure -- lots most people know who Jimmy Smith was. But are they gonna run out and buy some disc that's a tribute to Jimmy Smith??? Speaking for myself, I probably wouldn't. Probably wouldn't give it a second look, even. BUT, I sure as hell would find out what's the deal with an organ trio that was recording Patton and Young. I'll be all over that, the second I heard about it. I'm serious. Give it some thought...

You might write well, but you can't read for shit!!

I would say probably not only "100% correct" gets the GOD rating. I was unsure about a few too, so I imagine that the GOD rating is something like 85% or higher (would be my guess).

Link: How grammatically sound are you? NOTE: Don't cut-n-paste the HTML results into your post to this thread. It won't work. You have to right-click on the .gif, just like any other pic you'd want to post to a thread. Also, don't forget to cut-n-past the text of the results too (they aren't included in the pic). Me?? I was... And FYI, I expect couw to beat most of us here in the U.S.

FYI, I done found this here article here: HERE. Forces of 'barbaric illiteracy' too strong New book serves as witty eulogy for punctuation Monday, April 19, 2004 Posted: 2:31 PM EDT (1831 GMT) BRIGHTON, England (AP) -- Lynne Truss fears the English language could be in its death throes. Proper, written English, that is -- the kind with correctly placed apostrophes, elegantly positioned semicolons, commas in all the right places and in none of the wrong ones. It's being shoved aside, she thinks, by an electronic onslaught of uncapitalized, unpunctuated, ill-thought-out Internet verbiage. Truss, a longtime writer and editor, is sure that trying to halt the decline would be hopeless, but she wants her new book, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" to at least serve as a warm and funny eulogy to a little-heralded but crucial piece of the language: punctuation. Despite tackling a subject that's so dry that it's put generations of schoolchildren to sleep, the book has won critics' praise for its humor and readability and it's been a surprise hit in Britain, selling more than half a million copies. Truss also received the book of the year prize at the recent British Book Awards ceremonies -- an honor bestowed by a panel of 400 publishers, wholesalers and booksellers, and the public. "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," whose title comes from a corny punctuation joke about a panda in a bar, is a lighthearted, affectionate tribute to the system of jots, dots and dashes that make written language intelligible. "Sticklers unite," Truss urges in the book's introduction. "You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn't have a lot of that to begin with." Relaxing in a sleek hotel lobby in her hometown of Brighton, on England's south coast, Truss, 48, seems to relish the part of linguistic nit-picker. She has bobbed blond hair and a warm smile, and displays a sharp, self-deprecating wit. She insists she's more surprised than anyone by the book's success. Truss -- so modest she apologizes (needlessly) for being a poor interview subject -- says she was well into writing last year before she felt sure the topic was substantial enough for a book. Evidence for punctuation's demise She eventually concluded proper usage of punctuation was coming to a cataclysmic end, making this exactly the right time to honor it. "It's just a wonderful moment to appreciate it before it goes, like going to see Venice before it sinks," she said. "I sort of feel, well, what a great system and how beautiful and elegant it is, and to have it just dropped and cast aside when there's nothing being offered in its place just seems quite barbaric." She blames the decline on the failure of schools to teach the basic rules, and on the explosion of communication technologies that have allowed punctuation ignoramuses everywhere to deluge others with their poorly organized thoughts. "People who don't know their apostrophe from their elbow are positively invited to disseminate their writings to anyone on the planet stupid enough to double-click and scroll," she writes. In the always hurrying modern world, Truss says, few slow down enough to take care over details that used to be the sign of a thoughtful writer. She sees evidence for punctuation's demise everywhere. Her book is filled with examples -- some funny, some just plain atrocious -- of punctuation abused, ignored and misplaced. "I saw a sign for 'Book's' with an apostrophe in it and something deep inside me snapped," she writes. "Despair was the initial impetus for this book." She's willing to forgive the greengrocers who advertise "apple's" and "orange,s" but saves particular venom for those publishing on a grander scale and those who should know better. Apostrophe abuse Truss lambasts Britain's National Union of Teachers for a letter in which it refers to "childrens' education," the British Broadcasting Corp. for promising "nouns and apostrophe's" in a grammar lesson on its Web site and the government for a passport application form that asked for the full name of "the person who's details are given in Section 02." All three apostrophes are misused. She's also furious about the apostrophe Warner Bros. omitted from the title of the Sandra Bullock-Hugh Grant comedy "Two Weeks Notice," (make that "Two Weeks' Notice," insists Truss), saying anyone who spends big money on a promotional campaign can afford a proofreader. "How much more abuse must the apostrophe endure?" she pleads in the book. Some examples amuse rather than exasperate. Truss takes a road sign that warns "Children Drive Slowly" as a declarative sentence describing young drivers' lack of speed, and notes that the sign "No Dogs Please" is flat-out wrong. "Many dogs do please, as a matter of fact; they rather make a point of it," she writes. Truss' book has clearly hit a nerve among readers fretful over what she sees as a wider decline in literacy. The book, released in the United States April 13, has been at the top of British best-seller lists since December and has sold a massive 580,000 copies here. Language-loving critics have raved about it. The Daily Telegraph newspaper called it "witty, clear-headed and altogether enchanting. ... It makes you love punctuation; you want to conserve what is still left and perhaps even call for more of it." Impressive stuff for a book whose initial success made its author more nervous than excited. Great reviews Truss, whose idea for the volume came from a BBC radio series she did on punctuation, "Cutting a Dash," says she originally thought it would be the sort of book people bought nitpicking relatives for Christmas. And even after they did so in enormous numbers, she fretted that all the copies were meant for a few famous sticklers who would return the extras to stores on December 26. They didn't. "I think that was when I relaxed, sort of about mid-January, when we realized that people were still buying it," she said. The book's blockbuster success also surprised editors at Profile Books, the small company that published it. Kate Griffin, of Profile, said she groaned when managing director Andrew Franklin first told her they would be releasing a book on punctuation. "When he said it would be fun, I didn't understand. But when I read her first chapter, I thought it was marvelous," Griffin recalled. Great reviews just before the book's November release drove advance sales and Profile immediately began boosting its initial print run of 15,000 copies, she said. Truss spent most of her career as an editor and journalist, writing three comic novels on the side that sold poorly. She expected "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" to be a modest seller, too, and says she's been stunned by the way it's caught on. Still, she says, there's little chance it will make a difference. "The forces toward barbaric illiteracy, I dare say, are much too strong ... for a few people," she sighs. "I don't think we're going to stop the rot."