Rooster_Ties

Who banned? Yeah, what's going on here?? Banned?????

I thought this thread was going to be a series of requests to our inhouse Photoshop experts.

Yeah, but don't nobody go thinkin' that they's can play their records wet in THAT climate.

How soon do you need it back??

In a PM, I asked AfricaBrass to cook up an animated .gif for me with all of Andrew Hill's classic BN covers. And (the kicker) he had to compress it down to less than 20,000 bytes (the Avatar size limit on AAJ). He's such a great guy - he did just that, and bam - now I'm a walking advertisement for Andrew Hill over on AAJ. The "Hill covers" slide-show is only 75x75 pixels, instead of 100 --- in order to keep the thing under 20,000 bytes. Nothing special about the AAJ board software - they accept pretty much only the same kind of Avatars there as here. Just a matter of getting one of these animated gif magicians to cook one up for me. Thanks AfricaBrass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Rooster T. PS: He also made me a smaller one, only 60x60 pixels:

James T. Cat? I thought he might be called Cat Shatner. As a matter of fact, I have taken to calling my cat that very thing. How about William Catner???

www.walmart.com has great 500x500 images of CD covers (for titles currently in print)... Exodus Legend

Or Ellington. (I'm half serious.)

Can somebody post the text of the article here?? I'm not a NYT subscriber, and they want some password before I can get to the story. Thanks!!!

Especially since I was expecting something a bit different than that darn cat!!!!! (Maybe a hose, to help rinse off some of that whipped cream???? )

Holy shit... My sides hurt!!!!!!!!!!!!

I used to work in top-40 radio as a DJ in the early 90's, and there was a LOT of shit on the radio back then (along with some decent stuff too). I'd take Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit over lots of other crap music on the radio these days, from what's targeted to that same 18-25 crowd. I would never buy any of their music, but as long as I haven't heard their tunes too damn frequently (enough to have gotten sick of them from over repitition), then they're relatively OK with me.

We have a Gen Y 'alternative' station here in Kansas City (96.5 The Buzz), and it's my wife's favorite station (or what she would probably describe as the lesser of all evils, from the choices we have here in Kansas City on the radio dial). She's 36 years old (and I'm 34), and we are definitely in the target audience that these "Retro Gen X" stations would be targeting. As a result of her liking "The Buzz", I've heard a bunch more Gen Y music than I normally ever would have had any personal interest in... ...and I have to say that much of it is pretty OK, and some of it is even fairly good. Nothing I'm totally excited about, but I'll take it over any other 'popular' radio format, any day of the week. I'm not sure I could tell the difference between songs by Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, but I'm sure I've heard both dozens and dozens of times (particularly when my wife and I are working on our home-remodeling projects together). I'm certainly not moved to go out and buy CD's by any of these bands, but there's been a lot worse 'pop' and/or 'rock' music made over the last 20 years too.

I thought the beauty of the old method on the old BNBB was that every mention of a title was a vote for that title. Vote for as many titles as you want. Trouble with polls is 1) they only allow 10 choices per poll, and 2) you can only vote for one title in each poll. Given those limitations, I think it's better to have a thread where people indicate which titles they would actually buy if they were released on CD as Conns. Can't think of a better way to to do this, but I'm open to other ideas...

Thursday, November 6, 2003 Radio Beat: it sounds like '90s music could be the next big format on Seattle dials By BILL VIRGIN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Some months back "Radio Beat," noting the progression from oldies to classic rock to the '80s format, wondered aloud when a radio format of nostalgia for '90s music would arrive. The remark was made largely in jest. Maybe it shouldn't have been. Because what's sometimes referred to as "classic alternative" does exist as a format, and the rumors are flying that it might be the format of choice the next time an FM music station in Seattle makes a switch. Garett Michaels has heard those rumors. He ran a classic alternative format in Detroit before coming to Seattle to program KYPT-FM as an '80s station; when management cleaned house, he moved to San Diego, where he's programming a station mixing what he calls "alternative gold" with current hits. As Michaels sees it, there's a niche for a station aimed at Generation X, the listeners now in the 25-to-40 bracket upon whom alternative was built. Many alternative stations, he says, have since moved on to Generation Y, listeners 18 to 25, leaving behind a library of alternative for a more aggressive sound with bands such as Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit. Michaels' approach is to combine heritage alternative acts reaching as far back as Bob Marley and Elvis Costello, moving up through R.E.M. and U2 to the grunge movement, and combine those with current acts, such as Mars Volta and the White Stripes. Gary Schoenwetter, the former operations manager for Clear Channel's Bay Area rock stations, says a classic alternative format might devote 60 to 70 percent of its playlist to heritage acts, with the balance devoted to current releases since the alternative audience "still has some appetite for new music." Would it work in Seattle? Schoenwetter says Seattle, because of its music and radio history, "would be primed like no more than a dozen other markets" in the country. But Michaels cautions, "You'd better do your homework, you'd better do your research and you'd better make sure the opportunity really exists," he says. Michaels speculates that Entercom's KNDD-FM, the Seattle station that rode the alternative/grunge scene to prominence, would be quick to respond to anyone trying to elbow in on its territory.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I've seen everything!!

Updated first post in this thread to include new story (actual announcement), with images of TWO new nickels, due out this Spring.

I'm speachless. These things are TOTALLY da bomb!!! Man, if there was some way to bottle this and sell it, I'd buy a dozen!!! The "Judgement!" cover is amazing. So is the 'wink' from "Andrew!!!", AB!!! Man, this is SO much fun!!!!

I've always thought these were fun...

I've always liked Liberty Half Dollars... And before 2 minutes ago, I had never seen a "Barber" Half Dollar. Interesting... Why is it called "Barber"???

If Sangry's picking up most of the costs (and all of the 'extra' costs of doing two discs, over one), then I say a double-disc is fine by me (even with 70+ minutes on each disc). If Jim's paying for the media and the postage, I say - fill the discs to the brim!!! When I do my own Blindfold Test CD, I plan to include a couple full-disc goodies as bonus material. They won't be part of the test itself, but rather some gray-market live material that I would like to have discussed as an Album of the Week. And as long as I'm dropping my dime(s) for postage, I figure it doesn't cost that much more to include three discs (in my case), as one. (Three discs = one Blindfold Disc, plus a double-CD "AOTW"). My point is, as long as Jim's picking up the extra expenses - then if he wants to do two CD's of material, then go for it!!! (And I want 70+ minute discs too.)

Whatever the real reason for this change, I sure as hell hope they don't spend $37 million dollars on a TV ad campaign to alert the public of all the new fangled 'security features' of this new nickel. That, and it better not be wooden either!!!

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