Rooster_Ties

I'm a bad person to ask this question of, because I pretty much have zero interest in vocal jazz. So from my perspective, almost by definition, adding lyrics to a jazz tune is always a very bad idea!!

Welcome to Kansas City!!!! I'm half kidding, of course, but I'm half serious too!!! -_-

For the record, at this moment, "Today's top 10 posters" are... catesta - a whopping 24 posts today Free For All - 13 posts today BERIGAN - 12 posts today Dmitry - 12 posts today Rooster_Ties - only 11, count 'em, 11 posts today b3-er - 11 posts today Jazzmoose - 10 posts today mikeweil - 7 posts today Jim R - 6 posts today alankin - 5 posts today So it's not like I'm not trying to give you guys a chance to catch up with me!!!

Glad you found this thread, Free For All, since you originally asked me what I thought was overplayed from The Real Book. Looking back on my original post, I think the three absolute worst offenders (at least from my perspective) are... All Of Me Autumn Leaves How High The Moon So we're still cool, as long as you don't call any of these three while I'm in the room, you dig?

Yeah, I had the very same thought!! (This is post #1881 ) If you won't tell us the "title" - can you at least tell us the last threshhold?? (Use3D mentioned once before that there was one more level after "Groove Merchant".)

Same (or rather similar) thing happened to me. I started an "Organissimo board is down" thread last night on AAJ, only to discover this morning that the title of the thread had been changed to "Power Outage", or something similar and generic, and I also got a similar e-mail from Mike Ricci. Long story short (and after several more e-mails exchanged), lastly Mike said to me (and I quote)... For some clarity, I bolded the words "site" and "board" above, and I also added the stuff in brackets. Please note, these quotes are taken from a couple different e-mails - but they give a good picture of his position on things at the end of our exchange. In any case, let's not bust Mike's chops too hard about this. I think Mike's an OK guy - he's just somebody who's not as comfortable with the idea of as nearly an "anything goes" model as we have here on this board. I volunteered that he and I would be better off trading a bunch of e-mails, and coming to some mutual understanding -- rather than my taking it to his or our board for a public discussion. (And I'm only bringing it up now because of brownie's post just before this one.) Mike's a little unintentionally 'heavy-handed', perhaps, but I do think he means well. And, I suspect he's learned a bit from this latest experience (or at least I'd hope so). And it's not as if our own "fist of doom" hasn't gone off a time or two, when it wasn't quite warranted either. (Not a dig against anyone, just an observation.) And I'm sure it's a little weird for Mike having probably 3/4ths of the entire Organissimo board also posting some (or even heavily) on his board too. He probably sees references to our board (on his board) much more often than makes sense to him --- but then he doesn't belong and participate in 2 or even 3 different boards, where lots of those same people on some of those same boards, are all are doing the same 'multiple-board' thing!!! My first thought was to raise holy hell about this whole thing, but on further reflection - I think it's just better to realize that Mike's probably doing the best job he knows how to, and that we all make mistakes now and then.

THIS Albert King?? (Like there could be any other.) Do tell some mo!! What kinda venues were you guys booked into?? Outdoor festivals?? - or (perhaps I'm guessin' more likely) real 'down-home' bars and/or clubs where you be maybe in the minority?? We want stories!!! (Rooster Ties - signing off for the night (it's almost 1am here) - but I'll be checkin' this thead again first thing in the morning. Night all!!)

Well shit, if everybody and their brother is gonna post links to everything there is to know about you on-line, then I might as well put this out here - since I thought it was such a good article. (And I've highlighted my favorite quote too .)

Just did a simple image search on your name, with Google. (Found it HERE.) Also, about not knowing if it was a good idea to take off your mask... Hey, everybody, remember - Paul's probably got dirt on every one of us, from years of lurking here, and back on the BNBB, so watch it. AND, since he hasn't revealed much about himself yet to us, we ain't got nothin' on him. Remember that, before you go givin' him too much hell about anything.

Hi Paul, and welcome back to the U.S.!!! Did you make it to the Victoria and Albert Museum, by any chance?? Or any other London sites that you saw, or at least any worth mentioning?? When my wife and I were in London back in the Spring of '01, I thought the Tower Records (at Piccadilly) was only "so-so", at best. Sure, better than anything in Kansas City, but not "light years better", like the really big Towers used to be 10 or even 5 years ago. How was the food over there?? Or did you play it safe, and hit all the great ethnic restaurants, like my wife and I did. What little truly "British" food we had was perhaps "OK" at best (except for the Fish 'n' Chips, which was great!!), but otherwise sometimes not even quite that good. But, we had incredible Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Italian, and various other kinds of ethnic foods while we were there - and loved practically all of it. Is this perhaps a better picture of you??

