Rooster_Ties

Recently a friend of mine (who is an audio nut) was showing me his SACD player (which I think he's had for at least a year, maybe longer). And we go to play some discs on it - and it turns out the damn thing can't fast-forward CD's. Not SACD's, nor standard "plain jane" CD's either. You can skip forward and backward to the beginnings of tracks, but not FF into a track, or the reverse of that - to relisten to a section of a track again. I can't remember what brand it was, but it was a widespread brand name (like Sony, or Techiques) or something similar. Somebody tell me that all SACD players aren't like that??? Maybe he was an "early adopter" of the technology, and the first generation players couldn't do that -- though for the life of me, I can't imagine why. Seems like the simplist thing ever, since CD players have been doing FF quite well for something like 20 years. On a side note - I played him a bootleg recording (a burn of something I got from somebody here on the board), of a jazz concert from the early 80's, clearly taken off the sound board. And this was a burn of something that (to the best of my knowledge) hasn't ever even been 'released' on a bootleg label, or grey-market release anywhere. Now this guy is a HUGE nut for getting everything he can in what he thinks is THE very best version of every release, be it SACD, or DSD(?), or Japanese imports, or whatever the latest flavor of the month is. So I'm playing him this burn of an underground recording from the early 80's (on his mega-system), and the guy's jaw nearly hits the floor - cuz the Sound Quality on my underground recording is amazing, totally amazing. You could release this puppy today, "as is", without any remastering. People who are more about the "sound quality" - and less about the music --- really bug me, clearly. (Sorry to be on a bit of a rant, but this seemed like as good a thread as any to mention this in.)

Chuck, tell some of these horrific stories. I know I would like to know. Me too. Change the names to protect the guilty, if you must, but do tell.

Can B3 or Use please close this thread?? Can I get a motion from the floor?? Do I hear a second?? All in favor... Aye!!

Let's all just say 'no' to posting anything further in this thread...

I understand that there were a bunch of 'between-tune' stage announcements and/or banter that were trimmed from the Mosaic version too. Can anyone confirm?? I, for one, am very glad Mosaic did the editing that they did -- but it would be interesting to hear the stuff they edited out, just for the heck of it.

A bit much for a used copy, perhaps, but here's one at half.com for $10 plus $2.50 in postage. Between Dusk And Dawn That was the only title you listed that was anywhere close to being a decent price at half.com. BUT, if anybody is looking for 2 cheap copies if "Tarab" (1993) for about $9 each (including postage), then CLICK HERE.

Didn't Mosaic have some imaginary Larry Young sets on CD available a few months back??? Maybe they were on to somethin'!!!!

indeed... IMAGINARY BOYFRIENDS fight for your love!

couldn't see the pic from the IMG you gave (at least not here in the thread)...

Yeah, but by the time whatever the most recent version of Windows is by then, that version of Windows will be such bloatware that we'll all need this fancy new "fastest computer in the world" just to run it!!!

Just bumpin' this up, for some more...

A few more "Imaginary" Girlfriends in a slightly diffirent category... (along with some other search-hits on "girlfriend", for actual products) Everything Else I'm tellin' you - this is the wave of the future!!!!

other copycat "Imaginary" Girlfriends... 19 items found for girlfriend (Edit: By the way, this link is a generic search that should work well into the future, when the number of hits will certainly be in the hundreds, if not thousands.)

Don't be too sure. She's selling the same service again, and this time the bidding's already up to $81.00, with over 7 hours left to go!!!! Imaginary Online GIRLFRIEND ~ The ORIGINAL!!! I think the next "New Economy" will involve imaginary services, such as this. People will pay to have real people serve imaginary roles in their lives. Hey, at least it's much more personal (and probably 'real' too) than projecting yourself into reality TV shows -- doncha think???

So if he claims these items are "untouched by human hands" - he might well be telling the truth!!! BLECH!!!!!

¿que? To some extent, this has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Not entirely, but this all could have been handled differently (by all the parties involved). I think undergroundagent should stay, but I also think he should develop some thicker skin. He is who he is, and that's fine by me. But others are gonna be who they are, and sometimes that's gonna result in conflict. And leaving when there's conflict, means that periodically you may end up having to leave a number of places like this, over the years - and usually (I would suggest) unnecessarily. I think undergroundagent should stay... ...but stay or go, I think we ought to stop yammerin' on about it. (And yeah, I've done some yammerin' about this too – and I’m officially stopping with this very post.)

OK, this is damn near being on-topic, as it is a "double-sax plus bass plus drums" date. Gary Thomas - Pariah's Pariah (Winter & Winter, 1999), with Thomas on tenor (and flute on a couple tracks), plus Greg Osby, along with Michael Formanek (bass) and John Arnold (drums). One of the best dates of it's kind - highly rewarding listening.

I might also add that for all my disparagement of undergroundagent because he's Canadian... I just realized that grey (the guy who started this very thread) is Canadian too.

I think we've gotten to the point where there's only one thing that can resolve this mess, and that's more cowbell!! Let the healing begin...

Amen to that, on all sides...

Nobody's gonna have you banned from this board, UA. With all due respect, get some thicker skin, and stick it out. There's like two or maybe three people here (at most) who are making accusations about you. Now either these accusations are true, or they're not, or the truth is somewhere in between. BUT, you quitting the board over it this just as childish as you think they're actions are. And all you leaving does, is possibly solidify the notion that there was some truth to their claims. I think you should stay... ...but like I said in my prior gif post... Whatever...