Just sent you an e-mail. Thanks!!

There's a video of the Ted Kopel episode on the web site. Hmmm. Wasn't there yesterday, but I'm not surprised they already had it up there as recently as today. I just checked, and "thankyoufortakingmycall.com" is down at the moment. Wonder is ABC's legal department has been hard at work.

Speaking of ABC... Yesterday some smartass called into ABC News and claimed he was with the New York City Subway Transit Athority (or whatever that department is called), and Ted Koppel interviewed him live on the air as the first "expert" they talked to during what was our regular 5:30pm "National News" time (in the Central time zone, I'm in Kansas City), or what would be their normal 6:30pm national news time (on the east coast). So, the jerk introduces himself, and says "Hi Ted, and thank you for taking my call (dot com)". (The "dot com" part he said under his breath, but you could clearly hear it.) Then he proceded to make up answers to Koppel's questions, including suggesting that they were able to communicate with the subway operators via "telepathic radios", and that he didn't want people to just get out of the subway cars on their own without help from the proper police and/or athorities, because they might get into areas where "Beauty and the Beast" might be. Then he asked everyone, once the power comes back up, to log onto "thank you for taking my call dot com" and download the 'instructional' videos found there. And THEN (even after all that!!!!), Ted said "that's all well and good, but what about what people need to be doing now??", and the guy again (for the third time!!!) said on national TV(!!!) to log on to "thankyoufortakingmycall.com" and download the videos, and then, and only then (after all that!!), did Ted (or probably a producer on the show) cut the call, and move on to other things. My god, I knew this was a 'goof' call 10 seconds into it, and Ted Koppel and/or the producers of the show let this jerk go on for at least 60 seconds (maybe more like 75 seconds), and let him mention his web-site name three time!!! Shheesh!! I've still got the thing on tape, if anybody wants a transcription of the whole exchange. Anybody else see this?? (My wife was late getting home, and had asked me to tape the 5:30pm national news.) "You see, sometimes without warning, my brain suddenly shrinks down, real tiny - like almost this size. And after that, there's no tellin' what'll happen!!!"

Any reactions from any of the musicians on this board to this particular part of my original post?? I don't mind it every now and then, but several times a night (probably 2 tunes per set) is far too frequent for my tastes.

Can we hash about our various thoughts about infidelity in this thread too???

By the way, I wrote this description of Pink especially for you Sangry. I knew that if no one else did, at least you'd understand exactly what I was talkin' about. (just an IMG link to the AMG, so don't nobody flip out on me.)

Yeah, "Blue Bossa" was another one I thought about including, 'cept I never hear it now that I'm in Kansas City. (I used to hear it a bunch back in my college days, though). "Blue Bossa" is too progressive for Kansas City, if you can imagine that!! (Or at least too progressive to get overplayed.) EDIT: Shit, now I can't get Blue Bossa out of my head. Now it'll be stuck there all afternoon!!! --> -->

My opinion as well, down to the exact half-star. For me, Blue John is a very good and solid album, but nothing worth paying top-dollar import prices for, if that were the only way to get it (at least not for me).

I hear ya, Jim - and that was my point in starting this very thead. There's a ton of music out there, of various and moderate degrees of interest to many of us, and we probably get to hear it (or in this day and age, to "see" it) with enough frequency that we have no need to buy the stuff. You know, cool stuff from genres that are otherwise not very high on our spending priority list.

Definitely "Confirmation" - if I had to single out one Parker tune as being overplayed. Personally, I never seem to hear "Solar" all that often, and I think it's such a great tune - that when I hear it, I'm nearly always glad it got called. OK, here's one that some of us are probably sick of, though not me - cuz I don't hear it nearly often enough to get tired of it. And like "Solar", I think it's just an amazing tune... Nardis But I only mention "Nardis" because I'm guessing some folks here are probably tired of it, I would think.

Wow, I have that very box set (the Shostakovich quartets), but I'm afraid I haven't listened to it probably as often as I should. Your mention of it here in this thread may prompt me to give it another spin in the coming days. Thanks!!

Judging from the title and subtitle of this thread, can I ever hope that "Ron Carter" is the topic of discussion on the next edition of "Crossfire" - on CNN????